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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 466 465
Rank change year-on-year -124 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing CISA 88 86 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.26% 0.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.51% 0.83% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 59 66
10th Percentile £461 £413 £350
25th Percentile £513 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £775
90th Percentile £800 £750 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £483 £550
% change year-on-year +13.99% -12.27% +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 17,388 10,419 11,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.69% 31.50% 29.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,578 6,521 6,821
10th Percentile £350 £288 £313
25th Percentile £444 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £633 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £708 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,396 864 627
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.87 £17.58
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £24.34
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -48.67% -9.26%
75th Percentile £72.54 £43.00 £68.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £70.00 £75.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £51.72
% change year-on-year +86.88% -51.37% -1.49%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -116 74 £588 +11.37% 208
London -84 44 £600 +6.67% 133
Work from Home -28 43 £600 +20.00% 86
UK excluding London -104 31 £550 +13.99% 93
South East -63 10 £550 +46.67% 36
North of England -67 10 £600 +31.15% 23
Yorkshire -39 5 £550 -8.33% 10
North West -42 5 £650 +42.08% 10
Scotland -23 4 £568 +30.46% 7
South West -41 4 £488 -32.76% 7
Midlands -53 4 £650 +30.00% 12
East Midlands -20 2 £575 +27.78% 2
West Midlands -48 2 £650 -21.21% 10

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 5 (5.68%) IIS
2 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 30 (34.09%) Azure
2 24 (27.27%) AWS
3 18 (20.45%) GCP
4 7 (7.95%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.27%) Akamai
5 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.27%) GitHub
6 1 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.14%) Datadog
6 1 (1.14%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.14%) SaaS
6 1 (1.14%) Serverless
6 1 (1.14%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) Firewall
2 2 (2.27%) Network Security
3 1 (1.14%) Broadband
3 1 (1.14%) Internet
3 1 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.14%) VoIP
3 1 (1.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.95%) Power BI
2 3 (3.41%) Db2
3 2 (2.27%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) JIRA
2 2 (2.27%) Burp Suite
2 2 (2.27%) Snyk
3 1 (1.14%) GitLab
3 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.14%) tSQLt
General
1 27 (30.68%) Finance
2 26 (29.55%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.50%) Legal
5 8 (9.09%) Financial Institution
5 8 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (7.95%) Banking
7 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.41%) Police
9 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.27%) Retail
10 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.14%) Back Office
10 1 (1.14%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (26.14%) Architect
2 20 (22.73%) Senior
3 17 (19.32%) Security Architect
4 14 (15.91%) Analyst
5 11 (12.50%) Consultant
5 11 (12.50%) IT Manager
5 11 (12.50%) Security Engineer
6 9 (10.23%) Audit Manager
6 9 (10.23%) IT Audit Manager
7 8 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 8 (9.09%) Security Analyst
7 8 (9.09%) Senior Manager
8 7 (7.95%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 7 (7.95%) Senior Audit Manager
8 7 (7.95%) Senior IT Audit Manager
8 7 (7.95%) Senior IT Manager
9 6 (6.82%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 6 (6.82%) Risk Analyst
10 5 (5.68%) Security Consultant
10 5 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.55%) JSON
2 2 (2.27%) Terraform
3 1 (1.14%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.14%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (1.14%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.14%) LDAP
3 1 (1.14%) pytest
3 1 (1.14%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Management Information System
2 8 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 8 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 6 (6.82%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 5 (5.68%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (5.68%) Mainframe
4 5 (5.68%) Mobile Payment
4 5 (5.68%) Operational Technology
4 5 (5.68%) Public Cloud
4 5 (5.68%) Smartcard
4 5 (5.68%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.27%) CESG
6 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.27%) PMI
6 2 (2.27%) SCADA
7 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.14%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.23%) Windows
2 7 (7.95%) Linux
3 5 (5.68%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.14%) Alpine Linux
4 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (48.86%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (46.59%) Risk Management
3 30 (34.09%) Information Security
4 27 (30.68%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 20 (22.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 18 (20.45%) Computer Science
7 18 (20.45%) Security Architecture
8 15 (17.05%) Cloud Security
9 14 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (15.91%) IT Audit
9 14 (15.91%) Regulatory Compliance
10 13 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (14.77%) Risk Assessment
11 12 (13.64%) Data Protection
11 12 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
11 12 (13.64%) Internal Audit
11 12 (13.64%) Risk Register
11 12 (13.64%) Threat Modelling
12 11 (12.50%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.82%) SQL
2 4 (4.55%) Python
3 3 (3.41%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.14%) Bash
4 1 (1.14%) Bicep
4 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (75.00%) CISSP
2 50 (56.82%) CISM
3 36 (40.91%) CRISC
4 31 (35.23%) Degree
5 18 (20.45%) SC Cleared
5 18 (20.45%) Security Cleared
6 17 (19.32%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (18.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 11 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 10 (11.36%) CCSP
9 10 (11.36%) CEH
10 7 (7.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 6 (6.82%) OSCP
12 5 (5.68%) CREST Certified
12 5 (5.68%) GIAC
12 5 (5.68%) IISP
12 5 (5.68%) SANS
13 4 (4.55%) CLAS
13 4 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (3.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (55.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 42 (47.73%) NIST
3 29 (32.95%) GRC
4 18 (20.45%) GDPR
5 15 (17.05%) PCI DSS
6 9 (10.23%) NCSC
7 8 (9.09%) COBIT
7 8 (9.09%) ITGC
8 7 (7.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (6.82%) NIST 800
10 5 (5.68%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (5.68%) Data Quality
10 5 (5.68%) ISO 31000
10 5 (5.68%) ISO 9001
10 5 (5.68%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 5 (5.68%) SEPA
11 4 (4.55%) HIPAA
12 3 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (2.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (4.55%) ISA Server
2 2 (2.27%) Docker
3 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.14%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.14%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (6.82%) CASB
2 2 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.14%) Ansible
3 1 (1.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (7.95%) Google
3 7 (7.95%) Qualys
4 6 (6.82%) Splunk
5 4 (4.55%) Centrify
5 4 (4.55%) Cisco
5 4 (4.55%) F5
5 4 (4.55%) SAP
5 4 (4.55%) Tripwire
6 2 (2.27%) IBM
6 2 (2.27%) Oracle
6 2 (2.27%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.14%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.14%) BMC
7 1 (1.14%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.14%) Databricks
7 1 (1.14%) Planview
7 1 (1.14%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.14%) Zscaler