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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 467 444
Rank change year-on-year -118 -23 +40
Contract jobs citing CISA 76 86 104
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.26% 0.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.45% 0.84% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 56 70
10th Percentile £455 £409 £390
25th Percentile £500 £425 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £819 £778
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 16,719 10,293 11,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.31% 31.27% 30.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,204 6,336 7,411
10th Percentile £350 £289 £313
25th Percentile £431 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £715 £704 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,256 815 849
10th Percentile £17.72 £17.97 £15.06
25th Percentile £25.77 £19.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate £51.25 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +103.78% -41.51% -21.82%
75th Percentile £73.81 £53.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £73.75 £76.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +98.81% -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 14 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 14 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 -121 65 £575 +4.55% 105
London -72 45 £600 +4.35% 61
Work from Home -36 34 £550 +10.00% 56
UK excluding London -113 20 £518 +3.63% 57
North of England -60 8 £501 +9.43% 14
Yorkshire -36 4 £625 +4.17% 4
South West -52 4 £488 -32.76% 11
South East -71 4 £600 +33.33% 15
North West -42 3 £490 +7.10% 6
Scotland -10 2 £460 +5.75% 5
East Midlands -21 2 £575 +23.66% 2
Midlands -57 2 £575 +9.52% 7
North East - 1 £450 - 4

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
Cloud Services
1 22 (28.95%) Azure
2 16 (21.05%) AWS
3 6 (7.89%) GCP
4 3 (3.95%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.95%) SaaS
5 2 (2.63%) Akamai
5 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
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 25 (32.89%) Finance
1 25 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 19 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (13.16%) Legal
4 9 (11.84%) Banking
5 8 (10.53%) Financial Institution
6 6 (7.89%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (7.89%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.95%) Police
8 2 (2.63%) Retail
9 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.32%) Back Office
9 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Front Office
9 1 (1.32%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.32%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (27.63%) Architect
2 15 (19.74%) Security Architect
2 15 (19.74%) Senior
3 11 (14.47%) Analyst
3 11 (14.47%) Consultant
4 10 (13.16%) IT Manager
5 8 (10.53%) Audit Manager
5 8 (10.53%) IT Audit Manager
5 8 (10.53%) Senior Manager
6 7 (9.21%) Senior Audit Manager
6 7 (9.21%) Senior IT Audit Manager
6 7 (9.21%) Senior IT Manager
7 6 (7.89%) Information Architect
7 6 (7.89%) Information Security Architect
7 6 (7.89%) Security Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Risk Analyst
8 5 (6.58%) Security Consultant
8 5 (6.58%) Security Technical Architect
8 5 (6.58%) Solutions Architect
8 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
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.21%) Management Information System
1 7 (9.21%) Operational Technology
2 5 (6.58%) Mainframe
2 5 (6.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 5 (6.58%) Virtual Team
3 4 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.95%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.95%) SCADA
4 3 (3.95%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.63%) CESG
5 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.63%) PMI
6 1 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.32%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.32%) PKI
6 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.58%) 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 34 (44.74%) Risk Management
2 31 (40.79%) Cybersecurity
3 28 (36.84%) Information Security
4 22 (28.95%) Computer Science
5 19 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
5 19 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 15 (19.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (17.11%) IT Audit
9 13 (17.11%) Regulatory Compliance
9 13 (17.11%) Security Architecture
10 12 (15.79%) Decision-Making
11 11 (14.47%) Analytics
11 11 (14.47%) Cloud Security
11 11 (14.47%) Internal Audit
11 11 (14.47%) Vulnerability Management
12 10 (13.16%) Remediation Plan
13 9 (11.84%) Mentoring
13 9 (11.84%) Threat Modelling
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 35 (46.05%) CISM
3 34 (44.74%) Degree
4 23 (30.26%) CRISC
5 18 (23.68%) Security Cleared
6 17 (22.37%) SC Cleared
7 14 (18.42%) CEH
7 14 (18.42%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (15.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 10 (13.16%) GIAC
10 8 (10.53%) OSCP
11 6 (7.89%) CCSP
11 6 (7.89%) CompTIA Security+
11 6 (7.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 6 (7.89%) SANS
12 5 (6.58%) GPEN
12 5 (6.58%) PMI Certification
13 4 (5.26%) Master's Degree
14 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
14 3 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (46.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (42.11%) NIST
3 20 (26.32%) GRC
4 13 (17.11%) GDPR
5 8 (10.53%) PCI DSS
6 7 (9.21%) NCSC
7 6 (7.89%) ITGC
7 6 (7.89%) NIST 800
7 6 (7.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (6.58%) SEPA
9 4 (5.26%) COBIT
9 4 (5.26%) HIPAA
10 3 (3.95%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (2.63%) PMO
11 2 (2.63%) SOC 2
12 1 (1.32%) FedRAMP
12 1 (1.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
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 1 (1.32%) Ansible
1 1 (1.32%) CASB
1 1 (1.32%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.32%) SCCM
1 1 (1.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (3.95%) Qualys
3 3 (3.95%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.63%) Google
4 2 (2.63%) IBM
4 2 (2.63%) Oracle
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%) SAP
5 1 (1.32%) Tenable
5 1 (1.32%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.32%) Zscaler