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

 6 months to
11 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 203 162
Rank change year-on-year +70 -41 +144
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 649 370 604
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.10% 1.22% 1.57%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.00% 8.88% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 245 451
10th Percentile £375 £419 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £537 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.57% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 8 16
10th Percentile - £28.10 -
25th Percentile £33.50 £35.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £67.55 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year -46.70% +44.49% +43.85%
75th Percentile £57.75 £83.20 £78.36
90th Percentile £89.93 £86.74 £85.04
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £61.50 £46.75
% change year-on-year -41.46% +31.54% +43.85%

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 5,409 4,168 5,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.47% 13.75% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,504 2,437 3,721
10th Percentile £313 £280 £320
25th Percentile £405 £390 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 169 222
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.26 £14.61
25th Percentile £17.69 £17.50 £20.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £35.79
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% -18.97% +59.07%
75th Percentile £56.69 £62.56 £66.88
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £83.39
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £26.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -5.09% -25.35% +56.49%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +40 273 £550 -8.33% 183
South East +49 129 £496 -11.82% 182
North of England +2 72 £508 -13.14% 104
Midlands +4 61 £465 -7.00% 78
South West +17 57 £550 -16.35% 80
Yorkshire -1 45 £500 -20.95% 39
West Midlands -7 35 £525 +5.00% 44
East Midlands +3 26 £450 -10.10% 32
East of England +2 25 £552 -6.13% 53
North West -13 23 £575 -2.95% 59
North East 0 4 £403 +15.00% 6
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 26 (4.01%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (2.16%) Confluence
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.31%) 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 30 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.46%) Maximo
3 2 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle CRM
4 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 286 (44.07%) Azure
2 216 (33.28%) AWS
3 115 (17.72%) GCP
4 79 (12.17%) Entra ID
5 65 (10.02%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (7.55%) Azure Sentinel
7 33 (5.08%) SaaS
8 23 (3.54%) GitHub
9 22 (3.39%) Power Platform
10 21 (3.24%) Microsoft Purview
11 20 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (2.62%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 16 (2.47%) IaaS
15 15 (2.31%) OpenShift
15 15 (2.31%) PaaS
15 15 (2.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 14 (2.16%) OneDrive
17 13 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 92 (14.18%) Firewall
2 58 (8.94%) Network Security
3 36 (5.55%) VPN
4 16 (2.47%) WAN
5 15 (2.31%) SD-WAN
6 14 (2.16%) Wireless
7 13 (2.00%) DNS
8 11 (1.69%) DHCP
8 11 (1.69%) LAN
9 9 (1.39%) Intrusion Detection
9 9 (1.39%) VLAN
10 8 (1.23%) BGP
10 8 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
10 8 (1.23%) OSPF
11 7 (1.08%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.92%) MPLS
12 6 (0.92%) WLAN
13 5 (0.77%) EIGRP
13 5 (0.77%) IPv4
13 5 (0.77%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.77%) Power BI
2 8 (1.23%) Tableau
3 6 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.92%) Delta Lake
4 5 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.77%) Metadata
5 4 (0.62%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.46%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.31%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.31%) MySQL
7 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.15%) GIS
Development Applications
1 43 (6.63%) JIRA
2 12 (1.85%) GitLab
3 11 (1.69%) Burp Suite
3 11 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.69%) Metasploit
4 10 (1.54%) Git
5 9 (1.39%) Snyk
6 6 (0.92%) CircleCI
6 6 (0.92%) Postman
6 6 (0.92%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.46%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.31%) ERwin
8 2 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.15%) Ant
9 1 (0.15%) JMeter
9 1 (0.15%) MSTest
9 1 (0.15%) Selenium
9 1 (0.15%) TestDirector
9 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 276 (42.53%) Social Skills
2 121 (18.64%) Finance
3 81 (12.48%) Public Sector
4 79 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (6.01%) Documentation Skills
5 39 (6.01%) Legal
6 25 (3.85%) Banking
7 24 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (2.31%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.31%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.85%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.69%) Law
11 11 (1.69%) Marketing
12 10 (1.54%) Electronics
12 10 (1.54%) Local Government
12 10 (1.54%) Police
13 7 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.92%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 108 (16.64%) Analyst
1 108 (16.64%) Architect
2 75 (11.56%) Consultant
3 56 (8.63%) Security Architect
4 53 (8.17%) Senior
5 52 (8.01%) Security Engineer
6 47 (7.24%) Security Analyst
7 39 (6.01%) Security Consultant
8 38 (5.86%) Lead
9 25 (3.85%) Security Specialist
10 22 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
11 21 (3.24%) Security Manager
12 20 (3.08%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 19 (2.93%) Tester
14 16 (2.47%) Azure Engineer
15 15 (2.31%) SOC Analyst
16 14 (2.16%) Azure Architect
16 14 (2.16%) Cloud Architect
16 14 (2.16%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 14 (2.16%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (5.70%) LDAP
2 25 (3.85%) OAuth
3 23 (3.54%) SAML
4 21 (3.24%) SailPoint
5 16 (2.47%) OpenID
6 10 (1.54%) OAuth2
6 10 (1.54%) REST
7 7 (1.08%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (0.92%) Loki
9 5 (0.77%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.62%) Google JAX
10 4 (0.62%) JAX
10 4 (0.62%) PyTorch
10 4 (0.62%) scikit-learn
10 4 (0.62%) TensorFlow
11 3 (0.46%) GraphQL
11 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Graph
11 3 (0.46%) Next.js
11 3 (0.46%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 81 (12.48%) Security Posture
2 61 (9.40%) Management Information System
3 47 (7.24%) Cloud Native
4 35 (5.39%) Cyber Threat
5 25 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
6 22 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (3.24%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.77%) Operational Technology
9 16 (2.47%) Data Centre
9 16 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (2.16%) Cloud Security Posture
11 13 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (2.00%) NHS
12 12 (1.85%) Product Ownership
13 11 (1.69%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.39%) PKI
14 9 (1.39%) SCADA
15 8 (1.23%) CSOC
15 8 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 6 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 57 (8.78%) Windows
2 31 (4.78%) Linux
3 16 (2.47%) Mac OS
4 11 (1.69%) Windows 10
5 9 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.62%) AIX
6 4 (0.62%) Solaris
7 2 (0.31%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.31%) VMS
8 1 (0.15%) Android
8 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (40.52%) Cybersecurity
2 167 (25.73%) Cloud Security
3 162 (24.96%) Information Security
4 161 (24.81%) Incident Response
5 152 (23.42%) Risk Management
6 137 (21.11%) SIEM
7 116 (17.87%) CI/CD
8 112 (17.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 109 (16.80%) DevOps
10 107 (16.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 92 (14.18%) Zero Trust
12 87 (13.41%) DevSecOps
13 86 (13.25%) Identity Access Management
14 85 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
15 80 (12.33%) Security Operations
16 79 (12.17%) Threat Modelling
17 76 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
18 74 (11.40%) Infrastructure as Code
18 74 (11.40%) Security Architecture
19 73 (11.25%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 116 (17.87%) PowerShell
2 77 (11.86%) Python
3 32 (4.93%) Bash
4 22 (3.39%) Bicep
5 12 (1.85%) SQL
6 10 (1.54%) Java
7 8 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (0.77%) C
8 5 (0.77%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.62%) C++
9 4 (0.62%) R
9 4 (0.62%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.31%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.31%) Go
10 2 (0.31%) Rust
10 2 (0.31%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 211 (32.51%) CISSP
2 194 (29.89%) Security Cleared
3 155 (23.88%) CISM
4 152 (23.42%) SC Cleared
5 86 (13.25%) Degree
6 45 (6.93%) CISA
7 43 (6.63%) Cisco Certification
8 40 (6.16%) Azure Certification
8 40 (6.16%) DV Cleared
9 38 (5.86%) AWS Certification
10 37 (5.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 31 (4.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 27 (4.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 27 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
13 26 (4.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 25 (3.85%) CEH
15 23 (3.54%) CCSP
15 23 (3.54%) Master's Degree
16 19 (2.93%) CompTIA Security+
16 19 (2.93%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 388 (59.78%) NIST
2 253 (38.98%) GDPR
3 93 (14.33%) PCI DSS
4 72 (11.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 70 (10.79%) NCSC
6 63 (9.71%) GRC
7 42 (6.47%) COBIT
8 37 (5.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 35 (5.39%) NIST 800
10 34 (5.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 30 (4.62%) SOC 2
12 21 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 21 (3.24%) QA
13 20 (3.08%) HIPAA
14 17 (2.62%) JSP 440
15 14 (2.16%) ISO 9001
15 14 (2.16%) RMADS
16 11 (1.69%) Def Stans
16 11 (1.69%) ITGC
16 11 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (13.25%) Active Directory
2 30 (4.62%) Docker
3 14 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.62%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.46%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) Snort
7 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (9.55%) Terraform
2 55 (8.47%) Kubernetes
3 39 (6.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (4.16%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (3.54%) SCCM
6 18 (2.77%) Ansible
7 14 (2.16%) RSA Archer
8 11 (1.69%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.69%) QRadar
9 9 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (1.39%) Fluentd
9 9 (1.39%) Nessus
9 9 (1.39%) Nmap
10 6 (0.92%) CSIRT
10 6 (0.92%) PingFederate
11 5 (0.77%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 5 (0.77%) Grafana
12 4 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.46%) CASB
14 2 (0.31%) logstash
Vendors
1 164 (25.27%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.93%) CyberArk
2 45 (6.93%) Splunk
3 34 (5.24%) BeyondTrust
4 26 (4.01%) ServiceNow
5 24 (3.70%) Google
6 22 (3.39%) Cisco
6 22 (3.39%) SAP
7 21 (3.24%) Rapid7
8 20 (3.08%) Oracle
9 18 (2.77%) VMware
10 17 (2.62%) Fortinet
11 16 (2.47%) CrowdStrike
12 15 (2.31%) Palo Alto
13 13 (2.00%) Tenable
14 12 (1.85%) ArcSight
14 12 (1.85%) Citrix
15 11 (1.69%) Qualys
15 11 (1.69%) Thycotic
16 10 (1.54%) Okta
625 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England