CISSP Contracts in West Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 67 83
Rank change year-on-year +1 +16 +34
Contract jobs citing CISSP 4 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.57% 0.55% 0.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.08% 2.67% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £472 £515 -
25th Percentile £487 £538 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £620 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% +10.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £569 £714 £619
90th Percentile £588 £721 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £471 £690 £600
% change year-on-year -31.70% +15.00% +20.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 192 187 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 27.51% 20.53% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 140 138
10th Percentile £300 £288 £361
25th Percentile £413 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £485 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -11.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £556 £548 £698
90th Percentile £625 £600 £739
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £13.65 £30.00
25th Percentile £26.25 - £30.01
Median hourly rate £27.50 £15.00 £30.03
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -50.04% +31.98%
75th Percentile £28.75 £15.17 £30.06
90th Percentile - £39.82 £30.07
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £24.87 £30.00
% change year-on-year +1.13% -17.10% +63.27%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in West Yorkshire

CISSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for CISSP in West Yorkshire

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISSP in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 22 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in West Yorkshire

CISSP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for CISSP in West Yorkshire

CISSP
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 July 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
Leeds +4 4 £525 - 3
CISSP
Yorkshire

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) IT Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Security Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) IT Security Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) CISM
2 1 (25.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) GCIH
2 1 (25.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (25.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) GRC
2 1 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Nessus
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (25.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Qualys
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk