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

 6 months to
13 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 183 219
Rank change year-on-year +32 +36 +10
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 690 350 390
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.71% 1.45% 1.07%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.21% 9.08% 7.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 231 303
10th Percentile £413 £338 £363
25th Percentile £481 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £768
UK median daily rate £560 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -2.61% - -3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 7 1
10th Percentile £36.00 £51.25 -
25th Percentile £43.81 £56.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £83.41
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% -26.27% +19.16%
75th Percentile £82.25 £80.80 -
90th Percentile £83.40 £87.92 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £67.55 £83.41
% change year-on-year -18.58% -19.02% +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 6,755 3,853 5,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.76% 15.97% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,403 2,482 3,334
10th Percentile £341 £268 £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 £602 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 427 152 349
10th Percentile £14.01 £18.14 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.69 £13.18
Median hourly rate £33.12 £38.03 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.91% +69.02% -43.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £78.67 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £21.12
% change year-on-year +2.86% +65.76% -39.67%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +6 283 £575 -3.36% 119
South East +41 219 £563 +2.27% 93
North of England -41 65 £545 -0.91% 63
Midlands -32 48 £500 -9.09% 40
West Midlands -41 39 £500 -13.04% 27
South West -21 36 £600 +4.35% 37
North West -12 34 £574 +4.27% 40
Yorkshire -40 26 £500 +53.85% 11
East of England -18 17 £540 +3.45% 25
East Midlands -22 9 £442 -11.55% 12
North East -21 5 £400 -42.86% 12
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 19 (2.75%) Confluence
2 13 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.72%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 3 (0.43%) Apache
6 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.29%) IIS
7 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.87%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.72%) Maximo
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 250 (36.23%) Azure
2 190 (27.54%) AWS
3 93 (13.48%) GCP
4 71 (10.29%) Entra ID
5 60 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (3.77%) Azure Sentinel
7 24 (3.48%) OpenShift
7 24 (3.48%) Serverless
8 22 (3.19%) Microsoft Purview
9 19 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (2.75%) GitHub
9 19 (2.75%) SaaS
10 17 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (2.46%) OCI
11 16 (2.32%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 13 (1.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 11 (1.59%) Azure AKS
13 11 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 66 (9.57%) Firewall
2 54 (7.83%) Network Security
3 35 (5.07%) VPN
4 18 (2.61%) DNS
5 17 (2.46%) Wireless
6 10 (1.45%) DHCP
7 9 (1.30%) BGP
7 9 (1.30%) HTTP
7 9 (1.30%) NGFW
8 8 (1.16%) MPLS
8 8 (1.16%) WAN
9 6 (0.87%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (0.87%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.87%) TACACS
10 5 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.72%) LAN
10 5 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.72%) SSH
10 5 (0.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.61%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.88%) Power BI
3 11 (1.59%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (1.01%) Metadata
5 7 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.87%) MySQL
7 5 (0.72%) Big Data
7 5 (0.72%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.58%) DocumentDB
8 4 (0.58%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.58%) Redis
9 3 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.43%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.29%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 19 (2.75%) Jenkins
2 18 (2.61%) Burp Suite
2 18 (2.61%) Metasploit
3 16 (2.32%) JIRA
4 5 (0.72%) GitLab
5 3 (0.43%) Git
6 2 (0.29%) JMeter
6 2 (0.29%) MSTest
6 2 (0.29%) Selenium
7 1 (0.14%) AppScan
7 1 (0.14%) MSI
7 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.14%) Snyk
7 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.14%) sqlmap
General
1 248 (35.94%) Social Skills
2 125 (18.12%) Finance
3 90 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (11.01%) Public Sector
5 63 (9.13%) Documentation Skills
6 47 (6.81%) Legal
7 31 (4.49%) Banking
8 28 (4.06%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.46%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.17%) Financial Institution
12 14 (2.03%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.45%) Law
13 10 (1.45%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.16%) Retail
15 7 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.87%) Marketing
17 5 (0.72%) Military
18 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
19 3 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 122 (17.68%) Architect
2 84 (12.17%) Analyst
3 75 (10.87%) Consultant
4 51 (7.39%) Security Architect
5 49 (7.10%) Security Consultant
5 49 (7.10%) Security Engineer
6 44 (6.38%) Lead
7 43 (6.23%) Project Manager
8 38 (5.51%) Security Analyst
9 37 (5.36%) Security Manager
10 36 (5.22%) Senior
11 25 (3.62%) Business Analyst
11 25 (3.62%) Security Specialist
12 21 (3.04%) CyberArk Architect
13 20 (2.90%) Cloud Architect
13 20 (2.90%) Security Project Manager
14 17 (2.46%) Penetration Tester
15 16 (2.32%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 16 (2.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 15 (2.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (7.83%) LDAP
2 38 (5.51%) SAML
3 37 (5.36%) OpenID
4 31 (4.49%) OAuth
5 18 (2.61%) OAuth2
6 15 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (1.88%) REST
8 12 (1.74%) SailPoint
9 10 (1.45%) Middleware
10 9 (1.30%) Kafka
11 8 (1.16%) RESTful
12 7 (1.01%) ARM Templates
13 5 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (0.72%) Spring
13 5 (0.72%) Web Services
14 4 (0.58%) gRPC
14 4 (0.58%) Hibernate
14 4 (0.58%) JPA
14 4 (0.58%) Node.js
14 4 (0.58%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.86%) Onboarding
2 57 (8.26%) Cloud Native
3 54 (7.83%) Operational Technology
4 49 (7.10%) Security Posture
5 45 (6.52%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.33%) SCADA
7 21 (3.04%) PKI
8 20 (2.90%) Data Centre
9 19 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (2.75%) Product Ownership
10 18 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.88%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.74%) CMDB
12 12 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
14 10 (1.45%) BYOD
15 9 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
15 9 (1.30%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 104 (15.07%) Windows
2 62 (8.99%) Linux
3 29 (4.20%) Unix
3 29 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.16%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.01%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.72%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.29%) AIX
8 2 (0.29%) CentOS
8 2 (0.29%) Solaris
8 2 (0.29%) VMS
9 1 (0.14%) Android
9 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.14%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (46.81%) Cybersecurity
2 211 (30.58%) Information Security
3 166 (24.06%) Risk Management
4 133 (19.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 132 (19.13%) SIEM
6 128 (18.55%) Cloud Security
7 119 (17.25%) DevOps
8 117 (16.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 113 (16.38%) CI/CD
10 98 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 98 (14.20%) Security Architecture
11 93 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
12 91 (13.19%) Threat Modelling
13 89 (12.90%) Incident Response
14 87 (12.61%) Agile
15 82 (11.88%) Data Protection
16 80 (11.59%) Roadmaps
17 78 (11.30%) Security Operations
18 74 (10.72%) Vulnerability Management
19 68 (9.86%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 94 (13.62%) PowerShell
2 88 (12.75%) Python
3 23 (3.33%) SQL
4 22 (3.19%) Bash
5 13 (1.88%) 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 (0.43%) Ruby
9 2 (0.29%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.14%) Lisp
10 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 269 (38.99%) Security Cleared
2 214 (31.01%) SC Cleared
3 171 (24.78%) CISSP
4 128 (18.55%) CISM
5 106 (15.36%) Degree
6 58 (8.41%) DV Cleared
7 47 (6.81%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (5.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 35 (5.07%) PMI Certification
10 33 (4.78%) CISA
10 33 (4.78%) CRISC
10 33 (4.78%) PMP
11 31 (4.49%) GIAC
12 28 (4.06%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 26 (3.77%) Azure Certification
13 26 (3.77%) CEH
14 24 (3.48%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 23 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
16 22 (3.19%) AWS Certification
17 18 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 439 (63.62%) NIST
2 212 (30.72%) GDPR
3 92 (13.33%) PCI DSS
4 85 (12.32%) GRC
5 73 (10.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 72 (10.43%) NCSC
7 55 (7.97%) SOC 2
8 48 (6.96%) COBIT
9 35 (5.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 31 (4.49%) NIST 800
11 25 (3.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 24 (3.48%) QA
13 18 (2.61%) Data Quality
14 17 (2.46%) JSP 440
14 17 (2.46%) PMO
15 14 (2.03%) HIPAA
15 14 (2.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 14 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 13 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 13 (1.88%) SLA
System Software
1 103 (14.93%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.19%) Docker
2 22 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.45%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.14%) Ceph
6 1 (0.14%) GPFS
6 1 (0.14%) Lustre
6 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 55 (7.97%) Kubernetes
2 45 (6.52%) Terraform
3 24 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (3.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (2.32%) Nmap
6 14 (2.03%) Ansible
7 8 (1.16%) Nessus
8 7 (1.01%) Grafana
9 6 (0.87%) CASB
9 6 (0.87%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.72%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.72%) SCCM
11 3 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.43%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.43%) OpenVAS
11 3 (0.43%) Podman
11 3 (0.43%) QRadar
11 3 (0.43%) SCOM
12 2 (0.29%) Puppet
12 2 (0.29%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 123 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 82 (11.88%) CyberArk
3 41 (5.94%) BeyondTrust
4 33 (4.78%) Oracle
4 33 (4.78%) Splunk
5 27 (3.91%) ServiceNow
6 23 (3.33%) Cisco
6 23 (3.33%) VMware
7 18 (2.61%) Google
8 10 (1.45%) Qualys
8 10 (1.45%) SAP
9 9 (1.30%) Fortinet
10 8 (1.16%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.01%) IBM
11 7 (1.01%) Rapid7
11 7 (1.01%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.01%) Tenable
12 6 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (0.87%) Okta
12 6 (0.87%) Zscaler
350 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England