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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 343 310
Rank change year-on-year +108 -33 +22
Permanent jobs citing CISSP 464 536 619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.19% 0.73% 1.06%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.19% 2.72% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 158 393 405
10th Percentile £48,165 £40,000 £43,350
25th Percentile £54,793 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% +3.32%

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 21,171 19,670 21,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.45% 26.71% 37.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,608 12,252 8,060
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £79,600 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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
Midlands +147 179 £57,500 -17.86% 21
West Midlands +132 123 £57,500 -23.33% 9
South East +90 108 £70,000 +27.27% 100
North of England -47 66 £59,250 +4.87% 59
East Midlands +73 56 £62,500 -6.02% 10
North West -66 43 £56,500 +2.73% 33
South West +47 41 £65,000 -5.11% 40
Scotland +111 35 £90,000 +34.23% 40
East of England +27 17 £52,000 -3.70% 35
Yorkshire +40 15 £57,500 +1.77% 14
Northern Ireland - 10 - - 12
North East +42 8 £71,250 -10.76% 13
Wales +50 6 £55,000 -20.00% 6
Channel Islands +1 2 £78,750 -21.25% 1
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 2 (0.43%) IIS
1 2 (0.43%) TPMS
2 1 (0.22%) IBM Domino
2 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 41 (8.84%) Azure
2 35 (7.54%) AWS
3 9 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (1.51%) GCP
5 7 (1.51%) SaaS
6 6 (1.29%) Entra ID
6 6 (1.29%) IaaS
7 5 (1.08%) PaaS
8 3 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.65%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (0.65%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.43%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.43%) Asana
9 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.22%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 64 (13.79%) Firewall
2 31 (6.68%) Network Security
3 29 (6.25%) VPN
4 15 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.08%) DNS
5 5 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.86%) HTTP
6 4 (0.86%) WAN
7 3 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.65%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.43%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.43%) DMZ
8 2 (0.43%) LAN
8 2 (0.43%) SAN
8 2 (0.43%) SCCP
8 2 (0.43%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.43%) SMTP
8 2 (0.43%) TACACS
9 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.51%) MongoDB
2 4 (0.86%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.65%) Power BI
4 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Burp Suite
1 4 (0.86%) Metasploit
2 3 (0.65%) AppScan
3 2 (0.43%) JIRA
General
1 116 (25.00%) Finance
2 105 (22.63%) Social Skills
3 46 (9.91%) Legal
4 38 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (2.16%) Retail
6 9 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.51%) Aerospace
7 7 (1.51%) Law
7 7 (1.51%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.29%) Banking
8 6 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.29%) Local Government
8 6 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.29%) Publishing
9 3 (0.65%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.65%) Military
9 3 (0.65%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.43%) Automotive
10 2 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 194 (41.81%) Security Engineer
2 148 (31.90%) Principal Engineer
3 147 (31.68%) Principal Security Engineer
4 114 (24.57%) Analyst
5 110 (23.71%) Security Analyst
6 109 (23.49%) Security Manager
7 87 (18.75%) Principal Security Analyst
7 87 (18.75%) Product Analyst
8 82 (17.67%) Architect
9 80 (17.24%) Security Architect
10 77 (16.59%) Senior
11 63 (13.58%) Engineering Manager
12 61 (13.15%) Senior Architect
12 61 (13.15%) Senior Security Architect
13 60 (12.93%) Product Architect
13 60 (12.93%) Product Engineer
13 60 (12.93%) Senior Manager
14 28 (6.03%) Risk Manager
15 22 (4.74%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 21 (4.53%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.51%) Kafka
2 4 (0.86%) Leaflet
3 3 (0.65%) LDAP
3 3 (0.65%) SAML
4 2 (0.43%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.43%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.22%) HTML
5 1 (0.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 152 (32.76%) Management Information System
2 36 (7.76%) Security Posture
3 16 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
3 16 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
4 15 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
5 8 (1.72%) Social Media
5 8 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 7 (1.51%) Cloud Native
6 7 (1.51%) Operational Technology
7 6 (1.29%) Freedom of Information
7 6 (1.29%) Freedom of Information Act
7 6 (1.29%) PKI
8 5 (1.08%) CESG
8 5 (1.08%) Cyber Security Posture
9 4 (0.86%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (0.86%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.65%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.43%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.74%) Windows
2 10 (2.16%) Linux
3 8 (1.72%) Windows Vista
4 5 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.86%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (74.14%) Information Security
2 302 (65.09%) Cybersecurity
3 247 (53.23%) Risk Management
4 230 (49.57%) Project Management
5 157 (33.84%) Security Testing
6 151 (32.54%) Cyber Resilience
7 116 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 75 (16.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 68 (14.66%) Incident Response
10 63 (13.58%) Cloud Security
11 54 (11.64%) Agile
12 48 (10.34%) SIEM
12 48 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
13 44 (9.48%) Risk Assessment
13 44 (9.48%) Vulnerability Management
14 41 (8.84%) Problem-Solving
15 40 (8.62%) Data Protection
15 40 (8.62%) Roadmaps
16 37 (7.97%) Regulatory Compliance
17 33 (7.11%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 13 (2.80%) PowerShell
2 8 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
2 8 (1.72%) Python
3 6 (1.29%) R
4 5 (1.08%) Bash
5 3 (0.65%) SQL
6 2 (0.43%) C++
6 2 (0.43%) Java
6 2 (0.43%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.22%) Bicep
7 1 (0.22%) Perl
7 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 313 (67.46%) CISM
2 281 (60.56%) Degree
3 207 (44.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 159 (34.27%) CESG Certified Professional
5 62 (13.36%) CISA
6 47 (10.13%) Security Cleared
7 39 (8.41%) CEH
7 39 (8.41%) CRISC
8 35 (7.54%) Cisco Certification
9 30 (6.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 29 (6.25%) SC Cleared
11 28 (6.03%) CompTIA Security+
12 26 (5.60%) GIAC
13 23 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
13 23 (4.96%) SANS
14 20 (4.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 12 (2.59%) Master's Degree
16 11 (2.37%) OSCP
17 9 (1.94%) DV Cleared
17 9 (1.94%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (58.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 233 (50.22%) NIST
3 154 (33.19%) JSP 440
4 151 (32.54%) RMADS
5 43 (9.27%) GDPR
6 37 (7.97%) Cyber Essentials
7 27 (5.82%) NCSC
8 21 (4.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 21 (4.53%) PCI DSS
8 21 (4.53%) SOC 2
9 20 (4.31%) GRC
10 16 (3.45%) Accessibility
10 16 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 15 (3.23%) HIPAA
12 12 (2.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (1.94%) Def Stans
14 7 (1.51%) COBIT
15 2 (0.43%) ITGC
16 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (1.94%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.43%) Docker
3 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (2.80%) Nessus
2 6 (1.29%) CASB
2 6 (1.29%) FortiGate
3 4 (0.86%) QRadar
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.65%) Terraform
5 2 (0.43%) Ansible
5 2 (0.43%) EnCase
5 2 (0.43%) FTK
5 2 (0.43%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.43%) RSA Security Analytics
6 1 (0.22%) OpenVAS
6 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.22%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 60 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.80%) Cisco
3 12 (2.59%) VMware
4 9 (1.94%) Fortinet
4 9 (1.94%) Tenable
5 8 (1.72%) Palo Alto
5 8 (1.72%) Splunk
6 7 (1.51%) Qualys
7 5 (1.08%) AlienVault
7 5 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.65%) Sophos
8 3 (0.65%) Trustwave
9 2 (0.43%) Dell
9 2 (0.43%) FireEye
9 2 (0.43%) HP
9 2 (0.43%) NetWitness
10 1 (0.22%) EMC
10 1 (0.22%) Google
10 1 (0.22%) SAP
10 1 (0.22%) Zscaler