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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
10 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 202 222
Rank change year-on-year +70 +20 +31
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 752 317 393
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.92% 1.30% 1.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.10% 8.38% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 202 303
10th Percentile £409 £401 £363
25th Percentile £475 £503 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £799 £767
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -2.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 1
10th Percentile £36.00 £43.40 -
25th Percentile £45.05 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £64.07 £61.50 £83.41
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -26.27% +19.16%
75th Percentile £82.44 £78.40 -
90th Percentile £84.00 £85.56 -
UK median hourly rate £65.69 £61.50 £83.41
% change year-on-year +6.82% -26.27% +19.16%

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 6,774 3,785 5,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.27% 15.55% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,414 2,450 3,399
10th Percentile £340 £270 £306
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 406 155 338
10th Percentile £14.36 £17.45 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.05
Median hourly rate £30.54 £32.50 £21.06
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% +54.34% -50.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.58 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £31.76 £20.55
% change year-on-year -1.61% +54.53% -48.62%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 10 April 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 +31 307 £575 -4.17% 119
South East +41 208 £550 - 96
North of England -17 84 £545 -7.23% 74
Midlands -24 65 £500 -4.76% 37
West Midlands -33 51 £500 -13.04% 28
South West -4 43 £550 -12.00% 46
North West -1 40 £580 +0.87% 47
Yorkshire -23 39 £500 -11.11% 19
East of England -24 19 £575 +10.15% 19
East Midlands -23 14 £442 +10.56% 9
North East -18 5 £400 -36.00% 8
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 20 (2.66%) Confluence
1 20 (2.66%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.80%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 2 (0.27%) Apache
4 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
Applications
1 21 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.46%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.93%) Maximo
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 264 (35.11%) Azure
2 221 (29.39%) AWS
3 103 (13.70%) GCP
4 68 (9.04%) Entra ID
5 48 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (4.39%) Azure Sentinel
7 30 (3.99%) OpenShift
8 27 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (3.46%) Microsoft Purview
10 25 (3.32%) Serverless
11 23 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (2.66%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 20 (2.66%) Power Platform
13 19 (2.53%) GitHub
13 19 (2.53%) OCI
14 18 (2.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 18 (2.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 15 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (1.73%) Amazon S3
17 12 (1.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 85 (11.30%) Firewall
2 62 (8.24%) Network Security
3 47 (6.25%) VPN
4 22 (2.93%) DNS
4 22 (2.93%) Wireless
5 14 (1.86%) BGP
5 14 (1.86%) DHCP
5 14 (1.86%) WAN
6 13 (1.73%) MPLS
7 11 (1.46%) Cisco ASA
7 11 (1.46%) LAN
7 11 (1.46%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.20%) HTTP
8 9 (1.20%) IPv6
9 8 (1.06%) IPv4
9 8 (1.06%) NGFW
9 8 (1.06%) OSPF
10 7 (0.93%) SSH
10 7 (0.93%) VLAN
11 6 (0.80%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (1.99%) Power BI
2 14 (1.86%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (1.20%) NoSQL
5 7 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.80%) MySQL
7 5 (0.66%) Big Data
7 5 (0.66%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.66%) Metadata
7 5 (0.66%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.53%) DocumentDB
8 4 (0.53%) Redis
9 3 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.40%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.27%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 24 (3.19%) Jenkins
2 22 (2.93%) JIRA
3 19 (2.53%) Burp Suite
3 19 (2.53%) Metasploit
4 11 (1.46%) GitLab
5 6 (0.80%) Git
6 3 (0.40%) JMeter
6 3 (0.40%) MSTest
6 3 (0.40%) Selenium
7 1 (0.13%) AppScan
7 1 (0.13%) MSI
7 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.13%) Snyk
7 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.13%) sqlmap
7 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 282 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 127 (16.89%) Finance
3 101 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 70 (9.31%) Documentation Skills
6 55 (7.31%) Legal
7 33 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (3.86%) Banking
9 17 (2.26%) Manufacturing
10 16 (2.13%) Financial Institution
10 16 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (1.99%) Law
12 14 (1.86%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.33%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.06%) Retail
16 7 (0.93%) Police
17 6 (0.80%) Marketing
18 4 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
19 3 (0.40%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 135 (17.95%) Architect
2 100 (13.30%) Analyst
3 86 (11.44%) Consultant
4 60 (7.98%) Security Engineer
5 57 (7.58%) Security Architect
6 51 (6.78%) Security Consultant
7 42 (5.59%) Senior
8 41 (5.45%) Lead
8 41 (5.45%) Security Analyst
9 40 (5.32%) Project Manager
10 38 (5.05%) Security Manager
11 25 (3.32%) Business Analyst
12 21 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
13 20 (2.66%) Cloud Architect
