CISM Job Trends in Glasgow

ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for CISM qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 56 121
Rank change year-on-year +5 +65 -26
Permanent jobs citing CISM 1 15 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.15% 2.06% 0.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.67% 8.11% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £46,700 £40,068
25th Percentile £67,500 £52,500 £41,149
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +39.78% -16.10%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £54,063
90th Percentile - - £59,125
Scotland median annual salary £72,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.00% +13.64% -4.86%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 149 185 241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 21.85% 25.45% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 51 79 122
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,296 £25,200
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.39% +15.00% -9.44%
75th Percentile £59,375 £78,875 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £65,000
Scotland median annual salary £33,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -39.09% +4.76% -4.55%

CISM
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

CISM job vacancy trend in Glasgow

CISM
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing CISM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing CISM

CISM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft