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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 91 95
Rank change year-on-year +19 +4 +29
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 20 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.54% 0.40% 0.91%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.05% 4.00% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 7
10th Percentile £327 £151 £448
25th Percentile £466 £167 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £376 £550
Median % change year-on-year +39.81% -31.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £541 £597 £581
90th Percentile £573 £614 £612
England median daily rate £550 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -5.58% -2.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £28.32 - -
25th Percentile £29.51 - £42.25
Median hourly rate £32.74 - £44.50
75th Percentile £100.00 - £48.44
90th Percentile £103.30 - £49.00
England median hourly rate £33.50 £31.25 £48.25
% change year-on-year +7.20% -35.23% +96.94%

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 221 150 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 17.03% 9.93% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 67 128
10th Percentile £212 £255 £274
25th Percentile £356 £322 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £495
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -14.14% +16.47%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £598 £718
England median daily rate £500 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.60% +2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 21 25
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.41 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.45 £14.99 £13.29
Median hourly rate £31.64 £25.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.56% +8.70% +37.31%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.75 £49.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £30.56 £36.75
% change year-on-year +6.35% -16.84% +61.54%

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

Job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 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 16 September 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
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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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
Bedfordshire - 10 £525 - 6
Hertfordshire +4 4 £249 +41.48% 10
Cambridgeshire 0 2 £525 -8.70% 4
Suffolk - 2 £550 - 5
Essex - 1 £375 - 7
Norfolk - 1 £500 - 2
ISO/IEC 27001
England

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (35.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (25.00%) AWS
5 5 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (25.00%) OneDrive
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (10.00%) AWS KMS
6 2 (10.00%) GCP
6 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
7 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Network Security
1 2 (10.00%) SSL
1 2 (10.00%) X.509
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (5.00%) DHCP
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) LAN
2 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
2 1 (5.00%) WAN
2 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) French Language
3 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Design Engineer
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 6 (30.00%) Security Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Compliance Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Information Security Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Risk Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Security Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Security Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Security Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Applications Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) FIDO
1 1 (5.00%) HTML
1 1 (5.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 4 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) PKI
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 8 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 8 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 8 (40.00%) Zero Trust
3 7 (35.00%) Impact Analysis
3 7 (35.00%) Incident Response
4 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 5 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 5 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
4 5 (25.00%) Identity Management
4 5 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 5 (25.00%) Privileged Identity Management
5 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (20.00%) Information Security
5 4 (20.00%) ITIL
5 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (20.00%) SIEM
6 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (15.00%) OWASP
6 3 (15.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) CISSP
2 7 (35.00%) Degree
3 6 (30.00%) CISM
3 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (20.00%) OSCP
5 3 (15.00%) CEH
6 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (10.00%) CRISC
6 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
7 1 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (5.00%) CCIE
7 1 (5.00%) CCIE Security
7 1 (5.00%) CCNP
7 1 (5.00%) CCSP
7 1 (5.00%) CISA
7 1 (5.00%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (5.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (95.00%) NIST
2 14 (70.00%) GDPR
3 7 (35.00%) HIPAA
4 5 (25.00%) PCI DSS
5 4 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (20.00%) GRC
6 3 (15.00%) COBIT
6 3 (15.00%) SOC 2
7 2 (10.00%) FIPS 140-2
7 2 (10.00%) NIST 800
8 1 (5.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (5.00%) ISO 22301
8 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (5.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Nexpose
1 1 (5.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Tenable
2 2 (10.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (5.00%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco
3 1 (5.00%) Citrix
3 1 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.00%) Qualys
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) Thycotic
3 1 (5.00%) VMware