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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
8 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 214 165
Rank change year-on-year +80 -49 +141
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 635 360 613
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.13% 1.16% 1.53%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.13% 8.88% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 245 459
10th Percentile £375 £425 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 16
10th Percentile £31.48 £20.55 -
25th Percentile - £26.25 £42.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -21.35% +36.92%
75th Percentile £66.50 £56.70 £77.66
90th Percentile £94.63 £80.32 £82.51
UK median hourly rate £39.48 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year +12.80% -21.35% +36.92%

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 5,234 4,056 5,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.58% 13.02% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,391 2,370 3,795
10th Percentile £308 £290 £321
25th Percentile £402 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -6.48% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 172 237
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.25 £15.13
25th Percentile £17.58 £16.17 £20.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £30.67 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -22.21% +51.62%
75th Percentile £62.55 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £83.17
UK median hourly rate £27.53 £27.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +0.11% -26.67% +44.23%

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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 +43 267 £575 -1.29% 521
South East +56 111 £500 -13.04% 579
North of England +14 72 £508 -10.07% 189
South West +31 61 £550 -13.73% 94
Midlands +3 60 £463 -7.50% 113
Yorkshire +7 44 £500 -20.95% 61
West Midlands -15 31 £525 +5.00% 60
East Midlands +6 29 £449 -10.20% 44
North West -11 28 £600 +7.14% 112
East of England +6 26 £552 -6.13% 27
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 27 (4.25%) SharePoint
2 25 (3.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (2.68%) Confluence
4 2 (0.31%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.16%) IIS
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 24 (3.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.47%) Maximo
3 2 (0.31%) Oracle CRM
3 2 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
4 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 274 (43.15%) Azure
2 202 (31.81%) AWS
3 113 (17.80%) GCP
4 81 (12.76%) Entra ID
5 69 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (8.19%) Azure Sentinel
7 37 (5.83%) SaaS
8 26 (4.09%) Microsoft Purview
9 25 (3.94%) GitHub
10 23 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (3.46%) Power Platform
12 19 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (2.52%) IaaS
13 16 (2.52%) OneDrive
14 15 (2.36%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 15 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (2.36%) OpenShift
14 15 (2.36%) PaaS
15 13 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (2.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 89 (14.02%) Firewall
2 68 (10.71%) Network Security
3 37 (5.83%) VPN
4 16 (2.52%) WAN
5 15 (2.36%) DNS
5 15 (2.36%) SD-WAN
6 11 (1.73%) LAN
7 9 (1.42%) Cisco ASA
7 9 (1.42%) Intrusion Detection
8 8 (1.26%) BGP
8 8 (1.26%) DHCP
8 8 (1.26%) Kerberos
8 8 (1.26%) OSPF
8 8 (1.26%) VLAN
9 7 (1.10%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.94%) MPLS
10 6 (0.94%) Wireless
10 6 (0.94%) WLAN
11 5 (0.79%) EIGRP
11 5 (0.79%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.99%) Power BI
2 8 (1.26%) Tableau
3 7 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.10%) Delta Lake
3 7 (1.10%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 7 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (0.79%) Metadata
5 4 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.63%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.47%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.47%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.47%) GIS
6 3 (0.47%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.47%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 46 (7.24%) JIRA
2 14 (2.20%) GitLab
3 11 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.42%) Git
4 9 (1.42%) Snyk
5 6 (0.94%) CircleCI
5 6 (0.94%) Postman
5 6 (0.94%) SoapUI
6 4 (0.63%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.63%) Metasploit
7 3 (0.47%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.31%) ERwin
8 2 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.16%) Ant
9 1 (0.16%) JMeter
9 1 (0.16%) MSTest
9 1 (0.16%) Selenium
9 1 (0.16%) TestDirector
9 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 261 (41.10%) Social Skills
2 125 (19.69%) Finance
3 78 (12.28%) Public Sector
4 76 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (6.14%) Legal
6 31 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (3.15%) Banking
8 20 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (2.83%) Telecoms
10 16 (2.52%) Manufacturing
11 14 (2.20%) Marketing
12 12 (1.89%) Electronics
13 10 (1.57%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.57%) Law
13 10 (1.57%) Local Government
13 10 (1.57%) Police
14 7 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.79%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 111 (17.48%) Architect
2 92 (14.49%) Analyst
3 78 (12.28%) Consultant
4 60 (9.45%) Security Architect
5 53 (8.35%) Security Engineer
6 49 (7.72%) Senior
7 43 (6.77%) Security Consultant
8 41 (6.46%) Lead
9 33 (5.20%) Security Analyst
10 32 (5.04%) Security Specialist
11 24 (3.78%) Security Manager
12 22 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
13 21 (3.31%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 16 (2.52%) Cloud Architect
15 15 (2.36%) Azure Architect
16 14 (2.20%) Azure Engineer
16 14 (2.20%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 14 (2.20%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 14 (2.20%) Security Advisor
16 14 (2.20%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.25%) LDAP
2 25 (3.94%) OAuth
3 24 (3.78%) SAML
4 23 (3.62%) SailPoint
5 18 (2.83%) OpenID
6 11 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
7 10 (1.57%) OAuth2
8 7 (1.10%) Loki
8 7 (1.10%) REST
9 6 (0.94%) ARM Templates
10 5 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.63%) AWS CDK
11 4 (0.63%) FIDO
11 4 (0.63%) Google JAX
11 4 (0.63%) JAX
11 4 (0.63%) PyTorch
11 4 (0.63%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.63%) TensorFlow
12 3 (0.47%) React
12 3 (0.47%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 77 (12.13%) Security Posture
2 63 (9.92%) Management Information System
3 43 (6.77%) Cloud Native
4 38 (5.98%) Cyber Threat
5 27 (4.25%) Security Operations Centre
6 23 (3.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (2.99%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.36%) Data Centre
8 15 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.05%) Operational Technology
10 12 (1.89%) Product Ownership
11 11 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.73%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.57%) Cloud Security Posture
12 10 (1.57%) NHS
12 10 (1.57%) PKI
13 9 (1.42%) SCADA
14 8 (1.26%) CSOC
14 8 (1.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 8 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 54 (8.50%) Windows
2 31 (4.88%) Linux
3 17 (2.68%) Mac OS
4 11 (1.73%) Windows 10
5 9 (1.42%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.63%) AIX
6 4 (0.63%) Solaris
7 2 (0.31%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.31%) VMS
8 1 (0.16%) Android
8 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
8 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (40.31%) Cybersecurity
2 161 (25.35%) Cloud Security
2 161 (25.35%) Information Security
3 159 (25.04%) Incident Response
4 145 (22.83%) Risk Management
5 131 (20.63%) SIEM
6 106 (16.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 104 (16.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 101 (15.91%) DevOps
9 100 (15.75%) CI/CD
10 95 (14.96%) Zero Trust
11 93 (14.65%) Identity Access Management
12 86 (13.54%) Security Operations
13 85 (13.39%) Threat Modelling
14 84 (13.23%) DevSecOps
14 84 (13.23%) Vulnerability Management
15 75 (11.81%) Security Architecture
16 74 (11.65%) Agile
17 73 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
18 72 (11.34%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 101 (15.91%) PowerShell
2 69 (10.87%) Python
3 36 (5.67%) Bash
4 22 (3.46%) Bicep
5 17 (2.68%) SQL
6 11 (1.73%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (1.42%) Java
8 5 (0.79%) C
8 5 (0.79%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.63%) C++
9 4 (0.63%) R
9 4 (0.63%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.47%) Go
11 2 (0.31%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.31%) Rust
11 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.31%) Solidity
12 1 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 205 (32.28%) CISSP
2 187 (29.45%) Security Cleared
3 155 (24.41%) CISM
4 150 (23.62%) SC Cleared
5 86 (13.54%) Degree
6 44 (6.93%) Cisco Certification
7 41 (6.46%) Azure Certification
7 41 (6.46%) CISA
8 38 (5.98%) DV Cleared
9 36 (5.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 35 (5.51%) AWS Certification
11 32 (5.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 30 (4.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 30 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
13 29 (4.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 24 (3.78%) CCSP
14 24 (3.78%) Master's Degree
15 22 (3.46%) CEH
15 22 (3.46%) GIAC
16 16 (2.52%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 390 (61.42%) NIST
2 233 (36.69%) GDPR
3 79 (12.44%) PCI DSS
4 71 (11.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 70 (11.02%) NCSC
6 56 (8.82%) GRC
7 45 (7.09%) COBIT
8 39 (6.14%) SOC 2
9 33 (5.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 33 (5.20%) NIST 800
10 31 (4.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 26 (4.09%) HIPAA
12 23 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 18 (2.83%) RMADS
14 16 (2.52%) ISO 9001
14 16 (2.52%) JSP 440
15 14 (2.20%) QA
16 10 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (1.57%) Def Stans
16 10 (1.57%) ITGC
System Software
1 83 (13.07%) Active Directory
2 33 (5.20%) Docker
3 15 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.63%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.31%) Firmware
6 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.16%) Snort
7 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (9.76%) Terraform
2 54 (8.50%) Kubernetes
3 39 (6.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (3.62%) SCCM
6 20 (3.15%) Ansible
7 15 (2.36%) Prometheus
8 14 (2.20%) QRadar
8 14 (2.20%) RSA Archer
9 9 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (1.42%) Fluentd
10 8 (1.26%) Grafana
10 8 (1.26%) Nessus
11 6 (0.94%) PingFederate
12 5 (0.79%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 5 (0.79%) CSIRT
12 5 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.47%) CASB
14 2 (0.31%) Nmap
14 2 (0.31%) SELinux
Vendors
1 168 (26.46%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.87%) Splunk
3 32 (5.04%) CyberArk
4 27 (4.25%) ServiceNow
5 24 (3.78%) Google
6 23 (3.62%) BeyondTrust
6 23 (3.62%) Cisco
6 23 (3.62%) Oracle
7 22 (3.46%) SAP
8 19 (2.99%) VMware
9 17 (2.68%) Palo Alto
9 17 (2.68%) Rapid7
10 16 (2.52%) CrowdStrike
11 15 (2.36%) Fortinet
12 14 (2.20%) Citrix
12 14 (2.20%) Tenable
13 12 (1.89%) ArcSight
14 11 (1.73%) Qualys
15 10 (1.57%) Okta
15 10 (1.57%) Thycotic
1,307 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England