ISMS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Information Security Management System (ISMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ISMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISMS over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 368 403
Rank change year-on-year +42 +35 +52
Contract jobs citing ISMS 13 31 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 23 23
10th Percentile £268 £165 £475
25th Percentile £393 £474 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £591 £703
90th Percentile £769 £608 £800
UK median daily rate £425 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -26.09% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £71.76
25th Percentile - - £72.60
Median hourly rate - - £74.00
75th Percentile - - £74.40
90th Percentile - - £74.63
UK median hourly rate - - £74.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

ISMS falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

ISMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ISMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ISMS in the UK excluding London

ISMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISMS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ISMS in the UK excluding London

ISMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISMS in the UK excluding London

ISMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISMS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for ISMS in the UK excluding London

ISMS
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 ISMS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +21 6 - - 11
North East - 5 - - 3
South East +41 2 £190 +11.76% 27
Midlands +19 2 £800 +39.13% 11
West Midlands +15 2 £800 +39.13% 6
South West - 2 £625 - 10
North West +9 1 - - 5
Scotland 0 1 £475 -20.17% 10
ISMS
UK

ISMS
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) 5G
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (38.46%) Organisational Skills
1 5 (38.46%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
4 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Security Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) IT Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) IT Security Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Security Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Contracts Manager
5 1 (7.69%) IT Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Security Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Security Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Security Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (38.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
4 2 (15.38%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (15.38%) Operational Technology
5 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
5 1 (7.69%) SCADA
5 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Security Management
2 9 (69.23%) Information Security
2 9 (69.23%) Information Security Management
3 7 (53.85%) Data Protection
4 5 (38.46%) Zero Trust
5 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
7 2 (15.38%) Change Management
7 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (15.38%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
7 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
8 1 (7.69%) Customer Engagement
8 1 (7.69%) Data Privacy
8 1 (7.69%) Data Security
8 1 (7.69%) ITSM
8 1 (7.69%) SABSA
8 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (7.69%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) CISSP
2 3 (23.08%) CISA
2 3 (23.08%) CISM
2 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) Degree
4 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (7.69%) CEH
4 1 (7.69%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (7.69%) CRISC
4 1 (7.69%) ISACA
4 1 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (7.69%) SANS
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (84.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (15.38%) NIST
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) GRC
3 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (7.69%) NIST 800
3 1 (7.69%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) CASB
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (38.46%) Fortinet
2 5 (38.46%) HP
2 5 (38.46%) Veeam
2 5 (38.46%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Forcepoint
3 1 (7.69%) Siemens