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 5 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 298 341
Rank change year-on-year -43 +43 -5
Contract jobs citing CISM 288 199 210
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.75% 0.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.07% 2.43% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 114 156
10th Percentile £450 £400 £431
25th Percentile £509 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £578 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -7.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £770
90th Percentile £750 £750 £823
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 0
10th Percentile £56.39 £28.72 -
25th Percentile - £30.06 -
Median hourly rate £64.09 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.08% - -
75th Percentile - £58.00 -
90th Percentile £77.30 £62.24 -
UK median hourly rate £64.09 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year +22.08% - -

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 13,919 8,195 11,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.57% 30.92% 30.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,378 5,169 7,054
10th Percentile £350 £281 £313
25th Percentile £429 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £645
90th Percentile £719 £716 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £521 £525
% change year-on-year +0.77% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,046 545 987
10th Percentile £17.87 £17.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £24.30 £20.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £53.90 £28.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.27% -33.69% -22.73%
75th Percentile £74.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.40 £77.38 £77.19
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £27.53 £40.94
% change year-on-year +88.88% -32.76% -25.73%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -40 130 £600 -4.00% 57
South East -41 54 £600 -4.00% 41
North of England -48 45 £668 +21.36% 16
Yorkshire -34 29 £674 +43.35% 3
South West -13 22 £570 -0.87% 20
Midlands -56 21 £575 +9.52% 20
West Midlands -56 17 £588 -33.82% 9
North West -34 16 £524 -25.09% 13
East of England -30 6 £525 +5.00% 9
East Midlands -19 4 £533 +19.66% 11
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 17 (5.90%) Confluence
2 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.35%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 105 (36.46%) Azure
2 98 (34.03%) AWS
3 59 (20.49%) GCP
4 35 (12.15%) Entra ID
5 14 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (2.43%) SaaS
8 6 (2.08%) IaaS
8 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (2.08%) PaaS
9 3 (1.04%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.69%) Akamai
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Control Tower
10 2 (0.69%) Azure AKS
10 2 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.69%) OCI
10 2 (0.69%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.35%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.35%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.35%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 53 (18.40%) Network Security
2 23 (7.99%) Firewall
3 9 (3.13%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (2.08%) HTTP
5 4 (1.39%) VPN
6 3 (1.04%) SSL
6 3 (1.04%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.69%) DNS
7 2 (0.69%) Internet
7 2 (0.69%) SSH
7 2 (0.69%) VLAN
8 1 (0.35%) BGP
8 1 (0.35%) DHCP
8 1 (0.35%) Intranet
8 1 (0.35%) MPLS
8 1 (0.35%) OSPF
8 1 (0.35%) S/MIME
8 1 (0.35%) SNMP
8 1 (0.35%) VoIP
8 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.69%) Metadata
2 2 (0.69%) Power BI
2 2 (0.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.35%) Db2
3 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 22 (7.64%) JIRA
2 6 (2.08%) Snyk
3 2 (0.69%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.35%) Git
4 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
General
1 124 (43.06%) Social Skills
2 81 (28.13%) Finance
3 38 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.25%) Banking
5 18 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.47%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.13%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.78%) Legal
9 7 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.08%) Retail
11 3 (1.04%) Local Government
11 3 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.04%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.69%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.69%) Law
12 2 (0.69%) Military
12 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (18.75%) Architect
2 49 (17.01%) Consultant
3 43 (14.93%) Security Architect
4 33 (11.46%) Security Manager
5 31 (10.76%) Security Consultant
6 27 (9.38%) Lead
7 26 (9.03%) Project Manager
8 22 (7.64%) Security Engineer
9 15 (5.21%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 15 (5.21%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 15 (5.21%) Security Specialist
