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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 280 308
Rank change year-on-year -23 +28 +93
Contract jobs citing CISM 313 201 256
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 0.83% 0.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.44% 2.65% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 114 189
10th Percentile £451 £463 £425
25th Percentile £492 £521 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £628 £613
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% +2.45% -5.77%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £750
90th Percentile £729 £750 £850
UK median daily rate £570 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.80% +4.17% -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 12,810 7,587 11,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.74% 31.28% 31.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,514 4,857 7,312
10th Percentile £338 £298 £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 £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 987 429 913
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.51 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.35 £25.26 £17.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £50.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +33.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £85.36 £82.13 £76.91
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £42.50 £37.83
% change year-on-year -15.29% +12.35% -27.44%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -17 130 £575 -9.80% 41
North of England -23 60 £537 -15.76% 18
South East -42 59 £560 -11.11% 29
Yorkshire -19 40 £537 -17.38% 6
Midlands -68 22 £600 -7.76% 11
West Midlands -47 20 £600 -7.76% 9
South West -20 19 £570 -8.80% 18
North West -27 19 £550 -17.29% 11
East of England -32 4 £525 +1.16% 4
East Midlands -36 2 £425 - 2
North East -12 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 32 (10.22%) Confluence
2 3 (0.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.32%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.24%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 104 (33.23%) Azure
2 91 (29.07%) AWS
3 54 (17.25%) GCP
4 26 (8.31%) Entra ID
5 23 (7.35%) OpenShift
6 15 (4.79%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (2.24%) Azure AKS
7 7 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 7 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (1.60%) SaaS
9 4 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.96%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.64%) GitHub
12 1 (0.32%) Akamai
12 1 (0.32%) Azure Key Vault
12 1 (0.32%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.32%) IaaS
12 1 (0.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (13.42%) Network Security
2 30 (9.58%) Firewall
3 18 (5.75%) VPN
4 8 (2.56%) SSL
5 7 (2.24%) HTTP
6 5 (1.60%) Kerberos
7 4 (1.28%) S/MIME
7 4 (1.28%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.96%) SSH
9 2 (0.64%) DNS
9 2 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.32%) BGP
10 1 (0.32%) DHCP
10 1 (0.32%) InfiniBand
10 1 (0.32%) MPLS
10 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 37 (11.82%) JIRA
2 6 (1.92%) GitLab
3 4 (1.28%) Snyk
4 2 (0.64%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.32%) Git
General
1 121 (38.66%) Social Skills
2 78 (24.92%) Finance
3 39 (12.46%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.63%) Documentation Skills
5 26 (8.31%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.75%) Banking
7 11 (3.51%) Legal
8 8 (2.56%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.60%) Marketing
11 4 (1.28%) 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%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (18.21%) Architect
2 45 (14.38%) Security Architect
3 38 (12.14%) Consultant
4 32 (10.22%) Security Consultant
5 30 (9.58%) Analyst
5 30 (9.58%) Security Engineer
5 30 (9.58%) Security Manager
6 27 (8.63%) Lead
7 22 (7.03%) Project Manager
8 21 (6.71%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 21 (6.71%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (5.43%) Security Solutions Architect
9 17 (5.43%) Security Specialist
10 15 (4.79%) Security Analyst
10 15 (4.79%) Security Project Manager
11 13 (4.15%) Senior
12 12 (3.83%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 10 (3.19%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 8 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (2.56%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.58%) LDAP
2 14 (4.47%) SailPoint
3 10 (3.19%) OAuth
4 9 (2.88%) REST
4 9 (2.88%) SAML
4 9 (2.88%) SOAP
5 7 (2.24%) ARM Templates
6 5 (1.60%) Leaflet
7 4 (1.28%) JDBC
7 4 (1.28%) OpenID
7 4 (1.28%) RESTful
8 3 (0.96%) ModSecurity
8 3 (0.96%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.64%) Flash
9 2 (0.64%) J2EE
9 2 (0.64%) JSON
9 2 (0.64%) Smart Contracts
10 1 (0.32%) Flask
10 1 (0.32%) OpenMP
10 1 (0.32%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.50%) Management Information System
2 23 (7.35%) Security Posture
3 18 (5.75%) Operational Technology
4 17 (5.43%) Cloud Native
5 16 (5.11%) PKI
6 13 (4.15%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.83%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (3.19%) Security Operations Centre
9 7 (2.24%) BYOD
9 7 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.24%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.92%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.60%) CSOC
11 5 (1.60%) Robotics
11 5 (1.60%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.28%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (1.28%) Smartcard
13 3 (0.96%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.19%) Windows
2 6 (1.92%) Linux
3 5 (1.60%) 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
1 211 (67.41%) Cybersecurity
2 81 (25.88%) Information Security
2 81 (25.88%) Risk Management
3 79 (25.24%) SIEM
4 77 (24.60%) Cloud Security
5 73 (23.32%) Incident Response
6 64 (20.45%) Security Operations
7 63 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (19.81%) Agile
8 62 (19.81%) Identity Access Management
9 58 (18.53%) DevOps
10 51 (16.29%) Vulnerability Management
11 49 (15.65%) DevSecOps
12 48 (15.34%) Stakeholder Management
13 46 (14.70%) CI/CD
14 45 (14.38%) Threat Modelling
15 44 (14.06%) TOGAF
16 43 (13.74%) Security Architecture
17 41 (13.10%) AI
17 41 (13.10%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 45 (14.38%) PowerShell
1 45 (14.38%) Python
2 10 (3.19%) Java
3 7 (2.24%) Bicep
4 6 (1.92%) BeanShell
5 5 (1.60%) SQL
6 4 (1.28%) Bash
7 2 (0.64%) Rust
7 2 (0.64%) Solidity
8 1 (0.32%) Go
8 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 306 (97.76%) CISSP
2 105 (33.55%) Security Cleared
3 68 (21.73%) SC Cleared
4 66 (21.09%) Degree
5 41 (13.10%) CRISC
6 38 (12.14%) CEH
7 37 (11.82%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (11.82%) DV Cleared
8 35 (11.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 32 (10.22%) CompTIA Security+
10 28 (8.95%) GIAC
11 27 (8.63%) CISA
12 25 (7.99%) Master's Degree
13 21 (6.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 20 (6.39%) PMI Certification
14 20 (6.39%) PMP
15 18 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
16 17 (5.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 17 (5.43%) TOGAF Certification
17 16 (5.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (46.96%) NIST
2 141 (45.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 80 (25.56%) GDPR
4 34 (10.86%) PCI DSS
5 32 (10.22%) GRC
6 27 (8.63%) NCSC
7 21 (6.71%) COBIT
8 15 (4.79%) NIST 800
9 14 (4.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (4.47%) SOC 2
10 13 (4.15%) JSP 440
11 12 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 6 (1.92%) HIPAA
15 4 (1.28%) Government Security Classifications
15 4 (1.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 3 (0.96%) EU AI Act
16 3 (0.96%) RMADS
17 2 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 42 (13.42%) 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 (9.90%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.79%) Terraform
3 13 (4.15%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (2.56%) Ansible
5 6 (1.92%) CASB
5 6 (1.92%) Fluentd
6 4 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.96%) QRadar
8 2 (0.64%) CA Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.64%) Grafana
8 2 (0.64%) PingFederate
8 2 (0.64%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.64%) SELinux
9 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.32%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 56 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 51 (16.29%) CyberArk
3 31 (9.90%) Splunk
4 26 (8.31%) BeyondTrust
5 22 (7.03%) ServiceNow
6 21 (6.71%) BiZZdesign
7 16 (5.11%) Tenable
8 14 (4.47%) Centrify
9 13 (4.15%) IBM
10 11 (3.51%) Cribl.io
11 9 (2.88%) Okta
12 8 (2.56%) Red Hat
13 7 (2.24%) Qualys
13 7 (2.24%) Thycotic
14 5 (1.60%) SAP
15 4 (1.28%) Cisco
15 4 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
15 4 (1.28%) Thales
16 3 (0.96%) Palo Alto
16 3 (0.96%) Workday