CISM Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CISM qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) UK / England
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	389	371	424
Rank change year-on-year	-18	+53
Contract jobs citing CISM	195	278	204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.46%	0.56%	0.40%
As % of the Qualifications category	2.37%	2.61%	2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted	120	139	138
Median daily rate	£500	£500	£455
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+9.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£400	£388	£325
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£675	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£475	£420
% change year-on-year	+5.26%	+13.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	4	0
Median hourly rate	£46.00	£36.81	-
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+24.96%	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£46.00	£36.81	-
% change year-on-year	+24.96%	-

CISM is in the academic qualifications and professional certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all academic qualifications and professional certifications cited in contract job vacancies advertised in England.

Academic & Professional Certification England
Contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications	8243	10634	9584
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	19.41%	21.54%	18.78%
Number of daily rates quoted	4956	6723	5645
Median daily rate	£435	£400	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+8.75%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£270	£255	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£588	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£375
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	441	367	484
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£27.50	£22.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+18.18%	+22.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.15	£12.50	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£48.40	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£33.00	£30.21	£24.12
% change year-on-year	+9.25%	+25.22%

CISM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing CISM as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Qualifications category.

CISM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing CISM in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for CISM in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing CISM in England over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for CISM in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing CISM in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for CISM in England

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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 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-25	79	£500	-9.09%	28
South East	+32	45	£500	+8.10%	20
North West	+25	40	£613	+63.33%	13
East of England	-21	14	£463	+4.16%	7
East Midlands	-1	7	£425	-
South West	+3	5	£531	+6.25%	5
Yorkshire	+6	3	£225	-51.35%	4
West Midlands	+14	1	£325	-34.67%	3
North East	-	1	-	-	4
CISM UK

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing CISM also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for CISM.

1	336 (96.28%)	CISSP
2	234 (67.05%)	Information Security
3	154 (44.13%)	ISO/IEC 27001
4	115 (32.95%)	CISA
5	107 (30.66%)	PCI DSS
6	102 (29.23%)	Risk Management
7	101 (28.94%)	Finance
7	101 (28.94%)	Cybersecurity
8	78 (22.35%)	Management Information System
9	73 (20.92%)	Degree
10	68 (19.48%)	Firewall
11	61 (17.48%)	SIEM
12	52 (14.90%)	ITIL
13	50 (14.33%)	Cisco Certification
14	45 (12.89%)	Security Architecture

15	44 (12.61%)	Agile Software Development
16	42 (12.03%)	SANS
17	40 (11.46%)	GDPR
17	40 (11.46%)	Penetration Testing
17	40 (11.46%)	Data Protection
18	39 (11.17%)	ISMS
19	38 (10.89%)	Stakeholder Management
20	35 (10.03%)	COBIT
21	33 (9.46%)	Security Cleared
21	33 (9.46%)	CCSP
21	33 (9.46%)	Identity Access Management
22	32 (9.17%)	Project Management
22	32 (9.17%)	Amazon AWS
23	31 (8.88%)	Microsoft Azure
23	31 (8.88%)	(ISC)2 CCSP

CISM
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	9 (2.58%)	Apache
2	8 (2.29%)	SharePoint
3	7 (2.01%)	Apache Pig
3	7 (2.01%)	Apache Solr
3	7 (2.01%)	Elasticsearch
3	7 (2.01%)	WebSphere
4	6 (1.72%)	JBoss
4	6 (1.72%)	Tomcat
5	5 (1.43%)	Mule
6	4 (1.15%)	Apache Spark
6	4 (1.15%)	IIS
6	4 (1.15%)	OpenStack
7	2 (0.57%)	Adobe Experience Manager
7	2 (0.57%)	CMS
7	2 (0.57%)	Skype for Business
8	1 (0.29%)	BizTalk Server
8	1 (0.29%)	Confluence
8	1 (0.29%)	MS Exchange

Applications
1	7 (2.01%)	MS Visio
2	6 (1.72%)	Microsoft Office
3	4 (1.15%)	Microsoft Excel
4	2 (0.57%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	2 (0.57%)	Microsoft Project

Business Applications
1	4 (1.15%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	1 (0.29%)	Dynamics CRM
2	1 (0.29%)	Oracle ERP
2	1 (0.29%)	SAP ERP

Cloud Services
1	32 (9.17%)	Amazon AWS
2	31 (8.88%)	Microsoft Azure
3	12 (3.44%)	Cloud Computing
4	9 (2.58%)	Mimecast
5	8 (2.29%)	SaaS
6	7 (2.01%)	Office 365
7	6 (1.72%)	IaaS
7	6 (1.72%)	PaaS
8	3 (0.86%)	Google Cloud Platform
9	2 (0.57%)	Amazon EC2
9	2 (0.57%)	Amazon S3
9	2 (0.57%)	Virtual Private Cloud
10	1 (0.29%)	Amazon CloudWatch
10	1 (0.29%)	Amazon ELB
10	1 (0.29%)	AWS CloudFormation
10	1 (0.29%)	AWS CloudTrail
10	1 (0.29%)	Azure Active Directory
10	1 (0.29%)	CloudFront
10	1 (0.29%)	G Suite
10	1 (0.29%)	Yammer

Communications & Networking
1	68 (19.48%)	Firewall
2	27 (7.74%)	Network Security
3	23 (6.59%)	Intrusion Detection
4	16 (4.58%)	Internet
5	15 (4.30%)	Wireless
6	10 (2.87%)	VPN
7	7 (2.01%)	LAN
8	6 (1.72%)	WAN
9	5 (1.43%)	TCP/IP
10	4 (1.15%)	DNS
11	3 (0.86%)	Cisco ASA
11	3 (0.86%)	HTTP
11	3 (0.86%)	SSL
12	2 (0.57%)	Cisco PIX
12	2 (0.57%)	HTTPS
12	2 (0.57%)	VLAN
13	1 (0.29%)	DMZ
13	1 (0.29%)	SAN
13	1 (0.29%)	SNMP
13	1 (0.29%)	WLAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	10 (2.87%)	Hadoop
2	8 (2.29%)	MongoDB
3	7 (2.01%)	DataStax
3	7 (2.01%)	SQL Server
4	5 (1.43%)	Apache Cassandra
4	5 (1.43%)	MySQL
4	5 (1.43%)	Star Schema
5	4 (1.15%)	Apache Hive
5	4 (1.15%)	HBase
5	4 (1.15%)	MariaDB
5	4 (1.15%)	Sqoop
6	3 (0.86%)	Big Data
6	3 (0.86%)	NoSQL
6	3 (0.86%)	Relational Database
7	2 (0.57%)	PostgreSQL
8	1 (0.29%)	Amazon RDS
8	1 (0.29%)	CouchDB
8	1 (0.29%)	Data Warehouse
8	1 (0.29%)	Neo4j

Development Applications
1	5 (1.43%)	Hudson
1	5 (1.43%)	Jenkins
2	3 (0.86%)	AppScan
3	2 (0.57%)	Pylint
3	2 (0.57%)	Rational DOORS
4	1 (0.29%)	Git (software)
4	1 (0.29%)	JIRA

General
1	101 (28.94%)	Finance
2	27 (7.74%)	Banking
3	20 (5.73%)	Legal
4	18 (5.16%)	Telecoms
5	16 (4.58%)	Retail
6	9 (2.58%)	Law
7	6 (1.72%)	Manufacturing
8	5 (1.43%)	Financial Institution
9	4 (1.15%)	Electronics
9	4 (1.15%)	Investment Banking
9	4 (1.15%)	Marketing
10	3 (0.86%)	Billing
10	3 (0.86%)	International Banking
11	2 (0.57%)	Local Government
11	2 (0.57%)	Publishing
11	2 (0.57%)	Retail Banking
12	1 (0.29%)	Aerospace
12	1 (0.29%)	Automotive
12	1 (0.29%)	Back Office
12	1 (0.29%)	Dutch Language

Job Titles
1	97 (27.79%)	Consultant
2	88 (25.21%)	Security Consultant
3	78 (22.35%)	Analyst
4	72 (20.63%)	Security Analyst
5	44 (12.61%)	Architect
6	39 (11.17%)	Security Manager
7	37 (10.60%)	Security Architect
8	24 (6.88%)	Information Security Consultant
9	22 (6.30%)	Information Analyst
10	21 (6.02%)	Information Security Analyst
11	20 (5.73%)	Security Specialist
12	18 (5.16%)	Information Manager
12	18 (5.16%)	Information Security Manager
12	18 (5.16%)	IT Manager
13	16 (4.58%)	IT Analyst
13	16 (4.58%)	IT Security Analyst
14	14 (4.01%)	CISSP Consultant
14	14 (4.01%)	Cybersecurity Analyst
14	14 (4.01%)	Project Manager
14	14 (4.01%)	Security Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	13 (3.72%)	Middleware
2	10 (2.87%)	Elastic Stack
3	8 (2.29%)	Web Services
4	5 (1.43%)	Ajax
4	5 (1.43%)	AngularJS
4	5 (1.43%)	CSS
4	5 (1.43%)	CSS3
4	5 (1.43%)	Hibernate
4	5 (1.43%)	HTML
4	5 (1.43%)	HTML5
4	5 (1.43%)	JAX-WS
4	5 (1.43%)	JMS
4	5 (1.43%)	jQuery
4	5 (1.43%)	JSP
4	5 (1.43%)	REST
4	5 (1.43%)	RESTful
4	5 (1.43%)	Spring
4	5 (1.43%)	Spring MVC
4	5 (1.43%)	Struts
4	5 (1.43%)	WebSphere MQ

Miscellaneous
1	78 (22.35%)	Management Information System
2	25 (7.16%)	Computer Science
3	23 (6.59%)	Analytical Skills
4	22 (6.30%)	CESG
4	22 (6.30%)	Virtual Team
5	16 (4.58%)	Data Protection Act
6	9 (2.58%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
7	8 (2.29%)	Data Centre
8	6 (1.72%)	CESG CLAS
8	6 (1.72%)	PMI
8	6 (1.72%)	Private Cloud
8	6 (1.72%)	Public Cloud
9	5 (1.43%)	PKI
9	5 (1.43%)	Smart Energy
10	4 (1.15%)	Cyber Attack
10	4 (1.15%)	Fintech
11	3 (0.86%)	Mainframe
12	2 (0.57%)	e-Health
12	2 (0.57%)	FMCG
12	2 (0.57%)	Smart Meter

Operating Systems
1	28 (8.02%)	Windows
2	27 (7.74%)	Linux
3	17 (4.87%)	Mac OS X
4	8 (2.29%)	Unix
5	7 (2.01%)	Windows Server
6	4 (1.15%)	Solaris
7	2 (0.57%)	Apple iOS
7	2 (0.57%)	VMS
8	1 (0.29%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Processes & Methodologies
1	234 (67.05%)	Information Security
2	102 (29.23%)	Risk Management
3	101 (28.94%)	Cybersecurity
4	61 (17.48%)	SIEM
5	52 (14.90%)	ITIL
6	45 (12.89%)	Security Architecture
7	44 (12.61%)	Agile Software Development
8	40 (11.46%)	Data Protection
8	40 (11.46%)	Penetration Testing
9	39 (11.17%)	ISMS
10	38 (10.89%)	Stakeholder Management
11	33 (9.46%)	Identity Access Management
12	32 (9.17%)	Project Management
13	28 (8.02%)	Vulnerability Management
14	27 (7.74%)	Information Assurance
14	27 (7.74%)	Security Management
15	25 (7.16%)	Waterfall
16	22 (6.30%)	Risk Assessment
17	21 (6.02%)	Information Security Management
17	21 (6.02%)	Vulnerability Assessment

Programming Languages
1	11 (3.15%)	Java
2	9 (2.58%)	Python
3	8 (2.29%)	SQL
4	5 (1.43%)	JavaScript
4	5 (1.43%)	PowerShell
5	3 (0.86%)	C
5	3 (0.86%)	C++
6	2 (0.57%)	Go
6	2 (0.57%)	Haskell
6	2 (0.57%)	Perl
6	2 (0.57%)	R
6	2 (0.57%)	Ruby
6	2 (0.57%)	Scala
7	1 (0.29%)	C#
7	1 (0.29%)	Shell Script

Qualifications
1	336 (96.28%)	CISSP
2	115 (32.95%)	CISA
3	73 (20.92%)	Degree
4	50 (14.33%)	Cisco Certification
5	42 (12.03%)	SANS
6	33 (9.46%)	CCSP
6	33 (9.46%)	Security Cleared
7	31 (8.88%)	(ISC)2 CCSP
8	30 (8.60%)	CESG Certified Professional
9	29 (8.31%)	CRISC
10	26 (7.45%)	SC Cleared
11	24 (6.88%)	ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12	23 (6.59%)	SSCP
13	22 (6.30%)	CEH
14	21 (6.02%)	CLAS
15	19 (5.44%)	Computer Science Degree
16	17 (4.87%)	CCNP
16	17 (4.87%)	GIAC
17	12 (3.44%)	CCDP
18	10 (2.87%)	ISACA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	154 (44.13%)	ISO/IEC 27001
2	107 (30.66%)	PCI DSS
3	40 (11.46%)	GDPR
4	35 (10.03%)	COBIT
5	15 (4.30%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
5	15 (4.30%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6	10 (2.87%)	RMADS
7	8 (2.29%)	Cyber Essentials
7	8 (2.29%)	FedRAMP
7	8 (2.29%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
8	7 (2.01%)	ISO 22301
9	4 (1.15%)	HIPAA
9	4 (1.15%)	ISO/IEC 27005
9	4 (1.15%)	JSP 440
9	4 (1.15%)	QA
9	4 (1.15%)	SLA
9	4 (1.15%)	SSAE 16
10	3 (0.86%)	ISAE 3402
10	3 (0.86%)	PMO
11	2 (0.57%)	Basel III

System Software
1	11 (3.15%)	Active Directory
2	7 (2.01%)	Apache Flume
3	4 (1.15%)	HDFS
4	3 (0.86%)	Xen
5	2 (0.57%)	Docker
5	2 (0.57%)	Hyper-V
5	2 (0.57%)	KVM
5	2 (0.57%)	LXC
5	2 (0.57%)	Virtual Machines
6	1 (0.29%)	Slurm Workload Manager
6	1 (0.29%)	Snort
6	1 (0.29%)	VMware Infrastructure

Systems Management
1	7 (2.01%)	Kibana
1	7 (2.01%)	logstash
2	6 (1.72%)	Nessus
3	4 (1.15%)	McAfee ePO
4	3 (0.86%)	Nmap
4	3 (0.86%)	Puppet
5	2 (0.57%)	Ansible
5	2 (0.57%)	Nagios
5	2 (0.57%)	Nexpose
5	2 (0.57%)	Opscode Chef
5	2 (0.57%)	QRadar
5	2 (0.57%)	Terraform
6	1 (0.29%)	FortiGate
6	1 (0.29%)	Host Intrusion Detection System
6	1 (0.29%)	Mesos
6	1 (0.29%)	Microsoft Intune
6	1 (0.29%)	PowerBroker

Vendors
1	28 (8.02%)	Microsoft
2	21 (6.02%)	Splunk
3	20 (5.73%)	CheckPoint
3	20 (5.73%)	Cisco
4	16 (4.58%)	LogRhythm
4	16 (4.58%)	Qualys
5	15 (4.30%)	SAP
6	12 (3.44%)	Rapid7
7	11 (3.15%)	Dell
8	9 (2.58%)	IBM
9	8 (2.29%)	Oracle
9	8 (2.29%)	Tufin
10	7 (2.01%)	Cloudera
10	7 (2.01%)	McAfee
11	5 (1.43%)	Palo Alto
12	4 (1.15%)	Ab Initio
12	4 (1.15%)	CyberArk
12	4 (1.15%)	Informatica
13	3 (0.86%)	Apple
13	3 (0.86%)	Juniper