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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 196 219
Rank change year-on-year +54 +23 +31
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 720 331 390
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.83% 1.35% 1.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.73% 8.61% 7.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 216 302
10th Percentile £410 £375 £363
25th Percentile £475 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £675
90th Percentile £762 £800 £768
UK median daily rate £550 £580 £580
% change year-on-year -5.17% - -1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 1
10th Percentile £36.00 £51.25 -
25th Percentile £43.81 £58.37 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £83.41
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -26.27% +19.16%
75th Percentile £82.25 £79.60 -
90th Percentile £83.90 £86.74 -
UK median hourly rate £64.07 £61.50 £83.41
% change year-on-year +4.18% -26.27% +19.16%

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 6,713 3,844 5,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.03% 15.69% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,369 2,476 3,388
10th Percentile £340 £267 £304
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £605 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £514
% change year-on-year - -2.68% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 155 343
10th Percentile £14.02 £17.69 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.21 £12.92
Median hourly rate £30.54 £34.50 £20.61
Median % change year-on-year -11.49% +67.44% -51.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.58 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £31.00 £32.81 £20.47
% change year-on-year -5.52% +60.28% -45.77%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +25 293 £575 -4.17% 115
South East +48 201 £560 +1.82% 90
North of England -13 84 £540 -1.82% 63
Midlands -32 59 £500 -4.76% 46
West Midlands -37 48 £500 -13.04% 35
Yorkshire -25 41 £500 +17.65% 22
North West -20 38 £577 +4.86% 36
South West -12 37 £575 -8.00% 39
East of England -17 21 £550 +5.36% 21
East Midlands -27 11 £438 +9.38% 10
North East -15 5 £400 -42.86% 7
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 20 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.64%) Confluence
3 16 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.83%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 3 (0.42%) Apache
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.53%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.83%) Maximo
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 251 (34.86%) Azure
2 210 (29.17%) AWS
3 101 (14.03%) GCP
4 62 (8.61%) Entra ID
5 50 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (4.31%) OpenShift
7 29 (4.03%) Azure Sentinel
8 26 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (3.61%) Microsoft Purview
9 25 (3.47%) Serverless
10 20 (2.78%) OCI
11 19 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (2.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 18 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 18 (2.50%) GitHub
12 18 (2.50%) Power Platform
12 18 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (1.67%) Amazon S3
13 12 (1.67%) Azure AKS
13 12 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 82 (11.39%) Firewall
2 60 (8.33%) Network Security
3 46 (6.39%) VPN
4 22 (3.06%) DNS
4 22 (3.06%) Wireless
5 14 (1.94%) BGP
5 14 (1.94%) DHCP
6 13 (1.81%) MPLS
6 13 (1.81%) WAN
7 11 (1.53%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.39%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (1.39%) LAN
9 9 (1.25%) HTTP
9 9 (1.25%) IPv6
10 8 (1.11%) IPv4
10 8 (1.11%) OSPF
11 7 (0.97%) NGFW
11 7 (0.97%) VLAN
12 6 (0.83%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.83%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.22%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.94%) Power BI
3 10 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (1.25%) NoSQL
5 7 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.83%) MySQL
7 5 (0.69%) Big Data
7 5 (0.69%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.69%) Metadata
7 5 (0.69%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.56%) DocumentDB
8 4 (0.56%) Redis
9 3 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.42%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.28%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 23 (3.19%) Jenkins
2 20 (2.78%) JIRA
3 19 (2.64%) Burp Suite
3 19 (2.64%) Metasploit
4 11 (1.53%) GitLab
5 5 (0.69%) Git
6 2 (0.28%) JMeter
6 2 (0.28%) MSTest
6 2 (0.28%) 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
1 263 (36.53%) Social Skills
2 121 (16.81%) Finance
3 98 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (11.94%) Public Sector
5 64 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
6 56 (7.78%) Legal
7 31 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
8 30 (4.17%) Banking
9 18 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (2.22%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.94%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.67%) Law
14 10 (1.39%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.11%) Retail
16 6 (0.83%) Marketing
17 4 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
18 3 (0.42%) Electronics
18 3 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 131 (18.19%) Architect
2 93 (12.92%) Analyst
3 83 (11.53%) Consultant
4 56 (7.78%) Security Architect
4 56 (7.78%) Security Engineer
5 53 (7.36%) Security Consultant
6 42 (5.83%) Lead
7 41 (5.69%) Project Manager
8 39 (5.42%) Security Analyst
8 39 (5.42%) Security Manager
9 36 (5.00%) Senior
10 25 (3.47%) Business Analyst
11 21 (2.92%) Security Project Manager
12 20 (2.78%) CyberArk Architect
12 20 (2.78%) Penetration Tester
13 19 (2.64%) Cloud Architect
13 19 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
13 19 (2.64%) Tester
14 17 (2.36%) Azure Engineer
14 17 (2.36%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.67%) LDAP
2 32 (4.44%) OpenID
2 32 (4.44%) SAML
3 26 (3.61%) OAuth
4 17 (2.36%) Oracle Fusion
5 14 (1.94%) OAuth2
6 13 (1.81%) REST
7 10 (1.39%) ARM Templates
7 10 (1.39%) Middleware
8 9 (1.25%) Kafka
9 8 (1.11%) AWS CDK
9 8 (1.11%) RESTful
10 6 (0.83%) SailPoint
11 5 (0.69%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (0.69%) Spring
12 4 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (0.56%) Hibernate
12 4 (0.56%) JPA
12 4 (0.56%) JWT
12 4 (0.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 66 (9.17%) Onboarding
2 58 (8.06%) Cloud Native
3 54 (7.50%) Security Posture
4 46 (6.39%) Management Information System
5 45 (6.25%) Operational Technology
6 28 (3.89%) Data Centre
7 23 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (2.78%) SCADA
9 19 (2.64%) Product Ownership
10 18 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
11 17 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (2.36%) PKI
12 15 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.81%) CMDB
13 13 (1.81%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (1.53%) BYOD
15 11 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
15 11 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (1.39%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 92 (12.78%) Windows
2 56 (7.78%) Linux
3 31 (4.31%) Windows Server
4 20 (2.78%) Unix
5 8 (1.11%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.83%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.69%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.28%) AIX
9 2 (0.28%) CentOS
9 2 (0.28%) Solaris
9 2 (0.28%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) Android
10 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (44.58%) Cybersecurity
2 211 (29.31%) Information Security
3 167 (23.19%) Risk Management
4 146 (20.28%) Cloud Security
5 143 (19.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 135 (18.75%) SIEM
7 128 (17.78%) CI/CD
8 123 (17.08%) DevOps
9 119 (16.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 102 (14.17%) Incident Response
11 96 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 96 (13.33%) Threat Modelling
12 93 (12.92%) Security Architecture
13 91 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
14 87 (12.08%) Data Protection
14 87 (12.08%) Security Operations
15 86 (11.94%) Agile
16 83 (11.53%) Infrastructure as Code
17 81 (11.25%) Roadmaps
18 76 (10.56%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 97 (13.47%) PowerShell
2 87 (12.08%) Python
3 23 (3.19%) SQL
4 19 (2.64%) Bash
5 16 (2.22%) Bicep
6 8 (1.11%) Java
7 6 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.56%) C#
8 4 (0.56%) Go
8 4 (0.56%) PHP
9 3 (0.42%) Ruby
10 2 (0.28%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.28%) Rust
10 2 (0.28%) Solidity
11 1 (0.14%) C
11 1 (0.14%) Lisp
11 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 266 (36.94%) Security Cleared
2 208 (28.89%) SC Cleared
3 178 (24.72%) CISSP
4 133 (18.47%) CISM
5 97 (13.47%) Degree
6 57 (7.92%) DV Cleared
7 45 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (4.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 33 (4.58%) AWS Certification
8 33 (4.58%) CISA
8 33 (4.58%) PMI Certification
9 32 (4.44%) PMP
10 31 (4.31%) Azure Certification
11 30 (4.17%) CEH
12 28 (3.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 27 (3.75%) CRISC
14 25 (3.47%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 24 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
16 23 (3.19%) GIAC
17 22 (3.06%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 452 (62.78%) NIST
2 238 (33.06%) GDPR
3 105 (14.58%) PCI DSS
4 84 (11.67%) GRC
5 77 (10.69%) NCSC
6 64 (8.89%) Cyber Essentials
7 55 (7.64%) SOC 2
8 47 (6.53%) COBIT
9 37 (5.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 34 (4.72%) NIST 800
11 27 (3.75%) QA
12 26 (3.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 18 (2.50%) JSP 440
14 17 (2.36%) PMO
15 14 (1.94%) Data Quality
15 14 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 13 (1.81%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 13 (1.81%) SLA
17 12 (1.67%) HIPAA
17 12 (1.67%) RMADS
System Software
1 93 (12.92%) Active Directory
2 25 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.06%) Docker
4 9 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.14%) Ceph
8 1 (0.14%) Firmware
8 1 (0.14%) GPFS
8 1 (0.14%) Lustre
8 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 63 (8.75%) Kubernetes
2 59 (8.19%) Terraform
3 21 (2.92%) Ansible
3 21 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (2.36%) Nmap
5 10 (1.39%) Nessus
6 7 (0.97%) Grafana
7 6 (0.83%) CASB
7 6 (0.83%) Fluentd
7 6 (0.83%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.69%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.69%) SCCM
9 4 (0.56%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.56%) QRadar
10 3 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.42%) OpenVAS
10 3 (0.42%) SCOM
11 2 (0.28%) Podman
11 2 (0.28%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 114 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 86 (11.94%) CyberArk
3 43 (5.97%) BeyondTrust
4 42 (5.83%) Splunk
5 37 (5.14%) Oracle
6 33 (4.58%) ServiceNow
7 28 (3.89%) Cisco
8 26 (3.61%) VMware
9 16 (2.22%) Fortinet
10 15 (2.08%) Google
11 12 (1.67%) SAP
12 11 (1.53%) Palo Alto
12 11 (1.53%) Qualys
13 10 (1.39%) IBM
13 10 (1.39%) Rapid7
14 9 (1.25%) Tenable
15 8 (1.11%) Red Hat
16 6 (0.83%) CheckPoint
16 6 (0.83%) Forcepoint
16 6 (0.83%) Juniper