CISSP Contracts in Cheshire

(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2 CISSP)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - -11
Contract jobs citing CISSP 12 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.34% - 1.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.76% - 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 9
10th Percentile £521 - £619
25th Percentile £555 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £630
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.55%
75th Percentile £600 - £633
90th Percentile £638 - £649
North West median daily rate £600 £620 £630
% change year-on-year -3.19% -1.63% +14.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

CISSP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 123 91 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 23.98% 22.47% 23.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 50 95
10th Percentile £356 £424 £294
25th Percentile £425 £475 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% +5.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £580 £586 £630
90th Percentile £640 £675 £633
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £21.38 £15.87
25th Percentile - £27.65 £20.59
Median hourly rate £24.00 £37.04 £26.11
Median % change year-on-year -35.21% +41.89% -12.91%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £32.38
90th Percentile - £60.00 £38.45
North West median hourly rate £38.66 £46.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year -16.28% +15.45% +95.60%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in Cheshire

CISSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CISSP in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for CISSP in Cheshire

CISSP
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CISSP within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 5 £600 - 1
Chester - 2 £563 -
Macclesfield - 1 - -
Warrington - 1 - -
CISSP
North West

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) CMS
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) Intranet
1 1 (8.33%) SSL
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (16.67%) Banking
6 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (8.33%) Marketing
6 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Security Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Security Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Communications Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Design Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Service Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Service Security Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Regular Expression
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Private Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (25.00%) Change Management
3 3 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (25.00%) Data Security
3 3 (25.00%) Information Security
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (16.67%) Business Case
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL
4 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 2 (16.67%) User Stories
5 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (8.33%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (8.33%) Log Correlation
5 1 (8.33%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
5 1 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) CISM
2 4 (33.33%) Degree
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (8.33%) APMP
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (8.33%) CRISC
5 1 (8.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (8.33%) MCSA
5 1 (8.33%) MCSE
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) COBIT
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) CASB
1 1 (8.33%) CSIRT
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Nessus
1 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Broadcom
2 3 (25.00%) Isilon
2 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (25.00%) Splunk
2 3 (25.00%) Symantec
3 2 (16.67%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (8.33%) Remedy