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

 6 months to
25 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 149 225
Rank change year-on-year -20 +76 -51
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 753 515 352
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 1.87% 1.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.40% 10.87% 8.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 361 279
10th Percentile £413 £350 £400
25th Percentile £475 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £551 £583
% change year-on-year -0.09% -5.49% -2.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 10 2
10th Percentile £45.52 £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 £80.00 £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 8,009 4,738 4,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.53% 17.20% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,085 3,095 2,705
10th Percentile £338 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 230 255
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £17.57 £18.59 £13.26
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +18.59% -24.85%
75th Percentile £69.87 £64.69 £62.83
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £29.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +22.27% +18.00% -28.57%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -18 321 £553 -3.83% 300
South East +9 226 £565 -3.83% 83
North of England -46 76 £530 -3.64% 77
North West -7 54 £537 -2.36% 48
Midlands -51 48 £500 +11.11% 47
West Midlands -24 44 £500 +2.56% 28
South West -50 37 £638 +2.00% 79
East of England -8 31 £515 +0.49% 45
Yorkshire -48 20 £500 +8.11% 24
East Midlands -28 4 - - 19
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%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.80%) 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%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.13%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 277 (36.79%) Azure
2 170 (22.58%) AWS
3 122 (16.20%) Entra ID
4 90 (11.95%) GCP
5 70 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
6 44 (5.84%) SaaS
7 30 (3.98%) Azure Sentinel
8 29 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
9 27 (3.59%) Serverless
10 26 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (3.32%) GitHub
12 18 (2.39%) OCI
12 18 (2.39%) Power Platform
13 15 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (1.73%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (1.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 8 (1.06%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 8 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
17 8 (1.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 65 (8.63%) Firewall
2 63 (8.37%) Network Security
3 21 (2.79%) VPN
4 14 (1.86%) DNS
5 12 (1.59%) WAN
6 11 (1.46%) Intrusion Detection
6 11 (1.46%) LAN
7 10 (1.33%) NGFW
7 10 (1.33%) Wireless
8 7 (0.93%) HTTP
8 7 (0.93%) SAN
8 7 (0.93%) SSL
8 7 (0.93%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.80%) DHCP
9 6 (0.80%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.80%) NAS
10 5 (0.66%) IPsec
10 5 (0.66%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.66%) VLAN
10 5 (0.66%) 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 5 (0.66%) Big Data
4 5 (0.66%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.66%) Delta Lake
4 5 (0.66%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.53%) Metadata
5 4 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.27%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.27%) MySQL
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (3.19%) JIRA
2 11 (1.46%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.06%) 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
1 251 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 123 (16.33%) Finance
3 99 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (12.62%) Public Sector
5 65 (8.63%) Documentation Skills
6 47 (6.24%) Legal
7 40 (5.31%) Aerospace
8 27 (3.59%) Banking
9 24 (3.19%) Manufacturing
10 23 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (2.66%) Military
12 17 (2.26%) Telecoms
13 16 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.06%) Retail
16 7 (0.93%) Local Government
17 6 (0.80%) Law
18 5 (0.66%) Financial Institution
19 4 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 140 (18.59%) Architect
2 106 (14.08%) Analyst
3 71 (9.43%) Consultant
4 70 (9.30%) Lead
5 65 (8.63%) Security Architect
6 47 (6.24%) Security Consultant
7 46 (6.11%) Security Analyst
8 45 (5.98%) Senior
9 43 (5.71%) Security Engineer
10 35 (4.65%) Security Manager
11 33 (4.38%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 32 (4.25%) Project Manager
13 28 (3.72%) Security Specialist
14 25 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
15 22 (2.92%) Business Analyst
16 21 (2.79%) Cybersecurity Architect
17 19 (2.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 18 (2.39%) Cloud Architect
19 17 (2.26%) Security Project Manager
20 16 (2.12%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (6.51%) Terraform
2 36 (4.78%) LDAP
3 33 (4.38%) OAuth
4 31 (4.12%) SAML
5 30 (3.98%) SailPoint
6 26 (3.45%) OpenID
7 19 (2.52%) OAuth2
8 16 (2.12%) REST
9 12 (1.59%) Web Services
10 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Graph
11 8 (1.06%) Kafka
12 7 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (0.80%) ARM Templates
14 5 (0.66%) Middleware
15 4 (0.53%) JSON
15 4 (0.53%) SOAP
16 3 (0.40%) 802.1X
16 3 (0.40%) FIDO
16 3 (0.40%) JDBC
17 2 (0.27%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 75 (9.96%) Onboarding
2 74 (9.83%) Operational Technology
3 56 (7.44%) Security Posture
4 54 (7.17%) Cloud Native
5 50 (6.64%) Management Information System
6 35 (4.65%) Cyber Threat
7 27 (3.59%) SCADA
8 24 (3.19%) Data Centre
9 22 (2.92%) PKI
10 20 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (2.66%) Security Operations Centre
11 19 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
12 18 (2.39%) Cyber Defence
13 14 (1.86%) Virtual Team
14 13 (1.73%) Product Ownership
15 12 (1.59%) NHS
16 11 (1.46%) CMDB
16 11 (1.46%) IoT
16 11 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 110 (14.61%) Windows
2 66 (8.76%) Linux
3 36 (4.78%) Unix
4 35 (4.65%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.66%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.53%) CentOS
9 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.13%) Android
11 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.13%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.13%) VMS
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (55.51%) Cybersecurity
2 199 (26.43%) Risk Management
3 179 (23.77%) Information Security
4 165 (21.91%) SIEM
5 156 (20.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 153 (20.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 130 (17.26%) Vulnerability Management
8 125 (16.60%) Incident Response
9 122 (16.20%) Cloud Security
10 117 (15.54%) Security Architecture
11 112 (14.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 105 (13.94%) Security Operations
13 98 (13.01%) Roadmaps
14 94 (12.48%) Zero Trust
15 89 (11.82%) DevOps
16 88 (11.69%) CI/CD
16 88 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
17 87 (11.55%) Identity Access Management
18 85 (11.29%) ITSM
19 81 (10.76%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 113 (15.01%) PowerShell
2 96 (12.75%) Python
3 33 (4.38%) Bash
4 20 (2.66%) SQL
5 17 (2.26%) Bicep
6 7 (0.93%) Java
7 6 (0.80%) Perl
8 5 (0.66%) BeanShell
8 5 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.27%) C#
9 2 (0.27%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.27%) Ruby
10 1 (0.13%) Go
10 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 267 (35.46%) Security Cleared
2 206 (27.36%) SC Cleared
3 186 (24.70%) CISSP
4 131 (17.40%) CISM
5 92 (12.22%) Degree
6 63 (8.37%) Cisco Certification
7 53 (7.04%) DV Cleared
8 52 (6.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 43 (5.71%) CRISC
10 36 (4.78%) CEH
11 33 (4.38%) CompTIA Security+
12 32 (4.25%) PMI Certification
13 31 (4.12%) GIAC
14 30 (3.98%) PMP
15 29 (3.85%) Azure Certification
15 29 (3.85%) CISA
16 25 (3.32%) CCSP
16 25 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
17 22 (2.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 21 (2.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 460 (61.09%) NIST
2 174 (23.11%) GDPR
3 117 (15.54%) GRC
4 91 (12.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 86 (11.42%) NCSC
6 63 (8.37%) PCI DSS
7 53 (7.04%) SOC 2
8 41 (5.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 34 (4.52%) NIST 800
10 33 (4.38%) COBIT
10 33 (4.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 24 (3.19%) Data Quality
12 21 (2.79%) HIPAA
12 21 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 16 (2.12%) JSP 440
14 12 (1.59%) ISO 31000
14 12 (1.59%) ITGC
14 12 (1.59%) SLA
15 11 (1.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 11 (1.46%) PMO
System Software
1 137 (18.19%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.05%) 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 40 (5.31%) Kubernetes
2 28 (3.72%) Single Sign-On
3 27 (3.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (3.05%) Ansible
5 7 (0.93%) QRadar
6 6 (0.80%) Grafana
7 5 (0.66%) CASB
7 5 (0.66%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.53%) Nessus
8 4 (0.53%) Podman
9 3 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.40%) Puppet
9 3 (0.40%) RSA Archer
10 2 (0.27%) Argo
10 2 (0.27%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.27%) Istio
10 2 (0.27%) Nexpose
11 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 181 (24.04%) Microsoft
2 57 (7.57%) CyberArk
3 47 (6.24%) ServiceNow
4 34 (4.52%) BeyondTrust
5 32 (4.25%) Oracle
6 23 (3.05%) Splunk
7 19 (2.52%) Google
8 17 (2.26%) Cisco
9 16 (2.12%) CrowdStrike
9 16 (2.12%) VMware
10 15 (1.99%) SAP
11 13 (1.73%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.73%) Qualys
12 11 (1.46%) Databricks
12 11 (1.46%) Tenable
13 9 (1.20%) Okta
13 9 (1.20%) Rapid7
14 7 (0.93%) Juniper
14 7 (0.93%) Zscaler
15 6 (0.80%) Fortinet
616 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England