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

 6 months to
30 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 188 217
Rank change year-on-year +43 +29 +16
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 705 343 397
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 1.41% 1.07%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.30% 8.88% 7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 225 305
10th Percentile £413 £353 £363
25th Percentile £481 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.54%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £769 £800 £772
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 8 1
10th Percentile £36.00 £51.25 -
25th Percentile £43.81 £58.37 -
Median hourly rate £59.07 £61.50 £83.41
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -26.27% +19.16%
75th Percentile £82.25 £79.60 -
90th Percentile £83.50 £86.74 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £83.41
% change year-on-year +2.67% -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 6,843 3,862 5,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.97% 15.87% 14.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,466 2,481 3,377
10th Percentile £336 £269 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 430 160 350
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.78 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.27 £13.18
Median hourly rate £30.58 £34.75 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +52.75% -46.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £79.97 £79.11 £67.39
UK median hourly rate £33.12 £34.50 £21.12
% change year-on-year -4.00% +63.39% -44.07%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +18 286 £575 -4.17% 102
South East +43 207 £563 +2.27% 89
North of England -27 78 £548 -0.45% 59
Midlands -44 50 £500 -4.76% 46
West Midlands -39 41 £500 -13.04% 27
North West -10 38 £577 +4.86% 36
South West -18 38 £550 -8.33% 41
Yorkshire -34 35 £500 +53.85% 16
East of England -23 21 £550 +5.36% 28
East Midlands -23 9 £442 +10.56% 18
North East -19 5 £400 -42.86% 7
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 (2.70%) Confluence
2 17 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.85%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 3 (0.43%) Apache
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.28%) IIS
7 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.85%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.56%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.85%) Maximo
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 249 (35.32%) Azure
2 194 (27.52%) AWS
3 91 (12.91%) GCP
4 65 (9.22%) Entra ID
5 52 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (4.40%) OpenShift
7 28 (3.97%) Azure Sentinel
8 25 (3.55%) Microsoft Purview
8 25 (3.55%) Serverless
9 22 (3.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (2.84%) OCI
11 19 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (2.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 18 (2.55%) GitHub
12 18 (2.55%) Power Platform
13 15 (2.13%) SaaS
14 14 (1.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 13 (1.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 12 (1.70%) Azure AKS
17 11 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (10.50%) Firewall
2 57 (8.09%) Network Security
3 42 (5.96%) VPN
4 19 (2.70%) DNS
5 18 (2.55%) Wireless
6 11 (1.56%) DHCP
7 9 (1.28%) BGP
7 9 (1.28%) HTTP
8 8 (1.13%) MPLS
8 8 (1.13%) WAN
9 7 (0.99%) NGFW
10 6 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (0.85%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.85%) TACACS
11 5 (0.71%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.71%) LAN
11 5 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.71%) SSH
11 5 (0.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.41%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.99%) Power BI
3 11 (1.56%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.99%) Metadata
5 7 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.85%) MySQL
7 5 (0.71%) Big Data
7 5 (0.71%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.71%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.57%) DocumentDB
8 4 (0.57%) Redis
9 3 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.43%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.28%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 22 (3.12%) Jenkins
2 18 (2.55%) Burp Suite
2 18 (2.55%) JIRA
2 18 (2.55%) Metasploit
3 11 (1.56%) GitLab
4 5 (0.71%) Git
5 2 (0.28%) JMeter
5 2 (0.28%) MSTest
5 2 (0.28%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) AppScan
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
1 255 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 120 (17.02%) Finance
3 93 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (11.35%) Public Sector
5 63 (8.94%) Documentation Skills
6 54 (7.66%) Legal
7 31 (4.40%) Banking
8 28 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (2.55%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.27%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.99%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.70%) Law
14 10 (1.42%) Retail
14 10 (1.42%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.85%) Marketing
15 6 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.57%) Military
16 4 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.43%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 119 (16.88%) Architect
2 88 (12.48%) Analyst
3 82 (11.63%) Consultant
4 56 (7.94%) Security Engineer
5 54 (7.66%) Security Consultant
6 51 (7.23%) Security Architect
7 43 (6.10%) Lead
7 43 (6.10%) Project Manager
8 39 (5.53%) Security Manager
9 38 (5.39%) Security Analyst
10 35 (4.96%) Senior
11 24 (3.40%) Business Analyst
12 21 (2.98%) Security Project Manager
13 20 (2.84%) CyberArk Architect
14 18 (2.55%) Azure Engineer
14 18 (2.55%) Cloud Architect
14 18 (2.55%) Penetration Tester
15 17 (2.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (2.41%) Security Specialist
15 17 (2.41%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (7.52%) LDAP
2 38 (5.39%) OpenID
2 38 (5.39%) SAML
3 32 (4.54%) OAuth
4 20 (2.84%) OAuth2
5 17 (2.41%) Oracle Fusion
6 15 (2.13%) REST
7 11 (1.56%) SailPoint
8 10 (1.42%) ARM Templates
8 10 (1.42%) Middleware
9 9 (1.28%) Kafka
10 8 (1.13%) RESTful
11 5 (0.71%) AWS CDK
11 5 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (0.71%) Spring
11 5 (0.71%) Web Services
12 4 (0.57%) gRPC
12 4 (0.57%) JWT
12 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Graph
12 4 (0.57%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 69 (9.79%) Onboarding
2 55 (7.80%) Cloud Native
3 53 (7.52%) Security Posture
4 46 (6.52%) Operational Technology
5 43 (6.10%) Management Information System
6 22 (3.12%) Data Centre
7 20 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (2.70%) Product Ownership
9 18 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (2.41%) PKI
10 17 (2.41%) SCADA
11 15 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
12 13 (1.84%) CMDB
12 13 (1.84%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.56%) BYOD
15 10 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (1.42%) NHS
16 9 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 95 (13.48%) Windows
2 57 (8.09%) Linux
3 32 (4.54%) Windows Server
4 22 (3.12%) Unix
5 8 (1.13%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.85%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.71%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.28%) AIX
9 2 (0.28%) CentOS
9 2 (0.28%) Solaris
9 2 (0.28%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) Android
10 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (43.69%) Cybersecurity
2 214 (30.35%) Information Security
3 166 (23.55%) Risk Management
4 137 (19.43%) Cloud Security
5 134 (19.01%) Stakeholder Management
6 129 (18.30%) SIEM
7 123 (17.45%) DevOps
8 122 (17.30%) CI/CD
9 112 (15.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 96 (13.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 94 (13.33%) Incident Response
12 93 (13.19%) Threat Modelling
13 89 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
14 87 (12.34%) Agile
14 87 (12.34%) Security Architecture
15 83 (11.77%) Security Operations
16 82 (11.63%) Data Protection
17 78 (11.06%) Roadmaps
18 77 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
19 70 (9.93%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 102 (14.47%) PowerShell
2 87 (12.34%) Python
3 23 (3.26%) SQL
4 21 (2.98%) Bash
5 16 (2.27%) Bicep
6 8 (1.13%) Java
7 6 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.57%) C#
8 4 (0.57%) Go
8 4 (0.57%) PHP
9 3 (0.43%) Ruby
10 2 (0.28%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.14%) C
11 1 (0.14%) Lisp
11 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 261 (37.02%) Security Cleared
2 207 (29.36%) SC Cleared
3 167 (23.69%) CISSP
4 129 (18.30%) CISM
5 103 (14.61%) Degree
6 59 (8.37%) DV Cleared
7 40 (5.67%) Cisco Certification
8 35 (4.96%) PMI Certification
9 34 (4.82%) PMP
10 33 (4.68%) CISA
11 29 (4.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 28 (3.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 28 (3.97%) CRISC
13 25 (3.55%) Azure Certification
13 25 (3.55%) CEH
14 24 (3.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 23 (3.26%) CompTIA Security+
15 23 (3.26%) GIAC
16 22 (3.12%) AWS Certification
17 19 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 440 (62.41%) NIST
2 226 (32.06%) GDPR
3 98 (13.90%) PCI DSS
4 87 (12.34%) GRC
5 72 (10.21%) NCSC
6 64 (9.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 53 (7.52%) SOC 2
8 46 (6.52%) COBIT
9 37 (5.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 33 (4.68%) NIST 800
11 26 (3.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 26 (3.69%) QA
12 18 (2.55%) JSP 440
13 17 (2.41%) Data Quality
13 17 (2.41%) PMO
14 14 (1.99%) HIPAA
14 14 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 13 (1.84%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 13 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 13 (1.84%) SLA
System Software
1 100 (14.18%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.12%) Docker
2 22 (3.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.42%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.14%) Ceph
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) GPFS
6 1 (0.14%) Lustre
6 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 63 (8.94%) Kubernetes
2 51 (7.23%) Terraform
3 24 (3.40%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (2.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (2.41%) Ansible
6 16 (2.27%) Nmap
7 8 (1.13%) Nessus
8 7 (0.99%) Grafana
9 6 (0.85%) CASB
9 6 (0.85%) Fluentd
9 6 (0.85%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.71%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.71%) SCCM
11 4 (0.57%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.43%) OpenVAS
12 3 (0.43%) Podman
12 3 (0.43%) QRadar
12 3 (0.43%) SCOM
13 2 (0.28%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 118 (16.74%) Microsoft
2 83 (11.77%) CyberArk
3 41 (5.82%) BeyondTrust
3 41 (5.82%) Splunk
4 36 (5.11%) Oracle
5 33 (4.68%) ServiceNow
6 23 (3.26%) VMware
7 22 (3.12%) Cisco
8 16 (2.27%) Google
9 11 (1.56%) Fortinet
9 11 (1.56%) SAP
10 10 (1.42%) Qualys
11 9 (1.28%) IBM
11 9 (1.28%) Rapid7
12 8 (1.13%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.99%) Tenable
14 6 (0.85%) Cribl.io
14 6 (0.85%) Palo Alto
15 5 (0.71%) Databricks
15 5 (0.71%) Okta
338 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England