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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 161 236
Rank change year-on-year -1 +75 -29
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 745 473 361
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 1.73% 0.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.69% 10.41% 7.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 328 280
10th Percentile £413 £350 £400
25th Percentile £492 £455 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -4.35% -3.41%
75th Percentile £664 £650 £670
90th Percentile £775 £750 £739
UK median daily rate £560 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +1.82% -4.35% -1.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 10 2
10th Percentile £43.81 £29.31 -
25th Percentile £50.63 £35.77 £26.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% +107.26% -61.45%
75th Percentile £82.25 £69.94 £28.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £100.55 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +14.04% +107.26% -60.71%

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 7,690 4,542 4,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.15% 16.64% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,951 2,950 3,105
10th Percentile £350 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -4.31% -2.15%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £635
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 206 368
10th Percentile £14.02 £15.12 £11.07
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £13.52
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.76 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.57% +27.04% -41.18%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £52.06
90th Percentile £81.90 £83.21 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +20.23% +24.07% -37.54%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -7 310 £575 +4.50% 170
South East +11 235 £563 - 118
North of England -62 65 £540 -1.82% 66
Midlands -21 56 £500 +11.11% 37
West Midlands -37 46 £500 +11.11% 22
North West -31 39 £574 +4.27% 46
South West -36 37 £605 -0.21% 52
East of England -12 26 £525 +1.16% 22
Yorkshire -55 26 £500 +2.56% 15
East Midlands -14 10 £447 +5.18% 15
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 23 (3.09%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.68%) Confluence
3 12 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.94%) IIS
5 3 (0.40%) Apache
5 3 (0.40%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.13%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.81%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.13%) iTrent
3 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 247 (33.15%) Azure
2 166 (22.28%) AWS
3 107 (14.36%) Entra ID
4 93 (12.48%) GCP
5 70 (9.40%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (4.56%) SaaS
7 33 (4.43%) Microsoft Purview
8 29 (3.89%) Azure Sentinel
9 24 (3.22%) Serverless
10 20 (2.68%) GitHub
11 19 (2.55%) OCI
12 18 (2.42%) Power Platform
13 17 (2.28%) OpenShift
14 16 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (1.34%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 10 (1.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
18 9 (1.21%) IaaS
18 9 (1.21%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (8.86%) Network Security
2 65 (8.72%) Firewall
3 27 (3.62%) VPN
4 14 (1.88%) NGFW
5 12 (1.61%) DNS
5 12 (1.61%) WAN
5 12 (1.61%) Wireless
6 10 (1.34%) Intrusion Detection
6 10 (1.34%) LAN
7 9 (1.21%) BGP
7 9 (1.21%) HTTP
8 8 (1.07%) MPLS
9 7 (0.94%) SSH
9 7 (0.94%) SSL
10 6 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.81%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (0.81%) HTTPS
10 6 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
10 6 (0.81%) SAN
10 6 (0.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.22%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.15%) Power BI
3 10 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (1.21%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.67%) Big Data
5 5 (0.67%) Metadata
6 4 (0.54%) Delta Lake
6 4 (0.54%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.27%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.27%) MySQL
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (3.49%) JIRA
2 17 (2.28%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.07%) Burp Suite
4 5 (0.67%) Snyk
5 4 (0.54%) Git
5 4 (0.54%) Metasploit
6 3 (0.40%) GitLab
7 2 (0.27%) JMeter
7 2 (0.27%) MSTest
7 2 (0.27%) Selenium
7 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.13%) AppScan
8 1 (0.13%) MSI
8 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.13%) sqlmap
General
1 260 (34.90%) Social Skills
2 126 (16.91%) Finance
3 101 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (13.42%) Public Sector
5 77 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
6 43 (5.77%) Legal
7 29 (3.89%) Aerospace
8 28 (3.76%) Banking
9 25 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (2.82%) Manufacturing
11 18 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (1.74%) Military
12 13 (1.74%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.61%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.21%) Retail
15 7 (0.94%) Law
16 5 (0.67%) Local Government
17 3 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (17.45%) Architect
2 107 (14.36%) Analyst
3 74 (9.93%) Consultant
4 60 (8.05%) Lead
4 60 (8.05%) Security Architect
5 55 (7.38%) Security Engineer
6 47 (6.31%) Security Analyst
6 47 (6.31%) Security Consultant
7 44 (5.91%) Senior
8 39 (5.23%) Project Manager
9 37 (4.97%) Security Manager
10 31 (4.16%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 28 (3.76%) Business Analyst
12 26 (3.49%) Security Specialist
