ISO/IEC 27001 Contract Job Trends in England

ISO/IEC 27001
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 154 231
Rank change year-on-year -5 +77 -42
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 732 500 356
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 1.82% 1.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.35% 10.64% 7.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 346 279
10th Percentile £413 £353 £400
25th Percentile £488 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%
75th Percentile £650 £665 £675
90th Percentile £750 £774 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 10 2
10th Percentile £43.81 £29.31 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £35.77 £26.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £57.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +107.26% -60.71%
75th Percentile £82.25 £69.94 £28.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £100.55 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £57.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +31.58% +107.26% -57.13%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,833 4,701 4,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.33% 17.09% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,016 3,077 2,884
10th Percentile £345 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £506
% change year-on-year - -1.19% -3.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 526 215 299
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £10.95
25th Percentile £19.55 £18.21 £14.43
Median hourly rate £38.86 £31.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.37% +14.55% -34.16%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.55 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £25.60
% change year-on-year +46.25% +6.84% -32.63%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

ISO/IEC 27001 job vacancy trend in England

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in England over the 6 months to 30 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in England

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ISO/IEC 27001.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ISO/IEC 27001

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in England over the 6 months to 30 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in England

ISO/IEC 27001
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/IEC 27001 within the England region over the 6 months to 30 July 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
London -13 308 £550 -4.35% 177
South East +13 243 £563 -6.25% 118
North of England -70 53 £540 -1.82% 74
Midlands -39 50 £500 +11.11% 36
West Midlands -39 45 £500 +11.11% 20
South West -45 36 £611 -2.20% 44
North West -38 31 £550 - 56
East of England -3 29 £515 +0.49% 21
Yorkshire -56 22 £520 +9.47% 15
East Midlands -17 5 £536 +26.12% 16
ISO/IEC 27001
UK

