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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 310 346
Rank change year-on-year -37 +36 -22
Contract jobs citing CISM 288 190 213
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.74% 0.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.08% 2.38% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 107 157
10th Percentile £450 £417 £433
25th Percentile £507 £505 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £770
90th Percentile £750 £750 £823
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 0
10th Percentile £45.66 £28.72 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £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 13,835 7,992 11,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.53% 30.95% 30.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,318 5,035 7,040
10th Percentile £350 £281 £313
25th Percentile £425 £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 £718 £716 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £521 £525
% change year-on-year +0.82% -0.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,038 530 999
10th Percentile £17.87 £17.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £24.19 £20.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.58 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +83.73% -32.76% -22.73%
75th Percentile £73.46 £63.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.40 £77.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £28.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +78.57% -31.61% -26.70%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -35 128 £600 -4.00% 61
South East -44 54 £600 -4.00% 43
North of England -42 45 £668 +8.98% 17
Yorkshire -17 29 £674 +19.78% 3
South West -20 24 £570 +8.57% 21
Midlands -47 21 £575 +9.52% 21
West Midlands -52 17 £588 -33.82% 10
North West -42 16 £524 -25.09% 14
East of England -20 6 £525 +5.00% 8
East Midlands -22 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%) Maximo
1 2 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 107 (37.15%) Azure
2 98 (34.03%) AWS
3 59 (20.49%) GCP
4 35 (12.15%) Entra ID
5 14 (4.86%) Azure Sentinel
5 14 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.43%) SaaS
7 6 (2.08%) IaaS
7 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (2.08%) PaaS
8 4 (1.39%) Azure AKS
8 4 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.39%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (1.04%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.69%) Akamai
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Control Tower
10 2 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.69%) OCI
11 1 (0.35%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 53 (18.40%) Network Security
2 24 (8.33%) Firewall
3 9 (3.13%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (2.08%) HTTP
4 6 (2.08%) VPN
5 4 (1.39%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.04%) SSL
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
1 122 (42.36%) 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 32 (11.11%) 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 11 (3.82%) Senior
13 10 (3.47%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 9 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 7 (2.43%) Operational Security Manager
15 7 (2.43%) Security Operations Manager
15 7 (2.43%) SOC 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%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.69%) Azure Blueprints
10 2 (0.69%) ModSecurity
11 1 (0.35%) STL
11 1 (0.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 33 (11.46%) Operational Technology
3 28 (9.72%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.86%) Security Operations Centre
5 12 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.17%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.82%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (3.82%) Private Cloud
6 11 (3.82%) SCADA
7 8 (2.78%) PKI
8 7 (2.43%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.08%) BYOD
9 6 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
9 6 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.08%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.74%) CMDB
10 5 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.39%) CESG
11 4 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.33%) Windows
2 18 (6.25%) Linux
3 9 (3.13%) Unix
4 8 (2.78%) 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
1 203 (70.49%) Cybersecurity
2 84 (29.17%) Risk Management
3 80 (27.78%) Information Security
4 79 (27.43%) SIEM
5 76 (26.39%) Cloud Security
6 75 (26.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 66 (22.92%) Vulnerability Management
8 60 (20.83%) Threat Modelling
9 59 (20.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 58 (20.14%) Security Architecture
10 58 (20.14%) Security Operations
11 56 (19.44%) Incident Response
11 56 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
12 52 (18.06%) DevSecOps
13 48 (16.67%) Agile
13 48 (16.67%) CI/CD
14 45 (15.63%) Application Security
14 45 (15.63%) Roadmaps
15 44 (15.28%) Continuous Improvement
16 42 (14.58%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 36 (12.50%) Python
2 33 (11.46%) PowerShell
3 10 (3.47%) Java
3 10 (3.47%) SQL
4 4 (1.39%) Bicep
5 2 (0.69%) Bash
6 1 (0.35%) BeanShell
6 1 (0.35%) Go
6 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 286 (99.31%) CISSP
2 96 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 68 (23.61%) Cisco Certification
4 66 (22.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 66 (22.92%) SC Cleared
5 54 (18.75%) CRISC
5 54 (18.75%) Degree
6 47 (16.32%) CEH
7 36 (12.50%) CCSP
8 35 (12.15%) GIAC
9 27 (9.38%) DV Cleared
10 26 (9.03%) PMI Certification
10 26 (9.03%) PMP
11 23 (7.99%) CISA
11 23 (7.99%) CompTIA Security+
12 17 (5.90%) OSCP
13 16 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
13 16 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 15 (5.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 14 (4.86%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (47.92%) NIST
2 128 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 68 (23.61%) GDPR
4 33 (11.46%) PCI DSS
5 32 (11.11%) GRC
6 29 (10.07%) NCSC
7 19 (6.60%) COBIT
8 18 (6.25%) SOC 2
9 16 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (4.86%) NIST 800
10 14 (4.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (4.51%) HIPAA
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 31 (10.76%) 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 22 (7.64%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.43%) CASB
3 6 (2.08%) Terraform
4 5 (1.74%) Ansible
4 5 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.39%) QRadar
6 3 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.69%) CA Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.69%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.35%) Istio
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.35%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 60 (20.83%) 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
10 5 (1.74%) IBM
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%) Red Hat
160 CISM jobs in England