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 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 313 328
Rank change year-on-year -22 +15 -47
Contract jobs citing CISM 309 210 203
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.76% 0.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.14% 2.42% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 130 149
10th Percentile £450 £412 £425
25th Percentile £512 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £738
90th Percentile £775 £776 £806
UK median daily rate £595 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +3.52% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 0
10th Percentile £62.81 £28.52 -
25th Percentile £64.09 £29.79 -
Median hourly rate £82.41 £42.62 -
Median % change year-on-year +93.36% - -
75th Percentile £104.00 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - £58.00 -
UK median hourly rate £82.41 £42.62 -
% change year-on-year +93.36% - -

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 14,441 8,686 10,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.69% 31.42% 30.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,744 5,449 6,489
10th Percentile £350 £300 £325
25th Percentile £431 £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 £725 £715 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,119 667 761
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £15.10
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +118.69% -47.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £75.00 £55.37 £67.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £79.17
UK median hourly rate £51.75 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +105.77% -41.51% -21.82%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -34 144 £598 -4.36% 147
South East -33 60 £600 -4.00% 59
North of England -41 49 £663 +24.06% 29
Yorkshire -19 32 £669 +42.29% 7
South West -32 25 £570 -15.56% 50
Midlands -49 20 £500 +1.01% 14
North West -42 16 £524 -4.66% 17
West Midlands -37 15 £475 -57.78% 8
East of England -21 6 £550 +10.00% 17
East Midlands -18 5 £533 +25.29% 6
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 12 (3.88%) Confluence
2 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 110 (35.60%) Azure
2 101 (32.69%) AWS
3 58 (18.77%) GCP
4 42 (13.59%) Entra ID
5 15 (4.85%) Azure Sentinel
6 12 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (3.24%) SaaS
8 7 (2.27%) IaaS
8 7 (2.27%) PaaS
9 6 (1.94%) AWS Control Tower
9 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.29%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.97%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.65%) Akamai
12 2 (0.65%) Azure AKS
12 2 (0.65%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (0.65%) OCI
12 2 (0.65%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 51 (16.50%) Network Security
2 24 (7.77%) Firewall
3 10 (3.24%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (1.94%) HTTP
4 6 (1.94%) Internet
5 5 (1.62%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.62%) VPN
6 4 (1.29%) DNS
7 3 (0.97%) VLAN
8 2 (0.65%) SSL
9 1 (0.32%) 4G
9 1 (0.32%) 5G
9 1 (0.32%) Cisco IPT
9 1 (0.32%) Intranet
9 1 (0.32%) IPFIX
9 1 (0.32%) Modbus
9 1 (0.32%) SNMP
9 1 (0.32%) SSH
9 1 (0.32%) VoIP
9 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (1.29%) DynamoDB
2 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.65%) Metadata
2 2 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.65%) Power BI
2 2 (0.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.32%) Db2
3 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (4.85%) JIRA
2 6 (1.94%) Snyk
3 2 (0.65%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.32%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.32%) Git
General
1 130 (42.07%) Social Skills
2 80 (25.89%) Finance
3 40 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.71%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.15%) Influencing Skills
6 17 (5.50%) Banking
7 15 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.88%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.91%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.91%) Legal
10 8 (2.59%) Police
11 7 (2.27%) Aerospace
11 7 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.94%) Law
12 6 (1.94%) Retail
12 6 (1.94%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.29%) Italian Language
14 4 (1.29%) Local Government
15 3 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (19.09%) Architect
1 59 (19.09%) Consultant
2 49 (15.86%) Security Architect
3 39 (12.62%) Lead
4 37 (11.97%) Security Consultant
5 32 (10.36%) Security Manager
6 24 (7.77%) Project Manager
6 24 (7.77%) Security Engineer
7 19 (6.15%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 15 (4.85%) Senior
9 14 (4.53%) Analyst
9 14 (4.53%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 14 (4.53%) DevSecOps Consultant
9 14 (4.53%) Security Project Manager
10 12 (3.88%) Security Specialist
11 9 (2.91%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 7 (2.27%) Operational Security Manager
12 7 (2.27%) Security Analyst
12 7 (2.27%) Security Operations Manager
12 7 (2.27%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.18%) LDAP
2 11 (3.56%) REST
3 10 (3.24%) OAuth
3 10 (3.24%) SAML
4 9 (2.91%) OpenID
4 9 (2.91%) SailPoint
5 8 (2.59%) RESTful
6 7 (2.27%) JDBC
6 7 (2.27%) JSON
6 7 (2.27%) SOAP
7 6 (1.94%) Leaflet
8 5 (1.62%) Jakarta EE
9 4 (1.29%) OAuth2
9 4 (1.29%) SLSA
10 2 (0.65%) .NET
10 2 (0.65%) Azure Blueprints
10 2 (0.65%) ModSecurity
11 1 (0.32%) Kafka
11 1 (0.32%) XML
11 1 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (13.92%) Security Posture
2 33 (10.68%) Operational Technology
3 31 (10.03%) Management Information System
4 17 (5.50%) Onboarding
5 16 (5.18%) Security Operations Centre
6 15 (4.85%) Cloud Native
7 14 (4.53%) Cyber Threat
8 13 (4.21%) SCADA
9 12 (3.88%) Cyber Defence
9 12 (3.88%) Private Cloud
10 8 (2.59%) CMDB
11 7 (2.27%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.94%) BYOD
12 6 (1.94%) PKI
12 6 (1.94%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.62%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (1.29%) CESG
14 4 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.44%) Windows
2 18 (5.83%) Linux
3 10 (3.24%) Unix
4 5 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.62%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.97%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.65%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.32%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (70.23%) Cybersecurity
2 105 (33.98%) Stakeholder Management
3 93 (30.10%) Cloud Security
4 92 (29.77%) Risk Management
5 82 (26.54%) Information Security
6 78 (25.24%) Vulnerability Management
7 77 (24.92%) SIEM
8 64 (20.71%) Security Architecture
9 61 (19.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 61 (19.74%) Threat Modelling
10 54 (17.48%) DevSecOps
10 54 (17.48%) Incident Response
10 54 (17.48%) Security Operations
11 51 (16.50%) Roadmaps
11 51 (16.50%) SABSA
12 48 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
13 47 (15.21%) Identity Access Management
14 45 (14.56%) Data Protection
15 44 (14.24%) CI/CD
15 44 (14.24%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 30 (9.71%) PowerShell
2 29 (9.39%) Python
3 10 (3.24%) Java
4 9 (2.91%) SQL
5 4 (1.29%) Bicep
6 3 (0.97%) Bash
7 1 (0.32%) BeanShell
7 1 (0.32%) Go
7 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 301 (97.41%) CISSP
2 104 (33.66%) Security Cleared
3 78 (25.24%) Cisco Certification
4 76 (24.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 71 (22.98%) SC Cleared
6 57 (18.45%) CRISC
7 54 (17.48%) CEH
8 52 (16.83%) Degree
9 39 (12.62%) CCSP
10 33 (10.68%) DV Cleared
11 29 (9.39%) GIAC
12 28 (9.06%) PMI Certification
12 28 (9.06%) PMP
13 26 (8.41%) CISA
14 24 (7.77%) CompTIA Security+
15 21 (6.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 19 (6.15%) OSCP
17 18 (5.83%) AWS Certification
18 15 (4.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 15 (4.85%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (47.90%) NIST
2 132 (42.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 64 (20.71%) GDPR
4 33 (10.68%) GRC
5 32 (10.36%) NCSC
6 28 (9.06%) PCI DSS
7 23 (7.44%) COBIT
8 20 (6.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (5.83%) NIST 800
10 16 (5.18%) SOC 2
11 15 (4.85%) HIPAA
11 15 (4.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (3.88%) Government Security Classifications
12 12 (3.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 11 (3.56%) JSP 440
14 10 (3.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (2.27%) Def Stans
15 7 (2.27%) EU AI Act
16 6 (1.94%) ISO 31000
17 4 (1.29%) ISA99
System Software
1 28 (9.06%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.97%) Docker
2 3 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.32%) KVM
3 1 (0.32%) RACF
3 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (7.12%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.88%) Terraform
3 7 (2.27%) CASB
4 5 (1.62%) Ansible
4 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.62%) QRadar
4 5 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.97%) Istio
6 2 (0.65%) CA Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.65%) linkerd
6 2 (0.65%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.32%) Argo
7 1 (0.32%) Grafana
7 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.32%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 65 (21.04%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.12%) ServiceNow
3 21 (6.80%) Splunk
4 15 (4.85%) CyberArk
5 14 (4.53%) Qualys
5 14 (4.53%) Tenable
6 9 (2.91%) Okta
6 9 (2.91%) Zscaler
7 8 (2.59%) BeyondTrust
8 7 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (2.27%) Google
9 6 (1.94%) Oracle
9 6 (1.94%) SAP
9 6 (1.94%) Workday
10 4 (1.29%) IBM
10 4 (1.29%) Ping Identity
10 4 (1.29%) Rapid7
11 3 (0.97%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.65%) Databricks
12 2 (0.65%) Veracode