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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 139 219
Rank change year-on-year -43 +80 -48
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 757 589 368
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 2.09% 1.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.97% 11.85% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 394 257
10th Percentile £420 £350 £414
25th Percentile £482 £447 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 22 6
10th Percentile £44.54 £30.90 £26.25
25th Percentile £58.43 - £28.44
Median hourly rate £75.00 £33.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +123.88% -4.29% -21.35%
75th Percentile £80.00 £63.38 £67.55
90th Percentile £89.25 £94.88 £80.80
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £33.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +123.88% -4.29% -21.35%

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 8,443 4,971 4,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.03% 17.67% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,269 3,241 2,421
10th Percentile £325 £300 £295
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -5.09%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £720 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 672 244 195
10th Percentile £13.93 £15.13 £13.26
25th Percentile £16.60 £17.69 £18.32
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.49 £68.13
90th Percentile £74.32 £82.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.46 £30.00 £27.67
% change year-on-year +4.87% +8.42% -23.14%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -28 360 £575 +4.55% 552
South East -10 166 £525 -5.62% 141
North of England -47 90 £500 - 144
South West -37 56 £525 - 76
North West -23 54 £518 -5.91% 77
Midlands -52 45 £500 +8.11% 64
West Midlands -26 40 £500 -9.09% 41
Yorkshire -41 31 £475 +3.26% 51
East of England -27 27 £510 -7.52% 40
East Midlands -38 5 £575 +27.78% 23
North East -39 3 £500 -35.48% 16
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 16 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.85%) IIS
3 8 (1.06%) Confluence
3 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.40%) Apache
4 3 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.26%) nginx
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.13%) Documentum
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.13%) iTrent
2 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.13%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 274 (36.20%) Azure
2 171 (22.59%) AWS
3 133 (17.57%) Entra ID
4 95 (12.55%) GCP
5 80 (10.57%) Microsoft 365
6 48 (6.34%) SaaS
7 36 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
8 28 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
9 27 (3.57%) OCI
10 26 (3.43%) GitHub
11 25 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (2.25%) Power Platform
13 17 (2.25%) Serverless
14 14 (1.85%) IaaS
14 14 (1.85%) PaaS
15 13 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 12 (1.59%) Azure Key Vault
17 11 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
17 11 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 67 (8.85%) Firewall
2 65 (8.59%) Network Security
3 21 (2.77%) VPN
4 11 (1.45%) DNS
5 9 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
5 9 (1.19%) WAN
5 9 (1.19%) Wireless
5 9 (1.19%) X.509
6 8 (1.06%) LAN
7 7 (0.92%) Modbus
7 7 (0.92%) NGFW
8 6 (0.79%) HTTPS
8 6 (0.79%) Internet
8 6 (0.79%) IPsec
8 6 (0.79%) SSL
8 6 (0.79%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.66%) SAN
9 5 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
9 5 (0.66%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.59%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.06%) Power BI
3 6 (0.79%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.66%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.26%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.26%) EDMS
6 2 (0.26%) Metadata
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (3.17%) JIRA
2 17 (2.25%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.72%) GitLab
4 9 (1.19%) Git
5 5 (0.66%) Snyk
6 4 (0.53%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.40%) Selenium
7 3 (0.40%) TestRail
8 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 300 (39.63%) Social Skills
2 111 (14.66%) Finance
3 89 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 56 (7.40%) Documentation Skills
5 37 (4.89%) Legal
5 37 (4.89%) Manufacturing
6 35 (4.62%) Aerospace
7 29 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (3.57%) Banking
9 23 (3.04%) Military
10 18 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.59%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.32%) Local Government
13 10 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.53%) Cyber-Physical System
15 4 (0.53%) International Banking
15 4 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 162 (21.40%) Architect
2 96 (12.68%) Analyst
3 83 (10.96%) Lead
4 70 (9.25%) Security Architect
5 69 (9.11%) Consultant
6 55 (7.27%) Security Engineer
7 53 (7.00%) Senior
8 48 (6.34%) Security Analyst
9 39 (5.15%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 39 (5.15%) Security Manager
10 34 (4.49%) Security Consultant
11 27 (3.57%) Security Specialist
12 25 (3.30%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 21 (2.77%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 20 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
15 19 (2.51%) Cloud Engineer
15 19 (2.51%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 17 (2.25%) IAM Specialist
16 17 (2.25%) Project Manager
17 15 (1.98%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (8.06%) Terraform
2 54 (7.13%) LDAP
3 36 (4.76%) SailPoint
4 35 (4.62%) OAuth
4 35 (4.62%) SAML
5 28 (3.70%) OpenID
6 25 (3.30%) OAuth2
7 15 (1.98%) REST
8 13 (1.72%) Web Services
9 8 (1.06%) JSON
9 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (0.92%) Middleware
11 5 (0.66%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (0.66%) Kafka
11 5 (0.66%) RESTful
12 4 (0.53%) JWT
12 4 (0.53%) Node.js
12 4 (0.53%) Playwright
12 4 (0.53%) React
Miscellaneous
1 77 (10.17%) Operational Technology
2 70 (9.25%) Onboarding
3 62 (8.19%) Security Posture
4 59 (7.79%) Cloud Native
5 58 (7.66%) Management Information System
6 57 (7.53%) Cyber Threat
7 26 (3.43%) PKI
8 25 (3.30%) Data Centre
9 23 (3.04%) SCADA
10 19 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (2.51%) IoT
10 19 (2.51%) Security Operations Centre
11 18 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
12 15 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
13 13 (1.72%) Public Cloud
14 12 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.59%) NHS
15 9 (1.19%) Industrial Internet of Things
15 9 (1.19%) Smartcard
16 8 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 99 (13.08%) Windows
2 57 (7.53%) Linux
3 29 (3.83%) Unix
4 28 (3.70%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.92%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.92%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.66%) CentOS
8 3 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.40%) macOS
8 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.13%) Android
10 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (57.60%) Cybersecurity
2 218 (28.80%) Risk Management
3 216 (28.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 186 (24.57%) Information Security
5 165 (21.80%) SIEM
6 155 (20.48%) Vulnerability Management
7 154 (20.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 149 (19.68%) Security Architecture
9 142 (18.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 139 (18.36%) Cloud Security
11 137 (18.10%) Incident Response
12 109 (14.40%) Security Operations
13 103 (13.61%) Roadmaps
14 95 (12.55%) ITSM
15 94 (12.42%) Identity Access Management
16 92 (12.15%) DevOps
16 92 (12.15%) Zero Trust
17 88 (11.62%) RBAC
18 80 (10.57%) CI/CD
18 80 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 101 (13.34%) PowerShell
2 88 (11.62%) Python
3 29 (3.83%) Bash
4 15 (1.98%) Bicep
5 14 (1.85%) SQL
6 8 (1.06%) Java
7 7 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (0.79%) BeanShell
8 6 (0.79%) Perl
9 5 (0.66%) Go
10 2 (0.26%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.13%) Korn
11 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 292 (38.57%) Security Cleared
2 220 (29.06%) SC Cleared
3 207 (27.34%) CISSP
4 162 (21.40%) CISM
5 84 (11.10%) Degree
6 67 (8.85%) DV Cleared
7 64 (8.45%) Cisco Certification
7 64 (8.45%) CRISC
8 56 (7.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 44 (5.81%) CISA
10 33 (4.36%) Azure Certification
11 32 (4.23%) CompTIA Security+
12 31 (4.10%) GIAC
12 31 (4.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 30 (3.96%) CCSP
14 27 (3.57%) CEH
15 26 (3.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 26 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
16 22 (2.91%) AWS Certification
17 21 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 476 (62.88%) NIST
2 140 (18.49%) GDPR
3 134 (17.70%) GRC
4 114 (15.06%) NCSC
5 96 (12.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 79 (10.44%) PCI DSS
7 45 (5.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 41 (5.42%) SOC 2
9 31 (4.10%) NIST 800
10 28 (3.70%) COBIT
11 23 (3.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (2.91%) Data Quality
13 21 (2.77%) HIPAA
13 21 (2.77%) ISO 22301
13 21 (2.77%) ISO 9001
14 19 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 17 (2.25%) QA
16 16 (2.11%) ISO 31000
17 13 (1.72%) JSP 440
18 11 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 143 (18.89%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.64%) Docker
3 13 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.92%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.79%) Firmware
6 5 (0.66%) ISA Server
7 4 (0.53%) vSphere
8 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.13%) Ceph
9 1 (0.13%) KVM
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 46 (6.08%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (3.43%) Ansible
4 17 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.92%) CASB
5 7 (0.92%) QRadar
6 4 (0.53%) Argo
6 4 (0.53%) Grafana
6 4 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.40%) Nessus
7 3 (0.40%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.40%) Puppet
8 2 (0.26%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.26%) Istio
8 2 (0.26%) Nexpose
8 2 (0.26%) Podman
8 2 (0.26%) SCCM
9 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 201 (26.55%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.40%) CyberArk
3 51 (6.74%) ServiceNow
4 30 (3.96%) Google
5 27 (3.57%) Splunk
6 24 (3.17%) CrowdStrike
7 22 (2.91%) BeyondTrust
7 22 (2.91%) Cisco
7 22 (2.91%) Oracle
7 22 (2.91%) Qualys
8 18 (2.38%) Palo Alto
8 18 (2.38%) Rapid7
9 16 (2.11%) VMware
10 15 (1.98%) Okta
11 13 (1.72%) Tenable
12 12 (1.59%) SAP
13 9 (1.19%) Databricks
13 9 (1.19%) Tripwire
14 8 (1.06%) F5
14 8 (1.06%) SolarWinds
1,061 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England