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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 139 217
Rank change year-on-year -35 +78 -58
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 759 575 368
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 2.05% 1.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.15% 11.71% 8.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 383 259
10th Percentile £416 £350 £413
25th Percentile £478 £447 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £642 £650 £675
90th Percentile £744 £775 £745
UK median daily rate £545 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 21 5
10th Percentile £43.81 £30.61 -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £73.00 £33.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +117.91% -4.29% -21.35%
75th Percentile £80.00 £60.00 -
90th Percentile £86.53 £95.00 £61.04
UK median hourly rate £73.00 £33.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +117.91% -4.29% -21.35%

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 8,291 4,909 4,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.92% 17.54% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,166 3,190 2,458
10th Percentile £325 £300 £297
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.68% -4.86%
75th Percentile £616 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £715 £753
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.40% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 649 241 201
10th Percentile £13.98 £15.13 £12.36
25th Percentile £16.60 £17.69 £18.00
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -7.14% -9.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.40 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.25 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.27 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +0.90% +9.09% -22.68%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -24 354 £575 +4.55% 642
South East -2 176 £525 -5.62% 161
North of England -34 90 £500 - 158
North West -15 54 £518 -5.91% 84
South West -45 53 £525 -9.68% 84
Midlands -46 46 £500 +11.11% 75
West Midlands -22 41 £500 -10.11% 46
Yorkshire -40 32 £475 +3.26% 55
East of England -33 26 £525 -4.55% 43
East Midlands -31 5 £575 +28.06% 29
North East -38 2 £500 -35.48% 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 16 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.84%) IIS
3 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.05%) Confluence
5 3 (0.40%) Apache
5 3 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Documentum
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.79%) 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
1 273 (35.97%) Azure
2 167 (22.00%) AWS
3 132 (17.39%) Entra ID
4 95 (12.52%) GCP
5 80 (10.54%) Microsoft 365
6 45 (5.93%) SaaS
7 36 (4.74%) Azure Sentinel
8 29 (3.82%) Microsoft Purview
9 26 (3.43%) GitHub
9 26 (3.43%) OCI
10 25 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (2.24%) Power Platform
13 15 (1.98%) Serverless
14 14 (1.84%) IaaS
14 14 (1.84%) PaaS
15 13 (1.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 12 (1.58%) Azure Key Vault
17 11 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
17 11 (1.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 67 (8.83%) Firewall
1 67 (8.83%) Network Security
2 21 (2.77%) VPN
3 11 (1.45%) DNS
4 10 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
5 9 (1.19%) WAN
5 9 (1.19%) Wireless
6 8 (1.05%) LAN
6 8 (1.05%) X.509
7 7 (0.92%) Modbus
7 7 (0.92%) NGFW
8 6 (0.79%) HTTPS
8 6 (0.79%) SSL
8 6 (0.79%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.66%) Internet
9 5 (0.66%) IPsec
9 5 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.66%) SAN
9 5 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
9 5 (0.66%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.77%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.05%) Power BI
3 6 (0.79%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.66%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.26%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.26%) EDMS
6 2 (0.26%) Metadata
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (3.16%) JIRA
2 17 (2.24%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.71%) GitLab
4 9 (1.19%) Git
5 5 (0.66%) Snyk
6 4 (0.53%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.40%) Selenium
7 3 (0.40%) TestRail
8 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 302 (39.79%) Social Skills
2 111 (14.62%) Finance
3 96 (12.65%) Public Sector
4 92 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (7.91%) Documentation Skills
6 41 (5.40%) Legal
7 36 (4.74%) Manufacturing
8 34 (4.48%) Aerospace
9 29 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
10 27 (3.56%) Banking
11 23 (3.03%) Military
12 18 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 17 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.58%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.32%) Local Government
16 9 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
18 4 (0.53%) Cyber-Physical System
18 4 (0.53%) International Banking
18 4 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 156 (20.55%) Architect
2 101 (13.31%) Analyst
3 82 (10.80%) Lead
4 69 (9.09%) Consultant
5 68 (8.96%) Security Architect
6 54 (7.11%) Security Engineer
7 52 (6.85%) Senior
8 50 (6.59%) Security Analyst
9 40 (5.27%) Security Manager
10 39 (5.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 34 (4.48%) Security Consultant
12 27 (3.56%) Security Specialist
13 24 (3.16%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 21 (2.77%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 20 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
16 19 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
16 19 (2.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 18 (2.37%) Project Manager
18 16 (2.11%) IAM Specialist
19 15 (1.98%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (7.77%) Terraform
2 53 (6.98%) LDAP
3 34 (4.48%) SailPoint
4 32 (4.22%) OAuth
4 32 (4.22%) SAML
5 26 (3.43%) OpenID
6 23 (3.03%) OAuth2
7 15 (1.98%) REST
8 13 (1.71%) Web Services
9 8 (1.05%) JSON
9 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (0.92%) Middleware
11 5 (0.66%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (0.66%) Kafka
11 5 (0.66%) RESTful
12 4 (0.53%) JWT
12 4 (0.53%) Node.js
12 4 (0.53%) Playwright
12 4 (0.53%) React
Miscellaneous
1 77 (10.14%) Operational Technology
2 76 (10.01%) Onboarding
3 63 (8.30%) Management Information System
4 62 (8.17%) Security Posture
5 58 (7.64%) Cyber Threat
6 57 (7.51%) Cloud Native
7 26 (3.43%) Data Centre
7 26 (3.43%) PKI
8 23 (3.03%) SCADA
9 19 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (2.50%) IoT
9 19 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
10 18 (2.37%) Cyber Defence
11 14 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.84%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.45%) NHS
13 10 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.19%) Industrial Internet of Things
14 9 (1.19%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 106 (13.97%) Windows
2 66 (8.70%) Linux
3 36 (4.74%) Unix
4 32 (4.22%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.92%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.79%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.66%) CentOS
9 3 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.26%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
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 2008
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (57.18%) Cybersecurity
2 215 (28.33%) Risk Management
3 210 (27.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 193 (25.43%) Information Security
5 174 (22.92%) SIEM
6 155 (20.42%) Vulnerability Management
7 153 (20.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 146 (19.24%) Security Architecture
9 145 (19.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 137 (18.05%) Incident Response
11 135 (17.79%) Cloud Security
12 109 (14.36%) Security Operations
13 102 (13.44%) ITSM
13 102 (13.44%) Roadmaps
14 95 (12.52%) Identity Access Management
15 92 (12.12%) Zero Trust
16 88 (11.59%) DevOps
17 86 (11.33%) RBAC
18 84 (11.07%) Problem-Solving
19 80 (10.54%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 110 (14.49%) PowerShell
2 97 (12.78%) Python
3 30 (3.95%) Bash
4 14 (1.84%) Bicep
4 14 (1.84%) SQL
5 8 (1.05%) Java
6 7 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (0.79%) BeanShell
7 6 (0.79%) Perl
8 5 (0.66%) Go
9 2 (0.26%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.13%) Korn
10 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 292 (38.47%) Security Cleared
2 219 (28.85%) SC Cleared
3 209 (27.54%) CISSP
4 158 (20.82%) CISM
5 89 (11.73%) Degree
6 67 (8.83%) DV Cleared
7 65 (8.56%) Cisco Certification
8 63 (8.30%) CRISC
9 57 (7.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 45 (5.93%) CISA
11 34 (4.48%) Azure Certification
12 32 (4.22%) CompTIA Security+
13 31 (4.08%) CCSP
13 31 (4.08%) GIAC
13 31 (4.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 27 (3.56%) CEH
14 27 (3.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 25 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
16 23 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
17 22 (2.90%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 482 (63.50%) NIST
2 139 (18.31%) GDPR
3 137 (18.05%) GRC
4 112 (14.76%) NCSC
5 98 (12.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 75 (9.88%) PCI DSS
7 47 (6.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 41 (5.40%) SOC 2
9 33 (4.35%) NIST 800
10 31 (4.08%) COBIT
11 25 (3.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (2.90%) Data Quality
13 21 (2.77%) HIPAA
14 20 (2.64%) ISO 9001
14 20 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 18 (2.37%) ISO 22301
16 17 (2.24%) QA
17 16 (2.11%) ISO 31000
18 13 (1.71%) JSP 440
19 11 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 152 (20.03%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.64%) Docker
3 13 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.92%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.66%) Firmware
5 5 (0.66%) ISA Server
6 4 (0.53%) vSphere
7 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.13%) Ceph
8 1 (0.13%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 46 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (3.29%) Ansible
4 17 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.92%) CASB
5 7 (0.92%) QRadar
6 4 (0.53%) Argo
6 4 (0.53%) Grafana
6 4 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.40%) Nessus
7 3 (0.40%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.40%) Puppet
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%) Podman
8 2 (0.26%) SCCM
9 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 199 (26.22%) Microsoft
2 66 (8.70%) CyberArk
3 51 (6.72%) ServiceNow
4 31 (4.08%) BeyondTrust
5 29 (3.82%) Google
5 29 (3.82%) Oracle
6 26 (3.43%) Splunk
7 23 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
8 22 (2.90%) Cisco
9 21 (2.77%) Qualys
10 18 (2.37%) Palo Alto
11 17 (2.24%) Rapid7
12 16 (2.11%) VMware
13 14 (1.84%) Okta
14 12 (1.58%) SAP
14 12 (1.58%) Tenable
15 9 (1.19%) Databricks
15 9 (1.19%) Tripwire
16 8 (1.05%) F5
16 8 (1.05%) SolarWinds