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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 211 196
Rank change year-on-year +68 -15 +80
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 692 314 456
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.99% 1.21% 1.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.44% 8.16% 8.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 186 341
10th Percentile £400 £404 £388
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 £754 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 12
10th Percentile £30.69 £32.70 -
25th Percentile £33.50 £41.44 £42.25
Median hourly rate £34.75 £67.55 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.55% +51.79% -39.35%
75th Percentile £59.25 £82.00 £56.34
90th Percentile £82.25 £84.38 £82.91
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £73.60 £44.50
% change year-on-year -51.09% +65.39% -39.35%

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 6,048 3,848 5,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.36% 14.83% 14.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,912 2,281 3,560
10th Percentile £325 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 150 309
10th Percentile £15.37 £15.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.00 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.50 £30.99 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -17.70% +16.22% -23.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £49.08
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.34 £72.95
UK median hourly rate £26.11 £28.00 £25.12
% change year-on-year -6.75% +11.49% -22.72%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +43 300 £565 -9.60% 198
South East +47 147 £492 -1.60% 129
North of England -14 75 £520 -10.34% 57
Midlands -7 65 £479 -7.09% 62
South West +22 60 £513 -18.00% 38
West Midlands -19 40 £550 -1.35% 43
Yorkshire -31 40 £500 -14.89% 15
North West -8 30 £550 -5.98% 35
East Midlands -6 25 £449 +12.25% 19
East of England -21 17 £553 +1.10% 30
North East -14 5 £400 +14.29% 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 23 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 22 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.60%) Confluence
4 6 (0.87%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.29%) Apache
5 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
6 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 22 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.14%) Revit
Business Applications
1 11 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (1.16%) Maximo
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 266 (38.44%) Azure
2 209 (30.20%) AWS
3 99 (14.31%) GCP
4 82 (11.85%) Entra ID
5 67 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
6 48 (6.94%) Azure Sentinel
7 34 (4.91%) OpenShift
8 27 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (3.90%) Microsoft Purview
9 21 (3.03%) OCI
9 21 (3.03%) SaaS
10 20 (2.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 19 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (2.46%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (2.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (2.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 16 (2.31%) GitHub
13 16 (2.31%) Power Platform
14 15 (2.17%) Azure AKS
15 14 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 99 (14.31%) Firewall
2 62 (8.96%) Network Security
3 50 (7.23%) VPN
4 21 (3.03%) Wireless
5 18 (2.60%) DNS
6 15 (2.17%) BGP
7 14 (2.02%) WAN
8 13 (1.88%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (1.88%) MPLS
9 12 (1.73%) LAN
9 12 (1.73%) SD-WAN
10 11 (1.59%) DHCP
11 9 (1.30%) OSPF
12 7 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
13 6 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.87%) SSH
13 6 (0.87%) TACACS
13 6 (0.87%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.87%) VLAN
13 6 (0.87%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.73%) Power BI
2 11 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.01%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.87%) DynamoDB
4 6 (0.87%) Metadata
4 6 (0.87%) MySQL
4 6 (0.87%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.58%) DocumentDB
6 4 (0.58%) Redis
7 3 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.43%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.43%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (3.76%) Jenkins
2 25 (3.61%) JIRA
3 18 (2.60%) Burp Suite
3 18 (2.60%) Metasploit
4 14 (2.02%) GitLab
5 7 (1.01%) Git
6 3 (0.43%) Snyk
7 1 (0.14%) Ant
7 1 (0.14%) AppScan
7 1 (0.14%) JMeter
7 1 (0.14%) MSTest
7 1 (0.14%) Selenium
7 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 298 (43.06%) Social Skills
2 120 (17.34%) Finance
3 77 (11.13%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (11.13%) Public Sector
4 65 (9.39%) Documentation Skills
5 39 (5.64%) Legal
6 35 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
7 27 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
8 23 (3.32%) Banking
8 23 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (2.46%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.45%) Law
11 8 (1.16%) Marketing
11 8 (1.16%) Police
11 8 (1.16%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.01%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.72%) Aviation
13 5 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.58%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.58%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 106 (15.32%) Architect
2 99 (14.31%) Analyst
3 74 (10.69%) Consultant
4 61 (8.82%) Security Engineer
5 48 (6.94%) Security Architect
6 45 (6.50%) Security Analyst
6 45 (6.50%) Senior
7 31 (4.48%) Security Consultant
8 29 (4.19%) Lead
9 27 (3.90%) Security Manager
10 26 (3.76%) Security Specialist
11 25 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
12 23 (3.32%) Tester
13 21 (3.03%) Project Manager
14 19 (2.75%) Penetration Tester
15 16 (2.31%) CyberArk Architect
15 16 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
16 15 (2.17%) Security Officer
16 15 (2.17%) SOC Analyst
17 14 (2.02%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.53%) LDAP
2 40 (5.78%) SAML
3 39 (5.64%) OpenID
4 34 (4.91%) OAuth
5 19 (2.75%) OAuth2
6 16 (2.31%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (2.17%) REST
8 13 (1.88%) SailPoint
9 11 (1.59%) ARM Templates
10 7 (1.01%) RESTful
11 6 (0.87%) AWS CDK
11 6 (0.87%) Kafka
11 6 (0.87%) Middleware
12 5 (0.72%) JWT
12 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (0.72%) Spring
13 4 (0.58%) .NET
13 4 (0.58%) JPA
13 4 (0.58%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 79 (11.42%) Security Posture
2 59 (8.53%) Management Information System
2 59 (8.53%) Onboarding
3 47 (6.79%) Cloud Native
4 28 (4.05%) Operational Technology
5 27 (3.90%) Cyber Threat
6 21 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
7 19 (2.75%) Data Centre
7 19 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (2.02%) PKI
10 13 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.88%) Product Ownership
11 12 (1.73%) NHS
12 11 (1.59%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.45%) SCADA
14 9 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
14 9 (1.30%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 8 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 71 (10.26%) Windows
2 43 (6.21%) Linux
3 15 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.88%) Mac OS
5 11 (1.59%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.01%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.01%) Unix
7 4 (0.58%) AIX
7 4 (0.58%) Solaris
8 3 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.43%) VMS
9 2 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.14%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (42.77%) Cybersecurity
2 203 (29.34%) Information Security
3 164 (23.70%) Cloud Security
3 164 (23.70%) Risk Management
4 153 (22.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 145 (20.95%) SIEM
6 138 (19.94%) Incident Response
7 122 (17.63%) DevOps
8 121 (17.49%) CI/CD
9 105 (15.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 102 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 90 (13.01%) Security Operations
11 90 (13.01%) Zero Trust
12 85 (12.28%) Threat Modelling
13 81 (11.71%) Data Protection
13 81 (11.71%) Regulatory Compliance
14 80 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
15 79 (11.42%) Identity Access Management
16 76 (10.98%) Migration
16 76 (10.98%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 115 (16.62%) PowerShell
2 81 (11.71%) Python
3 23 (3.32%) Bash
4 20 (2.89%) Bicep
5 16 (2.31%) SQL
6 10 (1.45%) Java
6 10 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (0.58%) Go
7 4 (0.58%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.58%) PHP
7 4 (0.58%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.29%) C
8 2 (0.29%) Rust
8 2 (0.29%) Solidity
9 1 (0.14%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.14%) C#
9 1 (0.14%) Lisp
9 1 (0.14%) Ruby
9 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 264 (38.15%) Security Cleared
2 216 (31.21%) SC Cleared
3 194 (28.03%) CISSP
4 151 (21.82%) CISM
5 93 (13.44%) Degree
6 57 (8.24%) DV Cleared
7 40 (5.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 39 (5.64%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (4.77%) Azure Certification
9 33 (4.77%) CISA
10 28 (4.05%) AWS Certification
11 27 (3.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 27 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (3.76%) Master's Degree
13 24 (3.47%) GIAC
13 24 (3.47%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 23 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
14 23 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
15 22 (3.18%) CRISC
16 21 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 420 (60.69%) NIST
2 239 (34.54%) GDPR
3 100 (14.45%) PCI DSS
4 94 (13.58%) NCSC
5 83 (11.99%) GRC
6 75 (10.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 46 (6.65%) COBIT
8 40 (5.78%) SOC 2
9 39 (5.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 35 (5.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 31 (4.48%) NIST 800
12 28 (4.05%) QA
13 20 (2.89%) JSP 440
14 17 (2.46%) PMO
15 16 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 15 (2.17%) SLA
17 14 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 13 (1.88%) Actionable Recommendations
19 11 (1.59%) Def Stans
19 11 (1.59%) HIPAA
System Software
1 92 (13.29%) Active Directory
2 21 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.60%) Docker
4 7 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.58%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.14%) Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) GPFS
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) Lustre
7 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (9.25%) Kubernetes
2 58 (8.38%) Terraform
3 38 (5.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (3.03%) SCCM
6 18 (2.60%) Ansible
7 16 (2.31%) Nmap
8 10 (1.45%) Nessus
9 9 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (1.30%) Fluentd
10 7 (1.01%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.87%) PingFederate
11 6 (0.87%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.58%) CASB
12 4 (0.58%) Grafana
13 3 (0.43%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.43%) OpenVAS
13 3 (0.43%) Prometheus
13 3 (0.43%) QRadar
13 3 (0.43%) SCOM
Vendors
1 141 (20.38%) Microsoft
2 70 (10.12%) CyberArk
3 46 (6.65%) Splunk
4 37 (5.35%) BeyondTrust
5 30 (4.34%) Oracle
6 29 (4.19%) Cisco
7 27 (3.90%) ServiceNow
8 24 (3.47%) VMware
9 18 (2.60%) Google
10 17 (2.46%) SAP
11 16 (2.31%) Fortinet
11 16 (2.31%) Rapid7
12 15 (2.17%) Palo Alto
13 12 (1.73%) Qualys
14 10 (1.45%) Citrix
14 10 (1.45%) IBM
14 10 (1.45%) Okta
15 9 (1.30%) Cribl.io
15 9 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
15 9 (1.30%) Ping Identity