CISSP Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 307 331
Rank change year-on-year -34 +24 -27
Permanent jobs citing CISSP 537 620 784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.73% 1.07% 1.06%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.72% 2.87% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 394 405 501
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,350 £42,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% +3.85%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,720 21,566 23,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.65% 37.13% 32.34%
Number of salaries quoted 12,249 8,030 10,534
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,600 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £53,555 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +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 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 28 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
North of England +66 164 £56,500 -4.24% 27
South West -31 114 £68,500 +1.48% 14
North West +45 113 £55,000 -4.35% 14
South East -34 105 £55,000 -6.78% 28
Midlands -43 65 £70,000 +16.67% 19
Scotland -51 48 £67,050 +13.83% 11
West Midlands -51 42 £75,000 +27.66% 10
Yorkshire +57 37 £56,500 -13.08% 13
East of England -8 34 £54,000 -22.86% 9
East Midlands +3 22 £66,500 +4.31% 9
North East +2 14 £79,842 +14.06%
Isle of Man -13 4 £46,500 +3.33%
Wales -10 3 £68,750 +49.46% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -
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 (0.93%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.19%) Apache
2 1 (0.19%) IIS
2 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 166 (30.91%) Azure
2 99 (18.44%) AWS
3 67 (12.48%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (5.03%) Azure Sentinel
5 26 (4.84%) Cloud Computing
6 21 (3.91%) SaaS
7 11 (2.05%) GCP
8 10 (1.86%) Entra ID
9 9 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (1.68%) PaaS
10 7 (1.30%) IaaS
11 6 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (0.93%) Power Platform
12 5 (0.93%) Snowflake
13 4 (0.74%) Serverless
14 3 (0.56%) OneDrive
15 1 (0.19%) Mimecast
15 1 (0.19%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 123 (22.91%) Firewall
2 81 (15.08%) Network Security
3 57 (10.61%) WAN
4 39 (7.26%) Intrusion Detection
5 36 (6.70%) VPN
6 32 (5.96%) SD-WAN
7 31 (5.77%) TCP/IP
8 27 (5.03%) LAN
9 16 (2.98%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (1.86%) Cisco IOS
10 10 (1.86%) Cisco Nexus
11 9 (1.68%) Cisco IPT
12 8 (1.49%) Internet
12 8 (1.49%) Wireshark
13 6 (1.12%) DNS
14 5 (0.93%) DHCP
14 5 (0.93%) VoIP
15 4 (0.74%) NetScaler
16 3 (0.56%) VLAN
16 3 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (0.93%) NoSQL
1 5 (0.93%) Power BI
1 5 (0.93%) Redis
2 4 (0.74%) Big Data
3 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (0.19%) JIRA
General
1 135 (25.14%) Finance
2 112 (20.86%) Social Skills
3 62 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.38%) Military
5 37 (6.89%) Retail
6 29 (5.40%) Legal
7 26 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (4.47%) Public Sector
9 23 (4.28%) Law
10 22 (4.10%) Telecoms
11 19 (3.54%) Manufacturing
12 12 (2.23%) Marketing
13 6 (1.12%) Automotive
14 5 (0.93%) Banking
14 5 (0.93%) Electronics
14 5 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.74%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 124 (23.09%) Analyst
2 99 (18.44%) Architect
3 76 (14.15%) Security Architect
4 73 (13.59%) Security Analyst
5 72 (13.41%) Consultant
5 72 (13.41%) Security Consultant
6 70 (13.04%) Lead
7 62 (11.55%) Security Manager
8 58 (10.80%) Senior
9 35 (6.52%) Lead Architect
10 34 (6.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 33 (6.15%) IT Manager
12 25 (4.66%) SOC Analyst
13 24 (4.47%) Information Manager
13 24 (4.47%) Information Security Manager
14 23 (4.28%) Incident Manager
14 23 (4.28%) Lead Security Architect
14 23 (4.28%) Senior Architect
14 23 (4.28%) Vulnerability Manager
15 22 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.86%) ModSecurity
2 8 (1.49%) OAuth
2 8 (1.49%) SAML
3 5 (0.93%) Middleware
3 5 (0.93%) Web Services
4 2 (0.37%) .NET
4 2 (0.37%) EDI
4 2 (0.37%) OpenID
5 1 (0.19%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 168 (31.28%) Management Information System
2 64 (11.92%) Cyber Threat
