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

 6 months to
29 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 213 159
Rank change year-on-year +80 -54 +143
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 664 367 617
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.16% 1.18% 1.58%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.27% 8.75% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 243 459
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.87% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £648 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £768
UK median daily rate £539 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.30% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 7 16
10th Percentile - £25.80 -
25th Percentile £33.50 £35.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £61.50 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.46% +31.54% +43.85%
75th Percentile £63.38 £80.80 £78.36
90th Percentile £94.38 £87.92 £85.04
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £52.77 £46.75
% change year-on-year -31.78% +12.87% +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 5,411 4,196 5,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.62% 13.54% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,502 2,433 3,704
10th Percentile £313 £288 £320
25th Percentile £404 £395 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year - -8.09% +3.62%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 184 225
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.26 £15.28
25th Percentile £17.69 £17.59 £21.50
Median hourly rate £25.63 £29.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.62% -28.40% +76.09%
75th Percentile £60.15 £63.75 £68.00
90th Percentile £79.87 £70.00 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £26.31 £26.75 £36.75
% change year-on-year -1.66% -27.21% +53.13%

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 November 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 29 November 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 29 November 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 +55 274 £550 -5.98% 135
South East +59 133 £500 -13.04% 148
North of England +3 73 £516 -12.87% 45
Midlands +4 61 £465 -7.00% 47
South West +40 60 £550 -15.38% 44
Yorkshire +12 45 £500 -27.54% 12
West Midlands -5 34 £538 +7.50% 27
East of England +3 28 £553 -5.87% 21
East Midlands +9 27 £450 -10.00% 20
North West -22 24 £600 +1.27% 27
North East -3 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 29 (4.37%) SharePoint
2 27 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.71%) Confluence
4 3 (0.45%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.30%) 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 27 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.05%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.45%) Maximo
3 2 (0.30%) 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
1 293 (44.13%) Azure
2 217 (32.68%) AWS
3 120 (18.07%) GCP
4 85 (12.80%) Entra ID
5 72 (10.84%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (7.83%) Azure Sentinel
7 36 (5.42%) SaaS
8 25 (3.77%) Microsoft Purview
9 23 (3.46%) GitHub
10 22 (3.31%) Power Platform
11 20 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (2.56%) OneDrive
14 16 (2.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 16 (2.41%) IaaS
15 15 (2.26%) OpenShift
15 15 (2.26%) PaaS
15 15 (2.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 14 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 94 (14.16%) Firewall
2 66 (9.94%) Network Security
3 35 (5.27%) VPN
4 16 (2.41%) DNS
4 16 (2.41%) WAN
5 15 (2.26%) SD-WAN
6 11 (1.66%) DHCP
6 11 (1.66%) LAN
6 11 (1.66%) Wireless
7 9 (1.36%) Cisco ASA
7 9 (1.36%) Intrusion Detection
7 9 (1.36%) VLAN
8 8 (1.20%) BGP
8 8 (1.20%) Kerberos
8 8 (1.20%) OSPF
9 6 (0.90%) MPLS
9 6 (0.90%) WLAN
10 5 (0.75%) IPv4
10 5 (0.75%) IPv6
10 5 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.71%) Power BI
2 8 (1.20%) Tableau
3 6 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.90%) Delta Lake
4 5 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.75%) Metadata
5 4 (0.60%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.45%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.30%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.30%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 48 (7.23%) JIRA
2 12 (1.81%) GitLab
3 11 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.51%) Git
5 9 (1.36%) Snyk
6 8 (1.20%) Burp Suite
6 8 (1.20%) Metasploit
7 6 (0.90%) CircleCI
7 6 (0.90%) Postman
7 6 (0.90%) SoapUI
8 3 (0.45%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.30%) ERwin
9 2 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.15%) Ant
10 1 (0.15%) JMeter
10 1 (0.15%) MSTest
10 1 (0.15%) Selenium
10 1 (0.15%) TestDirector
10 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 286 (43.07%) Social Skills
2 126 (18.98%) Finance
3 81 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 80 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (6.17%) Legal
6 40 (6.02%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (3.61%) Banking
7 24 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 16 (2.41%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.81%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.81%) Law
11 12 (1.81%) Marketing
12 11 (1.66%) Electronics
13 10 (1.51%) Local Government
13 10 (1.51%) Police
14 7 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.75%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 111 (16.72%) Architect
2 104 (15.66%) Analyst
3 75 (11.30%) Consultant
4 58 (8.73%) Security Architect
5 57 (8.58%) Security Engineer
6 54 (8.13%) Senior
7 45 (6.78%) Security Analyst
8 39 (5.87%) Security Consultant
9 38 (5.72%) Lead
10 32 (4.82%) Security Specialist
11 22 (3.31%) Security Manager
11 22 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
12 20 (3.01%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 16 (2.41%) Azure Engineer
13 16 (2.41%) Tester
14 15 (2.26%) Azure Architect
14 15 (2.26%) Cloud Architect
15 14 (2.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 14 (2.11%) Security Advisor
15 14 (2.11%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (5.72%) LDAP
2 25 (3.77%) OAuth
3 23 (3.46%) SAML
4 22 (3.31%) SailPoint
5 16 (2.41%) OpenID
6 11 (1.66%) OAuth2
7 10 (1.51%) REST
8 9 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.05%) ARM Templates
9 7 (1.05%) Loki
10 5 (0.75%) AWS CDK
11 4 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.60%) Google JAX
11 4 (0.60%) JAX
11 4 (0.60%) PyTorch
11 4 (0.60%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.60%) TensorFlow
12 3 (0.45%) JWT
12 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Graph
12 3 (0.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 81 (12.20%) Security Posture
2 62 (9.34%) Management Information System
3 47 (7.08%) Cloud Native
4 37 (5.57%) Cyber Threat
5 25 (3.77%) Security Operations Centre
6 22 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (3.16%) Onboarding
8 17 (2.56%) Data Centre
8 17 (2.56%) Operational Technology
9 16 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
10 13 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.96%) NHS
11 12 (1.81%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.66%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.36%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 9 (1.36%) SCADA
14 8 (1.20%) CSOC
14 8 (1.20%) PKI
15 6 (0.90%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 59 (8.89%) Windows
2 32 (4.82%) Linux
3 16 (2.41%) Mac OS
4 11 (1.66%) Windows 10
5 9 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.60%) AIX
6 4 (0.60%) Solaris
7 2 (0.30%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.30%) 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
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (40.21%) Cybersecurity
2 167 (25.15%) Cloud Security
2 167 (25.15%) Information Security
3 162 (24.40%) Incident Response
4 154 (23.19%) Risk Management
5 140 (21.08%) SIEM
6 117 (17.62%) CI/CD
7 114 (17.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 112 (16.87%) Stakeholder Management
9 110 (16.57%) DevOps
10 98 (14.76%) Zero Trust
11 92 (13.86%) Identity Access Management
12 86 (12.95%) DevSecOps
12 86 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
13 83 (12.50%) Security Operations
14 82 (12.35%) Threat Modelling
15 79 (11.90%) Security Architecture
16 76 (11.45%) Infrastructure as Code
17 75 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
18 74 (11.14%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 121 (18.22%) PowerShell
2 79 (11.90%) Python
3 34 (5.12%) Bash
4 22 (3.31%) Bicep
5 14 (2.11%) SQL
6 10 (1.51%) Java
7 8 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (0.75%) C
8 5 (0.75%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.60%) C++
9 4 (0.60%) R
9 4 (0.60%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.30%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.30%) Go
10 2 (0.30%) Rust
10 2 (0.30%) Solidity
11 1 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 214 (32.23%) CISSP
2 195 (29.37%) Security Cleared
3 160 (24.10%) CISM
4 156 (23.49%) SC Cleared
5 87 (13.10%) Degree
6 44 (6.63%) CISA
6 44 (6.63%) Cisco Certification
7 41 (6.17%) Azure Certification
8 38 (5.72%) DV Cleared
9 37 (5.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 36 (5.42%) AWS Certification
11 34 (5.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 29 (4.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 28 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
14 27 (4.07%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 25 (3.77%) CEH
16 24 (3.61%) CCSP
17 23 (3.46%) Master's Degree
18 19 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
19 18 (2.71%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 398 (59.94%) NIST
2 257 (38.70%) GDPR
3 87 (13.10%) PCI DSS
4 72 (10.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 67 (10.09%) NCSC
6 62 (9.34%) GRC
7 44 (6.63%) COBIT
8 37 (5.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 35 (5.27%) NIST 800
10 34 (5.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 33 (4.97%) SOC 2
12 23 (3.46%) HIPAA
13 21 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 19 (2.86%) QA
15 17 (2.56%) JSP 440
16 15 (2.26%) ISO 9001
16 15 (2.26%) RMADS
17 11 (1.66%) Def Stans
17 11 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 11 (1.66%) SLA
System Software
1 93 (14.01%) Active Directory
2 30 (4.52%) Docker
3 14 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.60%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.45%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) Snort
7 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (9.64%) Terraform
2 55 (8.28%) Kubernetes
3 40 (6.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (4.22%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (3.46%) SCCM
6 18 (2.71%) Ansible
7 14 (2.11%) RSA Archer
8 13 (1.96%) QRadar
9 12 (1.81%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (1.36%) Fluentd
11 8 (1.20%) Nessus
12 6 (0.90%) Grafana
12 6 (0.90%) Nmap
12 6 (0.90%) PingFederate
13 5 (0.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 5 (0.75%) CSIRT
14 4 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (0.45%) CASB
16 2 (0.30%) logstash
Vendors
1 170 (25.60%) Microsoft
2 47 (7.08%) Splunk
3 46 (6.93%) CyberArk
4 34 (5.12%) BeyondTrust
5 26 (3.92%) ServiceNow
6 24 (3.61%) Cisco
6 24 (3.61%) Google
7 23 (3.46%) SAP
8 22 (3.31%) Oracle
9 20 (3.01%) Rapid7
10 18 (2.71%) VMware
11 17 (2.56%) Fortinet
11 17 (2.56%) Palo Alto
12 16 (2.41%) CrowdStrike
13 13 (1.96%) Tenable
14 12 (1.81%) ArcSight
14 12 (1.81%) Citrix
15 11 (1.66%) Okta
15 11 (1.66%) Thycotic
16 10 (1.51%) Qualys
361 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England