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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 277 365
Rank change year-on-year -5 +88 -57
Permanent jobs citing CISSP 1,045 1,317 1,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.05% 1.30% 1.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.80% 4.00% 3.73%
Number of salaries quoted 801 986 1,045
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £54,500 £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 27,489 32,962 42,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.71% 32.63% 26.96%
Number of salaries quoted 17,297 14,888 18,855
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +7.73% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,276 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.49% +2.55% +0.50%

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 10 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 10 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 +34 945 £71,217 +1.74% 192
UK excluding London -35 537 £60,000 - 108
London +54 452 £80,000 +6.67% 89
Work from Home -52 379 £72,500 +7.41% 105
North of England +81 159 £56,500 -4.24% 25
South West -3 115 £68,500 +1.48% 19
North West +43 109 £55,000 -4.60% 10
South East -32 101 £55,000 -8.33% 22
Midlands -61 66 £70,000 +14.29% 16
Scotland -53 48 £64,100 +8.82% 12
West Midlands -67 42 £75,000 +25.00% 8
East of England +13 40 £54,000 -20.00% 8
Yorkshire +71 36 £56,500 -13.08% 11
East Midlands +4 23 £65,750 +3.14% 8
North East +1 14 £79,842 +14.06% 4
Isle of Man -14 4 £46,500 +3.33% 1
Wales -10 3 £68,750 +49.46% 6
Northern Ireland +10 1 £57,500 +30.68% 2
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 (0.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.19%) Apache
3 1 (0.096%) IIS
3 1 (0.096%) nginx
3 1 (0.096%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.34%) 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
1 305 (29.19%) Azure
2 196 (18.76%) AWS
3 142 (13.59%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (4.40%) GCP
5 43 (4.11%) Azure Sentinel
6 41 (3.92%) SaaS
7 39 (3.73%) Cloud Computing
8 28 (2.68%) Microsoft Purview
9 25 (2.39%) PaaS
10 24 (2.30%) IaaS
11 20 (1.91%) Entra ID
12 16 (1.53%) Power Platform
13 14 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (0.57%) Azure Service Fabric
14 6 (0.57%) Snowflake
15 4 (0.38%) Amazon S3
15 4 (0.38%) Serverless
16 3 (0.29%) Mimecast
16 3 (0.29%) OneDrive
16 3 (0.29%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 266 (25.45%) Firewall
2 136 (13.01%) Network Security
3 69 (6.60%) Intrusion Detection
3 69 (6.60%) WAN
4 57 (5.45%) TCP/IP
5 53 (5.07%) LAN
6 52 (4.98%) VPN
7 36 (3.44%) SD-WAN
8 27 (2.58%) DNS
9 22 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (2.01%) Internet
11 17 (1.63%) Wireshark
12 11 (1.05%) Cisco IPT
13 10 (0.96%) Cisco IOS
13 10 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (0.96%) VoIP
14 6 (0.57%) 5G
15 5 (0.48%) DHCP
16 4 (0.38%) NetScaler
16 4 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.53%) Power BI
2 6 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (0.57%) Big Data
3 5 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (0.48%) NoSQL
3 5 (0.48%) Redis
4 4 (0.38%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 22 (2.11%) 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 (28.80%) Finance
2 270 (25.84%) Social Skills
3 117 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (9.38%) Legal
5 94 (9.00%) Law
6 60 (5.74%) Public Sector
7 55 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 46 (4.40%) Military
9 43 (4.11%) Retail
10 36 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
11 35 (3.35%) Telecoms
12 32 (3.06%) Manufacturing
13 31 (2.97%) Banking
14 25 (2.39%) Marketing
15 22 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (1.05%) Electronics
18 10 (0.96%) Back Office
19 9 (0.86%) Aerospace
19 9 (0.86%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 206 (19.71%) Analyst
2 195 (18.66%) Architect
3 149 (14.26%) Security Architect
4 146 (13.97%) Senior
5 144 (13.78%) Security Analyst
6 135 (12.92%) Security Manager
7 117 (11.20%) Lead
8 112 (10.72%) Consultant
9 101 (9.67%) Security Engineer
10 100 (9.57%) Security Consultant
11 63 (6.03%) Information Manager
11 63 (6.03%) Information Security Manager
12 53 (5.07%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 51 (4.88%) IT Manager
14 47 (4.50%) Senior Analyst
15 44 (4.21%) Information Analyst
15 44 (4.21%) Information Security Analyst
16 43 (4.11%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 43 (4.11%) Lead Architect
17 38 (3.64%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.44%) OAuth
2 14 (1.34%) HTML
2 14 (1.34%) SAML
2 14 (1.34%) Web Services
3 9 (0.86%) ModSecurity
3 9 (0.86%) REST
4 7 (0.67%) web3js
5 6 (0.57%) SailPoint
5 6 (0.57%) SOAP
6 5 (0.48%) Middleware
7 4 (0.38%) 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%) LDAP
10 1 (0.096%) Lightning Web Components
10 1 (0.096%) RESTful
10 1 (0.096%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 296 (28.33%) Management Information System
2 139 (13.30%) Security Posture
3 109 (10.43%) Cyber Threat
4 61 (5.84%) Security Operations Centre
5 56 (5.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 52 (4.98%) Cyberattack
6 52 (4.98%) Data Centre
7 37 (3.54%) Onboarding
7 37 (3.54%) PKI
8 35 (3.35%) Operational Technology
9 32 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (2.30%) Public Cloud
11 21 (2.01%) Product Ownership
12 17 (1.63%) Cloud Security Posture
13 16 (1.53%) Cloud Native
13 16 (1.53%) IoT
14 15 (1.44%) Client/Server
14 15 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (1.15%) iPhone
16 10 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 98 (9.38%) Windows
2 40 (3.83%) Linux
3 22 (2.11%) Unix
4 14 (1.34%) Android
4 14 (1.34%) Apple iOS
4 14 (1.34%) Mac OS X
5 12 (1.15%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.57%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.38%) CentOS
7 4 (0.38%) Solaris
7 4 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.38%) zOS
8 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 677 (64.78%) Cybersecurity
2 570 (54.55%) Information Security
3 268 (25.65%) Risk Management
4 266 (25.45%) Incident Response
5 196 (18.76%) Problem-Solving
5 196 (18.76%) Security Architecture
6 191 (18.28%) SIEM
7 174 (16.65%) Security Operations
8 172 (16.46%) Cloud Security
9 166 (15.89%) Computer Science
10 144 (13.78%) Vulnerability Management
11 135 (12.92%) ITIL
11 135 (12.92%) Roadmaps
12 132 (12.63%) Application Security
13 131 (12.54%) Security Management
14 122 (11.67%) Incident Management
15 110 (10.53%) Data Protection
16 107 (10.24%) Penetration Testing
17 90 (8.61%) Agile
17 90 (8.61%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (7.46%) Python
2 49 (4.69%) PowerShell
3 19 (1.82%) Bash
3 19 (1.82%) 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
1 596 (57.03%) CISM
2 319 (30.53%) Degree
3 214 (20.48%) CISA
4 206 (19.71%) Cisco Certification
5 170 (16.27%) CRISC
6 163 (15.60%) Security Cleared
7 156 (14.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 135 (12.92%) CCSP
9 127 (12.15%) CEH
10 114 (10.91%) SC Cleared
11 105 (10.05%) CompTIA Security+
12 97 (9.28%) GIAC
13 94 (9.00%) Azure Certification
14 92 (8.80%) Computer Science Degree
15 86 (8.23%) AWS Certification
16 69 (6.60%) CESG Certified Professional
17 59 (5.65%) CCSK
17 59 (5.65%) Master's Degree
18 57 (5.45%) SANS
19 55 (5.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 362 (34.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 319 (30.53%) NIST
3 128 (12.25%) GDPR
4 125 (11.96%) PCI DSS
5 100 (9.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 83 (7.94%) GRC
7 54 (5.17%) COBIT
7 54 (5.17%) NCSC
8 48 (4.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 41 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 22 (2.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 22 (2.11%) NIST 800
10 22 (2.11%) SOC 2
11 20 (1.91%) HIPAA
12 11 (1.05%) JSP 440
12 11 (1.05%) QA
12 11 (1.05%) RMADS
13 9 (0.86%) Data Quality
13 9 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.77%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 51 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 34 (3.25%) Docker
3 14 (1.34%) 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 (4.78%) Kubernetes
2 45 (4.31%) Single Sign-On
3 27 (2.58%) Ansible
4 21 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (1.91%) CASB
6 15 (1.44%) Nessus
7 14 (1.34%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 14 (1.34%) Nmap
8 9 (0.86%) SCCM
9 5 (0.48%) Grafana
9 5 (0.48%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.48%) SCOM
9 5 (0.48%) Suricata
10 4 (0.38%) QRadar
10 4 (0.38%) Terraform
11 3 (0.29%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.096%) Computer Incident Response Team
Vendors
1 225 (21.53%) Microsoft
2 42 (4.02%) Splunk
3 40 (3.83%) Cisco
4 33 (3.16%) Qualys
5 27 (2.58%) Palo Alto
6 26 (2.49%) ServiceNow
7 23 (2.20%) Dell
8 22 (2.11%) CyberArk
9 21 (2.01%) Google
10 19 (1.82%) Rapid7
11 16 (1.53%) Alibaba
11 16 (1.53%) Oracle
12 15 (1.44%) Meraki
12 15 (1.44%) SAP
13 14 (1.34%) Thycotic
14 12 (1.15%) Citrix
15 11 (1.05%) Juniper
15 11 (1.05%) VMware
15 11 (1.05%) Zscaler
16 10 (0.96%) Carbon Black