10 14 (4.86%) Analyst
10 14 (4.86%) Security Project Manager
11 13 (4.51%) DevSecOps Consultant
12 10 (3.47%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 10 (3.47%) Senior
13 9 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Specialist
14 8 (2.78%) Security Analyst
15 7 (2.43%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 7 (2.43%) Operational Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.29%) LDAP
2 10 (3.47%) OAuth
2 10 (3.47%) REST
2 10 (3.47%) SAML
3 9 (3.13%) OpenID
4 8 (2.78%) RESTful
4 8 (2.78%) SailPoint
5 7 (2.43%) JDBC
5 7 (2.43%) JSON
5 7 (2.43%) SOAP
6 6 (2.08%) Leaflet
7 5 (1.74%) J2EE
8 4 (1.39%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.04%) SLSA
10 2 (0.69%) .NET
10 2 (0.69%) Azure Blueprints
10 2 (0.69%) ModSecurity
11 1 (0.35%) Kafka
11 1 (0.35%) STL
11 1 (0.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 34 (11.81%) Operational Technology
3 29 (10.07%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.86%) Security Operations Centre
5 12 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.17%) SCADA
6 11 (3.82%) Private Cloud
7 10 (3.47%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (2.78%) PKI
9 7 (2.43%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.08%) BYOD
10 6 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
10 6 (2.08%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.74%) CMDB
11 5 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.39%) CESG
12 4 (1.39%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.99%) Windows
2 17 (5.90%) Linux
3 9 (3.13%) Unix
4 7 (2.43%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.04%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.69%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (71.18%) Cybersecurity
2 86 (29.86%) Risk Management
3 81 (28.13%) Information Security
4 76 (26.39%) SIEM
4 76 (26.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 74 (25.69%) Cloud Security
6 65 (22.57%) Vulnerability Management
7 60 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 60 (20.83%) Threat Modelling
8 58 (20.14%) Security Architecture
9 57 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (19.44%) Security Operations
11 55 (19.10%) Incident Response
12 52 (18.06%) DevSecOps
13 48 (16.67%) Agile
13 48 (16.67%) CI/CD
14 46 (15.97%) Roadmaps
15 45 (15.63%) Application Security
15 45 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
16 42 (14.58%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 35 (12.15%) Python
2 33 (11.46%) PowerShell
3 10 (3.47%) Java
3 10 (3.47%) SQL
4 2 (0.69%) Bash
4 2 (0.69%) Bicep
5 1 (0.35%) BeanShell
5 1 (0.35%) Go
5 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 286 (99.31%) CISSP
2 93 (32.29%) Security Cleared
3 68 (23.61%) Cisco Certification
4 66 (22.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 63 (21.88%) SC Cleared
6 56 (19.44%) Degree
7 54 (18.75%) CRISC
8 48 (16.67%) CEH
9 36 (12.50%) CCSP
10 35 (12.15%) GIAC
11 26 (9.03%) PMI Certification
11 26 (9.03%) PMP
12 25 (8.68%) DV Cleared
13 24 (8.33%) CISA
14 22 (7.64%) CompTIA Security+
15 17 (5.90%) OSCP
16 16 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
16 16 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 14 (4.86%) SSCP
18 13 (4.51%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (47.92%) NIST
2 128 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 68 (23.61%) GDPR
4 33 (11.46%) GRC
4 33 (11.46%) PCI DSS
5 29 (10.07%) NCSC
6 19 (6.60%) COBIT
7 18 (6.25%) SOC 2
8 16 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (4.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (4.51%) HIPAA
11 12 (4.17%) NIST 800
12 10 (3.47%) JSP 440
13 7 (2.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (2.08%) Government Security Classifications
14 6 (2.08%) ISO 31000
15 5 (1.74%) EU AI Act
16 4 (1.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 4 (1.39%) ISA99
16 4 (1.39%) RMADS
System Software
1 30 (10.42%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.04%) Docker
2 3 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.35%) KVM
3 1 (0.35%) RACF
3 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.43%) CASB
3 5 (1.74%) Ansible
3 5 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.39%) QRadar
4 4 (1.39%) Terraform
5 3 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.69%) CA Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.69%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.35%) Istio
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.35%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 58 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.68%) ServiceNow
3 24 (8.33%) Splunk
4 18 (6.25%) CyberArk
5 14 (4.86%) Tenable
6 13 (4.51%) BeyondTrust
7 11 (3.82%) Qualys
8 8 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (2.78%) Okta
9 6 (2.08%) Google
9 6 (2.08%) Oracle
9 6 (2.08%) SAP
9 6 (2.08%) Workday
10 5 (1.74%) Cribl.io
11 4 (1.39%) BiZZdesign
11 4 (1.39%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.39%) Rapid7
11 4 (1.39%) Zscaler
12 3 (1.04%) CheckPoint
12 3 (1.04%) IBM