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

 6 months to
29 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 209 181
Rank change year-on-year +71 -28 +113
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 662 322 498
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.01% 1.21% 1.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.74% 8.42% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 200 376
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £667
90th Percentile £778 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £527 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -9.48% +1.30% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 14
10th Percentile - £30.40 -
25th Percentile £33.50 £35.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £73.60 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.09% +65.39% -39.02%
75th Percentile £55.56 £83.20 £71.02
90th Percentile £79.35 £85.56 £81.90
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £73.60 £44.50
% change year-on-year -51.09% +65.39% -39.02%

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 5,638 3,826 5,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.16% 14.38% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,641 2,216 3,522
10th Percentile £322 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £377 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £706 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 153 279
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.76 £12.35
25th Percentile £18.04 £21.00 £14.56
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.62 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.50% +9.98% +0.88%
75th Percentile £63.63 £65.00 £53.63
90th Percentile £69.59 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.52 £29.00 £27.33
% change year-on-year -5.10% +6.10% +5.13%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +54 293 £565 -5.83% 157
South East +39 122 £492 -6.29% 151
North of England -11 76 £516 -12.87% 59
Midlands -15 63 £470 -6.00% 64
South West +16 57 £500 -20.00% 56
West Midlands -13 38 £550 +10.00% 32
Yorkshire -20 38 £500 -13.04% 20
North West -7 33 £575 -4.17% 33
East Midlands -7 25 £447 +11.75% 32
East of England -8 18 £553 +1.10% 45
North East -13 5 £400 +14.29% 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 22 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
1 22 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.81%) Confluence
3 4 (0.60%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 2 (0.30%) Apache
4 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) IIS
5 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 24 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.76%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (1.21%) Maximo
1 8 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 271 (40.94%) Azure
2 210 (31.72%) AWS
3 101 (15.26%) GCP
4 82 (12.39%) Entra ID
5 68 (10.27%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (7.40%) Azure Sentinel
7 35 (5.29%) OpenShift
8 27 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (3.78%) SaaS
10 24 (3.63%) Microsoft Purview
11 21 (3.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 20 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (2.72%) OCI
14 17 (2.57%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (2.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (2.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 16 (2.42%) GitHub
16 15 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (2.27%) Azure AKS
17 14 (2.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 96 (14.50%) Firewall
2 61 (9.21%) Network Security
3 47 (7.10%) VPN
4 19 (2.87%) Wireless
5 18 (2.72%) DNS
6 13 (1.96%) BGP
6 13 (1.96%) WAN
7 12 (1.81%) Cisco ASA
7 12 (1.81%) LAN
8 11 (1.66%) DHCP
8 11 (1.66%) MPLS
8 11 (1.66%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.21%) Intrusion Detection
9 8 (1.21%) OSPF
10 7 (1.06%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.91%) Kerberos
11 6 (0.91%) S/MIME
11 6 (0.91%) VLAN
11 6 (0.91%) WLAN
12 5 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (1.51%) Power BI
3 7 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.91%) DynamoDB
4 6 (0.91%) MySQL
4 6 (0.91%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (0.76%) Metadata
6 4 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.60%) DocumentDB
6 4 (0.60%) Redis
6 4 (0.60%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.45%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.45%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.45%) Tableau
8 2 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.30%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 26 (3.93%) Jenkins
2 24 (3.63%) JIRA
3 18 (2.72%) Burp Suite
3 18 (2.72%) Metasploit
4 14 (2.11%) GitLab
5 7 (1.06%) Git
6 3 (0.45%) Snyk
7 1 (0.15%) Ant
7 1 (0.15%) AppScan
7 1 (0.15%) JMeter
7 1 (0.15%) MSTest
7 1 (0.15%) Selenium
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.15%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 282 (42.60%) Social Skills
2 120 (18.13%) Finance
3 76 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (11.33%) Public Sector
5 63 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
6 42 (6.34%) Legal
7 34 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (3.17%) Banking
11 13 (1.96%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.66%) Law
12 11 (1.66%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.51%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.36%) Marketing
15 8 (1.21%) Police
16 7 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 5 (0.76%) Aviation
17 5 (0.76%) Electronics
18 4 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 110 (16.62%) Architect
2 97 (14.65%) Analyst
3 69 (10.42%) Consultant
4 52 (7.85%) Security Architect
5 51 (7.70%) Security Engineer
6 47 (7.10%) Security Analyst
6 47 (7.10%) Senior
7 30 (4.53%) Lead
8 28 (4.23%) Security Consultant
9 27 (4.08%) Security Manager
10 25 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
10 25 (3.78%) Security Specialist
11 22 (3.32%) Tester
12 20 (3.02%) Project Manager
13 18 (2.72%) Penetration Tester
13 18 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (2.42%) CyberArk Architect
15 15 (2.27%) Security Officer
15 15 (2.27%) SOC Analyst
16 14 (2.11%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (9.06%) LDAP
2 41 (6.19%) SAML
3 39 (5.89%) OpenID
4 35 (5.29%) OAuth
5 19 (2.87%) OAuth2
6 16 (2.42%) REST
7 12 (1.81%) ARM Templates
7 12 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
7 12 (1.81%) SailPoint
8 8 (1.21%) RESTful
9 7 (1.06%) Middleware
10 6 (0.91%) AWS CDK
10 6 (0.91%) Kafka
11 5 (0.76%) JWT
11 5 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (0.76%) Spring
12 4 (0.60%) .NET
12 4 (0.60%) Hibernate
12 4 (0.60%) JPA
12 4 (0.60%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 79 (11.93%) Security Posture
2 59 (8.91%) Management Information System
3 51 (7.70%) Onboarding
4 48 (7.25%) Cloud Native
5 30 (4.53%) Cyber Threat
6 25 (3.78%) Operational Technology
7 22 (3.32%) Security Operations Centre
8 17 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (2.27%) Data Centre
10 15 (2.27%) PKI
11 13 (1.96%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.66%) NHS
12 11 (1.66%) SCADA
13 9 (1.36%) Cloud Security Posture
14 8 (1.21%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 8 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (1.21%) Public Cloud
15 7 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 63 (9.52%) Windows
2 37 (5.59%) Linux
3 14 (2.11%) Mac OS
4 13 (1.96%) Windows 10
5 10 (1.51%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.45%) AIX
7 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.45%) Solaris
8 2 (0.30%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.30%) VMS
9 1 (0.15%) Android
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.15%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (42.15%) Cybersecurity
2 177 (26.74%) Information Security
3 163 (24.62%) Cloud Security
4 150 (22.66%) SIEM
5 149 (22.51%) Incident Response
5 149 (22.51%) Risk Management
6 140 (21.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 128 (19.34%) DevOps
8 123 (18.58%) CI/CD
9 105 (15.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 96 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 95 (14.35%) Zero Trust
12 85 (12.84%) Identity Access Management
13 84 (12.69%) Threat Modelling
14 82 (12.39%) Security Operations
15 80 (12.08%) Data Protection
15 80 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
16 78 (11.78%) DevSecOps
17 77 (11.63%) Security Architecture
18 75 (11.33%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 114 (17.22%) PowerShell
2 77 (11.63%) Python
3 27 (4.08%) Bash
4 21 (3.17%) Bicep
5 15 (2.27%) SQL
6 11 (1.66%) Java
7 10 (1.51%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.60%) Go
8 4 (0.60%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.60%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.45%) PHP
10 2 (0.30%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.30%) C
10 2 (0.30%) Rust
10 2 (0.30%) Solidity
11 1 (0.15%) C#
11 1 (0.15%) Lisp
11 1 (0.15%) Ruby
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 235 (35.50%) Security Cleared
2 192 (29.00%) CISSP
3 190 (28.70%) SC Cleared
4 149 (22.51%) CISM
5 91 (13.75%) Degree
6 55 (8.31%) DV Cleared
7 38 (5.74%) CISA
8 33 (4.98%) Azure Certification
8 33 (4.98%) Cisco Certification
9 32 (4.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 28 (4.23%) AWS Certification
10 28 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (3.93%) GIAC
12 24 (3.63%) Master's Degree
13 23 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
14 22 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
14 22 (3.32%) CEH
15 21 (3.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 21 (3.17%) CompTIA Security+
16 19 (2.87%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 400 (60.42%) NIST
2 241 (36.40%) GDPR
3 96 (14.50%) PCI DSS
4 90 (13.60%) NCSC
5 71 (10.73%) Cyber Essentials
5 71 (10.73%) GRC
6 40 (6.04%) COBIT
7 38 (5.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 38 (5.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 31 (4.68%) SOC 2
9 28 (4.23%) QA
10 27 (4.08%) NIST 800
11 18 (2.72%) JSP 440
12 17 (2.57%) HIPAA
13 16 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 14 (2.11%) PMO
15 13 (1.96%) SLA
16 11 (1.66%) Def Stans
16 11 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 10 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 92 (13.90%) Active Directory
2 20 (3.02%) Docker
2 20 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.60%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.15%) Firmware
6 1 (0.15%) GPFS
6 1 (0.15%) Lustre
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (10.12%) Kubernetes
2 59 (8.91%) Terraform
3 42 (6.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (4.53%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (3.47%) SCCM
6 17 (2.57%) Ansible
7 15 (2.27%) Nmap
8 10 (1.51%) QRadar
9 9 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (1.36%) Fluentd
9 9 (1.36%) Nessus
10 8 (1.21%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.91%) PingFederate
12 5 (0.76%) CSIRT
12 5 (0.76%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.60%) Grafana
13 4 (0.60%) SCOM
14 3 (0.45%) CASB
14 3 (0.45%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 149 (22.51%) Microsoft
2 65 (9.82%) CyberArk
3 53 (8.01%) Splunk
4 32 (4.83%) BeyondTrust
5 25 (3.78%) Cisco
6 24 (3.63%) Oracle
6 24 (3.63%) VMware
7 22 (3.32%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.87%) Google
9 18 (2.72%) SAP
10 16 (2.42%) Fortinet
11 14 (2.11%) Rapid7
12 12 (1.81%) Citrix
12 12 (1.81%) Palo Alto
13 10 (1.51%) IBM
13 10 (1.51%) Okta
14 9 (1.36%) Cribl.io
14 9 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (1.36%) Ping Identity
14 9 (1.36%) Qualys
450 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England