CISSP Contracts in the South East

(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2 CISSP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 107 181 136
Rank change year-on-year +74 -45 +33
Contract jobs citing CISSP 52 24 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.73% 0.43% 1.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.26% 0.97% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 18 62
10th Percentile £450 £269 £514
25th Percentile £500 £484 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £529 £670
Median % change year-on-year +13.42% -21.04% +21.82%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £700
90th Percentile £688 £605 £836
England median daily rate £625 £600 £648
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.34% +7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £71.76
25th Percentile £51.25 - £72.60
Median hourly rate £62.91 - £74.00
75th Percentile £80.99 - £74.40
90th Percentile £85.72 - £74.63
England median hourly rate £73.31 £53.21 £72.69
% change year-on-year +37.79% -26.80% +7.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,222 2,486 2,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 40.60% 44.73% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 1,412 1,432
10th Percentile £302 £313 £300
25th Percentile £438 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £623
90th Percentile £688 £735 £713
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 213 145
10th Percentile £20.00 £17.52 £21.40
25th Percentile £26.13 £27.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%
75th Percentile £70.63 £67.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £78.13 £85.41 £75.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing CISSP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in the South East

CISSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CISSP in the South East.

Daily rate trend for CISSP in the South East

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in the South East

CISSP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CISSP in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for CISSP in the South East

CISSP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CISSP in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CISSP in the South East

CISSP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CISSP within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +62 34 £600 +14.29% 56
Berkshire +46 28 £591 +12.48% 24
Hampshire +29 10 £650 +13.04% 35
Buckinghamshire +20 5 £600 - 24
Surrey - 4 £450 - 19
East Sussex - 3 £700 - 9
Kent +8 2 £475 -10.80% 16
Oxfordshire +5 1 £675 +25.58% 12
CISSP
England

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.85%) TPMS
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) Azure
2 10 (19.23%) Azure Sentinel
3 9 (17.31%) AWS
4 8 (15.38%) GCP
5 2 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.85%) SaaS
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.92%) OCI
6 1 (1.92%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.46%) Firewall
1 7 (13.46%) Network Security
2 3 (5.77%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (5.77%) NGFW
2 3 (5.77%) SSL
3 2 (3.85%) VPN
4 1 (1.92%) BGP
4 1 (1.92%) DNS
4 1 (1.92%) LAN
4 1 (1.92%) Modbus
4 1 (1.92%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) GitLab
1 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.92%) JIRA
1 1 (1.92%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (51.92%) Social Skills
2 14 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.69%) Finance
5 2 (3.85%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.85%) Retail
6 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.92%) Legal
6 1 (1.92%) Local Government
6 1 (1.92%) Military
6 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) Architect
2 11 (21.15%) Security Architect
2 11 (21.15%) Senior
3 10 (19.23%) Security Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Analyst
4 4 (7.69%) Information Specialist
4 4 (7.69%) Security Officer
4 4 (7.69%) Senior Security Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Consultant
5 3 (5.77%) Information Assurance Specialist
5 3 (5.77%) Security Manager
5 3 (5.77%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Applications Architect
6 2 (3.85%) Auditor
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Information Officer
6 2 (3.85%) Information Security Officer
6 2 (3.85%) Information Security Specialist
6 2 (3.85%) Security Specialist
6 2 (3.85%) SOC Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) Web Services
2 3 (5.77%) SAML
3 2 (3.85%) Apache Axis
4 1 (1.92%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Security Posture
2 10 (19.23%) Management Information System
3 5 (9.62%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (5.77%) Operational Technology
6 2 (3.85%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.92%) CESG
7 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.92%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.92%) NHS
7 1 (1.92%) PKI
7 1 (1.92%) PMI
7 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.92%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.46%) Windows
2 4 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.85%) Linux
3 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.92%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (36.54%) Incident Response
3 17 (32.69%) Information Security
4 16 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (30.77%) Risk Management
4 16 (30.77%) Security Architecture
4 16 (30.77%) SIEM
5 15 (28.85%) Vulnerability Management
6 11 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (21.15%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 11 (21.15%) Threat Intelligence
7 10 (19.23%) Cloud Security
8 9 (17.31%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (17.31%) Validation
9 8 (15.38%) SOA
10 7 (13.46%) Enterprise Architecture
11 6 (11.54%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (11.54%) Computer Science
11 6 (11.54%) Microservices
11 6 (11.54%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.46%) PowerShell
2 6 (11.54%) Python
3 2 (3.85%) C#
3 2 (3.85%) Java
3 2 (3.85%) Ruby
3 2 (3.85%) SQL
4 1 (1.92%) Bash
4 1 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 30 (57.69%) CISM
2 16 (30.77%) Degree
3 14 (26.92%) CEH
3 14 (26.92%) Security Cleared
4 10 (19.23%) CompTIA Security+
5 9 (17.31%) CISA
5 9 (17.31%) SC Cleared
6 6 (11.54%) Azure Certification
6 6 (11.54%) DV Cleared
7 5 (9.62%) Master's Degree
8 4 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (7.69%) SSCP
9 3 (5.77%) CCNA
9 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (5.77%) GCIH
9 3 (5.77%) GIAC
9 3 (5.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 3 (5.77%) ISSEP
9 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (5.77%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (34.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (26.92%) NIST
3 10 (19.23%) GDPR
4 4 (7.69%) PCI DSS
5 3 (5.77%) HIPAA
6 2 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (3.85%) NCSC
6 2 (3.85%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.92%) COBIT
7 1 (1.92%) COSO
7 1 (1.92%) ITGC
7 1 (1.92%) JSP 440
7 1 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (5.77%) QRadar
2 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.85%) Terraform
3 1 (1.92%) CASB
3 1 (1.92%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 13 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) Splunk
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle
3 3 (5.77%) VMware
4 1 (1.92%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.92%) Forcepoint
4 1 (1.92%) Google
4 1 (1.92%) Proofpoint
4 1 (1.92%) Rapid7
4 1 (1.92%) SAP
4 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow