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 20 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 461 471
Rank change year-on-year -110 +10 +44
Contract jobs citing CISA 72 65 117
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.22% 0.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.45% 0.70% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 39 77
10th Percentile £450 £349 £413
25th Percentile £495 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £638
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -13.73% -1.92%
75th Percentile £622 £675 £738
90th Percentile £750 £738 £785
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -10.48% -4.55% +13.17%

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 15,844 9,241 13,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.28% 30.95% 29.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,572 5,751 8,089
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £425 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +1.40% -5.66% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,165 599 1,132
10th Percentile £17.24 £17.86 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £20.24 £19.23
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -25.47% -27.24%
75th Percentile £72.54 £63.13 £64.25
90th Percentile £85.25 £77.50 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £28.00 £42.25
% change year-on-year +78.57% -33.73% -19.52%

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 20 June 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 10 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 20 June 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 -91 68 £525 -12.86% 37
London -58 50 £580 -10.77% 18
Work from Home -41 28 £531 +11.84% 21
UK excluding London -120 13 £470 -10.48% 26
North of England - 6 £450 - 3
South West -30 5 £500 -25.93% 1
North East - 3 £450 - 1
North West - 3 £490 - 2
East Midlands -17 2 £575 - 2
Midlands -63 2 £575 +9.52% 6

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:

Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.00%) Azure
2 14 (19.44%) AWS
3 5 (6.94%) GCP
4 2 (2.78%) Akamai
4 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.78%) SaaS
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.39%) Datadog
5 1 (1.39%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) Firewall
2 1 (1.39%) Internet
2 1 (1.39%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.17%) Db2
2 2 (2.78%) Power BI
3 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Burp Suite
1 2 (2.78%) Snyk
2 1 (1.39%) JIRA
General
1 28 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 24 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (22.22%) Finance
4 10 (13.89%) Banking
5 7 (9.72%) Legal
6 4 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.17%) Marketing
7 3 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Police
8 2 (2.78%) Retail
9 1 (1.39%) Back Office
9 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Front Office
9 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (26.39%) Analyst
2 18 (25.00%) Architect
3 12 (16.67%) Security Architect
4 11 (15.28%) Risk Analyst
5 9 (12.50%) Senior
6 8 (11.11%) IT Analyst
6 8 (11.11%) IT Manager
7 6 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 6 (8.33%) Information Architect
7 6 (8.33%) Information Security Architect
7 6 (8.33%) IT Risk Analyst
7 6 (8.33%) Security Analyst
7 6 (8.33%) Security Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Audit Manager
8 5 (6.94%) Consultant
8 5 (6.94%) IT Audit Manager
8 5 (6.94%) Lead
8 5 (6.94%) Security Specialist
8 5 (6.94%) Security Technical Architect
8 5 (6.94%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.39%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (1.39%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Management Information System
2 9 (12.50%) Operational Technology
3 6 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.94%) Mainframe
4 5 (6.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (5.56%) Robotics
6 3 (4.17%) Security Posture
6 3 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.78%) PMI
7 2 (2.78%) SCADA
8 1 (1.39%) Clustering
8 1 (1.39%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.39%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.39%) PKI
8 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.39%) Alpine Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.39%) Unix
2 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (50.00%) Information Security
2 34 (47.22%) Cybersecurity
3 30 (41.67%) Risk Management
4 23 (31.94%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (31.94%) Risk Assessment
5 19 (26.39%) Computer Science
6 17 (23.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (23.61%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (19.44%) Regulatory Compliance
8 12 (16.67%) Agile
8 12 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
9 11 (15.28%) AI
9 11 (15.28%) Cloud Security
9 11 (15.28%) Decision-Making
9 11 (15.28%) Security Architecture
10 10 (13.89%) IT Audit
11 9 (12.50%) Internal Audit
11 9 (12.50%) Risk Register
11 9 (12.50%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
1 3 (4.17%) Python
2 1 (1.39%) Bash
2 1 (1.39%) Bicep
2 1 (1.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (77.78%) CISSP
2 34 (47.22%) CISM
3 31 (43.06%) Degree
4 24 (33.33%) CRISC
5 14 (19.44%) CEH
5 14 (19.44%) Security Cleared
6 13 (18.06%) SC Cleared
7 12 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (15.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 10 (13.89%) GIAC
10 8 (11.11%) OSCP
10 8 (11.11%) SANS
11 7 (9.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 7 (9.72%) Master's Degree
12 5 (6.94%) CCSP
12 5 (6.94%) GPEN
13 4 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 4 (5.56%) PMI Certification
14 3 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (52.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (47.22%) NIST
3 25 (34.72%) GRC
4 12 (16.67%) COBIT
5 11 (15.28%) GDPR
5 11 (15.28%) PCI DSS
6 7 (9.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (8.33%) NCSC
7 6 (8.33%) NIST 800
8 5 (6.94%) ITGC
8 5 (6.94%) PMO
8 5 (6.94%) SEPA
8 5 (6.94%) SOC 2
9 4 (5.56%) SLA
10 3 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (2.78%) HIPAA
11 2 (2.78%) ISO 31000
12 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) BitLocker
1 1 (1.39%) Docker
1 1 (1.39%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (1.39%) Ansible
1 1 (1.39%) CASB
1 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.39%) SCCM
1 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.17%) Qualys
4 2 (2.78%) Google
4 2 (2.78%) IBM
4 2 (2.78%) Splunk
5 1 (1.39%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (1.39%) BMC
5 1 (1.39%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.39%) Okta
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle
5 1 (1.39%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.39%) Tenable
5 1 (1.39%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.39%) Zscaler