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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 272 366
Rank change year-on-year -7 +94 -67
Permanent jobs citing CISSP 1,050 1,354 1,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 1.31% 1.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.82% 4.01% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 805 1,011 1,050
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CISSP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,469 33,746 42,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.81% 32.63% 26.94%
Number of salaries quoted 17,343 15,179 19,015
10th Percentile £28,258 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +8.23% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +0.50%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in the UK

CISSP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for CISSP in the UK

CISSP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CISSP over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for CISSP in the UK

CISSP
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CISSP within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 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
England +27 950 £72,500 +3.57% 213
UK excluding London -29 535 £60,000 - 122
London +51 459 £80,000 +6.67% 99
Work from Home -46 378 £72,500 +7.41% 115
North of England +84 155 £56,500 -4.24% 31
South West -15 120 £68,500 +1.48% 19
North West +57 107 £55,000 -4.60% 17
South East -26 101 £55,000 -8.33% 28
Midlands -40 63 £70,000 +12.00% 16
Scotland -59 48 £64,100 +6.83% 11
East of England +9 40 £54,000 -13.60% 9
West Midlands -47 40 £75,000 +20.00% 9
Yorkshire +77 34 £56,500 -13.08% 10
East Midlands +5 22 £65,750 +3.14% 7
North East 0 14 £79,842 +27.75% 4
Isle of Man -13 4 £46,500 +3.33% 1
Wales -4 3 £68,750 +49.46% 8
Northern Ireland +12 1 £57,500 +30.68% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (0.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.19%) Apache
3 1 (0.095%) IIS
3 1 (0.095%) nginx
3 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.095%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 307 (29.24%) Azure
2 201 (19.14%) AWS
3 141 (13.43%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (4.38%) GCP
5 42 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 41 (3.90%) SaaS
7 36 (3.43%) Cloud Computing
8 29 (2.76%) Microsoft Purview
9 26 (2.48%) PaaS
10 25 (2.38%) IaaS
11 21 (2.00%) Entra ID
12 16 (1.52%) Power Platform
13 14 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (0.57%) Azure Service Fabric
14 6 (0.57%) Snowflake
15 4 (0.38%) Amazon S3
15 4 (0.38%) Serverless
16 3 (0.29%) Mimecast
16 3 (0.29%) OneDrive
16 3 (0.29%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 264 (25.14%) Firewall
2 134 (12.76%) Network Security
3 71 (6.76%) Intrusion Detection
4 69 (6.57%) WAN
5 57 (5.43%) TCP/IP
6 54 (5.14%) LAN
7 51 (4.86%) VPN
8 36 (3.43%) SD-WAN
9 26 (2.48%) DNS
10 22 (2.10%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (2.00%) Internet
12 17 (1.62%) Wireshark
13 11 (1.05%) Cisco IPT
14 10 (0.95%) Cisco IOS
14 10 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (0.95%) VoIP
15 7 (0.67%) 5G
16 5 (0.48%) DHCP
17 4 (0.38%) NetScaler
17 4 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.52%) Power BI
2 6 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (0.57%) Big Data
3 5 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.48%) NoSQL
3 5 (0.48%) Redis
4 4 (0.38%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 21 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.19%) JIRA
3 1 (0.095%) AppScan
3 1 (0.095%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.095%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.095%) Snyk
3 1 (0.095%) Vagrant
General
1 299 (28.48%) Finance
2 276 (26.29%) Social Skills
3 120 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (9.52%) Legal
5 94 (8.95%) Law
6 61 (5.81%) Public Sector
7 55 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 46 (4.38%) Military
9 43 (4.10%) Retail
10 37 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (3.43%) Telecoms
12 31 (2.95%) Manufacturing
13 30 (2.86%) Banking
14 25 (2.38%) Marketing
15 22 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.95%) Back Office
18 9 (0.86%) Aerospace
18 9 (0.86%) Automotive
18 9 (0.86%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 207 (19.71%) Analyst
2 198 (18.86%) Architect
3 152 (14.48%) Security Architect
4 148 (14.10%) Senior
5 144 (13.71%) Security Analyst
6 135 (12.86%) Security Manager
7 116 (11.05%) Lead
8 113 (10.76%) Consultant
9 101 (9.62%) Security Consultant
9 101 (9.62%) Security Engineer
10 63 (6.00%) Information Manager
10 63 (6.00%) Information Security Manager
11 56 (5.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 52 (4.95%) IT Manager
13 48 (4.57%) Senior Analyst
14 44 (4.19%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 43 (4.10%) Information Analyst
15 43 (4.10%) Information Security Analyst
15 43 (4.10%) Lead Architect
16 38 (3.62%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.43%) OAuth
2 14 (1.33%) HTML
2 14 (1.33%) SAML
3 12 (1.14%) Web Services
4 9 (0.86%) ModSecurity
4 9 (0.86%) REST
5 7 (0.67%) web3js
6 6 (0.57%) SailPoint
6 6 (0.57%) SOAP
7 5 (0.48%) Middleware
8 4 (0.38%) Kafka
9 3 (0.29%) OpenID
10 2 (0.19%) .NET
10 2 (0.19%) EDI
10 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Graph
11 1 (0.095%) J2EE
11 1 (0.095%) LDAP
11 1 (0.095%) Lightning Web Components
11 1 (0.095%) RESTful
11 1 (0.095%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 299 (28.48%) Management Information System
2 141 (13.43%) Security Posture
3 112 (10.67%) Cyber Threat
4 63 (6.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 59 (5.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 52 (4.95%) Cyberattack
6 52 (4.95%) Data Centre
7 37 (3.52%) Onboarding
8 36 (3.43%) PKI
9 35 (3.33%) Operational Technology
10 33 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (2.29%) Public Cloud
12 22 (2.10%) Product Ownership
13 17 (1.62%) Cloud Native
13 17 (1.62%) Cloud Security Posture
14 16 (1.52%) IoT
15 15 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
16 14 (1.33%) Client/Server
17 13 (1.24%) iPhone
18 10 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 96 (9.14%) Windows
2 39 (3.71%) Linux
3 22 (2.10%) Unix
4 14 (1.33%) Android
4 14 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 14 (1.33%) Mac OS X
5 13 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.48%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.38%) CentOS
7 4 (0.38%) Solaris
7 4 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.38%) zOS
8 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 683 (65.05%) Cybersecurity
2 573 (54.57%) Information Security
3 269 (25.62%) Risk Management
4 262 (24.95%) Incident Response
5 197 (18.76%) Security Architecture
6 193 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
7 192 (18.29%) SIEM
8 177 (16.86%) Security Operations
9 173 (16.48%) Cloud Security
10 169 (16.10%) Computer Science
11 141 (13.43%) Vulnerability Management
12 136 (12.95%) Roadmaps
13 134 (12.76%) Application Security
14 131 (12.48%) Security Management
15 128 (12.19%) ITIL
16 118 (11.24%) Incident Management
17 108 (10.29%) Data Protection
18 105 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
19 90 (8.57%) Agile
20 87 (8.29%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 75 (7.14%) Python
2 48 (4.57%) PowerShell
3 19 (1.81%) Bash
3 19 (1.81%) SQL
4 8 (0.76%) Java
5 5 (0.48%) C
5 5 (0.48%) R
5 5 (0.48%) Scala
6 2 (0.19%) C#
6 2 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.095%) C++
7 1 (0.095%) Groovy
7 1 (0.095%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 599 (57.05%) CISM
2 323 (30.76%) Degree
3 212 (20.19%) CISA
4 211 (20.10%) Cisco Certification
5 172 (16.38%) CRISC
6 166 (15.81%) Security Cleared
7 162 (15.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 140 (13.33%) CCSP
9 124 (11.81%) CEH
10 116 (11.05%) SC Cleared
11 112 (10.67%) CompTIA Security+
12 95 (9.05%) Azure Certification
13 94 (8.95%) GIAC
14 91 (8.67%) Computer Science Degree
15 86 (8.19%) AWS Certification
16 72 (6.86%) CESG Certified Professional
17 61 (5.81%) CompTIA CySA+
17 61 (5.81%) Master's Degree
18 60 (5.71%) CCSK
19 57 (5.43%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 361 (34.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 324 (30.86%) NIST
3 127 (12.10%) GDPR
4 121 (11.52%) PCI DSS
5 98 (9.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 82 (7.81%) GRC
7 55 (5.24%) NCSC
8 54 (5.14%) COBIT
9 47 (4.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 41 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 26 (2.48%) SOC 2
12 22 (2.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 22 (2.10%) NIST 800
13 20 (1.90%) HIPAA
14 12 (1.14%) RMADS
15 11 (1.05%) JSP 440
15 11 (1.05%) QA
16 9 (0.86%) Data Quality
17 8 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 7 (0.67%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 53 (5.05%) Active Directory
2 34 (3.24%) Docker
3 14 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.48%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.095%) LXC
7 1 (0.095%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.095%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 50 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 45 (4.29%) Single Sign-On
3 26 (2.48%) Ansible
4 21 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (1.90%) CASB
6 15 (1.43%) Nessus
7 14 (1.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 14 (1.33%) Nmap
8 9 (0.86%) SCCM
9 5 (0.48%) Grafana
9 5 (0.48%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.48%) SCOM
10 4 (0.38%) QRadar
10 4 (0.38%) Suricata
10 4 (0.38%) Terraform
11 3 (0.29%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.095%) Computer Incident Response Team
Vendors
1 224 (21.33%) Microsoft
2 41 (3.90%) Splunk
3 39 (3.71%) Cisco
4 33 (3.14%) Qualys
5 30 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 26 (2.48%) Palo Alto
7 23 (2.19%) Dell
8 22 (2.10%) CyberArk
9 21 (2.00%) Google
10 19 (1.81%) Rapid7
11 17 (1.62%) Oracle
12 15 (1.43%) Alibaba
12 15 (1.43%) Meraki
12 15 (1.43%) SAP
13 14 (1.33%) Thycotic
14 12 (1.14%) Citrix
15 11 (1.05%) VMware
15 11 (1.05%) Zscaler
16 10 (0.95%) Carbon Black
16 10 (0.95%) CrowdStrike