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 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 354 370
Rank change year-on-year -42 +16 +58
Contract jobs citing ISEB 16 4 21
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.090% 0.032% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.32% 0.12% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 18
10th Percentile £369 £416 £181
25th Percentile £425 £441 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £538
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -9.30% +1.61%
75th Percentile £638 £541 £599
90th Percentile £708 £569 £730
England median daily rate £550 £410 £460
% change year-on-year +34.15% -10.86% -3.16%

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 5,019 3,204 4,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.27% 25.67% 23.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,579 2,162 2,858
10th Percentile £363 £356 £325
25th Percentile £443 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £650
90th Percentile £738 £759 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 57 109
10th Percentile £19.54 £16.78 £14.21
25th Percentile £25.77 £22.27 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.00 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.76% +16.28% -47.37%
75th Percentile £76.58 £56.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £72.61 £66.35
England median hourly rate £48.05 £40.84 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.65% +2.10% -23.81%

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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 12 May 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 12 May 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
South London - 1 £363 -
Central London - 1 £625 - 1
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 5 (31.25%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) NUnit
2 1 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (56.25%) Finance
3 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Banking
4 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
5 2 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Local Government
6 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Analyst
2 8 (50.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Integration Tester
3 3 (18.75%) Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Asset Management Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Asset Management Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Officer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Programme Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Programme Test Manager
4 1 (6.25%) QA Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Test Leader
4 1 (6.25%) Test Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) ADO
1 1 (6.25%) ebXML
1 1 (6.25%) Playwright
1 1 (6.25%) REST
1 1 (6.25%) SOAP
1 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Agile
2 11 (68.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (50.00%) SDLC
3 8 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 7 (43.75%) Acceptance Criteria
4 7 (43.75%) Software Testing
4 7 (43.75%) User Stories
5 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
5 6 (37.50%) Scrum
6 5 (31.25%) Business Analysis
6 5 (31.25%) DevOps
7 4 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
7 4 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
7 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 4 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
7 4 (25.00%) Sprint Review
7 4 (25.00%) Wireframes
7 4 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) C#
2 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) ISTQB
2 7 (43.75%) IIBA
3 6 (37.50%) Degree
4 5 (31.25%) CBAP
5 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 3 (18.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) ISO 15022
2 2 (12.50%) ISO 20022
3 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Citrix
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) TOWER Software