CISSP Job Trends in Surrey

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Surrey with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 88 112
Rank change year-on-year -15 +24 +28
Permanent jobs citing CISSP 3 1 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.15% 0.10% 0.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.46% 0.20% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 10
10th Percentile £64,500 - £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £53,750 £45,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% +9.52% -27.59%
75th Percentile £81,250 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £83,500 - £73,250
South East median annual salary £68,750 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.77% +13.04% -6.12%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 657 492 690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 33.54% 51.04% 35.59%
Number of salaries quoted 206 255 406
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £27,125
25th Percentile £40,125 £44,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

CISSP job vacancy trend in Surrey

CISSP
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing CISSP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing CISSP

CISSP
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing CISSP in Surrey over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Salary histogram for CISSP in Surrey

CISSP
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CISSP within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 20 March 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
Guildford -16 1 £65,000 +13.04%
Staines - 1 £75,000 -
CISSP
South East

CISSP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) IT Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Security Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Security Assurance Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Contract Negotiation
3 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Internal Audit
3 1 (33.33%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CISA
1 2 (66.67%) CISM
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) CASB
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft