CISSP Contract Job Trends in Watford

(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2 CISSP)
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Watford with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 8 19
Rank change year-on-year -10 +11 +4
Contract jobs citing CISSP 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Watford 1.89% 6.82% 0.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.29% 20.00% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £625 £249 £600
% change year-on-year +151.00% -58.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £31.49 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate - £31.49 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Watford

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 Watford.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 14 15 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 13.21% 34.09% 8.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 7
10th Percentile £271 £313 £318
25th Percentile £362 £403 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £350
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +57.14% -42.86%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £406
90th Percentile £593 - £483
Hertfordshire median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £27.93 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £28.52 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £31.49 -
Median % change year-on-year +106.41% - -
75th Percentile £67.50 £34.16 -
90th Percentile - £34.58 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £38.75 £55.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.55% +27.91% -28.33%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

CISSP job vacancy trend in Watford

CISSP
Daily Rate Trend in Watford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing CISSP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing CISSP

CISSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Google Gemini
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Technical Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Practice Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Apple
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) IFS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow