CISM Jobs in Central London

ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for CISM qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 139 201
Rank change year-on-year -3 +62 +50
Permanent jobs citing CISM 13 52 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.56% 1.39% 0.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.69% 4.55% 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9 37 33
10th Percentile £75,500 £62,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £85,000 £71,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +23.37%
75th Percentile - £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £82,500 £79,921 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.23% -0.10% +6.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

CISM falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Central London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 767 1,144 1,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 33.10% 30.62% 23.77%
Number of salaries quoted 474 697 791
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,898 £40,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +0.75% -4.29%
75th Percentile £94,688 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £105,000 £120,000
London median annual salary £67,500 £67,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.75% -0.74% +3.85%

CISM
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing CISM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for CISM in Central London

CISM
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CISM in Central London.

Salary trend for CISM in Central London

CISM
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CISM in Central London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for CISM in Central London

CISM
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CISM within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +4 13 £90,000 +5.88% 48
CISM
London

CISM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Kerberos
2 3 (23.08%) Firewall
3 2 (15.38%) VPN
4 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (7.69%) LAN
4 1 (7.69%) WAN
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 8 (61.54%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Local Government
4 2 (15.38%) Retail
5 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Identity Management Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Security Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Information Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Information Security Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Head of Compliance
4 1 (7.69%) Head of Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.69%) Head of Security
4 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) LDAP
1 5 (38.46%) OAuth
1 5 (38.46%) OpenID
1 5 (38.46%) SailPoint
1 5 (38.46%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Onboarding
1 5 (38.46%) PKI
2 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
2 3 (23.08%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
1 5 (38.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Information Security
1 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (61.54%) Project Management
2 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) SIEM
3 6 (46.15%) Analytics
3 6 (46.15%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (38.46%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (38.46%) Identity Management
4 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (38.46%) Log Analytics
4 5 (38.46%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 5 (38.46%) Privileged Identity Management
4 5 (38.46%) RBAC
4 5 (38.46%) Risk Management
4 5 (38.46%) Scrum
4 5 (38.46%) Security Hardening
5 3 (23.08%) Information Security Governance
5 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) CISSP
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (30.77%) Degree
4 3 (23.08%) CRISC
4 3 (23.08%) Master's Degree
5 2 (15.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (15.38%) CCSP
5 2 (15.38%) CISA
5 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (15.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
6 1 (7.69%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (53.85%) NIST
2 3 (23.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (15.38%) COBIT
3 2 (15.38%) GRC
3 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
3 2 (15.38%) QA
4 1 (7.69%) GDPR
4 1 (7.69%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) QRadar
1 5 (38.46%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) CASB
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (38.46%) SolarWinds
2 5 (38.46%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (7.69%) Juniper