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

 6 months to
10 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 146 221
Rank change year-on-year -24 +75 -49
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 758 543 356
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 1.95% 1.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.21% 11.37% 8.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 367 265
10th Percentile £413 £350 £413
25th Percentile £483 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £583
Median % change year-on-year - -5.58% -2.92%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 12 4
10th Percentile £44.79 £29.62 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £32.78 £26.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £50.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +42.00% +60.00% -44.76%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.81 £35.00
90th Percentile £85.67 £97.25 -
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +42.00% +42.86% -29.29%

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 8,227 4,776 4,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.77% 17.18% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,184 3,116 2,589
10th Percentile £331 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £608 £621 £638
90th Percentile £712 £725 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% -3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 224 219
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.09 £17.96 £15.07
Median hourly rate £33.79 £31.64 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +9.10% -17.14%
75th Percentile £68.17 £63.49 £63.59
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.99 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £26.68
% change year-on-year +10.00% +12.44% -23.77%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -23 331 £568 +2.71% 327
South East -3 207 £550 -8.33% 128
North of England -54 76 £530 +11.58% 73
North West -25 54 £534 -3.00% 45
South West -44 51 £600 -3.03% 51
Midlands -49 47 £500 +8.11% 35
West Midlands -27 43 £500 -9.09% 20
East of England -14 34 £515 -1.90% 26
Yorkshire -57 20 £500 +11.11% 18
East Midlands -28 4 - - 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 22 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.72%) Confluence
3 11 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.32%) IIS
5 3 (0.40%) Apache
6 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
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
1 278 (36.68%) Azure
2 168 (22.16%) AWS
3 128 (16.89%) Entra ID
4 90 (11.87%) GCP
5 75 (9.89%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (6.07%) SaaS
7 31 (4.09%) Azure Sentinel
8 27 (3.56%) GitHub
8 27 (3.56%) Microsoft Purview
9 26 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (3.17%) Serverless
11 22 (2.90%) OCI
12 18 (2.37%) Power Platform
13 16 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (1.85%) Azure Key Vault
15 13 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (1.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 10 (1.32%) IaaS
17 10 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
17 10 (1.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (8.18%) Firewall
2 58 (7.65%) Network Security
3 20 (2.64%) VPN
4 15 (1.98%) DNS
5 12 (1.58%) WAN
6 11 (1.45%) LAN
6 11 (1.45%) Wireless
7 10 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (0.92%) DHCP
8 7 (0.92%) NGFW
8 7 (0.92%) SAN
9 6 (0.79%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.79%) IPsec
9 6 (0.79%) Modbus
9 6 (0.79%) NAS
9 6 (0.79%) SSL
9 6 (0.79%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.79%) VLAN
9 6 (0.79%) X.509
10 5 (0.66%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.90%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.32%) Power BI
3 8 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (1.06%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.79%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.53%) Metadata
5 4 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.40%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.40%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.26%) Big Data
7 2 (0.26%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.26%) MySQL
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (2.90%) JIRA
2 13 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.32%) GitLab
4 6 (0.79%) Burp Suite
4 6 (0.79%) Git
5 5 (0.66%) Snyk
6 4 (0.53%) Selenium
7 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.26%) JMeter
7 2 (0.26%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.26%) MSTest
7 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.26%) TestRail
8 1 (0.13%) MSI
8 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.13%) sqlmap
General
1 277 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 112 (14.78%) Finance
3 94 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (12.27%) Public Sector
5 63 (8.31%) Documentation Skills
6 43 (5.67%) Legal
7 36 (4.75%) Aerospace
8 29 (3.83%) Manufacturing
9 25 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (3.17%) Banking
11 23 (3.03%) Military
12 16 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.85%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.06%) Local Government
17 7 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.79%) Retail
19 4 (0.53%) Law
20 3 (0.40%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 156 (20.58%) Architect
2 107 (14.12%) Analyst
3 74 (9.76%) Lead
4 67 (8.84%) Security Architect
5 66 (8.71%) Consultant
6 48 (6.33%) Security Analyst
7 46 (6.07%) Senior
8 45 (5.94%) Security Engineer
9 39 (5.15%) Security Consultant
10 36 (4.75%) Security Manager
11 35 (4.62%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 29 (3.83%) Project Manager
13 26 (3.43%) Security Specialist
14 22 (2.90%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 22 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (2.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 19 (2.51%) Business Analyst
17 17 (2.24%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 17 (2.24%) Cybersecurity Manager
18 16 (2.11%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (6.86%) Terraform
2 49 (6.46%) LDAP
3 34 (4.49%) OAuth
4 33 (4.35%) SailPoint
5 31 (4.09%) SAML
6 26 (3.43%) OpenID
7 19 (2.51%) OAuth2
8 17 (2.24%) REST
9 12 (1.58%) Web Services
10 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Graph
11 6 (0.79%) ARM Templates
11 6 (0.79%) Kafka
12 5 (0.66%) SOAP
13 4 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (0.53%) JDBC
13 4 (0.53%) JSON
14 3 (0.40%) FIDO
14 3 (0.40%) Middleware
14 3 (0.40%) Playwright
15 2 (0.26%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 75 (9.89%) Onboarding
1 75 (9.89%) Operational Technology
2 56 (7.39%) Security Posture
3 55 (7.26%) Management Information System
4 51 (6.73%) Cloud Native
5 40 (5.28%) Cyber Threat
6 27 (3.56%) PKI
6 27 (3.56%) SCADA
7 22 (2.90%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (2.64%) Security Operations Centre
9 18 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (2.24%) Cyber Defence
11 13 (1.72%) IoT
12 11 (1.45%) NHS
12 11 (1.45%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.19%) CMDB
13 9 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 110 (14.51%) Windows
2 68 (8.97%) Linux
3 37 (4.88%) Unix
4 35 (4.62%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.66%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.53%) CentOS
9 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.26%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
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 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (55.54%) Cybersecurity
2 203 (26.78%) Risk Management
3 178 (23.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 177 (23.35%) Information Security
5 173 (22.82%) SIEM
6 157 (20.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 141 (18.60%) Vulnerability Management
8 135 (17.81%) Incident Response
9 132 (17.41%) Security Architecture
10 131 (17.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 124 (16.36%) Cloud Security
12 104 (13.72%) Security Operations
13 97 (12.80%) ITSM
14 93 (12.27%) Roadmaps
15 92 (12.14%) Zero Trust
16 91 (12.01%) Identity Access Management
17 90 (11.87%) DevOps
18 87 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
19 82 (10.82%) CI/CD
20 80 (10.55%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 115 (15.17%) PowerShell
2 98 (12.93%) Python
3 34 (4.49%) Bash
4 18 (2.37%) SQL
5 16 (2.11%) Bicep
6 8 (1.06%) Java
7 6 (0.79%) BeanShell
7 6 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (0.79%) Perl
8 3 (0.40%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.26%) C#
9 2 (0.26%) Ruby
10 1 (0.13%) Go
10 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 283 (37.34%) Security Cleared
2 209 (27.57%) SC Cleared
3 191 (25.20%) CISSP
4 136 (17.94%) CISM
5 87 (11.48%) Degree
6 69 (9.10%) DV Cleared
7 63 (8.31%) Cisco Certification
8 52 (6.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 51 (6.73%) CRISC
10 34 (4.49%) CISA
11 33 (4.35%) CEH
12 32 (4.22%) CompTIA Security+
13 31 (4.09%) Azure Certification
14 30 (3.96%) GIAC
15 29 (3.83%) PMI Certification
16 27 (3.56%) PMP
17 26 (3.43%) CCSP
17 26 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
18 23 (3.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
19 20 (2.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 467 (61.61%) NIST
2 155 (20.45%) GDPR
3 124 (16.36%) GRC
4 92 (12.14%) NCSC
5 91 (12.01%) Cyber Essentials
6 61 (8.05%) PCI DSS
7 49 (6.46%) SOC 2
8 43 (5.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 36 (4.75%) NIST 800
10 34 (4.49%) COBIT
11 33 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (2.77%) Data Quality
13 20 (2.64%) HIPAA
14 19 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 16 (2.11%) JSP 440
16 14 (1.85%) ISO 22301
16 14 (1.85%) ISO 31000
16 14 (1.85%) ISO 9001
17 13 (1.72%) ITGC
18 12 (1.58%) PMO
System Software
1 152 (20.05%) Active Directory
2 24 (3.17%) Docker
3 16 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.72%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.53%) Firmware
6 3 (0.40%) vSphere
7 2 (0.26%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.13%) Ceph
8 1 (0.13%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.56%) Single Sign-On
3 25 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (3.17%) Ansible
5 7 (0.92%) QRadar
6 4 (0.53%) CASB
6 4 (0.53%) Nessus
6 4 (0.53%) Podman
7 3 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.40%) Argo
7 3 (0.40%) Grafana
7 3 (0.40%) Puppet
7 3 (0.40%) RSA Archer
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%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 185 (24.41%) Microsoft
2 69 (9.10%) CyberArk
3 47 (6.20%) ServiceNow
4 33 (4.35%) BeyondTrust
5 31 (4.09%) Oracle
6 23 (3.03%) Splunk
7 19 (2.51%) CrowdStrike
8 18 (2.37%) Cisco
8 18 (2.37%) Google
8 18 (2.37%) VMware
9 16 (2.11%) Qualys
10 14 (1.85%) SAP
11 13 (1.72%) Palo Alto
12 11 (1.45%) Tenable
13 10 (1.32%) Okta
14 9 (1.19%) Databricks
14 9 (1.19%) Rapid7
15 6 (0.79%) Juniper
15 6 (0.79%) SolarWinds
15 6 (0.79%) Tripwire
614 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England