CISSP Contract Job Trends in South London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 32 40
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 +20
Contract jobs citing CISSP 8 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in South London 2.73% 1.90% 0.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.37% 5.06% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £675 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% - -
75th Percentile - £725 -
90th Percentile £658 - -
London median daily rate £600 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £73.60 -
London median hourly rate £65.00 £78.40 -
% change year-on-year -17.09% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 183 79 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 62.46% 37.62% 55.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 59 94
10th Percentile £449 £325 £281
25th Percentile £492 £436 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £490 £519
Median % change year-on-year +4.59% -5.54% -12.82%
75th Percentile £558 £584 £599
90th Percentile £658 £661 £635
London median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 9
10th Percentile £56.58 - £32.75
25th Percentile £65.61 £68.80 £40.82
Median hourly rate £71.27 £73.60 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% -10.79% -
75th Percentile £76.58 £80.80 £83.75
90th Percentile - £82.24 -
London median hourly rate £35.00 £36.75 £29.38
% change year-on-year -4.76% +25.11% -27.02%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CISSP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

CISSP job vacancy trend in South London

CISSP
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing CISSP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing CISSP

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISSP in South London over the 6 months to 4 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in South London

CISSP
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing CISSP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing CISSP

CISSP
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 4 March 2026. 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
Croydon -1 8 £500 -28.57% 1
CISSP
London

CISSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Operations Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Information Security
1 7 (87.50%) Migration
1 7 (87.50%) Security Operations
2 6 (75.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (75.00%) Threat Modelling
3 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 5 (62.50%) Presales
4 4 (50.00%) Change Management
4 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (50.00%) Information Security Management
4 4 (50.00%) Kanban
4 4 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
4 4 (50.00%) Security Management
4 4 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (12.50%) Application Security
6 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (12.50%) Key Management
6 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (87.50%) CISM
2 7 (87.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 7 (87.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (12.50%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (62.50%) GDPR
3 4 (50.00%) Government Security Classifications
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) ServiceNow