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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
21 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 160 239
Rank change year-on-year -4 +79 -53
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 742 479 361
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 1.76% 1.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.63% 10.42% 7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 330 284
10th Percentile £413 £350 £400
25th Percentile £488 £457 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £576
Median % change year-on-year - -4.56% -3.96%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £671
90th Percentile £752 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 10 2
10th Percentile £43.81 £29.31 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £35.77 £26.25
Median hourly rate £65.69 £57.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.25% +107.26% -61.45%
75th Percentile £82.25 £69.94 £28.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £100.55 -
UK median hourly rate £65.69 £57.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +15.25% +107.26% -60.71%

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 7,707 4,598 4,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.19% 16.87% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,938 2,995 3,027
10th Percentile £342 £273 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.47% -1.25%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £636
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 210 327
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £11.07
25th Percentile £19.46 £18.59 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +22.80% -39.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.30 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £28.18 £25.00
% change year-on-year +37.40% +12.72% -35.42%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -10 317 £575 - 164
South East +11 240 £563 +2.27% 101
Midlands -22 54 £500 +11.11% 37
North of England -70 53 £540 -1.82% 64
West Midlands -26 46 £500 +11.11% 20
South West -43 36 £611 -2.20% 42
North West -34 30 £550 - 48
East of England -12 26 £515 +0.49% 19
Yorkshire -59 23 £540 +13.68% 15
East Midlands -14 8 £491 +15.53% 17
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 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.70%) Confluence
3 12 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.94%) IIS
5 3 (0.40%) Apache
5 3 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.40%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.13%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.81%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.13%) iTrent
3 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 248 (33.42%) Azure
2 162 (21.83%) AWS
3 110 (14.82%) Entra ID
4 87 (11.73%) GCP
5 68 (9.16%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (4.99%) SaaS
7 33 (4.45%) Microsoft Purview
8 30 (4.04%) Azure Sentinel
9 24 (3.23%) Serverless
10 21 (2.83%) OCI
11 19 (2.56%) GitHub
12 17 (2.29%) Power Platform
13 16 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (1.62%) OpenShift
15 10 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (1.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 10 (1.35%) Azure Key Vault
15 10 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (1.35%) IaaS
15 10 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (8.76%) Firewall
2 62 (8.36%) Network Security
3 25 (3.37%) VPN
4 13 (1.75%) DNS
4 13 (1.75%) NGFW
5 12 (1.62%) WAN
5 12 (1.62%) Wireless
6 11 (1.48%) Intrusion Detection
7 10 (1.35%) LAN
8 9 (1.21%) HTTP
9 7 (0.94%) SSH
9 7 (0.94%) SSL
9 7 (0.94%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.81%) BGP
10 6 (0.81%) DHCP
10 6 (0.81%) HTTPS
10 6 (0.81%) SAN
11 5 (0.67%) IPsec
11 5 (0.67%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.67%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.02%) Power BI
3 9 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (1.21%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.67%) Big Data
4 5 (0.67%) Metadata
5 4 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.54%) Delta Lake
5 4 (0.54%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.40%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.27%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.27%) MySQL
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (3.50%) JIRA
2 12 (1.62%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.08%) Burp Suite
4 6 (0.81%) Snyk
5 4 (0.54%) Git
5 4 (0.54%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.27%) GitLab
6 2 (0.27%) JMeter
6 2 (0.27%) MSTest
6 2 (0.27%) Selenium
6 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.13%) AppScan
7 1 (0.13%) MSI
7 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.13%) sqlmap
General
1 255 (34.37%) Social Skills
2 129 (17.39%) Finance
3 101 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (13.48%) Public Sector
5 70 (9.43%) Documentation Skills
6 43 (5.80%) Legal
7 32 (4.31%) Aerospace
8 28 (3.77%) Banking
9 24 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (2.70%) Manufacturing
11 18 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (2.29%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.89%) Military
14 12 (1.62%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (1.08%) Retail
18 7 (0.94%) Law
19 5 (0.67%) Local Government
20 3 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (17.12%) Architect
2 109 (14.69%) Analyst
3 74 (9.97%) Consultant
4 60 (8.09%) Lead
5 58 (7.82%) Security Architect
6 51 (6.87%) Security Engineer
7 47 (6.33%) Security Analyst
7 47 (6.33%) Security Consultant
8 44 (5.93%) Senior
9 37 (4.99%) Project Manager
10 35 (4.72%) Security Manager
11 31 (4.18%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 28 (3.77%) Business Analyst
13 26 (3.50%) Security Specialist
14 22 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (2.70%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 20 (2.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 18 (2.43%) Cloud Architect
16 18 (2.43%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 18 (2.43%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (5.80%) LDAP
2 37 (4.99%) SAML
3 33 (4.45%) OpenID
4 32 (4.31%) OAuth
5 25 (3.37%) SailPoint
6 19 (2.56%) OAuth2
7 13 (1.75%) REST
8 11 (1.48%) Web Services
9 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
11 7 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (0.94%) Kafka
12 5 (0.67%) Middleware
13 4 (0.54%) 802.1X
14 3 (0.40%) AWS CDK
14 3 (0.40%) FIDO
14 3 (0.40%) GraphQL
14 3 (0.40%) JSON
15 2 (0.27%) Azure Blueprints
15 2 (0.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 78 (10.51%) Operational Technology
2 76 (10.24%) Onboarding
3 58 (7.82%) Cloud Native
4 54 (7.28%) Security Posture
5 43 (5.80%) Management Information System
6 29 (3.91%) Cyber Threat
6 29 (3.91%) SCADA
7 24 (3.23%) Data Centre
8 23 (3.10%) Security Operations Centre
9 19 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (2.56%) PKI
10 17 (2.29%) Product Ownership
11 16 (2.16%) Cyber Defence
11 16 (2.16%) Virtual Team
12 15 (2.02%) CMDB
13 12 (1.62%) BYOD
13 12 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 112 (15.09%) Windows
2 73 (9.84%) Linux
3 38 (5.12%) Unix
4 36 (4.85%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.21%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.54%) CentOS
7 4 (0.54%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.27%) AIX
9 2 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.27%) Android
9 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.27%) Solaris
9 2 (0.27%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Rocky
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (53.10%) Cybersecurity
2 203 (27.36%) Information Security
3 186 (25.07%) Risk Management
4 161 (21.70%) SIEM
5 149 (20.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 138 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
7 118 (15.90%) Vulnerability Management
8 113 (15.23%) Incident Response
9 112 (15.09%) Cloud Security
10 108 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 107 (14.42%) Security Operations
12 103 (13.88%) Security Architecture
13 96 (12.94%) Roadmaps
14 93 (12.53%) CI/CD
15 92 (12.40%) ITSM
16 91 (12.26%) DevOps
17 86 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
18 85 (11.46%) Threat Modelling
18 85 (11.46%) Zero Trust
19 79 (10.65%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 105 (14.15%) PowerShell
2 99 (13.34%) Python
3 25 (3.37%) Bash
4 21 (2.83%) SQL
5 11 (1.48%) Bicep
6 6 (0.81%) Perl
7 4 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.40%) C#
8 3 (0.40%) Java
8 3 (0.40%) PHP
8 3 (0.40%) Ruby
9 2 (0.27%) Go
9 2 (0.27%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.13%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.13%) Lisp
10 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 271 (36.52%) Security Cleared
2 212 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 185 (24.93%) CISSP
4 132 (17.79%) CISM
5 106 (14.29%) Degree
6 59 (7.95%) Cisco Certification
7 51 (6.87%) DV Cleared
8 48 (6.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 38 (5.12%) CRISC
10 33 (4.45%) PMI Certification
11 32 (4.31%) CEH
12 31 (4.18%) CISA
12 31 (4.18%) GIAC
12 31 (4.18%) PMP
13 29 (3.91%) CompTIA Security+
14 28 (3.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 24 (3.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 22 (2.96%) Azure Certification
17 21 (2.83%) AWS Certification
17 21 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 463 (62.40%) NIST
2 188 (25.34%) GDPR
3 108 (14.56%) GRC
4 90 (12.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 80 (10.78%) NCSC
6 75 (10.11%) PCI DSS
7 66 (8.89%) SOC 2
8 43 (5.80%) COBIT
9 35 (4.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 34 (4.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 33 (4.45%) NIST 800
12 24 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 23 (3.10%) Data Quality
14 20 (2.70%) HIPAA
15 15 (2.02%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 15 (2.02%) ISO 31000
16 14 (1.89%) JSP 440
16 14 (1.89%) SLA
17 13 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 12 (1.62%) ITGC
System Software
1 129 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 22 (2.96%) Docker
3 17 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.62%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.40%) vSphere
7 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.13%) Ceph
8 1 (0.13%) GPFS
8 1 (0.13%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) Lustre
8 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 42 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 38 (5.12%) Terraform
3 33 (4.45%) Single Sign-On
4 26 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (2.43%) Ansible
6 7 (0.94%) Nessus
7 5 (0.67%) CASB
7 5 (0.67%) Grafana
7 5 (0.67%) QRadar
8 4 (0.54%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.40%) Podman
9 3 (0.40%) Puppet
9 3 (0.40%) RSA Archer
9 3 (0.40%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.27%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.27%) Istio
10 2 (0.27%) Nmap
10 2 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 160 (21.56%) Microsoft
2 69 (9.30%) CyberArk
3 44 (5.93%) ServiceNow
4 42 (5.66%) BeyondTrust
5 40 (5.39%) Oracle
6 32 (4.31%) Splunk
7 24 (3.23%) Cisco
8 18 (2.43%) VMware
9 16 (2.16%) Google
10 14 (1.89%) Palo Alto
10 14 (1.89%) Qualys
11 12 (1.62%) CrowdStrike
11 12 (1.62%) Tenable
12 10 (1.35%) Rapid7
13 8 (1.08%) Fortinet
13 8 (1.08%) Juniper
13 8 (1.08%) SAP
14 7 (0.94%) Databricks
14 7 (0.94%) Okta
14 7 (0.94%) SolarWinds
411 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England