CISSP Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2 CISSP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 91 74
Rank change year-on-year -17 -17 +68
Contract jobs citing CISSP 30 18 44
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.33% 1.08% 2.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.56% 3.64% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 39
10th Percentile £482 - £505
25th Percentile £500 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £635 £615
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +3.25% +23.00%
75th Percentile £738 - £744
90th Percentile £955 £788 £755
England median daily rate £537 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -14.08% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 842 494 562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 37.26% 29.67% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 329 347
10th Percentile £290 £213 £300
25th Percentile £421 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £706 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 18 30
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.26 £17.46
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.13 £23.00
Median hourly rate £23.58 £30.75 £34.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% -11.51% +82.89%
75th Percentile £28.08 £41.56 £67.50
90th Percentile £46.18 £52.50 £70.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £52.50
% change year-on-year -45.54% -12.04% +16.67%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

CISSP job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

CISSP
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CISSP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CISSP

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISSP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in the West Midlands

CISSP
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CISSP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Birmingham -3 8 £500 -18.03% 4
Coventry - 8 £670 - 1
Warwickshire -6 7 £650 +30.00%
Solihull - 2 £1,234 -
CISSP
England

CISSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 10 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (23.33%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 5 (16.67%) GCP
4 4 (13.33%) OpenShift
5 3 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.33%) IaaS
7 1 (3.33%) PaaS
7 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (33.33%) Firewall
2 6 (20.00%) Network Security
3 5 (16.67%) DNS
3 5 (16.67%) VPN
4 4 (13.33%) BGP
4 4 (13.33%) IPv4
4 4 (13.33%) IPv6
4 4 (13.33%) LAN
4 4 (13.33%) MPLS
4 4 (13.33%) OSPF
4 4 (13.33%) SD-WAN
4 4 (13.33%) VXLAN
4 4 (13.33%) WAN
4 4 (13.33%) WLAN
5 3 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (10.00%) DHCP
5 3 (10.00%) EIGRP
5 3 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (10.00%) VLAN
5 3 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) TestDirector
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Law
6 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Architect
1 6 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 5 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 4 (13.33%) Lead
3 4 (13.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) SailPoint Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Security Specialist
3 4 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Network Security Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Security Architect
4 2 (6.67%) SIEM Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) CyberArk Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Incident Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Technical Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) REST
1 4 (13.33%) SailPoint
1 4 (13.33%) SOAP
2 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.33%) Lucene
2 1 (3.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (13.33%) PKI
3 3 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (10.00%) SCADA
4 2 (6.67%) CSOC
4 2 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.67%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.33%) MISP
5 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Incident Response
2 13 (43.33%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (36.67%) Zero Trust
4 8 (26.67%) Agile
4 8 (26.67%) Mentoring
4 8 (26.67%) Security Operations
5 7 (23.33%) Roadmaps
6 6 (20.00%) Anomaly Detection
6 6 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 6 (20.00%) Network Architecture
6 6 (20.00%) Network Design
6 6 (20.00%) Security Architecture
7 5 (16.67%) Analytics
7 5 (16.67%) DevSecOps
7 5 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 4 (13.33%) AI
8 4 (13.33%) Incident Management
8 4 (13.33%) Key Management
8 4 (13.33%) SIEM
8 4 (13.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) Python
2 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (13.33%) BeanShell
3 4 (13.33%) Java
4 2 (6.67%) Bash
4 2 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (3.33%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 18 (60.00%) CISM
2 10 (33.33%) Degree
3 8 (26.67%) GIAC
4 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
5 6 (20.00%) CCIE
5 6 (20.00%) CCNP
5 6 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 5 (16.67%) CEH
7 4 (13.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (13.33%) AWS Certification
7 4 (13.33%) CCSP
7 4 (13.33%) CREST Certified
8 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
8 3 (10.00%) CCIE Security
8 3 (10.00%) CISA
8 3 (10.00%) CRISC
8 3 (10.00%) PCI QSA
9 2 (6.67%) JNCIE
9 2 (6.67%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (33.33%) NIST
2 9 (30.00%) PCI DSS
3 8 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (20.00%) GDPR
5 3 (10.00%) QA
6 1 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Ansible
1 6 (20.00%) Terraform
2 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.67%) FortiGate
3 2 (6.67%) QRadar
4 1 (3.33%) Fluentd
4 1 (3.33%) Grafana
4 1 (3.33%) Kibana
4 1 (3.33%) logstash
4 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.33%) Rsyslog
4 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (13.33%) Cisco
3 4 (13.33%) F5
3 4 (13.33%) Fortinet
3 4 (13.33%) Meraki
3 4 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 3 (10.00%) SolarWinds
4 3 (10.00%) VMware
5 2 (6.67%) CheckPoint
5 2 (6.67%) Forcepoint
5 2 (6.67%) Juniper
5 2 (6.67%) Splunk
6 1 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.33%) Google
6 1 (3.33%) IBM
6 1 (3.33%) Tenable