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

 6 months to
20 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 145 227
Rank change year-on-year -21 +82 -56
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 756 518 344
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 1.88% 1.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.48% 10.89% 7.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 362 274
10th Percentile £413 £356 £400
25th Percentile £481 £457 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £746
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £584
% change year-on-year - -5.78% -2.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 10 2
10th Percentile £45.52 £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 7,978 4,758 4,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.48% 17.24% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,097 3,106 2,717
10th Percentile £338 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
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 £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 229 267
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.44 £18.50 £13.69
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +15.05% -21.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.63
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £28.18 £25.77
% change year-on-year +28.00% +9.37% -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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -20 322 £570 +1.97% 146
South East +11 234 £563 -6.25% 106
North of England -45 69 £530 -3.64% 67
Midlands -43 48 £500 +11.11% 33
North West -14 46 £539 -2.09% 42
West Midlands -33 44 £500 +11.11% 19
South West -45 38 £625 - 56
East of England -6 31 £515 +0.49% 30
Yorkshire -49 21 £500 +8.11% 17
East Midlands -26 4 - - 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 23 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.98%) Confluence
3 11 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.06%) IIS
5 3 (0.40%) 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 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.79%) 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 (36.24%) Azure
2 171 (22.62%) AWS
3 118 (15.61%) Entra ID
4 88 (11.64%) GCP
5 69 (9.13%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (5.69%) SaaS
7 29 (3.84%) Azure Sentinel
7 29 (3.84%) Microsoft Purview
8 26 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (3.44%) GitHub
8 26 (3.44%) Serverless
9 17 (2.25%) OCI
9 17 (2.25%) Power Platform
10 16 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (1.72%) Azure Key Vault
12 10 (1.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 10 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (1.19%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 8 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (1.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 65 (8.60%) Network Security
2 64 (8.47%) Firewall
3 21 (2.78%) VPN
4 14 (1.85%) DNS
5 12 (1.59%) WAN
6 11 (1.46%) Intrusion Detection
6 11 (1.46%) LAN
7 10 (1.32%) NGFW
7 10 (1.32%) Wireless
8 9 (1.19%) HTTP
9 7 (0.93%) SAN
9 7 (0.93%) SSL
9 7 (0.93%) 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 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.59%) 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 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.40%) 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 (3.17%) JIRA
2 11 (1.46%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.06%) GitLab
4 6 (0.79%) Burp Suite
5 5 (0.66%) Git
5 5 (0.66%) Snyk
6 3 (0.40%) 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
1 247 (32.67%) Social Skills
2 126 (16.67%) Finance
3 102 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (12.70%) Public Sector
5 65 (8.60%) Documentation Skills
6 48 (6.35%) Legal
7 40 (5.29%) Aerospace
8 28 (3.70%) Banking
9 25 (3.31%) Manufacturing
10 20 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (2.65%) Military
11 18 (2.38%) Telecoms
12 16 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.06%) Retail
15 7 (0.93%) Law
15 7 (0.93%) Local Government
16 6 (0.79%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 137 (18.12%) Architect
2 109 (14.42%) Analyst
3 74 (9.79%) Consultant
4 67 (8.86%) Lead
5 63 (8.33%) Security Architect
6 50 (6.61%) Security Consultant
7 49 (6.48%) Security Analyst
8 47 (6.22%) Senior
9 41 (5.42%) Security Engineer
10 37 (4.89%) Security Manager
11 35 (4.63%) Project Manager
12 33 (4.37%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 26 (3.44%) Security Specialist
14 25 (3.31%) Business Analyst
14 25 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (2.78%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 19 (2.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 19 (2.51%) Security Project Manager
17 18 (2.38%) Cloud Architect
17 18 (2.38%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.35%) Terraform
2 35 (4.63%) LDAP
3 30 (3.97%) OAuth
4 29 (3.84%) SAML
5 28 (3.70%) SailPoint
6 24 (3.17%) OpenID
7 18 (2.38%) OAuth2
8 15 (1.98%) REST
9 12 (1.59%) Web Services
10 8 (1.06%) Kafka
10 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Graph
11 7 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (0.79%) ARM Templates
13 5 (0.66%) Middleware
14 3 (0.40%) 802.1X
14 3 (0.40%) FIDO
14 3 (0.40%) GraphQL
14 3 (0.40%) JSON
14 3 (0.40%) Playwright
14 3 (0.40%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 75 (9.92%) Operational Technology
2 73 (9.66%) Onboarding
3 56 (7.41%) Security Posture
4 53 (7.01%) Cloud Native
5 52 (6.88%) Management Information System
6 34 (4.50%) Cyber Threat
7 29 (3.84%) SCADA
8 23 (3.04%) Data Centre
9 22 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (2.78%) PKI
11 20 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
11 20 (2.65%) Security Operations Centre
12 18 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
12 18 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.85%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.59%) NHS
14 12 (1.59%) Product Ownership
15 11 (1.46%) CMDB
15 11 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (1.32%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 110 (14.55%) Windows
2 66 (8.73%) Linux
3 36 (4.76%) Unix
4 35 (4.63%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.66%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.53%) CentOS
9 3 (0.40%) 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 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
2 201 (26.59%) Risk Management
3 183 (24.21%) Information Security
4 164 (21.69%) SIEM
5 159 (21.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 152 (20.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 129 (17.06%) Vulnerability Management
8 126 (16.67%) Incident Response
9 124 (16.40%) Cloud Security
10 116 (15.34%) Security Architecture
11 113 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 107 (14.15%) Security Operations
13 97 (12.83%) Roadmaps
14 94 (12.43%) Zero Trust
15 91 (12.04%) CI/CD
16 90 (11.90%) DevOps
17 87 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
18 85 (11.24%) Identity Access Management
18 85 (11.24%) ITSM
19 78 (10.32%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 110 (14.55%) PowerShell
2 95 (12.57%) Python
3 33 (4.37%) Bash
4 21 (2.78%) SQL
5 17 (2.25%) Bicep
6 6 (0.79%) Perl
7 5 (0.66%) Java
7 5 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.40%) BeanShell
8 3 (0.40%) 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 (35.19%) Security Cleared
2 205 (27.12%) SC Cleared
3 187 (24.74%) CISSP
4 130 (17.20%) CISM
5 95 (12.57%) Degree
6 64 (8.47%) Cisco Certification
7 53 (7.01%) DV Cleared
8 52 (6.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 40 (5.29%) CRISC
10 36 (4.76%) CEH
11 34 (4.50%) CompTIA Security+
12 33 (4.37%) PMI Certification
13 31 (4.10%) GIAC
13 31 (4.10%) PMP
14 29 (3.84%) Azure Certification
15 27 (3.57%) CISA
16 25 (3.31%) CCSP
17 24 (3.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 24 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
18 22 (2.91%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 460 (60.85%) NIST
2 181 (23.94%) GDPR
3 114 (15.08%) GRC
4 91 (12.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 85 (11.24%) NCSC
6 65 (8.60%) PCI DSS
7 55 (7.28%) SOC 2
8 41 (5.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 35 (4.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 33 (4.37%) NIST 800
11 32 (4.23%) COBIT
12 24 (3.17%) Data Quality
13 22 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 21 (2.78%) HIPAA
15 16 (2.12%) JSP 440
16 12 (1.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 12 (1.59%) ISO 31000
16 12 (1.59%) ITGC
16 12 (1.59%) PMO
17 11 (1.46%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 134 (17.72%) Active Directory
2 24 (3.17%) Docker
3 15 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.59%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.40%) 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 40 (5.29%) Kubernetes
2 29 (3.84%) Single Sign-On
3 26 (3.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (3.04%) Ansible
5 7 (0.93%) QRadar
6 6 (0.79%) Grafana
7 5 (0.66%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.53%) CASB
8 4 (0.53%) Nessus
8 4 (0.53%) Podman
9 3 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.40%) Puppet
9 3 (0.40%) RSA Archer
10 2 (0.26%) Argo
10 2 (0.26%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.26%) Istio
10 2 (0.26%) Nexpose
11 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 179 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 57 (7.54%) CyberArk
3 47 (6.22%) ServiceNow
4 34 (4.50%) BeyondTrust
5 32 (4.23%) Oracle
6 23 (3.04%) Splunk
7 19 (2.51%) Google
8 17 (2.25%) Cisco
9 16 (2.12%) VMware
10 15 (1.98%) CrowdStrike
11 13 (1.72%) Palo Alto
12 12 (1.59%) Qualys
12 12 (1.59%) SAP
13 11 (1.46%) Databricks
13 11 (1.46%) Tenable
14 9 (1.19%) Rapid7
15 8 (1.06%) Okta
16 7 (0.93%) Juniper
17 6 (0.79%) Fortinet
17 6 (0.79%) SolarWinds
392 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England