CISA Contracts in the City of London

ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for CISA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 120 163
Rank change year-on-year +3 +43 +20
Contract jobs citing CISA 5 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.23% 0.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.16% 1.12% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 10
10th Percentile - £491 £588
25th Percentile £663 £497 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £538 £700
Median % change year-on-year +25.58% -23.21% +16.67%
75th Percentile £688 £634 £738
90th Percentile - £718 £975
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £700
% change year-on-year +2.33% -23.21% +16.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

CISA 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 City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 430 446 716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.49% 20.44% 19.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 293 413
10th Percentile £404 £376 £363
25th Percentile £459 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £713
90th Percentile £763 £775 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £568
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.49% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £23.62 - £18.06
25th Percentile £26.04 £20.22 £20.22
Median hourly rate £45.33 £20.82 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -59.58% +13.19%
75th Percentile £72.81 £24.20 £53.75
90th Percentile £89.13 £25.88 £71.75
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.99 £51.50
% change year-on-year +11.87% -49.54% +13.19%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing CISA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for CISA in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CISA in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for CISA in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (20.00%) Azure
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) IT Manager
2 3 (60.00%) IT Risk Manager
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Manager
3 2 (40.00%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Project Manager
3 2 (40.00%) Security Manager
4 1 (20.00%) Compliance Manager
4 1 (20.00%) Compliance Project Manager
4 1 (20.00%) IT Programme Manager
4 1 (20.00%) IT Security Manager
4 1 (20.00%) Operational Security Manager
4 1 (20.00%) Operations Manager
4 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
4 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (80.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (60.00%) Budget Management
3 3 (60.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 3 (60.00%) Project Management
3 3 (60.00%) Resource Allocation
3 3 (60.00%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
4 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Business Impact Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Impact Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (20.00%) Security Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CISM
1 2 (40.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (20.00%) CCSP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
2 3 (60.00%) COBIT
2 3 (60.00%) COSO
2 3 (60.00%) GDPR
2 3 (60.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (20.00%) NIST 800