CISSP Contracts in Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 100 109
Rank change year-on-year +12 +9 +24
Contract jobs citing CISSP 13 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.94% 0.36% 0.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.92% 1.90% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 7
10th Percentile £340 £520 -
25th Percentile £378 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £690 £600
Median % change year-on-year -31.70% +15.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £541 £710 £631
90th Percentile £595 £719 £653
England median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 332 315 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.01% 19.10% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 213 220
10th Percentile £300 £297 £211
25th Percentile £382 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £650
90th Percentile £631 £650 £720
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 18 5
10th Percentile £18.51 £13.50 £15.60
25th Percentile £21.29 £15.00 £22.51
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.87 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.13% -17.10% +63.27%
75th Percentile - £43.31 £30.08
90th Percentile £26.59 £63.75 £38.43
England median hourly rate £25.32 £43.00 £56.45
% change year-on-year -41.12% -23.82% +34.39%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in Yorkshire

CISSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for CISSP in Yorkshire

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISSP in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in Yorkshire

CISSP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for CISSP in Yorkshire

CISSP
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
South Yorkshire +2 9 £450 -35.71% 6
West Yorkshire +2 4 £525 -15.32% 8
CISSP
England

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 9 (69.23%) AWS
3 8 (61.54%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Kerberos
1 1 (7.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) JIRA
2 8 (61.54%) Postman
2 8 (61.54%) SoapUI
3 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Analyst
2 7 (53.85%) Test Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) CISSP Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) IT Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Security Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) IT Security Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Security Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Security Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Security Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) JSON
1 1 (7.69%) LDAP
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth
1 1 (7.69%) OpenID
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Identity Access Management
1 10 (76.92%) Privileged Access Management
2 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 9 (69.23%) Cloud Security
3 8 (61.54%) Agile
3 8 (61.54%) API Testing
3 8 (61.54%) DevSecOps
3 8 (61.54%) Kanban
3 8 (61.54%) Scrum
3 8 (61.54%) Security Testing
3 8 (61.54%) Software Testing
3 8 (61.54%) Test Management
4 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (15.38%) Functional Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
6 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Bash
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) CISM
2 8 (61.54%) ISTQB
3 3 (23.08%) Degree
4 1 (7.69%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.69%) GCIH
4 1 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (61.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (61.54%) NIST
2 7 (53.85%) GDPR
3 6 (46.15%) PCI DSS
4 3 (23.08%) QA
5 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (7.69%) GRC
5 1 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Nessus
1 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Google
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 8 (61.54%) BeyondTrust
2 8 (61.54%) CyberArk
2 8 (61.54%) Thycotic
3 1 (7.69%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (7.69%) Darktrace
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Qualys
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk