CSSLP Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

(ISC)² Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (ISC2 CSSLP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CSSLP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 343 395
Rank change year-on-year -48 +52 -
Contract jobs citing CSSLP 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% 0.007% 0.010%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.015% 0.021% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £586 £600
Median % change year-on-year +36.52% -2.33% -
UK median daily rate £800 £586 £600
% change year-on-year +36.52% -2.33% +18.23%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

CSSLP 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 6,642 4,728 7,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.64% 34.51% 36.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,196 2,798 4,321
10th Percentile £256 £225 £250
25th Percentile £405 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £649
90th Percentile £706 £700 £706
UK median daily rate £522 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 816 366 628
10th Percentile £15.62 £18.67 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £23.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.90% -19.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £51.53 £67.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.01 £75.13 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -35.51% -22.00% +11.11%

CSSLP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CSSLP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

CSSLP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CSSLP
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CSSLP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CSSLP

CSSLP
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 CSSLP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Midlands - 1 £800 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £800 -
CSSLP
UK

CSSLP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) TestDirector
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Development Director
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Business Development
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Reduction
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Value Proposition
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) SLA