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

 6 months to
17 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 216 199
Rank change year-on-year +76 -17 +75
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 685 308 460
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.00% 1.20% 1.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.54% 8.13% 8.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 184 345
10th Percentile £400 £409 £380
25th Percentile £451 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £649 £675 £667
90th Percentile £750 £800 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 10 12
10th Percentile £29.57 £32.70 -
25th Percentile - £41.44 £42.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £67.55 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.41% +51.79% -39.35%
75th Percentile £48.35 £82.00 £56.34
90th Percentile £76.05 £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 5,937 3,787 5,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.31% 14.77% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,843 2,237 3,580
10th Percentile £325 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £611 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 147 308
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.88 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £20.10 £14.50
Median hourly rate £23.60 £30.00 £25.81
Median % change year-on-year -21.35% +16.23% -26.26%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.19
90th Percentile £69.06 £75.00 £73.05
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £27.35 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.78% +9.40% -23.08%

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 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 17 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 17 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 +51 295 £565 -9.60% 121
South East +48 144 £492 -6.29% 110
North of England -9 76 £520 -11.11% 51
Midlands -9 66 £475 -6.40% 54
South West +13 59 £500 -20.00% 41
Yorkshire -19 40 £500 -14.89% 14
West Midlands -22 40 £550 +6.80% 35
North West -10 31 £550 -7.17% 27
East Midlands -2 26 £450 +12.38% 19
East of England -20 17 £553 +1.10% 28
North East -11 5 £400 +14.29% 10
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 (3.50%) SharePoint
2 22 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.63%) Confluence
4 5 (0.73%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.29%) Apache
5 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 23 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.58%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (1.46%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (1.17%) Maximo
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 268 (39.12%) Azure
2 212 (30.95%) AWS
3 100 (14.60%) GCP
4 82 (11.97%) Entra ID
5 68 (9.93%) Microsoft 365
6 48 (7.01%) Azure Sentinel
7 35 (5.11%) OpenShift
8 27 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (3.80%) Microsoft Purview
10 24 (3.50%) SaaS
11 21 (3.07%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 20 (2.92%) OCI
13 19 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (2.48%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (2.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 16 (2.34%) GitHub
15 16 (2.34%) Power Platform
16 15 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (2.19%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (14.31%) Firewall
2 62 (9.05%) Network Security
3 50 (7.30%) VPN
4 21 (3.07%) Wireless
5 18 (2.63%) DNS
6 15 (2.19%) BGP
7 14 (2.04%) WAN
8 13 (1.90%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (1.90%) MPLS
9 12 (1.75%) LAN
9 12 (1.75%) SD-WAN
10 11 (1.61%) DHCP
11 9 (1.31%) OSPF
12 6 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.88%) IPv6
12 6 (0.88%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.88%) S/MIME
12 6 (0.88%) TACACS
12 6 (0.88%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.75%) Power BI
2 11 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.02%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.88%) DynamoDB
4 6 (0.88%) Metadata
4 6 (0.88%) MySQL
4 6 (0.88%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.58%) DocumentDB
6 4 (0.58%) Redis
7 3 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.44%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.44%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.29%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 26 (3.80%) Jenkins
1 26 (3.80%) JIRA
2 18 (2.63%) Burp Suite
2 18 (2.63%) Metasploit
3 14 (2.04%) GitLab
4 7 (1.02%) Git
5 3 (0.44%) Snyk
6 1 (0.15%) Ant
6 1 (0.15%) AppScan
6 1 (0.15%) JMeter
6 1 (0.15%) MSTest
6 1 (0.15%) Selenium
6 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 296 (43.21%) Social Skills
2 119 (17.37%) Finance
3 77 (11.24%) Public Sector
4 76 (11.09%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (9.34%) Documentation Skills
6 40 (5.84%) Legal
7 34 (4.96%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (3.36%) Banking
9 23 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (2.34%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.46%) Law
12 8 (1.17%) Marketing
12 8 (1.17%) Police
12 8 (1.17%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.02%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.73%) Aviation
14 5 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.58%) Electronics
15 4 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 107 (15.62%) Architect
2 98 (14.31%) Analyst
3 72 (10.51%) Consultant
4 61 (8.91%) Security Engineer
5 47 (6.86%) Security Architect
6 46 (6.72%) Senior
7 45 (6.57%) Security Analyst
8 30 (4.38%) Security Consultant
9 29 (4.23%) Lead
10 28 (4.09%) Security Manager
11 27 (3.94%) Security Specialist
12 24 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
13 23 (3.36%) Tester
14 20 (2.92%) Project Manager
15 19 (2.77%) Penetration Tester
16 17 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
17 16 (2.34%) CyberArk Architect
18 15 (2.19%) Security Officer
18 15 (2.19%) SOC Analyst
19 14 (2.04%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (8.76%) LDAP
2 42 (6.13%) SAML
3 40 (5.84%) OpenID
4 36 (5.26%) OAuth
5 20 (2.92%) OAuth2
6 15 (2.19%) Oracle Fusion
6 15 (2.19%) REST
7 12 (1.75%) SailPoint
8 11 (1.61%) ARM Templates
9 7 (1.02%) RESTful
10 6 (0.88%) AWS CDK
10 6 (0.88%) Kafka
10 6 (0.88%) Middleware
11 5 (0.73%) JWT
11 5 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (0.73%) Spring
12 4 (0.58%) .NET
12 4 (0.58%) Hibernate
12 4 (0.58%) JPA
12 4 (0.58%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 79 (11.53%) Security Posture
2 59 (8.61%) Management Information System
3 58 (8.47%) Onboarding
4 47 (6.86%) Cloud Native
5 27 (3.94%) Cyber Threat
5 27 (3.94%) Operational Technology
6 21 (3.07%) Security Operations Centre
7 19 (2.77%) Data Centre
8 17 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (2.04%) PKI
11 13 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.75%) NHS
13 11 (1.61%) Product Ownership
13 11 (1.61%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.31%) Cloud Security Posture
14 9 (1.31%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 9 (1.31%) SCADA
15 8 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 70 (10.22%) Windows
2 43 (6.28%) Linux
3 15 (2.19%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.90%) Mac OS
5 11 (1.61%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.02%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.88%) Unix
8 4 (0.58%) AIX
8 4 (0.58%) Solaris
9 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.44%) VMS
10 2 (0.29%) Android
10 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.15%) CentOS
11 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.15%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (42.48%) Cybersecurity
2 199 (29.05%) Information Security
3 167 (24.38%) Risk Management
4 164 (23.94%) Cloud Security
5 149 (21.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 146 (21.31%) SIEM
7 140 (20.44%) Incident Response
8 122 (17.81%) DevOps
9 121 (17.66%) CI/CD
10 104 (15.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 102 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 90 (13.14%) Zero Trust
13 89 (12.99%) Security Operations
14 83 (12.12%) Threat Modelling
15 82 (11.97%) Regulatory Compliance
16 81 (11.82%) Identity Access Management
17 80 (11.68%) Data Protection
17 80 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
18 76 (11.09%) Agile
18 76 (11.09%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 115 (16.79%) PowerShell
2 82 (11.97%) Python
3 24 (3.50%) Bash
4 21 (3.07%) Bicep
5 16 (2.34%) SQL
6 10 (1.46%) Java
6 10 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (0.58%) Go
7 4 (0.58%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.58%) PHP
7 4 (0.58%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.29%) C
8 2 (0.29%) Rust
8 2 (0.29%) Solidity
9 1 (0.15%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.15%) C#
9 1 (0.15%) Lisp
9 1 (0.15%) Ruby
9 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 259 (37.81%) Security Cleared
2 212 (30.95%) SC Cleared
3 191 (27.88%) CISSP
4 148 (21.61%) CISM
5 93 (13.58%) Degree
6 57 (8.32%) DV Cleared
7 39 (5.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 37 (5.40%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (4.82%) CISA
10 32 (4.67%) Azure Certification
11 28 (4.09%) AWS Certification
12 27 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
13 26 (3.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 26 (3.80%) Master's Degree
14 24 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
14 24 (3.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 22 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
15 22 (3.21%) GIAC
16 20 (2.92%) CEH
16 20 (2.92%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 412 (60.15%) NIST
2 240 (35.04%) GDPR
3 99 (14.45%) PCI DSS
4 95 (13.87%) NCSC
5 82 (11.97%) GRC
6 75 (10.95%) Cyber Essentials
7 42 (6.13%) COBIT
8 40 (5.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 39 (5.69%) SOC 2
10 35 (5.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 31 (4.53%) NIST 800
12 28 (4.09%) QA
13 20 (2.92%) JSP 440
14 17 (2.48%) PMO
15 16 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 15 (2.19%) SLA
17 14 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 13 (1.90%) Actionable Recommendations
19 12 (1.75%) HIPAA
20 11 (1.61%) Def Stans
System Software
1 93 (13.58%) Active Directory
2 21 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.92%) Docker
4 7 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.58%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.15%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) GPFS
7 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.15%) Lustre
7 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (9.49%) Kubernetes
2 59 (8.61%) Terraform
3 39 (5.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (3.07%) SCCM
6 18 (2.63%) Ansible
7 16 (2.34%) Nmap
8 10 (1.46%) Nessus
9 9 (1.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (1.31%) Fluentd
10 7 (1.02%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.88%) PingFederate
11 6 (0.88%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.58%) CASB
12 4 (0.58%) Grafana
12 4 (0.58%) QRadar
13 3 (0.44%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.44%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.44%) OpenVAS
13 3 (0.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 142 (20.73%) Microsoft
2 69 (10.07%) CyberArk
3 46 (6.72%) Splunk
4 37 (5.40%) BeyondTrust
5 29 (4.23%) Cisco
5 29 (4.23%) Oracle
6 28 (4.09%) ServiceNow
7 24 (3.50%) VMware
8 19 (2.77%) Google
9 17 (2.48%) Fortinet
9 17 (2.48%) SAP
10 16 (2.34%) Rapid7
11 15 (2.19%) Palo Alto
12 11 (1.61%) Okta
12 11 (1.61%) Qualys
13 10 (1.46%) Citrix
13 10 (1.46%) IBM
14 9 (1.31%) Cribl.io
14 9 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (1.31%) Ping Identity
361 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England