CISSP Contracts in the West Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for CISSP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 89 161
Rank change year-on-year -14 +72 -57
Contract jobs citing CISSP 8 40 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.39% 1.81% 0.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.17% 6.81% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 29 9
10th Percentile £500 £495 £412
25th Percentile £568 £525 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £700 £490
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% +42.86% -20.00%
75th Percentile £645 £750 £555
90th Percentile £767 £800 £563
England median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +3.94%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 684 587 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.50% 26.53% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 355 506
10th Percentile £298 £313 £266
25th Percentile £363 £421 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +13.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £563
90th Percentile £693 £700 £650
England median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 27 9
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.60 £11.10
25th Percentile £21.81 £13.31 £13.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +37.93% -9.38%
75th Percentile £46.88 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £60.90 £20.86
England median hourly rate £40.66 £55.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -26.07% +32.99% +14.88%

CISSP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing CISSP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for CISSP in the West Midlands

CISSP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CISSP in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for CISSP in the West Midlands

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISSP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CISSP in the West Midlands

CISSP
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CISSP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Birmingham +1 2 £525 -14.29% 8
Coventry +6 1 £900 +63.64% 1
Warwickshire -17 1 £500 -33.33% 4
CISSP
England

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Compliance Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Governance Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Risk Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Risk Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cyber Defence
2 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (62.50%) Incident Response
2 5 (62.50%) SIEM
3 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 4 (50.00%) Threat Detection
3 4 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
4 3 (37.50%) Information Security
5 2 (25.00%) Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Case Management
5 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
5 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (25.00%) Protective Monitoring
5 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (25.00%) CEH
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (25.00%) CRISC
3 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (12.50%) CCIE
4 1 (12.50%) CCNA
4 1 (12.50%) CCNP
4 1 (12.50%) CCSA
4 1 (12.50%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GRC
2 1 (12.50%) COBIT
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kibana
1 2 (25.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) AlgoSec
2 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow