CISM Contract Job Trends in the North East

ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
England > North East

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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 37 37
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 -
Contract jobs citing CISM 1 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.19% 0.93% 0.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.52% 2.19% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £505
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.06% +1.71% -
75th Percentile - £586 £538
90th Percentile - £617 £545
England median daily rate £570 £625 £606
% change year-on-year -8.80% +3.09% -6.73%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 194 137 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 37.16% 42.68% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 95 38
10th Percentile £306 £200 £188
25th Percentile £400 £328 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -8.57% -7.08%
75th Percentile £544 £588 £634
90th Percentile £600 £650 £671
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 5 18
10th Percentile £51.25 - £12.61
25th Percentile £57.50 £11.60 £13.99
Median hourly rate £67.50 £18.75 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +260.00% -9.73% -63.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £19.38 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £37.00 £53.00
England median hourly rate £37.92 £50.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.17% +33.33% -27.90%

CISM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

CISM job vacancy trend in the North East

CISM
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing CISM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing CISM

CISM
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CISM within the North East region over the 6 months to 6 April 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
Tyne and Wear -21 1 £545 +2.06% 1
CISM
England

CISM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Zachman Framework
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISA
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes