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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 142 225
Rank change year-on-year -32 +83 -54
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 747 544 369
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 1.97% 1.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.14% 11.41% 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 363 273
10th Percentile £413 £350 £413
25th Percentile £484 £448 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%
75th Percentile £644 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £760
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 18 4
10th Percentile £43.81 £30.28 -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £33.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +111.94% +7.20% -29.78%
75th Percentile £80.00 £47.15 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.11 £80.75 -
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £33.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +111.94% -4.29% -23.91%

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 8,172 4,766 4,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.72% 17.28% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,135 3,112 2,563
10th Percentile £326 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £763
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +0.10% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 593 225 209
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -1.72% -8.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.25 £64.73
90th Percentile £75.80 £82.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -22.54%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -20 341 £575 - 637
South East +2 193 £550 - 194
North of England -56 72 £525 +5.00% 145
South West -39 55 £525 -14.29% 79
North West -28 47 £525 -4.55% 100
Midlands -45 44 £500 +7.53% 60
West Midlands -26 40 £500 -13.04% 40
East of England -18 29 £515 -1.90% 49
Yorkshire -50 23 £475 +4.40% 30
East Midlands -33 4 - - 20
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 18 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.61%) IIS
2 12 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.20%) Confluence
4 3 (0.40%) Apache
5 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.27%) nginx
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.13%) iTrent
2 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.13%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 275 (36.81%) Azure
2 165 (22.09%) AWS
3 134 (17.94%) Entra ID
4 91 (12.18%) GCP
5 79 (10.58%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (5.76%) SaaS
7 35 (4.69%) Azure Sentinel
8 28 (3.75%) Microsoft Purview
9 24 (3.21%) GitHub
10 23 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (3.08%) OCI
11 18 (2.41%) Power Platform
12 16 (2.14%) Serverless
12 16 (2.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 15 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (1.87%) Azure Key Vault
15 12 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (1.47%) IaaS
16 11 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
16 11 (1.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (8.30%) Firewall
2 61 (8.17%) Network Security
3 22 (2.95%) VPN
4 14 (1.87%) DNS
5 10 (1.34%) Intrusion Detection
5 10 (1.34%) Wireless
6 9 (1.20%) WAN
7 8 (1.07%) LAN
8 7 (0.94%) NGFW
8 7 (0.94%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.94%) X.509
9 6 (0.80%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.80%) Modbus
9 6 (0.80%) SSL
9 6 (0.80%) VLAN
10 5 (0.67%) Internet
10 5 (0.67%) IPsec
10 5 (0.67%) SAN
10 5 (0.67%) Structured Cabling
11 4 (0.54%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.95%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.07%) Power BI
3 7 (0.94%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (0.80%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.27%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.27%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.27%) Metadata
6 2 (0.27%) MySQL
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.13%) Big Data
7 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (2.54%) JIRA
2 15 (2.01%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.61%) GitLab
4 8 (1.07%) Git
5 5 (0.67%) Snyk
6 4 (0.54%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.27%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.27%) Selenium
7 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.27%) TestRail
8 1 (0.13%) MSI
General
1 283 (37.88%) Social Skills
2 111 (14.86%) Finance
3 97 (12.99%) Public Sector
4 92 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (8.17%) Documentation Skills
6 42 (5.62%) Legal
7 35 (4.69%) Manufacturing
8 33 (4.42%) Aerospace
9 28 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (3.48%) Banking
11 23 (3.08%) Military
12 17 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.87%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.34%) Local Government
16 9 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.80%) Retail
19 4 (0.54%) Financial Institution
19 4 (0.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 157 (21.02%) Architect
2 103 (13.79%) Analyst
3 72 (9.64%) Lead
4 67 (8.97%) Security Architect
5 63 (8.43%) Consultant
6 49 (6.56%) Security Analyst
7 48 (6.43%) Security Engineer
8 47 (6.29%) Senior
9 38 (5.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 38 (5.09%) Security Manager
10 34 (4.55%) Security Consultant
11 24 (3.21%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 24 (3.21%) Security Specialist
12 23 (3.08%) Project Manager
13 22 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (2.68%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 19 (2.54%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 16 (2.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 15 (2.01%) Cloud Engineer
18 14 (1.87%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.63%) Terraform
2 55 (7.36%) LDAP
3 34 (4.55%) SAML
4 33 (4.42%) OAuth
5 32 (4.28%) SailPoint
6 27 (3.61%) OpenID
7 19 (2.54%) OAuth2
8 14 (1.87%) REST
9 12 (1.61%) Web Services
10 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (0.67%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (0.67%) Kafka
11 5 (0.67%) Middleware
12 4 (0.54%) JDBC
12 4 (0.54%) JSON
12 4 (0.54%) SOAP
13 3 (0.40%) FIDO
13 3 (0.40%) Playwright
13 3 (0.40%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 77 (10.31%) Operational Technology
2 74 (9.91%) Onboarding
3 60 (8.03%) Security Posture
4 56 (7.50%) Management Information System
5 52 (6.96%) Cloud Native
5 52 (6.96%) Cyber Threat
6 27 (3.61%) PKI
7 24 (3.21%) Data Centre
7 24 (3.21%) SCADA
8 18 (2.41%) Cyber Defence
8 18 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (2.41%) IoT
8 18 (2.41%) Security Operations Centre
9 16 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.61%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.47%) NHS
13 8 (1.07%) Cloud Security Posture
13 8 (1.07%) Industrial Internet of Things
13 8 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 111 (14.86%) Windows
2 70 (9.37%) Linux
3 37 (4.95%) Unix
4 35 (4.69%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.94%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.54%) CentOS
9 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.13%) Android
11 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.13%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.13%) VMS
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (56.63%) Cybersecurity
2 210 (28.11%) Risk Management
3 189 (25.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 181 (24.23%) SIEM
5 179 (23.96%) Information Security
6 155 (20.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 145 (19.41%) Vulnerability Management
8 144 (19.28%) Security Architecture
9 142 (19.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 137 (18.34%) Incident Response
11 125 (16.73%) Cloud Security
12 110 (14.73%) Security Operations
13 103 (13.79%) ITSM
14 98 (13.12%) Roadmaps
15 96 (12.85%) Identity Access Management
16 89 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
16 89 (11.91%) Zero Trust
17 83 (11.11%) DevOps
18 82 (10.98%) RBAC
19 81 (10.84%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 114 (15.26%) PowerShell
2 96 (12.85%) Python
3 35 (4.69%) Bash
4 14 (1.87%) Bicep
5 13 (1.74%) SQL
6 8 (1.07%) Java
7 6 (0.80%) BeanShell
7 6 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (0.80%) Perl
8 3 (0.40%) Go
9 2 (0.27%) Ruby
10 1 (0.13%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.13%) Korn
10 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 284 (38.02%) Security Cleared
2 207 (27.71%) SC Cleared
3 196 (26.24%) CISSP
4 145 (19.41%) CISM
5 87 (11.65%) Degree
6 71 (9.50%) DV Cleared
7 66 (8.84%) Cisco Certification
8 57 (7.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 51 (6.83%) CRISC
10 33 (4.42%) Azure Certification
10 33 (4.42%) CISA
11 32 (4.28%) CompTIA Security+
12 31 (4.15%) GIAC
13 30 (4.02%) CEH
14 29 (3.88%) CCSP
15 27 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
16 26 (3.48%) PMI Certification
17 25 (3.35%) PMP
18 23 (3.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
19 20 (2.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 472 (63.19%) NIST
2 150 (20.08%) GDPR
3 121 (16.20%) GRC
4 98 (13.12%) NCSC
5 94 (12.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 65 (8.70%) PCI DSS
7 46 (6.16%) SOC 2
8 45 (6.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 36 (4.82%) NIST 800
10 29 (3.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 28 (3.75%) COBIT
12 22 (2.95%) HIPAA
13 21 (2.81%) Data Quality
14 18 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 15 (2.01%) JSP 440
16 14 (1.87%) ISO 22301
16 14 (1.87%) ISO 31000
17 13 (1.74%) ISO 9001
18 12 (1.61%) PMO
18 12 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 157 (21.02%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.68%) Docker
3 13 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.54%) Firmware
5 4 (0.54%) ISA Server
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%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 45 (6.02%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (3.35%) Ansible
4 23 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.94%) QRadar
6 6 (0.80%) CASB
7 4 (0.54%) Grafana
7 4 (0.54%) Podman
7 4 (0.54%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.40%) Argo
8 3 (0.40%) Nessus
8 3 (0.40%) Puppet
9 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.27%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.27%) Istio
9 2 (0.27%) Nexpose
9 2 (0.27%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 191 (25.57%) Microsoft
2 73 (9.77%) CyberArk
3 47 (6.29%) ServiceNow
4 33 (4.42%) BeyondTrust
5 31 (4.15%) Oracle
6 26 (3.48%) Google
7 23 (3.08%) Splunk
8 21 (2.81%) CrowdStrike
9 20 (2.68%) Cisco
9 20 (2.68%) Qualys
10 17 (2.28%) Palo Alto
11 15 (2.01%) VMware
12 13 (1.74%) Rapid7
13 12 (1.61%) SAP
13 12 (1.61%) Tenable
14 11 (1.47%) Okta
15 8 (1.07%) Databricks
15 8 (1.07%) F5
15 8 (1.07%) Tripwire
16 7 (0.94%) Zscaler