CISM Contracts in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 114 180 172
Rank change year-on-year +66 -8 +39
Contract jobs citing CISM 45 25 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.50% 0.45% 0.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.68% 1.01% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 30
10th Percentile £513 £339 £475
25th Percentile £600 £494 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £533 £613
Median % change year-on-year +17.26% -12.98% +11.36%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £688 £908 £778
England median daily rate £625 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +5.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £71.76
25th Percentile £51.25 - £72.60
Median hourly rate £61.50 - £74.00
75th Percentile £62.24 - £74.40
90th Percentile - - £74.63
England median hourly rate £61.50 £83.41 £72.98
% change year-on-year -26.27% +14.29% +10.93%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,222 2,486 2,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 40.60% 44.73% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 1,412 1,432
10th Percentile £302 £313 £300
25th Percentile £438 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £623
90th Percentile £688 £735 £713
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 213 145
10th Percentile £20.00 £17.52 £21.40
25th Percentile £26.13 £27.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%
75th Percentile £70.63 £67.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £78.13 £85.41 £75.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing CISM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for CISM in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CISM in the South East.

Daily rate trend for CISM in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISM in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CISM in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CISM in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for CISM in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +58 34 £625 +17.26% 16
Berkshire +51 32 £625 +19.05% 9
Hampshire +28 6 £650 +20.93% 9
Surrey - 3 £450 - 4
East Sussex - 2 £700 - 2
Buckinghamshire +10 1 £620 -27.06% 6
Kent +7 1 £675 +26.76% 3
Oxfordshire - 1 £675 - 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (4.44%) TPMS
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.11%) Azure
2 6 (13.33%) AWS
2 6 (13.33%) GCP
3 5 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.44%) SaaS
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) Network Security
2 3 (6.67%) Firewall
2 3 (6.67%) NGFW
2 3 (6.67%) SSL
3 1 (2.22%) BGP
3 1 (2.22%) DNS
3 1 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.22%) LAN
3 1 (2.22%) Modbus
3 1 (2.22%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.22%) VPN
3 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) GitLab
1 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.22%) JIRA
1 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 11 (24.44%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (17.78%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.67%) Finance
5 3 (6.67%) Military
6 2 (4.44%) Aerospace
6 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.44%) Retail
7 1 (2.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (48.89%) Senior
2 18 (40.00%) Information Specialist
3 17 (37.78%) Security Specialist
4 16 (35.56%) Information Security Specialist
4 16 (35.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 16 (35.56%) Senior Security Specialist
5 15 (33.33%) Senior Information Security Specialist
6 7 (15.56%) Security Engineer
7 5 (11.11%) Architect
7 5 (11.11%) Security Architect
8 4 (8.89%) Senior Security Engineer
9 3 (6.67%) Information Assurance Specialist
10 2 (4.44%) Auditor
10 2 (4.44%) Consultant
10 2 (4.44%) Security Manager
10 2 (4.44%) Security Officer
11 1 (2.22%) Information Manager
11 1 (2.22%) Information Security Manager
11 1 (2.22%) Infrastructure Architect
11 1 (2.22%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) Web Services
2 3 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (24.44%) Management Information System
2 7 (15.56%) Security Posture
3 4 (8.89%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (6.67%) Operational Technology
5 2 (4.44%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (4.44%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (4.44%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.22%) PMI
6 1 (2.22%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Windows
1 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) Information Security
2 15 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 15 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 13 (28.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (28.89%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 12 (26.67%) Incident Response
5 11 (24.44%) Threat Modelling
5 11 (24.44%) Vulnerability Management
6 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
7 9 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (17.78%) SIEM
8 8 (17.78%) Validation
9 7 (15.56%) Information Assurance
10 6 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (13.33%) Decision-Making
10 6 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
10 6 (13.33%) SOA
11 5 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.44%) Python
2 1 (2.22%) Bash
2 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (66.67%) CISSP
2 19 (42.22%) Security Cleared
3 14 (31.11%) DV Cleared
4 10 (22.22%) Degree
5 9 (20.00%) CEH
6 7 (15.56%) CISA
7 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
8 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
8 3 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 3 (6.67%) Master's Degree
8 3 (6.67%) SSCP
9 2 (4.44%) GIAC
9 2 (4.44%) ISSEP
9 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (2.22%) CRISC
10 1 (2.22%) GCIA
10 1 (2.22%) GCIH
10 1 (2.22%) OSCP
10 1 (2.22%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (57.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (26.67%) NIST
3 5 (11.11%) GDPR
4 4 (8.89%) NCSC
4 4 (8.89%) PCI DSS
5 2 (4.44%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (4.44%) NIST 800
6 1 (2.22%) JSP 440
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (4.44%) Terraform
3 1 (2.22%) CSIRT
3 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Splunk
2 2 (4.44%) VMware
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle
3 1 (2.22%) Proofpoint
3 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow