ISEB Contract Job Trends in London

Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for ISEB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 358 373
Rank change year-on-year -58 +15 +56
Contract jobs citing ISEB 11 7 21
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.056% 0.052% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.20% 0.20% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 18
10th Percentile £460 £460 £170
25th Percentile £503 £550 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +19.79% -9.94%
75th Percentile £664 £606 £591
90th Percentile £725 £679 £606
England median daily rate £538 £410 £444
% change year-on-year +31.10% -7.61% -11.25%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,473 3,470 4,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.67% 25.60% 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,943 2,354 2,785
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £772
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 82 82
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.82 £17.90
25th Percentile £26.06 £25.04 £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -6.80% -50.94%
75th Percentile £73.00 £44.19 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.70 £68.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +113.27% -41.12% -23.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

ISEB job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ISEB

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISEB in London over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISEB in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ISEB

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB within the London region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
North London - 1 - -
West London - 1 - -
Central London - 1 £638 -
ISEB
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (27.27%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Visio
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.09%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Finance
3 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
5 2 (18.18%) Banking
5 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (9.09%) Advertising
6 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (9.09%) Law
6 1 (9.09%) Legal
6 1 (9.09%) Local Government
6 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
6 1 (9.09%) Police
6 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (9.09%) Social Housing
6 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Business Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Test Leader
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Officer
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ADO
1 1 (9.09%) ebXML
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
1 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (9.09%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (9.09%) Life Science
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
1 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) Waterfall
3 6 (54.55%) Acceptance Criteria
3 6 (54.55%) Software Testing
3 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (45.45%) User Stories
5 4 (36.36%) Business Analysis
5 4 (36.36%) Scrum
6 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
6 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
6 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (27.27%) SDLC
7 2 (18.18%) DevOps
7 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
7 2 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (18.18%) Story Mapping
7 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
7 2 (18.18%) UML
7 2 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) ISTQB
2 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) IIBA
2 3 (27.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (9.09%) CBAP
4 1 (9.09%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
1 2 (18.18%) ISO 15022
1 2 (18.18%) ISO 20022
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) PERC
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Citrix
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow