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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 312 322
Rank change year-on-year -40 +10 -29
Contract jobs citing CISM 299 211 214
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.77% 0.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.09% 2.47% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 127 161
10th Percentile £466 £400 £425
25th Percentile £509 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £620 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £750 £750 £804
UK median daily rate £596 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -2.38% +1.67% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 0
10th Percentile £61.52 £28.72 -
25th Percentile £64.09 £30.06 -
Median hourly rate £78.70 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +49.90% - -
75th Percentile £104.00 £58.00 -
90th Percentile - £62.24 -
UK median hourly rate £78.70 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year +49.90% - -

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 14,314 8,530 10,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.65% 30.93% 30.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,647 5,385 6,742
10th Percentile £350 £285 £325
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £715 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,076 628 837
10th Percentile £17.87 £18.09 £14.40
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -41.51% -22.77%
75th Percentile £75.00 £58.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £76.25 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -24.15%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -34 137 £600 -7.69% 84
South East -55 57 £600 -5.88% 28
North of England -53 47 £663 +22.23% 18
Yorkshire -25 31 £675 +46.74% 6
South West -30 23 £570 -15.56% 17
Midlands -46 21 £516 -1.67% 11
North West -41 16 £524 -25.09% 12
West Midlands -48 16 £500 -43.68% 4
East of England -24 8 £525 +5.00% 2
East Midlands -14 5 £533 +19.66% 7
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 14 (4.68%) Confluence
2 2 (0.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.33%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 107 (35.79%) Azure
2 97 (32.44%) AWS
3 59 (19.73%) GCP
4 40 (13.38%) Entra ID
5 13 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
5 13 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (3.01%) SaaS
7 7 (2.34%) IaaS
7 7 (2.34%) PaaS
8 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.34%) AWS Control Tower
10 3 (1.00%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.67%) Akamai
11 2 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.67%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.67%) Azure AKS
11 2 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.67%) OCI
11 2 (0.67%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.33%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 51 (17.06%) Network Security
2 26 (8.70%) Firewall
3 9 (3.01%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (2.01%) HTTP
5 5 (1.67%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.67%) VPN
6 4 (1.34%) DNS
6 4 (1.34%) Internet
7 3 (1.00%) VLAN
8 2 (0.67%) SSL
9 1 (0.33%) Calico
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco IPT
9 1 (0.33%) Intranet
9 1 (0.33%) IPFIX
9 1 (0.33%) Modbus
9 1 (0.33%) NGFW
9 1 (0.33%) SNMP
9 1 (0.33%) SSH
9 1 (0.33%) VoIP
9 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.67%) DynamoDB
2 2 (0.67%) Metadata
2 2 (0.67%) Power BI
2 2 (0.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.33%) Db2
3 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 17 (5.69%) JIRA
2 6 (2.01%) Snyk
3 2 (0.67%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.33%) Git
4 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
General
1 128 (42.81%) Social Skills
2 81 (27.09%) Finance
3 37 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.02%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (5.69%) Banking
7 15 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (4.01%) Manufacturing
9 9 (3.01%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.34%) Legal
11 6 (2.01%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.01%) Retail
12 5 (1.67%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.34%) Law
13 4 (1.34%) Police
14 3 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.00%) Local Government
14 3 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (19.40%) Architect
2 55 (18.39%) Consultant
3 48 (16.05%) Security Architect
4 35 (11.71%) Security Consultant
5 34 (11.37%) Lead
6 31 (10.37%) Security Manager
7 25 (8.36%) Security Engineer
8 24 (8.03%) Project Manager
9 18 (6.02%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 16 (5.35%) Senior
11 15 (5.02%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 14 (4.68%) Analyst
12 14 (4.68%) Security Project Manager
13 13 (4.35%) DevSecOps Consultant
14 12 (4.01%) Security Specialist
15 10 (3.34%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 7 (2.34%) Security Analyst
17 6 (2.01%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 6 (2.01%) Operational Security Manager
17 6 (2.01%) Security Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.35%) LDAP
2 10 (3.34%) OAuth
2 10 (3.34%) REST
2 10 (3.34%) SAML
3 9 (3.01%) OpenID
4 8 (2.68%) RESTful
4 8 (2.68%) SailPoint
5 7 (2.34%) JDBC
5 7 (2.34%) JSON
5 7 (2.34%) SOAP
6 6 (2.01%) Leaflet
7 5 (1.67%) Jakarta EE
8 4 (1.34%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.00%) SLSA
10 2 (0.67%) .NET
10 2 (0.67%) Azure Blueprints
10 2 (0.67%) ModSecurity
11 1 (0.33%) STL
11 1 (0.33%) XML
11 1 (0.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (15.38%) Security Posture
2 33 (11.04%) Operational Technology
3 30 (10.03%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.68%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.68%) Security Operations Centre
5 13 (4.35%) Cloud Native
6 12 (4.01%) SCADA
7 11 (3.68%) Private Cloud
8 10 (3.34%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (3.01%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (2.68%) CMDB
10 8 (2.68%) Virtual Team
11 7 (2.34%) Public Cloud
12 6 (2.01%) BYOD
13 5 (1.67%) PKI
13 5 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
15 3 (1.00%) CESG
15 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.03%) Windows
2 18 (6.02%) Linux
3 9 (3.01%) Unix
4 7 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.00%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (70.57%) Cybersecurity
2 89 (29.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 88 (29.43%) Risk Management
4 81 (27.09%) Cloud Security
5 78 (26.09%) Information Security
6 75 (25.08%) SIEM
6 75 (25.08%) Vulnerability Management
7 61 (20.40%) Security Architecture
7 61 (20.40%) Threat Modelling
8 60 (20.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 57 (19.06%) Security Operations
10 56 (18.73%) Incident Response
11 51 (17.06%) DevSecOps
11 51 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
12 50 (16.72%) Roadmaps
13 47 (15.72%) CI/CD
13 47 (15.72%) SABSA
14 46 (15.38%) Agile
15 45 (15.05%) Application Security
16 44 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 35 (11.71%) Python
2 34 (11.37%) PowerShell
3 10 (3.34%) Java
3 10 (3.34%) SQL
4 3 (1.00%) Bicep
5 2 (0.67%) Bash
6 1 (0.33%) BeanShell
6 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 294 (98.33%) CISSP
2 94 (31.44%) Security Cleared
3 74 (24.75%) Cisco Certification
4 72 (24.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 67 (22.41%) SC Cleared
6 53 (17.73%) CRISC
6 53 (17.73%) Degree
7 51 (17.06%) CEH
8 37 (12.37%) CCSP
9 32 (10.70%) GIAC
10 27 (9.03%) CISA
10 27 (9.03%) PMI Certification
10 27 (9.03%) PMP
11 25 (8.36%) DV Cleared
12 22 (7.36%) CompTIA Security+
13 20 (6.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 17 (5.69%) OSCP
15 15 (5.02%) AWS Certification
15 15 (5.02%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 14 (4.68%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (46.82%) NIST
2 132 (44.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 68 (22.74%) GDPR
4 35 (11.71%) GRC
5 31 (10.37%) PCI DSS
6 27 (9.03%) NCSC
7 20 (6.69%) COBIT
8 19 (6.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (6.02%) SOC 2
10 16 (5.35%) NIST 800
11 14 (4.68%) HIPAA
11 14 (4.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (3.68%) JSP 440
13 10 (3.34%) Government Security Classifications
14 9 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (2.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (2.01%) Def Stans
16 6 (2.01%) ISO 31000
17 5 (1.67%) EU AI Act
18 4 (1.34%) ISA99
System Software
1 30 (10.03%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.00%) Docker
2 3 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.33%) KVM
3 1 (0.33%) RACF
3 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.34%) CASB
2 7 (2.34%) Terraform
3 5 (1.67%) QRadar
3 5 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.34%) Ansible
4 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.67%) CA Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.67%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.33%) Istio
7 1 (0.33%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 64 (21.40%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 25 (8.36%) Splunk
4 17 (5.69%) CyberArk
5 14 (4.68%) Qualys
5 14 (4.68%) Tenable
6 11 (3.68%) BeyondTrust
7 9 (3.01%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (2.68%) Okta
8 8 (2.68%) Zscaler
9 6 (2.01%) Google
9 6 (2.01%) Oracle
9 6 (2.01%) SAP
9 6 (2.01%) Workday
10 5 (1.67%) Cribl.io
11 4 (1.34%) IBM
11 4 (1.34%) Rapid7
12 3 (1.00%) Databricks
12 3 (1.00%) Fortinet
12 3 (1.00%) Palo Alto