Chief Information Security Officer Contracts in England

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
UK > England

The median Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) daily rate in England is £925, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 545 599
Rank change year-on-year +45 +54 +171
Contract jobs requiring a Chief Information Security Officer 6 1 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.003% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.003% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 16
10th Percentile £745 - £750
25th Percentile £813 £900 £825
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £925 £1,100 £888
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +23.94% -2.74%
75th Percentile £975 £1,300 £1,063
90th Percentile - - £1,069
UK median daily rate £900 £888 £925
% change year-on-year +1.41% -4.05% +5.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 25,186 33,515 44,514
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.86% 92.98% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,387 22,034 31,463
10th Percentile £290 £300 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,244 2,292 1,392
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.25 £14.83
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.45 £40.33 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.93% -8.35% +76.00%
75th Percentile £56.52 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +67.45%

Chief Information Security Officer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Chief Information Security Officer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Chief Information Security Officer in England

Chief Information Security Officer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Chief Information Security Officer in England.

Daily rate trend for Chief Information Security Officer in England

Chief Information Security Officer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chief Information Security Officer in England over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Chief Information Security Officer in England

Chief Information Security Officer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chief Information Security Officer within the England region over the 6 months to 19 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 4 £950 - 1
South East +25 1 £900 -18.18% 2
North of England - 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Chief Information Security Officer
UK

Chief Information Security Officer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 July 2025, Chief Information Security Officer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Chief Information Security Officer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Information Security
2 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 4 (66.67%) GDPR
3 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (33.33%) CISSP
4 2 (33.33%) CISM
4 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) NIST
5 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
5 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
5 1 (16.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
5 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 1 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (16.67%) NCSC
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
5 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
5 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Banking
5 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence

Chief Information Security Officer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (16.67%) SaaS
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
3 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Information Security
2 4 (66.67%) Risk Management
3 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
5 1 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
5 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CISM
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) CISA
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) GDPR
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) NIST
3 1 (16.67%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (16.67%) NCSC
3 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (16.67%) RMADS
3 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Jamf Pro