CISSP Jobs in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 283 347
Rank change year-on-year +27 +64 -57
Permanent jobs citing CISSP 951 1,195 1,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.12% 1.28% 1.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.93% 3.92% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 736 883 946
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,858 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% +3.85%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

CISSP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,218 30,499 34,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.56% 32.72% 26.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15,725 13,726 16,723
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in England

CISSP
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for CISSP in England

CISSP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing CISSP in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for CISSP in England

CISSP
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CISSP within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London +59 462 £80,000 +6.67% 94
North of England +78 154 £56,500 -5.83% 25
South West +10 120 £68,500 +1.48% 23
North West +51 104 £55,000 -4.86% 16
South East -21 102 £55,000 -8.33% 29
Midlands -52 61 £71,250 +16.33% 18
East of England +6 41 £54,000 -10.00% 8
West Midlands -51 39 £75,000 +25.00% 12
Yorkshire +75 36 £62,759 -3.45% 6
East Midlands +3 21 £65,750 +3.14% 6
North East +5 14 £79,842 +27.75% 3
CISSP
UK

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (0.32%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.21%) Apache
3 1 (0.11%) IIS
3 1 (0.11%) nginx
3 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 260 (27.34%) Azure
2 165 (17.35%) AWS
3 125 (13.14%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (4.31%) Azure Sentinel
4 41 (4.31%) GCP
5 33 (3.47%) Cloud Computing
6 25 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
7 17 (1.79%) SaaS
8 15 (1.58%) PaaS
9 14 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (1.47%) IaaS
10 13 (1.37%) Power Platform
11 11 (1.16%) Entra ID
12 6 (0.63%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.42%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.42%) Serverless
14 3 (0.32%) Azure AKS
14 3 (0.32%) Mimecast
14 3 (0.32%) OneDrive
14 3 (0.32%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 243 (25.55%) Firewall
2 118 (12.41%) Network Security
3 68 (7.15%) WAN
4 65 (6.83%) Intrusion Detection
5 56 (5.89%) TCP/IP
6 38 (4.00%) VPN
7 35 (3.68%) LAN
7 35 (3.68%) SD-WAN
8 23 (2.42%) DNS
9 22 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (1.68%) Wireshark
11 15 (1.58%) Internet
12 10 (1.05%) Cisco IOS
12 10 (1.05%) Cisco IPT
12 10 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (0.95%) VoIP
14 6 (0.63%) 5G
15 5 (0.53%) DHCP
16 4 (0.42%) NetScaler
16 4 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.37%) Power BI
2 5 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (0.53%) NoSQL
2 5 (0.53%) Redis
3 4 (0.42%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.32%) Big Data
5 2 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 20 (2.10%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.21%) JIRA
3 1 (0.11%) Snyk
3 1 (0.11%) Vagrant
General
1 280 (29.44%) Finance
2 224 (23.55%) Social Skills
3 116 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (10.30%) Legal
5 86 (9.04%) Law
6 44 (4.63%) Retail
7 43 (4.52%) Public Sector
8 42 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 35 (3.68%) Telecoms
10 30 (3.15%) Military
11 28 (2.94%) Manufacturing
12 25 (2.63%) Banking
13 21 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
13 21 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.79%) Marketing
16 10 (1.05%) Back Office
17 9 (0.95%) Automotive
17 9 (0.95%) Electronics
18 8 (0.84%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 184 (19.35%) Analyst
2 158 (16.61%) Architect
3 142 (14.93%) Security Analyst
4 134 (14.09%) Security Manager
5 129 (13.56%) Senior
6 120 (12.62%) Security Architect
7 108 (11.36%) Consultant
8 104 (10.94%) Lead
9 97 (10.20%) Security Consultant
10 93 (9.78%) Security Engineer
11 66 (6.94%) Information Manager
11 66 (6.94%) Information Security Manager
12 55 (5.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 50 (5.26%) IT Manager
14 46 (4.84%) Information Analyst
14 46 (4.84%) Information Security Analyst
15 45 (4.73%) Senior Analyst
16 37 (3.89%) IT Analyst
17 36 (3.79%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 36 (3.79%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.47%) HTML
2 8 (0.84%) ModSecurity
3 7 (0.74%) OAuth
3 7 (0.74%) web3js
4 6 (0.63%) SailPoint
4 6 (0.63%) SAML
5 5 (0.53%) Middleware
6 4 (0.42%) Kafka
6 4 (0.42%) Web Services
7 3 (0.32%) REST
8 2 (0.21%) .NET
8 2 (0.21%) EDI
8 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.11%) J2EE
9 1 (0.11%) JSON
9 1 (0.11%) LDAP
9 1 (0.11%) Lightning Web Components
9 1 (0.11%) OpenID
9 1 (0.11%) RESTful
9 1 (0.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 266 (27.97%) Management Information System
2 136 (14.30%) Security Posture
3 107 (11.25%) Cyber Threat
4 62 (6.52%) Security Operations Centre
5 58 (6.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 35 (3.68%) PKI
7 34 (3.58%) Cyberattack
8 31 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (3.15%) Data Centre
9 30 (3.15%) Operational Technology
10 23 (2.42%) Onboarding
11 20 (2.10%) Product Ownership
12 17 (1.79%) Cloud Security Posture
13 16 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
13 16 (1.68%) Public Cloud
14 15 (1.58%) Cloud Native
15 14 (1.47%) IoT
16 13 (1.37%) Client/Server
17 10 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
18 8 (0.84%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 74 (7.78%) Windows
2 22 (2.31%) Linux
3 14 (1.47%) Android
3 14 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.84%) Unix
5 7 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.42%) CentOS
6 4 (0.42%) Solaris
6 4 (0.42%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.42%) zOS
7 3 (0.32%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 616 (64.77%) Cybersecurity
2 515 (54.15%) Information Security
3 250 (26.29%) Risk Management
4 232 (24.40%) Incident Response
5 185 (19.45%) SIEM
6 180 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
7 164 (17.25%) Security Architecture
8 156 (16.40%) Cloud Security
8 156 (16.40%) Computer Science
9 152 (15.98%) Security Operations
10 133 (13.99%) Vulnerability Management
11 122 (12.83%) Application Security
12 121 (12.72%) Security Management
13 108 (11.36%) Roadmaps
14 101 (10.62%) ITIL
15 100 (10.52%) Data Protection
15 100 (10.52%) Penetration Testing
16 96 (10.09%) Incident Management
17 88 (9.25%) Agile
18 87 (9.15%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 70 (7.36%) Python
2 41 (4.31%) PowerShell
3 19 (2.00%) Bash
4 11 (1.16%) SQL
5 7 (0.74%) Java
6 4 (0.42%) C
6 4 (0.42%) R
6 4 (0.42%) Scala
7 2 (0.21%) C#
7 2 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.11%) C++
8 1 (0.11%) Groovy
8 1 (0.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 524 (55.10%) CISM
2 288 (30.28%) Degree
3 197 (20.72%) CISA
4 190 (19.98%) Cisco Certification
5 171 (17.98%) CRISC
6 148 (15.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 145 (15.25%) Security Cleared
8 128 (13.46%) CCSP
9 119 (12.51%) CEH
10 116 (12.20%) CompTIA Security+
11 100 (10.52%) SC Cleared
12 82 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
12 82 (8.62%) GIAC
13 74 (7.78%) CESG Certified Professional
14 71 (7.47%) Azure Certification
15 69 (7.26%) CompTIA CySA+
16 67 (7.05%) AWS Certification
17 59 (6.20%) CCSK
18 56 (5.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
19 54 (5.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 341 (35.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 282 (29.65%) NIST
3 118 (12.41%) PCI DSS
4 114 (11.99%) GDPR
5 91 (9.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 80 (8.41%) GRC
7 52 (5.47%) NCSC
8 45 (4.73%) COBIT
9 44 (4.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 36 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 27 (2.84%) SOC 2
12 23 (2.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 21 (2.21%) NIST 800
14 19 (2.00%) HIPAA
15 14 (1.47%) RMADS
16 11 (1.16%) JSP 440
17 9 (0.95%) Data Quality
18 7 (0.74%) ISO 31000
18 7 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 6 (0.63%) GLBA
System Software
1 34 (3.58%) Docker
2 28 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) LXC
8 1 (0.11%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.11%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 43 (4.52%) Single Sign-On
2 42 (4.42%) Kubernetes
3 24 (2.52%) Ansible
4 20 (2.10%) CASB
5 18 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (1.47%) Nessus
6 14 (1.47%) Nmap
7 7 (0.74%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 6 (0.63%) SCCM
9 5 (0.53%) Grafana
9 5 (0.53%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.53%) SCOM
10 4 (0.42%) QRadar
11 3 (0.32%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.32%) Suricata
12 2 (0.21%) Terraform
Vendors
1 209 (21.98%) Microsoft
2 39 (4.10%) Splunk
3 32 (3.36%) Qualys
4 31 (3.26%) ServiceNow
5 28 (2.94%) Cisco
6 21 (2.21%) CyberArk
7 20 (2.10%) Google
7 20 (2.10%) Palo Alto
8 18 (1.89%) Oracle
9 17 (1.79%) Rapid7
10 15 (1.58%) SAP
11 14 (1.47%) Alibaba
11 14 (1.47%) Meraki
11 14 (1.47%) Thycotic
12 12 (1.26%) Citrix
13 10 (1.05%) VMware
14 9 (0.95%) ArcSight
14 9 (0.95%) Atlassian
14 9 (0.95%) Carbon Black
14 9 (0.95%) McAfee