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

 6 months to
20 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 183 253
Rank change year-on-year +27 +70 -44
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 735 384 353
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.54% 0.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.03% 9.38% 6.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 259 275
10th Percentile £413 £333 £369
25th Percentile £492 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -1.53%
75th Percentile £675 £659 £670
90th Percentile £775 £753 £745
UK median daily rate £563 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -2.17% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 9 2
10th Percentile £43.66 £29.11 -
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +123.62% -60.71%
75th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £82.72 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +2.67% +123.62% -59.00%

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 7,329 4,096 5,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.96% 16.45% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,749 2,641 3,188
10th Percentile £347 £268 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £701 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.77% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 474 174 384
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £19.33 £22.14 £12.84
Median hourly rate £36.07 £32.66 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +10.46% +37.21% -44.00%
75th Percentile £67.84 £67.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.60 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £31.76 £23.00
% change year-on-year +13.57% +38.09% -38.67%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +4 310 £575 - 94
South East +30 229 £563 -6.25% 101
North of England -54 64 £550 - 59
Midlands -30 52 £500 +11.11% 47
West Midlands -34 43 £500 -4.76% 32
South West -18 42 £600 +4.35% 30
North West -25 37 £580 +5.45% 36
Yorkshire -50 27 £520 +41.50% 15
East of England -28 18 £525 - 21
East Midlands -14 9 £447 +11.19% 15
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 (2.72%) Confluence
1 20 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.95%) IIS
4 3 (0.41%) Apache
4 3 (0.41%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.14%) nginx
6 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.68%) Maximo
1 5 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.14%) iTrent
2 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 254 (34.56%) Azure
2 177 (24.08%) AWS
3 91 (12.38%) GCP
4 89 (12.11%) Entra ID
5 67 (9.12%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (4.49%) Azure Sentinel
7 30 (4.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 29 (3.95%) SaaS
9 27 (3.67%) Serverless
10 23 (3.13%) GitHub
11 22 (2.99%) OpenShift
12 21 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (2.31%) Power Platform
14 16 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (2.18%) OCI
15 15 (2.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 14 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (1.77%) Azure Monitor
18 11 (1.50%) Azure AKS
19 10 (1.36%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 65 (8.84%) Firewall
2 59 (8.03%) Network Security
3 32 (4.35%) VPN
4 17 (2.31%) DNS
5 10 (1.36%) Intrusion Detection
6 9 (1.22%) BGP
6 9 (1.22%) HTTP
6 9 (1.22%) NGFW
6 9 (1.22%) Wireless
7 8 (1.09%) MPLS
7 8 (1.09%) WAN
8 7 (0.95%) DHCP
8 7 (0.95%) LAN
8 7 (0.95%) SSH
9 6 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (0.82%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
9 6 (0.82%) SAN
9 6 (0.82%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.04%) Power BI
3 12 (1.63%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (0.95%) Metadata
7 6 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (0.82%) MySQL
8 5 (0.68%) Big Data
9 4 (0.54%) DocumentDB
9 4 (0.54%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.54%) Redis
10 3 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.41%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.41%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.27%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 26 (3.54%) JIRA
2 22 (2.99%) Jenkins
3 14 (1.90%) Burp Suite
4 10 (1.36%) Metasploit
5 7 (0.95%) GitLab
6 5 (0.68%) Snyk
7 3 (0.41%) Git
8 2 (0.27%) JMeter
8 2 (0.27%) MSTest
8 2 (0.27%) Selenium
8 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.14%) AppScan
9 1 (0.14%) MSI
9 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.14%) sqlmap
General
1 260 (35.37%) Social Skills
2 129 (17.55%) Finance
3 99 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (12.38%) Public Sector
5 74 (10.07%) Documentation Skills
6 48 (6.53%) Legal
7 28 (3.81%) Banking
8 23 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (2.72%) Aerospace
10 19 (2.59%) Manufacturing
11 18 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (2.04%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.50%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.22%) Military
14 9 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.22%) Retail
15 8 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (1.09%) Law
16 5 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 131 (17.82%) Architect
2 102 (13.88%) Analyst
3 73 (9.93%) Consultant
4 56 (7.62%) Security Architect
5 52 (7.07%) Security Engineer
6 51 (6.94%) Lead
7 46 (6.26%) Security Consultant
8 45 (6.12%) Security Analyst
9 44 (5.99%) Project Manager
10 41 (5.58%) Security Manager
11 39 (5.31%) Senior
12 27 (3.67%) Business Analyst
12 27 (3.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 27 (3.67%) Security Specialist
13 22 (2.99%) Cloud Architect
14 21 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (2.86%) Security Project Manager
15 19 (2.59%) CyberArk Architect
15 19 (2.59%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 19 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.53%) LDAP
2 40 (5.44%) OpenID
2 40 (5.44%) SAML
3 34 (4.63%) OAuth
4 22 (2.99%) OAuth2
5 19 (2.59%) SailPoint
6 16 (2.18%) REST
7 10 (1.36%) Kafka
8 9 (1.22%) Middleware
8 9 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (1.22%) Web Services
9 8 (1.09%) RESTful
10 7 (0.95%) ARM Templates
10 7 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (0.68%) Spring
12 5 (0.68%) Spring Boot
13 4 (0.54%) 802.1X
13 4 (0.54%) Hibernate
13 4 (0.54%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 74 (10.07%) Onboarding
2 73 (9.93%) Operational Technology
3 64 (8.71%) Cloud Native
4 57 (7.76%) Security Posture
5 50 (6.80%) Management Information System
6 26 (3.54%) SCADA
7 24 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 23 (3.13%) Data Centre
9 21 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
10 20 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 20 (2.72%) PKI
11 18 (2.45%) Product Ownership
12 16 (2.18%) Virtual Team
13 15 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
14 14 (1.90%) CMDB
15 13 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
16 12 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
17 11 (1.50%) BYOD
17 11 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
18 10 (1.36%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 119 (16.19%) Windows
2 78 (10.61%) Linux
3 37 (5.03%) Unix
3 37 (5.03%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.50%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.41%) CentOS
6 3 (0.41%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.27%) AIX
7 2 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.27%) Android
7 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.27%) Solaris
7 2 (0.27%) VMS
8 1 (0.14%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.14%) Rocky
8 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (51.43%) Cybersecurity
2 209 (28.44%) Information Security
3 176 (23.95%) Risk Management
4 166 (22.59%) SIEM
5 143 (19.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 142 (19.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 126 (17.14%) Cloud Security
8 116 (15.78%) DevOps
9 110 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 109 (14.83%) Security Architecture
11 108 (14.69%) CI/CD
12 105 (14.29%) Incident Response
13 100 (13.61%) Security Operations
14 97 (13.20%) Threat Modelling
14 97 (13.20%) Vulnerability Management
15 94 (12.79%) Roadmaps
16 91 (12.38%) Agile
16 91 (12.38%) ITSM
17 90 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
18 78 (10.61%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 104 (14.15%) PowerShell
2 101 (13.74%) Python
3 28 (3.81%) SQL
4 25 (3.40%) Bash
5 15 (2.04%) Bicep
6 8 (1.09%) Java
7 6 (0.82%) Perl
8 4 (0.54%) Go
8 4 (0.54%) PHP
9 3 (0.41%) C#
9 3 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.41%) Ruby
10 2 (0.27%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.14%) Lisp
11 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 289 (39.32%) Security Cleared
2 221 (30.07%) SC Cleared
3 179 (24.35%) CISSP
4 132 (17.96%) CISM
5 111 (15.10%) Degree
6 68 (9.25%) DV Cleared
7 53 (7.21%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (5.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 41 (5.58%) CRISC
10 38 (5.17%) PMI Certification
11 37 (5.03%) GIAC
12 36 (4.90%) PMP
13 34 (4.63%) CISA
14 30 (4.08%) CEH
14 30 (4.08%) CompTIA Security+
15 28 (3.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 27 (3.67%) Azure Certification
17 24 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
18 22 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
19 21 (2.86%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 474 (64.49%) NIST
2 193 (26.26%) GDPR
3 101 (13.74%) GRC
4 87 (11.84%) PCI DSS
5 79 (10.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 79 (10.75%) NCSC
6 61 (8.30%) SOC 2
7 48 (6.53%) COBIT
8 38 (5.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 34 (4.63%) NIST 800
10 26 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 22 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 20 (2.72%) Data Quality
13 18 (2.45%) HIPAA
14 16 (2.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 16 (2.18%) JSP 440
14 16 (2.18%) QA
15 15 (2.04%) ISO 31000
16 14 (1.90%) SLA
17 13 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 115 (15.65%) Active Directory
2 25 (3.40%) Docker
3 20 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.63%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.41%) vSphere
7 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.14%) Ceph
8 1 (0.14%) GPFS
8 1 (0.14%) KVM
8 1 (0.14%) Lustre
8 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 58 (7.89%) Kubernetes
2 49 (6.67%) Terraform
3 30 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (2.45%) Ansible
6 8 (1.09%) Nmap
7 7 (0.95%) Nessus
8 6 (0.82%) Grafana
8 6 (0.82%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.68%) CASB
9 5 (0.68%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.41%) OpenVAS
10 3 (0.41%) Podman
10 3 (0.41%) Puppet
10 3 (0.41%) QRadar
10 3 (0.41%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.41%) SCOM
11 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.27%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 146 (19.86%) Microsoft
2 76 (10.34%) CyberArk
3 41 (5.58%) ServiceNow
4 40 (5.44%) BeyondTrust
5 37 (5.03%) Oracle
6 36 (4.90%) Splunk
7 27 (3.67%) Cisco
8 22 (2.99%) VMware
9 17 (2.31%) Google
10 13 (1.77%) Qualys
11 11 (1.50%) Tenable
12 10 (1.36%) Rapid7
13 9 (1.22%) Fortinet
13 9 (1.22%) Palo Alto
14 8 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (1.09%) Okta
15 7 (0.95%) IBM
15 7 (0.95%) Red Hat
15 7 (0.95%) SAP
15 7 (0.95%) SolarWinds
307 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England