3 48 (8.94%) Security Posture
4 45 (8.38%) Security Operations Centre
5 32 (5.96%) Data Centre
5 32 (5.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 21 (3.91%) Operational Technology
7 19 (3.54%) Public Cloud
7 19 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (2.61%) Cyberattack
9 13 (2.42%) Client/Server
10 12 (2.23%) Onboarding
11 11 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.86%) IoT
13 9 (1.68%) Cloud Native
14 8 (1.49%) Cyber Security Posture
15 7 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
16 6 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 5 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
17 5 (0.93%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 58 (10.80%) Windows
2 24 (4.47%) Linux
3 15 (2.79%) Unix
4 14 (2.61%) Mac OS X
5 10 (1.86%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.12%) Android
6 6 (1.12%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.93%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 266 (49.53%) Information Security
3 168 (31.28%) Risk Management
4 139 (25.88%) Incident Response
5 103 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
6 98 (18.25%) Security Operations
7 96 (17.88%) Security Architecture
8 90 (16.76%) SIEM
9 84 (15.64%) Computer Science
10 82 (15.27%) Vulnerability Management
11 79 (14.71%) ITIL
12 69 (12.85%) Incident Management
13 68 (12.66%) Cloud Security
14 66 (12.29%) Data Protection
15 60 (11.17%) Application Security
16 58 (10.80%) OWASP
17 57 (10.61%) Information Assurance
18 55 (10.24%) Security Management
19 52 (9.68%) Penetration Testing
20 48 (8.94%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 26 (4.84%) Python
2 19 (3.54%) PowerShell
3 12 (2.23%) SQL
4 7 (1.30%) Bash
5 6 (1.12%) Java
6 5 (0.93%) C
6 5 (0.93%) R
6 5 (0.93%) Scala
7 2 (0.37%) C#
8 1 (0.19%) C++
Qualifications
1 324 (60.34%) CISM
2 178 (33.15%) Degree
3 105 (19.55%) CRISC
4 104 (19.37%) CISA
5 99 (18.44%) Cisco Certification
6 97 (18.06%) Security Cleared
7 74 (13.78%) SC Cleared
8 70 (13.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 61 (11.36%) CCSP
10 59 (10.99%) CompTIA Security+
11 56 (10.43%) CEH
12 54 (10.06%) Azure Certification
13 53 (9.87%) CESG Certified Professional
14 48 (8.94%) AWS Certification
15 46 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
16 44 (8.19%) CCSK
17 29 (5.40%) SANS
18 28 (5.21%) GIAC
19 25 (4.66%) PMI Certification
20 22 (4.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (34.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 179 (33.33%) NIST
3 71 (13.22%) PCI DSS
4 70 (13.04%) GDPR
5 58 (10.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 40 (7.45%) GRC
7 37 (6.89%) NCSC
8 29 (5.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 23 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 13 (2.42%) NIST 800
11 12 (2.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 11 (2.05%) JSP 440
12 11 (2.05%) RMADS
13 10 (1.86%) COBIT
14 9 (1.68%) SOC 2
15 7 (1.30%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.74%) ISO 22301
17 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 3 (0.56%) QA
17 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (5.40%) Docker
2 17 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.93%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.74%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (7.82%) Kubernetes
2 31 (5.77%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (2.61%) Nessus
4 13 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.68%) CASB
6 7 (1.30%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 6 (1.12%) Nmap
8 5 (0.93%) Grafana
8 5 (0.93%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.93%) SCOM
8 5 (0.93%) Suricata
9 3 (0.56%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.37%) QRadar
10 2 (0.37%) Terraform
11 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 100 (18.62%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.96%) Cisco
3 22 (4.10%) Dell
3 22 (4.10%) Splunk
4 17 (3.17%) Palo Alto
5 14 (2.61%) Meraki
6 13 (2.42%) Qualys
7 10 (1.86%) VMware
8 8 (1.49%) Citrix
8 8 (1.49%) Rapid7
9 6 (1.12%) Juniper
9 6 (1.12%) Oracle
9 6 (1.12%) Thycotic
10 5 (0.93%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (0.74%) Darktrace
11 4 (0.74%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.56%) Aruba
13 2 (0.37%) ForgeRock
13 2 (0.37%) SonicWALL