The first table below looks at the demand for CISM in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CISM over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
Rank 202 195 231
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +36
Contract jobs citing CISM 13 19 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.189% 0.250% 0.070%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.210% 1.846% 0.571%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 7
Average daily rate £450 £500 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% +11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1074 1029 1226
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 15.59% 13.52% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 735 637 786
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £247 £251 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 34 57
Average hourly rate £23.75 £17.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+35.71% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.15 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £81.80 £29.40 £36.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £21.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -14.00%
CISM
London

CISM
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CISM across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

City of London CISM Jobs Demand Trend

CISM
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CISM across the City of London region.

City of London CISM Daily Rate Trend

CISM
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CISM across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

City of London CISM Daily Rate Histogram

CISM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing CISM also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CISM.

1 22 (95.65%) CISSP
2 18 (78.26%) Information Security
3 12 (52.17%) CISA
3 12 (52.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (47.83%) Security Cleared
4 11 (47.83%) Finance
5 10 (43.48%) Risk Management
6 9 (39.13%) ITIL
7 8 (34.78%) Legal
7 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
8 7 (30.43%) Security Management
9 6 (26.09%) Management Information System
9 6 (26.09%) Information Security Management
9 6 (26.09%) Information Assurance
9 6 (26.09%) Risk Assessment
10 5 (21.74%) Banking
10 5 (21.74%) PCI DSS
10 5 (21.74%) COBIT
10 5 (21.74%) Windows
11 4 (17.39%) Project Management
11 4 (17.39%) SWIFT
12 3 (13.04%) ITIL V3
12 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Management
12 3 (13.04%) Computer Security
12 3 (13.04%) Release Management
12 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 3 (13.04%) GAP Analysis
12 3 (13.04%) C
12 3 (13.04%) McAfee
13 2 (8.696%) MS Office

CISM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing CISM also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CISM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (8.696%) Software Packaging
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.696%) IBM Notes
2 1 (4.348%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (4.348%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.348%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.696%) MS Office
2 1 (4.348%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.696%) Intranet
2 1 (4.348%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (4.348%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (4.348%) Firewall
2 1 (4.348%) HTTP
2 1 (4.348%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.348%) MySQL
General
1 11 (47.83%) Finance
2 8 (34.78%) Legal
3 5 (21.74%) Banking
4 2 (8.696%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.696%) Law
4 2 (8.696%) Publishing
4 2 (8.696%) Retail
5 1 (4.348%) International Banking
5 1 (4.348%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Security Consultant
1 6 (26.09%) Consultant
2 4 (17.39%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Security Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Information Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Security Manager
2 4 (17.39%) Information Security Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) IT Security Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) IT Consultant
4 2 (8.696%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (8.696%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) Information Security Consultant
4 2 (8.696%) Senior Security Consultant
4 2 (8.696%) IT Security Manager
4 2 (8.696%) Security Advisor
4 2 (8.696%) Security Operations Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) Application Security Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) Development Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) Information Assurance Leader
5 1 (4.348%) Information Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Management Information System
2 4 (17.39%) SWIFT
3 2 (8.696%) CESG
3 2 (8.696%) CESG CLAS
3 2 (8.696%) SaaS
4 1 (4.348%) Fixed Income
4 1 (4.348%) Client/Server
4 1 (4.348%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 2 (8.696%) Linux
3 1 (4.348%) Solaris
3 1 (4.348%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) Information Security
2 10 (43.48%) Risk Management
3 9 (39.13%) ITIL
4 7 (30.43%) Security Management
5 6 (26.09%) Information Security Management
5 6 (26.09%) Information Assurance
5 6 (26.09%) Risk Assessment
6 4 (17.39%) Project Management
7 3 (13.04%) ITIL V3
7 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (13.04%) Computer Security
7 3 (13.04%) Release Management
7 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.04%) GAP Analysis
8 2 (8.696%) ISMS
8 2 (8.696%) Data Protection
8 2 (8.696%) Supplier Management
8 2 (8.696%) Asset Management
9 1 (4.348%) Security Architecture
9 1 (4.348%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) C
2 2 (8.696%) SQL
3 1 (4.348%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 22 (95.65%) CISSP
2 12 (52.17%) CISA
3 11 (47.83%) Security Cleared
4 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
5 2 (8.696%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (8.696%) PMP
5 2 (8.696%) PMI Certification
5 2 (8.696%) ISSEP
5 2 (8.696%) CEH
5 2 (8.696%) CGEIT
6 1 (4.348%) ISACA
6 1 (4.348%) CCSA
6 1 (4.348%) GIAC
6 1 (4.348%) CCSP
6 1 (4.348%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (52.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (21.74%) PCI DSS
2 5 (21.74%) COBIT
System Software
1 2 (8.696%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.348%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.696%) SCCM
1 2 (8.696%) WSUS
1 2 (8.696%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) McAfee
2 2 (8.696%) Juniper
2 2 (8.696%) Lotus
2 2 (8.696%) Citrix
2 2 (8.696%) Cisco
2 2 (8.696%) IBM
2 2 (8.696%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.696%) VMware
2 2 (8.696%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.348%) Oracle
3 1 (4.348%) Symantec
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