CISA Contract Job Trends

ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CISA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 469 465
Rank change year-on-year -130 -4 +16
Contract jobs citing CISA 76 84 98
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.25% 0.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.45% 0.81% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 55 67
10th Percentile £450 £408 £360
25th Percentile £500 £425 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £713
90th Percentile £825 £823 £809
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +7.39% -3.50% +2.88%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 16,873 10,329 11,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.32% 31.32% 29.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,283 6,375 7,338
10th Percentile £350 £289 £313
25th Percentile £434 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £716 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,271 827 798
10th Percentile £17.42 £17.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £25.77 £19.23 £21.25
Median hourly rate £49.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.83% -41.51% -21.82%
75th Percentile £72.54 £53.63 £65.75
90th Percentile £87.96 £73.75 £75.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.77 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +89.94% -47.05% -8.46%

CISA
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CISA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

CISA job vacancy trend in the UK

CISA
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CISA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CISA

CISA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CISA over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CISA in the UK

CISA
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CISA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CISA

CISA
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CISA within the UK over the 6 months to 23 August 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
England -136 65 £575 +4.55% 48
London -90 42 £600 +4.35% 19
Work from Home -44 35 £550 +7.32% 30
UK excluding London -114 23 £518 +7.39% 35
North of England -52 11 £501 +9.43% 9
North West -39 6 £490 +7.10% 2
Yorkshire -36 4 £625 +4.17% 5
South West -45 4 £488 -32.76% 12
South East -68 4 £600 +45.45% 11
Scotland -16 2 £460 +5.75%
East Midlands -16 2 £575 +23.66%
Midlands -54 2 £575 +9.52% 1
North East - 1 £450 - 2

CISA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 23 (30.26%) Azure
2 17 (22.37%) AWS
3 7 (9.21%) GCP
4 3 (3.95%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.63%) Akamai
5 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.63%) SaaS
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.32%) Datadog
6 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.32%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) Firewall
2 1 (1.32%) Internet
2 1 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.95%) Db2
1 3 (3.95%) Power BI
2 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Burp Suite
1 2 (2.63%) JIRA
1 2 (2.63%) Snyk
2 1 (1.32%) tSQLt
General
1 27 (35.53%) Social Skills
2 26 (34.21%) Finance
3 17 (22.37%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (14.47%) Legal
5 8 (10.53%) Banking
5 8 (10.53%) Financial Institution
6 7 (9.21%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.95%) Police
9 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.63%) Retail
10 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.32%) Back Office
10 1 (1.32%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (28.95%) Architect
2 16 (21.05%) Security Architect
3 15 (19.74%) Senior
4 11 (14.47%) Analyst
4 11 (14.47%) Consultant
5 10 (13.16%) IT Manager
6 8 (10.53%) Audit Manager
6 8 (10.53%) IT Audit Manager
6 8 (10.53%) Senior Manager
7 7 (9.21%) Senior Audit Manager
7 7 (9.21%) Senior IT Audit Manager
7 7 (9.21%) Senior IT Manager
8 6 (7.89%) Information Architect
8 6 (7.89%) Information Security Architect
8 6 (7.89%) Risk Analyst
8 6 (7.89%) Security Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Lead
9 5 (6.58%) Security Technical Architect
9 5 (6.58%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (6.58%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.32%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (1.32%) LDAP
1 1 (1.32%) SailPoint
1 1 (1.32%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.89%) Management Information System
1 6 (7.89%) Operational Technology
2 5 (6.58%) Mainframe
2 5 (6.58%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 5 (6.58%) Virtual Team
3 3 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.63%) CESG
4 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.63%) PMI
4 2 (2.63%) SCADA
4 2 (2.63%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.32%) Clustering
5 1 (1.32%) CMDB
5 1 (1.32%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.32%) PKI
5 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.26%) Windows
2 2 (2.63%) Linux
3 1 (1.32%) Alpine Linux
3 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.32%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.32%) Unix
3 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (47.37%) Risk Management
2 31 (40.79%) Cybersecurity
3 29 (38.16%) Information Security
4 21 (27.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (23.68%) Computer Science
6 17 (22.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 16 (21.05%) Risk Assessment
8 15 (19.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (18.42%) IT Audit
9 14 (18.42%) Security Architecture
10 12 (15.79%) Internal Audit
11 11 (14.47%) Analytics
11 11 (14.47%) Cloud Security
11 11 (14.47%) Decision-Making
11 11 (14.47%) Regulatory Compliance
12 10 (13.16%) Remediation Plan
12 10 (13.16%) Threat Modelling
12 10 (13.16%) Vulnerability Management
13 8 (10.53%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.95%) PowerShell
1 3 (3.95%) Python
2 2 (2.63%) SQL
3 1 (1.32%) Bash
3 1 (1.32%) Bicep
3 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (76.32%) CISSP
2 36 (47.37%) CISM
3 30 (39.47%) Degree
4 28 (36.84%) CRISC
5 18 (23.68%) Security Cleared
6 17 (22.37%) SC Cleared
7 15 (19.74%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (17.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 12 (15.79%) CEH
10 8 (10.53%) GIAC
10 8 (10.53%) OSCP
11 6 (7.89%) CCSP
11 6 (7.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 6 (7.89%) SANS
12 5 (6.58%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (6.58%) PMI Certification
13 4 (5.26%) GPEN
14 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
14 3 (3.95%) CISMP
14 3 (3.95%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (48.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (43.42%) NIST
3 22 (28.95%) GRC
4 12 (15.79%) GDPR
5 7 (9.21%) NCSC
5 7 (9.21%) PCI DSS
6 5 (6.58%) COBIT
6 5 (6.58%) ITGC
6 5 (6.58%) NIST 800
6 5 (6.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (6.58%) SEPA
7 4 (5.26%) HIPAA
8 3 (3.95%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (2.63%) PMO
9 2 (2.63%) SOC 2
10 1 (1.32%) EU AI Act
10 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 1 (1.32%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.32%) BitLocker
1 1 (1.32%) Docker
1 1 (1.32%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (2.63%) CASB
2 1 (1.32%) Ansible
2 1 (1.32%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (3.95%) Qualys
3 3 (3.95%) SAP
4 2 (2.63%) Google
4 2 (2.63%) IBM
4 2 (2.63%) Oracle
4 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.63%) Splunk
5 1 (1.32%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (1.32%) BMC
5 1 (1.32%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.32%) Okta
5 1 (1.32%) Planview
5 1 (1.32%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.32%) Tenable
5 1 (1.32%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.32%) Zscaler