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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 206 163
Rank change year-on-year +73 -43 +124
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 666 366 583
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.14% 1.25% 1.55%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.29% 8.92% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 244 434
10th Percentile £384 £413 £408
25th Percentile £450 £500 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £759
UK median daily rate £527 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 8 15
10th Percentile - £28.10 -
25th Percentile £33.50 £35.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £67.55 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.70% +51.79% +36.92%
75th Percentile £57.75 £83.20 £78.36
90th Percentile £89.93 £86.74 £85.36
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £61.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.46% +38.19% +36.92%

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 5,420 4,105 5,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.43% 14.00% 14.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,515 2,398 3,662
10th Percentile £313 £275 £325
25th Percentile £406 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 160 215
10th Percentile £15.48 £14.70 £14.22
25th Percentile £17.69 £19.50 £20.07
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.50 £35.95
Median % change year-on-year -14.75% -17.94% +59.78%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.78 £66.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £83.34
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £27.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.55% -22.54% +57.78%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025. 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 +42 277 £550 -8.33% 157
South East +65 135 £500 -11.11% 151
North of England +13 77 £502 -15.30% 76
Midlands -2 62 £465 -7.00% 58
South West +23 59 £550 -15.38% 54
Yorkshire -3 48 £500 -20.95% 26
West Midlands -19 35 £525 +5.00% 35
East Midlands +3 27 £450 -10.10% 22
East of England -9 24 £552 -4.09% 41
North West -16 24 £538 -10.42% 46
North East -6 5 £400 +14.29% 4
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 25 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 23 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.95%) Confluence
4 3 (0.45%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.15%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 31 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.05%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.45%) Maximo
3 2 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle CRM
4 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 297 (44.59%) Azure
2 225 (33.78%) AWS
3 117 (17.57%) GCP
4 84 (12.61%) Entra ID
5 70 (10.51%) Microsoft 365
6 47 (7.06%) Azure Sentinel
7 31 (4.65%) SaaS
8 23 (3.45%) GitHub
9 22 (3.30%) Power Platform
10 21 (3.15%) Microsoft Purview
11 20 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (2.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 17 (2.55%) OpenShift
14 15 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (2.10%) IaaS
15 14 (2.10%) PaaS
16 13 (1.95%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (1.95%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 94 (14.11%) Firewall
2 60 (9.01%) Network Security
3 39 (5.86%) VPN
4 16 (2.40%) WAN
5 15 (2.25%) Wireless
6 14 (2.10%) SD-WAN
7 13 (1.95%) DNS
8 12 (1.80%) LAN
9 11 (1.65%) DHCP
10 9 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
11 8 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (1.20%) VLAN
12 7 (1.05%) BGP
12 7 (1.05%) Kerberos
12 7 (1.05%) OSPF
12 7 (1.05%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.90%) WLAN
14 5 (0.75%) EIGRP
14 5 (0.75%) IPv4
14 5 (0.75%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.70%) Power BI
2 8 (1.20%) Tableau
3 7 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (0.90%) Delta Lake
5 5 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.75%) Metadata
5 5 (0.75%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.45%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.45%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.30%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.30%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.30%) MySQL
7 2 (0.30%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 42 (6.31%) JIRA
2 12 (1.80%) Burp Suite
2 12 (1.80%) GitLab
2 12 (1.80%) Jenkins
2 12 (1.80%) Metasploit
3 10 (1.50%) Git
4 9 (1.35%) Snyk
5 6 (0.90%) CircleCI
5 6 (0.90%) Postman
5 6 (0.90%) SoapUI
6 3 (0.45%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.30%) ERwin
7 2 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.15%) Ant
8 1 (0.15%) JMeter
8 1 (0.15%) MSTest
8 1 (0.15%) Selenium
8 1 (0.15%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 286 (42.94%) Social Skills
2 125 (18.77%) Finance
3 82 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 79 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (6.16%) Documentation Skills
6 40 (6.01%) Legal
7 26 (3.90%) Banking
7 26 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
8 24 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (2.40%) Manufacturing
9 16 (2.40%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.80%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.80%) Law
10 12 (1.80%) Marketing
11 11 (1.65%) Electronics
12 10 (1.50%) Police
13 9 (1.35%) Local Government
14 8 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (0.90%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 110 (16.52%) Architect
2 109 (16.37%) Analyst
3 77 (11.56%) Consultant
4 54 (8.11%) Security Architect
4 54 (8.11%) Security Engineer
4 54 (8.11%) Senior
5 48 (7.21%) Security Analyst
6 40 (6.01%) Lead
7 39 (5.86%) Security Consultant
8 25 (3.75%) Security Specialist
9 21 (3.15%) Security Manager
10 20 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
10 20 (3.00%) Tester
11 19 (2.85%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 17 (2.55%) Azure Engineer
13 15 (2.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 15 (2.25%) SOC Analyst
14 14 (2.10%) Cloud Architect
14 14 (2.10%) Information Analyst
14 14 (2.10%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (5.86%) LDAP
2 25 (3.75%) OAuth
3 24 (3.60%) SAML
4 20 (3.00%) SailPoint
5 17 (2.55%) OpenID
6 12 (1.80%) REST
7 10 (1.50%) OAuth2
8 7 (1.05%) ARM Templates
8 7 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (0.90%) Loki
10 5 (0.75%) AWS CDK
11 4 (0.60%) .NET
11 4 (0.60%) Google JAX
11 4 (0.60%) JAX
11 4 (0.60%) PyTorch
11 4 (0.60%) React
11 4 (0.60%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.60%) TensorFlow
12 3 (0.45%) HTML
12 3 (0.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 82 (12.31%) Security Posture
2 60 (9.01%) Management Information System
3 47 (7.06%) Cloud Native
4 35 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
5 25 (3.75%) Security Operations Centre
6 23 (3.45%) Onboarding
7 22 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (3.00%) Operational Technology
9 18 (2.70%) Data Centre
10 16 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.95%) Cloud Security Posture
11 13 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.65%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.50%) NHS
13 10 (1.50%) PKI
13 10 (1.50%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.50%) SCADA
14 8 (1.20%) CSOC
14 8 (1.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 6 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 65 (9.76%) Windows
2 32 (4.80%) Linux
3 20 (3.00%) Mac OS
4 16 (2.40%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.65%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.60%) AIX
6 4 (0.60%) Solaris
7 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.30%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.30%) VMS
9 1 (0.15%) Android
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (39.94%) Cybersecurity
2 169 (25.38%) Cloud Security
3 166 (24.92%) Information Security
4 165 (24.77%) Incident Response
5 153 (22.97%) Risk Management
6 143 (21.47%) SIEM
7 121 (18.17%) CI/CD
8 115 (17.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 113 (16.97%) DevOps
10 112 (16.82%) Stakeholder Management
11 96 (14.41%) Zero Trust
12 89 (13.36%) Identity Access Management
13 87 (13.06%) DevSecOps
13 87 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
14 84 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
14 84 (12.61%) Security Operations
15 79 (11.86%) Data Protection
16 78 (11.71%) Threat Modelling
17 74 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
18 72 (10.81%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 125 (18.77%) PowerShell
2 79 (11.86%) Python
3 37 (5.56%) Bash
4 22 (3.30%) Bicep
5 13 (1.95%) SQL
6 10 (1.50%) Java
7 9 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (0.75%) C
8 5 (0.75%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.60%) C++
9 4 (0.60%) R
9 4 (0.60%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.30%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.30%) Go
10 2 (0.30%) Rust
10 2 (0.30%) Solidity
11 1 (0.15%) C#
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 216 (32.43%) CISSP
2 199 (29.88%) Security Cleared
3 159 (23.87%) CISM
4 156 (23.42%) SC Cleared
5 89 (13.36%) Degree
6 47 (7.06%) CISA
7 42 (6.31%) DV Cleared
8 41 (6.16%) Cisco Certification
9 40 (6.01%) Azure Certification
10 38 (5.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 37 (5.56%) AWS Certification
12 30 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
13 28 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
14 27 (4.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 26 (3.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 25 (3.75%) CEH
17 23 (3.45%) CCSP
17 23 (3.45%) Master's Degree
18 20 (3.00%) GIAC
19 19 (2.85%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 392 (58.86%) NIST
2 258 (38.74%) GDPR
3 95 (14.26%) PCI DSS
4 75 (11.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 71 (10.66%) NCSC
6 65 (9.76%) GRC
7 42 (6.31%) COBIT
8 38 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 36 (5.41%) NIST 800
10 33 (4.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 30 (4.50%) SOC 2
12 24 (3.60%) QA
13 20 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 19 (2.85%) HIPAA
15 18 (2.70%) JSP 440
16 14 (2.10%) ISO 9001
16 14 (2.10%) RMADS
17 13 (1.95%) SLA
18 11 (1.65%) Def Stans
18 11 (1.65%) ITGC
System Software
1 90 (13.51%) Active Directory
2 30 (4.50%) Docker
3 19 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.60%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.45%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) Snort
7 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (9.31%) Terraform
2 57 (8.56%) Kubernetes
3 45 (6.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (4.20%) SCCM
5 27 (4.05%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (2.70%) Ansible
7 14 (2.10%) RSA Archer
8 12 (1.80%) QRadar
9 11 (1.65%) Prometheus
10 10 (1.50%) Nmap
11 9 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (1.35%) Fluentd
11 9 (1.35%) Nessus
12 6 (0.90%) CSIRT
12 6 (0.90%) Grafana
12 6 (0.90%) PingFederate
13 5 (0.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 3 (0.45%) CASB
14 3 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
15 2 (0.30%) logstash
Vendors
1 171 (25.68%) Microsoft
2 48 (7.21%) CyberArk
3 46 (6.91%) Splunk
4 35 (5.26%) BeyondTrust
5 28 (4.20%) ServiceNow
6 27 (4.05%) Google
7 24 (3.60%) SAP
8 23 (3.45%) VMware
9 22 (3.30%) Cisco
10 21 (3.15%) Oracle
10 21 (3.15%) Rapid7
11 17 (2.55%) Citrix
12 16 (2.40%) CrowdStrike
12 16 (2.40%) Fortinet
13 14 (2.10%) Palo Alto
14 13 (1.95%) Qualys
14 13 (1.95%) Tenable
15 12 (1.80%) ArcSight
16 11 (1.65%) Thycotic
17 10 (1.50%) Okta
478 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England