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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 467 467
Rank change year-on-year -126 0 +20
Contract jobs citing CISA 74 85 98
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.26% 0.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.44% 0.83% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 56 67
10th Percentile £455 £409 £360
25th Percentile £500 £425 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £526 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -8.48% +9.52%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £819 £809
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.63% - +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 16,752 10,297 11,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.31% 31.36% 29.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,227 6,345 7,361
10th Percentile £350 £288 £313
25th Percentile £433 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £528
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £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 1,249 827 815
10th Percentile £17.70 £17.97 £14.65
25th Percentile £25.77 £19.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -21.82%
75th Percentile £72.54 £53.81 £65.50
90th Percentile £87.32 £73.75 £76.69
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.77 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +93.90% -47.05% -6.40%

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 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 20 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 -140 63 £575 +4.55% 151
London -74 43 £600 +4.35% 99
Work from Home -51 34 £550 +7.32% 71
UK excluding London -129 20 £518 +3.63% 66
North of England -52 8 £501 +9.43% 14
Yorkshire -37 4 £625 +4.17% 4
South West -43 4 £488 -32.76% 15
South East -58 4 £600 +33.33% 18
North West -36 3 £490 +7.10% 7
Scotland -17 2 £460 +5.75% 6
East Midlands -18 2 £575 +23.66% 2
Midlands -64 2 £575 +9.52% 7
North East - 1 £450 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (29.73%) Azure
2 16 (21.62%) AWS
3 6 (8.11%) GCP
4 3 (4.05%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.05%) SaaS
5 2 (2.70%) Akamai
5 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.35%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.35%) Datadog
6 1 (1.35%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.35%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.70%) Firewall
2 1 (1.35%) Internet
2 1 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.05%) Db2
1 3 (4.05%) Power BI
2 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Burp Suite
1 2 (2.70%) JIRA
1 2 (2.70%) Snyk
2 1 (1.35%) tSQLt
General
1 25 (33.78%) Finance
2 24 (32.43%) Social Skills
3 19 (25.68%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.51%) Legal
5 8 (10.81%) Banking
5 8 (10.81%) Financial Institution
6 5 (6.76%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (6.76%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.05%) Police
8 2 (2.70%) Retail
9 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.35%) Back Office
9 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (28.38%) Architect
2 15 (20.27%) Security Architect
2 15 (20.27%) Senior
3 11 (14.86%) Consultant
4 10 (13.51%) Analyst
4 10 (13.51%) IT Manager
5 8 (10.81%) Audit Manager
5 8 (10.81%) IT Audit Manager
5 8 (10.81%) Senior Manager
6 7 (9.46%) Senior Audit Manager
6 7 (9.46%) Senior IT Audit Manager
6 7 (9.46%) Senior IT Manager
7 6 (8.11%) Information Architect
7 6 (8.11%) Information Security Architect
7 6 (8.11%) Security Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Risk Analyst
8 5 (6.76%) Security Consultant
8 5 (6.76%) Security Technical Architect
8 5 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (6.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.35%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (1.35%) LDAP
1 1 (1.35%) SailPoint
1 1 (1.35%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.46%) Management Information System
2 6 (8.11%) Operational Technology
3 5 (6.76%) Mainframe
3 5 (6.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 5 (6.76%) Virtual Team
4 4 (5.41%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.05%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (4.05%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.05%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.70%) CESG
6 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.70%) PMI
6 2 (2.70%) SCADA
7 1 (1.35%) Clustering
7 1 (1.35%) CMDB
7 1 (1.35%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.35%) PKI
7 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.76%) Windows
2 2 (2.70%) Linux
3 1 (1.35%) Alpine Linux
3 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.35%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.35%) Unix
3 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (45.95%) Risk Management
2 30 (40.54%) Cybersecurity
3 27 (36.49%) Information Security
4 21 (28.38%) Computer Science
5 18 (24.32%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (22.97%) Risk Assessment
7 16 (21.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 15 (20.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (17.57%) IT Audit
9 13 (17.57%) Regulatory Compliance
9 13 (17.57%) Security Architecture
10 12 (16.22%) Decision-Making
11 11 (14.86%) Analytics
11 11 (14.86%) Cloud Security
11 11 (14.86%) Internal Audit
11 11 (14.86%) Vulnerability Management
12 10 (13.51%) Remediation Plan
13 9 (12.16%) Threat Modelling
14 8 (10.81%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.05%) PowerShell
1 3 (4.05%) Python
2 2 (2.70%) SQL
3 1 (1.35%) Bash
3 1 (1.35%) Bicep
3 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (77.03%) CISSP
2 34 (45.95%) CISM
3 33 (44.59%) Degree
4 23 (31.08%) CRISC
5 17 (22.97%) Security Cleared
6 16 (21.62%) SC Cleared
7 14 (18.92%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (17.57%) CEH
9 12 (16.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 9 (12.16%) GIAC
11 8 (10.81%) OSCP
12 6 (8.11%) CCSP
12 6 (8.11%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (8.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 6 (8.11%) SANS
13 5 (6.76%) GPEN
13 5 (6.76%) PMI Certification
14 4 (5.41%) Master's Degree
15 3 (4.05%) AWS Certification
15 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (45.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (41.89%) NIST
3 20 (27.03%) GRC
4 13 (17.57%) GDPR
5 8 (10.81%) PCI DSS
6 7 (9.46%) NCSC
7 6 (8.11%) NIST 800
7 6 (8.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (6.76%) ITGC
8 5 (6.76%) SEPA
9 4 (5.41%) COBIT
9 4 (5.41%) HIPAA
10 3 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (2.70%) PMO
11 2 (2.70%) SOC 2
12 1 (1.35%) FedRAMP
12 1 (1.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.35%) BitLocker
1 1 (1.35%) Docker
1 1 (1.35%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (1.35%) Ansible
1 1 (1.35%) CASB
1 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.41%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (4.05%) Qualys
3 3 (4.05%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.70%) Google
4 2 (2.70%) IBM
4 2 (2.70%) Oracle
4 2 (2.70%) Splunk
5 1 (1.35%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (1.35%) BMC
5 1 (1.35%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.35%) Okta
5 1 (1.35%) Planview
5 1 (1.35%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.35%) SAP
5 1 (1.35%) Tenable
5 1 (1.35%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.35%) Zscaler