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

 6 months to
3 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 207 219
Rank change year-on-year +70 +12 +37
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 751 312 398
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.96% 1.29% 1.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.26% 8.29% 7.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 196 307
10th Percentile £410 £400 £363
25th Percentile £469 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £670 £675
90th Percentile £770 £794 £765
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 1
10th Percentile £31.94 £47.33 -
25th Percentile £38.37 £53.62 -
Median hourly rate £81.25 £61.50 £83.41
Median % change year-on-year +32.12% -26.27% +19.16%
75th Percentile £83.00 £82.00 -
90th Percentile £84.00 £84.38 -
UK median hourly rate £81.25 £61.50 £83.41
% change year-on-year +32.12% -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 6,672 3,762 5,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.40% 15.52% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,335 2,436 3,399
10th Percentile £340 £265 £304
25th Percentile £413 £399 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% -3.38% -
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 397 155 339
10th Percentile £14.16 £17.45 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.43 £22.14 £13.18
Median hourly rate £27.88 £32.81 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -15.03% +51.62% -49.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.13 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £30.58 £32.50 £20.80
% change year-on-year -5.91% +56.23% -47.99%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +31 307 £575 -4.17% 119
South East +39 197 £550 - 96
North of England -7 85 £540 -6.09% 74
Midlands -25 63 £500 -6.98% 37
West Midlands -34 49 £513 -12.77% 28
South West +2 48 £538 -14.00% 46
North West -13 42 £574 -0.26% 47
Yorkshire -31 38 £500 -11.11% 19
East of England -22 21 £553 +6.55% 19
East Midlands -20 14 £442 +10.56% 9
North East -15 5 £400 -17.95% 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 24 (3.20%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.93%) Confluence
3 17 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.80%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.27%) Apache
5 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.13%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 19 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.46%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.93%) Maximo
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 268 (35.69%) Azure
2 224 (29.83%) AWS
3 101 (13.45%) GCP
4 72 (9.59%) Entra ID
5 50 (6.66%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (4.79%) Azure Sentinel
7 30 (3.99%) OpenShift
8 27 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (3.46%) Microsoft Purview
9 26 (3.46%) Serverless
10 24 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (2.93%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 20 (2.66%) Power Platform
13 19 (2.53%) OCI
13 19 (2.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 18 (2.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 18 (2.40%) GitHub
15 15 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (2.00%) SaaS
16 14 (1.86%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 88 (11.72%) Firewall
2 62 (8.26%) Network Security
3 48 (6.39%) VPN
4 23 (3.06%) DNS
5 22 (2.93%) Wireless
6 16 (2.13%) WAN
7 15 (2.00%) DHCP
8 14 (1.86%) BGP
9 13 (1.73%) LAN
9 13 (1.73%) MPLS
9 13 (1.73%) SD-WAN
10 12 (1.60%) Cisco ASA
11 9 (1.20%) HTTP
11 9 (1.20%) IPv6
12 8 (1.07%) IPv4
12 8 (1.07%) NGFW
12 8 (1.07%) OSPF
13 7 (0.93%) VLAN
14 6 (0.80%) Kerberos
14 6 (0.80%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.00%) Power BI
2 10 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (1.20%) NoSQL
4 7 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (0.80%) DynamoDB
5 6 (0.80%) MySQL
5 6 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (0.67%) Big Data
6 5 (0.67%) Metadata
6 5 (0.67%) Oracle Database
6 5 (0.67%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.53%) DocumentDB
7 4 (0.53%) Redis
8 3 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.40%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.27%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.27%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 24 (3.20%) Jenkins
1 24 (3.20%) JIRA
2 19 (2.53%) Burp Suite
2 19 (2.53%) Metasploit
3 11 (1.46%) GitLab
4 6 (0.80%) Git
5 3 (0.40%) JMeter
5 3 (0.40%) MSTest
5 3 (0.40%) Selenium
6 1 (0.13%) AppScan
6 1 (0.13%) MSI
6 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.13%) Snyk
6 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.13%) sqlmap
6 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 283 (37.68%) Social Skills
2 128 (17.04%) Finance
3 94 (12.52%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (11.72%) Public Sector
5 65 (8.66%) Documentation Skills
6 51 (6.79%) Legal
7 32 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (3.86%) Banking
9 16 (2.13%) Financial Institution
9 16 (2.13%) Law
9 16 (2.13%) Manufacturing
10 14 (1.86%) Aerospace
10 14 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.20%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.07%) Police
13 8 (1.07%) Retail
14 6 (0.80%) Marketing
15 5 (0.67%) Aviation
16 4 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 135 (17.98%) Architect
2 96 (12.78%) Analyst
3 88 (11.72%) Consultant
4 61 (8.12%) Security Engineer
5 58 (7.72%) Security Architect
6 50 (6.66%) Security Consultant
7 45 (5.99%) Senior
8 41 (5.46%) Lead
9 40 (5.33%) Project Manager
9 40 (5.33%) Security Analyst
10 37 (4.93%) Security Manager
11 23 (3.06%) Business Analyst
12 21 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
12 21 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (2.66%) Cloud Architect
13 20 (2.66%) CyberArk Architect
13 20 (2.66%) Tester
14 19 (2.53%) Penetration Tester
14 19 (2.53%) Security Project Manager
14 19 (2.53%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.59%) LDAP
2 37 (4.93%) SAML
3 36 (4.79%) OpenID
4 30 (3.99%) OAuth
5 17 (2.26%) Oracle Fusion
6 14 (1.86%) OAuth2
7 13 (1.73%) REST
8 11 (1.46%) ARM Templates
9 10 (1.33%) Middleware
10 9 (1.20%) Kafka
11 8 (1.07%) AWS CDK
11 8 (1.07%) RESTful
11 8 (1.07%) SailPoint
12 5 (0.67%) Node.js
12 5 (0.67%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (0.67%) Spring
13 4 (0.53%) Hibernate
13 4 (0.53%) JPA
13 4 (0.53%) JWT
13 4 (0.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 67 (8.92%) Onboarding
2 59 (7.86%) Security Posture
3 57 (7.59%) Cloud Native
4 44 (5.86%) Operational Technology
5 43 (5.73%) Management Information System
6 27 (3.60%) Data Centre
7 25 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 24 (3.20%) Product Ownership
9 22 (2.93%) Security Operations Centre
10 20 (2.66%) SCADA
11 17 (2.26%) PKI
12 16 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
13 15 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
14 14 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (1.73%) CMDB
15 13 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
16 12 (1.60%) Public Cloud
16 12 (1.60%) Virtual Team
17 11 (1.46%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 87 (11.58%) Windows
2 49 (6.52%) Linux
3 27 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.33%) Unix
5 7 (0.93%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.93%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.80%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.53%) AIX
7 4 (0.53%) Solaris
8 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.27%) Android
9 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) CentOS
10 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Rocky
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (44.21%) Cybersecurity
2 202 (26.90%) Information Security
3 166 (22.10%) Risk Management
4 161 (21.44%) Cloud Security
5 153 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 142 (18.91%) DevOps
7 139 (18.51%) SIEM
8 135 (17.98%) CI/CD
9 120 (15.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 118 (15.71%) Incident Response
11 106 (14.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 100 (13.32%) Threat Modelling
13 94 (12.52%) Security Architecture
13 94 (12.52%) Security Operations
14 93 (12.38%) Agile
15 91 (12.12%) Zero Trust
16 87 (11.58%) Data Protection
16 87 (11.58%) Infrastructure as Code
16 87 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
17 80 (10.65%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 101 (13.45%) PowerShell
2 84 (11.19%) Python
3 22 (2.93%) SQL
4 20 (2.66%) Bicep
5 17 (2.26%) Bash
6 10 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (0.93%) Java
8 4 (0.53%) C#
8 4 (0.53%) Go
8 4 (0.53%) PHP
9 3 (0.40%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.40%) Ruby
10 2 (0.27%) C
10 2 (0.27%) Rust
10 2 (0.27%) Solidity
10 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.13%) Lisp
11 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 288 (38.35%) Security Cleared
2 224 (29.83%) SC Cleared
3 190 (25.30%) CISSP
4 141 (18.77%) CISM
5 94 (12.52%) Degree
6 66 (8.79%) DV Cleared
7 45 (5.99%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (4.39%) AWS Certification
9 32 (4.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 32 (4.26%) Azure Certification
10 31 (4.13%) CEH
10 31 (4.13%) CISA
10 31 (4.13%) PMI Certification
11 30 (3.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 30 (3.99%) PMP
12 26 (3.46%) GIAC
13 25 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
13 25 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 24 (3.20%) CRISC
15 21 (2.80%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 466 (62.05%) NIST
2 251 (33.42%) GDPR
3 107 (14.25%) PCI DSS
4 95 (12.65%) NCSC
5 80 (10.65%) GRC
6 74 (9.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 53 (7.06%) SOC 2
8 51 (6.79%) COBIT
9 38 (5.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 35 (4.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 34 (4.53%) NIST 800
12 28 (3.73%) QA
13 26 (3.46%) JSP 440
14 21 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 18 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 17 (2.26%) PMO
17 15 (2.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 15 (2.00%) SLA
18 13 (1.73%) Data Quality
19 12 (1.60%) ITGC
System Software
1 93 (12.38%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.80%) Docker
2 21 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.93%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.53%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.13%) Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) GPFS
6 1 (0.13%) Lustre
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.13%) Varnish
6 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (8.79%) Kubernetes
2 62 (8.26%) Terraform
3 29 (3.86%) Single Sign-On
4 25 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (2.53%) Ansible
6 17 (2.26%) Nmap
7 11 (1.46%) Nessus
8 8 (1.07%) SCCM
9 7 (0.93%) CASB
10 6 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.80%) Fluentd
10 6 (0.80%) Grafana
10 6 (0.80%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.53%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.53%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.53%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.53%) QRadar
11 4 (0.53%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.40%) OpenVAS
12 3 (0.40%) SCOM
Vendors
1 123 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 82 (10.92%) CyberArk
3 45 (5.99%) Splunk
4 40 (5.33%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (4.53%) Oracle
5 34 (4.53%) ServiceNow
6 31 (4.13%) Cisco
7 23 (3.06%) VMware
8 18 (2.40%) Fortinet
8 18 (2.40%) Google
9 17 (2.26%) SAP
10 13 (1.73%) Palo Alto
11 11 (1.46%) IBM
11 11 (1.46%) Qualys
11 11 (1.46%) Rapid7
12 10 (1.33%) Tenable
13 9 (1.20%) Okta
14 7 (0.93%) CheckPoint
14 7 (0.93%) Ping Identity
14 7 (0.93%) Zscaler
360 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England