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

 6 months to
6 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 217 199
Rank change year-on-year +86 -18 +73
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 727 311 444
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.00% 1.22% 1.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.48% 8.05% 8.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 186 337
10th Percentile £408 £410 £365
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £667
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 10 11
10th Percentile - £32.70 -
25th Percentile £33.50 £41.44 £42.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £67.55 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.70% +51.79% -39.02%
75th Percentile £82.25 £82.00 £62.56
90th Percentile £84.00 £84.38 £83.41
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £73.60 £44.50
% change year-on-year -38.23% +65.39% -39.02%

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 6,334 3,861 5,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.41% 15.11% 14.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,089 2,370 3,512
10th Percentile £325 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £379 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -4.71% -
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £516
% change year-on-year - -3.10% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 158 339
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.50 £11.95
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.44 £14.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £32.66 £25.38
Median % change year-on-year -20.04% +28.66% -34.50%
75th Percentile £64.63 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.20 £78.40 £72.02
UK median hourly rate £28.28 £31.76 £25.00
% change year-on-year -10.97% +27.04% -28.57%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +47 314 £570 -8.80% 129
South East +43 168 £500 -4.76% 117
North of England -8 79 £527 -12.13% 53
Midlands -10 61 £479 -20.25% 36
South West +16 60 £525 -16.00% 41
Yorkshire -23 43 £500 -16.67% 11
West Midlands -22 38 £540 -10.00% 29
North West -4 31 £577 -10.58% 37
East Midlands -5 23 £449 +12.25% 7
East of England -22 16 £564 +8.67% 21
North East -14 5 £400 -17.95% 5
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 25 (3.44%) SharePoint
2 22 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (2.61%) Confluence
4 6 (0.83%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.28%) Apache
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (1.51%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.96%) Maximo
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 264 (36.31%) Azure
2 214 (29.44%) AWS
3 99 (13.62%) GCP
4 80 (11.00%) Entra ID
5 68 (9.35%) Microsoft 365
6 45 (6.19%) Azure Sentinel
7 32 (4.40%) OpenShift
8 28 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
9 25 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (2.89%) OCI
11 20 (2.75%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 19 (2.61%) SaaS
13 18 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (2.34%) Power Platform
14 17 (2.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 15 (2.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 15 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
16 14 (1.93%) GitHub
17 13 (1.79%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 101 (13.89%) Firewall
2 66 (9.08%) Network Security
3 52 (7.15%) VPN
4 21 (2.89%) Wireless
5 19 (2.61%) DNS
6 15 (2.06%) BGP
7 14 (1.93%) WAN
8 13 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (1.79%) MPLS
9 12 (1.65%) LAN
9 12 (1.65%) SD-WAN
10 11 (1.51%) DHCP
11 9 (1.24%) NGFW
11 9 (1.24%) OSPF
12 8 (1.10%) HTTP
13 7 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
13 7 (0.96%) Kerberos
14 6 (0.83%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (0.83%) SSH
14 6 (0.83%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.79%) Power BI
2 10 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (0.96%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.83%) DynamoDB
4 6 (0.83%) Metadata
4 6 (0.83%) MySQL
4 6 (0.83%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.55%) DocumentDB
6 4 (0.55%) Redis
7 3 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.41%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (3.58%) Jenkins
1 26 (3.58%) JIRA
2 18 (2.48%) Burp Suite
2 18 (2.48%) Metasploit
3 14 (1.93%) GitLab
4 7 (0.96%) Git
5 2 (0.28%) Snyk
6 1 (0.14%) AppScan
6 1 (0.14%) JMeter
6 1 (0.14%) MSTest
6 1 (0.14%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 305 (41.95%) Social Skills
2 132 (18.16%) Finance
3 83 (11.42%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (11.14%) Public Sector
5 66 (9.08%) Documentation Skills
6 44 (6.05%) Legal
7 35 (4.81%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (3.58%) Banking
10 23 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (2.48%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.65%) Law
13 11 (1.51%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.24%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.24%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.10%) Marketing
15 8 (1.10%) Police
16 6 (0.83%) Retail
17 5 (0.69%) Aviation
17 5 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 106 (14.58%) Architect
2 103 (14.17%) Analyst
3 87 (11.97%) Consultant
4 63 (8.67%) Security Engineer
5 50 (6.88%) Security Architect
6 47 (6.46%) Senior
7 46 (6.33%) Security Analyst
8 41 (5.64%) Security Consultant
9 32 (4.40%) Lead
10 31 (4.26%) Security Manager
11 27 (3.71%) Project Manager
12 26 (3.58%) Security Specialist
13 23 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
13 23 (3.16%) Tester
14 19 (2.61%) Penetration Tester
15 17 (2.34%) CyberArk Architect
16 16 (2.20%) Cybersecurity Consultant
17 15 (2.06%) AWS Architect
17 15 (2.06%) Cloud Architect
17 15 (2.06%) Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.12%) LDAP
2 41 (5.64%) SAML
3 39 (5.36%) OpenID
4 33 (4.54%) OAuth
5 18 (2.48%) OAuth2
6 17 (2.34%) Oracle Fusion
7 14 (1.93%) REST
8 13 (1.79%) SailPoint
9 10 (1.38%) ARM Templates
10 8 (1.10%) RESTful
11 6 (0.83%) AWS CDK
11 6 (0.83%) Kafka
11 6 (0.83%) Middleware
12 5 (0.69%) .NET
12 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (0.69%) Node.js
12 5 (0.69%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (0.69%) Spring
13 4 (0.55%) Hibernate
13 4 (0.55%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 79 (10.87%) Security Posture
2 61 (8.39%) Onboarding
3 57 (7.84%) Management Information System
4 48 (6.60%) Cloud Native
5 31 (4.26%) Operational Technology
6 25 (3.44%) Cyber Threat
7 22 (3.03%) Data Centre
8 21 (2.89%) Security Operations Centre
9 20 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (2.75%) Product Ownership
10 15 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.93%) PKI
12 12 (1.65%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.51%) SCADA
14 10 (1.38%) BYOD
15 9 (1.24%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 9 (1.24%) NHS
16 8 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 78 (10.73%) Windows
2 42 (5.78%) Linux
3 18 (2.48%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.79%) Mac OS
5 11 (1.51%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.96%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.96%) Unix
7 4 (0.55%) AIX
7 4 (0.55%) Solaris
8 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.41%) VMS
9 2 (0.28%) Android
9 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.14%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (43.33%) Cybersecurity
2 221 (30.40%) Information Security
3 179 (24.62%) Risk Management
4 170 (23.38%) Cloud Security
5 159 (21.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 145 (19.94%) SIEM
7 133 (18.29%) Incident Response
8 122 (16.78%) CI/CD
8 122 (16.78%) DevOps
9 115 (15.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 106 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 96 (13.20%) Security Operations
12 95 (13.07%) Zero Trust
13 88 (12.10%) Threat Modelling
14 87 (11.97%) Data Protection
15 85 (11.69%) Agile
15 85 (11.69%) Regulatory Compliance
16 84 (11.55%) Security Architecture
17 81 (11.14%) Roadmaps
18 80 (11.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 115 (15.82%) PowerShell
2 79 (10.87%) Python
3 22 (3.03%) Bash
4 17 (2.34%) Bicep
4 17 (2.34%) SQL
5 10 (1.38%) Java
5 10 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (0.55%) Go
6 4 (0.55%) PHP
7 3 (0.41%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.28%) C
8 2 (0.28%) C#
8 2 (0.28%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.28%) Rust
8 2 (0.28%) Solidity
9 1 (0.14%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.14%) Lisp
9 1 (0.14%) Ruby
9 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 271 (37.28%) Security Cleared
2 221 (30.40%) SC Cleared
3 199 (27.37%) CISSP
4 154 (21.18%) CISM
5 103 (14.17%) Degree
6 57 (7.84%) DV Cleared
7 43 (5.91%) Cisco Certification
7 43 (5.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 35 (4.81%) CISA
9 32 (4.40%) Azure Certification
10 31 (4.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 28 (3.85%) AWS Certification
11 28 (3.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 26 (3.58%) Master's Degree
13 25 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
14 24 (3.30%) CEH
14 24 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
14 24 (3.30%) GIAC
14 24 (3.30%) PMI Certification
15 23 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 447 (61.49%) NIST
2 251 (34.53%) GDPR
3 109 (14.99%) PCI DSS
4 93 (12.79%) NCSC
5 89 (12.24%) GRC
6 75 (10.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 46 (6.33%) COBIT
8 45 (6.19%) SOC 2
9 39 (5.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 38 (5.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 33 (4.54%) NIST 800
12 27 (3.71%) QA
13 21 (2.89%) JSP 440
14 18 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 18 (2.48%) PMO
15 17 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 16 (2.20%) SLA
17 13 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
18 11 (1.51%) Def Stans
18 11 (1.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 95 (13.07%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.20%) Docker
4 7 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.55%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.14%) Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) GPFS
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) Lustre
7 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.14%) Varnish
7 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (8.53%) Kubernetes
2 52 (7.15%) Terraform
3 40 (5.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (3.71%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (2.89%) SCCM
6 18 (2.48%) Ansible
7 16 (2.20%) Nmap
8 10 (1.38%) Nessus
9 9 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (1.10%) Fluentd
11 7 (0.96%) CASB
11 7 (0.96%) RSA Archer
12 6 (0.83%) PingFederate
12 6 (0.83%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.41%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.41%) Grafana
13 3 (0.41%) OpenVAS
13 3 (0.41%) QRadar
13 3 (0.41%) SCOM
14 2 (0.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 141 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 73 (10.04%) CyberArk
3 47 (6.46%) Splunk
4 37 (5.09%) BeyondTrust
5 31 (4.26%) Oracle
5 31 (4.26%) ServiceNow
6 30 (4.13%) Cisco
7 24 (3.30%) VMware
8 17 (2.34%) Fortinet
8 17 (2.34%) SAP
9 16 (2.20%) Google
9 16 (2.20%) Rapid7
10 15 (2.06%) Palo Alto
11 12 (1.65%) Qualys
12 10 (1.38%) Citrix
12 10 (1.38%) IBM
12 10 (1.38%) Okta
13 9 (1.24%) Cribl.io
13 9 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (1.24%) Ping Identity
360 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England