ISO/IEC 27001 Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

ISO/IEC 27001
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 57 88
Rank change year-on-year -7 +31 +33
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 3 16 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.48% 1.98% 0.83%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.31% 9.82% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 7
10th Percentile £414 £535 £452
25th Percentile £415 £550 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £575 £545
Median % change year-on-year -22.61% +5.60% +5.73%
75th Percentile £474 £608 £588
90th Percentile £475 £788 £590
Scotland median daily rate £445 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -22.61% +2.22% -4.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 130 163 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.93% 20.17% 25.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 95 203
10th Percentile £233 £178 £215
25th Percentile £413 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -3.23% -0.75%
75th Percentile £500 £565 £526
90th Percentile £561 £619 £588
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% -0.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 1
10th Percentile £24.27 £16.50 -
25th Percentile £32.50 £18.07 £57.50
Median hourly rate £48.75 £18.27 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +166.83% -69.55% +217.46%
75th Percentile £60.94 £18.95 £62.50
90th Percentile £66.88 £47.09 -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £14.98 £21.75
% change year-on-year +133.64% -31.13% +6.36%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in Edinburgh

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing ISO/IEC 27001.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing ISO/IEC 27001

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Information Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Security Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) SailPoint
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) IT Audit
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISA
1 3 (100.00%) CISM
1 3 (100.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 2 (66.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (33.33%) CISSP
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) COBIT
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Tenable
2 1 (33.33%) Rapid7