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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 283 279
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 +146
Contract jobs citing CISM 294 205 289
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 0.82% 0.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.41% 2.69% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 118 214
10th Percentile £425 £471 £475
25th Percentile £481 £541 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £648 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.44% +3.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £638 £680 £725
90th Percentile £725 £763 £843
UK median daily rate £558 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -12.55% +6.25% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 3
10th Percentile - £60.75 £71.29
25th Percentile £41.94 £64.77 £75.84
Median hourly rate £43.70 £73.60 £83.41
Median % change year-on-year -40.63% -11.76% +14.29%
75th Percentile £77.81 £83.20 £85.21
90th Percentile £94.13 £87.92 £86.28
UK median hourly rate £55.23 £78.40 £83.41
% change year-on-year -29.55% -6.01% +16.27%

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 12,190 7,616 11,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.25% 30.44% 31.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,103 4,719 7,262
10th Percentile £325 £285 £290
25th Percentile £422 £413 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £730 £738
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 946 391 910
10th Percentile £16.17 £20.12 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.35 £25.26 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.20 £50.00 £40.28
Median % change year-on-year -49.61% +24.15% -17.81%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.34 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.00 £82.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £42.21 £40.28
% change year-on-year -38.94% +4.79% -19.45%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -25 119 £565 -13.08% 54
North of England -16 58 £538 -17.31% 23
South East -16 52 £492 -23.13% 35
Yorkshire -25 40 £537 -19.25% 7
Midlands -48 23 £500 -16.67% 19
West Midlands -41 18 £600 +4.30% 11
North West -30 17 £555 -14.62% 14
South West -13 15 £500 -23.08% 29
East of England -30 6 £538 -6.52% 13
East Midlands -33 5 £437 -27.17% 8
North East -12 1 £545 +2.06% 2
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 34 (11.56%) Confluence
2 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.34%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.38%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 102 (34.69%) Azure
2 83 (28.23%) AWS
3 49 (16.67%) GCP
4 27 (9.18%) Entra ID
5 25 (8.50%) OpenShift
6 19 (6.46%) Azure Sentinel
7 11 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (2.72%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (2.38%) Azure AKS
9 7 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 7 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.70%) SaaS
11 4 (1.36%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.68%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (0.68%) GitHub
13 1 (0.34%) Akamai
13 1 (0.34%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.34%) IaaS
13 1 (0.34%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (12.59%) Firewall
2 35 (11.90%) Network Security
3 22 (7.48%) VPN
4 6 (2.04%) HTTP
4 6 (2.04%) SSL
5 5 (1.70%) Kerberos
5 5 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.36%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.36%) S/MIME
7 3 (1.02%) SSH
8 2 (0.68%) DNS
9 1 (0.34%) BGP
9 1 (0.34%) DHCP
9 1 (0.34%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.34%) MPLS
9 1 (0.34%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
1 2 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (0.68%) Power BI
1 2 (0.68%) Tableau
2 1 (0.34%) EDRMS
2 1 (0.34%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 41 (13.95%) JIRA
2 8 (2.72%) GitLab
3 3 (1.02%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.02%) Snyk
4 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.34%) Git
General
1 122 (41.50%) Social Skills
2 63 (21.43%) Finance
3 41 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.84%) Public Sector
5 25 (8.50%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (5.78%) Banking
7 11 (3.74%) Legal
8 7 (2.38%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.70%) Marketing
9 5 (1.70%) Retail
10 3 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.68%) Law
11 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.68%) Police
12 1 (0.34%) Automotive
12 1 (0.34%) Electronics
12 1 (0.34%) Front Office
12 1 (0.34%) Military
12 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (15.31%) Architect
2 36 (12.24%) Security Architect
3 35 (11.90%) Analyst
4 34 (11.56%) Security Engineer
5 32 (10.88%) Consultant
6 25 (8.50%) Security Consultant
7 23 (7.82%) Lead
8 21 (7.14%) Security Manager
9 20 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
10 19 (6.46%) Security Analyst
11 18 (6.12%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 17 (5.78%) Security Specialist
12 17 (5.78%) Senior
13 16 (5.44%) Security Solutions Architect
14 13 (4.42%) Project Manager
15 12 (4.08%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 11 (3.74%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 9 (3.06%) Azure Engineer
18 8 (2.72%) Cybersecurity Specialist
18 8 (2.72%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.18%) LDAP
2 18 (6.12%) SailPoint
3 9 (3.06%) OAuth
4 8 (2.72%) SAML
5 7 (2.38%) ARM Templates
6 5 (1.70%) REST
6 5 (1.70%) SOAP
7 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (1.02%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.68%) Flash
8 2 (0.68%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.68%) OpenID
8 2 (0.68%) Smart Contracts
9 1 (0.34%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.34%) Flask
9 1 (0.34%) JWT
9 1 (0.34%) OpenMP
9 1 (0.34%) STL
9 1 (0.34%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.22%) Management Information System
2 25 (8.50%) Security Posture
3 16 (5.44%) PKI
4 15 (5.10%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (4.42%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.42%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.42%) Operational Technology
6 9 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.06%) Security Operations Centre
7 8 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.04%) BYOD
8 6 (2.04%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.70%) CSOC
9 5 (1.70%) Robotics
10 4 (1.36%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.36%) Smartcard
11 3 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.02%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.02%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.74%) Windows
2 8 (2.72%) Linux
3 6 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.68%) Unix
5 1 (0.34%) Rocky
5 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (62.93%) Cybersecurity
2 83 (28.23%) Risk Management
3 80 (27.21%) Information Security
4 78 (26.53%) Cloud Security
5 76 (25.85%) Incident Response
6 72 (24.49%) SIEM
7 68 (23.13%) Identity Access Management
8 57 (19.39%) Agile
8 57 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (19.05%) DevOps
9 56 (19.05%) Security Operations
10 49 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
11 45 (15.31%) CI/CD
12 44 (14.97%) Stakeholder Management
13 43 (14.63%) Computer Science
14 42 (14.29%) DevSecOps
15 39 (13.27%) Security Architecture
16 38 (12.93%) TOGAF
17 35 (11.90%) Threat Modelling
17 35 (11.90%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 44 (14.97%) PowerShell
2 42 (14.29%) Python
3 7 (2.38%) Bicep
4 5 (1.70%) BeanShell
4 5 (1.70%) Java
5 4 (1.36%) Bash
6 3 (1.02%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.02%) SQL
7 2 (0.68%) Rust
7 2 (0.68%) Solidity
8 1 (0.34%) Go
8 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 285 (96.94%) CISSP
2 95 (32.31%) Security Cleared
3 75 (25.51%) Degree
4 66 (22.45%) SC Cleared
5 38 (12.93%) CRISC
6 36 (12.24%) CISA
7 32 (10.88%) DV Cleared
8 27 (9.18%) CEH
9 25 (8.50%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (8.50%) CompTIA Security+
9 25 (8.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 25 (8.50%) Master's Degree
10 23 (7.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 23 (7.82%) GIAC
11 21 (7.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 17 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
12 17 (5.78%) TOGAF Certification
13 16 (5.44%) Azure Certification
14 14 (4.76%) PMI Certification
14 14 (4.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (51.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 138 (46.94%) NIST
3 77 (26.19%) GDPR
4 34 (11.56%) GRC
5 31 (10.54%) PCI DSS
6 24 (8.16%) NCSC
7 19 (6.46%) NIST 800
8 16 (5.44%) COBIT
9 14 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (4.08%) SOC 2
11 8 (2.72%) JSP 440
12 7 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 4 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (1.36%) Government Security Classifications
14 4 (1.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 4 (1.36%) PMO
15 3 (1.02%) RMADS
System Software
1 45 (15.31%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.68%) GPFS
2 2 (0.68%) Lustre
2 2 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.34%) Docker
3 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 33 (11.22%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.44%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (5.10%) Terraform
4 9 (3.06%) Ansible
5 8 (2.72%) Fluentd
6 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.70%) RSA Archer
7 3 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.68%) Grafana
8 2 (0.68%) PingFederate
8 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.68%) QRadar
8 2 (0.68%) SELinux
9 1 (0.34%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 58 (19.73%) Microsoft
2 50 (17.01%) CyberArk
3 28 (9.52%) Splunk
4 24 (8.16%) BeyondTrust
5 21 (7.14%) BiZZdesign
6 18 (6.12%) ServiceNow
7 14 (4.76%) Centrify
8 13 (4.42%) Cribl.io
8 13 (4.42%) Tenable
9 11 (3.74%) IBM
10 9 (3.06%) Okta
11 8 (2.72%) Red Hat
12 7 (2.38%) Qualys
12 7 (2.38%) Thycotic
13 5 (1.70%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.70%) Rapid7
14 4 (1.36%) Cisco
14 4 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (1.36%) Fortinet
14 4 (1.36%) Thales