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 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 114 131
Rank change year-on-year -3 +17 +54
Contract jobs citing CISA 10 14 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.56% 0.66% 0.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.98% 2.55% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £446 £443 £516
25th Percentile £489 £488 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £575 £725
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% -20.69% +11.54%
75th Percentile £653 £611 £788
90th Percentile £861 £626 £810
Central London median daily rate £528 £550 £675
% change year-on-year -4.09% -18.52% +3.85%

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 504 548 524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 28.05% 25.66% 19.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 323 321
10th Percentile £347 £335 £334
25th Percentile £425 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £642 £688
90th Percentile £738 £751 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% -2.05% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile £20.55 £24.00 £29.39
25th Percentile £25.75 £27.00 £45.09
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -55.17% +55.08%
75th Percentile £29.50 £112.00 £75.63
90th Percentile £51.14 - £76.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% -45.83% +28.34%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISA in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CISA in the City of London

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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:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (30.00%) Banking
4 3 (30.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (20.00%) Legal
6 1 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (10.00%) Law
6 1 (10.00%) Private Banking
6 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (10.00%) Retail
6 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Tester
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Head of Information Security
2 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Management Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Risk Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Management Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Information Security
2 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (20.00%) IT Audit
5 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (20.00%) Wealth Management
5 2 (20.00%) Workflow
6 1 (10.00%) Application Security
6 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 1 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
6 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
6 1 (10.00%) Regulatory Change
6 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
6 1 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) CISSP
2 4 (40.00%) CISM
2 4 (40.00%) CRISC
3 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 2 (20.00%) SANS
4 1 (10.00%) CSSLP
4 1 (10.00%) GIAC
4 1 (10.00%) GSEC
4 1 (10.00%) ISACA
4 1 (10.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) NIST
2 6 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (50.00%) COBIT
4 2 (20.00%) GRC
4 2 (20.00%) ITGC
5 1 (10.00%) GDPR
5 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (10.00%) Qualys
1 1 (10.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (10.00%) Tenable