ISEB Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
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 ISEB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 120 129
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 +46
Contract jobs citing ISEB 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% 0.049% 0.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.40% 0.19% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.50%
75th Percentile £675 - £625
90th Percentile - - £670
Central London median daily rate £650 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +16.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

ISEB 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 506 523 499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.53% 25.81% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 310 315
10th Percentile £356 £348 £340
25th Percentile £425 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% -1.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £658 £638 £686
90th Percentile £738 £744 £789
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £26.30 £24.78 £29.39
25th Percentile £26.38 £28.94 £45.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £72.25 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.25% -0.34% +68.60%
75th Percentile £47.25 £112.00 £75.63
90th Percentile £57.90 - £76.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.49 £72.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -63.34% +20.42% +39.53%

ISEB
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

ISEB job vacancy trend in the City of London

ISEB
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

ISEB
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ISEB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ISEB

ISEB
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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Insurance Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CBAP
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree