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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 201 214
Rank change year-on-year +68 +13 +52
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 739 318 413
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.97% 1.30% 1.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.32% 8.42% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 202 320
10th Percentile £408 £401 £363
25th Percentile £463 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £667
90th Percentile £760 £786 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 2
10th Percentile £31.94 £47.33 £83.77
25th Percentile £38.37 £60.75 £84.31
Median hourly rate £73.00 £67.55 £85.21
Median % change year-on-year +8.07% -20.72% +21.72%
75th Percentile £82.81 £82.00 £86.10
90th Percentile £84.00 £84.38 £86.64
UK median hourly rate £80.50 £73.60 £85.21
% change year-on-year +9.38% -13.62% +21.72%

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 6,527 3,776 5,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.43% 15.42% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,228 2,415 3,444
10th Percentile £340 £263 £304
25th Percentile £413 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £611 £629 £638
90th Percentile £700 £737 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 380 162 339
10th Percentile £15.31 £17.15 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.40 £22.14 £13.62
Median hourly rate £26.28 £32.25 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% +34.38% -43.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.40 £67.40
UK median hourly rate £28.28 £31.76 £22.94
% change year-on-year -10.97% +38.48% -41.19%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 21 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
London +36 312 £565 -5.83% 120
South East +38 188 £525 -4.55% 101
North of England -12 82 £540 -10.00% 61
Midlands -23 59 £500 +5.26% 34
South West +1 47 £525 -16.00% 49
West Midlands -34 44 £513 -2.38% 25
Yorkshire -23 40 £502 -10.78% 15
North West -2 37 £590 -7.81% 39
East of England -11 21 £575 +12.86% 23
East Midlands -22 15 £438 +9.38% 9
North East -17 5 £400 -17.95% 7
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 23 (3.11%) Confluence
1 23 (3.11%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.81%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 2 (0.27%) Apache
4 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.54%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.95%) Maximo
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 265 (35.86%) Azure
2 217 (29.36%) AWS
3 99 (13.40%) GCP
4 74 (10.01%) Entra ID
5 56 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (5.82%) Azure Sentinel
7 30 (4.06%) Microsoft Purview
7 30 (4.06%) OpenShift
8 26 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (3.11%) Serverless
11 21 (2.84%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 20 (2.71%) OCI
13 19 (2.57%) GitHub
14 18 (2.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 18 (2.44%) Power Platform
14 18 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 17 (2.30%) SaaS
16 16 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
17 14 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 93 (12.58%) Firewall
2 69 (9.34%) Network Security
3 48 (6.50%) VPN
4 22 (2.98%) Wireless
5 20 (2.71%) DNS
6 17 (2.30%) WAN
7 15 (2.03%) LAN
8 14 (1.89%) BGP
8 14 (1.89%) SD-WAN
9 13 (1.76%) Cisco ASA
9 13 (1.76%) DHCP
9 13 (1.76%) MPLS
10 10 (1.35%) HTTP
11 9 (1.22%) IPv6
12 8 (1.08%) IPv4
12 8 (1.08%) NGFW
12 8 (1.08%) OSPF
13 6 (0.81%) S/MIME
13 6 (0.81%) TACACS
13 6 (0.81%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.89%) Power BI
2 9 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.95%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.81%) DynamoDB
4 6 (0.81%) Metadata
5 5 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (0.68%) Oracle Database
5 5 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.68%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.54%) Big Data
6 4 (0.54%) DocumentDB
6 4 (0.54%) MySQL
6 4 (0.54%) Redis
7 3 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.41%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.27%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 27 (3.65%) JIRA
2 24 (3.25%) Jenkins
3 20 (2.71%) Metasploit
4 19 (2.57%) Burp Suite
5 11 (1.49%) GitLab
6 7 (0.95%) Git
7 3 (0.41%) JMeter
7 3 (0.41%) MSTest
7 3 (0.41%) Selenium
8 1 (0.14%) AppScan
8 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.14%) Snyk
8 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.14%) sqlmap
8 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 287 (38.84%) Social Skills
2 118 (15.97%) Finance
3 90 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (11.37%) Public Sector
5 64 (8.66%) Documentation Skills
6 49 (6.63%) Legal
7 32 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
8 24 (3.25%) Banking
9 17 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (2.03%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.03%) Law
11 13 (1.76%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.62%) Aerospace
12 12 (1.62%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.08%) Marketing
13 8 (1.08%) Police
14 6 (0.81%) Retail
15 5 (0.68%) Aviation
16 4 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 128 (17.32%) Architect
2 100 (13.53%) Analyst
3 86 (11.64%) Consultant
4 64 (8.66%) Security Engineer
5 58 (7.85%) Security Architect
6 48 (6.50%) Senior
7 47 (6.36%) Security Consultant
8 44 (5.95%) Security Analyst
9 40 (5.41%) Lead
10 37 (5.01%) Security Manager
11 35 (4.74%) Project Manager
12 22 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
12 22 (2.98%) Security Specialist
13 21 (2.84%) Tester
14 20 (2.71%) Business Analyst
14 20 (2.71%) Penetration Tester
14 20 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
15 18 (2.44%) Cloud Architect
16 17 (2.30%) CyberArk Architect
17 15 (2.03%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.71%) LDAP
2 35 (4.74%) OpenID
2 35 (4.74%) SAML
3 30 (4.06%) OAuth
4 17 (2.30%) OAuth2
4 17 (2.30%) Oracle Fusion
5 16 (2.17%) REST
6 11 (1.49%) ARM Templates
7 9 (1.22%) Kafka
7 9 (1.22%) Middleware
7 9 (1.22%) SailPoint
8 8 (1.08%) RESTful
9 6 (0.81%) AWS CDK
10 5 (0.68%) .NET
10 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (0.68%) Node.js
10 5 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (0.68%) Spring
11 4 (0.54%) gRPC
11 4 (0.54%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 66 (8.93%) Security Posture
2 63 (8.53%) Onboarding
3 55 (7.44%) Cloud Native
4 48 (6.50%) Management Information System
5 37 (5.01%) Operational Technology
6 26 (3.52%) Data Centre
7 23 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 22 (2.98%) Cyber Threat
8 22 (2.98%) Product Ownership
8 22 (2.98%) Security Operations Centre
9 18 (2.44%) SCADA
10 16 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (2.17%) PKI
11 15 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.76%) BYOD
12 13 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.62%) Public Cloud
14 10 (1.35%) CMDB
14 10 (1.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 78 (10.55%) Windows
2 44 (5.95%) Linux
3 22 (2.98%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.08%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.95%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.95%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.95%) Unix
6 4 (0.54%) AIX
6 4 (0.54%) Solaris
7 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.27%) Android
8 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.14%) Rocky
9 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (44.65%) Cybersecurity
2 210 (28.42%) Information Security
3 164 (22.19%) Cloud Security
4 155 (20.97%) Risk Management
5 149 (20.16%) Stakeholder Management
6 141 (19.08%) SIEM
7 137 (18.54%) CI/CD
8 135 (18.27%) DevOps
9 125 (16.91%) Incident Response
10 115 (15.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 108 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 101 (13.67%) Threat Modelling
13 100 (13.53%) Security Operations
14 94 (12.72%) Zero Trust
15 92 (12.45%) Agile
16 88 (11.91%) Security Architecture
17 85 (11.50%) Data Protection
18 84 (11.37%) Problem-Solving
19 83 (11.23%) Infrastructure as Code
20 79 (10.69%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 105 (14.21%) PowerShell
2 85 (11.50%) Python
3 21 (2.84%) Bicep
4 20 (2.71%) SQL
5 15 (2.03%) Bash
6 10 (1.35%) Java
6 10 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (0.54%) C#
7 4 (0.54%) Go
7 4 (0.54%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.54%) PHP
8 2 (0.27%) C
8 2 (0.27%) Rust
8 2 (0.27%) Solidity
8 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.14%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.14%) Lisp
9 1 (0.14%) Ruby
9 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 287 (38.84%) Security Cleared
2 229 (30.99%) SC Cleared
3 196 (26.52%) CISSP
4 148 (20.03%) CISM
5 100 (13.53%) Degree
6 65 (8.80%) DV Cleared
7 47 (6.36%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (4.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 33 (4.47%) Azure Certification
10 32 (4.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 31 (4.19%) AWS Certification
12 30 (4.06%) CISA
12 30 (4.06%) PMI Certification
13 29 (3.92%) PMP
14 27 (3.65%) CEH
15 26 (3.52%) GIAC
15 26 (3.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 25 (3.38%) CompTIA Security+
17 22 (2.98%) CCSP
18 21 (2.84%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 459 (62.11%) NIST
2 253 (34.24%) GDPR
3 106 (14.34%) PCI DSS
4 98 (13.26%) NCSC
5 82 (11.10%) Cyber Essentials
6 76 (10.28%) GRC
7 49 (6.63%) COBIT
8 48 (6.50%) SOC 2
9 40 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 36 (4.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 31 (4.19%) NIST 800
12 28 (3.79%) QA
13 24 (3.25%) JSP 440
14 20 (2.71%) PMO
15 19 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 17 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 15 (2.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 15 (2.03%) SLA
18 11 (1.49%) HIPAA
18 11 (1.49%) ITGC
System Software
1 89 (12.04%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.11%) Docker
3 20 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.54%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.14%) Firmware
8 1 (0.14%) GPFS
8 1 (0.14%) Lustre
8 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Varnish
8 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (8.93%) Kubernetes
2 59 (7.98%) Terraform
3 31 (4.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (3.65%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (2.44%) Ansible
6 17 (2.30%) Nmap
7 12 (1.62%) SCCM
8 11 (1.49%) Nessus
9 7 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.95%) CASB
9 7 (0.95%) Grafana
10 6 (0.81%) Fluentd
10 6 (0.81%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.68%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.54%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.54%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.54%) QRadar
12 4 (0.54%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.41%) OpenVAS
13 3 (0.41%) SCOM
Vendors
1 128 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 78 (10.55%) CyberArk
3 47 (6.36%) Splunk
4 39 (5.28%) BeyondTrust
5 32 (4.33%) Cisco
5 32 (4.33%) Oracle
6 31 (4.19%) ServiceNow
7 22 (2.98%) VMware
8 20 (2.71%) Fortinet
8 20 (2.71%) SAP
9 17 (2.30%) Google
10 15 (2.03%) Palo Alto
11 12 (1.62%) Rapid7
12 11 (1.49%) IBM
12 11 (1.49%) Qualys
12 11 (1.49%) Tenable
13 10 (1.35%) Okta
14 7 (0.95%) Meraki
14 7 (0.95%) Ping Identity
14 7 (0.95%) Zscaler