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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 218 197
Rank change year-on-year +86 -21 +72
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 705 312 444
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.99% 1.21% 1.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.38% 8.10% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 187 335
10th Percentile £408 £405 £369
25th Percentile £460 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £648 £675 £667
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £537 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.46% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 10 12
10th Percentile £31.81 £32.70 -
25th Percentile £33.50 £41.44 £42.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £67.55 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.70% +51.79% -39.35%
75th Percentile £68.63 £82.00 £56.34
90th Percentile £82.78 £84.38 £82.91
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £73.60 £44.50
% change year-on-year -51.09% +65.39% -39.35%

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 6,194 3,854 5,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.48% 14.99% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,011 2,331 3,515
10th Percentile £331 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £605 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 149 327
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.50 £12.36
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £14.56
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.76 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -18.86% +19.13% -23.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.37 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £27.69 £30.11 £25.57
% change year-on-year -8.02% +17.72% -21.32%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 +43 305 £570 -8.80% 78
South East +46 156 £500 -2.44% 61
North of England -10 77 £526 -12.31% 38
Midlands -4 62 £479 -20.25% 32
South West +16 60 £525 -16.00% 27
Yorkshire -30 42 £500 -16.67% 6
West Midlands -17 39 £540 -10.00% 25
North West -10 30 £580 -9.38% 29
East Midlands -7 23 £449 +12.25% 7
East of England -27 16 £564 +3.11% 11
North East -15 5 £400 +14.29% 3
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 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 22 (3.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.55%) Confluence
4 6 (0.85%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.28%) Apache
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (1.56%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (1.13%) Maximo
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 260 (36.88%) Azure
2 209 (29.65%) AWS
3 98 (13.90%) GCP
4 81 (11.49%) Entra ID
5 68 (9.65%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (6.52%) Azure Sentinel
7 33 (4.68%) OpenShift
8 27 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (3.83%) Microsoft Purview
9 21 (2.98%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 21 (2.98%) OCI
10 19 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (2.70%) SaaS
11 17 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 16 (2.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 16 (2.27%) GitHub
12 16 (2.27%) Power Platform
13 15 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (1.99%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 96 (13.62%) Firewall
2 64 (9.08%) Network Security
3 50 (7.09%) VPN
4 21 (2.98%) Wireless
5 18 (2.55%) DNS
6 15 (2.13%) BGP
7 14 (1.99%) WAN
8 13 (1.84%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (1.84%) MPLS
9 12 (1.70%) LAN
9 12 (1.70%) SD-WAN
10 11 (1.56%) DHCP
11 9 (1.28%) OSPF
12 7 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (0.99%) NGFW
13 6 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.85%) SSH
13 6 (0.85%) TACACS
13 6 (0.85%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.70%) Power BI
2 11 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (0.99%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.85%) DynamoDB
4 6 (0.85%) Metadata
4 6 (0.85%) MySQL
4 6 (0.85%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.57%) DocumentDB
6 4 (0.57%) Redis
7 3 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.43%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.43%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.28%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 26 (3.69%) Jenkins
2 25 (3.55%) JIRA
3 18 (2.55%) Burp Suite
3 18 (2.55%) Metasploit
4 14 (1.99%) GitLab
5 7 (0.99%) Git
6 3 (0.43%) Snyk
7 1 (0.14%) Ant
7 1 (0.14%) AppScan
7 1 (0.14%) JMeter
7 1 (0.14%) MSTest
7 1 (0.14%) Selenium
7 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 301 (42.70%) Social Skills
2 123 (17.45%) Finance
3 79 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (10.78%) Public Sector
5 65 (9.22%) Documentation Skills
6 43 (6.10%) Legal
7 34 (4.82%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (3.26%) Banking
9 23 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
10 17 (2.41%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.42%) Law
11 10 (1.42%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.13%) Marketing
13 8 (1.13%) Police
14 6 (0.85%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.71%) Aviation
15 5 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.57%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 103 (14.61%) Architect
2 102 (14.47%) Analyst
3 80 (11.35%) Consultant
4 62 (8.79%) Security Engineer
5 48 (6.81%) Security Architect
6 47 (6.67%) Security Analyst
7 45 (6.38%) Senior
8 35 (4.96%) Security Consultant
9 31 (4.40%) Lead
10 29 (4.11%) Security Manager
11 25 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
11 25 (3.55%) Project Manager
11 25 (3.55%) Security Specialist
12 23 (3.26%) Tester
13 19 (2.70%) Penetration Tester
14 16 (2.27%) CyberArk Architect
15 15 (2.13%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 15 (2.13%) Security Officer
16 14 (1.99%) Programme Manager
16 14 (1.99%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.37%) LDAP
2 40 (5.67%) SAML
3 39 (5.53%) OpenID
4 34 (4.82%) OAuth
5 19 (2.70%) OAuth2
6 17 (2.41%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (2.13%) REST
8 13 (1.84%) SailPoint
9 11 (1.56%) ARM Templates
10 8 (1.13%) RESTful
11 6 (0.85%) AWS CDK
11 6 (0.85%) Kafka
11 6 (0.85%) Middleware
12 5 (0.71%) .NET
12 5 (0.71%) JWT
12 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (0.71%) Node.js
12 5 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (0.71%) Spring
13 4 (0.57%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 78 (11.06%) Security Posture
2 60 (8.51%) Onboarding
3 57 (8.09%) Management Information System
4 48 (6.81%) Cloud Native
5 30 (4.26%) Operational Technology
6 26 (3.69%) Cyber Threat
7 21 (2.98%) Security Operations Centre
8 20 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (2.70%) Data Centre
10 16 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (2.13%) Product Ownership
12 14 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.99%) PKI
13 12 (1.70%) Public Cloud
14 11 (1.56%) SCADA
15 10 (1.42%) NHS
16 9 (1.28%) BYOD
16 9 (1.28%) Cloud Security Posture
16 9 (1.28%) Cyber Kill Chain
17 8 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 72 (10.21%) Windows
2 42 (5.96%) Linux
3 15 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.84%) Mac OS
5 11 (1.56%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.99%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.99%) Unix
7 4 (0.57%) AIX
7 4 (0.57%) Solaris
8 3 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.43%) VMS
9 2 (0.28%) Android
9 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.14%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (43.26%) Cybersecurity
2 210 (29.79%) Information Security
3 173 (24.54%) Risk Management
4 168 (23.83%) Cloud Security
5 158 (22.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 143 (20.28%) SIEM
7 134 (19.01%) Incident Response
8 123 (17.45%) CI/CD
8 123 (17.45%) DevOps
9 112 (15.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 104 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 93 (13.19%) Security Operations
11 93 (13.19%) Zero Trust
12 85 (12.06%) Data Protection
13 84 (11.91%) Regulatory Compliance
13 84 (11.91%) Threat Modelling
14 81 (11.49%) Agile
15 80 (11.35%) Security Architecture
16 78 (11.06%) Identity Access Management
16 78 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 115 (16.31%) PowerShell
2 79 (11.21%) Python
3 22 (3.12%) Bash
4 19 (2.70%) Bicep
5 17 (2.41%) SQL
6 10 (1.42%) Java
6 10 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (0.57%) Go
7 4 (0.57%) PHP
7 4 (0.57%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.43%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.28%) C
9 2 (0.28%) C#
9 2 (0.28%) Rust
9 2 (0.28%) Solidity
10 1 (0.14%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.14%) Lisp
10 1 (0.14%) Ruby
10 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 266 (37.73%) Security Cleared
2 218 (30.92%) SC Cleared
3 197 (27.94%) CISSP
4 152 (21.56%) CISM
5 97 (13.76%) Degree
6 56 (7.94%) DV Cleared
7 44 (6.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 40 (5.67%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (4.96%) CISA
10 33 (4.68%) Azure Certification
11 29 (4.11%) AWS Certification
12 28 (3.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 28 (3.97%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 26 (3.69%) Master's Degree
13 26 (3.69%) Microsoft Certification
14 24 (3.40%) GIAC
15 23 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
15 23 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
15 23 (3.26%) CRISC
16 22 (3.12%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 434 (61.56%) NIST
2 246 (34.89%) GDPR
3 105 (14.89%) PCI DSS
4 93 (13.19%) NCSC
5 87 (12.34%) GRC
6 74 (10.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 46 (6.52%) COBIT
8 42 (5.96%) SOC 2
9 38 (5.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 38 (5.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 32 (4.54%) NIST 800
11 27 (3.83%) QA
12 20 (2.84%) JSP 440
13 18 (2.55%) PMO
14 17 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 16 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 15 (2.13%) SLA
17 13 (1.84%) Actionable Recommendations
18 11 (1.56%) Def Stans
18 11 (1.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 92 (13.05%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (2.41%) Docker
4 7 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.14%) Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) GPFS
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) Lustre
7 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (8.94%) Kubernetes
2 56 (7.94%) Terraform
3 37 (5.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (3.83%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (2.98%) SCCM
6 18 (2.55%) Ansible
7 16 (2.27%) Nmap
8 10 (1.42%) Nessus
9 9 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (1.13%) Fluentd
11 7 (0.99%) RSA Archer
12 6 (0.85%) PingFederate
12 6 (0.85%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.71%) CASB
14 3 (0.43%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.43%) Grafana
14 3 (0.43%) OpenVAS
14 3 (0.43%) QRadar
14 3 (0.43%) SCOM
15 2 (0.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 140 (19.86%) Microsoft
2 71 (10.07%) CyberArk
3 45 (6.38%) Splunk
4 37 (5.25%) BeyondTrust
5 31 (4.40%) Oracle
6 29 (4.11%) Cisco
7 28 (3.97%) ServiceNow
8 24 (3.40%) VMware
9 17 (2.41%) SAP
10 16 (2.27%) Fortinet
10 16 (2.27%) Google
10 16 (2.27%) Rapid7
11 15 (2.13%) Palo Alto
12 12 (1.70%) Qualys
13 10 (1.42%) Citrix
13 10 (1.42%) IBM
13 10 (1.42%) Okta
14 9 (1.28%) Cribl.io
14 9 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (1.28%) Ping Identity