13 20 (2.66%) CyberArk Architect
13 20 (2.66%) Security Project Manager
13 20 (2.66%) Tester
14 19 (2.53%) Penetration Tester
14 19 (2.53%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (7.45%) LDAP
2 34 (4.52%) SAML
3 33 (4.39%) OpenID
4 28 (3.72%) OAuth
5 17 (2.26%) Oracle Fusion
6 14 (1.86%) OAuth2
7 13 (1.73%) REST
8 11 (1.46%) ARM Templates
9 10 (1.33%) Middleware
10 9 (1.20%) Kafka
11 8 (1.06%) AWS CDK
11 8 (1.06%) RESTful
11 8 (1.06%) SailPoint
12 5 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (0.66%) Spring
13 4 (0.53%) 802.1X
13 4 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (0.53%) gRPC
13 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
13 4 (0.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.04%) Onboarding
2 58 (7.71%) Security Posture
3 57 (7.58%) Cloud Native
4 49 (6.52%) Management Information System
5 46 (6.12%) Operational Technology
6 28 (3.72%) Data Centre
7 25 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 23 (3.06%) Product Ownership
9 22 (2.93%) Security Operations Centre
10 21 (2.79%) SCADA
11 17 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (2.26%) PKI
12 16 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (1.73%) CMDB
14 13 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
14 13 (1.73%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.60%) Public Cloud
16 11 (1.46%) BYOD
16 11 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 95 (12.63%) Windows
2 57 (7.58%) Linux
3 30 (3.99%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.39%) Unix
5 7 (0.93%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.80%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.80%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.53%) AIX
7 4 (0.53%) Solaris
8 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Android
9 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Rocky
9 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (44.28%) Cybersecurity
2 209 (27.79%) Information Security
3 168 (22.34%) Risk Management
4 155 (20.61%) Cloud Security
5 151 (20.08%) SIEM
6 148 (19.68%) Stakeholder Management
7 137 (18.22%) DevOps
8 134 (17.82%) CI/CD
9 122 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 113 (15.03%) Incident Response
11 105 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 97 (12.90%) Threat Modelling
13 95 (12.63%) Security Operations
14 94 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
15 91 (12.10%) Agile
15 91 (12.10%) Data Protection
15 91 (12.10%) Security Architecture
16 86 (11.44%) Infrastructure as Code
17 82 (10.90%) Roadmaps
17 82 (10.90%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 106 (14.10%) PowerShell
2 93 (12.37%) Python
3 23 (3.06%) SQL
4 19 (2.53%) Bash
4 19 (2.53%) Bicep
5 7 (0.93%) Java
5 7 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (0.53%) C#
6 4 (0.53%) PHP
7 3 (0.40%) Go
7 3 (0.40%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.40%) Ruby
8 2 (0.27%) C
8 2 (0.27%) Rust
8 2 (0.27%) Solidity
9 1 (0.13%) Lisp
9 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 283 (37.63%) Security Cleared
2 223 (29.65%) SC Cleared
3 191 (25.40%) CISSP
4 143 (19.02%) CISM
5 101 (13.43%) Degree
6 61 (8.11%) DV Cleared
7 45 (5.98%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (4.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 33 (4.39%) CISA
9 32 (4.26%) AWS Certification
9 32 (4.26%) PMI Certification
10 31 (4.12%) Azure Certification
10 31 (4.12%) CEH
10 31 (4.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 31 (4.12%) PMP
11 28 (3.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 27 (3.59%) CRISC
13 25 (3.32%) CompTIA Security+
13 25 (3.32%) GIAC
14 21 (2.79%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 469 (62.37%) NIST
2 248 (32.98%) GDPR
3 107 (14.23%) PCI DSS
4 88 (11.70%) NCSC
5 81 (10.77%) GRC
6 67 (8.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 55 (7.31%) SOC 2
8 53 (7.05%) COBIT
9 41 (5.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 36 (4.79%) NIST 800
11 31 (4.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 28 (3.72%) QA
13 20 (2.66%) JSP 440
14 18 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 17 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 17 (2.26%) PMO
16 15 (1.99%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 14 (1.86%) Data Quality
17 14 (1.86%) SLA
18 13 (1.73%) HIPAA
System Software
1 102 (13.56%) Active Directory
2 22 (2.93%) Docker
2 22 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.06%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.53%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.13%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) GPFS
7 1 (0.13%) Lustre
7 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 64 (8.51%) Kubernetes
2 62 (8.24%) Terraform
3 24 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
4 22 (2.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (2.53%) Ansible
6 17 (2.26%) Nmap
7 11 (1.46%) Nessus
8 7 (0.93%) CASB
9 6 (0.80%) Fluentd
9 6 (0.80%) Grafana
9 6 (0.80%) SCCM
9 6 (0.80%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.66%) QRadar
11 4 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.53%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.53%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.53%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.40%) OpenVAS
12 3 (0.40%) SCOM
13 2 (0.27%) Podman
Vendors
1 121 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 91 (12.10%) CyberArk
3 48 (6.38%) BeyondTrust
4 46 (6.12%) Splunk
5 41 (5.45%) Oracle
6 34 (4.52%) ServiceNow
7 31 (4.12%) Cisco
8 23 (3.06%) VMware
9 17 (2.26%) Fortinet
9 17 (2.26%) Google
9 17 (2.26%) SAP
10 12 (1.60%) Palo Alto
11 11 (1.46%) IBM
11 11 (1.46%) Qualys
11 11 (1.46%) Rapid7
12 10 (1.33%) Tenable
13 8 (1.06%) Okta
14 7 (0.93%) CheckPoint
14 7 (0.93%) Red Hat
15 6 (0.80%) SolarWinds
360 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England