CISSP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2 CISSP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 204 156
Rank change year-on-year +34 -48 +108
Contract jobs citing CISSP 154 140 348
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.52% 1.06% 1.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.09% 4.16% 6.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 102 282
10th Percentile £400 £425 £463
25th Percentile £435 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £750
90th Percentile £750 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £591 £625
% change year-on-year +1.48% -5.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £28.72 - -
25th Percentile £30.06 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - £74.79
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile £77.95 - -
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £23.00 £72.98
% change year-on-year +143.48% -68.48% +6.42%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,028 3,368 5,474
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.88% 25.51% 24.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,983 2,244 3,701
10th Percentile £348 £325 £370
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -1.95% -2.18%
75th Percentile £613 £634 £650
90th Percentile £702 £725 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 196 215
10th Percentile £15.29 £18.25 £19.00
25th Percentile £27.52 £35.46 £41.75
Median hourly rate £50.99 £47.50 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% -18.93% +0.58%
75th Percentile £67.50 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.70 £85.00 £75.60
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £56.03
% change year-on-year -41.51% -23.26% +24.51%

CISSP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing CISSP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CISSP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

CISSP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CISSP.

CISSP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing CISSP over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

CISSP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CISSP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CISSP.

CISSP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

CISSP
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing CISSP over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

