ISEB Contract Job Trends in England

Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for ISEB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 428 492
Rank change year-on-year -124 +64 +8
Contract jobs citing ISEB 43 49 54
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.20% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.33% 0.64% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 32 41
10th Percentile £356 £306 £275
25th Percentile £425 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £410 £460
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -10.86% -3.16%
75th Percentile £695 £500 £575
90th Percentile £705 £541 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £410 £455
% change year-on-year +28.05% -9.89% -4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £24.19 - -
75th Percentile £24.60 - -
90th Percentile £24.84 - -
UK median hourly rate £24.19 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

ISEB 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 13,149 7,628 11,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.05% 31.44% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,838 4,861 6,930
10th Percentile £350 £285 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £713 £750
UK median daily rate £522 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -0.57% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 955 433 967
10th Percentile £17.07 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £22.27 £17.88
Median hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -23.81%
75th Percentile £73.19 £67.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.50 £81.35 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -6.25% -25.93%

ISEB
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISEB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

ISEB job vacancy trend in England

ISEB
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ISEB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ISEB

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISEB in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISEB in England

ISEB
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ISEB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ISEB

ISEB
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 ISEB within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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 -51 16 £550 +12.82% 2
South West -26 15 £703 +116.31%
South East -89 9 £600 +33.33%
East of England -30 2 £278 -11.20%
West Midlands -64 1 - - 1
Midlands -69 1 - - 1
ISEB
UK

ISEB
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 5 (11.63%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) CMS
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.98%) Azure
2 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.33%) AWS
3 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (2.33%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (2.33%) GCP
3 1 (2.33%) Google Ads
3 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.33%) Power BI
1 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (32.56%) JIRA
2 1 (2.33%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.33%) NUnit
2 1 (2.33%) Postman
2 1 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 13 (30.23%) Public Sector
3 10 (23.26%) Finance
3 10 (23.26%) Legal
4 7 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.30%) Manufacturing
5 4 (9.30%) Military
6 3 (6.98%) Banking
7 2 (4.65%) Digital Health
7 2 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.65%) Local Government
8 1 (2.33%) Automotive
8 1 (2.33%) Law
8 1 (2.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (41.86%) Architect
2 17 (39.53%) Enterprise Architect
3 13 (30.23%) Analyst
4 10 (23.26%) Business Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Tester
6 3 (6.98%) Integration Tester
6 3 (6.98%) Test Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Information Governance Officer
7 2 (4.65%) Information Officer
7 2 (4.65%) Programme Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Senior
8 1 (2.33%) Business IT Analyst
8 1 (2.33%) Delivery Manager
8 1 (2.33%) Information Manager
8 1 (2.33%) QA Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) QA Tester
8 1 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (2.33%) Senior Business Analyst
8 1 (2.33%) Senior Technical Architect
8 1 (2.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) Playwright
2 1 (2.33%) .NET
2 1 (2.33%) ADO
2 1 (2.33%) CSS
2 1 (2.33%) Django
2 1 (2.33%) ebXML
2 1 (2.33%) Gherkin
2 1 (2.33%) pytest
2 1 (2.33%) REST
2 1 (2.33%) SOAP
2 1 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.33%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (2.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (48.84%) Roadmaps
2 19 (44.19%) ITIL
3 18 (41.86%) IT4IT
3 18 (41.86%) TOGAF
4 17 (39.53%) Agile
5 16 (37.21%) Enterprise Architecture
5 16 (37.21%) Strategic Roadmap
6 15 (34.88%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (27.91%) Conflict Resolution
8 11 (25.58%) Architectural Design
9 9 (20.93%) Waterfall
10 8 (18.60%) SDLC
10 8 (18.60%) Software Testing
11 7 (16.28%) Acceptance Criteria
11 7 (16.28%) Business Analysis
11 7 (16.28%) Scrum
11 7 (16.28%) User Stories
12 6 (13.95%) Data Modelling
12 6 (13.95%) Decision-Making
12 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.30%) SQL
2 1 (2.33%) C#
2 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.33%) Python
2 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (55.81%) Security Cleared
2 21 (48.84%) SC Cleared
3 13 (30.23%) ITIL Certification
4 12 (27.91%) ISTQB
5 10 (23.26%) Degree
6 7 (16.28%) IIBA
7 6 (13.95%) CBAP
8 4 (9.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (6.98%) ISEB Practitioner
10 2 (4.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (2.33%) APMP
11 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
11 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
11 1 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (41.86%) COBIT
2 7 (16.28%) QA
3 4 (9.30%) GDPR
4 2 (4.65%) ISO 15022
4 2 (4.65%) ISO 20022
5 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
1 1 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) HP ALM
1 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle
2 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.33%) Citrix
3 1 (2.33%) HP
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.33%) TOWER Software