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 30 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 449 465
Rank change year-on-year -132 +16 +41
Contract jobs citing CISA 67 75 123
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.43% 0.84% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 46 84
10th Percentile £438 £337 £421
25th Percentile £460 £453 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £614 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.41% +2.29% -4.00%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £738
90th Percentile £825 £731 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -12.89% +2.27% +13.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £121.77 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £121.77 - -

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 15,536 8,953 12,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.61% 31.01% 29.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 5,630 8,009
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -1.89% -3.64%
75th Percentile £620 £618 £645
90th Percentile £714 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,131 521 1,093
10th Percentile £16.35 £17.80 £13.85
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £47.54 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.28% -18.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £71.50 £65.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £85.25 £77.50 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £32.03 £40.94
% change year-on-year +48.32% -21.78% -22.02%

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 30 May 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 11 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 30 May 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 -131 63 £550 -12.00% 47
London -67 41 £580 -10.77% 27
Work from Home -66 22 £525 +2.44% 17
UK excluding London -105 16 £490 -12.89% 30
North of England - 6 £450 - 8
South West -37 5 £500 -25.93% 2
South East -70 3 £900 +71.43% 11
North East - 3 £450 -
North West - 3 £490 - 7
East Midlands -23 2 £575 - 2
Midlands -67 2 £575 -4.17% 3

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 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (23.88%) Azure
2 12 (17.91%) AWS
3 5 (7.46%) GCP
4 2 (2.99%) SaaS
5 1 (1.49%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.49%) Datadog
5 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) Firewall
2 1 (1.49%) Internet
2 1 (1.49%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.48%) DB2
2 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.49%) Power BI
2 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
General
1 26 (38.81%) Social Skills
2 24 (35.82%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (16.42%) Finance
4 9 (13.43%) Banking
5 4 (5.97%) Legal
5 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.48%) Marketing
6 3 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Police
7 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Back Office
8 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.49%) Front Office
8 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (28.36%) Analyst
2 17 (25.37%) Architect
3 12 (17.91%) Security Architect
4 11 (16.42%) Risk Analyst
5 8 (11.94%) IT Analyst
6 6 (8.96%) Consultant
6 6 (8.96%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 6 (8.96%) Information Architect
6 6 (8.96%) Information Security Architect
6 6 (8.96%) IT Risk Analyst
6 6 (8.96%) Security Analyst
7 5 (7.46%) IT Manager
7 5 (7.46%) Lead
7 5 (7.46%) Security Specialist
7 5 (7.46%) Security Technical Architect
7 5 (7.46%) Senior
7 5 (7.46%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (7.46%) Technical Architect
8 4 (5.97%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.97%) SOX Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.49%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (1.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Management Information System
2 9 (13.43%) Operational Technology
3 6 (8.96%) Onboarding
4 5 (7.46%) Mainframe
4 5 (7.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (5.97%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (5.97%) Robotics
6 3 (4.48%) Security Posture
6 3 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.99%) PMI
7 2 (2.99%) SCADA
8 1 (1.49%) Clustering
8 1 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.49%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.49%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.49%) PKI
8 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.46%) Windows
2 1 (1.49%) Alpine Linux
2 1 (1.49%) Linux
2 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.49%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.49%) Unix
2 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (52.24%) Information Security
2 33 (49.25%) Cybersecurity
3 27 (40.30%) Risk Management
4 21 (31.34%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (28.36%) Computer Science
5 19 (28.36%) Risk Assessment
6 16 (23.88%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (20.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (16.42%) AI
9 11 (16.42%) Cloud Security
9 11 (16.42%) Vulnerability Management
10 10 (14.93%) Decision-Making
10 10 (14.93%) Regulatory Compliance
11 9 (13.43%) Agile
11 9 (13.43%) Risk Register
11 9 (13.43%) Security Management
12 8 (11.94%) Change Management
13 7 (10.45%) IT Audit
13 7 (10.45%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.99%) Python
3 1 (1.49%) Bash
3 1 (1.49%) Bicep
3 1 (1.49%) SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (77.61%) CISSP
2 33 (49.25%) CISM
3 28 (41.79%) Degree
4 19 (28.36%) CRISC
5 16 (23.88%) Security Cleared
6 14 (20.90%) SC Cleared
7 11 (16.42%) CEH
8 7 (10.45%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (10.45%) GIAC
8 7 (10.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 7 (10.45%) Master's Degree
8 7 (10.45%) SANS
9 6 (8.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (7.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 5 (7.46%) OSCP
11 4 (5.97%) CCSP
11 4 (5.97%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (5.97%) PMI Certification
12 3 (4.48%) CSSLP
12 3 (4.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (55.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (49.25%) NIST
3 26 (38.81%) GRC
4 12 (17.91%) COBIT
5 11 (16.42%) GDPR
5 11 (16.42%) PCI DSS
6 7 (10.45%) NCSC
6 7 (10.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (8.96%) NIST 800
8 5 (7.46%) ITGC
8 5 (7.46%) PMO
8 5 (7.46%) SEPA
8 5 (7.46%) SOC 2
9 4 (5.97%) SLA
10 3 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (2.99%) HIPAA
11 2 (2.99%) ISO 31000
12 1 (1.49%) EU AI Act
12 1 (1.49%) ISA99
12 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 1 (1.49%) Docker
1 1 (1.49%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (1.49%) Ansible
1 1 (1.49%) CASB
1 1 (1.49%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (7.46%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.97%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.99%) Google
3 2 (2.99%) IBM
3 2 (2.99%) Splunk
4 1 (1.49%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.49%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.49%) Okta
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle
4 1 (1.49%) Qualys
4 1 (1.49%) Rapid7
4 1 (1.49%) Tenable
4 1 (1.49%) TOWER Software