CISSP hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.30%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.65%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 54 (35.06%) Azure
2 41 (26.62%) AWS
3 28 (18.18%) GCP
4 8 (5.19%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (4.55%) SaaS
6 4 (2.60%) IaaS
6 4 (2.60%) PaaS
6 4 (2.60%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.95%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (1.95%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.30%) GitHub
8 2 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.30%) OCI
8 2 (1.30%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.65%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.65%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 23 (14.94%) Firewall
2 16 (10.39%) Network Security
3 10 (6.49%) DNS
4 6 (3.90%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (3.25%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.60%) HTTP
7 3 (1.95%) BGP
7 3 (1.95%) DHCP
7 3 (1.95%) SMTP
7 3 (1.95%) Wireless
8 2 (1.30%) 3GPP
8 2 (1.30%) Anycast
8 2 (1.30%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (1.30%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (1.30%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (1.30%) VXLAN
9 1 (0.65%) 5G
9 1 (0.65%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.65%) Modbus
9 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.60%) MongoDB
1 4 (2.60%) Power BI
2 2 (1.30%) BigQuery
2 2 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (2.60%) JIRA
2 3 (1.95%) GitLab
2 3 (1.95%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.30%) Git
4 1 (0.65%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.65%) JMeter
4 1 (0.65%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.65%) Postman
4 1 (0.65%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.65%) Selenium
4 1 (0.65%) TestNG
4 1 (0.65%) Travis CI
General
1 56 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 38 (24.68%) Finance
3 27 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.69%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.44%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.19%) Banking
6 8 (5.19%) Legal
7 7 (4.55%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.90%) Electronics
8 6 (3.90%) Marketing
9 4 (2.60%) Military
9 4 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.95%) French Language
10 3 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.95%) Police
11 2 (1.30%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (1.30%) Law
11 2 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (19.48%) Architect
2 28 (18.18%) Consultant
3 26 (16.88%) Senior
4 21 (13.64%) Security Manager
5 20 (12.99%) Security Architect
5 20 (12.99%) Security Consultant
5 20 (12.99%) Security Engineer
6 16 (10.39%) Analyst
7 10 (6.49%) Senior Consultant
8 7 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 7 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 6 (3.90%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 6 (3.90%) Information Security Consultant
9 6 (3.90%) Security Analyst
9 6 (3.90%) Senior Security Consultant
9 6 (3.90%) Senior Security Engineer
9 6 (3.90%) SOC Analyst
10 5 (3.25%) Information Manager
10 5 (3.25%) Information Security Manager
10 5 (3.25%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.60%) SailPoint
2 3 (1.95%) SAML
2 3 (1.95%) Web Services
3 2 (1.30%) eBPF
3 2 (1.30%) Kafka
3 2 (1.30%) OAuth
3 2 (1.30%) OpenID
4 1 (0.65%) .NET
4 1 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.65%) JSON
4 1 (0.65%) LDAP
4 1 (0.65%) React
4 1 (0.65%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.04%) Security Posture
2 15 (9.74%) Security Operations Centre
3 12 (7.79%) Management Information System
4 11 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.55%) Operational Technology
5 7 (4.55%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.90%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.60%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.60%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.95%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.95%) SCADA
8 3 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.30%) IBM Mainframe
9 2 (1.30%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.84%) Windows
2 7 (4.55%) Linux
3 4 (2.60%) zOS
4 3 (1.95%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (48.05%) Cybersecurity
2 55 (35.71%) Cloud Security
3 53 (34.42%) Incident Response
4 47 (30.52%) Security Operations
5 41 (26.62%) Information Security
6 37 (24.03%) Risk Management
6 37 (24.03%) SIEM
7 35 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (18.83%) Vulnerability Management
9 24 (15.58%) Security Architecture
10 23 (14.94%) DevSecOps
10 23 (14.94%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 23 (14.94%) Threat Modelling
11 20 (12.99%) Computer Science
12 18 (11.69%) Roadmaps
13 17 (11.04%) DevOps
13 17 (11.04%) TOGAF
13 17 (11.04%) Zero Trust
14 16 (10.39%) Security Management
15 15 (9.74%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 38 (24.68%) Python
2 28 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 11 (7.14%) Bash
4 4 (2.60%) Java
4 4 (2.60%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.30%) C
5 2 (1.30%) C++
5 2 (1.30%) Perl
5 2 (1.30%) PHP
5 2 (1.30%) SQL
6 1 (0.65%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 66 (42.86%) CISM
2 31 (20.13%) Security Cleared
3 27 (17.53%) Degree
4 23 (14.94%) GIAC
5 21 (13.64%) CEH
5 21 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (13.64%) SANS
6 18 (11.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 16 (10.39%) CISA
7 16 (10.39%) GCIH
7 16 (10.39%) SC Cleared
8 15 (9.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 14 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (7.79%) CompTIA Security+
10 12 (7.79%) OSCP
11 11 (7.14%) CCSP
12 9 (5.84%) CRISC
13 8 (5.19%) CESG Certified Professional
13 8 (5.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 7 (4.55%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (40.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 62 (40.26%) NIST
2 27 (17.53%) GDPR
2 27 (17.53%) PCI DSS
3 19 (12.34%) HIPAA
4 18 (11.69%) NCSC
5 13 (8.44%) GRC
6 9 (5.84%) COBIT
6 9 (5.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (5.84%) NIST 800
7 8 (5.19%) RMADS
8 5 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 5 (3.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (3.25%) SLA
8 5 (3.25%) SOC 2
9 4 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (2.60%) QA
10 3 (1.95%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (1.30%) ITGC
System Software
1 4 (2.60%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.60%) Docker
1 4 (2.60%) RACF
2 2 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.65%) NFS
3 1 (0.65%) Samba
Systems Management
1 10 (6.49%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.90%) Jamf Pro
2 6 (3.90%) Terraform
3 4 (2.60%) Ansible
3 4 (2.60%) CSIRT
3 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.60%) Nessus
3 4 (2.60%) QRadar
4 3 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.30%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.65%) CASB
6 1 (0.65%) Istio
6 1 (0.65%) Kibana
6 1 (0.65%) linkerd
6 1 (0.65%) Nagios
6 1 (0.65%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.65%) SCCM
6 1 (0.65%) SELinux
6 1 (0.65%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (16.23%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.39%) Palo Alto
3 14 (9.09%) Splunk
4 13 (8.44%) Google
5 9 (5.84%) CrowdStrike
5 9 (5.84%) Qualys
6 6 (3.90%) SAP
7 5 (3.25%) IBM
7 5 (3.25%) Rapid7
7 5 (3.25%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.25%) Zscaler
8 4 (2.60%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.60%) Cisco
8 4 (2.60%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.60%) Darktrace
8 4 (2.60%) Tenable
9 3 (1.95%) Aruba
9 3 (1.95%) Extreme Networks
9 3 (1.95%) Infoblox
9 3 (1.95%) Red Hat