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

 6 months to
17 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 150 234
Rank change year-on-year -17 +84 -63
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 753 518 346
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 1.86% 1.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.44% 10.85% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 359 274
10th Percentile £413 £355 £400
25th Percentile £475 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -5.98% -2.50%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £746
UK median daily rate £550 £555 £585
% change year-on-year -0.90% -5.13% -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 £82.25 £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 7,974 4,774 4,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.45% 17.17% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,092 3,110 2,723
10th Percentile £340 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £610 £622 £638
90th Percentile £715 £725 £755
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 539 227 270
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.87 £14.10
Median hourly rate £38.72 £31.64 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.38% +15.05% -21.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.54
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.35 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.11 £28.18 £26.62
% change year-on-year +35.24% +5.86% -23.94%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -15 329 £570 -0.22% 145
South East +10 237 £563 -6.25% 121
North of England -68 59 £528 -4.09% 83
Midlands -32 48 £500 +11.11% 34
West Midlands -30 44 £500 +11.11% 19
North West -26 36 £537 -2.36% 54
South West -50 36 £638 +2.00% 55
East of England -7 31 £515 +0.49% 30
Yorkshire -43 21 £500 +8.11% 16
East Midlands -24 4 - - 15
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 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.99%) Confluence
3 11 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.06%) IIS
5 3 (0.40%) Apache
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.27%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.13%) iTrent
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 273 (36.25%) Azure
2 169 (22.44%) AWS
3 118 (15.67%) Entra ID
4 88 (11.69%) GCP
5 69 (9.16%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (5.58%) SaaS
7 31 (4.12%) Azure Sentinel
8 30 (3.98%) Microsoft Purview
9 27 (3.59%) Serverless
10 25 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (3.32%) GitHub
11 18 (2.39%) OCI
12 17 (2.26%) Power Platform
13 15 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (1.86%) Azure Key Vault
15 10 (1.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 10 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (1.20%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 8 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
17 8 (1.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 63 (8.37%) Network Security
2 62 (8.23%) Firewall
3 21 (2.79%) VPN
4 14 (1.86%) DNS
5 12 (1.59%) Intrusion Detection
5 12 (1.59%) WAN
6 11 (1.46%) LAN
7 10 (1.33%) NGFW
7 10 (1.33%) Wireless
8 9 (1.20%) HTTP
9 7 (0.93%) SAN
9 7 (0.93%) SSL
9 7 (0.93%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.80%) DHCP
10 6 (0.80%) HTTPS
10 6 (0.80%) NAS
11 5 (0.66%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
11 5 (0.66%) VLAN
12 4 (0.53%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.79%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.59%) Power BI
3 10 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (1.33%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.80%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.66%) Big Data
5 5 (0.66%) Delta Lake
5 5 (0.66%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.53%) Metadata
6 4 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.27%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.27%) MySQL
9 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (3.19%) JIRA
2 10 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.93%) GitLab
4 6 (0.80%) Burp Suite
5 5 (0.66%) Git
5 5 (0.66%) Snyk
6 3 (0.40%) Selenium
7 2 (0.27%) JMeter
7 2 (0.27%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.27%) MSTest
7 2 (0.27%) 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
1 248 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 125 (16.60%) Finance
3 101 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (13.15%) Public Sector
5 66 (8.76%) Documentation Skills
6 47 (6.24%) Legal
7 41 (5.44%) Aerospace
8 27 (3.59%) Banking
9 24 (3.19%) Manufacturing
10 21 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (2.66%) Military
12 18 (2.39%) Telecoms
13 16 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.06%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.06%) Retail
17 7 (0.93%) Law
17 7 (0.93%) Local Government
18 4 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 137 (18.19%) Architect
2 109 (14.48%) Analyst
3 72 (9.56%) Consultant
4 65 (8.63%) Lead
5 64 (8.50%) Security Architect
6 51 (6.77%) Security Consultant
7 50 (6.64%) Security Analyst
8 45 (5.98%) Senior
9 40 (5.31%) Security Engineer
10 36 (4.78%) Project Manager
11 35 (4.65%) Security Manager
12 34 (4.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 26 (3.45%) Security Specialist
14 25 (3.32%) Business Analyst
14 25 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (2.79%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 20 (2.66%) Cloud Architect
17 19 (2.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 19 (2.52%) Security Project Manager
18 18 (2.39%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.38%) LDAP
2 30 (3.98%) OAuth
3 29 (3.85%) SAML
4 28 (3.72%) SailPoint
5 24 (3.19%) OpenID
6 18 (2.39%) OAuth2
7 14 (1.86%) REST
8 12 (1.59%) Web Services
9 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (1.06%) Kafka
11 7 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (0.66%) ARM Templates
12 5 (0.66%) Middleware
13 3 (0.40%) 802.1X
13 3 (0.40%) FIDO
13 3 (0.40%) GraphQL
13 3 (0.40%) JSON
13 3 (0.40%) Playwright
14 2 (0.27%) AWS CDK
14 2 (0.27%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 77 (10.23%) Operational Technology
2 72 (9.56%) Onboarding
3 55 (7.30%) Security Posture
4 54 (7.17%) Cloud Native
5 51 (6.77%) Management Information System
6 34 (4.52%) Cyber Threat
7 30 (3.98%) SCADA
8 23 (3.05%) Data Centre
9 22 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
11 20 (2.66%) Security Operations Centre
12 19 (2.52%) PKI
13 18 (2.39%) Cyber Defence
14 17 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (1.99%) Virtual Team
16 14 (1.86%) Product Ownership
17 12 (1.59%) BYOD
17 12 (1.59%) CMDB
17 12 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
17 12 (1.59%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 109 (14.48%) Windows
2 66 (8.76%) Linux
3 37 (4.91%) Unix
4 35 (4.65%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.53%) CentOS
7 4 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.13%) Android
10 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (54.98%) Cybersecurity
2 193 (25.63%) Risk Management
3 187 (24.83%) Information Security
4 164 (21.78%) SIEM
5 159 (21.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 150 (19.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 130 (17.26%) Vulnerability Management
8 127 (16.87%) Incident Response
9 124 (16.47%) Cloud Security
10 115 (15.27%) Security Architecture
11 108 (14.34%) Security Operations
12 105 (13.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 100 (13.28%) Roadmaps
14 92 (12.22%) CI/CD
14 92 (12.22%) Zero Trust
15 91 (12.08%) DevOps
16 86 (11.42%) Problem-Solving
17 85 (11.29%) Identity Access Management
18 83 (11.02%) ITSM
19 78 (10.36%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 108 (14.34%) PowerShell
2 94 (12.48%) Python
3 32 (4.25%) Bash
4 21 (2.79%) SQL
5 16 (2.12%) Bicep
6 6 (0.80%) Perl
7 5 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.53%) Java
9 3 (0.40%) C#
10 2 (0.27%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.27%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.27%) Ruby
11 1 (0.13%) Go
11 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 261 (34.66%) Security Cleared
2 203 (26.96%) SC Cleared
3 188 (24.97%) CISSP
4 134 (17.80%) CISM
5 97 (12.88%) Degree
6 63 (8.37%) Cisco Certification
7 51 (6.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 51 (6.77%) DV Cleared
8 42 (5.58%) CRISC
9 36 (4.78%) CEH
10 34 (4.52%) CompTIA Security+
10 34 (4.52%) PMI Certification
11 32 (4.25%) GIAC
11 32 (4.25%) PMP
12 30 (3.98%) Azure Certification
13 28 (3.72%) CISA
14 25 (3.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 24 (3.19%) CCSP
15 24 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
16 21 (2.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 457 (60.69%) NIST
2 182 (24.17%) GDPR
3 106 (14.08%) GRC
4 90 (11.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 75 (9.96%) NCSC
6 65 (8.63%) PCI DSS
7 57 (7.57%) SOC 2
8 39 (5.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 35 (4.65%) COBIT
9 35 (4.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 32 (4.25%) NIST 800
11 24 (3.19%) Data Quality
12 22 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 21 (2.79%) HIPAA
14 15 (1.99%) JSP 440
15 12 (1.59%) ISO 31000
15 12 (1.59%) ITGC
16 11 (1.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 11 (1.46%) ISO 22301
16 11 (1.46%) SLA
System Software
1 132 (17.53%) Active Directory
2 24 (3.19%) Docker
3 15 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.59%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.40%) vSphere
6 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.27%) 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 47 (6.24%) Terraform
2 39 (5.18%) Kubernetes
3 29 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
4 25 (3.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (2.92%) Ansible
6 7 (0.93%) QRadar
7 6 (0.80%) Grafana
8 5 (0.66%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.53%) CASB
9 4 (0.53%) Nessus
9 4 (0.53%) Podman
10 3 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.40%) Puppet
10 3 (0.40%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.27%) Argo
11 2 (0.27%) CSIRT
11 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.27%) Istio
11 2 (0.27%) Nexpose
12 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 179 (23.77%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.44%) CyberArk
3 44 (5.84%) ServiceNow
4 34 (4.52%) BeyondTrust
5 33 (4.38%) Oracle
6 24 (3.19%) Splunk
7 19 (2.52%) Google
8 17 (2.26%) Cisco
9 16 (2.12%) VMware
10 15 (1.99%) CrowdStrike
11 13 (1.73%) Qualys
12 12 (1.59%) Palo Alto
12 12 (1.59%) Tenable
13 11 (1.46%) Databricks
13 11 (1.46%) SAP
14 9 (1.20%) Rapid7
15 7 (0.93%) Juniper
15 7 (0.93%) Okta
16 6 (0.80%) Fortinet
16 6 (0.80%) SolarWinds
416 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England