CISM Contracts in Edinburgh

ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for CISM qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 67 99
Rank change year-on-year +8 +32 -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing CISM 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.81% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.85% 1.07% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £414 £328 -
25th Percentile £415 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £428 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% - -
75th Percentile £474 £500 -
90th Percentile £475 £539 -
Scotland median daily rate £418 £365 £500
% change year-on-year +14.38% -27.00% -16.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 130 187 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.17% 23.46% 17.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 117 108
10th Percentile £254 £156 £164
25th Percentile £403 £206 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £340 £450
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -24.44% -3.23%
75th Percentile £525 £494 £511
90th Percentile £600 £588 £588
Scotland median daily rate £445 £438 £468
% change year-on-year +1.71% -6.42% +0.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 3
10th Percentile £32.85 £12.48 £43.74
25th Percentile £37.12 £14.25 £47.48
Median hourly rate £45.02 £17.00 £53.70
Median % change year-on-year +164.79% -68.34% +170.53%
75th Percentile £55.40 £18.00 £58.10
90th Percentile £61.16 £41.37 £60.74
Scotland median hourly rate £19.69 £17.00 £53.70
% change year-on-year +15.82% -68.34% +19.33%

CISM
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing CISM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for CISM in Edinburgh

CISM
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing CISM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing CISM

CISM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (20.00%) SSL
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Information Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Information Security Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
1 1 (20.00%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Information Security
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Data Encryption
3 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Testing
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
3 1 (20.00%) IT Audit
3 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CISA
1 3 (60.00%) CISSP
1 3 (60.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 2 (40.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CRISC
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) MCSE
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) COBIT
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Host Intrusion Detection System
1 1 (20.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Tenable
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) McAfee
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (20.00%) Veeam