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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 479 516
Rank change year-on-year -80 +37 +156
Contract jobs citing ISO 22301 15 9 32
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.041% 0.035% 0.085%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.24% 0.23% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 21
10th Percentile £401 £478 £413
25th Percentile £422 £501 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -1.82% +12.82%
75th Percentile £634 £595 £644
90th Percentile £713 £628 £700
UK median daily rate £505 £540 £575
% change year-on-year -6.57% -6.09% -

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 6,334 3,861 5,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.41% 15.11% 14.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,089 2,370 3,512
10th Percentile £325 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £379 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -4.71% -
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £516
% change year-on-year - -3.10% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 158 339
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.50 £11.95
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.44 £14.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £32.66 £25.38
Median % change year-on-year -20.04% +28.66% -34.50%
75th Percentile £64.63 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.20 £78.40 £72.02
UK median hourly rate £28.28 £31.76 £25.00
% change year-on-year -10.97% +27.04% -28.57%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -40 6 £505 -0.59% 3
London -41 3 £713 +9.62% 4
Midlands - 2 £488 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £488 -
North of England -64 1 - - 1
North East - 1 - -
South West - 1 £605 - 2
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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Metadata
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Security Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) Service Continuity Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Business Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Business Continuity Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Compliance Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Management Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Replication
1 2 (13.33%) Taxonomies
2 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Hedge funds
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Business Continuity
1 11 (73.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (53.33%) Risk Management
3 7 (46.67%) ITIL
4 5 (33.33%) Runbook
5 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (20.00%) Resilience Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (20.00%) TOGAF
7 2 (13.33%) Cyber Resilience
7 2 (13.33%) GAP Analysis
7 2 (13.33%) Impact Analysis
7 2 (13.33%) Impact Assessments
7 2 (13.33%) Problem Management
7 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
8 1 (6.67%) Business Strategy
8 1 (6.67%) Incident Response
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (6.67%) CISA
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) NIST
2 5 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (26.67%) GRC
4 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (6.67%) COBIT
5 1 (6.67%) ISO 14001
5 1 (6.67%) ISO 31000
5 1 (6.67%) ISO 9001
5 1 (6.67%) MiFID
5 1 (6.67%) NCSC
5 1 (6.67%) NIST 800
5 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) Commvault
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Veeam
2 2 (13.33%) Zerto
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco