CISM Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for CISM qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 54 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing CISM 7 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.02% 0.74% -
As % of the Qualifications category 2.90% 3.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £370 £564 -
25th Percentile £464 £578 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £603 - -
90th Percentile £635 - -
North West median daily rate £585 £620 £486
% change year-on-year -5.65% +27.57% -19.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

CISM 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 241 127 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 35.23% 23.43% 27.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 80 58
10th Percentile £272 £355 £413
25th Percentile £356 £405 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% +2.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £577 £586
90th Percentile £716 £638 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 5
10th Percentile - - £20.55
25th Percentile £15.50 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 - £34.08
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.83%
75th Percentile £52.00 - £40.00
90th Percentile £82.40 - £61.00
North West median hourly rate £27.19 £45.59 £45.88
% change year-on-year -40.37% -0.63% +20.74%

CISM
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CISM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

CISM job vacancy trend in Cheshire

CISM
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing CISM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing CISM

CISM
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISM in Cheshire over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CISM in Cheshire

CISM
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CISM within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 5 October 2025. 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
Knutsford -17 3 £620 +3.33% 1
Warrington - 1 £300 -
CISM
North West

CISM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
1 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) Network Security
3 2 (28.57%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Consultant
1 3 (42.86%) Security Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Information Assurance Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Information Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Security Assurance Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
1 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
1 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (14.29%) Information Assurance
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) Resilience Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) CISSP
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) CISA
3 1 (14.29%) GSEC
3 1 (14.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (57.14%) NIST
3 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
4 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (14.29%) GDPR
4 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
4 1 (14.29%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Fluentd
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) Cribl.io
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) ArcSight