CISSP Contracts in the West Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 109 163
Rank change year-on-year +12 +54 -71
Contract jobs citing CISSP 15 28 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.79% 1.20% 0.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.41% 4.42% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 23 8
10th Percentile £572 £503 £462
25th Percentile £608 £525 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £625 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +16.28% -6.52%
75th Percentile £645 £750 £650
90th Percentile £729 £800 £688
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

CISSP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 623 634 703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.65% 27.21% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 389 491
10th Percentile £275 £311 £285
25th Percentile £358 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £536 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.04% +12.84% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £563
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 28 11
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.70 £11.25
25th Percentile £22.08 £13.31 £13.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £19.00 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +9.95% +5.88%
75th Percentile £43.44 £27.54 £20.26
90th Percentile £58.75 £60.05 £20.51
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -1.06%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in the West Midlands

CISSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CISSP in the West Midlands

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISSP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 2024. 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 +11 3 £575 -6.12% 6
Coventry +14 1 £900 +63.64% 1
Warwickshire -3 1 £750 - 2
Solihull - 1 - -
CISSP
England

CISSP
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
1 4 (26.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
General
1 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Splunk Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Security Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Security Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) SOC Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Compliance Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Governance Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Risk Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Risk Support Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Security Operations Centre
1 7 (46.67%) Security Posture
2 5 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 4 (26.67%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (13.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (13.33%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 9 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (60.00%) Security Operations
3 9 (60.00%) SIEM
4 7 (46.67%) Analytics
5 6 (40.00%) Information Security
6 5 (33.33%) Cloud Security
6 5 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 5 (33.33%) Threat Detection
6 5 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
7 4 (26.67%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (26.67%) Event Correlation
7 4 (26.67%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (26.67%) Log Analytics
8 3 (20.00%) Data Analytics
8 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
8 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
8 3 (20.00%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (73.33%) Degree
3 9 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (46.67%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
5 3 (20.00%) CEH
5 3 (20.00%) CISM
5 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (13.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (13.33%) CRISC
6 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
7 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (6.67%) CCSP
7 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Government Security Classifications
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) NCSC
2 1 (6.67%) COBIT
2 1 (6.67%) GRC
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kibana
1 2 (13.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Splunk