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

 6 months to
27 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 171 228
Rank change year-on-year +11 +57 -1
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 693 361 367
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 1.52% 1.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.96% 9.43% 7.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 244 284
10th Percentile £413 £322 £363
25th Percentile £487 £499 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% +0.05% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £655 £671
90th Percentile £775 £775 £766
UK median daily rate £560 £568 £563
% change year-on-year -1.32% +0.89% -5.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 8 1
10th Percentile £38.81 £28.92 -
25th Percentile £47.19 £45.82 £26.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% +107.26% -60.71%
75th Percentile £82.25 £66.28 £28.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £79.84 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -10.56% +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 6,961 3,827 5,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.71% 16.10% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,520 2,487 3,270
10th Percentile £349 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £702 £732 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.57% -3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 445 151 358
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.35 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.27 £13.05
Median hourly rate £33.12 £34.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +51.65% -42.29%
75th Percentile £67.25 £67.50 £47.81
90th Percentile £80.74 £80.00 £69.22
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.50 £21.06
% change year-on-year +9.23% +54.34% -39.84%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 0 294 £575 - 171
South East +42 211 £563 -6.25% 120
North of England -46 64 £550 - 79
Midlands -48 49 £500 -2.44% 52
West Midlands -43 40 £500 -13.04% 36
South West -19 39 £600 +4.35% 48
North West -18 35 £577 +4.86% 48
Yorkshire -44 28 £500 +21.21% 19
East of England -22 16 £505 -2.70% 22
East Midlands -27 9 £442 +10.01% 16
North East -30 1 £400 -42.86% 12
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 (2.74%) Confluence
2 14 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.58%) Apache
5 3 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.43%) IIS
5 3 (0.43%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
6 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.14%) nginx
6 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.87%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.72%) Maximo
1 5 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.14%) iTrent
3 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 250 (36.08%) Azure
2 180 (25.97%) AWS
3 89 (12.84%) GCP
4 78 (11.26%) Entra ID
5 64 (9.24%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (3.90%) Azure Sentinel
7 26 (3.75%) Microsoft Purview
8 25 (3.61%) OpenShift
9 24 (3.46%) Serverless
10 20 (2.89%) SaaS
11 19 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (2.45%) GitHub
12 17 (2.45%) Power Platform
13 15 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (1.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 12 (1.73%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 12 (1.73%) OCI
16 11 (1.59%) Azure AKS
17 10 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
17 10 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 62 (8.95%) Firewall
2 52 (7.50%) Network Security
3 33 (4.76%) VPN
4 16 (2.31%) DNS
5 13 (1.88%) Wireless
6 9 (1.30%) BGP
6 9 (1.30%) HTTP
6 9 (1.30%) NGFW
7 8 (1.15%) DHCP
7 8 (1.15%) MPLS
7 8 (1.15%) WAN
8 6 (0.87%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (0.87%) LAN
8 6 (0.87%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.87%) TACACS
8 6 (0.87%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.72%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.60%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.02%) Power BI
3 12 (1.73%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (1.01%) Metadata
5 7 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.87%) MySQL
7 5 (0.72%) Big Data
7 5 (0.72%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.58%) DocumentDB
8 4 (0.58%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.58%) Redis
9 3 (0.43%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.29%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 19 (2.74%) Jenkins
1 19 (2.74%) JIRA
2 14 (2.02%) Burp Suite
2 14 (2.02%) Metasploit
3 5 (0.72%) GitLab
4 2 (0.29%) Git
4 2 (0.29%) JMeter
4 2 (0.29%) MSTest
4 2 (0.29%) Selenium
5 1 (0.14%) AppScan
5 1 (0.14%) MSI
5 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.14%) Snyk
5 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.14%) sqlmap
General
1 245 (35.35%) Social Skills
2 129 (18.61%) Finance
3 92 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (11.69%) Public Sector
5 65 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
6 47 (6.78%) Legal
7 29 (4.18%) Banking
8 27 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (2.60%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.16%) Aerospace
11 15 (2.16%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.59%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.44%) Law
14 8 (1.15%) Retail
15 7 (1.01%) Military
15 7 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 5 (0.72%) Marketing
18 3 (0.43%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 124 (17.89%) Architect
2 86 (12.41%) Analyst
3 77 (11.11%) Consultant
4 53 (7.65%) Security Architect
5 50 (7.22%) Security Consultant
6 49 (7.07%) Security Engineer
7 43 (6.20%) Lead
7 43 (6.20%) Project Manager
8 38 (5.48%) Security Analyst
9 37 (5.34%) Security Manager
10 35 (5.05%) Senior
11 27 (3.90%) Security Specialist
12 25 (3.61%) Business Analyst
13 21 (3.03%) Cloud Architect
14 20 (2.89%) CyberArk Architect
14 20 (2.89%) Security Project Manager
15 18 (2.60%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 17 (2.45%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 16 (2.31%) Cybersecurity Architect
17 16 (2.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.64%) LDAP
2 38 (5.48%) OpenID
2 38 (5.48%) SAML
3 31 (4.47%) OAuth
4 18 (2.60%) OAuth2
5 15 (2.16%) REST
6 12 (1.73%) SailPoint
7 11 (1.59%) Kafka
7 11 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (1.30%) Middleware
9 8 (1.15%) RESTful
10 7 (1.01%) ARM Templates
11 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (0.72%) Spring
12 5 (0.72%) Spring Boot
12 5 (0.72%) Web Services
13 4 (0.58%) Hibernate
13 4 (0.58%) JPA
13 4 (0.58%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 74 (10.68%) Onboarding
2 64 (9.24%) Operational Technology
3 58 (8.37%) Cloud Native
4 45 (6.49%) Security Posture
5 44 (6.35%) Management Information System
6 24 (3.46%) SCADA
7 22 (3.17%) PKI
8 20 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (2.74%) Data Centre
9 19 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (2.74%) Product Ownership
10 13 (1.88%) Virtual Team
11 12 (1.73%) CMDB
11 12 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.44%) BYOD
13 10 (1.44%) Cyber Defence
13 10 (1.44%) Security Operations Centre
14 9 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
14 9 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 107 (15.44%) Windows
2 63 (9.09%) Linux
3 31 (4.47%) Unix
4 30 (4.33%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.15%) Mac OS
5 8 (1.15%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.87%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.29%) AIX
8 2 (0.29%) Android
8 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.29%) CentOS
8 2 (0.29%) Solaris
8 2 (0.29%) VMS
9 1 (0.14%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.14%) Rocky
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (48.05%) Cybersecurity
2 200 (28.86%) Information Security
3 164 (23.67%) Risk Management
4 144 (20.78%) SIEM
5 130 (18.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 127 (18.33%) Cloud Security
7 126 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 117 (16.88%) DevOps
9 109 (15.73%) CI/CD
10 105 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 102 (14.72%) Security Architecture
12 92 (13.28%) Incident Response
12 92 (13.28%) Threat Modelling
13 89 (12.84%) Agile
14 87 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
15 86 (12.41%) Roadmaps
16 84 (12.12%) Vulnerability Management
17 81 (11.69%) Security Operations
18 80 (11.54%) Data Protection
19 75 (10.82%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 92 (13.28%) PowerShell
2 83 (11.98%) Python
3 26 (3.75%) SQL
4 22 (3.17%) Bash
5 13 (1.88%) Bicep
6 8 (1.15%) Java
7 4 (0.58%) C#
7 4 (0.58%) Go
7 4 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (0.58%) PHP
8 3 (0.43%) Ruby
9 2 (0.29%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.14%) Lisp
10 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 273 (39.39%) Security Cleared
2 216 (31.17%) SC Cleared
3 171 (24.68%) CISSP
4 128 (18.47%) CISM
5 107 (15.44%) Degree
6 61 (8.80%) DV Cleared
7 47 (6.78%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (5.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 35 (5.05%) PMI Certification
10 34 (4.91%) CRISC
11 33 (4.76%) GIAC
11 33 (4.76%) PMP
12 31 (4.47%) CISA
13 28 (4.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 26 (3.75%) CEH
15 25 (3.61%) Azure Certification
16 24 (3.46%) CompTIA Security+
17 23 (3.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 19 (2.74%) AWS Certification
18 19 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 445 (64.21%) NIST
2 193 (27.85%) GDPR
3 90 (12.99%) PCI DSS
4 87 (12.55%) GRC
5 78 (11.26%) NCSC
6 75 (10.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 56 (8.08%) SOC 2
8 47 (6.78%) COBIT
9 35 (5.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 31 (4.47%) NIST 800
11 25 (3.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 20 (2.89%) QA
13 19 (2.74%) Data Quality
14 17 (2.45%) JSP 440
15 14 (2.02%) HIPAA
15 14 (2.02%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 14 (2.02%) ISO 31000
15 14 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 14 (2.02%) PMO
16 13 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 100 (14.43%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.17%) Docker
4 12 (1.73%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.14%) Ceph
6 1 (0.14%) GPFS
6 1 (0.14%) KVM
6 1 (0.14%) Lustre
6 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.14%) Varnish
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 44 (6.35%) Terraform
3 25 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (2.16%) Ansible
6 12 (1.73%) Nmap
7 8 (1.15%) Nessus
8 7 (1.01%) Grafana
9 6 (0.87%) CASB
9 6 (0.87%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.72%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.72%) SCCM
11 3 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.43%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.43%) OpenVAS
11 3 (0.43%) Podman
11 3 (0.43%) Puppet
11 3 (0.43%) QRadar
11 3 (0.43%) SCOM
12 2 (0.29%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 132 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 74 (10.68%) CyberArk
3 36 (5.19%) BeyondTrust
4 32 (4.62%) Splunk
5 31 (4.47%) ServiceNow
6 30 (4.33%) Oracle
7 24 (3.46%) Cisco
7 24 (3.46%) VMware
8 17 (2.45%) Google
9 11 (1.59%) SAP
10 10 (1.44%) Qualys
11 9 (1.30%) Fortinet
12 8 (1.15%) Palo Alto
13 7 (1.01%) IBM
13 7 (1.01%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.01%) Tenable
14 6 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
14 6 (0.87%) Rapid7
14 6 (0.87%) Zscaler
15 5 (0.72%) Okta
460 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England