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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 73 98
Rank change year-on-year -23 +25 +12
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 15 14 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.68% 1.41% 0.56%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.31% 7.95% 6.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 9
10th Percentile £423 £360 £168
25th Percentile £456 £486 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £522 £365
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +43.01% -33.94%
75th Percentile £681 £525 £600
90th Percentile £735 £575 £653
England median daily rate £563 £551 £555
% change year-on-year +2.18% -0.81% -6.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £31.49 -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +2.67% +123.62% -60.71%

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 348 176 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.71% 17.67% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 86 88
10th Percentile £381 £247 £243
25th Percentile £463 £375 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £410
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +28.05% -8.89%
75th Percentile £638 £605 £538
90th Percentile £675 £675 £600
England median daily rate £500 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -0.79% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 30 31
10th Percentile £13.86 £17.58 £14.41
25th Percentile £16.53 £28.03 £15.19
Median hourly rate £20.05 £60.75 £15.79
Median % change year-on-year -67.00% +284.74% -9.77%
75th Percentile £32.79 £78.75 £25.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £88.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £33.98 £34.50 £23.90
% change year-on-year -1.51% +44.35% -43.76%

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 8 June 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 8 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
Suffolk -2 5 £500 -3.66% 2
Norfolk - 5 - - 3
Hertfordshire -21 3 £663 +76.90% 5
Bedfordshire -12 1 £710 +35.24%
Cambridgeshire - 1 £400 - 10
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (26.67%) Serverless
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (13.33%) Azure AKS
5 2 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (13.33%) GCP
5 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
6 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Network Security
2 5 (33.33%) Firewall
2 5 (33.33%) VPN
3 2 (13.33%) ADSL
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (13.33%) IPsec
4 1 (6.67%) VLAN
4 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (13.33%) Data Vault
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) MSI
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Electronics
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Designer
3 2 (13.33%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Compliance Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Governance Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Migration Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Risk Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Security Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Operational Technology
1 4 (26.67%) SCADA
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (20.00%) PKI
3 2 (13.33%) N-Tier
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Generative AI
3 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
3 4 (26.67%) Information Security
3 4 (26.67%) Security Architecture
4 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (13.33%) Auto-Scaling
5 2 (13.33%) Capacity Management
5 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
5 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) SABSA
5 2 (13.33%) SDLC
5 2 (13.33%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) Bash
4 2 (13.33%) Ruby
4 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) AWS Certification
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) CCSP
3 3 (20.00%) CISSP
4 2 (13.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (13.33%) CISM
4 2 (13.33%) Degree
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) CCIE
5 1 (6.67%) CCNA
5 1 (6.67%) CCNP
5 1 (6.67%) CRISC
5 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) GDPR
1 5 (33.33%) NIST
2 3 (20.00%) ISA99
2 3 (20.00%) NCSC
3 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (13.33%) SOC 2
4 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (6.67%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 2 (13.33%) VMware
4 1 (6.67%) Juniper
4 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow