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

 6 months to
9 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 200 220
Rank change year-on-year +60 +20 +40
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 744 317 394
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.90% 1.30% 1.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.03% 8.38% 7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 201 304
10th Percentile £412 £400 £363
25th Percentile £475 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £800 £766
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -2.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 10 1
10th Percentile £36.00 £47.33 -
25th Percentile £47.73 £53.62 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £83.41
Median % change year-on-year +5.70% -26.27% +19.16%
75th Percentile £82.63 £82.00 -
90th Percentile £84.00 £84.38 -
UK median hourly rate £72.85 £61.50 £83.41
% change year-on-year +18.46% -26.27% +19.16%

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 6,743 3,782 5,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.24% 15.53% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,394 2,451 3,392
10th Percentile £340 £270 £305
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 156 339
10th Percentile £14.34 £17.48 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.09
Median hourly rate £30.49 £32.66 £21.12
Median % change year-on-year -6.63% +54.65% -50.32%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.73 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £32.00 £20.61
% change year-on-year -3.13% +55.30% -48.49%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 +37 305 £575 -4.17% 119
South East +38 202 £538 -2.27% 96
North of England -12 83 £548 -6.81% 74
Midlands -23 65 £500 -4.76% 37
West Midlands -29 51 £500 -13.04% 28
South West -2 43 £550 -12.00% 46
North West -1 40 £580 +0.87% 47
Yorkshire -25 38 £502 -10.78% 19
East of England -22 20 £564 +8.67% 19
East Midlands -23 14 £442 +10.56% 9
North East -17 5 £400 -36.00% 8
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 (2.69%) Confluence
1 20 (2.69%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.81%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 2 (0.27%) Apache
4 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
Applications
1 20 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.48%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.94%) Maximo
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 261 (35.08%) Azure
2 218 (29.30%) AWS
3 101 (13.58%) GCP
4 68 (9.14%) Entra ID
5 47 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
7 30 (4.03%) OpenShift
8 27 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (3.49%) Microsoft Purview
10 25 (3.36%) Serverless
11 23 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (2.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 20 (2.69%) Power Platform
13 19 (2.55%) GitHub
13 19 (2.55%) OCI
14 18 (2.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 18 (2.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 15 (2.02%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (1.75%) Amazon S3
17 12 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 85 (11.42%) Firewall
2 61 (8.20%) Network Security
3 47 (6.32%) VPN
4 22 (2.96%) DNS
4 22 (2.96%) Wireless
5 14 (1.88%) BGP
5 14 (1.88%) DHCP
5 14 (1.88%) WAN
6 13 (1.75%) MPLS
7 11 (1.48%) Cisco ASA
7 11 (1.48%) LAN
7 11 (1.48%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.21%) HTTP
8 9 (1.21%) IPv6
9 8 (1.08%) IPv4
9 8 (1.08%) NGFW
9 8 (1.08%) OSPF
10 7 (0.94%) SSH
10 7 (0.94%) VLAN
11 6 (0.81%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.02%) Power BI
2 12 (1.61%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (1.21%) NoSQL
5 7 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.81%) MySQL
7 5 (0.67%) Big Data
7 5 (0.67%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.67%) Metadata
7 5 (0.67%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.54%) DocumentDB
8 4 (0.54%) Redis
9 3 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.40%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.27%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 24 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 22 (2.96%) JIRA
3 19 (2.55%) Burp Suite
3 19 (2.55%) Metasploit
4 11 (1.48%) GitLab
5 6 (0.81%) Git
6 3 (0.40%) JMeter
6 3 (0.40%) MSTest
6 3 (0.40%) Selenium
7 1 (0.13%) AppScan
7 1 (0.13%) MSI
7 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.13%) Snyk
7 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.13%) sqlmap
7 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 278 (37.37%) Social Skills
2 126 (16.94%) Finance
3 97 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 67 (9.01%) Documentation Skills
6 53 (7.12%) Legal
7 33 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (3.90%) Banking
9 16 (2.15%) Financial Institution
9 16 (2.15%) Manufacturing
9 16 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.02%) Law
11 14 (1.88%) Aerospace
12 12 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.08%) Retail
15 7 (0.94%) Police
16 6 (0.81%) Marketing
17 4 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
18 3 (0.40%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 135 (18.15%) Architect
2 98 (13.17%) Analyst
3 86 (11.56%) Consultant
4 60 (8.06%) Security Engineer
5 57 (7.66%) Security Architect
6 51 (6.85%) Security Consultant
7 42 (5.65%) Senior
8 40 (5.38%) Lead
8 40 (5.38%) Security Analyst
9 39 (5.24%) Project Manager
10 37 (4.97%) Security Manager
11 23 (3.09%) Business Analyst
12 21 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (2.69%) Azure Engineer
13 20 (2.69%) Cloud Architect
13 20 (2.69%) CyberArk Architect
13 20 (2.69%) Tester
14 19 (2.55%) Penetration Tester
14 19 (2.55%) Security Project Manager
14 19 (2.55%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.39%) LDAP
2 34 (4.57%) SAML
3 33 (4.44%) OpenID
4 28 (3.76%) OAuth
5 17 (2.28%) Oracle Fusion
6 14 (1.88%) OAuth2
7 13 (1.75%) REST
8 11 (1.48%) ARM Templates
9 10 (1.34%) Middleware
10 9 (1.21%) Kafka
11 8 (1.08%) AWS CDK
11 8 (1.08%) RESTful
11 8 (1.08%) SailPoint
12 5 (0.67%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (0.67%) Spring
13 4 (0.54%) 802.1X
13 4 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (0.54%) gRPC
13 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Graph
13 4 (0.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 66 (8.87%) Onboarding
2 59 (7.93%) Security Posture
3 57 (7.66%) Cloud Native
4 49 (6.59%) Management Information System
5 45 (6.05%) Operational Technology
6 28 (3.76%) Data Centre
7 25 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
8 23 (3.09%) Product Ownership
9 22 (2.96%) Security Operations Centre
10 20 (2.69%) SCADA
11 17 (2.28%) PKI
12 16 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
14 14 (1.88%) Cyber Threat
14 14 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
15 13 (1.75%) CMDB
16 12 (1.61%) Public Cloud
16 12 (1.61%) Virtual Team
17 11 (1.48%) BYOD
17 11 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 92 (12.37%) Windows
2 54 (7.26%) Linux
3 29 (3.90%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.15%) Unix
5 7 (0.94%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.81%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.81%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.54%) AIX
7 4 (0.54%) Solaris
8 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Android
9 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Rocky
9 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (44.09%) Cybersecurity
2 206 (27.69%) Information Security
3 167 (22.45%) Risk Management
4 154 (20.70%) Cloud Security
5 148 (19.89%) SIEM
6 147 (19.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 137 (18.41%) DevOps
8 134 (18.01%) CI/CD
9 118 (15.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 114 (15.32%) Incident Response
11 105 (14.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 98 (13.17%) Threat Modelling
13 96 (12.90%) Security Operations
14 91 (12.23%) Agile
14 91 (12.23%) Security Architecture
15 90 (12.10%) Data Protection
15 90 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
16 86 (11.56%) Infrastructure as Code
17 82 (11.02%) Zero Trust
18 81 (10.89%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 103 (13.84%) PowerShell
2 90 (12.10%) Python
3 23 (3.09%) SQL
4 19 (2.55%) Bicep
5 18 (2.42%) Bash
6 7 (0.94%) Java
6 7 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (0.54%) C#
7 4 (0.54%) PHP
8 3 (0.40%) Go
8 3 (0.40%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.40%) Ruby
9 2 (0.27%) C
9 2 (0.27%) Rust
9 2 (0.27%) Solidity
10 1 (0.13%) Lisp
10 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 282 (37.90%) Security Cleared
2 222 (29.84%) SC Cleared
3 189 (25.40%) CISSP
4 142 (19.09%) CISM
5 98 (13.17%) Degree
6 61 (8.20%) DV Cleared
7 45 (6.05%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (4.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 32 (4.30%) AWS Certification
9 32 (4.30%) CISA
10 31 (4.17%) Azure Certification
10 31 (4.17%) CEH
10 31 (4.17%) PMI Certification
11 30 (4.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 30 (4.03%) PMP
12 28 (3.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 26 (3.49%) CRISC
14 25 (3.36%) CompTIA Security+
14 25 (3.36%) GIAC
15 21 (2.82%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 465 (62.50%) NIST
2 248 (33.33%) GDPR
3 107 (14.38%) PCI DSS
4 88 (11.83%) NCSC
5 80 (10.75%) GRC
6 68 (9.14%) Cyber Essentials
7 54 (7.26%) SOC 2
8 52 (6.99%) COBIT
9 39 (5.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 36 (4.84%) NIST 800
11 32 (4.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 28 (3.76%) QA
13 20 (2.69%) JSP 440
14 18 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 17 (2.28%) PMO
16 16 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 15 (2.02%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 14 (1.88%) Data Quality
18 14 (1.88%) SLA
19 12 (1.61%) RMADS
System Software
1 98 (13.17%) Active Directory
2 22 (2.96%) Docker
2 22 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.08%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.54%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.13%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) GPFS
7 1 (0.13%) Lustre
7 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 64 (8.60%) Kubernetes
2 62 (8.33%) Terraform
3 24 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
4 22 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (2.55%) Ansible
6 17 (2.28%) Nmap
7 11 (1.48%) Nessus
8 7 (0.94%) CASB
9 6 (0.81%) Fluentd
9 6 (0.81%) Grafana
9 6 (0.81%) SCCM
9 6 (0.81%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.67%) QRadar
11 4 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.54%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.54%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.54%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.40%) OpenVAS
12 3 (0.40%) SCOM
13 2 (0.27%) Podman
Vendors
1 120 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 88 (11.83%) CyberArk
3 46 (6.18%) BeyondTrust
3 46 (6.18%) Splunk
4 40 (5.38%) Oracle
5 34 (4.57%) ServiceNow
6 31 (4.17%) Cisco
7 23 (3.09%) VMware
8 17 (2.28%) Fortinet
8 17 (2.28%) Google
8 17 (2.28%) SAP
9 12 (1.61%) Palo Alto
10 11 (1.48%) IBM
10 11 (1.48%) Qualys
10 11 (1.48%) Rapid7
11 10 (1.34%) Tenable
12 8 (1.08%) Okta
13 7 (0.94%) CheckPoint
13 7 (0.94%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.81%) SolarWinds
360 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England