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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 207 172
Rank change year-on-year +72 -35 +117
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 651 339 518
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.04% 1.26% 1.41%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.76% 8.79% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 212 384
10th Percentile £400 £408 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £599
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +0.21% -0.21%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £673
90th Percentile £750 £787 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -9.87% -2.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 15
10th Percentile - £30.40 -
25th Percentile £33.50 £35.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £73.60 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.09% +65.39% -11.00%
75th Percentile £55.56 £83.20 £78.36
90th Percentile £79.35 £85.56 £85.36
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £73.60 £44.50
% change year-on-year -51.09% +65.39% -11.00%

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 5,535 3,856 5,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.32% 14.33% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,593 2,244 3,476
10th Percentile £315 £264 £319
25th Percentile £410 £382 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £706 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 152 244
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.70 £13.05
25th Percentile £18.16 £20.88 £17.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.11 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.46% -7.37% +31.10%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £79.60
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -11.14% -10.77% +35.42%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 17 January 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 +47 284 £550 -8.33% 153
South East +44 121 £492 -6.29% 156
North of England -13 75 £520 -12.24% 66
Midlands -4 59 £475 -5.00% 63
South West +17 57 £500 -21.57% 66
Yorkshire -19 37 £500 -13.04% 29
West Midlands -19 35 £563 +12.50% 31
North West -9 33 £610 +1.67% 30
East Midlands -9 24 £448 +12.00% 32
East of England -13 19 £553 +1.10% 60
North East -9 5 £400 +14.29% 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 22 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 22 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.84%) Confluence
3 3 (0.46%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 2 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.15%) Apache
5 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) IIS
5 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 26 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (1.23%) Maximo
2 6 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 276 (42.40%) Azure
2 212 (32.57%) AWS
3 98 (15.05%) GCP
4 77 (11.83%) Entra ID
5 66 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
6 48 (7.37%) Azure Sentinel
7 27 (4.15%) SaaS
8 25 (3.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (3.53%) OpenShift
10 22 (3.38%) GitHub
11 21 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
12 20 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 16 (2.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 15 (2.30%) Amazon S3
15 15 (2.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 15 (2.30%) OCI
16 13 (2.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (15.05%) Firewall
2 61 (9.37%) Network Security
3 44 (6.76%) VPN
4 19 (2.92%) Wireless
5 18 (2.76%) DNS
6 14 (2.15%) WAN
7 12 (1.84%) LAN
7 12 (1.84%) SD-WAN
8 11 (1.69%) DHCP
9 10 (1.54%) BGP
9 10 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
10 8 (1.23%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (1.23%) MPLS
11 7 (1.08%) Kerberos
11 7 (1.08%) OSPF
11 7 (1.08%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.92%) S/MIME
12 6 (0.92%) VLAN
12 6 (0.92%) WLAN
13 5 (0.77%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (1.38%) Power BI
3 7 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.92%) DynamoDB
4 6 (0.92%) MySQL
4 6 (0.92%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (0.77%) Metadata
5 5 (0.77%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.61%) DocumentDB
6 4 (0.61%) Redis
7 3 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.46%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.46%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.46%) Tableau
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (3.99%) JIRA
2 17 (2.61%) Burp Suite
2 17 (2.61%) Metasploit
3 16 (2.46%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.30%) GitLab
5 9 (1.38%) Snyk
6 6 (0.92%) CircleCI
6 6 (0.92%) Git
7 1 (0.15%) Ant
7 1 (0.15%) JMeter
7 1 (0.15%) MSTest
7 1 (0.15%) Selenium
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.15%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 268 (41.17%) Social Skills
2 112 (17.20%) Finance
3 77 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (11.83%) Public Sector
4 48 (7.37%) Documentation Skills
5 40 (6.14%) Legal
6 26 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
8 23 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (3.23%) Banking
10 13 (2.00%) Financial Institution
10 13 (2.00%) Law
11 12 (1.84%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.54%) Police
12 10 (1.54%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.38%) Marketing
14 8 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (0.92%) Electronics
15 6 (0.92%) Local Government
16 5 (0.77%) Military
Job Titles
1 101 (15.51%) Architect
2 96 (14.75%) Analyst
3 70 (10.75%) Consultant
4 54 (8.29%) Security Architect
5 49 (7.53%) Security Engineer
6 48 (7.37%) Security Analyst
7 47 (7.22%) Senior
8 37 (5.68%) Lead
9 30 (4.61%) Security Consultant
10 28 (4.30%) Security Manager
11 24 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
12 23 (3.53%) Security Specialist
13 22 (3.38%) Tester
14 20 (3.07%) Project Manager
15 18 (2.76%) Penetration Tester
16 16 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
17 14 (2.15%) Security Advisor
17 14 (2.15%) Security Officer
17 14 (2.15%) SOC Analyst
18 13 (2.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (6.76%) LDAP
2 31 (4.76%) OAuth
3 27 (4.15%) SAML
4 24 (3.69%) OpenID
5 16 (2.46%) OAuth2
5 16 (2.46%) REST
6 13 (2.00%) ARM Templates
6 13 (2.00%) SailPoint
7 9 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (1.08%) RESTful
9 6 (0.92%) Loki
10 5 (0.77%) AWS CDK
10 5 (0.77%) Kafka
10 5 (0.77%) Middleware
10 5 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (0.77%) Spring
11 4 (0.61%) .NET
11 4 (0.61%) Hibernate
11 4 (0.61%) JPA
11 4 (0.61%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 81 (12.44%) Security Posture
2 59 (9.06%) Management Information System
3 48 (7.37%) Cloud Native
4 35 (5.38%) Onboarding
5 31 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
6 22 (3.38%) Operational Technology
7 21 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
8 20 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (2.46%) Data Centre
10 13 (2.00%) Cloud Security Posture
10 13 (2.00%) PKI
11 12 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.84%) NHS
12 10 (1.54%) Product Ownership
12 10 (1.54%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.54%) SCADA
13 8 (1.23%) CSOC
13 8 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 6 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 66 (10.14%) Windows
2 34 (5.22%) Linux
3 14 (2.15%) Mac OS
4 13 (2.00%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.84%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.61%) AIX
6 4 (0.61%) Solaris
7 3 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.31%) VMS
9 1 (0.15%) Android
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (40.09%) Cybersecurity
2 174 (26.73%) Information Security
3 165 (25.35%) Cloud Security
4 158 (24.27%) Incident Response
5 148 (22.73%) Risk Management
6 143 (21.97%) SIEM
7 123 (18.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 119 (18.28%) DevOps
9 116 (17.82%) CI/CD
10 109 (16.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 93 (14.29%) Zero Trust
12 90 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
13 86 (13.21%) Identity Access Management
14 82 (12.60%) Security Operations
15 81 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
16 80 (12.29%) DevSecOps
16 80 (12.29%) Threat Modelling
17 79 (12.14%) Data Protection
18 74 (11.37%) Security Architecture
19 71 (10.91%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 109 (16.74%) PowerShell
2 70 (10.75%) Python
3 29 (4.45%) Bash
4 21 (3.23%) Bicep
5 14 (2.15%) SQL
6 10 (1.54%) Java
7 9 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.61%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.61%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.31%) BeanShell
9 2 (0.31%) C
9 2 (0.31%) Go
9 2 (0.31%) Rust
9 2 (0.31%) Solidity
10 1 (0.15%) C#
10 1 (0.15%) PHP
10 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 221 (33.95%) Security Cleared
2 200 (30.72%) CISSP
3 178 (27.34%) SC Cleared
4 153 (23.50%) CISM
5 90 (13.82%) Degree
6 53 (8.14%) DV Cleared
7 41 (6.30%) CISA
8 37 (5.68%) Cisco Certification
9 36 (5.53%) Azure Certification
10 34 (5.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 31 (4.76%) AWS Certification
12 28 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
13 25 (3.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 24 (3.69%) CEH
14 24 (3.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 23 (3.53%) GIAC
15 23 (3.53%) Master's Degree
16 22 (3.38%) CCSP
17 21 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
18 20 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 388 (59.60%) NIST
2 243 (37.33%) GDPR
3 100 (15.36%) PCI DSS
4 75 (11.52%) NCSC
5 72 (11.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 66 (10.14%) GRC
7 38 (5.84%) COBIT
8 37 (5.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 34 (5.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 29 (4.45%) SOC 2
11 27 (4.15%) NIST 800
11 27 (4.15%) QA
12 20 (3.07%) JSP 440
13 15 (2.30%) HIPAA
13 15 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 14 (2.15%) PMO
14 14 (2.15%) SLA
15 11 (1.69%) Def Stans
16 10 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 89 (13.67%) Active Directory
2 31 (4.76%) Docker
3 18 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.61%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.15%) Firmware
6 1 (0.15%) Snort
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (9.83%) Terraform
2 59 (9.06%) Kubernetes
3 42 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (3.99%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (3.53%) SCCM
6 15 (2.30%) Ansible
6 15 (2.30%) Nmap
7 12 (1.84%) QRadar
8 10 (1.54%) Prometheus
9 9 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (1.38%) Fluentd
10 8 (1.23%) Nessus
10 8 (1.23%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.92%) CSIRT
11 6 (0.92%) PingFederate
12 5 (0.77%) Grafana
13 3 (0.46%) CASB
13 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.46%) SCOM
13 3 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 147 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.53%) CyberArk
3 41 (6.30%) Splunk
4 29 (4.45%) BeyondTrust
5 23 (3.53%) Oracle
5 23 (3.53%) VMware
6 22 (3.38%) Cisco
7 21 (3.23%) ServiceNow
8 20 (3.07%) Google
9 19 (2.92%) SAP
10 16 (2.46%) Fortinet
11 13 (2.00%) Citrix
11 13 (2.00%) Rapid7
12 12 (1.84%) Palo Alto
13 10 (1.54%) CrowdStrike
13 10 (1.54%) IBM
13 10 (1.54%) Qualys
14 9 (1.38%) Cribl.io
14 9 (1.38%) Okta
15 8 (1.23%) Ping Identity
496 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England