CISM Jobs in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for CISM qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 143 189
Rank change year-on-year +21 +46 +50
Permanent jobs citing CISM 15 40 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.77% 1.20% 0.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.58% 4.21% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11 36 39
10th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £74,375 £70,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -2.86% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile - £101,250 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% - +20.65%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 581 950 1,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 29.96% 28.43% 23.13%
Number of salaries quoted 374 623 741
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,563 £93,125 £97,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £105,000 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% - -3.57%

CISM
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for CISM in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CISM in the City of London.

Salary trend for CISM in the City of London

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CISM in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for CISM in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 5 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Kerberos
2 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (6.67%) 4G
3 1 (6.67%) 5G
3 1 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (6.67%) IPsec
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) VLAN
3 1 (6.67%) VoIP
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
General
1 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (53.33%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Local Government
4 2 (13.33%) Retail
5 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Identity Management Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Security Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Information Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Information Security Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Head of Compliance
4 1 (6.67%) Head of Cybersecurity
4 1 (6.67%) Head of Security
4 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.67%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Security Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) LDAP
1 5 (33.33%) OAuth
1 5 (33.33%) OpenID
1 5 (33.33%) SailPoint
1 5 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 5 (33.33%) PKI
2 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (26.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
1 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Information Security
2 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (53.33%) Project Management
3 7 (46.67%) Agile
3 7 (46.67%) Risk Management
3 7 (46.67%) SIEM
4 6 (40.00%) Analytics
4 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (33.33%) Identity Management
5 5 (33.33%) Log Analytics
5 5 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 5 (33.33%) Privileged Identity Management
5 5 (33.33%) RBAC
5 5 (33.33%) Scrum
5 5 (33.33%) Security Hardening
6 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) CISSP
2 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (26.67%) CISA
3 4 (26.67%) CRISC
4 3 (20.00%) Master's Degree
5 2 (13.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (13.33%) CCSP
5 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (13.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (6.67%) CEH
6 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
6 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (53.33%) NIST
3 3 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (20.00%) GRC
4 2 (13.33%) COBIT
4 2 (13.33%) GDPR
4 2 (13.33%) NIST 800
4 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
4 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) QRadar
1 5 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) CASB
2 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 5 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (6.67%) HP
3 1 (6.67%) Juniper
3 1 (6.67%) Sophos