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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 287 303
Rank change year-on-year -11 +16 +104
Contract jobs citing CISM 303 206 285
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 0.83% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.42% 2.70% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 117 212
10th Percentile £443 £490 £463
25th Percentile £483 £538 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £638 £680 £738
90th Percentile £725 £768 £825
UK median daily rate £563 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -13.46% +8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 2
10th Percentile - - £83.77
25th Percentile £41.94 £60.75 £84.31
Median hourly rate £43.70 £73.60 £85.21
Median % change year-on-year -40.63% -13.62% +16.75%
75th Percentile £77.81 £83.20 £86.10
90th Percentile £94.13 £86.74 £86.64
UK median hourly rate £55.23 £73.60 £85.21
% change year-on-year -24.96% -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 12,532 7,631 11,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.04% 30.88% 31.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,311 4,809 7,322
10th Percentile £330 £285 £300
25th Percentile £423 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £619 £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 984 412 928
10th Percentile £16.30 £18.77 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.70 £25.26 £18.32
Median hourly rate £27.50 £52.00 £39.44
Median % change year-on-year -47.12% +31.86% -21.13%
75th Percentile £67.58 £68.04 £62.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £82.50 £76.33
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £45.00 £38.95
% change year-on-year -35.56% +15.53% -22.10%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -41 120 £565 -13.08% 43
South East -33 60 £492 -23.13% 24
North of England -26 59 £538 -14.00% 14
Yorkshire -20 41 £537 -17.38% 3
Midlands -49 24 £550 -12.04% 8
West Midlands -54 19 £600 -7.76% 5
North West -27 17 £555 -14.62% 10
South West -22 16 £570 -12.31% 15
East of England -29 5 £525 +1.16% 4
East Midlands -32 5 £437 -27.17% 3
North East -15 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 34 (11.22%) Confluence
2 3 (0.99%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.33%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.31%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 106 (34.98%) Azure
2 87 (28.71%) AWS
3 52 (17.16%) GCP
4 29 (9.57%) Entra ID
5 23 (7.59%) OpenShift
6 20 (6.60%) Azure Sentinel
7 9 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (2.64%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (2.31%) Azure AKS
9 7 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 7 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (1.98%) SaaS
11 4 (1.32%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.66%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (0.66%) GitHub
13 1 (0.33%) Akamai
13 1 (0.33%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.33%) IaaS
13 1 (0.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (13.53%) Network Security
2 33 (10.89%) Firewall
3 18 (5.94%) VPN
4 7 (2.31%) HTTP
5 6 (1.98%) SSL
6 5 (1.65%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.65%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.32%) S/MIME
8 3 (0.99%) SSH
9 2 (0.66%) DNS
10 1 (0.33%) BGP
10 1 (0.33%) DHCP
10 1 (0.33%) InfiniBand
10 1 (0.33%) MPLS
10 1 (0.33%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
1 2 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (0.66%) Power BI
1 2 (0.66%) Tableau
2 1 (0.33%) EDRMS
2 1 (0.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 41 (13.53%) JIRA
2 6 (1.98%) GitLab
3 4 (1.32%) Snyk
4 2 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.33%) Git
General
1 126 (41.58%) Social Skills
2 68 (22.44%) Finance
3 38 (12.54%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.91%) Documentation Skills
5 25 (8.25%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.28%) Banking
7 11 (3.63%) Legal
8 8 (2.64%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.65%) Marketing
11 4 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.32%) Retail
12 2 (0.66%) Law
12 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.66%) Police
13 1 (0.33%) Electronics
13 1 (0.33%) Front Office
13 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.33%) Local Government
13 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (17.16%) Architect
2 43 (14.19%) Security Architect
3 33 (10.89%) Consultant
4 32 (10.56%) Security Engineer
5 30 (9.90%) Analyst
6 29 (9.57%) Security Consultant
7 25 (8.25%) Lead
7 25 (8.25%) Security Manager
8 21 (6.93%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 21 (6.93%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (5.94%) Security Specialist
10 17 (5.61%) Project Manager
10 17 (5.61%) Security Solutions Architect
10 17 (5.61%) Senior
11 16 (5.28%) Security Analyst
12 11 (3.63%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 11 (3.63%) Security Project Manager
13 10 (3.30%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 9 (2.97%) Azure Engineer
15 8 (2.64%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.91%) LDAP
2 19 (6.27%) SailPoint
3 7 (2.31%) ARM Templates
3 7 (2.31%) OAuth
4 6 (1.98%) REST
4 6 (1.98%) SAML
4 6 (1.98%) SOAP
5 3 (0.99%) Leaflet
5 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.66%) Flash
6 2 (0.66%) ModSecurity
6 2 (0.66%) RESTful
6 2 (0.66%) Smart Contracts
7 1 (0.33%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.33%) Flask
7 1 (0.33%) JDBC
7 1 (0.33%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.33%) OpenMP
7 1 (0.33%) STL
7 1 (0.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.22%) Management Information System
2 28 (9.24%) Security Posture
3 18 (5.94%) Cloud Native
4 17 (5.61%) Operational Technology
5 16 (5.28%) PKI
6 14 (4.62%) Cyber Threat
7 13 (4.29%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.97%) Security Operations Centre
9 8 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.31%) BYOD
10 7 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.98%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.65%) CSOC
12 5 (1.65%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.65%) Robotics
13 4 (1.32%) Algorithms
13 4 (1.32%) Smartcard
14 3 (0.99%) Cyber Defence
14 3 (0.99%) Mainframe
14 3 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.63%) Windows
2 7 (2.31%) Linux
3 6 (1.98%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.66%) Unix
5 1 (0.33%) Rocky
5 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (65.68%) Cybersecurity
2 85 (28.05%) Information Security
3 81 (26.73%) Cloud Security
3 81 (26.73%) Risk Management
4 75 (24.75%) SIEM
5 71 (23.43%) Incident Response
6 66 (21.78%) Identity Access Management
7 61 (20.13%) Agile
8 60 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (19.14%) Security Operations
10 56 (18.48%) DevOps
11 53 (17.49%) DevSecOps
12 49 (16.17%) Vulnerability Management
13 46 (15.18%) Stakeholder Management
14 45 (14.85%) CI/CD
15 44 (14.52%) Security Architecture
15 44 (14.52%) Threat Modelling
16 43 (14.19%) Computer Science
17 40 (13.20%) TOGAF
18 39 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 47 (15.51%) PowerShell
2 44 (14.52%) Python
3 7 (2.31%) Bicep
4 6 (1.98%) BeanShell
4 6 (1.98%) Java
5 4 (1.32%) Bash
6 3 (0.99%) SQL
7 2 (0.66%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.66%) Rust
7 2 (0.66%) Solidity
8 1 (0.33%) Go
8 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 295 (97.36%) CISSP
2 101 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 74 (24.42%) Degree
4 70 (23.10%) SC Cleared
5 35 (11.55%) CRISC
5 35 (11.55%) DV Cleared
6 32 (10.56%) CEH
7 31 (10.23%) Cisco Certification
8 30 (9.90%) CISA
9 29 (9.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 26 (8.58%) CompTIA Security+
11 25 (8.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 25 (8.25%) Master's Degree
12 23 (7.59%) GIAC
13 21 (6.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 18 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (5.94%) PMI Certification
14 18 (5.94%) PMP
15 16 (5.28%) Azure Certification
15 16 (5.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (49.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 145 (47.85%) NIST
3 82 (27.06%) GDPR
4 31 (10.23%) PCI DSS
5 29 (9.57%) GRC
6 24 (7.92%) NCSC
7 19 (6.27%) NIST 800
8 18 (5.94%) COBIT
9 13 (4.29%) SOC 2
10 12 (3.96%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (3.63%) JSP 440
11 11 (3.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 4 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (1.32%) Government Security Classifications
14 4 (1.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 4 (1.32%) PMO
15 3 (0.99%) RMADS
System Software
1 46 (15.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.66%) GPFS
2 2 (0.66%) Lustre
2 2 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.33%) Docker
3 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 31 (10.23%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.95%) Terraform
3 14 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (2.64%) Ansible
5 6 (1.98%) Fluentd
6 5 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.99%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.66%) Grafana
8 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.66%) QRadar
8 2 (0.66%) SELinux
Vendors
1 55 (18.15%) Microsoft
2 52 (17.16%) CyberArk
3 28 (9.24%) Splunk
4 26 (8.58%) BeyondTrust
5 21 (6.93%) BiZZdesign
6 19 (6.27%) ServiceNow
7 14 (4.62%) Centrify
7 14 (4.62%) Tenable
8 12 (3.96%) IBM
9 11 (3.63%) Cribl.io
10 10 (3.30%) Okta
11 8 (2.64%) Red Hat
12 7 (2.31%) Qualys
12 7 (2.31%) Thycotic
13 5 (1.65%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.65%) Rapid7
14 4 (1.32%) Cisco
14 4 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (1.32%) Fortinet
14 4 (1.32%) Thales