ISO/IEC 27001
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 24 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.73%) Confluence
3 12 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.96%) IIS
5 2 (0.27%) Apache
5 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
6 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.14%) nginx
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.82%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.14%) iTrent
3 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 250 (34.15%) Azure
2 155 (21.17%) AWS
3 111 (15.16%) Entra ID
4 79 (10.79%) GCP
5 68 (9.29%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (5.19%) SaaS
7 30 (4.10%) Microsoft Purview
8 28 (3.83%) Azure Sentinel
9 24 (3.28%) Serverless
10 21 (2.87%) GitHub
11 20 (2.73%) OCI
12 18 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (2.05%) Power Platform
14 12 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (1.50%) Azure Key Vault
16 10 (1.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 8 (1.09%) IaaS
17 8 (1.09%) PaaS
18 7 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
18 7 (0.96%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 64 (8.74%) Firewall
2 59 (8.06%) Network Security
3 23 (3.14%) VPN
4 14 (1.91%) DNS
5 12 (1.64%) NGFW
5 12 (1.64%) WAN
5 12 (1.64%) Wireless
6 11 (1.50%) Intrusion Detection
7 10 (1.37%) LAN
8 9 (1.23%) HTTP
9 8 (1.09%) SSH
10 7 (0.96%) SSL
10 7 (0.96%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.82%) DHCP
11 6 (0.82%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.82%) SAN
12 5 (0.68%) IPsec
12 5 (0.68%) Kerberos
12 5 (0.68%) NAS
12 5 (0.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.42%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.78%) Power BI
3 9 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (1.23%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.68%) Big Data
4 5 (0.68%) Metadata
5 4 (0.55%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.55%) Delta Lake
5 4 (0.55%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.27%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.27%) MySQL
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.14%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (3.55%) JIRA
2 7 (0.96%) Burp Suite
3 6 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.68%) Snyk
5 3 (0.41%) Git
5 3 (0.41%) GitLab
5 3 (0.41%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.27%) JMeter
6 2 (0.27%) MSTest
6 2 (0.27%) Selenium
6 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.14%) MSI
7 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.14%) sqlmap
General
1 247 (33.74%) Social Skills
2 117 (15.98%) Finance
3 102 (13.93%) Public Sector
4 100 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (9.15%) Documentation Skills
6 44 (6.01%) Legal
7 37 (5.05%) Aerospace
8 25 (3.42%) Banking
9 21 (2.87%) Manufacturing
10 18 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (2.46%) Military
11 17 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (2.05%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.50%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.09%) Retail
17 7 (0.96%) Law
18 6 (0.82%) Local Government
19 3 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 122 (16.67%) Architect
2 109 (14.89%) Analyst
3 74 (10.11%) Consultant
4 60 (8.20%) Lead
5 57 (7.79%) Security Architect
6 51 (6.97%) Security Consultant
7 48 (6.56%) Security Analyst
8 46 (6.28%) Security Engineer
9 41 (5.60%) Senior
10 38 (5.19%) Project Manager
11 35 (4.78%) Security Manager
12 32 (4.37%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 28 (3.83%) Business Analyst
14 24 (3.28%) Security Specialist
15 21 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (2.73%) Cybersecurity Architect
17 19 (2.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 19 (2.60%) Security Project Manager
18 18 (2.46%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 17 (2.32%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (4.23%) LDAP
2 30 (4.10%) OAuth
3 29 (3.96%) SAML
4 27 (3.69%) SailPoint
5 24 (3.28%) OpenID
6 18 (2.46%) OAuth2
7 13 (1.78%) REST
8 12 (1.64%) Web Services
9 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (0.82%) Kafka
12 5 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
13 4 (0.55%) 802.1X
13 4 (0.55%) Middleware
14 3 (0.41%) FIDO
14 3 (0.41%) GraphQL
14 3 (0.41%) JSON
15 2 (0.27%) ARM Templates
15 2 (0.27%) AWS CDK
15 2 (0.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 79 (10.79%) Operational Technology
2 72 (9.84%) Onboarding
3 55 (7.51%) Security Posture
4 48 (6.56%) Cloud Native
5 46 (6.28%) Management Information System
6 31 (4.23%) Cyber Threat
7 29 (3.96%) SCADA
8 24 (3.28%) Data Centre
9 21 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (2.60%) Security Operations Centre
11 18 (2.46%) PKI
12 17 (2.32%) Cyber Defence
13 16 (2.19%) Virtual Team
14 14 (1.91%) Product Ownership
15 13 (1.78%) CMDB
16 12 (1.64%) BYOD
16 12 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
17 11 (1.50%) NHS
18 10 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 115 (15.71%) Windows
2 72 (9.84%) Linux
3 40 (5.46%) Unix
4 39 (5.33%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.55%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.41%) CentOS
8 3 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.27%) AIX
9 2 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.27%) Android
9 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.27%) Solaris
9 2 (0.27%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (53.83%) Cybersecurity
2 200 (27.32%) Information Security
3 191 (26.09%) Risk Management
4 151 (20.63%) SIEM
4 151 (20.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 136 (18.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 126 (17.21%) Vulnerability Management
7 120 (16.39%) Incident Response
8 111 (15.16%) Cloud Security
9 107 (14.62%) Security Operations
10 106 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 102 (13.93%) Security Architecture
12 96 (13.11%) Roadmaps
13 85 (11.61%) Zero Trust
14 84 (11.48%) ITSM
15 83 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
16 82 (11.20%) CI/CD
17 80 (10.93%) Agile
18 79 (10.79%) DevOps
19 76 (10.38%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 105 (14.34%) PowerShell
2 94 (12.84%) Python
3 27 (3.69%) Bash
4 20 (2.73%) SQL
5 11 (1.50%) Bicep
6 6 (0.82%) Perl
7 3 (0.41%) C#
7 3 (0.41%) Java
7 3 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.27%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.27%) Ruby
9 1 (0.14%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.14%) Go
9 1 (0.14%) PHP
9 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 263 (35.93%) Security Cleared
2 206 (28.14%) SC Cleared
3 181 (24.73%) CISSP
4 129 (17.62%) CISM
5 105 (14.34%) Degree
6 62 (8.47%) Cisco Certification
7 49 (6.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 49 (6.69%) DV Cleared
8 38 (5.19%) CRISC
9 35 (4.78%) PMI Certification
10 33 (4.51%) PMP
11 32 (4.37%) CEH
12 31 (4.23%) CISA
13 30 (4.10%) CompTIA Security+
14 27 (3.69%) GIAC
14 27 (3.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 25 (3.42%) Azure Certification
16 23 (3.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 23 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
17 21 (2.87%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 455 (62.16%) NIST
2 187 (25.55%) GDPR
3 109 (14.89%) GRC
4 87 (11.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 72 (9.84%) PCI DSS
6 69 (9.43%) NCSC
7 64 (8.74%) SOC 2
8 39 (5.33%) COBIT
9 34 (4.64%) NIST 800
9 34 (4.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 31 (4.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 23 (3.14%) Data Quality
12 22 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 20 (2.73%) HIPAA
14 15 (2.05%) ISO 31000
14 15 (2.05%) JSP 440
15 14 (1.91%) SLA
16 12 (1.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 12 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 12 (1.64%) ITGC
System Software
1 129 (17.62%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.14%) Docker
3 16 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.78%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.41%) vSphere
6 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) Ceph
7 1 (0.14%) Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 37 (5.05%) Terraform
2 32 (4.37%) Kubernetes
3 30 (4.10%) Single Sign-On
4 25 (3.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (2.32%) Ansible
6 5 (0.68%) CASB
6 5 (0.68%) Grafana
6 5 (0.68%) QRadar
7 4 (0.55%) Nessus
7 4 (0.55%) Podman
7 4 (0.55%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.41%) Puppet
8 3 (0.41%) RSA Archer
9 2 (0.27%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.27%) Istio
9 2 (0.27%) Nexpose
9 2 (0.27%) Nmap
10 1 (0.14%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 162 (22.13%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.06%) CyberArk
3 44 (6.01%) ServiceNow
4 39 (5.33%) BeyondTrust
5 38 (5.19%) Oracle
6 20 (2.73%) Cisco
6 20 (2.73%) Splunk
7 17 (2.32%) Google
7 17 (2.32%) VMware
8 14 (1.91%) Palo Alto
9 13 (1.78%) Qualys
10 12 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
11 11 (1.50%) Tenable
12 9 (1.23%) Rapid7
13 8 (1.09%) Databricks
13 8 (1.09%) Fortinet
13 8 (1.09%) Juniper
13 8 (1.09%) SAP
14 7 (0.96%) Okta
14 7 (0.96%) SolarWinds
428 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England