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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 200 169
Rank change year-on-year +68 -31 +130
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 669 365 575
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.13% 1.26% 1.54%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.27% 8.95% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 241 427
10th Percentile £380 £413 £406
25th Percentile £450 £500 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £649 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £765
UK median daily rate £525 £578 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -3.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 8 15
10th Percentile - £28.10 -
25th Percentile £33.50 £35.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £67.55 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.70% +51.79% -21.57%
75th Percentile £57.75 £83.20 £78.36
90th Percentile £89.93 £86.74 £85.36
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £61.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.46% +38.19% -21.57%

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 5,451 4,077 5,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.33% 14.07% 14.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,535 2,385 3,620
10th Percentile £313 £275 £325
25th Percentile £406 £385 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -8.26% +3.81%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £706 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 160 215
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.70 £14.22
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.14 £20.07
Median hourly rate £25.63 £29.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.12% -16.90% +58.41%
75th Percentile £57.38 £62.78 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £83.34
UK median hourly rate £25.63 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.80% -21.43% +55.87%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 +39 283 £550 -8.33% 116
South East +45 131 £500 -11.11% 115
North of England +4 77 £500 -13.79% 49
Midlands -6 62 £465 -7.00% 35
South West +24 59 £500 -23.08% 52
Yorkshire +2 48 £500 +11.11% 17
West Midlands -16 35 £525 +5.00% 24
East Midlands +4 27 £450 -10.10% 11
North West -20 24 £519 -13.54% 29
East of England -8 23 £552 -4.09% 26
North East -3 5 £400 +14.29% 3
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 (3.59%) SharePoint
2 22 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.94%) Confluence
4 3 (0.45%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.15%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 31 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.05%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.45%) Maximo
3 2 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle CRM
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 300 (44.84%) Azure
2 230 (34.38%) AWS
3 115 (17.19%) GCP
4 83 (12.41%) Entra ID
5 70 (10.46%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (6.88%) Azure Sentinel
7 29 (4.33%) SaaS
8 23 (3.44%) GitHub
9 22 (3.29%) Power Platform
10 21 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (2.99%) Microsoft Purview
12 18 (2.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 16 (2.39%) OpenShift
14 15 (2.24%) OCI
14 15 (2.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (1.94%) Azure Monitor
16 12 (1.79%) IaaS
16 12 (1.79%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 95 (14.20%) Firewall
2 63 (9.42%) Network Security
3 39 (5.83%) VPN
4 17 (2.54%) WAN
5 15 (2.24%) SD-WAN
5 15 (2.24%) Wireless
6 13 (1.94%) DNS
7 12 (1.79%) LAN
8 11 (1.64%) DHCP
9 9 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
10 8 (1.20%) VLAN
11 7 (1.05%) BGP
11 7 (1.05%) Kerberos
11 7 (1.05%) OSPF
11 7 (1.05%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.90%) WLAN
13 5 (0.75%) EIGRP
13 5 (0.75%) IPv4
13 5 (0.75%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.69%) Power BI
2 8 (1.20%) Tableau
3 7 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (0.90%) Delta Lake
5 5 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.75%) Metadata
5 5 (0.75%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.45%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.45%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.30%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.30%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.30%) MySQL
7 2 (0.30%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 43 (6.43%) JIRA
2 12 (1.79%) Burp Suite
2 12 (1.79%) GitLab
2 12 (1.79%) Jenkins
2 12 (1.79%) Metasploit
3 10 (1.49%) Git
4 9 (1.35%) Snyk
5 6 (0.90%) CircleCI
5 6 (0.90%) Postman
5 6 (0.90%) SoapUI
6 3 (0.45%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.30%) ERwin
7 2 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.15%) Ant
8 1 (0.15%) JMeter
8 1 (0.15%) MSTest
8 1 (0.15%) Selenium
8 1 (0.15%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 281 (42.00%) Social Skills
2 126 (18.83%) Finance
3 81 (12.11%) Public Sector
4 80 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (6.28%) Documentation Skills
6 41 (6.13%) Legal
7 26 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (3.59%) Banking
8 24 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
8 24 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (2.24%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.24%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.79%) Law
11 11 (1.64%) Marketing
12 10 (1.49%) Electronics
12 10 (1.49%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.49%) Police
13 9 (1.35%) Local Government
14 8 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.75%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 112 (16.74%) Architect
2 111 (16.59%) Analyst
3 73 (10.91%) Consultant
4 58 (8.67%) Security Architect
5 54 (8.07%) Senior
6 53 (7.92%) Security Engineer
7 48 (7.17%) Security Analyst
8 40 (5.98%) Lead
9 35 (5.23%) Security Consultant
10 25 (3.74%) Security Specialist
11 21 (3.14%) Security Manager
12 20 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
12 20 (2.99%) Tester
13 17 (2.54%) Azure Engineer
14 16 (2.39%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 15 (2.24%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 15 (2.24%) SOC Analyst
16 14 (2.09%) Cloud Architect
16 14 (2.09%) Information Analyst
16 14 (2.09%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (5.83%) LDAP
2 25 (3.74%) OAuth
3 24 (3.59%) SAML
4 20 (2.99%) SailPoint
5 17 (2.54%) OpenID
6 12 (1.79%) REST
7 10 (1.49%) OAuth2
8 9 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.05%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.90%) Loki
11 5 (0.75%) AWS CDK
12 4 (0.60%) .NET
12 4 (0.60%) Google JAX
12 4 (0.60%) JAX
12 4 (0.60%) PyTorch
12 4 (0.60%) React
12 4 (0.60%) scikit-learn
12 4 (0.60%) TensorFlow
13 3 (0.45%) HTML
13 3 (0.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 82 (12.26%) Security Posture
2 59 (8.82%) Management Information System
3 46 (6.88%) Cloud Native
4 36 (5.38%) Cyber Threat
5 27 (4.04%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.74%) Security Operations Centre
7 21 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (2.99%) Operational Technology
9 18 (2.69%) Data Centre
10 16 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.94%) Cloud Security Posture
11 13 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.64%) NHS
12 11 (1.64%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.49%) PKI
13 10 (1.49%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.49%) SCADA
14 8 (1.20%) CSOC
14 8 (1.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 6 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 65 (9.72%) Windows
2 32 (4.78%) Linux
3 19 (2.84%) Mac OS
4 16 (2.39%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.79%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.60%) AIX
6 4 (0.60%) Solaris
7 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.30%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.30%) VMS
9 1 (0.15%) Android
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (39.76%) Cybersecurity
2 173 (25.86%) Cloud Security
3 169 (25.26%) Incident Response
4 168 (25.11%) Information Security
5 151 (22.57%) Risk Management
6 145 (21.67%) SIEM
7 121 (18.09%) CI/CD
8 115 (17.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 114 (17.04%) Stakeholder Management
10 113 (16.89%) DevOps
11 99 (14.80%) Zero Trust
12 91 (13.60%) Identity Access Management
13 88 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
14 86 (12.86%) DevSecOps
15 85 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
15 85 (12.71%) Data Protection
16 83 (12.41%) Security Operations
17 81 (12.11%) Threat Modelling
18 76 (11.36%) Security Architecture
19 73 (10.91%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 124 (18.54%) PowerShell
2 79 (11.81%) Python
3 37 (5.53%) Bash
4 20 (2.99%) Bicep
5 13 (1.94%) SQL
6 10 (1.49%) Java
7 9 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (0.75%) C
8 5 (0.75%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.60%) C++
9 4 (0.60%) R
9 4 (0.60%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.30%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.30%) Go
10 2 (0.30%) Rust
10 2 (0.30%) Solidity
11 1 (0.15%) C#
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 216 (32.29%) CISSP
2 196 (29.30%) Security Cleared
3 160 (23.92%) CISM
4 158 (23.62%) SC Cleared
5 90 (13.45%) Degree
6 47 (7.03%) CISA
7 40 (5.98%) Cisco Certification
8 39 (5.83%) Azure Certification
9 37 (5.53%) AWS Certification
9 37 (5.53%) DV Cleared
9 37 (5.53%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 29 (4.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 28 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
12 27 (4.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 25 (3.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 25 (3.74%) CEH
14 23 (3.44%) CCSP
14 23 (3.44%) Master's Degree
15 20 (2.99%) GIAC
16 19 (2.84%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 394 (58.89%) NIST
2 256 (38.27%) GDPR
3 95 (14.20%) PCI DSS
4 78 (11.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 73 (10.91%) NCSC
6 65 (9.72%) GRC
7 43 (6.43%) COBIT
8 40 (5.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 33 (4.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 32 (4.78%) NIST 800
11 28 (4.19%) SOC 2
12 24 (3.59%) QA
13 20 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 18 (2.69%) HIPAA
15 17 (2.54%) JSP 440
16 14 (2.09%) ISO 9001
17 13 (1.94%) SLA
18 12 (1.79%) ITGC
19 11 (1.64%) Def Stans
19 11 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 90 (13.45%) Active Directory
2 28 (4.19%) Docker
3 19 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.60%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.45%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) Snort
7 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (8.97%) Terraform
2 55 (8.22%) Kubernetes
3 45 (6.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (4.19%) SCCM
5 27 (4.04%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (2.69%) Ansible
7 14 (2.09%) RSA Archer
8 12 (1.79%) QRadar
9 11 (1.64%) Prometheus
10 10 (1.49%) Nmap
11 9 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (1.35%) Fluentd
11 9 (1.35%) Nessus
12 6 (0.90%) CSIRT
12 6 (0.90%) Grafana
12 6 (0.90%) PingFederate
13 5 (0.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 4 (0.60%) CASB
15 2 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
15 2 (0.30%) Kibana
Vendors
1 171 (25.56%) Microsoft
2 48 (7.17%) CyberArk
3 47 (7.03%) Splunk
4 35 (5.23%) BeyondTrust
5 28 (4.19%) ServiceNow
6 25 (3.74%) Google
7 23 (3.44%) Oracle
7 23 (3.44%) SAP
7 23 (3.44%) VMware
8 22 (3.29%) Cisco
9 21 (3.14%) Rapid7
10 17 (2.54%) Citrix
10 17 (2.54%) CrowdStrike
11 16 (2.39%) Fortinet
12 14 (2.09%) Palo Alto
13 13 (1.94%) Qualys
13 13 (1.94%) Tenable
14 12 (1.79%) ArcSight
15 11 (1.64%) Thycotic
16 10 (1.49%) Okta
332 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England