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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
22 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 179 227
Rank change year-on-year +28 +48 -3
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 688 360 381
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.50% 1.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.01% 9.34% 7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 245 297
10th Percentile £413 £313 £363
25th Percentile £488 £495 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £771 £775
UK median daily rate £563 £568 £575
% change year-on-year -0.88% -1.30% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 8 1
10th Percentile £41.25 £28.92 -
25th Percentile £47.19 £45.82 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.00 £83.41
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% -31.67% +19.16%
75th Percentile £82.25 £66.28 -
90th Percentile £84.00 £79.84 -
UK median hourly rate £59.07 £61.50 £83.41
% change year-on-year -3.95% -26.27% +24.36%

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 6,873 3,855 5,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.64% 16.08% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,463 2,490 3,277
10th Percentile £344 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £607 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.67% -3.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 154 351
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.15 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.75 £13.18
Median hourly rate £33.55 £35.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% +52.17% -38.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £80.45 £79.61 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.04 £34.50 £21.38
% change year-on-year +4.45% +61.38% -38.92%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +3 285 £585 +1.74% 153
South East +38 215 £563 -6.25% 93
North of England -45 62 £550 - 69
Midlands -45 48 £500 -9.09% 48
South West -15 39 £600 +9.09% 36
West Midlands -39 39 £500 -13.04% 38
North West -20 34 £574 +4.27% 41
Yorkshire -45 26 £500 +53.85% 14
East of England -20 17 £540 +4.05% 21
East Midlands -18 9 £442 -11.55% 10
North East -33 2 £588 -16.07% 14
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 18 (2.62%) Confluence
2 14 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.58%) Apache
4 4 (0.58%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 3 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.44%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.15%) nginx
6 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.87%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.73%) Maximo
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.15%) iTrent
4 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 247 (35.90%) Azure
2 185 (26.89%) AWS
3 90 (13.08%) GCP
4 73 (10.61%) Entra ID
5 59 (8.58%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (3.92%) Azure Sentinel
7 25 (3.63%) Microsoft Purview
7 25 (3.63%) OpenShift
7 25 (3.63%) Serverless
8 19 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (2.76%) SaaS
9 18 (2.62%) GitHub
10 17 (2.47%) Power Platform
11 16 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (2.03%) OCI
13 13 (1.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 12 (1.74%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 11 (1.60%) Azure AKS
15 11 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 64 (9.30%) Firewall
2 52 (7.56%) Network Security
3 33 (4.80%) VPN
4 17 (2.47%) Wireless
5 16 (2.33%) DNS
6 9 (1.31%) BGP
6 9 (1.31%) HTTP
6 9 (1.31%) NGFW
7 8 (1.16%) DHCP
7 8 (1.16%) MPLS
7 8 (1.16%) WAN
8 6 (0.87%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (0.87%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.87%) TACACS
8 6 (0.87%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (0.73%) IPsec
9 5 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.73%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.62%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.03%) Power BI
3 12 (1.74%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (1.02%) Metadata
5 7 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.87%) MySQL
7 5 (0.73%) Big Data
7 5 (0.73%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.58%) DocumentDB
8 4 (0.58%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.58%) Redis
9 3 (0.44%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.29%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (2.91%) Jenkins
2 18 (2.62%) Burp Suite
2 18 (2.62%) Metasploit
3 16 (2.33%) JIRA
4 5 (0.73%) GitLab
5 2 (0.29%) Git
5 2 (0.29%) JMeter
5 2 (0.29%) MSTest
5 2 (0.29%) Selenium
6 1 (0.15%) AppScan
6 1 (0.15%) MSI
6 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.15%) Snyk
6 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.15%) sqlmap
General
1 245 (35.61%) Social Skills
2 124 (18.02%) Finance
3 89 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (11.34%) Public Sector
5 63 (9.16%) Documentation Skills
6 46 (6.69%) Legal
7 29 (4.22%) Banking
8 27 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.62%) Manufacturing
9 18 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.18%) Aerospace
11 14 (2.03%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.60%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.45%) Law
14 8 (1.16%) Retail
15 7 (1.02%) Military
15 7 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.87%) Marketing
17 3 (0.44%) Electronics
17 3 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 124 (18.02%) Architect
2 87 (12.65%) Analyst
3 76 (11.05%) Consultant
4 53 (7.70%) Security Architect
5 50 (7.27%) Security Engineer
6 49 (7.12%) Security Consultant
7 43 (6.25%) Lead
8 42 (6.10%) Project Manager
9 40 (5.81%) Security Analyst
10 35 (5.09%) Security Manager
11 34 (4.94%) Senior
12 27 (3.92%) Security Specialist
13 25 (3.63%) Business Analyst
14 21 (3.05%) Cloud Architect
15 20 (2.91%) CyberArk Architect
15 20 (2.91%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 20 (2.91%) Security Project Manager
16 17 (2.47%) Penetration Tester
17 16 (2.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
17 16 (2.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.83%) LDAP
2 38 (5.52%) SAML
3 37 (5.38%) OpenID
4 31 (4.51%) OAuth
5 18 (2.62%) OAuth2
6 15 (2.18%) REST
7 13 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
8 12 (1.74%) SailPoint
9 11 (1.60%) Kafka
10 9 (1.31%) Middleware
11 8 (1.16%) RESTful
12 7 (1.02%) ARM Templates
13 5 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (0.73%) Spring
13 5 (0.73%) Spring Boot
13 5 (0.73%) Web Services
14 4 (0.58%) 802.1X
14 4 (0.58%) Hibernate
14 4 (0.58%) JPA
14 4 (0.58%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 70 (10.17%) Onboarding
2 64 (9.30%) Operational Technology
3 59 (8.58%) Cloud Native
4 49 (7.12%) Security Posture
5 45 (6.54%) Management Information System
6 24 (3.49%) SCADA
7 21 (3.05%) PKI
8 19 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
8 19 (2.76%) Data Centre
8 19 (2.76%) Product Ownership
9 18 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.89%) Virtual Team
11 12 (1.74%) CMDB
11 12 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.45%) BYOD
12 10 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
12 10 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
13 9 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 106 (15.41%) Windows
2 61 (8.87%) Linux
3 30 (4.36%) Unix
4 29 (4.22%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.16%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.02%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.73%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.29%) AIX
9 2 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.29%) CentOS
9 2 (0.29%) Solaris
9 2 (0.29%) VMS
10 1 (0.15%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.15%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (48.26%) Cybersecurity
2 202 (29.36%) Information Security
3 163 (23.69%) Risk Management
4 139 (20.20%) SIEM
5 130 (18.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 129 (18.75%) Cloud Security
7 121 (17.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 117 (17.01%) DevOps
9 110 (15.99%) CI/CD
10 104 (15.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 102 (14.83%) Security Architecture
12 92 (13.37%) Threat Modelling
13 91 (13.23%) Incident Response
14 87 (12.65%) Agile
14 87 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
15 83 (12.06%) Roadmaps
16 81 (11.77%) Vulnerability Management
17 80 (11.63%) Data Protection
18 79 (11.48%) Security Operations
19 72 (10.47%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 88 (12.79%) PowerShell
2 83 (12.06%) Python
3 26 (3.78%) SQL
4 22 (3.20%) Bash
5 13 (1.89%) Bicep
6 8 (1.16%) Java
7 4 (0.58%) C#
7 4 (0.58%) Go
7 4 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (0.58%) PHP
8 3 (0.44%) Ruby
9 2 (0.29%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.15%) Lisp
10 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 278 (40.41%) Security Cleared
2 221 (32.12%) SC Cleared
3 166 (24.13%) CISSP
4 125 (18.17%) CISM
5 109 (15.84%) Degree
6 61 (8.87%) DV Cleared
7 47 (6.83%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (5.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 35 (5.09%) PMI Certification
10 33 (4.80%) GIAC
10 33 (4.80%) PMP
11 32 (4.65%) CRISC
12 31 (4.51%) CISA
13 27 (3.92%) CEH
13 27 (3.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 25 (3.63%) Azure Certification
15 24 (3.49%) CompTIA Security+
16 22 (3.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 20 (2.91%) AWS Certification
18 19 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 444 (64.53%) NIST
2 199 (28.92%) GDPR
3 91 (13.23%) PCI DSS
4 81 (11.77%) GRC
5 76 (11.05%) NCSC
6 71 (10.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 56 (8.14%) SOC 2
8 48 (6.98%) COBIT
9 36 (5.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 32 (4.65%) NIST 800
11 23 (3.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 23 (3.34%) QA
12 18 (2.62%) Data Quality
13 17 (2.47%) JSP 440
14 16 (2.33%) PMO
15 15 (2.18%) HIPAA
16 14 (2.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 14 (2.03%) ISO 31000
16 14 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 13 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 96 (13.95%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.20%) Docker
4 11 (1.60%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.15%) Ceph
6 1 (0.15%) GPFS
6 1 (0.15%) KVM
6 1 (0.15%) Lustre
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.15%) Varnish
6 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (8.14%) Kubernetes
2 45 (6.54%) Terraform
3 25 (3.63%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (2.33%) Nmap
6 15 (2.18%) Ansible
7 8 (1.16%) Nessus
8 7 (1.02%) Grafana
9 6 (0.87%) CASB
9 6 (0.87%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.73%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.73%) SCCM
11 3 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.44%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.44%) OpenVAS
11 3 (0.44%) Podman
11 3 (0.44%) Puppet
11 3 (0.44%) QRadar
11 3 (0.44%) SCOM
12 2 (0.29%) Istio
Vendors
1 125 (18.17%) Microsoft
2 74 (10.76%) CyberArk
3 35 (5.09%) BeyondTrust
4 33 (4.80%) Splunk
5 32 (4.65%) Oracle
6 27 (3.92%) ServiceNow
7 24 (3.49%) VMware
8 23 (3.34%) Cisco
9 17 (2.47%) Google
10 11 (1.60%) SAP
11 10 (1.45%) Qualys
12 9 (1.31%) Fortinet
13 8 (1.16%) Palo Alto
14 7 (1.02%) IBM
14 7 (1.02%) Red Hat
14 7 (1.02%) Tenable
15 6 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
15 6 (0.87%) Okta
15 6 (0.87%) Rapid7
15 6 (0.87%) Zscaler
389 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England