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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 237 233 317
Rank change year-on-year -4 +84 -27
Contract jobs citing CISSP 449 693 770
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 1.16% 0.87%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.38% 4.24% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 483 529
10th Percentile £425 £474 £456
25th Percentile £500 £550 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £697 £738 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +10.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 15
10th Percentile - £41.65 £37.81
25th Percentile - £59.73 £54.61
Median hourly rate £23.00 £72.40 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.23% +7.25% +5.47%
75th Percentile £53.21 £74.00 £75.06
90th Percentile £71.33 £78.96 £83.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.21 £72.69 £67.50
% change year-on-year -26.80% +7.69% +3.85%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CISSP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,270 16,337 19,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.65% 27.32% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,165 10,899 12,575
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,067 858 776
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.06 £19.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £56.31
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.28 £50.00 £31.89
% change year-on-year -19.45% +56.79% -14.39%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in the UK

CISSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CISSP in the UK

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISSP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in the UK

CISSP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for CISSP in the UK

CISSP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CISSP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CISSP in the UK

CISSP
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +14 361 £600 -7.69% 209
London -3 200 £625 -3.85% 95
UK excluding London +15 162 £575 -8.00% 117
Work from Home -1 153 £600 -4.00% 112
South West +30 49 £575 -11.54% 23
North of England +46 40 £575 +4.55% 24
North West +28 29 £676 +22.91% 15
Scotland +34 27 £550 +4.76% 9
South East -37 23 £529 -21.63% 29
Midlands +9 19 £626 +2.24% 18
West Midlands +20 18 £626 +2.24% 12
Yorkshire +18 8 £575 -6.12% 6
East of England +11 6 £600 +50.00% 8
North East - 3 £525 - 3
East Midlands - 1 - - 6

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (1.56%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.67%) Apache
3 3 (0.67%) IIS
3 3 (0.67%) WebLogic
3 3 (0.67%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.22%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 16 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.22%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 96 (21.38%) Azure
2 47 (10.47%) AWS
3 37 (8.24%) Azure Sentinel
4 23 (5.12%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (4.23%) GCP
6 17 (3.79%) Entra ID
7 15 (3.34%) IaaS
7 15 (3.34%) SaaS
8 9 (2.00%) PaaS
9 6 (1.34%) Power Platform
10 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.67%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.67%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.45%) GitHub
12 2 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.22%) AWS IoT
13 1 (0.22%) Azure Logic Apps
13 1 (0.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 76 (16.93%) Network Security
2 51 (11.36%) Firewall
3 11 (2.45%) DNS
3 11 (2.45%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.78%) SAN
5 7 (1.56%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (1.34%) Internet
6 6 (1.34%) Kerberos
7 5 (1.11%) DHCP
7 5 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (1.11%) VPN
8 4 (0.89%) Cisco IPT
8 4 (0.89%) SCCP
8 4 (0.89%) VLAN
9 2 (0.45%) Broadband
9 2 (0.45%) HTTP
9 2 (0.45%) NGFW
9 2 (0.45%) SNMP
9 2 (0.45%) SSL
10 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (1.34%) Power BI
3 5 (1.11%) BigQuery
4 4 (0.89%) Big Data
5 3 (0.67%) DB2
5 3 (0.67%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.45%) MySQL
7 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Artifactory
1 3 (0.67%) Git
1 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
1 3 (0.67%) JIRA
2 2 (0.45%) GitLab
3 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 103 (22.94%) Social Skills
2 100 (22.27%) Finance
3 86 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 26 (5.79%) Banking
6 20 (4.45%) Manufacturing
7 16 (3.56%) Financial Institution
7 16 (3.56%) Telecoms
8 15 (3.34%) Legal
9 9 (2.00%) Military
10 8 (1.78%) Marketing
11 7 (1.56%) Electronics
11 7 (1.56%) French Language
11 7 (1.56%) Local Government
11 7 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.89%) German Language
13 4 (0.89%) Retail
13 4 (0.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 110 (24.50%) Architect
2 92 (20.49%) Security Architect
3 82 (18.26%) Analyst
4 57 (12.69%) Consultant
5 46 (10.24%) Lead
6 45 (10.02%) Security Engineer
7 43 (9.58%) Security Consultant
8 41 (9.13%) Security Analyst
9 33 (7.35%) Security Manager
10 29 (6.46%) Project Manager
10 29 (6.46%) Senior
11 22 (4.90%) Security Project Manager
11 22 (4.90%) SOC Engineer
12 20 (4.45%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 19 (4.23%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 18 (4.01%) Information Security Consultant
15 17 (3.79%) SOC Analyst
16 12 (2.67%) Risk Analyst
16 12 (2.67%) Security Specialist
16 12 (2.67%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
1 9 (2.00%) OAuth
2 8 (1.78%) LDAP
2 8 (1.78%) SailPoint
2 8 (1.78%) SAML
3 7 (1.56%) OpenID
4 5 (1.11%) Regular Expression
5 4 (0.89%) J2EE
5 4 (0.89%) Servlets
5 4 (0.89%) XML
6 3 (0.67%) .NET
6 3 (0.67%) EJB
6 3 (0.67%) JSP
6 3 (0.67%) Node.js
6 3 (0.67%) REST
6 3 (0.67%) Web Services
6 3 (0.67%) XACML
7 2 (0.45%) JSON
7 2 (0.45%) ModSecurity
7 2 (0.45%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 108 (24.05%) Management Information System
2 55 (12.25%) Security Posture
3 41 (9.13%) Security Operations Centre
4 32 (7.13%) Cyber Threat
5 23 (5.12%) Cyber Defence
6 16 (3.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 16 (3.56%) Operational Technology
7 9 (2.00%) Cyber Security Posture
7 9 (2.00%) PKI
8 8 (1.78%) CESG
8 8 (1.78%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.56%) Cyberattack
9 7 (1.56%) PMI
9 7 (1.56%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.56%) SCADA
10 6 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.11%) IoT
12 4 (0.89%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.89%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.68%) Windows
2 12 (2.67%) Linux
3 4 (0.89%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.67%) Unix
5 1 (0.22%) AIX
5 1 (0.22%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.22%) CentOS
5 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (57.02%) Cybersecurity
2 189 (42.09%) Information Security
3 114 (25.39%) Risk Management
4 93 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
5 86 (19.15%) SIEM
6 84 (18.71%) Cloud Security
7 80 (17.82%) Security Architecture
8 78 (17.37%) Security Operations
9 74 (16.48%) Incident Response
10 72 (16.04%) Computer Science
11 53 (11.80%) Identity Access Management
12 43 (9.58%) SABSA
13 42 (9.35%) Security Management
14 41 (9.13%) Project Management
14 41 (9.13%) Threat Modelling
14 41 (9.13%) TOGAF
15 39 (8.69%) Risk Assessment
15 39 (8.69%) Threat Intelligence
16 37 (8.24%) Information Security Management
17 34 (7.57%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 21 (4.68%) Kusto Query Language
2 16 (3.56%) Python
3 15 (3.34%) SQL
4 12 (2.67%) PowerShell
5 10 (2.23%) Java
6 5 (1.11%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.89%) Perl
8 3 (0.67%) Bash
9 1 (0.22%) ABAP
9 1 (0.22%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 266 (59.24%) CISM
2 122 (27.17%) CISA
3 111 (24.72%) Degree
4 104 (23.16%) Security Cleared
5 82 (18.26%) SC Cleared
6 73 (16.26%) Cisco Certification
7 60 (13.36%) CRISC
8 55 (12.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (12.03%) CEH
10 49 (10.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 47 (10.47%) CompTIA Security+
12 33 (7.35%) DV Cleared
13 26 (5.79%) SANS
14 22 (4.90%) GIAC
15 21 (4.68%) CCSK
15 21 (4.68%) Microsoft Certification
16 20 (4.45%) Azure Certification
17 19 (4.23%) CCNP
18 18 (4.01%) Master's Degree
19 17 (3.79%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (30.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 130 (28.95%) NIST
3 35 (7.80%) GDPR
4 32 (7.13%) NCSC
5 27 (6.01%) GRC
6 25 (5.57%) NIST 800
6 25 (5.57%) PCI DSS
7 23 (5.12%) COBIT
8 17 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 11 (2.45%) HIPAA
10 10 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (2.23%) JSP 440
11 8 (1.78%) RMADS
12 7 (1.56%) ISO 22301
12 7 (1.56%) QA
13 6 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (1.34%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (1.11%) ISO 31000
15 4 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 16 (3.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.67%) Docker
3 2 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.22%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.22%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 9 (2.00%) Kibana
1 9 (2.00%) logstash
2 7 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.34%) Nessus
3 6 (1.34%) Terraform
4 5 (1.11%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.11%) PingFederate
4 5 (1.11%) QRadar
5 2 (0.45%) Ansible
5 2 (0.45%) CASB
5 2 (0.45%) CSIRT
5 2 (0.45%) Host Intrusion Detection System
5 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.22%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 106 (23.61%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.68%) Cisco
3 16 (3.56%) Splunk
4 14 (3.12%) Qualys
5 11 (2.45%) Google
6 9 (2.00%) CyberArk
6 9 (2.00%) Oracle
7 8 (1.78%) SAP
8 7 (1.56%) Rapid7
9 6 (1.34%) AlienVault
9 6 (1.34%) Okta
10 5 (1.11%) ArcSight
10 5 (1.11%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.89%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.89%) Ping Identity
11 4 (0.89%) Symantec
12 3 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.67%) Zscaler
13 2 (0.45%) Carbon Black
13 2 (0.45%) Checkmarx