CISSP Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 66 57
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 -
Contract jobs citing CISSP 23 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.02% 1.45% 0.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.57% 9.28% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 2
10th Percentile £469 £333 £576
25th Percentile £520 £361 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £450 £638
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -29.41% -
75th Percentile £688 £530 £672
90th Percentile - £570 £689
Yorkshire median daily rate £663 £471 £575
% change year-on-year +40.57% -18.04% -4.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 183 97 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 16.11% 15.59% 15.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 70 51
10th Percentile £367 £316 £294
25th Percentile £463 £346 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £420 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.38% -20.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £530 £600
90th Percentile £688 £639 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 1 1
10th Percentile £21.33 - -
25th Percentile £22.20 - £11.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.30% +37.04% -55.74%
75th Percentile - - £15.25
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £24.87
% change year-on-year +2.47% +1.13% -17.10%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

CISSP job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

CISSP
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISSP in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in South Yorkshire

CISSP
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

CISSP
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
Sheffield -14 23 £675 +50.00% 1
CISSP
Yorkshire

CISSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 4 (17.39%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) AWS
2 16 (69.57%) GCP
3 6 (26.09%) Azure
4 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (69.57%) Network Security
2 1 (4.35%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Claude Code
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.35%) TruffleHog
General
1 17 (73.91%) Social Skills
2 16 (69.57%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Financial Institution
4 3 (13.04%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Consultant
2 14 (60.87%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) Security Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Designer
5 1 (4.35%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead
5 1 (4.35%) Security Designer
5 1 (4.35%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) SLSA
2 1 (4.35%) FIDO
2 1 (4.35%) LDAP
2 1 (4.35%) OAuth
2 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.35%) OpenID
2 1 (4.35%) SAML
2 1 (4.35%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) Security Posture
2 3 (13.04%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.70%) Operational Technology
3 2 (8.70%) SCADA
4 1 (4.35%) IoT
4 1 (4.35%) iSeries
4 1 (4.35%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (91.30%) Vulnerability Management
2 18 (78.26%) Application Security
2 18 (78.26%) DevSecOps
3 16 (69.57%) CI/CD
3 16 (69.57%) Cloud Security
3 16 (69.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (65.22%) GAP Analysis
4 15 (65.22%) Roadmaps
4 15 (65.22%) SBOM
4 15 (65.22%) Software Delivery
4 15 (65.22%) Threat Modelling
5 14 (60.87%) Architectural Patterns
6 12 (52.17%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 10 (43.48%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (39.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (26.09%) Cryptography
10 5 (21.74%) Risk Management
11 4 (17.39%) Data Security
11 4 (17.39%) Identity Access Management
11 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) Bash
2 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (86.96%) CISM
2 16 (69.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 16 (69.57%) CCSP
2 16 (69.57%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (17.39%) CCSK
4 3 (13.04%) Degree
5 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (8.70%) GIAC
6 1 (4.35%) CSSLP
6 1 (4.35%) GSEC
6 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
6 1 (4.35%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) NIST
2 2 (8.70%) ISA99
2 2 (8.70%) NIST 800
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 15 (65.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.35%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (4.35%) Checkmarx
2 1 (4.35%) Okta