CISSP Contracts in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 83 108 126
Rank change year-on-year +25 +18 +15
Contract jobs citing CISSP 28 49 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.67% 1.53% 1.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.03% 2.71% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 28 26
10th Percentile £403 - £600
25th Percentile £519 £475 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +5.05%
75th Percentile £682 £656 £688
90th Percentile £739 £741 £700
England median daily rate £625 £600 £648
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.34% +7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £59.73
Median hourly rate - £83.41 £72.98
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +6.42%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £85.44
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 923 1,806 1,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 55.01% 56.46% 52.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 1,150 1,403
10th Percentile £250 £353 £388
25th Percentile £450 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +11.06%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 196 156
10th Percentile £18.51 £22.31 £38.53
25th Percentile £25.15 £40.00 £57.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -6.15% +5.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £86.45
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in the South West

CISSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for CISSP in the South West

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in the South West

CISSP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for CISSP in the South West

CISSP
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +29 15 £600 -4.00% 9
Bristol +16 9 £625 -1.96% 25
Devon +5 1 - - 2
CISSP
England

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

Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
1 2 (7.14%) VPN
2 1 (3.57%) DHCP
2 1 (3.57%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (3.57%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.57%) Network Security
2 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
General
1 10 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (32.14%) Finance
3 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
5 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
6 3 (10.71%) Banking
6 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
7 2 (7.14%) Electronics
7 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (7.14%) Marketing
8 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Administrator
1 7 (25.00%) Architect
2 6 (21.43%) Security Administrator
3 5 (17.86%) Consultant
3 5 (17.86%) Security Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Security Consultant
4 4 (14.29%) Coordinator
4 4 (14.29%) Security Assurance Coordinator
5 3 (10.71%) DevSecOps Architect
5 3 (10.71%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 3 (10.71%) Security Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Contracts Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Compliance Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Information Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.57%) Network Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Network Security Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (21.43%) Mainframe
3 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (10.71%) Private Cloud
4 2 (7.14%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (3.57%) CESG
5 1 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) zOS
2 2 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Security Management
2 10 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (21.43%) Incident Response
4 6 (21.43%) Security Auditing
5 5 (17.86%) Risk Management
6 4 (14.29%) Agile
6 4 (14.29%) Information Security
6 4 (14.29%) Network Architecture
6 4 (14.29%) OWASP
7 3 (10.71%) DevOps
7 3 (10.71%) DevSecOps
7 3 (10.71%) Risk Assessment
7 3 (10.71%) Security Operations
7 3 (10.71%) Waterfall
8 2 (7.14%) Change Management
8 2 (7.14%) Critical Thinking
8 2 (7.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 2 (7.14%) Programme Management
8 2 (7.14%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) Bash
1 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) Security Cleared
2 11 (39.29%) CISM
3 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 7 (25.00%) CISA
4 7 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (25.00%) DV Cleared
5 6 (21.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 6 (21.43%) IBM Certification
6 5 (17.86%) CESG Certified Professional
7 4 (14.29%) CEH
7 4 (14.29%) CRISC
8 3 (10.71%) CCSP
8 3 (10.71%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (10.71%) ISACA
8 3 (10.71%) OSCP
9 2 (7.14%) CLAS
9 2 (7.14%) Degree
10 1 (3.57%) CCNP
10 1 (3.57%) CISMP
10 1 (3.57%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (42.86%) NIST
2 11 (39.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (21.43%) JSP 440
4 5 (17.86%) RMADS
5 4 (14.29%) PCI DSS
6 3 (10.71%) COBIT
6 3 (10.71%) GRC
7 2 (7.14%) GDPR
7 2 (7.14%) NIST 800
8 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (3.57%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (3.57%) HIPAA
8 1 (3.57%) NCSC
8 1 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) RACF
2 1 (3.57%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) NFS
2 1 (3.57%) Samba
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) OPNET
2 1 (3.57%) Ansible
2 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Nagios
2 1 (3.57%) SELinux
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) IBM
2 3 (10.71%) SolarWinds
3 2 (7.14%) SAP
4 1 (3.57%) Aruba
4 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.57%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (3.57%) F5
4 1 (3.57%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.57%) Ruckus Wireless
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) VMware
4 1 (3.57%) Zscaler