CISM Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire with a requirement for CISM qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 60 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing CISM 30 11 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.68% 1.72% -
As % of the Qualifications category 15.38% 11.46% -
Number of daily rates quoted 27 9 0
10th Percentile £439 £333 -
25th Percentile £520 £361 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% - -
75th Percentile £688 £530 -
90th Percentile £693 £570 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £663 £460 £525
% change year-on-year +44.02% -12.38% -16.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 195 96 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 17.44% 15.05% 17.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 74 51
10th Percentile £407 £314 £208
25th Percentile £463 £346 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £609 £550 £595
90th Percentile £688 £668 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £476 £495
% change year-on-year +5.04% -3.84% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 1
10th Percentile £21.33 £14.32 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £15.01 £11.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £16.18 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.32% +19.81% -55.74%
75th Percentile - £17.34 £15.25
90th Percentile - £18.04 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +2.47% -37.13% +40.89%

CISM
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

CISM job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

CISM
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing CISM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing CISM

CISM
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISM in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CISM in South Yorkshire

CISM
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Sheffield -10 30 £675 +50.00% 6
CISM
Yorkshire

CISM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (66.67%) AWS
1 20 (66.67%) GCP
2 7 (23.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 19 (63.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Claude Code
General
1 23 (76.67%) Finance
2 20 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Financial Institution
4 3 (10.00%) Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (73.33%) Consultant
2 17 (56.67%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 5 (16.67%) Security Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Risk Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Designer
6 1 (3.33%) DevOps Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Lead
6 1 (3.33%) Operations Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Security Designer
6 1 (3.33%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 11 (36.67%) Security Posture
2 3 (10.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.67%) Operational Technology
3 2 (6.67%) SCADA
3 2 (6.67%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.33%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 23 (76.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 21 (70.00%) Application Security
3 21 (70.00%) DevSecOps
4 20 (66.67%) Cloud Security
5 19 (63.33%) CI/CD
5 19 (63.33%) SBOM
5 19 (63.33%) Threat Modelling
6 17 (56.67%) GAP Analysis
6 17 (56.67%) Roadmaps
7 16 (53.33%) Software Delivery
8 15 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
9 12 (40.00%) Risk Management
10 11 (36.67%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (36.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 10 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (23.33%) Cryptography
13 6 (20.00%) Computer Science
14 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
14 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 25 (83.33%) CISSP
2 19 (63.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 19 (63.33%) CCSP
2 19 (63.33%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (20.00%) CCSK
3 6 (20.00%) CRISC
3 6 (20.00%) Degree
4 5 (16.67%) CISA
5 1 (3.33%) CEH
5 1 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) NIST
2 2 (6.67%) ISA99
2 2 (6.67%) NIST 800
3 1 (3.33%) EU AI Act
3 1 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) GRC
3 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 18 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (3.33%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (3.33%) Google
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft