CISSP Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 304 279 342
Rank change year-on-year -25 +63 -17
Permanent jobs citing CISSP 493 581 782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.76% 1.21% 1.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.92% 3.18% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 355 378 498
10th Percentile £41,650 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £48,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,750 £63,588
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +1.83% +4.86%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £89,082 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 16,873 18,275 26,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.85% 37.96% 33.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9,460 7,807 11,272
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £28,109
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% +2.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in the UK excluding London

CISSP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for CISSP in the UK excluding London

CISSP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CISSP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for CISSP in the UK excluding London

CISSP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CISSP within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland -39 38 £64,100 -1.18% 8
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
Isle of Man -15 4 £46,500 -20.85%
Wales +13 3 £68,750 +34.80% 2
CISSP
UK

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (1.01%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.20%) CMS
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.20%) SAS
2 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 125 (25.35%) Azure
2 82 (16.63%) AWS
3 48 (9.74%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (4.06%) Cloud Computing
5 18 (3.65%) Azure Sentinel
6 13 (2.64%) SaaS
7 11 (2.23%) GCP
8 7 (1.42%) IaaS
8 7 (1.42%) PaaS
8 7 (1.42%) Power Platform
9 6 (1.22%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.22%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.61%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.41%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.41%) Serverless
11 2 (0.41%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.20%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 102 (20.69%) Firewall
2 72 (14.60%) Network Security
3 40 (8.11%) WAN
4 38 (7.71%) VPN
5 29 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
6 23 (4.67%) SD-WAN
7 22 (4.46%) TCP/IP
8 18 (3.65%) LAN
9 16 (3.25%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (2.03%) Cisco IOS
10 10 (2.03%) Cisco Nexus
10 10 (2.03%) Internet
11 9 (1.83%) Cisco IPT
12 8 (1.62%) DNS
13 6 (1.22%) DHCP
14 5 (1.01%) VoIP
15 4 (0.81%) NetScaler
16 3 (0.61%) VLAN
17 2 (0.41%) SAN
18 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.22%) Power BI
2 5 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (1.01%) NoSQL
2 5 (1.01%) Redis
3 3 (0.61%) Big Data
4 2 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Ant
1 1 (0.20%) Burp Suite
1 1 (0.20%) JIRA
1 1 (0.20%) Metasploit
General
1 113 (22.92%) Finance
2 98 (19.88%) Social Skills
3 63 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (7.51%) Military
5 27 (5.48%) Legal
6 25 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (5.07%) Telecoms
7 24 (4.87%) Retail
8 21 (4.26%) Law
9 15 (3.04%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.43%) Marketing
11 8 (1.62%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.42%) Banking
13 5 (1.01%) Electronics
13 5 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.81%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.61%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.41%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 99 (20.08%) Analyst
2 74 (15.01%) Consultant
2 74 (15.01%) Security Consultant
3 71 (14.40%) Architect
4 67 (13.59%) Security Analyst
5 60 (12.17%) Lead
6 59 (11.97%) Security Manager
7 53 (10.75%) Senior
8 50 (10.14%) Security Architect
9 35 (7.10%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 32 (6.49%) Lead Architect
11 28 (5.68%) Information Manager
11 28 (5.68%) Information Security Manager
12 26 (5.27%) IT Manager
13 25 (5.07%) Senior Analyst
14 23 (4.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 23 (4.67%) Incident Manager
14 23 (4.67%) Vulnerability Manager
15 21 (4.26%) Security Officer
16 20 (4.06%) Lead Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.83%) ModSecurity
2 8 (1.62%) OAuth
2 8 (1.62%) SAML
3 5 (1.01%) Middleware
3 5 (1.01%) Web Services
4 2 (0.41%) EDI
4 2 (0.41%) OpenID
4 2 (0.41%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.20%) .NET
5 1 (0.20%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.20%) CSS
5 1 (0.20%) HTML
5 1 (0.20%) jQuery
5 1 (0.20%) LDAP
5 1 (0.20%) React
5 1 (0.20%) RESTful
5 1 (0.20%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 1 (0.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 150 (30.43%) Management Information System
2 50 (10.14%) Cyber Threat
3 35 (7.10%) Security Posture
4 34 (6.90%) Security Operations Centre
5 33 (6.69%) Data Centre
6 23 (4.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 22 (4.46%) Operational Technology
7 22 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (3.65%) Public Cloud
9 15 (3.04%) Cyberattack
9 15 (3.04%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (2.23%) Client/Server
10 11 (2.23%) Cyber Security Posture
11 7 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
12 6 (1.22%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.01%) Cloud Native
13 5 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.01%) IoT
13 5 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 41 (8.32%) Windows
2 17 (3.45%) Linux
3 8 (1.62%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.22%) Unix
5 5 (1.01%) Kali Linux
5 5 (1.01%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.41%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.41%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (67.34%) Cybersecurity
2 227 (46.04%) Information Security
3 174 (35.29%) Risk Management
4 121 (24.54%) Incident Response
5 94 (19.07%) Problem-Solving
6 89 (18.05%) Computer Science
7 84 (17.04%) Security Operations
8 81 (16.43%) Security Architecture
9 79 (16.02%) Vulnerability Management
10 76 (15.42%) SIEM
11 72 (14.60%) ITIL
12 63 (12.78%) Incident Management
13 58 (11.76%) Data Protection
13 58 (11.76%) Information Assurance
14 54 (10.95%) Penetration Testing
15 52 (10.55%) Application Security
15 52 (10.55%) Cloud Security
16 46 (9.33%) Security Management
17 44 (8.92%) OWASP
18 40 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 18 (3.65%) Python
2 12 (2.43%) PowerShell
3 10 (2.03%) SQL
4 6 (1.22%) Bash
4 6 (1.22%) Java
5 5 (1.01%) C
5 5 (1.01%) R
5 5 (1.01%) Scala
6 2 (0.41%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.20%) C++
7 1 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 317 (64.30%) CISM
2 165 (33.47%) Degree
3 104 (21.10%) CRISC
4 97 (19.68%) CISA
5 96 (19.47%) Security Cleared
6 77 (15.62%) SC Cleared
7 71 (14.40%) Cisco Certification
8 54 (10.95%) CESG Certified Professional
9 49 (9.94%) CompTIA Security+
10 45 (9.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (8.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 42 (8.52%) CEH
13 40 (8.11%) Azure Certification
14 37 (7.51%) CCSP
15 31 (6.29%) AWS Certification
16 27 (5.48%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 25 (5.07%) CCSK
17 25 (5.07%) GIAC
18 23 (4.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
19 19 (3.85%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (35.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 157 (31.85%) NIST
3 70 (14.20%) GDPR
4 61 (12.37%) PCI DSS
5 56 (11.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 41 (8.32%) GRC
7 36 (7.30%) NCSC
8 28 (5.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 17 (3.45%) NIST 800
10 12 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 12 (2.43%) JSP 440
11 11 (2.23%) SOC 2
12 10 (2.03%) RMADS
13 9 (1.83%) COBIT
14 8 (1.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (1.42%) ISO 22301
16 5 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 3 (0.61%) FedRAMP
17 3 (0.61%) HIPAA
18 2 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 20 (4.06%) Docker
2 15 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.22%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.81%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.20%) pfSense
7 1 (0.20%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (6.69%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.46%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (2.43%) Nessus
4 9 (1.83%) CASB
5 6 (1.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 5 (1.01%) CSIRT
6 5 (1.01%) Grafana
6 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.01%) SCOM
6 5 (1.01%) Suricata
7 3 (0.61%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.41%) Terraform
9 1 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.20%) Nmap
9 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 83 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.88%) Cisco
3 20 (4.06%) Palo Alto
4 15 (3.04%) Meraki
5 14 (2.84%) Dell
6 11 (2.23%) Splunk
6 11 (2.23%) VMware
7 8 (1.62%) Citrix
8 7 (1.42%) Qualys
9 6 (1.22%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.22%) Juniper
10 5 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (1.01%) Oracle
10 5 (1.01%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.81%) SonicWALL
12 3 (0.61%) Aruba
12 3 (0.61%) Darktrace
13 2 (0.41%) CyberArk
13 2 (0.41%) ForgeRock
13 2 (0.41%) Rapid7