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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 139 224
Rank change year-on-year -30 +85 -52
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 766 556 360
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 2.00% 1.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.30% 11.60% 8.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 372 269
10th Percentile £413 £339 £415
25th Percentile £488 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £583
Median % change year-on-year - -5.58% -2.92%
75th Percentile £646 £654 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £740
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 19 4
10th Percentile £44.05 £30.39 -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £33.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +111.94% +7.20% -34.21%
75th Percentile £80.00 £52.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £78.00 -
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £33.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +111.94% -4.29% -26.32%

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 8,237 4,794 4,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.74% 17.27% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,195 3,128 2,545
10th Percentile £331 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -4.76% -2.60%
75th Percentile £607 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 584 230 216
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.09 £17.96 £15.20
Median hourly rate £33.36 £32.50 £30.56
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% +6.35% -18.51%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £63.99
90th Percentile £76.00 £82.78 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.75 £30.00 £27.09
% change year-on-year +9.17% +10.74% -23.97%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -27 346 £575 +4.07% 660
South East +3 200 £550 -2.22% 197
North of England -66 74 £511 +2.26% 146
South West -45 56 £525 -14.29% 85
North West -18 49 £525 -4.55% 101
Midlands -48 45 £500 +7.82% 64
West Midlands -37 41 £500 -9.09% 45
East of England -18 31 £515 -1.90% 55
Yorkshire -57 23 £488 +7.14% 30
East Midlands -23 4 - - 19
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 20 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.44%) Confluence
3 11 (1.44%) IIS
4 3 (0.39%) Apache
5 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.26%) nginx
6 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.78%) 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
1 278 (36.29%) Azure
2 165 (21.54%) AWS
3 132 (17.23%) Entra ID
4 87 (11.36%) GCP
5 82 (10.70%) Microsoft 365
6 44 (5.74%) SaaS
7 34 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
8 29 (3.79%) Microsoft Purview
9 24 (3.13%) GitHub
10 23 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (2.87%) OCI
12 18 (2.35%) Power Platform
12 18 (2.35%) Serverless
13 15 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (1.83%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (1.44%) IaaS
15 11 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (1.44%) PaaS
16 10 (1.31%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 59 (7.70%) Firewall
1 59 (7.70%) Network Security
2 20 (2.61%) VPN
3 14 (1.83%) DNS
4 10 (1.31%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (1.31%) Wireless
5 9 (1.17%) WAN
6 8 (1.04%) LAN
7 7 (0.91%) NGFW
7 7 (0.91%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.78%) HTTPS
8 6 (0.78%) Modbus
8 6 (0.78%) SSL
8 6 (0.78%) VLAN
8 6 (0.78%) X.509
9 5 (0.65%) Internet
9 5 (0.65%) SAN
9 5 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
10 4 (0.52%) IPsec
10 4 (0.52%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.87%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.04%) Power BI
3 7 (0.91%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (0.78%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.39%) Metadata
7 2 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.26%) Big Data
7 2 (0.26%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.26%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.26%) MySQL
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (2.61%) JIRA
2 15 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.57%) GitLab
4 8 (1.04%) Git
5 5 (0.65%) Snyk
6 4 (0.52%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.26%) Selenium
7 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.26%) TestRail
8 1 (0.13%) MSI
8 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
General
1 290 (37.86%) Social Skills
2 112 (14.62%) Finance
3 98 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
3 98 (12.79%) Public Sector
4 61 (7.96%) Documentation Skills
5 44 (5.74%) Legal
6 37 (4.83%) Manufacturing
7 34 (4.44%) Aerospace
8 28 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (3.13%) Banking
10 23 (3.00%) Military
11 17 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.83%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.31%) Local Government
15 9 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.78%) Retail
18 4 (0.52%) Financial Institution
18 4 (0.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 165 (21.54%) Architect
2 110 (14.36%) Analyst
3 74 (9.66%) Lead
3 74 (9.66%) Security Architect
4 65 (8.49%) Consultant
5 51 (6.66%) Security Analyst
6 46 (6.01%) Security Engineer
6 46 (6.01%) Senior
7 40 (5.22%) Security Manager
8 39 (5.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 35 (4.57%) Security Consultant
10 28 (3.66%) Project Manager
11 25 (3.26%) Security Specialist
12 24 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 22 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
14 21 (2.74%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 19 (2.48%) Business Analyst
15 19 (2.48%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 17 (2.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 15 (1.96%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.18%) LDAP
2 51 (6.66%) Terraform
3 32 (4.18%) OAuth
3 32 (4.18%) SailPoint
3 32 (4.18%) SAML
4 26 (3.39%) OpenID
5 19 (2.48%) OAuth2
6 14 (1.83%) REST
7 12 (1.57%) Web Services
8 10 (1.31%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (0.65%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (0.65%) JSON
9 5 (0.65%) Kafka
10 4 (0.52%) JDBC
10 4 (0.52%) Middleware
10 4 (0.52%) SOAP
11 3 (0.39%) FIDO
11 3 (0.39%) LangChain
11 3 (0.39%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 79 (10.31%) Operational Technology
2 75 (9.79%) Onboarding
3 58 (7.57%) Management Information System
3 58 (7.57%) Security Posture
4 52 (6.79%) Cloud Native
4 52 (6.79%) Cyber Threat
5 27 (3.52%) PKI
6 26 (3.39%) SCADA
7 22 (2.87%) Data Centre
8 19 (2.48%) Security Operations Centre
9 18 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (2.35%) IoT
10 17 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
11 16 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.44%) NHS
13 9 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.17%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.04%) Cloud Security Posture
14 8 (1.04%) Industrial Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 111 (14.49%) Windows
2 68 (8.88%) Linux
3 37 (4.83%) Unix
4 35 (4.57%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.91%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.52%) CentOS
9 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.26%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.26%) 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
1 438 (57.18%) Cybersecurity
2 209 (27.28%) Risk Management
3 191 (24.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 182 (23.76%) SIEM
5 175 (22.85%) Information Security
6 163 (21.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 150 (19.58%) Vulnerability Management
8 146 (19.06%) Security Architecture
9 144 (18.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 137 (17.89%) Incident Response
11 124 (16.19%) Cloud Security
12 110 (14.36%) Security Operations
13 103 (13.45%) ITSM
14 97 (12.66%) Roadmaps
15 91 (11.88%) Identity Access Management
16 90 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
17 89 (11.62%) Zero Trust
18 83 (10.84%) DevOps
19 82 (10.70%) Runbook
20 81 (10.57%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 114 (14.88%) PowerShell
2 94 (12.27%) Python
3 34 (4.44%) Bash
4 14 (1.83%) Bicep
5 13 (1.70%) SQL
6 8 (1.04%) Java
7 6 (0.78%) BeanShell
7 6 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (0.78%) Perl
8 2 (0.26%) Go
8 2 (0.26%) Ruby
9 1 (0.13%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 291 (37.99%) Security Cleared
2 211 (27.55%) SC Cleared
3 196 (25.59%) CISSP
4 142 (18.54%) CISM
5 87 (11.36%) Degree
6 74 (9.66%) DV Cleared
7 64 (8.36%) Cisco Certification
8 54 (7.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 52 (6.79%) CRISC
10 34 (4.44%) Azure Certification
10 34 (4.44%) CISA
11 33 (4.31%) CompTIA Security+
12 32 (4.18%) CEH
12 32 (4.18%) GIAC
13 29 (3.79%) PMI Certification
14 28 (3.66%) PMP
15 27 (3.52%) CCSP
15 27 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
16 23 (3.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 20 (2.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 481 (62.79%) NIST
2 156 (20.37%) GDPR
3 124 (16.19%) GRC
4 100 (13.05%) NCSC
5 96 (12.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 62 (8.09%) PCI DSS
7 49 (6.40%) SOC 2
8 46 (6.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 36 (4.70%) NIST 800
10 32 (4.18%) COBIT
11 30 (3.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (2.74%) HIPAA
13 20 (2.61%) Data Quality
14 18 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 15 (1.96%) JSP 440
16 14 (1.83%) ISO 22301
16 14 (1.83%) ISO 31000
17 13 (1.70%) ISO 9001
17 13 (1.70%) PMO
18 12 (1.57%) SLA
System Software
1 157 (20.50%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.74%) Docker
3 13 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.52%) Firmware
6 3 (0.39%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.39%) vSphere
7 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.13%) Ceph
8 1 (0.13%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 43 (5.61%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (3.00%) Ansible
3 23 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.91%) QRadar
5 5 (0.65%) CASB
5 5 (0.65%) Grafana
6 4 (0.52%) Nessus
6 4 (0.52%) Podman
6 4 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.39%) Argo
7 3 (0.39%) Puppet
8 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.26%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.26%) Istio
8 2 (0.26%) Nexpose
8 2 (0.26%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 190 (24.80%) Microsoft
2 73 (9.53%) CyberArk
3 47 (6.14%) ServiceNow
4 32 (4.18%) BeyondTrust
5 31 (4.05%) Oracle
6 24 (3.13%) Splunk
7 20 (2.61%) CrowdStrike
7 20 (2.61%) Google
8 19 (2.48%) Qualys
9 18 (2.35%) Cisco
10 16 (2.09%) Palo Alto
11 15 (1.96%) VMware
12 13 (1.70%) SAP
12 13 (1.70%) Tenable
13 12 (1.57%) Rapid7
14 10 (1.31%) Okta
15 8 (1.04%) Databricks
16 7 (0.91%) F5
16 7 (0.91%) Tripwire
16 7 (0.91%) Zscaler