ISMS Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Information Security Management System (ISMS)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring ISMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISMS 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 1.27% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £548 - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 - -
75th Percentile £585 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £568 £745 £490
% change year-on-year -23.76% +52.04% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

ISMS falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 315 167 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 79.75% 88.83% 67.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 84 56
10th Percentile £295 £354 £239
25th Percentile £400 £422 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £484
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +0.72% -12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £604
90th Percentile £688 £671 £650
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 21 25
10th Percentile £14.97 £18.87 £25.68
25th Percentile £21.14 £23.32 £35.36
Median hourly rate £56.44 £47.12 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +19.78% +16.85% -12.68%
75th Percentile £71.45 £63.40 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.91 £71.45 £51.53
North West median hourly rate £46.80 £25.15 £40.16
% change year-on-year +86.08% -37.38% +18.13%

ISMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

ISMS job vacancy trend in Lancashire

ISMS
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing ISMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing ISMS

ISMS
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISMS within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 3 September 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
Preston - 5 £568 - 2
ISMS
North West

ISMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Consultant
2 3 (60.00%) Management Consultant
2 3 (60.00%) Security Consultant
3 2 (40.00%) Security Incident Consultant
3 2 (40.00%) Security Management Consultant
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Consultant
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) SIAM
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (40.00%) Information Assurance
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) NCSC
1 5 (100.00%) NIST
2 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (40.00%) GRC
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow