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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 76 91
Rank change year-on-year -2 +15 +15
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 33 19 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.49% 1.47% 0.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.71% 8.92% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 4
10th Percentile £426 £315 £151
25th Percentile £466 £431 £167
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £388
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +35.31% -29.45%
75th Percentile £631 £531 £647
90th Percentile £733 £573 £686
England median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 £32.74 -
Median % change year-on-year +144.39% - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £52.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +42.86% +90.91% -57.13%

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 379 213 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 17.12% 16.52% 9.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 96 64
10th Percentile £350 £209 £224
25th Percentile £428 £356 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year +1.70% +33.33% -22.48%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £644 £618
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 41 20
10th Percentile £12.84 £13.50 £14.27
25th Percentile £14.76 £16.92 £14.85
Median hourly rate £27.96 £31.64 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +26.56% +40.17%
75th Percentile £66.88 £88.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £91.50 £68.08
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £27.50
% change year-on-year +14.00% +15.05% -21.43%

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 31 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the East of England over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

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

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 31 August 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 -3 19 £600 +140.96% 5
Norfolk -6 5 - - 3
Suffolk -8 5 £500 - 2
Bedfordshire -4 3 £710 +35.24% 9
Cambridgeshire +4 1 £400 -23.81% 7
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 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) AWS
2 8 (24.24%) Azure
3 4 (12.12%) Serverless
4 3 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (9.09%) SaaS
5 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
5 2 (6.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.06%) GCP
5 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.03%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) Firewall
2 6 (18.18%) Network Security
3 5 (15.15%) VPN
4 2 (6.06%) ADSL
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (6.06%) IPsec
5 1 (3.03%) VLAN
5 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (6.06%) Data Vault
1 2 (6.06%) MySQL
1 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
1 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) MSI
General
1 11 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Military
4 4 (12.12%) Manufacturing
5 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Finance
7 1 (3.03%) Automotive
7 1 (3.03%) Electronics
7 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Coordinator
2 7 (21.21%) Architect
3 5 (15.15%) Security Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Consultant
4 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (6.06%) Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Designer
5 2 (6.06%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Designer
5 2 (6.06%) Lead Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Product Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) SailPoint Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Technical Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Security Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Security Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) SailPoint
2 2 (6.06%) AWS CDK
2 2 (6.06%) Terraform
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 13 (39.39%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (15.15%) Onboarding
3 4 (12.12%) Management Information System
3 4 (12.12%) Operational Technology
3 4 (12.12%) SCADA
4 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 3 (9.09%) PKI
4 3 (9.09%) Virtual Team
5 2 (6.06%) N-Tier
6 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (57.58%) Cybersecurity
1 19 (57.58%) Stakeholder Management
2 18 (54.55%) Incident Response
2 18 (54.55%) Information Security
2 18 (54.55%) Risk Management
3 15 (45.45%) Security Management
4 14 (42.42%) Security Operations
4 14 (42.42%) Vulnerability Management
5 13 (39.39%) Information Security Management
6 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (18.18%) Cloud Security
8 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
8 5 (15.15%) DevOps
8 5 (15.15%) Due Diligence
8 5 (15.15%) Migration
9 4 (12.12%) Generative AI
9 4 (12.12%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (12.12%) Incident Management
9 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (12.12%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 5 (15.15%) Python
3 3 (9.09%) Bash
4 2 (6.06%) Ruby
4 2 (6.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Security Cleared
2 9 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) AWS Certification
3 4 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (12.12%) Degree
4 3 (9.09%) CCSP
4 3 (9.09%) CISSP
5 2 (6.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.06%) CISM
5 2 (6.06%) ISACA
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.03%) CCIE
6 1 (3.03%) CCNA
6 1 (3.03%) CCNP
6 1 (3.03%) CRISC
6 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (3.03%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (63.64%) GDPR
2 7 (21.21%) NIST
3 5 (15.15%) NCSC
4 3 (9.09%) ISA99
4 3 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (6.06%) NIST 800
5 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
5 2 (6.06%) SOC 2
6 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (3.03%) Def Stans
6 1 (3.03%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) Firmware
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Fortinet
3 2 (6.06%) Cisco
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle
3 2 (6.06%) VMware
4 1 (3.03%) Juniper
4 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.03%) SAP
4 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow