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 20 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 45 50
Rank change year-on-year -20 +5 -
Contract jobs citing CISM 35 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 3.54% 0.31% 0.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.84% 1.39% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 1 2
10th Percentile £482 - -
25th Percentile £491 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 - £588
90th Percentile £684 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £537 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -17.38% +13.04% +48.39%

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 221 72 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 22.32% 22.02% 19.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 46 41
10th Percentile £398 £209 £390
25th Percentile £450 £220 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £516 £600
90th Percentile £700 £644 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -20 35 £537 -10.50%
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 21 (60.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (8.57%) Azure
3 2 (5.71%) AWS
4 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.86%) GCP
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) Kerberos
2 3 (8.57%) SSL
3 2 (5.71%) Network Security
3 2 (5.71%) SSH
4 1 (2.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (60.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (37.14%) Finance
2 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
3 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (51.43%) Architect
2 14 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 13 (37.14%) Security Architect
4 10 (28.57%) Security Solutions Architect
5 8 (22.86%) Lead
5 8 (22.86%) Lead Architect
6 7 (20.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 6 (17.14%) Lead Security Architect
8 4 (11.43%) Design Engineer
9 3 (8.57%) CyberArk Architect
9 3 (8.57%) Designer
9 3 (8.57%) Solutions Designer
10 2 (5.71%) Build Engineer
10 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 2 (5.71%) IT Security Officer
10 2 (5.71%) Network Designer
10 2 (5.71%) Security Designer
10 2 (5.71%) Security Engineer
10 2 (5.71%) Security Officer
11 1 (2.86%) Technical Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) OAuth
1 6 (17.14%) SAML
2 1 (2.86%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.86%) Flask
2 1 (2.86%) LDAP
2 1 (2.86%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.86%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Cloud Native
2 7 (20.00%) PKI
3 5 (14.29%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.71%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.86%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
1 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.86%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (65.71%) Identity Access Management
3 20 (57.14%) UML
4 18 (51.43%) Incident Response
5 17 (48.57%) Decision-Making
6 16 (45.71%) Computer Science
6 16 (45.71%) SABSA
6 16 (45.71%) Technical Debt
6 16 (45.71%) TOGAF
6 16 (45.71%) Visualisation
7 15 (42.86%) Privileged Access Management
7 15 (42.86%) Secrets Management
7 15 (42.86%) Software Engineering
8 14 (40.00%) Cryptography
8 14 (40.00%) Security Operations
9 13 (37.14%) Architectural Patterns
9 13 (37.14%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
9 13 (37.14%) Vulnerability Management
10 12 (34.29%) Thought Leadership
11 11 (31.43%) Dependency Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) Bash
2 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (100.00%) CISSP
2 16 (45.71%) Degree
2 16 (45.71%) TOGAF Certification
3 12 (34.29%) Master's Degree
4 10 (28.57%) PhD
5 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.86%) CCSK
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.86%) SAP Certification
6 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) GDPR
2 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.57%) NIST
2 3 (8.57%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Kubernetes
2 6 (17.14%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (11.43%) Ansible
3 4 (11.43%) Terraform
4 2 (5.71%) Grafana
4 2 (5.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (57.14%) BiZZdesign
2 15 (42.86%) CyberArk
3 14 (40.00%) Centrify
4 6 (17.14%) Thycotic
5 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.71%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.86%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.86%) Databricks
7 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.86%) SAP