CISSP Jobs in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 253 256 366
Rank change year-on-year +3 +110 -10
Permanent jobs citing CISSP 867 1,005 1,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.11% 1.41% 1.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.08% 4.23% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 630 730 998
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.72% +6.92%
75th Percentile £88,750 £88,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 21,233 23,740 40,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.10% 33.40% 27.54%
Number of salaries quoted 12,087 12,302 17,912
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,770 £95,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +27 410 £85,000 +6.25% 43
North of England +48 149 £55,000 -15.38% 20
South West -13 106 £68,500 +1.48% 8
North West +34 105 £55,000 +11.11% 13
South East -31 98 £57,500 -2.95% 13
Midlands -50 75 £68,578 +19.27% 11
West Midlands -47 51 £70,000 +21.74% 9
Yorkshire +53 37 £79,842 +17.41% 3
East Midlands -14 23 £66,500 +15.65% 2
East of England -18 20 £45,000 -35.71% 6
North East -7 7 £64,921 -7.26% 4
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 5 (0.58%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.12%) Apache
2 1 (0.12%) CMS
2 1 (0.12%) Confluence
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.12%) nginx
2 1 (0.12%) SAS
2 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 16 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (1.73%) Ripple
2 1 (0.12%) Maximo
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 203 (23.41%) Azure
2 151 (17.42%) AWS
3 78 (9.00%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (4.96%) GCP
5 39 (4.50%) Cloud Computing
6 26 (3.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 20 (2.31%) Power Platform
8 17 (1.96%) SaaS
9 12 (1.38%) IaaS
9 12 (1.38%) PaaS
10 10 (1.15%) Entra ID
10 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (0.81%) Snowflake
11 7 (0.81%) WhatsApp
12 4 (0.46%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.35%) Mimecast
13 3 (0.35%) OneDrive
13 3 (0.35%) SuccessFactors
14 2 (0.23%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (0.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 199 (22.95%) Firewall
2 123 (14.19%) Network Security
3 48 (5.54%) Intrusion Detection
4 46 (5.31%) WAN
5 42 (4.84%) VPN
6 32 (3.69%) TCP/IP
7 28 (3.23%) SD-WAN
8 22 (2.54%) Wi-Fi
9 19 (2.19%) DNS
9 19 (2.19%) LAN
10 17 (1.96%) VoIP
11 14 (1.61%) Internet
12 10 (1.15%) Cisco IOS
12 10 (1.15%) Cisco IPT
12 10 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (0.69%) DHCP
14 4 (0.46%) NetScaler
15 3 (0.35%) 5G
15 3 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
15 3 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.19%) Power BI
2 5 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (0.58%) NoSQL
2 5 (0.58%) Redis
2 5 (0.58%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.35%) Big Data
4 2 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 16 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 15 (1.73%) Artifactory
2 15 (1.73%) Git
3 4 (0.46%) JIRA
4 1 (0.12%) Ant
4 1 (0.12%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.12%) Metasploit
General
1 273 (31.49%) Finance
2 202 (23.30%) Social Skills
3 103 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (10.50%) Law
5 67 (7.73%) Legal
6 60 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (4.27%) Banking
8 35 (4.04%) Telecoms
9 31 (3.58%) Military
10 29 (3.34%) Public Sector
11 28 (3.23%) Retail
12 22 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (2.42%) Manufacturing
14 20 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (2.19%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.96%) Marketing
17 14 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
18 8 (0.92%) Electronics
19 7 (0.81%) Advertising
20 5 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 152 (17.53%) Analyst
2 126 (14.53%) Architect
3 124 (14.30%) Senior
4 120 (13.84%) Security Analyst
5 117 (13.49%) Security Manager
6 109 (12.57%) Security Engineer
7 97 (11.19%) Security Architect
8 89 (10.27%) Consultant
9 86 (9.92%) Lead
10 83 (9.57%) Security Consultant
11 67 (7.73%) Information Security Manager
12 66 (7.61%) Information Manager
13 48 (5.54%) Senior Analyst
14 44 (5.07%) Senior Security Engineer
15 39 (4.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 38 (4.38%) Information Analyst
16 38 (4.38%) Information Security Analyst
17 37 (4.27%) Senior Security Analyst
18 36 (4.15%) Cybersecurity Analyst
19 35 (4.04%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.73%) HTML
2 10 (1.15%) ModSecurity
3 8 (0.92%) Web Services
4 7 (0.81%) OAuth
4 7 (0.81%) SailPoint
5 6 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (0.69%) SAML
6 5 (0.58%) Middleware
7 4 (0.46%) Kafka
8 3 (0.35%) REST
8 3 (0.35%) web3js
9 2 (0.23%) .NET
9 2 (0.23%) EDI
9 2 (0.23%) LDAP
9 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.12%) CSS
10 1 (0.12%) J2EE
10 1 (0.12%) JSON
10 1 (0.12%) OpenID
10 1 (0.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 230 (26.53%) Management Information System
2 109 (12.57%) Security Posture
3 73 (8.42%) Cyber Threat
4 51 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
5 40 (4.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 35 (4.04%) Product Ownership
6 35 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (3.92%) Data Centre
8 31 (3.58%) Cyberattack
8 31 (3.58%) Public Cloud
9 28 (3.23%) Operational Technology
10 20 (2.31%) Onboarding
10 20 (2.31%) PKI
11 19 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (2.08%) Blockchain
13 17 (1.96%) Cloud Native
14 16 (1.85%) Cyber Security Posture
15 15 (1.73%) Client/Server
15 15 (1.73%) Cyber Defence
16 11 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 57 (6.57%) Windows
2 30 (3.46%) Linux
3 8 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.81%) Unix
5 5 (0.58%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.46%) CentOS
6 4 (0.46%) Solaris
6 4 (0.46%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.46%) zOS
7 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (60.67%) Cybersecurity
2 468 (53.98%) Information Security
3 244 (28.14%) Risk Management
4 217 (25.03%) Incident Response
5 191 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
6 179 (20.65%) SIEM
7 149 (17.19%) Security Architecture
8 144 (16.61%) Computer Science
9 140 (16.15%) Security Operations
10 131 (15.11%) Vulnerability Management
11 127 (14.65%) Cloud Security
12 116 (13.38%) Incident Management
13 98 (11.30%) ITIL
13 98 (11.30%) Security Management
14 97 (11.19%) Application Security
15 85 (9.80%) Penetration Testing
16 78 (9.00%) Data Protection
16 78 (9.00%) Roadmaps
17 76 (8.77%) Agile
18 75 (8.65%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 88 (10.15%) Python
2 50 (5.77%) PowerShell
3 19 (2.19%) Bash
4 11 (1.27%) SQL
5 10 (1.15%) Java
6 5 (0.58%) C
6 5 (0.58%) R
6 5 (0.58%) Scala
7 3 (0.35%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.23%) C++
9 1 (0.12%) Groovy
9 1 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 502 (57.90%) CISM
2 268 (30.91%) Degree
3 223 (25.72%) CISA
4 156 (17.99%) CRISC
5 149 (17.19%) Cisco Certification
6 132 (15.22%) Security Cleared
7 99 (11.42%) CEH
8 93 (10.73%) SC Cleared
9 92 (10.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 79 (9.11%) CCSP
11 74 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
12 66 (7.61%) CESG Certified Professional
12 66 (7.61%) CompTIA Security+
13 62 (7.15%) GIAC
14 57 (6.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 56 (6.46%) Azure Certification
16 50 (5.77%) AWS Certification
17 49 (5.65%) Master's Degree
18 47 (5.42%) CCNP
19 35 (4.04%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 310 (35.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 247 (28.49%) NIST
3 109 (12.57%) GDPR
4 98 (11.30%) PCI DSS
5 92 (10.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 86 (9.92%) GRC
7 48 (5.54%) NCSC
8 42 (4.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 37 (4.27%) COBIT
10 27 (3.11%) NIST 800
11 26 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 20 (2.31%) SOC 2
13 16 (1.85%) HIPAA
14 13 (1.50%) JSP 440
15 12 (1.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 11 (1.27%) RMADS
17 9 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 8 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27005
19 7 (0.81%) ISO 22301
20 6 (0.69%) GLBA
System Software
1 32 (3.69%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.77%) Docker
3 6 (0.69%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.46%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.12%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.12%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.12%) pfSense
7 1 (0.12%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (4.04%) Single Sign-On
2 33 (3.81%) Kubernetes
3 27 (3.11%) Ansible
4 19 (2.19%) CASB
5 12 (1.38%) Nessus
6 6 (0.69%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 5 (0.58%) CSIRT
7 5 (0.58%) Grafana
7 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.58%) SCOM
7 5 (0.58%) Suricata
8 3 (0.35%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.35%) QRadar
9 2 (0.23%) Terraform
10 1 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.12%) Nmap
10 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 180 (20.76%) Microsoft
2 32 (3.69%) Splunk
3 30 (3.46%) Cisco
4 29 (3.34%) CyberArk
5 25 (2.88%) Palo Alto
5 25 (2.88%) Qualys
6 17 (1.96%) ArcSight
6 17 (1.96%) McAfee
7 16 (1.85%) Atlassian
7 16 (1.85%) Carbon Black
8 15 (1.73%) Meraki
9 13 (1.50%) Google
9 13 (1.50%) VMware
10 12 (1.38%) Citrix
11 11 (1.27%) Juniper
11 11 (1.27%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.04%) Alibaba
12 9 (1.04%) Dell
13 8 (0.92%) Oracle
14 7 (0.81%) SAP