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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 187 221
Rank change year-on-year +37 +34 +13
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 710 345 395
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.76% 1.42% 1.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.38% 8.91% 7.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 226 306
10th Percentile £413 £354 £363
25th Percentile £478 £500 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.54%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £769 £800 £771
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 8 1
10th Percentile £36.00 £51.25 -
25th Percentile £43.81 £58.37 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £83.41
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% -26.27% +19.16%
75th Percentile £82.25 £79.60 -
90th Percentile £83.40 £86.74 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £83.41
% change year-on-year -10.56% -26.27% +19.16%

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 6,841 3,871 5,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.95% 15.90% 14.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,462 2,485 3,383
10th Percentile £337 £268 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £634 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 160 349
10th Percentile £14.02 £17.78 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.27 £13.18
Median hourly rate £30.58 £34.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +54.44% -47.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £79.17 £79.11 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £34.50 £21.06
% change year-on-year -1.51% +63.84% -44.22%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +17 288 £575 -4.17% 120
South East +48 213 £563 +2.27% 88
North of England -19 77 £540 -1.82% 59
Midlands -51 50 £500 -4.76% 37
West Midlands -42 41 £500 -13.04% 22
South West -18 38 £550 -8.33% 32
North West -14 37 £577 +4.86% 38
Yorkshire -30 35 £500 +53.85% 14
East of England -12 21 £550 +5.36% 23
East Midlands -25 9 £442 +10.56% 14
North East -21 5 £400 -42.86% 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 19 (2.68%) Confluence
2 17 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.70%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 3 (0.42%) Apache
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.28%) IIS
7 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (3.24%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.85%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.85%) Maximo
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 254 (35.77%) Azure
2 193 (27.18%) AWS
3 90 (12.68%) GCP
4 69 (9.72%) Entra ID
5 56 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (3.94%) Azure Sentinel
7 26 (3.66%) OpenShift
8 24 (3.38%) Microsoft Purview
8 24 (3.38%) Serverless
9 21 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (2.68%) GitHub
11 19 (2.68%) OCI
12 17 (2.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 17 (2.39%) Power Platform
13 16 (2.25%) SaaS
14 14 (1.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 13 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 12 (1.69%) Azure AKS
16 12 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 70 (9.86%) Firewall
2 57 (8.03%) Network Security
3 38 (5.35%) VPN
4 19 (2.68%) DNS
5 18 (2.54%) Wireless
6 11 (1.55%) DHCP
7 9 (1.27%) BGP
7 9 (1.27%) HTTP
8 8 (1.13%) MPLS
8 8 (1.13%) WAN
9 7 (0.99%) NGFW
10 6 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (0.85%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.85%) TACACS
11 5 (0.70%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.70%) LAN
11 5 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.70%) SSH
11 5 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.54%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.97%) Power BI
3 11 (1.55%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.99%) Metadata
5 7 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.85%) MySQL
7 5 (0.70%) Big Data
7 5 (0.70%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.70%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.56%) DocumentDB
8 4 (0.56%) Redis
9 3 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.42%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.28%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 22 (3.10%) Jenkins
2 18 (2.54%) Burp Suite
2 18 (2.54%) JIRA
2 18 (2.54%) Metasploit
3 6 (0.85%) GitLab
4 4 (0.56%) Git
5 2 (0.28%) JMeter
5 2 (0.28%) MSTest
5 2 (0.28%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) AppScan
6 1 (0.14%) MSI
6 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.14%) Snyk
6 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.14%) sqlmap
General
1 257 (36.20%) Social Skills
2 121 (17.04%) Finance
3 90 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (11.55%) Public Sector
5 67 (9.44%) Documentation Skills
6 55 (7.75%) Legal
7 32 (4.51%) Banking
8 28 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (2.54%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.25%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.97%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.69%) Law
14 10 (1.41%) Retail
14 10 (1.41%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.85%) Marketing
15 6 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.70%) Military
17 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
18 3 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 120 (16.90%) Architect
2 87 (12.25%) Analyst
3 80 (11.27%) Consultant
4 53 (7.46%) Security Consultant
4 53 (7.46%) Security Engineer
5 52 (7.32%) Security Architect
6 43 (6.06%) Lead
6 43 (6.06%) Project Manager
7 39 (5.49%) Security Manager
8 38 (5.35%) Security Analyst
9 35 (4.93%) Senior
10 23 (3.24%) Business Analyst
10 23 (3.24%) Security Specialist
11 21 (2.96%) Security Project Manager
12 20 (2.82%) CyberArk Architect
13 19 (2.68%) Azure Engineer
14 18 (2.54%) Cloud Architect
14 18 (2.54%) Penetration Tester
15 17 (2.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (2.39%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (7.89%) LDAP
2 38 (5.35%) OpenID
2 38 (5.35%) SAML
3 32 (4.51%) OAuth
4 20 (2.82%) OAuth2
5 15 (2.11%) Oracle Fusion
5 15 (2.11%) REST
6 11 (1.55%) SailPoint
7 10 (1.41%) ARM Templates
7 10 (1.41%) Middleware
8 9 (1.27%) Kafka
9 8 (1.13%) RESTful
10 5 (0.70%) AWS CDK
10 5 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (0.70%) Spring
10 5 (0.70%) Web Services
11 4 (0.56%) gRPC
11 4 (0.56%) JWT
11 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (0.56%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 70 (9.86%) Onboarding
2 55 (7.75%) Cloud Native
3 53 (7.46%) Operational Technology
3 53 (7.46%) Security Posture
4 44 (6.20%) Management Information System
5 22 (3.10%) Data Centre
6 20 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 20 (2.82%) SCADA
7 19 (2.68%) Product Ownership
8 18 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (2.39%) PKI
10 15 (2.11%) Security Operations Centre
11 13 (1.83%) CMDB
11 13 (1.83%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.55%) BYOD
13 11 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.41%) NHS
15 9 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 100 (14.08%) Windows
2 61 (8.59%) Linux
3 32 (4.51%) Windows Server
4 26 (3.66%) Unix
5 8 (1.13%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.85%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.70%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.28%) AIX
9 2 (0.28%) CentOS
9 2 (0.28%) Solaris
9 2 (0.28%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) Android
10 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (45.21%) Cybersecurity
2 213 (30.00%) Information Security
3 170 (23.94%) Risk Management
4 137 (19.30%) SIEM
5 135 (19.01%) Cloud Security
6 133 (18.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 123 (17.32%) CI/CD
8 122 (17.18%) DevOps
9 115 (16.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 98 (13.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 93 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
12 92 (12.96%) Incident Response
13 91 (12.82%) Security Architecture
14 89 (12.54%) Threat Modelling
15 86 (12.11%) Agile
16 84 (11.83%) Security Operations
17 83 (11.69%) Data Protection
18 78 (10.99%) Roadmaps
19 73 (10.28%) Infrastructure as Code
19 73 (10.28%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 105 (14.79%) PowerShell
2 91 (12.82%) Python
3 23 (3.24%) SQL
4 22 (3.10%) Bash
5 16 (2.25%) Bicep
6 8 (1.13%) Java
7 6 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.56%) C#
8 4 (0.56%) Go
8 4 (0.56%) PHP
9 3 (0.42%) Ruby
10 2 (0.28%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.14%) Lisp
11 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 269 (37.89%) Security Cleared
2 214 (30.14%) SC Cleared
3 169 (23.80%) CISSP
4 129 (18.17%) CISM
5 106 (14.93%) Degree
6 58 (8.17%) DV Cleared
7 43 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
8 35 (4.93%) PMI Certification
9 34 (4.79%) PMP
10 33 (4.65%) CISA
11 31 (4.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 30 (4.23%) CRISC
13 29 (4.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 26 (3.66%) Azure Certification
15 25 (3.52%) CEH
15 25 (3.52%) GIAC
16 24 (3.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 23 (3.24%) CompTIA Security+
18 22 (3.10%) AWS Certification
19 19 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 443 (62.39%) NIST
2 228 (32.11%) GDPR
3 99 (13.94%) PCI DSS
4 87 (12.25%) GRC
5 74 (10.42%) NCSC
6 71 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 53 (7.46%) SOC 2
8 45 (6.34%) COBIT
9 37 (5.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 33 (4.65%) NIST 800
11 26 (3.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 25 (3.52%) QA
13 18 (2.54%) JSP 440
14 17 (2.39%) Data Quality
14 17 (2.39%) PMO
15 14 (1.97%) HIPAA
15 14 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 14 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 13 (1.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 13 (1.83%) SLA
System Software
1 106 (14.93%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.10%) Docker
2 22 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.41%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.14%) Ceph
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) GPFS
6 1 (0.14%) Lustre
6 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 58 (8.17%) Kubernetes
2 51 (7.18%) Terraform
3 24 (3.38%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (2.39%) Ansible
6 16 (2.25%) Nmap
7 8 (1.13%) Nessus
8 7 (0.99%) Grafana
9 6 (0.85%) CASB
9 6 (0.85%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.70%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.70%) SCCM
11 4 (0.56%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.42%) OpenVAS
12 3 (0.42%) Podman
12 3 (0.42%) QRadar
12 3 (0.42%) SCOM
13 2 (0.28%) RSA Archer
14 1 (0.14%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 121 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 87 (12.25%) CyberArk
3 45 (6.34%) BeyondTrust
4 35 (4.93%) Splunk
5 34 (4.79%) Oracle
6 32 (4.51%) ServiceNow
7 23 (3.24%) VMware
8 22 (3.10%) Cisco
9 16 (2.25%) Google
10 11 (1.55%) Fortinet
10 11 (1.55%) SAP
11 10 (1.41%) Qualys
11 10 (1.41%) Rapid7
12 9 (1.27%) IBM
13 8 (1.13%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.99%) Tenable
15 6 (0.85%) Palo Alto
16 5 (0.70%) CheckPoint
16 5 (0.70%) Databricks
16 5 (0.70%) Okta