ISACA Contracts

Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ISACA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 555 652
Rank change year-on-year +24 +97 +202
Contract jobs citing ISACA 16 17 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.044% 0.038%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.15% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 16
10th Percentile £463 - £487
25th Percentile £584 £625 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% -13.21%
75th Percentile £758 £675 £619
90th Percentile £965 - £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - £584
% change year-on-year - - -13.48%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

ISACA 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 10,376 11,635 14,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.27% 29.94% 27.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,381 7,408 9,337
10th Percentile £290 £313 £333
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £703 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 801 842 687
10th Percentile £17.87 £15.10 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £25.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -21.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £53.86 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -47.05% -8.46% +15.41%

ISACA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ISACA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ISACA in the UK

ISACA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISACA.

Daily rate trend for ISACA in the UK

ISACA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISACA over the 6 months to 9 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISACA in the UK

ISACA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISACA.

Hourly rate trend for ISACA in the UK

ISACA
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISACA within the UK over the 6 months to 9 August 2025. 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 +8 13 £675 +3.85% 5
London +17 9 £688 +5.77% 3
UK excluding London -10 6 £500 - 3
South West +24 2 £538 -
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
Scotland - 2 £500 -
Work from Home - 2 £625 - 1
Midlands - 2 - - 1

ISACA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (6.25%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Military
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Legal
5 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Law
6 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Coordinator
1 6 (37.50%) Security Assurance Coordinator
2 3 (18.75%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Service Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Head of Information Security
3 2 (12.50%) Security Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Head of Information
4 1 (6.25%) Head of Security
4 1 (6.25%) Risk Officer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) PKI
2 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Information Security
1 9 (56.25%) ITIL
2 6 (37.50%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) Risk Management
2 6 (37.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 4 (25.00%) SIEM
4 4 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (18.75%) ISMS
5 3 (18.75%) Problem Management
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (18.75%) Risk Register
5 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (12.50%) Change Management
6 2 (12.50%) IT Asset Management
6 2 (12.50%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Perl
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (50.00%) CISSP
2 8 (50.00%) Degree
3 7 (43.75%) CISA
3 7 (43.75%) CISM
4 6 (37.50%) IISP
4 6 (37.50%) SANS
5 5 (31.25%) GIAC
6 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
6 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
7 2 (12.50%) CRISC
7 2 (12.50%) GSEC
7 2 (12.50%) SSCP
8 1 (6.25%) CEH
8 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (6.25%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) FortiGate
2 1 (6.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Cisco
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Tenable
3 1 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.25%) Exabeam
3 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk