CISSP Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2 CISSP)
South East > West Sussex

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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 23 38
Rank change year-on-year -6 +15 -
Contract jobs citing CISSP 2 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.95% 1.55% 1.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.64% 7.41% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £458 - -
25th Percentile £506 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £681 £488 £538
90th Percentile £723 - -
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £610
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.64% +1.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 55 27 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 26.07% 20.93% 18.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 17 37
10th Percentile £186 £403 £329
25th Percentile £288 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +1.21%
75th Percentile £537 £515 £600
90th Percentile £572 £627 £706
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £51.40
25th Percentile £21.50 - £56.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +203.88%
75th Percentile £24.50 - £67.54
90th Percentile - - £69.06
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -58.08% - +33.33%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

CISSP job vacancy trend in West Sussex

CISSP
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing CISSP

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

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

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in West Sussex

CISSP
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Worthing - 2 £600 -
CISSP
South East

CISSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Governance Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management Manager
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) SABSA
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CRISC
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) GRC