ISO/IEC 27001 Contract Job Trends in the East of England

ISO/IEC 27001
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 70 94
Rank change year-on-year -18 +24 +20
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 21 9 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.05% 0.92% 0.84%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.21% 5.84% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 15
10th Percentile £438 £483 £345
25th Percentile £506 £494 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £510 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.54% -18.48% +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £544 £650
90th Percentile £675 £578 £698
England median daily rate £550 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -7.56% +3.48% -4.17%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 338 154 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.91% 15.76% 9.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 88 114
10th Percentile £313 £258 £260
25th Percentile £433 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £544 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +17.57% +2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £560
90th Percentile £675 £725 £650
England median daily rate £510 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.09% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 23 29
10th Percentile £15.31 £17.40 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.69 £22.61 £14.27
Median hourly rate £18.50 £31.64 £15.79
Median % change year-on-year -41.53% +100.38% -9.77%
75th Percentile £20.34 £73.13 £24.00
90th Percentile £32.79 £85.40 £25.00
England median hourly rate £28.55 £32.50 £22.32
% change year-on-year -12.15% +45.64% -46.23%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

ISO/IEC 27001 job vacancy trend in the East of England

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the East of England over the 6 months to 29 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the East of England

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

ISO/IEC 27001
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 29 March 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
Hertfordshire -19 6 £564 +12.80% 5
Suffolk +6 5 £500 -3.66% 3
Cambridgeshire 0 4 £613 +2.08% 4
Norfolk - 4 - - 2
Bedfordshire -7 2 £348 -30.50% 1
ISO/IEC 27001
England

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (38.10%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) Serverless
3 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) AWS KMS
5 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Firewall
1 4 (19.05%) Network Security
2 3 (14.29%) VPN
3 2 (9.52%) ADSL
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (9.52%) IPsec
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (4.76%) DHCP
4 1 (4.76%) DNS
4 1 (4.76%) LAN
4 1 (4.76%) Modbus
4 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
4 1 (4.76%) WAN
4 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (9.52%) Data Vault
1 2 (9.52%) MySQL
1 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
1 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Police
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Security Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Security Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Cyber Threat Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Designer
4 2 (9.52%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Designer
4 2 (9.52%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Security Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Compliance Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Cyber Threat Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Threat Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.76%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 5 (23.81%) Operational Technology
3 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
3 4 (19.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (19.05%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (19.05%) SCADA
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
4 2 (9.52%) N-Tier
4 2 (9.52%) PKI
5 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (47.62%) Incident Response
3 9 (42.86%) Security Operations
4 8 (38.10%) Cloud Security
4 8 (38.10%) Threat Detection
5 7 (33.33%) Information Security
6 6 (28.57%) Security Architecture
6 6 (28.57%) SIEM
6 6 (28.57%) Threat Intelligence
7 5 (23.81%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 5 (23.81%) Decision-Making
7 5 (23.81%) Threat Modelling
8 4 (19.05%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
8 4 (19.05%) Cyber Intelligence
8 4 (19.05%) DevOps
8 4 (19.05%) Information Assurance
8 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (19.05%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 3 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.52%) Bash
3 2 (9.52%) Ruby
3 2 (9.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) AWS Certification
4 3 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (14.29%) CISSP
5 2 (9.52%) CCIE
5 2 (9.52%) CCNP
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.76%) CCIE Security
6 1 (4.76%) CCNA
6 1 (4.76%) CCSP
6 1 (4.76%) CISM
6 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.76%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (61.90%) NIST
2 7 (33.33%) GDPR
3 5 (23.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (19.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (19.05%) PCI DSS
5 3 (14.29%) NCSC
6 2 (9.52%) GRC
6 2 (9.52%) HIPAA
6 2 (9.52%) ISA99
6 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (4.76%) Def Stans
7 1 (4.76%) GPG13
7 1 (4.76%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Fortinet
2 3 (14.29%) Cisco
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) Computacenter
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) Splunk
3 2 (9.52%) VMware
4 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.76%) Zscaler