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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 72 85
Rank change year-on-year -10 +13 +35
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 19 13 23
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.19% 1.15% 1.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.69% 7.18% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 10
10th Percentile £390 £475 £459
25th Percentile £513 £488 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £575 £649
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% -11.40% -0.15%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £650 £610 £698
England median daily rate £525 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.25
Median hourly rate - - £44.50
75th Percentile - - £46.75
90th Percentile - - £49.00
England median hourly rate £36.00 £73.60 £44.50
% change year-on-year -51.09% +65.39% -11.00%

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 247 181 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.43% 16.06% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 85 111
10th Percentile £310 £287 £299
25th Percentile £411 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 20 25
10th Percentile £15.53 £17.04 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £24.06 £14.16
Median hourly rate £18.50 £36.31 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.05% -18.40% +151.13%
75th Percentile £20.05 £69.50 £46.75
90th Percentile £39.48 £75.00 £52.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.67 £34.50
% change year-on-year -17.98% -11.12% +46.59%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 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
Cambridgeshire -6 6 £575 -4.17% 35
Hertfordshire -19 6 £602 +20.30% 61
Bedfordshire -6 3 £348 -30.50% 34
Suffolk - 3 £550 - 16
Essex - 1 £375 - 42
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 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) GCP
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 2 (10.53%) Serverless
5 1 (5.26%) AWS KMS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) Network Security
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (5.26%) DHCP
2 1 (5.26%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) LAN
2 1 (5.26%) Modbus
2 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.26%) VPN
2 1 (5.26%) WAN
2 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Burp Suite
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Finance
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.26%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Security Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Security Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) Security Architect
3 2 (10.53%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Security Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) eBPF
1 1 (5.26%) HTML
1 1 (5.26%) JSON
1 1 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Security Posture
2 5 (26.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 5 (26.32%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (10.53%) Operational Technology
5 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 1 (5.26%) SCADA
5 1 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Incident Response
1 10 (52.63%) Security Operations
2 8 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (42.11%) Threat Detection
3 7 (36.84%) SIEM
3 7 (36.84%) Threat Intelligence
3 7 (36.84%) Threat Modelling
4 6 (31.58%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 6 (31.58%) Decision-Making
5 5 (26.32%) Cloud Security
5 5 (26.32%) Cyber Intelligence
5 5 (26.32%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 4 (21.05%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (21.05%) Cyber Threat Analysis
6 4 (21.05%) DevOps
6 4 (21.05%) Information Security
6 4 (21.05%) OSINT
6 4 (21.05%) SOAR
6 4 (21.05%) Threat Analysis
6 4 (21.05%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
1 2 (10.53%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) Bash
2 1 (5.26%) Bicep
2 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 6 (31.58%) CISSP
3 3 (15.79%) CISM
4 2 (10.53%) CEH
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (10.53%) Degree
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.26%) CCIE
5 1 (5.26%) CCIE Security
5 1 (5.26%) CCNP
5 1 (5.26%) CCSP
5 1 (5.26%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.26%) CRISC
5 1 (5.26%) GIAC
5 1 (5.26%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (94.74%) NIST
2 7 (36.84%) GDPR
3 6 (31.58%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (21.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (15.79%) GRC
5 3 (15.79%) HIPAA
5 3 (15.79%) PCI DSS
6 1 (5.26%) Def Stans
6 1 (5.26%) GPG13
6 1 (5.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (5.26%) ISO 22301
6 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (5.26%) JSP 440
6 1 (5.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.26%) Nexpose
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Computacenter
2 2 (10.53%) Fortinet
2 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
2 2 (10.53%) Splunk
2 2 (10.53%) Tenable
3 1 (5.26%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) Citrix
3 1 (5.26%) Cribl.io
3 1 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.26%) Qualys
3 1 (5.26%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Zscaler