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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 175 250
Rank change year-on-year +25 +75 -37
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 727 383 356
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 1.54% 0.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.99% 9.43% 7.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 256 279
10th Percentile £413 £327 £365
25th Percentile £493 £484 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -1.76%
75th Percentile £675 £655 £669
90th Percentile £776 £750 £740
UK median daily rate £563 £575 £568
% change year-on-year -2.17% +1.32% -2.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 9 2
10th Percentile £43.66 £29.11 -
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +123.62% -60.71%
75th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £82.72 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +2.67% +123.62% -59.00%

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 7,279 4,062 5,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.93% 16.37% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,708 2,614 3,197
10th Percentile £345 £269 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -4.71% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% -3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 176 387
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.14 £12.84
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.66 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% +36.06% -43.53%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.75 £49.38
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £31.76 £23.30
% change year-on-year +13.35% +36.34% -37.88%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +19 307 £575 - 98
South East +31 228 £563 -6.25% 104
North of England -48 64 £545 -0.91% 59
Midlands -30 48 £500 +11.11% 48
South West -14 41 £600 - 29
West Midlands -28 41 £500 -4.76% 33
North West -15 38 £577 +4.86% 37
Yorkshire -53 26 £520 +41.50% 15
East of England -23 18 £525 - 19
East Midlands -21 7 £447 +11.19% 15
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 20 (2.75%) Confluence
1 20 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.96%) IIS
4 3 (0.41%) Apache
4 3 (0.41%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.14%) nginx
6 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.69%) Maximo
1 5 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.14%) iTrent
2 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 251 (34.53%) Azure
2 174 (23.93%) AWS
3 90 (12.38%) Entra ID
4 87 (11.97%) GCP
5 68 (9.35%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (4.68%) Azure Sentinel
7 31 (4.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 29 (3.99%) SaaS
9 27 (3.71%) Serverless
10 23 (3.16%) GitHub
11 22 (3.03%) OpenShift
12 21 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (2.20%) OCI
13 16 (2.20%) Power Platform
14 15 (2.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 14 (1.93%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
17 11 (1.51%) Azure AKS
18 10 (1.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 65 (8.94%) Firewall
2 58 (7.98%) Network Security
3 32 (4.40%) VPN
4 17 (2.34%) DNS
5 9 (1.24%) BGP
5 9 (1.24%) HTTP
5 9 (1.24%) Intrusion Detection
5 9 (1.24%) NGFW
5 9 (1.24%) Wireless
6 8 (1.10%) MPLS
6 8 (1.10%) WAN
7 7 (0.96%) DHCP
7 7 (0.96%) LAN
7 7 (0.96%) SSH
8 6 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.83%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (0.83%) HTTPS
8 6 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (0.83%) SAN
8 6 (0.83%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.93%) Power BI
3 12 (1.65%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (0.96%) Metadata
7 6 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (0.83%) MySQL
8 5 (0.69%) Big Data
9 4 (0.55%) DocumentDB
9 4 (0.55%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.55%) Redis
10 3 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.41%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.41%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.28%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 26 (3.58%) JIRA
2 22 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.79%) Burp Suite
4 10 (1.38%) Metasploit
5 7 (0.96%) GitLab
6 4 (0.55%) Snyk
7 3 (0.41%) Git
8 2 (0.28%) JMeter
8 2 (0.28%) MSTest
8 2 (0.28%) Selenium
8 2 (0.28%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.14%) AppScan
9 1 (0.14%) MSI
9 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.14%) sqlmap
General
1 255 (35.08%) Social Skills
2 132 (18.16%) Finance
3 97 (13.34%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (12.24%) Public Sector
5 73 (10.04%) Documentation Skills
6 48 (6.60%) Legal
7 28 (3.85%) Banking
8 23 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (2.61%) Aerospace
10 17 (2.34%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (2.06%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.51%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.24%) Military
13 9 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.10%) Law
14 8 (1.10%) Retail
15 5 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 130 (17.88%) Architect
2 99 (13.62%) Analyst
3 72 (9.90%) Consultant
4 55 (7.57%) Security Architect
5 51 (7.02%) Lead
6 50 (6.88%) Security Engineer
7 45 (6.19%) Project Manager
7 45 (6.19%) Security Consultant
8 43 (5.91%) Security Analyst
9 41 (5.64%) Security Manager
10 39 (5.36%) Senior
11 27 (3.71%) Business Analyst
11 27 (3.71%) Security Specialist
12 26 (3.58%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 22 (3.03%) Cloud Architect
14 21 (2.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (2.89%) Security Project Manager
15 19 (2.61%) CyberArk Architect
15 19 (2.61%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 19 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.60%) LDAP
2 40 (5.50%) OpenID
2 40 (5.50%) SAML
3 34 (4.68%) OAuth
4 22 (3.03%) OAuth2
5 19 (2.61%) SailPoint
6 16 (2.20%) REST
7 10 (1.38%) Kafka
7 10 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (1.24%) Middleware
8 9 (1.24%) Web Services
9 8 (1.10%) RESTful
10 7 (0.96%) ARM Templates
10 7 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (0.69%) Spring
11 5 (0.69%) Spring Boot
12 4 (0.55%) 802.1X
12 4 (0.55%) Hibernate
12 4 (0.55%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 74 (10.18%) Onboarding
2 71 (9.77%) Operational Technology
3 65 (8.94%) Cloud Native
4 55 (7.57%) Security Posture
5 50 (6.88%) Management Information System
6 26 (3.58%) SCADA
7 24 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 23 (3.16%) Data Centre
9 20 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 20 (2.75%) PKI
9 20 (2.75%) Security Operations Centre
10 18 (2.48%) Product Ownership
11 16 (2.20%) Virtual Team
12 15 (2.06%) Cyber Threat
13 14 (1.93%) CMDB
14 13 (1.79%) Cyber Defence
15 12 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (1.51%) BYOD
16 11 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
17 10 (1.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 118 (16.23%) Windows
2 77 (10.59%) Linux
3 37 (5.09%) Windows Server
4 36 (4.95%) Unix
5 11 (1.51%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.41%) CentOS
7 3 (0.41%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.28%) AIX
8 2 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.28%) Android
8 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.28%) Solaris
8 2 (0.28%) VMS
9 1 (0.14%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.14%) Rocky
9 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (50.62%) Cybersecurity
2 207 (28.47%) Information Security
3 176 (24.21%) Risk Management
4 162 (22.28%) SIEM
5 143 (19.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 136 (18.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 127 (17.47%) Cloud Security
8 117 (16.09%) DevOps
9 110 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 108 (14.86%) CI/CD
11 106 (14.58%) Security Architecture
12 104 (14.31%) Incident Response
13 97 (13.34%) Security Operations
13 97 (13.34%) Vulnerability Management
14 94 (12.93%) Roadmaps
14 94 (12.93%) Threat Modelling
15 89 (12.24%) Agile
15 89 (12.24%) ITSM
15 89 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
16 80 (11.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 104 (14.31%) PowerShell
2 99 (13.62%) Python
3 28 (3.85%) SQL
4 25 (3.44%) Bash
5 15 (2.06%) Bicep
6 8 (1.10%) Java
7 6 (0.83%) Perl
8 4 (0.55%) Go
8 4 (0.55%) PHP
9 3 (0.41%) C#
9 3 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.41%) Ruby
10 2 (0.28%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.14%) Lisp
11 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 284 (39.06%) Security Cleared
2 217 (29.85%) SC Cleared
3 176 (24.21%) CISSP
4 130 (17.88%) CISM
5 111 (15.27%) Degree
6 67 (9.22%) DV Cleared
7 51 (7.02%) Cisco Certification
8 41 (5.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 39 (5.36%) CRISC
10 38 (5.23%) PMI Certification
11 36 (4.95%) PMP
12 35 (4.81%) GIAC
13 32 (4.40%) CISA
14 29 (3.99%) CompTIA Security+
15 28 (3.85%) Azure Certification
16 27 (3.71%) CEH
17 26 (3.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 25 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
19 21 (2.89%) AWS Certification
19 21 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 467 (64.24%) NIST
2 193 (26.55%) GDPR
3 96 (13.20%) GRC
4 89 (12.24%) PCI DSS
5 79 (10.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 77 (10.59%) NCSC
7 61 (8.39%) SOC 2
8 49 (6.74%) COBIT
9 39 (5.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 33 (4.54%) NIST 800
11 27 (3.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 20 (2.75%) Data Quality
12 20 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 17 (2.34%) HIPAA
14 16 (2.20%) QA
15 15 (2.06%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 15 (2.06%) ISO 31000
15 15 (2.06%) JSP 440
16 14 (1.93%) SLA
17 13 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 115 (15.82%) Active Directory
2 25 (3.44%) Docker
3 20 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.65%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.41%) vSphere
7 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.14%) Ceph
8 1 (0.14%) GPFS
8 1 (0.14%) KVM
8 1 (0.14%) Lustre
8 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 58 (7.98%) Kubernetes
2 49 (6.74%) Terraform
3 30 (4.13%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (2.48%) Ansible
6 8 (1.10%) Nmap
7 7 (0.96%) Nessus
8 6 (0.83%) Grafana
8 6 (0.83%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.69%) CASB
9 5 (0.69%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.41%) OpenVAS
10 3 (0.41%) Podman
10 3 (0.41%) Puppet
10 3 (0.41%) QRadar
10 3 (0.41%) SCOM
11 2 (0.28%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.28%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 144 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 75 (10.32%) CyberArk
3 39 (5.36%) BeyondTrust
3 39 (5.36%) ServiceNow
4 37 (5.09%) Oracle
5 36 (4.95%) Splunk
6 27 (3.71%) Cisco
7 22 (3.03%) VMware
8 16 (2.20%) Google
9 12 (1.65%) Qualys
10 11 (1.51%) Tenable
11 10 (1.38%) Rapid7
12 9 (1.24%) Fortinet
12 9 (1.24%) Palo Alto
13 8 (1.10%) Okta
14 7 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.96%) IBM
14 7 (0.96%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.96%) SAP
14 7 (0.96%) SolarWinds
314 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England