CISM Contract Job Trends in the Home Counties

ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
South East > Home Counties

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Home Counties with a requirement for CISM qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CISM 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Home Counties 14.29% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate £500 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -4.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Home Counties

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 the Home Counties.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 57.14% - 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £569 - £156
25th Percentile £597 - £199
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 - £280
Median % change year-on-year - - -53.33%
75th Percentile £897 - £364
90th Percentile £1,049 - £408
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £537
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.23% +2.29%

CISM
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CISM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties.

CISM job vacancy trend in the Home Counties

CISM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Home Counties 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST