CISM Contracts in Reading

ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for CISM qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 83 73
Rank change year-on-year +42 -10 +15
Contract jobs citing CISM 19 8 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.18% 0.67% 1.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.44% 1.52% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 5
10th Percentile - £88 £536
25th Percentile £613 £157 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £294 £675
Median % change year-on-year +112.40% -56.41% +18.42%
75th Percentile £647 £425 £738
90th Percentile £650 £490 £762
Berkshire median daily rate £625 £525 £615
% change year-on-year +19.05% -14.63% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £74.08
25th Percentile - - £74.20
Median hourly rate - - £74.40
75th Percentile - - £74.59
90th Percentile - - £74.71
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 - £74.00

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 182 528 332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 30.49% 44.30% 31.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 271 211
10th Percentile £394 £205 £363
25th Percentile £481 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +5.26% +14.00%
75th Percentile £700 £663 £680
90th Percentile - £716 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.91% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 44 15
10th Percentile - £44.10 £56.76
25th Percentile - £55.41 £63.14
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.07 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.77% -5.95% +560.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £86.10 £76.99
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.53 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £66.87 £61.60 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.56% -5.23% +208.79%

CISM
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for CISM in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for CISM in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
3 2 (10.53%) SaaS
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Network Security
1 3 (15.79%) NGFW
1 3 (15.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) NonStop SQL
General
1 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Retail
2 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Senior
2 10 (52.63%) Security Specialist
2 10 (52.63%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 10 (52.63%) Senior Security Specialist
3 9 (47.37%) Information Security Specialist
3 9 (47.37%) Information Specialist
3 9 (47.37%) Senior Information Security Specialist
4 5 (26.32%) Security Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Architect
5 3 (15.79%) Security Architect
5 3 (15.79%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Information Assurance Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Risk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Web Services
2 3 (15.79%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
1 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Information Security
2 10 (52.63%) Security Architecture
3 9 (47.37%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 8 (42.11%) Threat Modelling
5 5 (26.32%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (26.32%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (26.32%) SOA
5 5 (26.32%) Validation
6 3 (15.79%) Application Security
6 3 (15.79%) Data Security
6 3 (15.79%) Microservices
6 3 (15.79%) Network Load Balancing
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Risk Management
6 3 (15.79%) SIEM
6 3 (15.79%) TOGAF
7 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
7 2 (10.53%) Migration
7 2 (10.53%) RBAC
7 2 (10.53%) Risk Assessment
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 10 (52.63%) CISSP
3 8 (42.11%) DV Cleared
4 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
5 2 (10.53%) Degree
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
6 1 (5.26%) CEH
6 1 (5.26%) CISA
6 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (57.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) JSP 440
2 1 (5.26%) NCSC
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) VMware