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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 57 59
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 +10
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 9 7 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.80% 1.03% 1.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.88% 6.09% 10.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile - - £251
25th Percentile £438 £400 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £402 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.19% -10.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £535 - £494
90th Percentile £536 £461 £663
England median daily rate £563 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +2.27% -4.35% -1.76%

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 153 115 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.65% 16.94% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 80 66
10th Percentile £339 £171 £200
25th Percentile £394 £350 £279
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £400 £434
Median % change year-on-year +12.13% -7.83% -3.56%
75th Percentile £548 £449 £599
90th Percentile £656 £493 £630
England median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.90% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 15
10th Percentile £12.76 £15.12 £10.35
25th Percentile £12.82 £16.66 £12.75
Median hourly rate £16.13 £23.00 £21.73
Median % change year-on-year -29.87% +5.84% -66.57%
75th Percentile £24.29 £25.11 £26.15
90th Percentile £25.50 £29.88 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year +10.77% +35.42% -39.26%

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
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 25 June 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 +2 5 £447 +11.47% 1
Derbyshire - 3 - - 4
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 4
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Network Security
1 3 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Financial Institution
1 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 1 (11.11%) Aviation
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Information Assurance Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) Information Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) Programme Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Auditor
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Migration Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Security Auditor
3 1 (11.11%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) OAuth
1 3 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 3 (33.33%) OpenID
1 3 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (55.56%) Runbook
2 5 (55.56%) SDLC
2 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (44.44%) Data Protection
3 4 (44.44%) Impact Assessments
3 4 (44.44%) Information Security
3 4 (44.44%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Remediation Plan
3 4 (44.44%) Risk Management
3 4 (44.44%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (33.33%) OWASP
4 3 (33.33%) Red Team
4 3 (33.33%) SABSA
4 3 (33.33%) Security Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) SIEM
4 3 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CISM
1 3 (33.33%) CISSP
2 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (22.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (11.11%) CRISC
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) GDPR
1 5 (55.56%) GRC
1 5 (55.56%) NIST
1 5 (55.56%) PCI DSS
2 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (33.33%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) OneTrust
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow