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 9 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 430 479
Rank change year-on-year -56 +49 +22
Contract jobs citing ISEB 50 57 63
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.21% 0.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.47% 0.69% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 23 59
10th Percentile £351 £205 £398
25th Percentile £372 £225 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £325 £543
Median % change year-on-year +59.23% -40.15% +24.11%
75th Percentile £705 £500 £617
90th Percentile £853 £543 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £400 £505
% change year-on-year +31.25% -20.79% +13.80%

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 10,747 8,263 11,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.25% 30.51% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,089 5,051 6,947
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £419 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 863 395 675
10th Percentile £16.19 £18.66 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £25.26 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.90
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% -11.02% +15.33%
75th Percentile £59.13 £68.00 £68.32
90th Percentile £76.58 £82.25 £79.91
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -36.33% -24.76% +16.67%

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

ISEB
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISEB in England over the 6 months to 9 January 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 9 January 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 -7 19 £500 +117.39% 4
South East -36 13 £510 +40.69%
South West 0 12 £838 +67.50%
West Midlands -35 2 £359 -8.18%
Midlands -40 2 £359 -8.18% 1
North of England -47 2 £394 -17.11% 6
North West -31 1 £325 -31.58% 4
Yorkshire - 1 £463 -
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 (10.00%) Confluence
2 3 (6.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.00%) CMS
3 1 (2.00%) IIS
3 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (2.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.00%) Azure
2 5 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (10.00%) Tricentis Tosca
3 2 (4.00%) PaaS
4 1 (2.00%) AWS
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (2.00%) Figma
4 1 (2.00%) GCP
4 1 (2.00%) Google Ads
4 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) MySQL
1 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.00%) Power BI
1 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.00%) SAP BW
1 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (30.00%) JIRA
2 4 (8.00%) Toad
3 3 (6.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (4.00%) Postman
5 1 (2.00%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.00%) NUnit
General
1 19 (38.00%) Public Sector
2 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (20.00%) Finance
4 8 (16.00%) Legal
5 6 (12.00%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Banking
7 2 (4.00%) Military
8 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (46.00%) Architect
2 20 (40.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 16 (32.00%) Analyst
4 12 (24.00%) Lead
5 10 (20.00%) Lead Architect
6 9 (18.00%) Business Analyst
6 9 (18.00%) Lead Enterprise Architect
7 4 (8.00%) Senior
7 4 (8.00%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (8.00%) Test Analyst
7 4 (8.00%) Tester
8 3 (6.00%) Digital Architect
8 3 (6.00%) SAP Analyst
8 3 (6.00%) SAP Test Analyst
8 3 (6.00%) Senior Architect
8 3 (6.00%) Systems Analyst
9 2 (4.00%) Information Governance Officer
9 2 (4.00%) Information Officer
9 2 (4.00%) QA Tester
10 1 (2.00%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) XML
2 4 (8.00%) .NET
3 3 (6.00%) Playwright
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (4.00%) REST
5 1 (2.00%) CSS
5 1 (2.00%) Django
5 1 (2.00%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.00%) pytest
5 1 (2.00%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (2.00%) SOAP
5 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.00%) Freedom of Information
2 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.00%) NHS
3 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.00%) PMI
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (50.00%) ITIL
2 23 (46.00%) IT4IT
3 14 (28.00%) Agile
4 13 (26.00%) Customer Requirements
4 13 (26.00%) Roadmaps
5 12 (24.00%) TOGAF
6 11 (22.00%) Business Analysis
7 10 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
7 10 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 10 (20.00%) Scrum
7 10 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
8 9 (18.00%) Test Automation
8 9 (18.00%) Test Scripting
9 8 (16.00%) Conflict Resolution
9 8 (16.00%) DevOps
10 7 (14.00%) Architectural Design
10 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (12.00%) Project Delivery
11 6 (12.00%) SDLC
11 6 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.00%) SQL
2 7 (14.00%) Java
3 4 (8.00%) Python
4 1 (2.00%) C#
4 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (38.00%) SC Cleared
3 18 (36.00%) ITIL Certification
4 10 (20.00%) Degree
4 10 (20.00%) ISTQB
5 6 (12.00%) CBAP
6 5 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (6.00%) IIBA
8 2 (4.00%) CISSP
8 2 (4.00%) ISEB Practitioner
9 1 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (2.00%) CEH
9 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (2.00%) CISM
9 1 (2.00%) CITP
9 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
9 1 (2.00%) SAP Certification
9 1 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (46.00%) COBIT
2 7 (14.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 7 (14.00%) JSP 440
3 5 (10.00%) QA
4 4 (8.00%) GDPR
5 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.00%) PSD2
5 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) HP ALM
1 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) Oracle
2 5 (10.00%) SAP
3 4 (8.00%) webMethods
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.00%) HP
5 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.00%) TOWER Software