13 22 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 20 (2.68%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 20 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
15 19 (2.55%) Security Project Manager
16 18 (2.42%) Cloud Architect
16 18 (2.42%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.31%) LDAP
2 41 (5.50%) SAML
3 37 (4.97%) OpenID
4 32 (4.30%) OAuth
5 21 (2.82%) SailPoint
6 19 (2.55%) OAuth2
7 12 (1.61%) REST
8 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Graph
8 9 (1.21%) Web Services
9 8 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (0.94%) Kafka
10 7 (0.94%) Middleware
11 4 (0.54%) 802.1X
11 4 (0.54%) RESTful
12 3 (0.40%) AWS CDK
12 3 (0.40%) GraphQL
12 3 (0.40%) JSON
12 3 (0.40%) JWT
12 3 (0.40%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 78 (10.47%) Onboarding
1 78 (10.47%) Operational Technology
2 62 (8.32%) Cloud Native
3 58 (7.79%) Security Posture
4 43 (5.77%) Management Information System
5 29 (3.89%) SCADA
6 28 (3.76%) Cyber Threat
7 23 (3.09%) Data Centre
7 23 (3.09%) PKI
8 22 (2.95%) Security Operations Centre
9 19 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (2.42%) Product Ownership
11 16 (2.15%) Virtual Team
12 15 (2.01%) Cyber Defence
13 14 (1.88%) CMDB
14 12 (1.61%) BYOD
14 12 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (1.34%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 111 (14.90%) Windows
2 77 (10.34%) Linux
3 38 (5.10%) Unix
4 36 (4.83%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.61%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.54%) CentOS
8 3 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.40%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.27%) AIX
9 2 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.27%) Android
9 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.27%) Solaris
9 2 (0.27%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Rocky
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (53.29%) Cybersecurity
2 209 (28.05%) Information Security
3 186 (24.97%) Risk Management
4 167 (22.42%) SIEM
5 147 (19.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 140 (18.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 115 (15.44%) Cloud Security
8 114 (15.30%) Vulnerability Management
9 112 (15.03%) Incident Response
10 109 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 106 (14.23%) Security Architecture
11 106 (14.23%) Security Operations
12 98 (13.15%) CI/CD
12 98 (13.15%) DevOps
13 95 (12.75%) Roadmaps
13 95 (12.75%) Threat Modelling
14 92 (12.35%) ITSM
15 87 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
16 85 (11.41%) Zero Trust
17 82 (11.01%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 106 (14.23%) PowerShell
2 101 (13.56%) Python
3 25 (3.36%) Bash
4 22 (2.95%) SQL
5 11 (1.48%) Bicep
6 6 (0.81%) Perl
7 4 (0.54%) Go
7 4 (0.54%) Java
7 4 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (0.54%) PHP
8 3 (0.40%) C#
8 3 (0.40%) Ruby
9 2 (0.27%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.13%) Lisp
10 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 285 (38.26%) Security Cleared
2 216 (28.99%) SC Cleared
3 181 (24.30%) CISSP
4 129 (17.32%) CISM
5 105 (14.09%) Degree
6 61 (8.19%) DV Cleared
7 55 (7.38%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (5.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 39 (5.23%) CRISC
10 34 (4.56%) PMI Certification
11 32 (4.30%) PMP
12 31 (4.16%) CEH
12 31 (4.16%) GIAC
13 30 (4.03%) CISA
14 29 (3.89%) CompTIA Security+
15 23 (3.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 23 (3.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 22 (2.95%) Azure Certification
17 21 (2.82%) AWS Certification
17 21 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 469 (62.95%) NIST
2 188 (25.23%) GDPR
3 106 (14.23%) GRC
4 86 (11.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 83 (11.14%) NCSC
6 75 (10.07%) PCI DSS
7 66 (8.86%) SOC 2
8 43 (5.77%) COBIT
9 32 (4.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 32 (4.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 31 (4.16%) NIST 800
11 23 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 20 (2.68%) Data Quality
12 20 (2.68%) HIPAA
13 16 (2.15%) JSP 440
14 15 (2.01%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 15 (2.01%) ISO 31000
15 14 (1.88%) SLA
16 13 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 10 (1.34%) RMADS
System Software
1 126 (16.91%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.09%) Docker
3 20 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.61%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.40%) vSphere
7 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.13%) Ceph
8 1 (0.13%) GPFS
8 1 (0.13%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) Lustre
8 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 49 (6.58%) Kubernetes
2 41 (5.50%) Terraform
3 32 (4.30%) Single Sign-On
4 25 (3.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (2.42%) Ansible
6 7 (0.94%) Nessus
7 6 (0.81%) Grafana
7 6 (0.81%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.67%) CASB
8 5 (0.67%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.40%) OpenVAS
9 3 (0.40%) Podman
9 3 (0.40%) Puppet
9 3 (0.40%) QRadar
9 3 (0.40%) RSA Archer
9 3 (0.40%) SCOM
10 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.27%) Nexpose
10 2 (0.27%) Nmap
Vendors
1 152 (20.40%) Microsoft
2 75 (10.07%) CyberArk
3 46 (6.17%) ServiceNow
4 44 (5.91%) BeyondTrust
5 40 (5.37%) Oracle
6 35 (4.70%) Splunk
7 27 (3.62%) Cisco
8 21 (2.82%) VMware
9 19 (2.55%) Google
10 15 (2.01%) Palo Alto
11 14 (1.88%) Qualys
12 12 (1.61%) Tenable
13 11 (1.48%) CrowdStrike
13 11 (1.48%) Rapid7
14 10 (1.34%) Fortinet
15 9 (1.21%) Okta
16 8 (1.07%) Juniper
17 7 (0.94%) SAP
17 7 (0.94%) SolarWinds
18 6 (0.81%) Zscaler
426 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England