CISM Contracts in Manchester

ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for CISM qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 80 99
Rank change year-on-year +4 +19 +18
Contract jobs citing CISM 4 16 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.41% 1.14% 0.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.52% 5.10% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 7
10th Percentile £669 - £492
25th Percentile £697 £425 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £488 £650
Median % change year-on-year +51.28% -25.00% -10.34%
75th Percentile £779 £675 -
90th Percentile £786 £816 £680
North West median daily rate £700 £605 £486
% change year-on-year +15.70% +24.49% -32.97%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 263 314 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 26.67% 22.32% 25.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 185 347
10th Percentile £316 £313 £376
25th Percentile £417 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -6.51% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £825 £703
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.31% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 29 15
10th Percentile £21.94 £20.37 £15.73
25th Percentile £22.51 £25.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +79.49% -30.97%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.88 £33.03
90th Percentile £70.38 £98.00 £48.00
North West median hourly rate £30.00 £17.78 £40.59
% change year-on-year +68.71% -56.19% +11.98%

CISM
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing CISM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for CISM in Manchester

CISM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CISM in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for CISM in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Information Assurance Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Information Assurance Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Licensing
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Software Licensing
3 1 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CRISC
2 1 (25.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (25.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) COBIT
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft