CISSP Job Trends in South Wales

(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2 CISSP)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 62 69
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +11
Permanent jobs citing CISSP 4 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.51% 0.79% 0.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.09% 2.89% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile - £56,350 £64,500
25th Percentile - £62,125 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £69,308 £104,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% -33.36% +66.40%
75th Percentile - £91,250 £127,750
90th Percentile - £92,000 £141,100
Wales median annual salary £85,000 £64,250 £85,000
% change year-on-year +32.30% -24.41% +30.77%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 191 173 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 24.42% 27.50% 29.04%
Number of salaries quoted 68 96 102
10th Percentile £29,200 £41,500 £32,639
25th Percentile £33,063 £43,675 £40,770
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,537 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +15.79% +2.54%
75th Percentile £76,666 £65,000 £61,445
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,872 £74,992
Wales median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £46,131
% change year-on-year -4.55% +19.23% +2.57%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

CISSP job vacancy trend in South Wales

CISSP
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing CISSP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing CISSP

CISSP
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CISSP within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 14 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
Gwent - 4 £85,000 -
CISSP
Wales

CISSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Head of IT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Digital Media
1 4 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
1 4 (100.00%) Tech Ops
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CEH
1 4 (100.00%) CISM
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
1 4 (100.00%) SOC 2