CISM Contract Job Trends in Watford

ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Watford with a requirement for CISM qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing CISM 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Watford 0.93% 6.12% -
As % of the Qualifications category 6.67% 18.75% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £625 £249 -
% change year-on-year +151.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £31.49 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate - £31.49 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Watford

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 Watford.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 15 16 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 14.02% 32.65% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 7
10th Percentile £271 £320 £318
25th Percentile £362 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £350
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +57.14% -44.00%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £406
90th Percentile £593 - £483
Hertfordshire median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £27.93 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £28.52 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £31.49 -
Median % change year-on-year +106.41% - -
75th Percentile £67.50 £34.16 -
90th Percentile - £34.58 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £47.50 £54.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year -13.24% +27.33% -28.33%

CISM
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

CISM job vacancy trend in Watford

CISM
Daily Rate Trend in Watford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing CISM

CISM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IFS