Chief Information Security Officer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £900, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 380 432
Rank change year-on-year +18 +52 +90
Contract jobs requiring a Chief Information Security Officer 2 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.013% 0.010% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.011% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £686 £733
25th Percentile £850 £722 £781
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £888 £875
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% +1.43% -
75th Percentile £950 £1,147 £981
90th Percentile - £1,239 £1,038
UK median daily rate £900 £888 £950
% change year-on-year +1.41% -6.58% +8.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,527 18,336 21,809
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.58% 92.22% 94.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,321 11,167 14,885
10th Percentile £215 £215 £232
25th Percentile £363 £375 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.02% -0.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,154 2,085 1,195
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.64 £16.58 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.85% +4.53% +90.48%
75th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.30
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -37.13% -8.57% +70.37%

Chief Information Security Officer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Chief Information Security Officer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Chief Information Security Officer in the UK excluding London

Chief Information Security Officer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Chief Information Security Officer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Chief Information Security Officer in the UK excluding London

Chief Information Security Officer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chief Information Security Officer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 July 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
South East +35 1 £900 -18.18% 2
North of England - 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Chief Information Security Officer
UK

Chief Information Security Officer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 22 July 2025, Chief Information Security Officer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Chief Information Security Officer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills

Chief Information Security Officer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) SOC 2