CISSP Job Trends in Cheshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 62 61
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 +47
Permanent jobs citing CISSP 2 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.16% 0.17% 0.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.32% 0.51% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78,750 - £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.76%
75th Percentile £86,250 - £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year +8.33% -12.73% +18.92%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

CISSP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 631 196 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 50.16% 32.83% 17.87%
Number of salaries quoted 90 89 70
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £44,516
Median % change year-on-year - +12.32% +5.36%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £61,123
90th Percentile £63,750 £69,000 £75,000
North West median annual salary £47,683 £50,055 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.74% -4.66% -3.94%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

CISSP job vacancy trend in Cheshire

CISSP
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing CISSP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing CISSP

CISSP
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CISSP within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Ellesmere Port - 1 £82,500 -
Knutsford - 1 - -
CISSP
North West

CISSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Modbus
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Monitoring Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Fluentd
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk