CISSP Jobs in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 157 225
Rank change year-on-year -5 +68 +158
Permanent jobs citing CISSP 278 465 586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.18% 1.97% 1.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.45% 6.89% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 172 362 468
10th Percentile £57,670 £52,500 £47,125
25th Percentile £65,000 £69,659 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.69% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £121,750 £101,250 £109,125
England median annual salary £72,500 £71,108 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.96% +1.58% +3.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,310 6,752 9,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.84% 28.59% 25.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,015 4,304 5,754
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,725 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £105,000 £110,875
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,193
% change year-on-year - -5.49% +5.81%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in London

CISSP
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for CISSP in London

CISSP
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CISSP in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for CISSP in London

CISSP
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CISSP within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London -38 26 £77,500 -8.82% 23
West London +36 6 £57,670 +4.85% 4
North London +3 3 £65,000 +18.18%
CISSP
England

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 14 (5.04%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.08%) Confluence
2 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.36%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.36%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 53 (19.06%) Azure
2 39 (14.03%) AWS
3 27 (9.71%) SaaS
4 25 (8.99%) Entra ID
5 22 (7.91%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (6.83%) GCP
7 10 (3.60%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (2.88%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.80%) Azure AKS
9 5 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.44%) IaaS
11 3 (1.08%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (1.08%) GitHub
11 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.08%) Miro
12 2 (0.72%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (0.72%) AWS Control Tower
12 2 (0.72%) AWS Direct Connect
12 2 (0.72%) Route 53
12 2 (0.72%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 47 (16.91%) Firewall
2 23 (8.27%) Network Security
3 9 (3.24%) DNS
3 9 (3.24%) SAN
4 7 (2.52%) VPN
5 6 (2.16%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (1.80%) Kerberos
7 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.08%) WAN
8 2 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.72%) HTTP
8 2 (0.72%) VSAN
9 1 (0.36%) 4G
9 1 (0.36%) 5G
9 1 (0.36%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.36%) VLAN
9 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.88%) Power BI
2 3 (1.08%) Big Data
2 3 (1.08%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.36%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.36%) HBase
4 1 (0.36%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 9 (3.24%) JIRA
2 3 (1.08%) Cypress.io
2 3 (1.08%) JMeter
2 3 (1.08%) JUnit
2 3 (1.08%) LoadRunner
2 3 (1.08%) Selenium
2 3 (1.08%) TestRail
3 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.36%) Postman
3 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 148 (53.24%) Social Skills
2 135 (48.56%) Finance
3 58 (20.86%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.43%) Banking
5 27 (9.71%) Presentation Skills
6 20 (7.19%) Legal
7 19 (6.83%) Marketing
8 18 (6.47%) Public Sector
8 18 (6.47%) Telecoms
9 15 (5.40%) Manufacturing
10 13 (4.68%) Electronics
11 11 (3.96%) Law
11 11 (3.96%) Retail
12 5 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 54 (19.42%) Analyst
2 53 (19.06%) IT Manager
3 47 (16.91%) Security Manager
4 41 (14.75%) Senior
5 40 (14.39%) Consultant
6 39 (14.03%) Security Analyst
7 32 (11.51%) Security Consultant
8 27 (9.71%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 22 (7.91%) Senior Manager
9 22 (7.91%) Support Manager
10 21 (7.55%) Architect
10 21 (7.55%) Managing Consultant
11 19 (6.83%) Senior IT Manager
12 18 (6.47%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 18 (6.47%) Security Architect
13 17 (6.12%) Information Manager
13 17 (6.12%) Information Security Manager
14 16 (5.76%) Audit Manager
14 16 (5.76%) IT Audit Manager
14 16 (5.76%) Senior IT Audit Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.52%) Leaflet
2 6 (2.16%) LDAP
2 6 (2.16%) SailPoint
3 5 (1.80%) Azure Blueprints
3 5 (1.80%) OAuth
3 5 (1.80%) OpenID
3 5 (1.80%) RESTful
3 5 (1.80%) SAML
4 2 (0.72%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.72%) CSS
4 2 (0.72%) HTML
4 2 (0.72%) Node.js
5 1 (0.36%) JDBC
5 1 (0.36%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.31%) Management Information System
2 35 (12.59%) Security Posture
3 30 (10.79%) Cyber Threat
4 21 (7.55%) Life Science
5 19 (6.83%) Hedge funds
6 11 (3.96%) PKI
7 9 (3.24%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.24%) Podcast
8 8 (2.88%) Cloud Native
8 8 (2.88%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.16%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (2.16%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (1.80%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.08%) Machine to Machine
12 3 (1.08%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.51%) Windows
2 10 (3.60%) Linux
3 9 (3.24%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.80%) VMS
5 4 (1.44%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (65.11%) Cybersecurity
2 116 (41.73%) Information Security
3 80 (28.78%) Incident Response
4 73 (26.26%) Risk Management
5 68 (24.46%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (20.50%) SIEM
7 55 (19.78%) ITIL
8 47 (16.91%) Computer Science
9 39 (14.03%) Cloud Security
9 39 (14.03%) Stakeholder Management
10 37 (13.31%) Agile
10 37 (13.31%) Roadmaps
11 34 (12.23%) Service Delivery
11 34 (12.23%) Vulnerability Management
12 32 (11.51%) Project Management
12 32 (11.51%) Regulatory Compliance
12 32 (11.51%) Security Operations
13 29 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (10.07%) Mentoring
14 28 (10.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 41 (14.75%) PowerShell
2 37 (13.31%) Python
3 6 (2.16%) Bash
4 5 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (1.44%) SQL
6 3 (1.08%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.08%) R
7 1 (0.36%) ABAP
7 1 (0.36%) C#
7 1 (0.36%) C++
7 1 (0.36%) Java
7 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 126 (45.32%) CISM
2 94 (33.81%) Degree
3 44 (15.83%) CRISC
4 43 (15.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (14.39%) OSCP
6 39 (14.03%) CISA
7 37 (13.31%) CEH
7 37 (13.31%) CompTIA Security+
8 36 (12.95%) PMI Certification
9 35 (12.59%) PMP
10 33 (11.87%) Cisco Certification
11 32 (11.51%) GCIH
12 30 (10.79%) GCIA
13 22 (7.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 20 (7.19%) CCSP
15 18 (6.47%) SANS
16 14 (5.04%) AWS Certification
17 11 (3.96%) Azure Certification
17 11 (3.96%) Security Cleared
18 10 (3.60%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (32.37%) NIST
2 74 (26.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (13.67%) GDPR
4 33 (11.87%) GRC
5 27 (9.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 22 (7.91%) PCI DSS
6 22 (7.91%) QA
7 16 (5.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 16 (5.76%) ITGC
8 13 (4.68%) SOC 2
9 7 (2.52%) COBIT
9 7 (2.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (2.16%) NCSC
10 6 (2.16%) NIST 800
11 5 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (1.44%) Accessibility
13 3 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 17 (6.12%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.36%) Docker
5 1 (0.36%) HDFS
5 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (5.40%) Terraform
2 8 (2.88%) CASB
3 6 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.80%) CSIRT
4 5 (1.80%) Istio
4 5 (1.80%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.80%) linkerd
4 5 (1.80%) QRadar
5 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.44%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.44%) Puppet
6 3 (1.08%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.72%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.36%) Ansible
8 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.36%) Nessus
8 1 (0.36%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.36%) SCCM
Vendors
1 44 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.47%) CrowdStrike
3 14 (5.04%) SAP
4 12 (4.32%) Google
4 12 (4.32%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.24%) CheckPoint
5 9 (3.24%) Cisco
5 9 (3.24%) Splunk
5 9 (3.24%) VMware
6 6 (2.16%) Palo Alto
6 6 (2.16%) Qualys
7 5 (1.80%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.80%) LogRhythm
7 5 (1.80%) SolarWinds
7 5 (1.80%) Tenable
8 3 (1.08%) Alibaba
8 3 (1.08%) Arista
8 3 (1.08%) F5
8 3 (1.08%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.08%) Zscaler