ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CISA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 253 519 688
Rank change year-on-year +266 +169 +28
Permanent jobs citing CISA 877 266 536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.12% 0.44% 0.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.60% 1.35% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 107 169 390
10th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CISA 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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,389 19,754 41,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.18% 32.63% 28.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9,097 11,787 18,027
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +5.26%

CISA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CISA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CISA in the UK

CISA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CISA.

Salary trend for CISA in the UK

CISA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CISA over the 6 months to 11 October 2024.

Salary histogram for CISA in the UK

CISA
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CISA within the UK over the 6 months to 11 October 2024. 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
England +289 858 £70,000 +12.00% 62
Work from Home +270 682 £75,000 +25.00% 194
London +269 551 £75,000 - 36
UK excluding London +86 283 £57,500 -4.17% 28
South West +42 88 £50,000 -31.03% 1
Midlands +1 61 £60,000 +4.35% 9
West Midlands +16 58 £60,000 +5.26% 7
South East -25 54 £59,493 -0.85% 1
North of England 0 43 £80,000 +40.35% 10
North West -20 30 £51,000 +3.03% 8
East of England -27 19 £45,000 -33.33% 2
Scotland +1 18 £44,000 -32.31% 3
Yorkshire +24 8 £80,000 +17.65% 1
North East -33 5 - - 1
East Midlands -41 3 £47,500 -17.39% 2

