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 25 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 308 324
Rank change year-on-year -37 +16 -80
Contract jobs citing CISM 315 209 216
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.75% 0.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.11% 2.37% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 135 153
10th Percentile £448 £413 £452
25th Percentile £513 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £738
90th Percentile £800 £775 £819
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 0
10th Percentile £62.81 £28.32 -
25th Percentile £64.09 £29.51 -
Median hourly rate £82.41 £32.74 -
Median % change year-on-year +151.73% - -
75th Percentile £104.00 £41.94 -
90th Percentile - £49.03 -
UK median hourly rate £82.41 £32.74 -
% change year-on-year +151.73% - -

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 14,941 8,808 9,725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.11% 31.62% 29.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,007 5,611 5,943
10th Percentile £350 £304 £325
25th Percentile £445 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £529 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +0.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,230 709 550
10th Percentile £18.16 £17.95 £18.03
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £30.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -53.43% +0.24%
75th Percentile £74.32 £43.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £73.75 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -49.70% -7.41%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -41 145 £600 -4.00% 216
North of England -36 54 £650 +20.93% 47
South East -45 54 £600 +6.67% 74
Yorkshire -12 38 £663 +40.96% 14
South West -32 27 £600 -11.11% 36
Midlands -39 22 £516 +11.02% 24
West Midlands -28 17 £500 -37.50% 18
North West -55 15 £567 +3.09% 25
East Midlands -16 5 £533 +21.85% 6
East of England -37 5 £550 +10.00% 15
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 8 (2.54%) Confluence
2 5 (1.59%) IIS
3 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.32%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 120 (38.10%) Azure
2 111 (35.24%) AWS
3 63 (20.00%) GCP
4 32 (10.16%) Entra ID
5 15 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (3.81%) Azure Sentinel
7 10 (3.17%) SaaS
8 9 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (2.86%) Amazon S3
8 9 (2.86%) AWS Control Tower
9 7 (2.22%) IaaS
9 7 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (2.22%) PaaS
10 4 (1.27%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.95%) OCI
11 3 (0.95%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.63%) Datadog
12 2 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (13.65%) Network Security
2 27 (8.57%) Firewall
3 14 (4.44%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (1.90%) Internet
5 5 (1.59%) DNS
5 5 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.59%) VPN
6 3 (0.95%) VLAN
7 2 (0.63%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.63%) SSL
8 1 (0.32%) 4G
8 1 (0.32%) Cisco IPT
8 1 (0.32%) DHCP
8 1 (0.32%) HTTP
8 1 (0.32%) Intranet
8 1 (0.32%) Modbus
8 1 (0.32%) SNMP
8 1 (0.32%) SSH
8 1 (0.32%) VoIP
8 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (2.22%) DynamoDB
2 2 (0.63%) Metadata
2 2 (0.63%) Power BI
2 2 (0.63%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.32%) Db2
3 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (3.49%) JIRA
2 2 (0.63%) Burp Suite
2 2 (0.63%) Claude Code
2 2 (0.63%) Git
2 2 (0.63%) Snyk
3 1 (0.32%) GitLab
3 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
General
1 142 (45.08%) Social Skills
2 65 (20.63%) Finance
3 41 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.94%) Influencing Skills
6 17 (5.40%) Banking
7 16 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (5.08%) Manufacturing
8 14 (4.44%) Legal
9 10 (3.17%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.54%) Law
10 8 (2.54%) Police
10 8 (2.54%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.90%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.59%) Retail
14 4 (1.27%) Italian Language
15 3 (0.95%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 61 (19.37%) Architect
2 53 (16.83%) Consultant
3 48 (15.24%) Security Architect
4 39 (12.38%) Lead
5 33 (10.48%) Security Manager
6 26 (8.25%) Security Engineer
7 24 (7.62%) Security Consultant
8 20 (6.35%) Analyst
9 19 (6.03%) Senior
10 17 (5.40%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 17 (5.40%) DevSecOps Consultant
11 15 (4.76%) Project Manager
12 14 (4.44%) SOC Manager
13 13 (4.13%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 12 (3.81%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 11 (3.49%) Security Analyst
16 10 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 10 (3.17%) Security Specialist
17 9 (2.86%) Operational Security Manager
17 9 (2.86%) Security Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.35%) Terraform
2 15 (4.76%) LDAP
3 9 (2.86%) OAuth
3 9 (2.86%) SAML
4 7 (2.22%) OpenID
4 7 (2.22%) REST
5 5 (1.59%) JSON
5 5 (1.59%) RESTful
5 5 (1.59%) SailPoint
5 5 (1.59%) SLSA
6 4 (1.27%) OAuth2
7 3 (0.95%) Jakarta EE
7 3 (0.95%) JDBC
7 3 (0.95%) SOAP
8 2 (0.63%) .NET
8 2 (0.63%) Azure Blueprints
9 1 (0.32%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.32%) FIDO
9 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.32%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 41 (13.02%) Security Posture
2 37 (11.75%) Management Information System
3 30 (9.52%) Operational Technology
4 28 (8.89%) Cyber Threat
5 24 (7.62%) Security Operations Centre
6 19 (6.03%) Cloud Native
7 16 (5.08%) Onboarding
8 13 (4.13%) SCADA
9 12 (3.81%) Cyber Defence
10 10 (3.17%) PKI
11 9 (2.86%) Data Centre
11 9 (2.86%) Public Cloud
12 8 (2.54%) Private Cloud
13 5 (1.59%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.59%) CMDB
13 5 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.59%) Mobile Payment
13 5 (1.59%) Smartcard
14 4 (1.27%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (10.48%) Windows
2 27 (8.57%) Linux
3 11 (3.49%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.86%) Unix
5 6 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.27%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.63%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.63%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (69.84%) Cybersecurity
2 122 (38.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 105 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 98 (31.11%) Risk Management
5 91 (28.89%) Vulnerability Management
6 89 (28.25%) Information Security
7 81 (25.71%) SIEM
8 74 (23.49%) Security Architecture
9 62 (19.68%) Threat Modelling
10 60 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 59 (18.73%) Incident Response
12 57 (18.10%) Security Operations
13 55 (17.46%) DevSecOps
13 55 (17.46%) Roadmaps
14 51 (16.19%) Continuous Improvement
15 50 (15.87%) SABSA
16 48 (15.24%) Identity Access Management
17 47 (14.92%) TOGAF
18 46 (14.60%) Data Protection
18 46 (14.60%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 29 (9.21%) Python
2 26 (8.25%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.86%) Java
4 6 (1.90%) SQL
5 4 (1.27%) Bash
5 4 (1.27%) Bicep
6 3 (0.95%) Korn
7 2 (0.63%) C#
8 1 (0.32%) Go
8 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 304 (96.51%) CISSP
2 120 (38.10%) Security Cleared
3 84 (26.67%) SC Cleared
4 76 (24.13%) Cisco Certification
5 74 (23.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 71 (22.54%) CRISC
7 52 (16.51%) Degree
8 45 (14.29%) CEH
9 44 (13.97%) CCSP
10 38 (12.06%) DV Cleared
11 35 (11.11%) CISA
12 32 (10.16%) GIAC
13 27 (8.57%) AWS Certification
14 23 (7.30%) CompTIA Security+
15 21 (6.67%) OSCP
15 21 (6.67%) PMI Certification
15 21 (6.67%) PMP
16 19 (6.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 16 (5.08%) Azure Certification
17 16 (5.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (48.89%) NIST
2 149 (47.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (17.46%) GDPR
4 46 (14.60%) GRC
5 40 (12.70%) NCSC
6 28 (8.89%) PCI DSS
7 25 (7.94%) Cyber Essentials
8 21 (6.67%) COBIT
8 21 (6.67%) NIST 800
9 11 (3.49%) HIPAA
9 11 (3.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 11 (3.49%) ISO 31000
9 11 (3.49%) SOC 2
10 10 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (3.17%) Government Security Classifications
11 9 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (2.22%) Def Stans
13 6 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 5 (1.59%) ISO 22301
14 5 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 28 (8.89%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.27%) ISA Server
3 3 (0.95%) Docker
3 3 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.32%) KVM
4 1 (0.32%) RACF
4 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.90%) Ansible
2 6 (1.90%) CASB
2 6 (1.90%) Istio
3 5 (1.59%) linkerd
3 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.59%) QRadar
4 4 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.63%) CA Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.63%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.32%) Argo
6 1 (0.32%) Grafana
6 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.32%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 70 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.35%) Splunk
3 17 (5.40%) Qualys
4 16 (5.08%) Google
5 14 (4.44%) ServiceNow
6 13 (4.13%) CyberArk
7 12 (3.81%) CrowdStrike
8 11 (3.49%) Tenable
9 9 (2.86%) Rapid7
9 9 (2.86%) Zscaler
10 7 (2.22%) BeyondTrust
11 6 (1.90%) Oracle
12 5 (1.59%) SAP
13 4 (1.27%) Centrify
13 4 (1.27%) Cisco
13 4 (1.27%) F5
13 4 (1.27%) Okta
13 4 (1.27%) Ping Identity
13 4 (1.27%) Tripwire
13 4 (1.27%) VMware