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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 61 56
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +20
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 20 9 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.55% 1.15% 1.62%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.49% 9.09% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 5 13
10th Percentile £385 £249 £260
25th Percentile £402 £263 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £489 - £675
90th Percentile £508 £695 £695
England median daily rate £550 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -5.58% -2.92% -

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 138 99 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.58% 12.63% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 55 81
10th Percentile £294 £263 £263
25th Percentile £358 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +11.11% +11.11%
75th Percentile £469 £600 £550
90th Percentile £538 £740 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.60% +2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 9
10th Percentile £15.12 - £10.77
25th Percentile £17.69 £12.75 £16.66
Median hourly rate £20.83 £13.50 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +54.30% -34.18% +4.30%
75th Percentile £25.11 £28.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £29.88 £47.35 £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £30.56 £37.50
% change year-on-year +6.35% -18.51% +66.67%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 -3 13 £425 - 9
Nottinghamshire -5 4 £464 +19.68% 9
Derbyshire - 1 - - 6
ISO/IEC 27001
England

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 11 (55.00%) AWS
3 7 (35.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (25.00%) GCP
6 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (5.00%) Cloudflare
8 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Power BI
1 3 (15.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Legal
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.00%) Local Government
5 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Security Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Product Owner
2 3 (15.00%) Programme Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Information Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Programme Director
4 1 (5.00%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Security Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) SailPoint
2 3 (15.00%) FIDO
3 1 (5.00%) Loki
3 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Mac OS
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 7 (35.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 6 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (30.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (30.00%) Identity Management
3 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 6 (30.00%) Thought Leadership
3 6 (30.00%) User Experience
3 6 (30.00%) Zero Trust
4 5 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (25.00%) Information Security
5 4 (20.00%) Budgeting
5 4 (20.00%) Business Transformation
5 4 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
5 4 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 4 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (15.00%) Digital Identity
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Bash
1 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) CISM
1 5 (25.00%) CISSP
2 4 (20.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 3 (15.00%) CISA
3 3 (15.00%) Degree
4 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.00%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (50.00%) GDPR
2 7 (35.00%) NIST
3 6 (30.00%) NIST 800
4 4 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (15.00%) COBIT
5 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (5.00%) ISO 9001
7 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (30.00%) SCCM
3 3 (15.00%) RSA Archer
3 3 (15.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) Citrix
2 6 (30.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) Alteryx
3 3 (15.00%) Rapid7
4 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.00%) Red Hat