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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 142 220
Rank change year-on-year -29 +78 -51
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 762 554 367
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 1.99% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.20% 11.56% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 371 271
10th Percentile £413 £350 £415
25th Percentile £482 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%
75th Percentile £639 £651 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £578
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 19 4
10th Percentile £44.30 £30.39 -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £33.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +111.94% +7.20% -29.78%
75th Percentile £80.00 £52.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £85.89 £78.00 -
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £33.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +111.94% -4.29% -26.32%

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 8,280 4,794 4,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.79% 17.24% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,205 3,132 2,570
10th Percentile £329 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £763
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 598 226 213
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +2.78% -15.68%
75th Percentile £67.50 £61.69 £64.73
90th Percentile £76.00 £82.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -22.82%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -21 344 £575 +4.07% 636
South East +1 199 £550 - 195
North of England -59 75 £511 +2.13% 148
South West -36 55 £525 -15.15% 79
North West -31 50 £525 -4.55% 100
Midlands -46 46 £500 +7.53% 60
West Midlands -30 42 £500 -10.11% 42
East of England -16 29 £515 -1.90% 50
Yorkshire -49 23 £475 +4.40% 33
East Midlands -30 4 - - 18
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 18 (2.36%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.57%) IIS
2 12 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.18%) Confluence
4 3 (0.39%) Apache
5 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.26%) nginx
6 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
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
1 279 (36.61%) Azure
2 168 (22.05%) AWS
3 134 (17.59%) Entra ID
4 93 (12.20%) GCP
5 79 (10.37%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (5.64%) SaaS
7 35 (4.59%) Azure Sentinel
8 28 (3.67%) Microsoft Purview
9 24 (3.15%) GitHub
10 23 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (3.02%) OCI
11 18 (2.36%) Power Platform
12 17 (2.23%) Serverless
13 16 (2.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 15 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (1.84%) Azure Key Vault
16 12 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
17 11 (1.44%) IaaS
17 11 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
17 11 (1.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (8.27%) Firewall
2 62 (8.14%) Network Security
3 22 (2.89%) VPN
4 14 (1.84%) DNS
5 10 (1.31%) Intrusion Detection
5 10 (1.31%) Wireless
6 9 (1.18%) WAN
7 8 (1.05%) LAN
8 7 (0.92%) NGFW
8 7 (0.92%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.92%) X.509
9 6 (0.79%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.79%) Modbus
9 6 (0.79%) SSL
9 6 (0.79%) VLAN
10 5 (0.66%) Internet
10 5 (0.66%) IPsec
10 5 (0.66%) SAN
10 5 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
11 4 (0.52%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.89%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.05%) Power BI
3 7 (0.92%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (0.79%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.26%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.26%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.26%) Metadata
6 2 (0.26%) MySQL
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.13%) Big Data
7 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (2.49%) JIRA
2 15 (1.97%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.57%) GitLab
4 8 (1.05%) Git
5 5 (0.66%) Snyk
6 4 (0.52%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.26%) Selenium
7 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.26%) TestRail
8 1 (0.13%) MSI
8 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
General
1 290 (38.06%) Social Skills
2 115 (15.09%) Finance
3 99 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (12.73%) Public Sector
5 61 (8.01%) Documentation Skills
6 42 (5.51%) Legal
7 36 (4.72%) Manufacturing
8 34 (4.46%) Aerospace
9 29 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
10 27 (3.54%) Banking
11 23 (3.02%) Military
12 17 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.84%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.31%) Local Government
16 9 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.79%) Retail
19 4 (0.52%) Financial Institution
19 4 (0.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 163 (21.39%) Architect
2 108 (14.17%) Analyst
3 75 (9.84%) Lead
4 72 (9.45%) Security Architect
5 64 (8.40%) Consultant
6 50 (6.56%) Security Analyst
7 48 (6.30%) Security Engineer
8 47 (6.17%) Senior
9 39 (5.12%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 39 (5.12%) Security Manager
10 34 (4.46%) Security Consultant
11 25 (3.28%) Security Specialist
12 24 (3.15%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 24 (3.15%) Project Manager
13 22 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (2.62%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 19 (2.49%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 17 (2.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 15 (1.97%) Business Analyst
17 15 (1.97%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (7.61%) Terraform
2 55 (7.22%) LDAP
3 34 (4.46%) OAuth
3 34 (4.46%) SAML
4 32 (4.20%) SailPoint
5 27 (3.54%) OpenID
6 20 (2.62%) OAuth2
7 14 (1.84%) REST
8 12 (1.57%) Web Services
9 9 (1.18%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (0.66%) ARM Templates
10 5 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (0.66%) JSON
10 5 (0.66%) Kafka
10 5 (0.66%) Middleware
11 4 (0.52%) JDBC
11 4 (0.52%) SOAP
12 3 (0.39%) LangChain
12 3 (0.39%) LangGraph
12 3 (0.39%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 77 (10.10%) Operational Technology
2 75 (9.84%) Onboarding
3 60 (7.87%) Security Posture
4 58 (7.61%) Management Information System
5 54 (7.09%) Cyber Threat
6 52 (6.82%) Cloud Native
7 27 (3.54%) PKI
8 24 (3.15%) Data Centre
8 24 (3.15%) SCADA
9 19 (2.49%) Security Operations Centre
10 18 (2.36%) Cyber Defence
10 18 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (2.36%) IoT
11 17 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.57%) Public Cloud
14 11 (1.44%) NHS
15 9 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (1.18%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.05%) Industrial Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 113 (14.83%) Windows
2 71 (9.32%) Linux
3 37 (4.86%) Unix
4 36 (4.72%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.92%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.79%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.52%) CentOS
9 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.26%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.13%) Android
11 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.13%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.13%) VMS
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (56.96%) Cybersecurity
2 212 (27.82%) Risk Management
3 192 (25.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 182 (23.88%) SIEM
5 179 (23.49%) Information Security
6 157 (20.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 150 (19.69%) Vulnerability Management
8 147 (19.29%) Security Architecture
9 144 (18.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 138 (18.11%) Incident Response
11 127 (16.67%) Cloud Security
12 112 (14.70%) Security Operations
13 103 (13.52%) ITSM
14 98 (12.86%) Roadmaps
15 97 (12.73%) Identity Access Management
16 94 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
17 90 (11.81%) Zero Trust
18 84 (11.02%) DevOps
19 82 (10.76%) RBAC
19 82 (10.76%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 116 (15.22%) PowerShell
2 97 (12.73%) Python
3 36 (4.72%) Bash
4 14 (1.84%) Bicep
5 13 (1.71%) SQL
6 8 (1.05%) Java
7 6 (0.79%) BeanShell
7 6 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (0.79%) Perl
8 3 (0.39%) Go
9 2 (0.26%) Ruby
10 1 (0.13%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.13%) Korn
10 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 291 (38.19%) Security Cleared
2 212 (27.82%) SC Cleared
3 200 (26.25%) CISSP
4 147 (19.29%) CISM
5 90 (11.81%) Degree
6 74 (9.71%) DV Cleared
7 66 (8.66%) Cisco Certification
8 57 (7.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 54 (7.09%) CRISC
10 36 (4.72%) CISA
11 35 (4.59%) Azure Certification
12 33 (4.33%) CompTIA Security+
13 32 (4.20%) GIAC
14 31 (4.07%) CEH
15 29 (3.81%) CCSP
16 28 (3.67%) PMI Certification
17 27 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
17 27 (3.54%) PMP
18 24 (3.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
19 22 (2.89%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 483 (63.39%) NIST
2 151 (19.82%) GDPR
3 124 (16.27%) GRC
4 98 (12.86%) NCSC
5 95 (12.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 65 (8.53%) PCI DSS
7 47 (6.17%) SOC 2
8 45 (5.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 37 (4.86%) NIST 800
10 30 (3.94%) COBIT
10 30 (3.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (2.89%) HIPAA
12 21 (2.76%) Data Quality
13 18 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 15 (1.97%) JSP 440
15 14 (1.84%) ISO 31000
16 13 (1.71%) ISO 22301
16 13 (1.71%) ISO 9001
17 12 (1.57%) PMO
17 12 (1.57%) SLA
System Software
1 158 (20.73%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.76%) Docker
3 13 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.52%) Firmware
5 4 (0.52%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.39%) vSphere
7 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.13%) Ceph
8 1 (0.13%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 46 (6.04%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (3.41%) Ansible
4 23 (3.02%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.05%) QRadar
6 6 (0.79%) CASB
7 5 (0.66%) Grafana
8 4 (0.52%) Nessus
8 4 (0.52%) Podman
8 4 (0.52%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.39%) Argo
9 3 (0.39%) Puppet
10 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.26%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.26%) Istio
10 2 (0.26%) Nexpose
10 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 193 (25.33%) Microsoft
2 73 (9.58%) CyberArk
3 47 (6.17%) ServiceNow
4 33 (4.33%) BeyondTrust
5 31 (4.07%) Oracle
6 26 (3.41%) Google
7 25 (3.28%) Splunk
8 21 (2.76%) CrowdStrike
8 21 (2.76%) Qualys
9 20 (2.62%) Cisco
10 17 (2.23%) Palo Alto
11 15 (1.97%) VMware
12 13 (1.71%) Rapid7
12 13 (1.71%) SAP
12 13 (1.71%) Tenable
13 11 (1.44%) Okta
14 8 (1.05%) Databricks
14 8 (1.05%) F5
14 8 (1.05%) Tripwire
15 7 (0.92%) Zscaler