ISO/IEC 27001 Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

ISO/IEC 27001
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 47 57
Rank change year-on-year -25 +10 +27
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 12 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.16% 0.78% 0.78%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.74% 4.76% 7.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £383 £293 -
25th Percentile £430 £319 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -11.11% -35.71%
75th Percentile £469 £494 £475
90th Percentile £536 £528 -
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

ISO/IEC 27001 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 155 84 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 14.99% 16.37% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 54 49
10th Percentile £313 £168 £200
25th Percentile £384 £281 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £382 £443
Median % change year-on-year +14.60% -13.83% +12.87%
75th Percentile £538 £479 £595
90th Percentile £650 £524 £623
England median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 14
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.50 £9.95
25th Percentile £12.94 £16.88 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.81 £20.60 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +10.73% -13.25% -32.15%
75th Percentile £25.50 £25.19 £26.15
90th Percentile £26.60 £29.13 £34.48
England median hourly rate £29.04 £33.11 £20.50
% change year-on-year -12.29% +61.51% -49.38%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

ISO/IEC 27001 job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ISO/IEC 27001.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ISO/IEC 27001

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 14 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the East Midlands

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ISO/IEC 27001.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ISO/IEC 27001

ISO/IEC 27001
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire - 8 £438 - 4
Derbyshire -9 2 - - 3
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 2
ISO/IEC 27001
England

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
2 5 (41.67%) GCP
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 3 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (8.33%) Google Workspace
5 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Network Security
1 3 (25.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) Aviation
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Programme Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Chief Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Chief Enterprise Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Officer
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Information Assurance Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Information Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Migration Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Security Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) OAuth
1 3 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (25.00%) OpenID
1 3 (25.00%) SAML
2 1 (8.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Mac OS
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (58.33%) Data Protection
1 7 (58.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
3 5 (41.67%) Runbook
3 5 (41.67%) SDLC
3 5 (41.67%) Zero Trust
4 4 (33.33%) Business Strategy
4 4 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
4 4 (33.33%) TOGAF
5 3 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (25.00%) Data Flow Diagram
5 3 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
5 3 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
5 3 (25.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Bicep
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (16.67%) CISM
1 2 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) CISA
2 1 (8.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) GDPR
2 5 (41.67%) NIST
2 5 (41.67%) PCI DSS
3 4 (33.33%) GRC
3 4 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (25.00%) SOC 2
5 1 (8.33%) COBIT
5 1 (8.33%) ISO 9001
5 1 (8.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (16.67%) SCCM
3 1 (8.33%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Splunk
3 2 (16.67%) Citrix
3 2 (16.67%) Google
3 2 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (8.33%) Alteryx
4 1 (8.33%) Rapid7
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow