CISA Contract Job Trends 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 11 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 97 123
Rank change year-on-year -25 +26 +42
Contract jobs citing CISA 2 15 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.10% 0.83% 0.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.38% 3.16% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £458 £516
25th Percentile - £525 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £605 £725
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -16.55% +5.45%
75th Percentile - £648 £788
90th Percentile - £672 £810
Central London median daily rate £675 £563 £675
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -1.82%

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 526 474 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.52% 26.07% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 273 311
10th Percentile £382 £364 £363
25th Percentile £430 £458 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £749 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -9.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £20.65 £24.78 £19.32
25th Percentile £25.77 £28.94 £19.90
Median hourly rate £28.00 £72.25 £46.66
Median % change year-on-year -61.25% +54.85% +11.09%
75th Percentile £52.16 £112.00 £74.69
90th Percentile £59.86 - £76.38
Central London median hourly rate £25.62 £72.25 £42.49
% change year-on-year -64.54% +70.06% +1.15%

CISA
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CISA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

CISA job vacancy trend in the City of London

CISA
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CISA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CISA

CISA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Security Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) IT Audit
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GRC
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) COBIT
2 1 (50.00%) ITGC
2 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) SOC 2