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

 6 months to
29 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 177 239
Rank change year-on-year +20 +62 -10
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 693 369 364
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 1.54% 0.99%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.90% 9.54% 7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 246 285
10th Percentile £413 £327 £363
25th Percentile £487 £496 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% +0.05% -6.88%
75th Percentile £675 £664 £670
90th Percentile £772 £775 £766
UK median daily rate £553 £571 £575
% change year-on-year -3.19% -0.65% -2.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 8 2
10th Percentile £40.38 £28.92 -
25th Percentile £48.13 £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 £59.07 £61.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -3.95% +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 7,001 3,869 5,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.74% 16.17% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,536 2,504 3,284
10th Percentile £344 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £607 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £729 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.72% -3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 151 361
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.35 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.21 £13.18
Median hourly rate £33.98 £34.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% +50.00% -41.92%
75th Percentile £67.38 £67.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.90 £80.00 £68.88
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £32.66 £21.38
% change year-on-year +10.24% +52.75% -38.92%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +1 296 £575 - 96
South East +43 211 £563 -6.25% 100
North of England -49 63 £550 - 63
Midlands -36 49 £500 -2.44% 44
West Midlands -42 40 £500 -13.04% 33
South West -20 38 £600 +4.35% 36
North West -12 35 £577 +4.86% 35
Yorkshire -45 27 £500 +53.85% 16
East of England -21 16 £505 -2.70% 16
East Midlands -22 9 £442 +10.01% 11
North East -33 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 16 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.43%) Apache
4 3 (0.43%) IIS
4 3 (0.43%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
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 12 (1.73%) 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
1 251 (36.22%) Azure
2 181 (26.12%) AWS
3 90 (12.99%) GCP
4 83 (11.98%) Entra ID
5 66 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (4.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 27 (3.90%) Microsoft Purview
8 26 (3.75%) Serverless
9 25 (3.61%) OpenShift
10 20 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (2.89%) SaaS
11 19 (2.74%) GitHub
12 16 (2.31%) Power Platform
13 15 (2.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 14 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (1.73%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 12 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (1.73%) OCI
16 11 (1.59%) Azure AKS
16 11 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 64 (9.24%) Firewall
2 54 (7.79%) Network Security
3 34 (4.91%) VPN
4 15 (2.16%) 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%) MPLS
7 8 (1.15%) WAN
8 7 (1.01%) DHCP
9 6 (0.87%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (0.87%) LAN
9 6 (0.87%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.87%) TACACS
9 6 (0.87%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
10 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
4 8 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (1.01%) Metadata
5 7 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (0.87%) MySQL
7 5 (0.72%) Big Data
7 5 (0.72%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.58%) DocumentDB
8 4 (0.58%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.58%) Redis
9 3 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.43%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.29%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (2.89%) JIRA
2 19 (2.74%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.02%) Burp Suite
3 14 (2.02%) Metasploit
4 5 (0.72%) GitLab
5 2 (0.29%) JMeter
5 2 (0.29%) MSTest
5 2 (0.29%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) AppScan
6 1 (0.14%) Git
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
1 244 (35.21%) Social Skills
2 128 (18.47%) Finance
3 91 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (11.69%) Public Sector
5 66 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
6 47 (6.78%) Legal
7 28 (4.04%) Banking
8 26 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.60%) Manufacturing
9 18 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.16%) Aerospace
10 15 (2.16%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.59%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.30%) Law
13 8 (1.15%) Retail
14 7 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.01%) Military
14 7 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.72%) Marketing
16 3 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 128 (18.47%) Architect
2 87 (12.55%) Analyst
3 75 (10.82%) Consultant
4 55 (7.94%) Security Architect
5 50 (7.22%) Security Engineer
6 48 (6.93%) Security Consultant
7 43 (6.20%) Lead
7 43 (6.20%) Project Manager
8 38 (5.48%) Security Analyst
9 37 (5.34%) Security Manager
10 36 (5.19%) 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 Architect
16 17 (2.45%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 16 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
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%) Oracle Fusion
8 10 (1.44%) Kafka
9 9 (1.30%) Middleware
10 8 (1.15%) RESTful
11 7 (1.01%) ARM Templates
12 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
13 5 (0.72%) Spring
13 5 (0.72%) Spring Boot
13 5 (0.72%) Web Services
14 4 (0.58%) 802.1X
14 4 (0.58%) Hibernate
14 4 (0.58%) JPA
14 4 (0.58%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 74 (10.68%) Onboarding
2 64 (9.24%) Operational Technology
3 61 (8.80%) Cloud Native
4 47 (6.78%) Security Posture
5 46 (6.64%) Management Information System
6 24 (3.46%) SCADA
7 22 (3.17%) PKI
8 21 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (2.74%) Data Centre
11 18 (2.60%) Product Ownership
12 14 (2.02%) CMDB
13 13 (1.88%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (1.44%) BYOD
16 10 (1.44%) Cyber Defence
16 10 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
16 10 (1.44%) Security Operations Centre
17 9 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 110 (15.87%) Windows
2 66 (9.52%) Linux
3 32 (4.62%) Windows Server
4 31 (4.47%) Unix
5 10 (1.44%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.15%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.87%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.29%) AIX
9 2 (0.29%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.29%) CentOS
9 2 (0.29%) Solaris
9 2 (0.29%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Rocky
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (48.48%) Cybersecurity
2 201 (29.00%) Information Security
3 165 (23.81%) Risk Management
4 148 (21.36%) SIEM
5 134 (19.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 131 (18.90%) Cloud Security
7 127 (18.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 118 (17.03%) DevOps
9 108 (15.58%) CI/CD
10 107 (15.44%) Security Architecture
11 101 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 93 (13.42%) Threat Modelling
13 92 (13.28%) Incident Response
14 88 (12.70%) Agile
15 86 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
15 86 (12.41%) Vulnerability Management
16 85 (12.27%) Roadmaps
17 83 (11.98%) Security Operations
18 81 (11.69%) Data Protection
19 80 (11.54%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 94 (13.56%) PowerShell
2 85 (12.27%) Python
3 27 (3.90%) SQL
4 23 (3.32%) Bash
5 15 (2.16%) 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
3 175 (25.25%) CISSP
4 131 (18.90%) CISM
5 107 (15.44%) Degree
6 61 (8.80%) DV Cleared
7 48 (6.93%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (5.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 35 (5.05%) CRISC
9 35 (5.05%) PMI Certification
10 34 (4.91%) GIAC
11 33 (4.76%) CISA
11 33 (4.76%) PMP
12 28 (4.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 26 (3.75%) Azure Certification
13 26 (3.75%) CEH
14 24 (3.46%) CompTIA Security+
15 23 (3.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 21 (3.03%) AWS Certification
17 20 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 448 (64.65%) NIST
2 193 (27.85%) GDPR
3 89 (12.84%) PCI DSS
4 85 (12.27%) GRC
5 78 (11.26%) NCSC
6 76 (10.97%) Cyber Essentials
7 58 (8.37%) SOC 2
8 47 (6.78%) COBIT
9 34 (4.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 31 (4.47%) NIST 800
11 25 (3.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 19 (2.74%) Data Quality
12 19 (2.74%) QA
13 17 (2.45%) JSP 440
14 16 (2.31%) 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
15 14 (2.02%) SLA
System Software
1 101 (14.57%) 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 45 (6.49%) Terraform
3 25 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (2.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (2.45%) 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 4 (0.58%) QRadar
12 3 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.43%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.43%) OpenVAS
12 3 (0.43%) Podman
12 3 (0.43%) Puppet
12 3 (0.43%) SCOM
13 2 (0.29%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 138 (19.91%) Microsoft
2 74 (10.68%) CyberArk
3 36 (5.19%) BeyondTrust
4 35 (5.05%) Splunk
5 32 (4.62%) ServiceNow
6 29 (4.18%) Oracle
7 24 (3.46%) Cisco
7 24 (3.46%) VMware
8 19 (2.74%) Google
9 12 (1.73%) Qualys
10 9 (1.30%) Fortinet
10 9 (1.30%) SAP
10 9 (1.30%) Tenable
11 8 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (1.15%) Palo Alto
11 8 (1.15%) Rapid7
12 7 (1.01%) IBM
12 7 (1.01%) Okta
12 7 (1.01%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.87%) Zscaler
306 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England