(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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 282 375
Rank change year-on-year -7 +93 -65
Permanent jobs citing CISSP 1,038 1,284 1,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 1.29% 1.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.78% 3.92% 3.69%
Number of salaries quoted 798 955 1,055
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £53,970 £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 27,486 32,730 43,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.51% 33.01% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 17,243 14,736 18,996
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,483 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.49% +4.70% +1.01%

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 18 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 18 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 +18 938 £71,217 +1.74% 217
UK excluding London -32 534 £60,000 - 145
London +52 449 £80,000 +6.67% 97
Work from Home -44 374 £72,500 +7.41% 101
North of England +84 161 £56,500 -4.24% 38
South West -20 112 £68,500 +1.48% 17
North West +46 110 £55,000 -4.60% 16
South East -32 101 £55,000 -7.56% 41
Midlands -49 64 £70,000 +16.67% 19
Scotland -57 49 £64,100 +8.82% 16
West Midlands -49 41 £75,000 +25.00% 12
East of England +1 39 £54,000 -22.86% 13
Yorkshire +69 37 £56,500 -13.08% 17
East Midlands +10 22 £66,500 +4.31% 7
North East +2 14 £79,842 +14.06% 5
Isle of Man -14 4 £46,500 +3.33% 1
Wales -9 3 £68,750 +49.46% 3
Northern Ireland +9 1 £57,500 +30.68% 1
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 (0.58%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.19%) Apache
3 1 (0.096%) IIS
3 1 (0.096%) nginx
3 1 (0.096%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.096%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.096%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 303 (29.19%) Azure
2 190 (18.30%) AWS
3 142 (13.68%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (4.34%) GCP
5 44 (4.24%) Azure Sentinel
6 40 (3.85%) SaaS
7 39 (3.76%) Cloud Computing
8 27 (2.60%) Microsoft Purview
9 24 (2.31%) PaaS
10 23 (2.22%) IaaS
11 19 (1.83%) Entra ID
12 16 (1.54%) Power Platform
13 14 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (0.58%) Azure Service Fabric
14 6 (0.58%) Snowflake
15 4 (0.39%) Amazon S3
15 4 (0.39%) Serverless
16 3 (0.29%) Mimecast
16 3 (0.29%) OneDrive
16 3 (0.29%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 267 (25.72%) Firewall
2 138 (13.29%) Network Security
3 68 (6.55%) WAN
4 67 (6.45%) Intrusion Detection
5 56 (5.39%) TCP/IP
6 52 (5.01%) VPN
7 51 (4.91%) LAN
8 35 (3.37%) SD-WAN
9 27 (2.60%) DNS
10 22 (2.12%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (1.83%) Internet
12 17 (1.64%) Wireshark
13 11 (1.06%) Cisco IPT
14 10 (0.96%) Cisco IOS
14 10 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (0.96%) VoIP
15 5 (0.48%) 5G
15 5 (0.48%) DHCP
16 4 (0.39%) NetScaler
16 4 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.54%) Power BI
2 6 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (0.48%) Big Data
3 5 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.48%) NoSQL
3 5 (0.48%) Redis
4 4 (0.39%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 22 (2.12%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.19%) JIRA
3 1 (0.096%) AppScan
3 1 (0.096%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.096%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.096%) Snyk
3 1 (0.096%) Vagrant
General
1 301 (29.00%) Finance
2 267 (25.72%) Social Skills
3 118 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (8.96%) Law
5 92 (8.86%) Legal
6 59 (5.68%) Public Sector
7 56 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 46 (4.43%) Military
9 42 (4.05%) Retail
10 35 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
11 34 (3.28%) Telecoms
12 33 (3.18%) Banking
12 33 (3.18%) Manufacturing
13 25 (2.41%) Marketing
14 22 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
15 21 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (1.06%) Electronics
17 10 (0.96%) Back Office
18 9 (0.87%) Aerospace
18 9 (0.87%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 208 (20.04%) Analyst
2 194 (18.69%) Architect
3 148 (14.26%) Security Architect
3 148 (14.26%) Senior
4 143 (13.78%) Security Analyst
5 136 (13.10%) Security Manager
6 118 (11.37%) Lead
7 109 (10.50%) Consultant
8 101 (9.73%) Security Engineer
9 97 (9.34%) Security Consultant
10 65 (6.26%) Information Manager
10 65 (6.26%) Information Security Manager
11 51 (4.91%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 50 (4.82%) IT Manager
13 49 (4.72%) Senior Analyst
14 44 (4.24%) Information Analyst
14 44 (4.24%) Information Security Analyst
15 43 (4.14%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 43 (4.14%) Lead Architect
16 39 (3.76%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.45%) OAuth
2 14 (1.35%) HTML
2 14 (1.35%) SAML
2 14 (1.35%) Web Services
