CISM Contract Job Trends in the City of London

ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
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 CISM qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 111 99
Rank change year-on-year -21 -12 +33
Contract jobs citing CISM 7 11 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.33% 0.64% 1.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.27% 2.55% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 16
10th Percentile £548 - £450
25th Percentile - £463 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £648 £775
90th Percentile £660 £832 £806
Central London median daily rate £613 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +19.51% -14.58% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 551 431 522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.70% 25.00% 24.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 292 310
10th Percentile £405 £341 £362
25th Percentile £463 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.22% +0.90%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £661
90th Percentile £734 £738 £768
Central London median daily rate £544 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £23.30 £20.55 £23.75
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £27.50 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year +118.18% -7.56% -36.02%
75th Percentile £65.00 £28.91 £92.44
90th Percentile £119.20 £50.91 £112.00
Central London median hourly rate £54.50 £28.15 £29.75
% change year-on-year +93.61% -5.38% -36.02%

CISM
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

CISM job vacancy trend in the City of London

CISM
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

CISM
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISM in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CISM in the City of London

CISM
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Police
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Law
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
2 4 (57.14%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Jakarta EE
2 1 (14.29%) JDBC
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) LDAP
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) OpenID
2 1 (14.29%) SAML
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
1 2 (28.57%) Private Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) CMDB
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Security Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) AI
3 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (28.57%) Information Management
3 2 (28.57%) Information Security
3 2 (28.57%) RBAC
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Technology Transformation
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Service Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) CISSP
2 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (14.29%) CCSP
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) Government Security Classifications
1 2 (28.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
1 2 (28.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) IFS
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Qualys
1 1 (14.29%) SAP
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
1 1 (14.29%) Workday