CISA Contracts in the Thames Valley

ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for CISA 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 97 134 141
Rank change year-on-year +37 +7 +8
Contract jobs citing CISA 5 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 0.41% 0.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.91% 1.00% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile £295 £134 £481
25th Percentile £427 £272 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £500 £630
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -20.67% +7.28%
75th Percentile £646 £556 £748
90th Percentile £649 £560 £766
South East median daily rate £525 £488 £711
% change year-on-year +7.69% -31.39% +13.68%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

CISA 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 547 1,103 1,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.20% 41.06% 34.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 588 696
10th Percentile £313 £213 £319
25th Percentile £436 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £690
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 107 45
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.30 £20.10
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £61.50 £58.30 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% -9.86% +207.61%
75th Percentile £71.38 £70.44 £74.79
90th Percentile £87.46 £87.18 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing CISA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for CISA in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CISA in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for CISA in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISA in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CISA in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CISA within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +27 5 £565 +42.27%
CISA
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Audit Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Information Assurance Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Information Assurance Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Information Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) SOC Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) PMI
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM
1 3 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CISSP
2 4 (80.00%) CISM
3 3 (60.00%) CEH
4 2 (40.00%) Degree
5 1 (20.00%) CCNA
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (20.00%) GCIA
5 1 (20.00%) GCIH
5 1 (20.00%) GIAC
5 1 (20.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (20.00%) PgMP
5 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
5 1 (20.00%) PMP
5 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (20.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
2 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (40.00%) GDPR
3 2 (40.00%) NIST 800
3 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (20.00%) JSP 440
4 1 (20.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk