CISSP Jobs 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 98 83
Rank change year-on-year +8 -15 +18
Permanent jobs citing CISSP 3 7 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.39% 0.43% 0.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.39% 1.69% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £35,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -46.15% -7.14%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £70,625
90th Percentile - - £72,500
North West median annual salary £56,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.73% -4.35% +2.22%

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 216 413 268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 27.94% 25.53% 29.98%
Number of salaries quoted 53 284 125
10th Percentile - £26,250 £25,420
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £63,000 £72,125 £87,950
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -13.04% +21.05%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in Cheshire

CISSP
Salary Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CISSP in Cheshire.

Salary trend for CISSP in Cheshire

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 29 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Ellesmere Port - 2 £55,000 -
Crewe - 1 £55,000 -
CISSP
North West

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Register
1 2 (66.67%) Runbook
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Bicep
3 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CEH
1 2 (66.67%) CISA
1 2 (66.67%) CISM
1 2 (66.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (66.67%) CRISC
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) GCIH
1 2 (66.67%) GIAC
1 2 (66.67%) GISF
1 2 (66.67%) ISACA
1 2 (66.67%) SANS
1 2 (66.67%) SSCP
2 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft