CISM Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford with a requirement for CISM qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 33 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing CISM 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.04% 1.14% -
As % of the Qualifications category 3.80% 4.76% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £455 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £637 - -
90th Percentile £640 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £525 £600 -
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 79 42 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 27.43% 24.00% 28.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 37 16
10th Percentile £309 £356 £470
25th Percentile £356 £390 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -18.40% -1.40% -14.68%
75th Percentile £492 £575 £578
90th Percentile £552 £600 £586
Cheshire median daily rate £472 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -12.27% +2.48% +5.00%

CISM
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

CISM job vacancy trend in Knutsford

CISM
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing CISM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing CISM

CISM
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISM in Knutsford over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CISM in Knutsford

CISM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) CISA
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Fluentd
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (66.67%) Cribl.io
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) ArcSight