IISP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP)
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 IISP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IISP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.045% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £555 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 - -
75th Percentile £685 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £620 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

IISP 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 597 446 458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.04% 25.57% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 297 299
10th Percentile £383 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £661
90th Percentile £738 £769 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £535 £530
% change year-on-year -1.87% +0.94% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £18.71 £29.85 £19.32
25th Percentile £24.16 £41.63 £19.90
Median hourly rate £30.03 £62.50 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -51.95% +200.26% -59.58%
75th Percentile £55.37 £81.88 £34.49
90th Percentile £68.53 £92.75 £58.05
Central London median hourly rate £25.77 £45.79 £24.97
% change year-on-year -43.72% +83.36% -51.51%

IISP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

IISP job vacancy trend in the City of London

IISP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

IISP
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) OSCP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) COBIT
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS