CISM Job Trends 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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 135 160
Rank change year-on-year +11 +25 +102
Permanent jobs citing CISM 16 48 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.80% 1.47% 1.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.61% 4.35% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 13 27 39
10th Percentile £73,250 £62,500 £53,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £71,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £113,000 £116,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% +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 613 1,103 879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 30.74% 33.83% 23.30%
Number of salaries quoted 458 576 740
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,125 £39,085
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,250 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £93,000
90th Percentile £119,125 £107,500 £120,000
London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +4.48%

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing CISM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing CISM

CISM
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CISM in Central London over the 6 months to 16 September 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 16 September 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 +7 16 £85,000 +4.62% 22
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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.25%) PaaS
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (25.00%) Network Security
4 3 (18.75%) Kerberos
5 2 (12.50%) VPN
6 1 (6.25%) LAN
6 1 (6.25%) WAN
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (43.75%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Local Government
4 2 (12.50%) Retail
5 1 (6.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Identity Management Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Head of Cybersecurity
3 2 (12.50%) Head of Security
3 2 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) IT Security Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Leader
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Security Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Security Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) LDAP
1 3 (18.75%) OAuth
1 3 (18.75%) OpenID
1 3 (18.75%) SailPoint
1 3 (18.75%) SAML
2 1 (6.25%) PyTorch
2 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
2 3 (18.75%) PKI
2 3 (18.75%) Security Posture
3 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
1 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (68.75%) Information Security
3 9 (56.25%) SIEM
4 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (37.50%) Project Management
4 6 (37.50%) Risk Management
5 5 (31.25%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) Analytics
6 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (18.75%) Identity Management
6 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
6 3 (18.75%) Information Security Governance
6 3 (18.75%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 3 (18.75%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Privileged Identity Management
6 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
6 3 (18.75%) Scrum
6 3 (18.75%) Security Architecture
6 3 (18.75%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) CISSP
2 5 (31.25%) Degree
3 4 (25.00%) CEH
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (18.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (18.75%) CCSP
4 3 (18.75%) CISA
4 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (18.75%) GSEC
4 3 (18.75%) Master's Degree
5 1 (6.25%) CCNA
5 1 (6.25%) CCNP
5 1 (6.25%) CRISC
5 1 (6.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (6.25%) MCITP
5 1 (6.25%) MCSA
5 1 (6.25%) MCSE
5 1 (6.25%) OSCP
5 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (43.75%) NIST
2 3 (18.75%) GDPR
3 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (12.50%) NIST 800
3 2 (12.50%) QA
4 1 (6.25%) COBIT
4 1 (6.25%) GRC
4 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
4 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
4 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (18.75%) QRadar
2 3 (18.75%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) CASB
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) SolarWinds
2 3 (18.75%) Splunk
3 2 (12.50%) Juniper
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) Imperva
4 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.25%) VMware