CISA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 29 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (1.82%) Unit4 Business World
2 15 (1.71%) Ripple
3 1 (0.11%) SAP CCM
3 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 496 (56.56%) GCP
2 47 (5.36%) Cloud Computing
3 44 (5.02%) AWS
4 40 (4.56%) Power Platform
5 25 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (2.62%) Azure
7 12 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (0.91%) Entra ID
9 5 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (0.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (0.46%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (0.46%) AWS KMS
11 3 (0.34%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.23%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.23%) Azure AKS
12 2 (0.23%) IaaS
12 2 (0.23%) PaaS
12 2 (0.23%) SaaS
12 2 (0.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 582 (66.36%) Broadband
2 49 (5.59%) Firewall
3 28 (3.19%) Network Security
4 13 (1.48%) Intrusion Detection
5 11 (1.25%) VoIP
6 6 (0.68%) Cisco IPT
7 4 (0.46%) DAB
8 3 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.23%) LAN
9 2 (0.23%) VPN
9 2 (0.23%) WAN
10 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 582 (66.36%) Data Hub
2 40 (4.56%) Power BI
3 26 (2.96%) Qlik Sense
3 26 (2.96%) Tableau
4 16 (1.82%) DB2
5 1 (0.11%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 15 (1.71%) Artifactory
1 15 (1.71%) Git
General
1 699 (79.70%) Social Skills
2 603 (68.76%) Influencing Skills
3 126 (14.37%) Finance
4 78 (8.89%) Legal
5 58 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
7 38 (4.33%) Law
8 22 (2.51%) Banking
9 17 (1.94%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.37%) Public Sector
10 12 (1.37%) Retail
11 9 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.68%) Marketing
14 3 (0.34%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.34%) Military
15 2 (0.23%) Advertising
15 2 (0.23%) Electronics
15 2 (0.23%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 680 (77.54%) Senior
2 643 (73.32%) Analyst
3 611 (69.67%) Senior Analyst
4 384 (43.79%) IT Analyst
5 381 (43.44%) Audit Analyst
6 101 (11.52%) Data Analyst
7 52 (5.93%) Security Analyst
8 33 (3.76%) Auditor
9 31 (3.53%) IT Manager
10 28 (3.19%) Audit Manager
10 28 (3.19%) Lead
11 27 (3.08%) Security Manager
12 26 (2.96%) Senior Security Analyst
13 24 (2.74%) IT Auditor
13 24 (2.74%) Security Engineer
14 22 (2.51%) Senior Auditor
14 22 (2.51%) Senior IT Auditor
15 18 (2.05%) Security Officer
16 17 (1.94%) Consultant
16 17 (1.94%) IT Audit Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.96%) HTML
2 6 (0.68%) ModSecurity
3 3 (0.34%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.23%) REST
5 1 (0.11%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.50%) Management Information System
2 30 (3.42%) Security Posture
3 26 (2.96%) Cyberattack
4 20 (2.28%) Public Cloud
5 18 (2.05%) Product Ownership
6 17 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
7 15 (1.71%) Blockchain
8 14 (1.60%) Security Operations Centre
9 11 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
10 10 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (0.91%) Operational Technology
11 8 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.80%) Onboarding
13 6 (0.68%) Cloud Native
14 5 (0.57%) Replication
15 4 (0.46%) CESG
15 4 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
16 3 (0.34%) Housing Association
17 2 (0.23%) Cyber Security Posture
17 2 (0.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.42%) Windows
2 19 (2.17%) Linux
3 18 (2.05%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (72.98%) Analytics
2 638 (72.75%) Problem-Solving
3 614 (70.01%) Data Governance
4 610 (69.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 582 (66.36%) Customer Experience
5 582 (66.36%) Data Management
5 582 (66.36%) Data Transformation
6 441 (50.29%) IT Audit
7 410 (46.75%) Data Analysis
8 334 (38.08%) Risk Management
9 163 (18.59%) Information Security
10 144 (16.42%) Cybersecurity
11 71 (8.10%) Incident Response
12 70 (7.98%) Internal Audit
13 69 (7.87%) Data Privacy
14 59 (6.73%) Mentoring
14 59 (6.73%) Service Management
15 53 (6.04%) Change Management
16 51 (5.82%) SIEM
17 44 (5.02%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (5.47%) SQL
2 26 (2.96%) VBA
3 24 (2.74%) Python
4 5 (0.57%) C
4 5 (0.57%) Java
4 5 (0.57%) R
4 5 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 202 (23.03%) CISSP
2 191 (21.78%) CISM
3 117 (13.34%) Degree
4 57 (6.50%) CRISC
5 47 (5.36%) Security Cleared
6 37 (4.22%) CEH
7 32 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (3.65%) Master's Degree
8 27 (3.08%) DV Cleared
9 26 (2.96%) CCAB
10 25 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (2.62%) CompTIA CySA+
11 23 (2.62%) CompTIA Security+
12 22 (2.51%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 17 (1.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 17 (1.94%) SC Cleared
14 15 (1.71%) CCNA
14 15 (1.71%) CCNP
15 13 (1.48%) GIAC
15 13 (1.48%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 599 (68.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 120 (13.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 94 (10.72%) NIST
4 55 (6.27%) ITGC
5 50 (5.70%) GRC
6 44 (5.02%) GDPR
7 42 (4.79%) Cyber Essentials
8 35 (3.99%) QA
9 29 (3.31%) PCI DSS
10 19 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 17 (1.94%) SOC 2
12 16 (1.82%) COBIT
13 15 (1.71%) NCSC
14 10 (1.14%) ISO 22301
15 8 (0.91%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.80%) FedRAMP
17 6 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 6 (0.68%) HIPAA
17 6 (0.68%) PMO
18 5 (0.57%) JSP 440
System Software
1 3 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (0.57%) CASB
2 3 (0.34%) CSIRT
3 2 (0.23%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.11%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (0.11%) Computer Incident Response Team
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Identity Management
4 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.11%) RSA Security Analytics
Vendors
1 481 (54.85%) Google
2 61 (6.96%) Microsoft
3 17 (1.94%) Oracle
3 17 (1.94%) SAP
4 16 (1.82%) Sage
5 4 (0.46%) Capita
6 3 (0.34%) Darktrace
6 3 (0.34%) Proofpoint
6 3 (0.34%) ServiceNow
6 3 (0.34%) Thales
6 3 (0.34%) Zscaler
7 2 (0.23%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.23%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.11%) ArcSight
8 1 (0.11%) Aveksa
8 1 (0.11%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (0.11%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.11%) F5
8 1 (0.11%) Juniper
8 1 (0.11%) Splunk