CISSP Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 194 239 245
Rank change year-on-year +45 +6 +15
Contract jobs citing CISSP 146 163 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.14% 0.78% 0.97%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.21% 2.12% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 111 159
10th Percentile £414 £425 £453
25th Percentile £500 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £665 £638 £700
90th Percentile £738 £750 £778
UK median daily rate £610 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +1.67% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 10
10th Percentile £51.25 £29.04 £49.27
25th Percentile £55.50 £38.10 £59.73
Median hourly rate £72.91 £53.21 £72.69
Median % change year-on-year +37.03% -26.80% +7.69%
75th Percentile £81.99 £68.31 £73.90
90th Percentile £86.04 £77.37 £76.69
UK median hourly rate £73.46 £23.00 £72.40
% change year-on-year +219.37% -68.23% +7.25%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,542 7,695 7,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.58% 37.05% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,785 4,411 5,360
10th Percentile £211 £263 £275
25th Percentile £394 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £533 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +0.57% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £723 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 935 669
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.50 £19.92
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.94 £49.57
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -17.41% +53.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.39 £76.29 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CISSP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in the UK excluding London

CISSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CISSP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CISSP in the UK excluding London

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISSP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in the UK excluding London

CISSP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CISSP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for CISSP in the UK excluding London

CISSP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CISSP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CISSP in the UK excluding London

CISSP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
South East +74 52 £600 +13.42% 113
Midlands +32 29 £600 -4.19% 37
South West +25 28 £600 +4.35% 53
West Midlands +20 24 £600 -4.19% 24
Scotland +1 15 £500 -9.09% 31
North of England -6 15 £625 +8.70% 78
East of England +32 8 £519 -13.50% 27
Yorkshire +7 7 £600 +4.35% 22
North West -5 7 £680 +0.59% 48
East Midlands +14 5 - - 10
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 8
North East -2 1 £625 +19.05% 9
CISSP
UK

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (2.74%) Confluence
2 2 (1.37%) TPMS
Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 33 (22.60%) Azure
2 14 (9.59%) AWS
3 12 (8.22%) Azure Sentinel
4 11 (7.53%) GCP
5 6 (4.11%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.74%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.05%) SaaS
8 2 (1.37%) Akamai
8 2 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.37%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.37%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.68%) OCI
9 1 (0.68%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.07%) Firewall
2 17 (11.64%) Network Security
3 5 (3.42%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (2.74%) VPN
5 3 (2.05%) DNS
5 3 (2.05%) NGFW
5 3 (2.05%) SSL
6 2 (1.37%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (1.37%) DHCP
6 2 (1.37%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.37%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.68%) BGP
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.68%) LAN
7 1 (0.68%) Modbus
7 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.68%) VLAN
7 1 (0.68%) WAN
7 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (2.05%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (2.05%) Power BI
2 2 (1.37%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (4.79%) JIRA
2 4 (2.74%) GitLab
2 4 (2.74%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.05%) Git
3 3 (2.05%) JMeter
3 3 (2.05%) Postman
3 3 (2.05%) REST Assured
3 3 (2.05%) Selenium
3 3 (2.05%) TestNG
3 3 (2.05%) Travis CI
4 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
General
1 66 (45.21%) Social Skills
2 42 (28.77%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (15.07%) Finance
4 16 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 15 (10.27%) Banking
6 9 (6.16%) Legal
7 6 (4.11%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.11%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.05%) Aerospace
10 3 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.05%) Military
11 2 (1.37%) Electronics
11 2 (1.37%) Marketing
11 2 (1.37%) Retail
11 2 (1.37%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Automotive
12 1 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 42 (28.77%) Architect
2 32 (21.92%) Security Architect
3 22 (15.07%) Consultant
4 18 (12.33%) Security Consultant
5 17 (11.64%) Senior
6 14 (9.59%) Security Engineer
7 12 (8.22%) Analyst
8 11 (7.53%) Security Manager
9 8 (5.48%) DevSecOps Architect
9 8 (5.48%) DevSecOps Consultant
9 8 (5.48%) Information Manager
10 7 (4.79%) Administrator
11 6 (4.11%) Security Administrator
11 6 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.42%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 5 (3.42%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 5 (3.42%) Security Specialist
12 5 (3.42%) SOC Analyst
13 4 (2.74%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 4 (2.74%) Security Assurance Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.11%) Web Services
2 4 (2.74%) SAML
3 3 (2.05%) Apache Axis
4 2 (1.37%) Kafka
4 2 (1.37%) LDAP
5 1 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.68%) OAuth
5 1 (0.68%) OpenID
5 1 (0.68%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 30 (20.55%) Management Information System
2 18 (12.33%) Security Posture
3 13 (8.90%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (6.16%) Operational Technology
5 9 (6.16%) Private Cloud
6 7 (4.79%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (4.11%) Mainframe
8 5 (3.42%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (3.42%) Data Centre
8 5 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.05%) Industry 4.0
9 3 (2.05%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.37%) CESG
10 2 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.37%) IBM Mainframe
10 2 (1.37%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.37%) SCADA
11 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.96%) Windows
2 9 (6.16%) Linux
3 6 (4.11%) zOS
4 5 (3.42%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.37%) Unix
7 1 (0.68%) Android
7 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (52.74%) Cybersecurity
2 48 (32.88%) Risk Management
3 45 (30.82%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (28.08%) Incident Response
5 39 (26.71%) Information Security
6 31 (21.23%) SIEM
7 29 (19.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (17.12%) Security Management
9 24 (16.44%) Security Architecture
9 24 (16.44%) Vulnerability Management
10 22 (15.07%) DevSecOps
11 20 (13.70%) Agile
12 18 (12.33%) Cloud Security
12 18 (12.33%) Roadmaps
12 18 (12.33%) Security Operations
12 18 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (11.64%) DevOps
13 17 (11.64%) TOGAF
14 16 (10.96%) Computer Science
15 14 (9.59%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 19 (13.01%) Python
2 12 (8.22%) PowerShell
3 6 (4.11%) Bash
4 5 (3.42%) SQL
5 3 (2.05%) C#
5 3 (2.05%) Java
5 3 (2.05%) Ruby
6 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 82 (56.16%) CISM
2 39 (26.71%) Degree
3 36 (24.66%) Security Cleared
4 35 (23.97%) CEH
5 26 (17.81%) CISA
6 24 (16.44%) SC Cleared
7 20 (13.70%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (12.33%) CompTIA Security+
9 15 (10.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 13 (8.90%) DV Cleared
10 13 (8.90%) OSCP
11 12 (8.22%) CCSP
11 12 (8.22%) CRISC
11 12 (8.22%) GIAC
12 10 (6.85%) SANS
13 9 (6.16%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (5.48%) Azure Certification
14 8 (5.48%) Master's Degree
14 8 (5.48%) PMI Certification
14 8 (5.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (36.30%) NIST
2 50 (34.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (17.12%) GDPR
4 22 (15.07%) PCI DSS
5 14 (9.59%) GRC
6 10 (6.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (6.16%) COBIT
8 7 (4.79%) HIPAA
8 7 (4.79%) JSP 440
8 7 (4.79%) NIST 800
8 7 (4.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (3.42%) NCSC
9 5 (3.42%) QA
9 5 (3.42%) RMADS
10 2 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (1.37%) SLA
11 1 (0.68%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.68%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 10 (6.85%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.11%) RACF
3 5 (3.42%) Docker
3 5 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.68%) NFS
4 1 (0.68%) Samba
Systems Management
1 6 (4.11%) Kubernetes
1 6 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (2.74%) CASB
3 3 (2.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (2.05%) Kibana
3 3 (2.05%) QRadar
3 3 (2.05%) Terraform
4 2 (1.37%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.37%) OPNET
5 1 (0.68%) Ansible
5 1 (0.68%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.68%) Nagios
5 1 (0.68%) Nessus
5 1 (0.68%) SELinux
5 1 (0.68%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (15.07%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.16%) Qualys
3 8 (5.48%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.11%) IBM
5 5 (3.42%) Oracle
5 5 (3.42%) Splunk
5 5 (3.42%) VMware
6 4 (2.74%) F5
7 3 (2.05%) Cisco
7 3 (2.05%) SAP
7 3 (2.05%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.37%) Ariba
8 2 (1.37%) Aruba
8 2 (1.37%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.37%) Forcepoint
8 2 (1.37%) Imperva
8 2 (1.37%) Proofpoint
8 2 (1.37%) Tenable
8 2 (1.37%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.68%) Rapid7