CISM Job Trends in the UK excluding London

ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CISM qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 362 435
Rank change year-on-year -21 +73 -78
Permanent jobs citing CISM 260 183 331
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.54% 0.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.94% 1.43% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 143 128 234
10th Percentile £50,250 £47,500 £42,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,924 £52,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,250 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.28% +5.38%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,813 £84,689
90th Percentile £91,800 £95,000 £85,875
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +7.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,428 12,797 18,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.76% 37.86% 25.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,716 5,312 11,612
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £74,500 £66,274 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%

CISM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

CISM job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CISM
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CISM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CISM

CISM
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CISM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for CISM in the UK excluding London

CISM
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CISM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 July 2026. 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
Northern Ireland - 87 - - 1
Midlands -11 42 £72,500 +26.09% 19
South West -43 36 £62,500 -7.41% 11
North of England -25 35 £60,425 -16.36% 11
South East -50 33 £73,750 +13.46% 30
West Midlands -26 28 £75,000 +30.43% 9
North West -2 16 £60,000 -20.00% 9
East Midlands -30 14 £67,500 +22.73% 10
Scotland +14 13 £90,000 -5.26% 7
Yorkshire -28 11 £55,000 -10.20% 2
East of England -13 8 £65,000 +25.00% 5
North East -53 8 £75,000 -6.25%
Wales -49 6 £55,000 -15.38% 4
CISM
UK

CISM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 11 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 134 (51.54%) Azure
2 80 (30.77%) AWS
3 59 (22.69%) SaaS
4 53 (20.38%) Entra ID
5 17 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (3.08%) GCP
7 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (1.15%) Serverless
7 3 (1.15%) Vertex AI
8 2 (0.77%) IaaS
8 2 (0.77%) PaaS
9 1 (0.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.38%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.38%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.31%) Firewall
2 14 (5.38%) Network Security
3 1 (0.38%) Internet
3 1 (0.38%) VPN
3 1 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Yeoman
2 3 (1.15%) JIRA
General
1 104 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 61 (23.46%) Law
3 57 (21.92%) Legal
4 37 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.85%) Finance
5 23 (8.85%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (4.23%) Retail
8 9 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.08%) Manufacturing
9 8 (3.08%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (2.31%) Banking
11 5 (1.92%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.15%) Military
12 3 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.15%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.77%) Social Housing
14 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.38%) Games
Job Titles
1 71 (27.31%) Senior
2 53 (20.38%) Senior Manager
3 51 (19.62%) IT Manager
4 46 (17.69%) Resilience Manager
4 46 (17.69%) Service Manager
5 44 (16.92%) IT Services Manager
6 41 (15.77%) Consultant
7 38 (14.62%) Security Consultant
8 27 (10.38%) Security Manager
9 25 (9.62%) Architect
9 25 (9.62%) Security Architect
10 23 (8.85%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 19 (7.31%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 16 (6.15%) Lead
13 15 (5.77%) Analyst
14 14 (5.38%) Security Analyst
15 13 (5.00%) Information Analyst
15 13 (5.00%) Information Security Analyst
16 10 (3.85%) Security Engineer
17 8 (3.08%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (16.92%) Middleware
2 5 (1.92%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.38%) OAuth
3 1 (0.38%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 51 (19.62%) Cyber Threat
2 28 (10.77%) Management Information System
2 28 (10.77%) Security Posture
3 9 (3.46%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 8 (3.08%) Cyber Security Posture
5 6 (2.31%) Operational Technology
5 6 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.92%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.54%) PKI
7 4 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.15%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.77%) CMDB
9 2 (0.77%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.77%) Housing Association
9 2 (0.77%) NHS
9 2 (0.77%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.77%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.15%) Linux
1 3 (1.15%) Windows
1 3 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (70.38%) Cybersecurity
2 155 (59.62%) Information Security
3 121 (46.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 95 (36.54%) ITIL
5 76 (29.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 71 (27.31%) Identity Access Management
7 68 (26.15%) Risk Management
8 67 (25.77%) Mentoring
8 67 (25.77%) TOGAF
9 54 (20.77%) AI
10 53 (20.38%) Agile
11 52 (20.00%) Business Continuity
11 52 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
12 50 (19.23%) Collaborative Working
13 49 (18.85%) DevOps
13 49 (18.85%) Incident Response
13 49 (18.85%) Privileged Access Management
14 48 (18.46%) Enterprise Architecture
14 48 (18.46%) PRINCE2
14 48 (18.46%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.08%) PowerShell
2 5 (1.92%) Python
3 2 (0.77%) Bash
Qualifications
1 248 (95.38%) CISSP
2 49 (18.85%) Security Cleared
3 48 (18.46%) Cisco Certification
4 45 (17.31%) A+ Certification
4 45 (17.31%) Network+ Certification
5 44 (16.92%) ITIL Certification
6 40 (15.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 38 (14.62%) CRISC
7 38 (14.62%) SC Cleared
8 29 (11.15%) CCSP
9 25 (9.62%) CISA
10 23 (8.85%) Degree
11 22 (8.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 20 (7.69%) DV Cleared
13 13 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
14 12 (4.62%) CEH
15 11 (4.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 9 (3.46%) Azure Certification
17 7 (2.69%) AWS Certification
18 6 (2.31%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (57.69%) NIST
2 128 (49.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 56 (21.54%) GDPR
4 44 (16.92%) GRC
4 44 (16.92%) ISO 22301
5 34 (13.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 23 (8.85%) PCI DSS
7 18 (6.92%) NCSC
8 17 (6.54%) JSP 440
9 16 (6.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (3.85%) COBIT
11 6 (2.31%) SOC 2
12 3 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (1.15%) ITGC
12 3 (1.15%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.77%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (0.77%) QA
13 2 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (18.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (17.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.54%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.77%) Terraform
4 1 (0.38%) CASB
4 1 (0.38%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 66 (25.38%) Microsoft
2 45 (17.31%) CyberArk
3 11 (4.23%) SAP
4 5 (1.92%) Splunk
5 4 (1.54%) Google
6 3 (1.15%) Meraki
6 3 (1.15%) New Relic
6 3 (1.15%) Qualys
6 3 (1.15%) SolarWinds
6 3 (1.15%) Zerto
7 2 (0.77%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow