CISSP Contracts 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 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 45 52 54
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 0
Contract jobs citing CISSP 3 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.80% 0.88% 0.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.17% 4.88% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £480 - £583
25th Percentile £525 £563 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £638
90th Percentile £680 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +20.00%

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 72 82 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 19.30% 17.94% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 45 77
10th Percentile £220 £381 £268
25th Percentile £328 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £529 £605 £688
90th Percentile £650 £712 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -7.77% -6.36% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £11.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.42%
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.00 £15.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year +40.00% -59.18% +106.23%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in South Yorkshire

CISSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for CISSP in South Yorkshire

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in South Yorkshire

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 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
Sheffield +4 3 £600 +4.35% 7
CISSP
Yorkshire

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (33.33%) Password Management
3 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) CISA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (66.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Aruba
1 1 (33.33%) Centrify
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Okta
1 1 (33.33%) Thycotic