CISSP Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 46 49 53
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +14
Contract jobs citing CISSP 24 9 21
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 3.99% 1.87% 2.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.76% 2.58% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 7 17
10th Percentile £512 £575 £475
25th Percentile £538 £594 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £809 £693 £730
South West median daily rate £625 £663 £625
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 504 349 514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 83.72% 72.41% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 248 353
10th Percentile £450 £356 £413
25th Percentile £513 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £715 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 2 16
10th Percentile £12.50 - £40.85
25th Percentile £15.62 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £60.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -62.89% +23.08% -25.57%
75th Percentile £24.50 - £50.00
90th Percentile £25.15 - £67.25
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £61.95
% change year-on-year -61.60% +5.74% -4.70%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

CISSP job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

CISSP
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing CISSP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing CISSP

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in Wiltshire

CISSP
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CISSP within the Wiltshire 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
Corsham -4 15 £613 -2.00% 1
Salisbury - 4 - - 1
Swindon -2 3 £813 +16.07%
CISSP
South West

CISSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) AWS
2 6 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) Azure AKS
3 3 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (12.50%) GCP
3 3 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) GitLab
2 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (45.83%) Finance
2 9 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 8 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 7 (29.17%) Electronics
4 7 (29.17%) Manufacturing
4 7 (29.17%) Marketing
5 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
6 1 (4.17%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Consultant
1 7 (29.17%) Security Consultant
1 7 (29.17%) Security Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Security Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Head of Information
4 2 (8.33%) Head of Information Security
4 2 (8.33%) Head of Security
4 2 (8.33%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Project Leader
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Security Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.17%) JWT
2 1 (4.17%) OAuth
2 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (4.17%) DataPower
4 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) SIEM
2 9 (37.50%) Cloud Security
3 8 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 7 (29.17%) Agile
4 7 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (29.17%) Digital Marketing
4 7 (29.17%) Impact Assessments
4 7 (29.17%) Programme Management
4 7 (29.17%) Security Management
5 6 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
6 5 (20.83%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (20.83%) Security Operations
6 5 (20.83%) TOGAF
7 4 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (16.67%) Information Security
7 4 (16.67%) ITIL
7 4 (16.67%) RBAC
7 4 (16.67%) Zero Trust
8 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) Bicep
2 2 (8.33%) Bash
2 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (62.50%) DV Cleared
3 14 (58.33%) CISM
4 11 (45.83%) SC Cleared
5 7 (29.17%) CESG Certified Professional
6 6 (25.00%) CompTIA CySA+
6 6 (25.00%) Degree
6 6 (25.00%) Network+ Certification
6 6 (25.00%) SANS
7 5 (20.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 4 (16.67%) Azure Certification
9 3 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
10 2 (8.33%) CEH
10 2 (8.33%) CISA
10 2 (8.33%) CLAS
10 2 (8.33%) DBS Check
11 1 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (4.17%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (62.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (41.67%) NIST
3 7 (29.17%) RMADS
4 6 (25.00%) NCSC
5 3 (12.50%) COBIT
5 3 (12.50%) GDPR
5 3 (12.50%) JSP 440
5 3 (12.50%) NIST 800
6 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
6 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
1 5 (20.83%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Grafana
3 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) SAP
2 4 (16.67%) IBM
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk