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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 151 222
Rank change year-on-year -10 +71 -48
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 760 517 346
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 1.87% 1.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.50% 10.88% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 362 274
10th Percentile £413 £356 £400
25th Percentile £480 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £746
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 10 2
10th Percentile £45.76 £29.31 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £33.90 £26.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £52.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +90.91% -59.00%
75th Percentile £80.00 £69.94 £28.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £100.55 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £52.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +42.86% +90.91% -57.13%

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 8,003 4,750 4,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.50% 17.22% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,109 3,093 2,722
10th Percentile £338 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £610 £619 £638
90th Percentile £717 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 231 266
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.69 £13.89
Median hourly rate £38.11 £31.64 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.45% +15.05% -21.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.66
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.91 £25.77
% change year-on-year +34.36% +8.33% -26.39%

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 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -18 327 £568 +1.52% 329
South East +7 235 £563 -6.25% 134
North of England -67 68 £530 -3.64% 96
Midlands -27 48 £500 +11.11% 45
North West -30 45 £537 -2.36% 62
West Midlands -33 44 £500 +11.11% 27
South West -51 37 £638 +2.00% 76
East of England -14 31 £515 +0.49% 42
Yorkshire -52 21 £500 +8.11% 23
East Midlands -24 4 - - 18
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 23 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.97%) Confluence
3 11 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.05%) IIS
5 3 (0.39%) Apache
6 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.13%) iTrent
2 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 274 (36.05%) Azure
2 172 (22.63%) AWS
3 119 (15.66%) Entra ID
4 88 (11.58%) GCP
5 69 (9.08%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (5.53%) SaaS
7 30 (3.95%) Azure Sentinel
7 30 (3.95%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (3.55%) Serverless
9 26 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (3.42%) GitHub
10 17 (2.24%) OCI
10 17 (2.24%) Power Platform
11 16 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (1.84%) Azure Key Vault
13 10 (1.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 10 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (1.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 8 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (1.05%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 65 (8.55%) Network Security
2 63 (8.29%) Firewall
3 21 (2.76%) VPN
4 14 (1.84%) DNS
5 12 (1.58%) WAN
6 11 (1.45%) Intrusion Detection
6 11 (1.45%) LAN
7 10 (1.32%) NGFW
7 10 (1.32%) Wireless
8 9 (1.18%) HTTP
9 7 (0.92%) SAN
9 7 (0.92%) SSL
9 7 (0.92%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.79%) DHCP
10 6 (0.79%) HTTPS
10 6 (0.79%) NAS
11 5 (0.66%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
11 5 (0.66%) VLAN
12 4 (0.53%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.76%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.58%) Power BI
3 10 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (1.32%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.66%) Big Data
4 5 (0.66%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.66%) Delta Lake
4 5 (0.66%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.53%) Metadata
5 4 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.26%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.26%) MySQL
8 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (3.16%) JIRA
2 11 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.05%) GitLab
4 6 (0.79%) Burp Suite
5 5 (0.66%) Git
5 5 (0.66%) Snyk
6 3 (0.39%) Selenium
7 2 (0.26%) JMeter
7 2 (0.26%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.26%) MSTest
7 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.13%) MSI
8 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.13%) sqlmap
8 1 (0.13%) TestRail
General
1 249 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 127 (16.71%) Finance
3 102 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (12.76%) Public Sector
5 65 (8.55%) Documentation Skills
6 47 (6.18%) Legal
7 41 (5.39%) Aerospace
8 28 (3.68%) Banking
9 25 (3.29%) Manufacturing
10 20 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (2.63%) Military
11 18 (2.37%) Telecoms
12 16 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.05%) Retail
15 7 (0.92%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.92%) Law
15 7 (0.92%) Local Government
16 4 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (18.16%) Architect
2 109 (14.34%) Analyst
3 73 (9.61%) Consultant
4 66 (8.68%) Lead
5 63 (8.29%) Security Architect
6 50 (6.58%) Security Consultant
7 49 (6.45%) Security Analyst
8 47 (6.18%) Senior
9 42 (5.53%) Security Engineer
10 36 (4.74%) Security Manager
11 35 (4.61%) Project Manager
12 33 (4.34%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 26 (3.42%) Security Specialist
14 25 (3.29%) Business Analyst
14 25 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (2.76%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 19 (2.50%) Cloud Architect
16 19 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 19 (2.50%) Security Project Manager
17 18 (2.37%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (4.61%) LDAP
2 30 (3.95%) OAuth
3 29 (3.82%) SAML
4 28 (3.68%) SailPoint
5 24 (3.16%) OpenID
6 18 (2.37%) OAuth2
7 15 (1.97%) REST
8 12 (1.58%) Web Services
9 9 (1.18%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (1.05%) Kafka
11 7 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (0.79%) ARM Templates
13 5 (0.66%) Middleware
14 3 (0.39%) 802.1X
14 3 (0.39%) FIDO
14 3 (0.39%) GraphQL
14 3 (0.39%) JSON
14 3 (0.39%) Playwright
14 3 (0.39%) SOAP
15 2 (0.26%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 75 (9.87%) Operational Technology
2 74 (9.74%) Onboarding
3 56 (7.37%) Security Posture
4 54 (7.11%) Cloud Native
5 52 (6.84%) Management Information System
6 34 (4.47%) Cyber Threat
7 29 (3.82%) SCADA
8 23 (3.03%) Data Centre
9 22 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 22 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (2.63%) PKI
10 20 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
11 18 (2.37%) Cyber Defence
11 18 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.97%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.71%) Product Ownership
14 12 (1.58%) BYOD
14 12 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.58%) NHS
15 11 (1.45%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 110 (14.47%) Windows
2 66 (8.68%) Linux
3 37 (4.87%) Unix
4 35 (4.61%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.66%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.53%) CentOS
9 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.26%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.13%) Android
11 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.13%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.13%) VMS
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (55.26%) Cybersecurity
2 199 (26.18%) Risk Management
3 185 (24.34%) Information Security
4 164 (21.58%) SIEM
5 159 (20.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 152 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 129 (16.97%) Vulnerability Management
8 127 (16.71%) Incident Response
9 124 (16.32%) Cloud Security
10 116 (15.26%) Security Architecture
11 114 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 109 (14.34%) Security Operations
13 101 (13.29%) Roadmaps
14 95 (12.50%) Zero Trust
15 92 (12.11%) CI/CD
15 92 (12.11%) DevOps
16 87 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
17 85 (11.18%) Identity Access Management
17 85 (11.18%) ITSM
18 78 (10.26%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 111 (14.61%) PowerShell
2 95 (12.50%) Python
3 33 (4.34%) Bash
4 21 (2.76%) SQL
5 17 (2.24%) Bicep
6 6 (0.79%) Perl
7 5 (0.66%) Java
7 5 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.39%) BeanShell
8 3 (0.39%) C#
9 2 (0.26%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.26%) Ruby
10 1 (0.13%) Go
10 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 266 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 205 (26.97%) SC Cleared
3 189 (24.87%) CISSP
4 132 (17.37%) CISM
5 96 (12.63%) Degree
6 66 (8.68%) Cisco Certification
7 53 (6.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 53 (6.97%) DV Cleared
8 41 (5.39%) CRISC
9 36 (4.74%) CEH
10 35 (4.61%) CompTIA Security+
11 33 (4.34%) PMI Certification
12 32 (4.21%) GIAC
13 31 (4.08%) PMP
14 30 (3.95%) Azure Certification
15 27 (3.55%) CISA
16 26 (3.42%) CCSP
17 25 (3.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 24 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
19 22 (2.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 463 (60.92%) NIST
2 184 (24.21%) GDPR
3 114 (15.00%) GRC
4 92 (12.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 83 (10.92%) NCSC
6 66 (8.68%) PCI DSS
7 56 (7.37%) SOC 2
8 41 (5.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 35 (4.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 32 (4.21%) COBIT
10 32 (4.21%) NIST 800
11 24 (3.16%) Data Quality
12 22 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 21 (2.76%) HIPAA
14 16 (2.11%) JSP 440
15 12 (1.58%) ISO 31000
15 12 (1.58%) ITGC
15 12 (1.58%) PMO
16 11 (1.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 11 (1.45%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 134 (17.63%) Active Directory
2 24 (3.16%) Docker
3 15 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.58%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.39%) vSphere
6 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.13%) Ceph
7 1 (0.13%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) Varnish
7 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 48 (6.32%) Terraform
2 40 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 29 (3.82%) Single Sign-On
4 26 (3.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (3.03%) Ansible
6 7 (0.92%) QRadar
7 6 (0.79%) Grafana
8 5 (0.66%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.53%) CASB
9 4 (0.53%) Nessus
9 4 (0.53%) Podman
10 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.39%) Puppet
10 3 (0.39%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.26%) Argo
11 2 (0.26%) CSIRT
11 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.26%) Istio
11 2 (0.26%) Nexpose
12 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 180 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 57 (7.50%) CyberArk
3 46 (6.05%) ServiceNow
4 34 (4.47%) BeyondTrust
5 32 (4.21%) Oracle
6 23 (3.03%) Splunk
7 19 (2.50%) Google
8 17 (2.24%) Cisco
9 16 (2.11%) VMware
10 15 (1.97%) CrowdStrike
11 13 (1.71%) Palo Alto
12 12 (1.58%) Qualys
12 12 (1.58%) SAP
13 11 (1.45%) Databricks
13 11 (1.45%) Tenable
14 9 (1.18%) Rapid7
15 8 (1.05%) Okta
16 7 (0.92%) Juniper
17 6 (0.79%) Fortinet
17 6 (0.79%) SolarWinds