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 31 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 284 312
Rank change year-on-year -22 +28 +95
Contract jobs citing CISM 311 200 252
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 0.82% 0.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.43% 2.63% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 113 185
10th Percentile £452 £463 £425
25th Percentile £492 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £630 £610
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +3.28% -6.15%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £750
90th Percentile £729 £750 £850
UK median daily rate £570 £628 £600
% change year-on-year -9.16% +4.58% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 2
10th Percentile - £51.25 £83.77
25th Percentile £41.94 £60.75 £84.31
Median hourly rate £45.46 £67.55 £85.21
Median % change year-on-year -32.70% -20.72% +23.06%
75th Percentile £83.13 £82.00 £86.10
90th Percentile £94.25 £84.38 £86.64
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £73.60 £85.21
% change year-on-year -11.68% -13.62% +20.86%

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 12,811 7,605 11,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.68% 31.33% 31.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,528 4,872 7,324
10th Percentile £336 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 988 432 918
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.43 £25.25 £17.80
Median hourly rate £36.85 £50.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.30% +33.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £69.30 £68.00 £62.49
90th Percentile £85.36 £82.03 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £36.70 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -13.65% +13.33% -28.57%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -29 128 £575 -10.16% 41
South East -41 59 £560 -11.11% 29
North of England -28 57 £537 -15.73% 18
Yorkshire -22 37 £537 -17.38% 6
South West -19 22 £570 -8.80% 18
Midlands -58 22 £600 -7.76% 11
West Midlands -45 20 £600 -7.76% 9
North West -22 19 £550 -17.29% 11
East of England -37 4 £525 +1.16% 4
East Midlands -40 2 £425 - 2
North East -14 1 £545 +2.06% 1
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 30 (9.65%) Confluence
2 3 (0.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.32%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.25%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 102 (32.80%) Azure
2 91 (29.26%) AWS
3 54 (17.36%) GCP
4 24 (7.72%) Entra ID
5 23 (7.40%) OpenShift
6 15 (4.82%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (2.25%) Azure AKS
7 7 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 7 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.29%) SaaS
9 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.96%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.64%) GitHub
11 1 (0.32%) Akamai
11 1 (0.32%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.32%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.32%) IaaS
11 1 (0.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (13.83%) Network Security
2 30 (9.65%) Firewall
3 18 (5.79%) VPN
4 8 (2.57%) SSL
5 7 (2.25%) HTTP
6 4 (1.29%) S/MIME
6 4 (1.29%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.96%) SSH
8 2 (0.64%) DNS
8 2 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.64%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.32%) BGP
9 1 (0.32%) DHCP
9 1 (0.32%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.32%) MPLS
9 1 (0.32%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
1 2 (0.64%) Metadata
1 2 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.32%) EDRMS
2 1 (0.32%) Power BI
2 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (11.25%) JIRA
2 6 (1.93%) GitLab
3 4 (1.29%) Snyk
4 2 (0.64%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.32%) Git
General
1 121 (38.91%) Social Skills
2 74 (23.79%) Finance
3 39 (12.54%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.68%) Documentation Skills
5 26 (8.36%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.47%) Banking
7 11 (3.54%) Legal
8 8 (2.57%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.61%) Marketing
11 4 (1.29%) Retail
12 2 (0.64%) Law
12 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.64%) Police
13 1 (0.32%) Electronics
13 1 (0.32%) Front Office
13 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Local Government
13 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (18.01%) Architect
2 45 (14.47%) Security Architect
3 38 (12.22%) Consultant
4 32 (10.29%) Security Consultant
5 31 (9.97%) Security Engineer
6 30 (9.65%) Security Manager
7 29 (9.32%) Analyst
8 28 (9.00%) Lead
9 22 (7.07%) Project Manager
10 21 (6.75%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 21 (6.75%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (5.47%) Security Solutions Architect
11 17 (5.47%) Security Specialist
12 15 (4.82%) Security Analyst
12 15 (4.82%) Security Project Manager
13 13 (4.18%) Senior
14 12 (3.86%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 10 (3.22%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 8 (2.57%) Azure Engineer
16 8 (2.57%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.65%) LDAP
2 13 (4.18%) SailPoint
3 9 (2.89%) REST
3 9 (2.89%) SOAP
4 7 (2.25%) ARM Templates
4 7 (2.25%) OAuth
5 6 (1.93%) Leaflet
5 6 (1.93%) SAML
6 4 (1.29%) JDBC
6 4 (1.29%) OpenID
6 4 (1.29%) RESTful
7 3 (0.96%) ModSecurity
7 3 (0.96%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.64%) Flash
8 2 (0.64%) J2EE
8 2 (0.64%) JSON
8 2 (0.64%) Smart Contracts
9 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.32%) OpenMP
9 1 (0.32%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.61%) Management Information System
2 23 (7.40%) Security Posture
3 18 (5.79%) Operational Technology
4 17 (5.47%) Cloud Native
5 16 (5.14%) PKI
6 12 (3.86%) Cyber Threat
7 11 (3.54%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.54%) Security Operations Centre
8 10 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.25%) BYOD
9 7 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.25%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.93%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.61%) CSOC
11 5 (1.61%) Robotics
11 5 (1.61%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.29%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.29%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (1.29%) Smartcard
13 3 (0.96%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.22%) Windows
2 6 (1.93%) Linux
3 5 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.64%) Unix
5 1 (0.32%) Rocky
5 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (67.52%) Cybersecurity
2 81 (26.05%) Information Security
2 81 (26.05%) SIEM
3 79 (25.40%) Risk Management
4 77 (24.76%) Cloud Security
5 71 (22.83%) Incident Response
6 63 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (19.94%) Agile
7 62 (19.94%) Security Operations
8 58 (18.65%) DevOps
9 57 (18.33%) Identity Access Management
10 49 (15.76%) DevSecOps
10 49 (15.76%) Stakeholder Management
11 48 (15.43%) Vulnerability Management
12 46 (14.79%) CI/CD
13 45 (14.47%) Threat Modelling
14 44 (14.15%) Security Architecture
15 41 (13.18%) AI
15 41 (13.18%) TOGAF
16 40 (12.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 46 (14.79%) Python
2 45 (14.47%) PowerShell
3 10 (3.22%) Java
4 7 (2.25%) Bicep
5 6 (1.93%) BeanShell
6 5 (1.61%) SQL
7 4 (1.29%) Bash
8 2 (0.64%) Rust
8 2 (0.64%) Solidity
9 1 (0.32%) Go
9 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 304 (97.75%) CISSP
2 107 (34.41%) Security Cleared
3 68 (21.86%) SC Cleared
4 64 (20.58%) Degree
5 42 (13.50%) CRISC
6 40 (12.86%) CEH
7 39 (12.54%) DV Cleared
8 37 (11.90%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (11.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 32 (10.29%) CompTIA Security+
11 28 (9.00%) GIAC
12 27 (8.68%) CISA
13 23 (7.40%) Master's Degree
14 21 (6.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 20 (6.43%) PMI Certification
15 20 (6.43%) PMP
16 18 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
17 17 (5.47%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 15 (4.82%) Azure Certification
19 14 (4.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (47.91%) NIST
2 141 (45.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 80 (25.72%) GDPR
4 34 (10.93%) PCI DSS
5 32 (10.29%) GRC
6 26 (8.36%) NCSC
7 21 (6.75%) COBIT
8 15 (4.82%) NIST 800
9 14 (4.50%) JSP 440
9 14 (4.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (4.50%) SOC 2
10 12 (3.86%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (2.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 6 (1.93%) HIPAA
14 4 (1.29%) Government Security Classifications
14 4 (1.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.96%) EU AI Act
15 3 (0.96%) RMADS
16 2 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 41 (13.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.64%) GPFS
2 2 (0.64%) Lustre
2 2 (0.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.32%) Docker
3 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 31 (9.97%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.82%) Terraform
3 8 (2.57%) Ansible
3 8 (2.57%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.93%) CASB
4 6 (1.93%) Fluentd
5 4 (1.29%) QRadar
6 3 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.64%) CA Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.64%) Grafana
7 2 (0.64%) PingFederate
7 2 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.64%) SELinux
8 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.32%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 54 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 50 (16.08%) CyberArk
3 32 (10.29%) Splunk
4 26 (8.36%) BeyondTrust
5 22 (7.07%) ServiceNow
6 19 (6.11%) BiZZdesign
7 16 (5.14%) Tenable
8 14 (4.50%) Centrify
9 13 (4.18%) IBM
10 11 (3.54%) Cribl.io
11 8 (2.57%) Okta
11 8 (2.57%) Red Hat
12 7 (2.25%) Qualys
12 7 (2.25%) Thycotic
13 5 (1.61%) SAP
14 4 (1.29%) Cisco
14 4 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (1.29%) Thales
15 3 (0.96%) Palo Alto
15 3 (0.96%) Workday