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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 203 219
Rank change year-on-year +64 +16 +33
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 748 313 394
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.93% 1.28% 1.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.16% 8.30% 7.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 199 304
10th Percentile £410 £400 £363
25th Percentile £463 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £657 £669 £675
90th Percentile £770 £790 £766
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -2.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 10 1
10th Percentile £32.75 £47.33 -
25th Percentile £40.73 £53.62 -
Median hourly rate £81.00 £61.50 £83.41
Median % change year-on-year +31.72% -26.27% +19.16%
75th Percentile £83.00 £82.00 -
90th Percentile £84.00 £84.38 -
UK median hourly rate £81.00 £61.50 £83.41
% change year-on-year +31.72% -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 6,700 3,771 5,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.33% 15.47% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,353 2,444 3,388
10th Percentile £340 £266 £305
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% -3.10% -
75th Percentile £613 £629 £638
90th Percentile £713 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 155 338
10th Percentile £14.23 £17.45 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.18
Median hourly rate £29.77 £32.81 £21.38
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +53.48% -49.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.13 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £30.79 £32.25 £20.80
% change year-on-year -4.53% +55.03% -47.99%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +31 305 £575 -4.17% 119
South East +38 197 £550 - 96
North of England -16 85 £540 -6.09% 74
Midlands -28 64 £500 -4.76% 37
West Midlands -26 50 £500 -13.04% 28
South West +6 48 £538 -14.00% 46
North West -8 42 £574 -0.26% 47
Yorkshire -23 38 £500 -11.11% 19
East of England -17 20 £552 +6.26% 19
East Midlands -23 14 £442 +10.56% 9
North East -16 5 £400 -17.95% 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 24 (3.21%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.94%) Confluence
3 17 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.80%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.27%) Apache
5 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.13%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 19 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.94%) Maximo
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 266 (35.56%) Azure
2 220 (29.41%) AWS
3 100 (13.37%) GCP
4 71 (9.49%) Entra ID
5 50 (6.68%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (4.68%) Azure Sentinel
7 30 (4.01%) OpenShift
8 27 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (3.48%) Microsoft Purview
9 26 (3.48%) Serverless
10 24 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (2.81%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 20 (2.67%) Power Platform
13 19 (2.54%) OCI
13 19 (2.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 18 (2.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 18 (2.41%) GitHub
15 15 (2.01%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (1.87%) SaaS
17 13 (1.74%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 89 (11.90%) Firewall
2 61 (8.16%) Network Security
3 48 (6.42%) VPN
4 23 (3.07%) DNS
5 22 (2.94%) Wireless
6 16 (2.14%) WAN
7 15 (2.01%) DHCP
8 14 (1.87%) BGP
9 13 (1.74%) LAN
9 13 (1.74%) MPLS
9 13 (1.74%) SD-WAN
10 12 (1.60%) Cisco ASA
11 9 (1.20%) HTTP
11 9 (1.20%) IPv6
12 8 (1.07%) IPv4
12 8 (1.07%) NGFW
12 8 (1.07%) OSPF
13 7 (0.94%) VLAN
14 6 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (0.80%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.01%) Power BI
2 10 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (1.20%) NoSQL
4 7 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (0.80%) DynamoDB
5 6 (0.80%) MySQL
5 6 (0.80%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.67%) Big Data
6 5 (0.67%) Metadata
6 5 (0.67%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.53%) DocumentDB
7 4 (0.53%) Redis
8 3 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.40%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.27%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 24 (3.21%) Jenkins
1 24 (3.21%) JIRA
2 19 (2.54%) Burp Suite
2 19 (2.54%) Metasploit
3 11 (1.47%) GitLab
4 6 (0.80%) Git
5 3 (0.40%) JMeter
5 3 (0.40%) MSTest
5 3 (0.40%) Selenium
6 1 (0.13%) AppScan
6 1 (0.13%) MSI
6 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.13%) Snyk
6 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.13%) sqlmap
6 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 281 (37.57%) Social Skills
2 128 (17.11%) Finance
3 95 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (11.63%) Public Sector
5 65 (8.69%) Documentation Skills
6 51 (6.82%) Legal
7 32 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (3.88%) Banking
9 16 (2.14%) Financial Institution
9 16 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 15 (2.01%) Law
10 15 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (1.87%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.07%) Retail
15 7 (0.94%) Police
16 6 (0.80%) Marketing
17 5 (0.67%) Aviation
18 4 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 135 (18.05%) Architect
2 96 (12.83%) Analyst
3 89 (11.90%) Consultant
4 61 (8.16%) Security Engineer
5 58 (7.75%) Security Architect
6 50 (6.68%) Security Consultant
7 44 (5.88%) Senior
8 41 (5.48%) Lead
9 40 (5.35%) Security Analyst
10 39 (5.21%) Project Manager
11 37 (4.95%) Security Manager
12 23 (3.07%) Business Analyst
13 21 (2.81%) Azure Engineer
13 21 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (2.67%) Cloud Architect
14 20 (2.67%) CyberArk Architect
14 20 (2.67%) Tester
15 19 (2.54%) Penetration Tester
15 19 (2.54%) Security Project Manager
15 19 (2.54%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.62%) LDAP
2 37 (4.95%) SAML
3 36 (4.81%) OpenID
4 29 (3.88%) OAuth
5 17 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
6 14 (1.87%) OAuth2
7 13 (1.74%) REST
8 11 (1.47%) ARM Templates
9 10 (1.34%) Middleware
10 9 (1.20%) Kafka
11 8 (1.07%) AWS CDK
11 8 (1.07%) RESTful
11 8 (1.07%) SailPoint
12 5 (0.67%) Node.js
12 5 (0.67%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (0.67%) Spring
13 4 (0.53%) 802.1X
13 4 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (0.53%) Hibernate
13 4 (0.53%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 66 (8.82%) Onboarding
2 58 (7.75%) Security Posture
3 57 (7.62%) Cloud Native
4 44 (5.88%) Operational Technology
5 43 (5.75%) Management Information System
6 27 (3.61%) Data Centre
7 25 (3.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 23 (3.07%) Product Ownership
9 22 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
10 20 (2.67%) SCADA
11 17 (2.27%) PKI
12 16 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
12 16 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
14 14 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (1.74%) CMDB
15 13 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
16 12 (1.60%) Virtual Team
17 11 (1.47%) BYOD
17 11 (1.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 87 (11.63%) Windows
2 50 (6.68%) Linux
3 27 (3.61%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.34%) Unix
5 7 (0.94%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.94%) Ubuntu
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 2 (0.27%) Android
9 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) CentOS
10 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Rocky
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (43.98%) Cybersecurity
2 200 (26.74%) Information Security
3 165 (22.06%) Risk Management
4 158 (21.12%) Cloud Security
5 151 (20.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 141 (18.85%) DevOps
7 140 (18.72%) SIEM
8 135 (18.05%) CI/CD
9 120 (16.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 118 (15.78%) Incident Response
11 106 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 99 (13.24%) Threat Modelling
13 94 (12.57%) Security Operations
14 93 (12.43%) Agile
14 93 (12.43%) Security Architecture
15 89 (11.90%) Zero Trust
16 88 (11.76%) Data Protection
17 87 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
17 87 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
18 80 (10.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 100 (13.37%) PowerShell
2 84 (11.23%) Python
3 23 (3.07%) SQL
4 20 (2.67%) Bicep
5 17 (2.27%) Bash
6 9 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (0.94%) Java
8 4 (0.53%) C#
8 4 (0.53%) Go
8 4 (0.53%) PHP
9 3 (0.40%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.40%) Ruby
10 2 (0.27%) C
10 2 (0.27%) Rust
10 2 (0.27%) Solidity
10 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.13%) Lisp
11 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 285 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 221 (29.55%) SC Cleared
3 189 (25.27%) CISSP
4 142 (18.98%) CISM
5 94 (12.57%) Degree
6 66 (8.82%) DV Cleared
7 45 (6.02%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (4.41%) AWS Certification
9 32 (4.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 32 (4.28%) Azure Certification
10 31 (4.14%) CEH
10 31 (4.14%) CISA
10 31 (4.14%) PMI Certification
11 30 (4.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 30 (4.01%) PMP
12 26 (3.48%) GIAC
12 26 (3.48%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 25 (3.34%) CompTIA Security+
13 25 (3.34%) CRISC
14 21 (2.81%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 464 (62.03%) NIST
2 252 (33.69%) GDPR
3 107 (14.30%) PCI DSS
4 94 (12.57%) NCSC
5 79 (10.56%) GRC
6 72 (9.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 53 (7.09%) SOC 2
8 50 (6.68%) COBIT
9 38 (5.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 34 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 34 (4.55%) NIST 800
11 28 (3.74%) QA
12 26 (3.48%) JSP 440
13 19 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 17 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 17 (2.27%) PMO
15 15 (2.01%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 15 (2.01%) SLA
16 14 (1.87%) Data Quality
17 12 (1.60%) ITGC
System Software
1 93 (12.43%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.81%) Docker
2 21 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.94%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.53%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.13%) Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) GPFS
6 1 (0.13%) Lustre
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.13%) Varnish
6 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (8.69%) Kubernetes
2 62 (8.29%) Terraform
3 28 (3.74%) Single Sign-On
4 24 (3.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (2.54%) Ansible
6 17 (2.27%) Nmap
7 11 (1.47%) Nessus
8 7 (0.94%) CASB
8 7 (0.94%) SCCM
9 6 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.80%) Fluentd
9 6 (0.80%) Grafana
9 6 (0.80%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.67%) QRadar
11 4 (0.53%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.53%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.53%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.53%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.40%) OpenVAS
12 3 (0.40%) SCOM
Vendors
1 122 (16.31%) Microsoft
2 82 (10.96%) CyberArk
3 46 (6.15%) Splunk
4 40 (5.35%) BeyondTrust
5 35 (4.68%) Oracle
6 34 (4.55%) ServiceNow
7 31 (4.14%) Cisco
8 23 (3.07%) VMware
9 18 (2.41%) Fortinet
9 18 (2.41%) Google
10 17 (2.27%) SAP
11 13 (1.74%) Palo Alto
12 11 (1.47%) IBM
12 11 (1.47%) Qualys
12 11 (1.47%) Rapid7
13 10 (1.34%) Tenable
14 9 (1.20%) Okta
15 7 (0.94%) Ping Identity
15 7 (0.94%) Red Hat
15 7 (0.94%) Zscaler