CISSP Contracts in Reading

(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2 CISSP)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 83 71
Rank change year-on-year +39 -12 +8
Contract jobs citing CISSP 16 8 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.68% 0.67% 1.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.79% 1.52% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 7
10th Percentile £448 £108 £485
25th Percentile £555 £207 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £285 £553
Median % change year-on-year +119.59% -48.53% -2.98%
75th Percentile £638 £371 £713
90th Percentile £650 £468 £754
Berkshire median daily rate £591 £525 £615
% change year-on-year +12.48% -14.63% +6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £74.08
25th Percentile - - £74.20
Median hourly rate - - £74.40
75th Percentile - - £74.59
90th Percentile - - £74.71
Berkshire median hourly rate £87.58 - £74.00

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

CISSP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 182 528 332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 30.49% 44.30% 31.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 271 211
10th Percentile £394 £205 £363
25th Percentile £481 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +5.26% +14.00%
75th Percentile £700 £663 £680
90th Percentile - £716 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.91% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 44 15
10th Percentile - £44.10 £56.76
25th Percentile - £55.41 £63.14
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.07 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.77% -5.95% +560.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £86.10 £76.99
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.53 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £66.87 £61.60 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.56% -5.23% +208.79%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing CISSP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in Reading

CISSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CISSP in Reading.

Daily rate trend for CISSP in Reading

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISSP in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in Reading

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 2 (12.50%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.25%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Network Security
2 3 (18.75%) NGFW
2 3 (18.75%) SSL
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Retail
4 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Security Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
3 4 (25.00%) Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Security Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Information Assurance Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Information Security Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Information Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Risk Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Security Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Security Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Security Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Web Services
2 3 (18.75%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Security Architecture
2 6 (37.50%) Information Security
3 5 (31.25%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (31.25%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (31.25%) SIEM
3 5 (31.25%) SOA
3 5 (31.25%) Validation
4 4 (25.00%) Microservices
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Application Security
5 3 (18.75%) Data Security
5 3 (18.75%) Network Load Balancing
5 3 (18.75%) TOGAF
6 2 (12.50%) Migration
6 2 (12.50%) RBAC
6 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
6 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
6 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) CISM
2 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) CEH
4 2 (12.50%) CISA
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (12.50%) Degree
5 1 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 1 (6.25%) CCNA
5 1 (6.25%) CCSP
5 1 (6.25%) CFCE
5 1 (6.25%) GCIH
5 1 (6.25%) OSCP
5 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
5 1 (6.25%) PMP
5 1 (6.25%) SANS
5 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) JSP 440
2 1 (6.25%) NCSC
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Rapid7
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk