ISMS Contracts in the North West

Information Security Management System (ISMS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring ISMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISMS over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 136 146
Rank change year-on-year +13 +10 +35
Contract jobs citing ISMS 2 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.098% 0.072% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.086% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £502 £376
25th Percentile - £526 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £790 £570 £418
Median % change year-on-year +38.60% +36.53% -16.50%
75th Percentile - £611 £438
90th Percentile - £635 £445
England median daily rate £675 £490 £625
% change year-on-year +37.76% -21.60% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,810 2,328 2,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.73% 84.23% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,201 1,423 1,899
10th Percentile £300 £305 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £565 £585 £588
90th Percentile £665 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 263 149
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £15.95
25th Percentile £19.13 £14.18 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.76 £28.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% -8.32% +29.71%
75th Percentile £61.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.61 £62.19
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.34
% change year-on-year -34.02% +2.09% +45.40%

ISMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing ISMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for ISMS in the North West

ISMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISMS in the North West.

Daily rate trend for ISMS in the North West

ISMS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISMS within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 June 2025. 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
Manchester +14 1 £790 +61.22% 7
Merseyside +4 1 - - 1
ISMS
England

ISMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Information Assurance Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Information Assurance Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) COBIT
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Siemens