ISO 22301 Contract Job Trends in England

ISO 22301
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring ISO 22301 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 473 518
Rank change year-on-year -89 +45 +138
Contract jobs citing ISO 22301 19 9 23
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.048% 0.037% 0.062%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.28% 0.23% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 19
10th Percentile £403 £506 £423
25th Percentile £425 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £594 £641
90th Percentile £601 £658 £665
UK median daily rate £514 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.55% -4.35% +13.86%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

ISO 22301 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,715 3,847 5,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.01% 15.71% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,373 2,476 3,381
10th Percentile £340 £269 £303
25th Percentile £413 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £604 £627 £638
90th Percentile £700 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 413 155 341
10th Percentile £14.02 £17.69 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.21 £12.84
Median hourly rate £30.49 £34.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.62% +68.29% -50.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.58 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £32.96 £20.46
% change year-on-year -5.95% +61.09% -45.44%

ISO 22301
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISO 22301 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

ISO 22301 job vacancy trend in England

ISO 22301
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ISO 22301.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ISO 22301

ISO 22301
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO 22301 in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 22301 in England

ISO 22301
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISO 22301 within the England region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
South East -42 8 £520 +2.36% 2
London -44 5 - - 2
Midlands - 2 £450 - 3
South West - 2 £578 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £450 - 3
North of England -77 1 - - 4
North East - 1 - -
ISO 22301
UK

ISO 22301
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 3 (15.79%) Confluence
1 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (5.26%) dbt
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) Serverless
3 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Metadata
2 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Finance
5 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Law
5 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
2 3 (15.79%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Business Continuity Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) Commvault Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Business Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Business Continuity Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Business Continuity Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Business Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Change Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Compliance Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) DBA
4 1 (5.26%) Disaster Recovery Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Management Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Service Continuity Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.26%) SQL DBA
4 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (15.79%) CMDB
2 3 (15.79%) Taxonomies
3 2 (10.53%) Replication
4 1 (5.26%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (63.16%) Business Continuity
3 10 (52.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (52.63%) Risk Management
4 8 (42.11%) Runbook
5 6 (31.58%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (31.58%) ITIL
6 4 (21.05%) AI
6 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (15.79%) GAP Analysis
7 3 (15.79%) Impact Assessments
7 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (10.53%) Analytical Thinking
8 2 (10.53%) Change Management
8 2 (10.53%) Cyber Resilience
8 2 (10.53%) High Availability
8 2 (10.53%) Impact Analysis
8 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (10.53%) Project Management
8 2 (10.53%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
1 3 (15.79%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) CISSP
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) APMG
3 1 (5.26%) BC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (47.37%) NIST
2 6 (31.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (26.32%) GRC
4 3 (15.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (15.79%) ISO 31000
5 1 (5.26%) COBIT
5 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
5 1 (5.26%) GDPR
5 1 (5.26%) ISO 14001
5 1 (5.26%) ISO 9001
5 1 (5.26%) NIST 800
5 1 (5.26%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Commvault
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
2 2 (10.53%) Veeam
2 2 (10.53%) Zerto
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle