CISM Contract Job Trends in England

ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CISM qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 310 328
Rank change year-on-year -35 +18 -61
Contract jobs citing CISM 321 210 207
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.75% 0.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.17% 2.39% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 126 151
10th Percentile £450 £411 £425
25th Percentile £512 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £606 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% +1.04% -2.44%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £729
90th Percentile £800 £781 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 0
10th Percentile £62.81 £28.52 -
25th Percentile £64.09 £29.79 -
Median hourly rate £82.41 £42.62 -
Median % change year-on-year +93.36% - -
75th Percentile £104.00 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - £58.00 -
UK median hourly rate £82.41 £42.62 -
% change year-on-year +93.36% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 14,807 8,771 9,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.95% 31.53% 29.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,953 5,557 6,105
10th Percentile £350 £305 £325
25th Percentile £440 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £633 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,163 681 589
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.06
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -54.27% -
75th Percentile £74.00 £50.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £73.75 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -49.70% -9.09%

CISM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

CISM job vacancy trend in England

CISM
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CISM

CISM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISM in England over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CISM in England

CISM
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CISM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CISM

CISM
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CISM in England over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CISM in England

CISM
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 CISM within the England region over the 6 months to 12 September 2026. 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 -23 146 £585 -10.00% 164
South East -28 58 £600 -11.11% 49
North of England -47 53 £647 +20.37% 28
Yorkshire -19 36 £663 +44.02% 7
South West -35 31 £600 -11.11% 26
Midlands -42 21 £500 -4.76% 10
West Midlands -39 16 £475 -40.63% 5
North West -47 16 £511 -12.60% 18
East Midlands -19 5 £533 +25.29% 5
East of England -24 5 £550 +10.00% 12
CISM
UK

CISM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.49%) Confluence
2 3 (0.93%) IIS
3 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.31%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 123 (38.32%) Azure
2 113 (35.20%) AWS
3 66 (20.56%) GCP
4 34 (10.59%) Entra ID
5 13 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (3.74%) Azure Sentinel
7 11 (3.43%) SaaS
8 9 (2.80%) AWS Control Tower
9 7 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (2.18%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.18%) IaaS
9 7 (2.18%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (2.18%) PaaS
10 3 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.93%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (0.93%) OCI
10 3 (0.93%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.62%) Akamai
11 2 (0.62%) Azure AKS
11 2 (0.62%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 48 (14.95%) Network Security
2 28 (8.72%) Firewall
3 14 (4.36%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (1.87%) Internet
5 5 (1.56%) DNS
5 5 (1.56%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.56%) VPN
6 3 (0.93%) VLAN
7 2 (0.62%) HTTP
7 2 (0.62%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.62%) SSL
8 1 (0.31%) 4G
8 1 (0.31%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (0.31%) DHCP
8 1 (0.31%) Intranet
8 1 (0.31%) Modbus
8 1 (0.31%) SNMP
8 1 (0.31%) SSH
8 1 (0.31%) VoIP
8 1 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (2.18%) DynamoDB
2 2 (0.62%) Metadata
2 2 (0.62%) Power BI
2 2 (0.62%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.31%) Db2
3 1 (0.31%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (3.43%) JIRA
2 2 (0.62%) Burp Suite
2 2 (0.62%) Claude Code
2 2 (0.62%) Git
2 2 (0.62%) Snyk
3 1 (0.31%) GitLab
3 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
General
1 141 (43.93%) Social Skills
2 77 (23.99%) Finance
3 37 (11.53%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (9.97%) Public Sector
5 23 (7.17%) Influencing Skills
6 17 (5.30%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (4.98%) Banking
8 13 (4.05%) Legal
8 13 (4.05%) Manufacturing
9 10 (3.12%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.49%) Police
10 8 (2.49%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.87%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.87%) Law
13 5 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.56%) Retail
14 4 (1.25%) Italian Language
14 4 (1.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 66 (20.56%) Architect
2 56 (17.45%) Consultant
3 50 (15.58%) Security Architect
4 40 (12.46%) Lead
5 33 (10.28%) Security Manager
6 27 (8.41%) Security Consultant
7 25 (7.79%) Security Engineer
8 19 (5.92%) Project Manager
9 18 (5.61%) Analyst
9 18 (5.61%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 17 (5.30%) DevSecOps Consultant
11 16 (4.98%) Senior
12 15 (4.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 15 (4.67%) SOC Manager
13 12 (3.74%) Security Project Manager
14 11 (3.43%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 10 (3.12%) Operational Security Manager
15 10 (3.12%) Security Operations Manager
15 10 (3.12%) Security Specialist
16 9 (2.80%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.61%) LDAP
2 17 (5.30%) Terraform
3 11 (3.43%) OAuth
3 11 (3.43%) SAML
4 10 (3.12%) REST
5 9 (2.80%) OpenID
6 7 (2.18%) JSON
7 6 (1.87%) JDBC
7 6 (1.87%) RESTful
7 6 (1.87%) SOAP
8 5 (1.56%) Jakarta EE
8 5 (1.56%) SailPoint
8 5 (1.56%) SLSA
9 4 (1.25%) OAuth2
10 3 (0.93%) Leaflet
11 2 (0.62%) .NET
11 2 (0.62%) Azure Blueprints
11 2 (0.62%) ModSecurity
12 1 (0.31%) ARM Templates
12 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 43 (13.40%) Security Posture
2 34 (10.59%) Management Information System
3 29 (9.03%) Operational Technology
4 25 (7.79%) Security Operations Centre
5 23 (7.17%) Cyber Threat
6 19 (5.92%) Cloud Native
7 16 (4.98%) Onboarding
8 13 (4.05%) SCADA
9 12 (3.74%) Cyber Defence
10 9 (2.80%) Private Cloud
11 8 (2.49%) PKI
12 7 (2.18%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.87%) Public Cloud
14 5 (1.56%) AI Agents
14 5 (1.56%) CMDB
14 5 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (1.56%) Virtual Team
15 4 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
15 4 (1.25%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.35%) Windows
2 24 (7.48%) Linux
3 10 (3.12%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.80%) Unix
5 6 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.62%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.62%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (70.72%) Cybersecurity
2 122 (38.01%) Stakeholder Management
3 107 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 95 (29.60%) Risk Management
5 88 (27.41%) Vulnerability Management
6 87 (27.10%) SIEM
7 78 (24.30%) Information Security
8 72 (22.43%) Security Architecture
9 66 (20.56%) Incident Response
10 64 (19.94%) Threat Modelling
11 63 (19.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 59 (18.38%) Security Operations
13 58 (18.07%) DevSecOps
13 58 (18.07%) Roadmaps
14 55 (17.13%) SABSA
15 52 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
16 49 (15.26%) Data Protection
17 48 (14.95%) Identity Access Management
18 47 (14.64%) CI/CD
19 46 (14.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 32 (9.97%) Python
2 29 (9.03%) PowerShell
3 11 (3.43%) Java
4 8 (2.49%) SQL
5 4 (1.25%) Bash
5 4 (1.25%) Bicep
6 2 (0.62%) C#
6 2 (0.62%) Korn
7 1 (0.31%) Go
7 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 311 (96.88%) CISSP
2 117 (36.45%) Security Cleared
3 78 (24.30%) SC Cleared
4 77 (23.99%) Cisco Certification
5 75 (23.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 65 (20.25%) CRISC
7 49 (15.26%) CEH
8 48 (14.95%) Degree
9 41 (12.77%) CCSP
10 39 (12.15%) DV Cleared
11 33 (10.28%) CISA
12 31 (9.66%) GIAC
13 25 (7.79%) AWS Certification
14 23 (7.17%) CompTIA Security+
14 23 (7.17%) PMI Certification
14 23 (7.17%) PMP
15 20 (6.23%) OSCP
16 18 (5.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 16 (4.98%) Azure Certification
18 15 (4.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (45.79%) NIST
2 137 (42.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 60 (18.69%) GDPR
4 42 (13.08%) GRC
5 39 (12.15%) NCSC
6 25 (7.79%) PCI DSS
7 24 (7.48%) COBIT
8 22 (6.85%) Cyber Essentials
9 20 (6.23%) NIST 800
10 14 (4.36%) HIPAA
11 13 (4.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (3.74%) SOC 2
13 11 (3.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 10 (3.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 10 (3.12%) Government Security Classifications
15 9 (2.80%) ISO 31000
16 8 (2.49%) JSP 440
17 7 (2.18%) Def Stans
18 6 (1.87%) EU AI Act
19 5 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 29 (9.03%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.93%) Docker
2 3 (0.93%) ISA Server
2 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.31%) KVM
4 1 (0.31%) RACF
4 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (8.41%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.43%) CASB
3 6 (1.87%) Ansible
3 6 (1.87%) Istio
3 6 (1.87%) QRadar
4 5 (1.56%) linkerd
4 5 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.62%) CA Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.62%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.31%) Argo
7 1 (0.31%) Grafana
7 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.31%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 73 (22.74%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.54%) Splunk
3 15 (4.67%) ServiceNow
4 14 (4.36%) CyberArk
4 14 (4.36%) Qualys
5 12 (3.74%) Google
6 11 (3.43%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (3.12%) Tenable
8 9 (2.80%) Zscaler
9 8 (2.49%) BeyondTrust
9 8 (2.49%) SAP
10 6 (1.87%) Oracle
10 6 (1.87%) Workday
11 5 (1.56%) Rapid7
12 4 (1.25%) Okta
12 4 (1.25%) Ping Identity
13 3 (0.93%) Centrify
13 3 (0.93%) Cisco
13 3 (0.93%) F5
13 3 (0.93%) Palo Alto