3 9 (0.87%) ModSecurity
3 9 (0.87%) REST
4 7 (0.67%) web3js
5 6 (0.58%) SailPoint
5 6 (0.58%) SOAP
6 5 (0.48%) Middleware
7 4 (0.39%) Kafka
8 3 (0.29%) OpenID
9 2 (0.19%) .NET
9 2 (0.19%) EDI
9 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.096%) J2EE
10 1 (0.096%) JSON
10 1 (0.096%) LDAP
10 1 (0.096%) Lightning Web Components
10 1 (0.096%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 291 (28.03%) Management Information System
2 140 (13.49%) Security Posture
3 107 (10.31%) Cyber Threat
4 64 (6.17%) Security Operations Centre
5 54 (5.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 52 (5.01%) Cyberattack
7 50 (4.82%) Data Centre
8 37 (3.56%) Onboarding
8 37 (3.56%) PKI
9 36 (3.47%) Operational Technology
10 31 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (2.22%) Public Cloud
12 21 (2.02%) Product Ownership
13 17 (1.64%) IoT
14 16 (1.54%) Cloud Native
14 16 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
15 15 (1.45%) Client/Server
15 15 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
16 11 (1.06%) Cyber Security Posture
16 11 (1.06%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 98 (9.44%) Windows
2 41 (3.95%) Linux
3 22 (2.12%) Unix
4 14 (1.35%) Android
4 14 (1.35%) Apple iOS
4 14 (1.35%) Mac OS X
5 11 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.58%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.39%) CentOS
7 4 (0.39%) Solaris
7 4 (0.39%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.39%) zOS
8 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 671 (64.64%) Cybersecurity
2 567 (54.62%) Information Security
3 267 (25.72%) Incident Response
4 263 (25.34%) Risk Management
5 197 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
5 197 (18.98%) Security Architecture
6 194 (18.69%) SIEM
7 176 (16.96%) Security Operations
8 167 (16.09%) Cloud Security
9 165 (15.90%) Computer Science
10 145 (13.97%) Vulnerability Management
11 135 (13.01%) ITIL
12 134 (12.91%) Roadmaps
13 130 (12.52%) Security Management
14 128 (12.33%) Application Security
15 123 (11.85%) Incident Management
16 107 (10.31%) Data Protection
17 104 (10.02%) Penetration Testing
18 91 (8.77%) Agile
19 90 (8.67%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (7.80%) Python
2 51 (4.91%) PowerShell
3 19 (1.83%) Bash
3 19 (1.83%) SQL
4 8 (0.77%) 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 (0.096%) C++
7 1 (0.096%) Groovy
7 1 (0.096%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 592 (57.03%) CISM
2 317 (30.54%) Degree
3 213 (20.52%) CISA
4 205 (19.75%) Cisco Certification
5 165 (15.90%) CRISC
6 160 (15.41%) Security Cleared
7 154 (14.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 134 (12.91%) CCSP
9 124 (11.95%) CEH
10 111 (10.69%) SC Cleared
11 98 (9.44%) CompTIA Security+
11 98 (9.44%) GIAC
12 91 (8.77%) Azure Certification
13 90 (8.67%) Computer Science Degree
14 84 (8.09%) AWS Certification
15 69 (6.65%) CESG Certified Professional
16 59 (5.68%) CCSK
16 59 (5.68%) Master's Degree
17 56 (5.39%) SANS
18 55 (5.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 360 (34.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 317 (30.54%) NIST
3 130 (12.52%) GDPR
4 124 (11.95%) PCI DSS
5 99 (9.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 84 (8.09%) GRC
7 54 (5.20%) NCSC
8 52 (5.01%) COBIT
9 47 (4.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 40 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 22 (2.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 22 (2.12%) NIST 800
12 20 (1.93%) HIPAA
13 19 (1.83%) SOC 2
14 11 (1.06%) JSP 440
14 11 (1.06%) QA
14 11 (1.06%) RMADS
15 9 (0.87%) Data Quality
15 9 (0.87%) ISO 22301
15 9 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (4.82%) Active Directory
2 34 (3.28%) Docker
3 14 (1.35%) 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 (0.096%) LXC
7 1 (0.096%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.096%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 50 (4.82%) Kubernetes
2 45 (4.34%) Single Sign-On
3 28 (2.70%) Ansible
4 21 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (1.93%) CASB
6 15 (1.45%) Nessus
7 14 (1.35%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 14 (1.35%) Nmap
8 9 (0.87%) SCCM
9 5 (0.48%) Grafana
9 5 (0.48%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.48%) SCOM
9 5 (0.48%) Suricata
10 4 (0.39%) QRadar
10 4 (0.39%) Terraform
11 3 (0.29%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.096%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 1 (0.096%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 225 (21.68%) Microsoft
2 42 (4.05%) Splunk
3 40 (3.85%) Cisco
4 34 (3.28%) Qualys
5 26 (2.50%) Palo Alto
6 23 (2.22%) CyberArk
6 23 (2.22%) Dell
7 20 (1.93%) Google
7 20 (1.93%) ServiceNow
8 19 (1.83%) Rapid7
9 16 (1.54%) Alibaba
9 16 (1.54%) Oracle
10 15 (1.45%) Meraki
10 15 (1.45%) SAP
11 14 (1.35%) Thycotic
12 12 (1.16%) Citrix
12 12 (1.16%) Zscaler
13 11 (1.06%) ArcSight
13 11 (1.06%) Juniper
13 11 (1.06%) McAfee