ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CISM qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 385 550
Rank change year-on-year +3 +165 -75
Permanent jobs citing CISM 604 670 1,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.83% 0.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.54% 2.46% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 459 495 675
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,155 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.32% - +8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 23,768 27,219 48,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.30% 33.73% 27.87%
Number of salaries quoted 13,396 13,767 20,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,425 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% +2.11%

CISM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CISM in the UK

CISM
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for CISM in the UK

CISM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CISM over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for CISM in the UK

CISM
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CISM within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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 +18 535 £70,000 - 73
UK excluding London -35 344 £67,155 +3.32% 50
London +71 231 £80,000 +1.59% 35
Work from Home -56 205 £70,750 +1.07% 36
North of England +29 95 £52,084 -16.67% 9
South West +19 83 £68,500 -5.52% 4
North West +24 77 £52,084 +5.22% 6
Midlands -27 61 £70,000 +4.58% 10
South East -46 45 £65,000 +8.33% 12
West Midlands -18 44 £75,000 +9.09% 9
Scotland -31 38 £55,000 -15.37% 5
East of England -5 17 £45,000 -35.71% 4
East Midlands -20 16 £66,500 +6.40% 1
Yorkshire +44 15 £79,842 +17.41% 2
Isle of Man -15 4 £46,500 -20.85%
North East -9 3 £79,842 -15.96% 1
Wales +10 1 £85,000 +117.95% 2

CISM
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 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 134 (22.19%) Azure
2 111 (18.38%) AWS
3 36 (5.96%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (3.81%) GCP
5 19 (3.15%) Power Platform
6 13 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
6 13 (2.15%) SaaS
7 10 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (0.99%) Entra ID
9 6 (0.99%) IaaS
9 6 (0.99%) PaaS
9 6 (0.99%) WhatsApp
10 4 (0.66%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.33%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.33%) Azure AKS
11 2 (0.33%) Azure Service Fabric
11 2 (0.33%) Serverless
12 1 (0.17%) Dropbox
12 1 (0.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 109 (18.05%) Firewall
2 43 (7.12%) Network Security
3 26 (4.30%) WAN
4 24 (3.97%) SD-WAN
5 22 (3.64%) Intrusion Detection
6 21 (3.48%) VPN
7 17 (2.81%) LAN
8 15 (2.48%) TCP/IP
9 14 (2.32%) DNS
9 14 (2.32%) VoIP
10 10 (1.66%) Cisco IPT
11 5 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.66%) NetScaler
13 3 (0.50%) 5G
13 3 (0.50%) Internet
13 3 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
14 2 (0.33%) SAN
15 1 (0.17%) iSCSI
15 1 (0.17%) Wireless
15 1 (0.17%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.15%) Power BI
2 4 (0.66%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.33%) Big Data
4 1 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (1.66%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.33%) JIRA
General
1 168 (27.81%) Social Skills
2 146 (24.17%) Finance
3 63 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (8.11%) Law
5 42 (6.95%) Legal
6 35 (5.79%) Military
7 34 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (4.97%) Public Sector
9 29 (4.80%) Presentation Skills
10 28 (4.64%) Telecoms
11 17 (2.81%) Banking
12 16 (2.65%) Marketing
13 11 (1.82%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.16%) Advertising
16 5 (0.83%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.66%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.66%) Automotive
17 4 (0.66%) Electronics
18 3 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (15.73%) Analyst
2 93 (15.40%) Security Manager
3 88 (14.57%) Architect
4 87 (14.40%) Lead
5 79 (13.08%) Consultant
6 78 (12.91%) Senior
7 75 (12.42%) Security Consultant
8 74 (12.25%) Security Architect
9 71 (11.75%) Security Analyst
10 62 (10.26%) Information Security Manager
11 61 (10.10%) Information Manager
12 38 (6.29%) Security Officer
13 36 (5.96%) Lead Architect
14 35 (5.79%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 29 (4.80%) Information Officer
15 29 (4.80%) Information Security Officer
16 28 (4.64%) Security Engineer
17 26 (4.30%) Senior Analyst
17 26 (4.30%) Vulnerability Manager
18 24 (3.97%) Lead Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.66%) ModSecurity
1 10 (1.66%) OAuth
1 10 (1.66%) SAML
2 5 (0.83%) Web Services
3 4 (0.66%) Kafka
3 4 (0.66%) REST
3 4 (0.66%) SailPoint
4 3 (0.50%) web3js
5 2 (0.33%) EDI
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 190 (31.46%) Management Information System
2 62 (10.26%) Security Posture
3 50 (8.28%) Cyber Threat
4 29 (4.80%) Security Operations Centre
5 28 (4.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 27 (4.47%) Operational Technology
7 26 (4.30%) Data Centre
8 23 (3.81%) Cyberattack
9 19 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (2.48%) Public Cloud
11 14 (2.32%) Cyber Security Posture
11 14 (2.32%) PKI
12 13 (2.15%) Cyber Defence
13 10 (1.66%) Onboarding
14 9 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (0.83%) CESG
15 5 (0.83%) Cloud Native
15 5 (0.83%) Product Ownership
15 5 (0.83%) Replication
16 4 (0.66%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 34 (5.63%) Windows
2 18 (2.98%) Linux
3 9 (1.49%) Unix
4 5 (0.83%) Mac OS X
4 5 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.66%) CentOS
5 4 (0.66%) Solaris
5 4 (0.66%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.66%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (66.06%) Information Security
2 373 (61.75%) Cybersecurity
3 228 (37.75%) Risk Management
4 156 (25.83%) Incident Response
5 123 (20.36%) Security Architecture
6 103 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
7 101 (16.72%) Computer Science
8 91 (15.07%) Vulnerability Management
9 90 (14.90%) Security Operations
10 87 (14.40%) Incident Management
11 85 (14.07%) SIEM
12 78 (12.91%) Security Management
13 69 (11.42%) Data Protection
14 65 (10.76%) Cloud Security
15 64 (10.60%) Application Security
16 61 (10.10%) Information Security Management
17 59 (9.77%) Roadmaps
18 55 (9.11%) OWASP
19 54 (8.94%) Penetration Testing
20 52 (8.61%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 27 (4.47%) Python
2 11 (1.82%) PowerShell
3 8 (1.32%) SQL
4 5 (0.83%) C
4 5 (0.83%) Java
4 5 (0.83%) R
4 5 (0.83%) Scala
5 3 (0.50%) Bash
6 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 564 (93.38%) CISSP
2 218 (36.09%) CISA
3 196 (32.45%) Degree
4 161 (26.66%) CRISC
5 123 (20.36%) Security Cleared
6 113 (18.71%) SC Cleared
7 62 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
8 53 (8.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 49 (8.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 49 (8.11%) CESG Certified Professional
10 47 (7.78%) AWS Certification
11 46 (7.62%) CCSP
11 46 (7.62%) CEH
12 42 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
13 41 (6.79%) Azure Certification
14 40 (6.62%) GIAC
15 39 (6.46%) Master's Degree
16 38 (6.29%) CompTIA Security+
17 33 (5.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 27 (4.47%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (43.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 218 (36.09%) NIST
3 101 (16.72%) GDPR
4 85 (14.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 84 (13.91%) GRC
6 61 (10.10%) PCI DSS
7 48 (7.95%) NCSC
8 47 (7.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 38 (6.29%) COBIT
10 21 (3.48%) NIST 800
11 13 (2.15%) IASME
11 13 (2.15%) ISO 22301
11 13 (2.15%) JSP 440
11 13 (2.15%) QA
12 12 (1.99%) HIPAA
12 12 (1.99%) RMADS
13 11 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 9 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 9 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (1.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (4.14%) Active Directory
2 24 (3.97%) Docker
3 5 (0.83%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.17%) pfSense
5 1 (0.17%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (5.46%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.47%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (1.66%) Ansible
4 9 (1.49%) CASB
4 9 (1.49%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 8 (1.32%) Nessus
6 3 (0.50%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.17%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.17%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.17%) RSA Security Analytics
Vendors
1 73 (12.09%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.48%) Dell
3 14 (2.32%) Qualys
4 11 (1.82%) Citrix
5 10 (1.66%) Cisco
6 9 (1.49%) Alibaba
6 9 (1.49%) Splunk
7 7 (1.16%) ServiceNow
8 6 (0.99%) Google
8 6 (0.99%) VMware
9 5 (0.83%) Meraki
10 4 (0.66%) CheckPoint
10 4 (0.66%) Zscaler
11 3 (0.50%) Rapid7
12 2 (0.33%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.33%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.33%) Oracle
12 2 (0.33%) Sophos
13 1 (0.17%) HP
13 1 (0.17%) SAP