CISSP Contracts with Work from Home Options

(ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2 CISSP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 218 180 287
Rank change year-on-year -38 +107 -25
Contract jobs citing CISSP 126 320 403
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.85% 1.34% 0.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.25% 5.35% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 247 301
10th Percentile £463 £463 £450
25th Percentile £506 £536 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +8.60%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £688
90th Percentile £738 £823 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £73.00
25th Percentile - - £77.50
Median hourly rate - £74.79 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.01% +33.33%
75th Percentile - - £92.50
90th Percentile - - £97.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £72.84 £68.58
% change year-on-year -68.42% +6.20% +8.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,871 5,983 8,825
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.24% 25.06% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,499 4,053 6,276
10th Percentile £331 £380 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +3.58% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 246 232
10th Percentile £15.36 £19.00 £19.04
25th Percentile £23.94 £42.50 £39.19
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £84.28 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

CISSP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CISSP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CISSP trend for jobs with a WFH option

CISSP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CISSP.

CISSP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CISSP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CISSP over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

CISSP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CISSP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CISSP.

CISSP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

CISSP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.59%) Apache
2 2 (1.59%) Confluence
2 2 (1.59%) IIS
2 2 (1.59%) WebLogic
2 2 (1.59%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.79%) IBM Notes
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.59%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (16.67%) AWS
2 19 (15.08%) Azure
3 6 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (4.76%) SaaS
4 4 (3.17%) GCP
4 4 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.38%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.38%) IaaS
6 2 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.59%) GitHub
6 2 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.59%) PaaS
7 1 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.79%) Azure AI
7 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.79%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.79%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 35 (27.78%) Network Security
2 15 (11.90%) Firewall
3 5 (3.97%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (3.97%) DNS
3 5 (3.97%) SD-WAN
4 4 (3.17%) DHCP
4 4 (3.17%) SCCP
4 4 (3.17%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.17%) VLAN
4 4 (3.17%) VPN
5 3 (2.38%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (2.38%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.79%) 4G
6 1 (0.79%) 5G
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco IPT
6 1 (0.79%) Internet
6 1 (0.79%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.79%) NGFW
6 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.59%) DB2
2 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.79%) MySQL
2 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.59%) JIRA
General
1 33 (26.19%) Finance
2 28 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 25 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.32%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.56%) Banking
6 4 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.17%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.38%) Marketing
8 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.59%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.59%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.59%) Retail
9 1 (0.79%) International Banking
9 1 (0.79%) Law
9 1 (0.79%) Legal
9 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (22.22%) Architect
2 24 (19.05%) Consultant
2 24 (19.05%) Security Engineer
3 23 (18.25%) Security Architect
4 17 (13.49%) Analyst
5 14 (11.11%) Security Analyst
6 12 (9.52%) Security Consultant
7 10 (7.94%) Senior
8 9 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 9 (7.14%) Network Engineer
8 9 (7.14%) Network Security Engineer
8 9 (7.14%) Security Manager
9 8 (6.35%) Lead
10 6 (4.76%) Information Security Consultant
11 5 (3.97%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 5 (3.97%) Information Manager
11 5 (3.97%) Information Security Manager
12 4 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 4 (3.17%) Risk Consultant
12 4 (3.17%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.38%) SailPoint
1 3 (2.38%) Servlets
1 3 (2.38%) XML
2 2 (1.59%) .NET
2 2 (1.59%) EJB
2 2 (1.59%) J2EE
2 2 (1.59%) JSP
2 2 (1.59%) LDAP
2 2 (1.59%) Regular Expression
2 2 (1.59%) Web Services
3 1 (0.79%) JSON
3 1 (0.79%) OAuth
3 1 (0.79%) OpenID
3 1 (0.79%) REST
3 1 (0.79%) SAML
3 1 (0.79%) SOAP
3 1 (0.79%) Spring
3 1 (0.79%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.05%) Management Information System
2 14 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 8 (6.35%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (3.17%) Cyberattack
5 4 (3.17%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.17%) PMI
6 3 (2.38%) SCADA
7 2 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.59%) Insider Threat
7 2 (1.59%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.59%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.59%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.79%) Contactless
8 1 (0.79%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.79%) IoT
8 1 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.17%) Linux
2 2 (1.59%) Windows
3 1 (0.79%) CentOS
3 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (53.17%) Information Security
2 57 (45.24%) Cybersecurity
3 40 (31.75%) Risk Management
4 28 (22.22%) Security Management
5 24 (19.05%) Information Security Management
6 22 (17.46%) Security Architecture
7 21 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (15.87%) SIEM
9 17 (13.49%) SABSA
9 17 (13.49%) Threat Modelling
9 17 (13.49%) TOGAF
10 16 (12.70%) Risk Assessment
11 15 (11.90%) ISMS
11 15 (11.90%) Project Management
12 13 (10.32%) Cloud Security
12 13 (10.32%) Computer Science
12 13 (10.32%) Decision-Making
12 13 (10.32%) Identity Access Management
13 12 (9.52%) Agile
13 12 (9.52%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.56%) SQL
2 4 (3.17%) Python
3 3 (2.38%) Java
4 2 (1.59%) Bash
4 2 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (1.59%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.79%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 79 (62.70%) CISM
2 33 (26.19%) Security Cleared
3 28 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 27 (21.43%) CISA
5 24 (19.05%) Degree
6 21 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (12.70%) CEH
8 14 (11.11%) CRISC
9 12 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (7.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 10 (7.94%) CCNA
10 10 (7.94%) CREST Certified
10 10 (7.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 9 (7.14%) Master's Degree
11 9 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
12 8 (6.35%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (4.76%) CCIE
13 6 (4.76%) CSSLP
13 6 (4.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 5 (3.97%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (36.51%) NIST
2 45 (35.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (12.70%) GDPR
4 10 (7.94%) COBIT
4 10 (7.94%) NCSC
5 8 (6.35%) PCI DSS
6 7 (5.56%) GRC
7 6 (4.76%) NIST 800
8 5 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (1.59%) COSO
9 2 (1.59%) ISO 22301
9 2 (1.59%) QA
9 2 (1.59%) RMADS
10 1 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.79%) GLBA
10 1 (0.79%) GPG13
10 1 (0.79%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.79%) ISAE 3402
10 1 (0.79%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.97%) QRadar
2 2 (1.59%) CASB
2 2 (1.59%) Host Intrusion Detection System
2 2 (1.59%) Nessus
3 1 (0.79%) Ansible
3 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.79%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (0.79%) PingFederate
3 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.94%) Cisco
3 6 (4.76%) Palo Alto
4 5 (3.97%) AlgoSec
4 5 (3.97%) CheckPoint
4 5 (3.97%) F5
4 5 (3.97%) Fortinet
4 5 (3.97%) Qualys
5 4 (3.17%) CyberArk
6 3 (2.38%) Oracle
7 2 (1.59%) AlienVault
7 2 (1.59%) ArcSight
7 2 (1.59%) Carbon Black
7 2 (1.59%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (1.59%) Google
7 2 (1.59%) LogRhythm
7 2 (1.59%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.59%) Splunk
7 2 (1.59%) Symantec
8 1 (0.79%) Ping Identity