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 11 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 482 458
Rank change year-on-year -110 -24 +38
Contract jobs citing CISA 79 84 108
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.26% 0.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.47% 0.82% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 54 69
10th Percentile £451 £407 £380
25th Percentile £500 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £738
90th Percentile £810 £826 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.26% - +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 16,739 10,272 11,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.34% 31.20% 29.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,202 6,341 7,402
10th Percentile £350 £290 £313
25th Percentile £431 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £716 £703 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,264 805 852
10th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £15.10
25th Percentile £25.77 £19.23 £21.25
Median hourly rate £51.25 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +103.78% -41.51% -21.82%
75th Percentile £73.53 £53.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £73.75 £77.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +98.81% -47.05% -7.77%

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 11 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 11 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 -122 68 £575 +9.00% 95
London -79 47 £600 +4.35% 62
Work from Home -49 35 £563 +12.50% 42
UK excluding London -110 21 £511 +2.26% 42
North of England -70 9 £490 +7.10% 12
South West -41 4 £488 -32.76% 8
Yorkshire -42 4 £625 +4.17% 4
South East -74 4 £600 +33.33% 14
North West -38 3 £490 +7.10% 6
East Midlands -11 2 £575 +23.66%
Scotland -15 2 £460 +5.75% 3
Midlands -63 2 £575 +9.52% 4
North East - 2 £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 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (27.85%) Azure
2 16 (20.25%) AWS
3 6 (7.59%) GCP
4 3 (3.80%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.80%) SaaS
5 2 (2.53%) Akamai
5 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.27%) Datadog
6 1 (1.27%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.27%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) Firewall
2 1 (1.27%) Internet
2 1 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.80%) Db2
1 3 (3.80%) Power BI
2 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Burp Suite
1 2 (2.53%) JIRA
1 2 (2.53%) Snyk
2 1 (1.27%) tSQLt
General
1 27 (34.18%) Finance
1 27 (34.18%) Social Skills
2 21 (26.58%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.92%) Legal
4 9 (11.39%) Banking
5 8 (10.13%) Financial Institution
6 6 (7.59%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (7.59%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.80%) Police
8 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.53%) Retail
9 1 (1.27%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.27%) Back Office
9 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Front Office
9 1 (1.27%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.27%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (26.58%) Architect
2 15 (18.99%) Security Architect
2 15 (18.99%) Senior
3 12 (15.19%) Analyst
4 11 (13.92%) Consultant
5 10 (12.66%) IT Manager
6 8 (10.13%) Audit Manager
6 8 (10.13%) IT Audit Manager
6 8 (10.13%) Senior Manager
7 7 (8.86%) Senior Audit Manager
7 7 (8.86%) Senior IT Audit Manager
7 7 (8.86%) Senior IT Manager
8 6 (7.59%) Information Architect
8 6 (7.59%) Information Security Architect
8 6 (7.59%) Risk Analyst
8 6 (7.59%) Security Engineer
9 5 (6.33%) Security Consultant
9 5 (6.33%) Security Technical Architect
9 5 (6.33%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (6.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.27%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (1.27%) LDAP
1 1 (1.27%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.86%) Management Information System
1 7 (8.86%) Operational Technology
2 5 (6.33%) Mainframe
2 5 (6.33%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 5 (6.33%) Virtual Team
3 3 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.80%) SCADA
3 3 (3.80%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.53%) CESG
4 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.53%) PMI
5 1 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.27%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.27%) PKI
5 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.33%) Windows
2 2 (2.53%) Linux
3 1 (1.27%) Alpine Linux
3 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.27%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.27%) Unix
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (45.57%) Risk Management
2 33 (41.77%) Cybersecurity
3 31 (39.24%) Information Security
4 22 (27.85%) Computer Science
5 21 (26.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (24.05%) Risk Assessment
7 18 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (21.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 15 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (18.99%) Regulatory Compliance
10 13 (16.46%) Internal Audit
10 13 (16.46%) IT Audit
10 13 (16.46%) Security Architecture
10 13 (16.46%) Vulnerability Management
11 12 (15.19%) Decision-Making
12 11 (13.92%) Analytics
12 11 (13.92%) Cloud Security
13 10 (12.66%) Data Protection
13 10 (12.66%) Remediation Plan
14 9 (11.39%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.80%) PowerShell
1 3 (3.80%) Python
2 2 (2.53%) SQL
3 1 (1.27%) Bash
3 1 (1.27%) Bicep
3 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (77.22%) CISSP
2 37 (46.84%) Degree
3 35 (44.30%) CISM
4 25 (31.65%) CRISC
5 18 (22.78%) Security Cleared
6 17 (21.52%) SC Cleared
7 14 (17.72%) CEH
7 14 (17.72%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (15.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 10 (12.66%) GIAC
10 8 (10.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 8 (10.13%) OSCP
11 6 (7.59%) CCSP
11 6 (7.59%) CompTIA Security+
11 6 (7.59%) Master's Degree
11 6 (7.59%) SANS
12 5 (6.33%) GPEN
12 5 (6.33%) PMI Certification
13 3 (3.80%) AWS Certification
13 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (46.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (43.04%) NIST
3 22 (27.85%) GRC
4 15 (18.99%) GDPR
5 10 (12.66%) PCI DSS
6 7 (8.86%) NCSC
7 6 (7.59%) COBIT
7 6 (7.59%) ITGC
7 6 (7.59%) NIST 800
7 6 (7.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (6.33%) PMO
8 5 (6.33%) SEPA
9 4 (5.06%) HIPAA
9 4 (5.06%) SOC 2
10 3 (3.80%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (2.53%) ISO 31000
11 2 (2.53%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.27%) BitLocker
1 1 (1.27%) Docker
1 1 (1.27%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (1.27%) Ansible
1 1 (1.27%) CASB
1 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.27%) SCCM
1 1 (1.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.06%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (3.80%) Qualys
3 3 (3.80%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.53%) Google
4 2 (2.53%) IBM
4 2 (2.53%) Oracle
4 2 (2.53%) Splunk
5 1 (1.27%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (1.27%) BMC
5 1 (1.27%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.27%) Okta
5 1 (1.27%) Planview
5 1 (1.27%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.27%) SAP
5 1 (1.27%) Tenable
5 1 (1.27%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.27%) Zscaler