CISM Contract Job Trends in Warwickshire

ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Warwickshire with a requirement for CISM qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 37 31
Rank change year-on-year -10 -6 +15
Contract jobs citing CISM 5 5 9
As % of all contract jobs in Warwickshire 1.00% 1.47% 2.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.33% 4.03% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% -21.43%
75th Percentile £675 - £588
90th Percentile - - £608
West Midlands median daily rate £660 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +32.00% -13.04% -11.54%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Warwickshire

CISM 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 in Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 150 124 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 30.06% 36.58% 22.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 77 52
10th Percentile £306 £406 £220
25th Percentile £363 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £551 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.98% +4.95% +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £673 £670 £744
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £517 £500
% change year-on-year -0.39% +3.40% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile £18.10 £19.10 £33.10
25th Percentile £25.00 £20.00 £34.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £34.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +0.72% +36.27%
75th Percentile £35.00 - £38.75
90th Percentile £48.95 - £41.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £27.56 £34.75
% change year-on-year -31.54% -20.68% +78.21%

CISM
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CISM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire.

CISM job vacancy trend in Warwickshire

CISM
Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing CISM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing CISM

CISM
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CISM within the Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Warwick -4 4 - -
CISM
West Midlands

CISM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwickshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 3 (60.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) CyberArk Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (40.00%) CSOC
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (40.00%) SIEM
5 1 (20.00%) High Availability
5 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (20.00%) Information Security
5 1 (20.00%) Password Management
5 1 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (20.00%) Privileged Password Management
5 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CISSP
2 2 (40.00%) CREST Certified
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) GIAC
2 2 (40.00%) SANS
3 1 (20.00%) CEH
3 1 (20.00%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (20.00%) GCFA
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) Tenable