CSSLP Contracts in the West Midlands

(ISC)² Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (ISC2 CSSLP)
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 - 121
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing CSSLP 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.059% - 0.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.17% - 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £694
25th Percentile - - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - £725
75th Percentile - - £738
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £650 £581 £725
% change year-on-year +11.97% -19.93% +22.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 574 641 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.69% 33.86% 26.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 420 353
10th Percentile £189 £312 £313
25th Percentile £380 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £638 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 21 14
10th Percentile - £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.50 £17.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.93 £25.80
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +31.51% +29.00%
75th Percentile £43.63 £52.50 £33.06
90th Percentile £51.00 £58.75 £56.72
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% -13.64% +22.22%

CSSLP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing CSSLP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for CSSLP in the West Midlands

CSSLP
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

CSSLP
DemandTrendContract 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 CSSLP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham - 1 £800 - 2
CSSLP
England

CSSLP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

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