CISSP Contracts in London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 201 327
Rank change year-on-year -1 +126 -74
Contract jobs citing CISSP 200 339 312
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.14% 1.33% 0.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.84% 6.07% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 269 225
10th Percentile £421 £517 £455
25th Percentile £500 £563 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -1.23%
75th Percentile £770 £800 £725
90th Percentile £823 £838 £775
England median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £23.00 £72.98 £68.04
% change year-on-year -68.48% +7.26% +6.31%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,131 5,587 6,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.59% 21.96% 17.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,824 3,835 4,698
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 85 146
10th Percentile £14.49 £18.89 £23.84
25th Percentile £20.22 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £25.50 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.00% +12.36% +18.67%
75th Percentile £42.75 £70.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.60 £87.50 £65.71
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.75
% change year-on-year -27.27% +38.36% +8.90%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in London

CISSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for CISSP in London

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISSP in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in London

CISSP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CISSP in London.

Hourly rate trend for CISSP in London

CISSP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CISSP within the London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Central London +27 23 £663 -0.75% 11
East London -6 11 £650 -13.33% 4
West London -7 3 £550 -33.33%
South London +8 2 £575 +4.55% 4
CISSP
England

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (1.50%) Confluence
1 3 (1.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.50%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.50%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 43 (21.50%) Azure
2 36 (18.00%) AWS
3 22 (11.00%) GCP
4 13 (6.50%) Entra ID
5 12 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.50%) SaaS
7 4 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.50%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.50%) IaaS
9 2 (1.00%) GitHub
9 2 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.50%) AWS IoT
10 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.50%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.50%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.50%) PaaS
10 1 (0.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 29 (14.50%) Network Security
2 18 (9.00%) Firewall
3 6 (3.00%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.50%) DNS
5 3 (1.50%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (1.50%) SAN
6 2 (1.00%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (1.00%) HTTP
6 2 (1.00%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.00%) SNMP
6 2 (1.00%) SSL
7 1 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.50%) DHCP
7 1 (0.50%) FTP
7 1 (0.50%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.50%) Internet
7 1 (0.50%) Modbus
7 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.50%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.50%) BigQuery
2 4 (2.00%) Big Data
2 4 (2.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.50%) MySQL
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 6 (3.00%) JIRA
2 3 (1.50%) Git
2 3 (1.50%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (1.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
General
1 74 (37.00%) Finance
2 37 (18.50%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.00%) Banking
5 15 (7.50%) Financial Institution
6 8 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.50%) Front Office
8 5 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.50%) Retail
8 5 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.50%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.50%) Marketing
10 2 (1.00%) Dutch Language
10 2 (1.00%) French Language
10 2 (1.00%) International Banking
10 2 (1.00%) Legal
10 2 (1.00%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.00%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (27.50%) Architect
2 51 (25.50%) Security Architect
3 36 (18.00%) Security Engineer
4 32 (16.00%) Analyst
5 22 (11.00%) Security Manager
6 18 (9.00%) Consultant
7 17 (8.50%) Lead
7 17 (8.50%) Security Analyst
8 13 (6.50%) Security Consultant
9 12 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 12 (6.00%) Project Manager
10 11 (5.50%) Security Project Manager
11 10 (5.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
11 10 (5.00%) Risk Analyst
12 9 (4.50%) CISSP Manager
12 9 (4.50%) Senior
12 9 (4.50%) SOC Engineer
13 8 (4.00%) Information Security Architect
13 8 (4.00%) IT Analyst
13 8 (4.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.50%) SailPoint
2 5 (2.50%) OAuth
3 4 (2.00%) REST
4 3 (1.50%) .NET
4 3 (1.50%) JDBC
4 3 (1.50%) OpenID
4 3 (1.50%) SAML
4 3 (1.50%) Web Services
5 2 (1.00%) Regular Expression
5 2 (1.00%) SPML
6 1 (0.50%) J2EE
6 1 (0.50%) JSON
6 1 (0.50%) LDAP
6 1 (0.50%) RESTful
6 1 (0.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (17.00%) Management Information System
2 27 (13.50%) Security Posture
3 11 (5.50%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (4.00%) PKI
6 6 (3.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 6 (3.00%) Operational Technology
6 6 (3.00%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.50%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.00%) Hedge funds
8 4 (2.00%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.00%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.50%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (1.50%) Cyberattack
9 3 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.50%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.50%) Windows
2 3 (1.50%) Linux
2 3 (1.50%) Unix
3 1 (0.50%) CentOS
3 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (51.50%) Cybersecurity
2 79 (39.50%) Information Security
3 42 (21.00%) Risk Management
4 41 (20.50%) Security Architecture
5 40 (20.00%) SIEM
6 36 (18.00%) Cloud Security
7 34 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (14.00%) Threat Modelling
9 27 (13.50%) Project Management
10 25 (12.50%) Security Operations
11 24 (12.00%) Computer Science
12 23 (11.50%) TOGAF
13 22 (11.00%) Identity Access Management
13 22 (11.00%) Risk Assessment
14 21 (10.50%) Agile
14 21 (10.50%) SABSA
14 21 (10.50%) Static Application Security Testing
15 20 (10.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
16 17 (8.50%) Data Protection
16 17 (8.50%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.50%) Python
2 11 (5.50%) SQL
3 5 (2.50%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.00%) Java
5 2 (1.00%) Bash
6 1 (0.50%) Bicep
6 1 (0.50%) Groovy
6 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 126 (63.00%) CISM
2 64 (32.00%) CISA
3 37 (18.50%) Degree
4 28 (14.00%) CRISC
5 25 (12.50%) CEH
6 24 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (10.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (8.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 17 (8.50%) SANS
9 16 (8.00%) GIAC
10 14 (7.00%) SC Cleared
10 14 (7.00%) Security Cleared
11 11 (5.50%) CCSK
11 11 (5.50%) CREST Certified
12 10 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
12 10 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (4.50%) OSCP
14 8 (4.00%) AWS Certification
14 8 (4.00%) CCNP
15 7 (3.50%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (30.00%) NIST
2 41 (20.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (7.50%) GDPR
4 14 (7.00%) QA
5 13 (6.50%) NCSC
6 11 (5.50%) NIST 800
7 10 (5.00%) PCI DSS
8 7 (3.50%) COBIT
8 7 (3.50%) GRC
8 7 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 5 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (2.50%) ISO 31000
10 3 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (1.50%) ISO 22301
11 2 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (1.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.50%) GLBA
12 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.50%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 13 (6.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.50%) Docker
3 1 (0.50%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.50%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (3.00%) Terraform
2 5 (2.50%) Nessus
3 4 (2.00%) QRadar
3 4 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.50%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.50%) PingFederate
5 2 (1.00%) Ansible
5 2 (1.00%) CASB
5 2 (1.00%) CSIRT
5 2 (1.00%) Host Intrusion Detection System
5 2 (1.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.50%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.50%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 39 (19.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.50%) Google
3 9 (4.50%) Splunk
4 8 (4.00%) Cisco
4 8 (4.00%) Okta
5 7 (3.50%) Oracle
6 5 (2.50%) AlienVault
6 5 (2.50%) CyberArk
6 5 (2.50%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.50%) Rapid7
7 4 (2.00%) ArcSight
7 4 (2.00%) ForgeRock
7 4 (2.00%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.50%) Qualys
8 3 (1.50%) Symantec
9 2 (1.00%) CA
9 2 (1.00%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.00%) LogRhythm
9 2 (1.00%) SAP
9 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow