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

 6 months to
10 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 214 184
Rank change year-on-year +76 -30 +90
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 670 314 478
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.99% 1.21% 1.25%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.57% 8.31% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 191 359
10th Percentile £400 £413 £385
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £667
90th Percentile £768 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £533 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -8.97% +1.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 10 13
10th Percentile £29.57 £32.70 -
25th Percentile - £41.44 £42.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £67.55 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.41% +51.79% -39.35%
75th Percentile £48.35 £82.00 £49.00
90th Percentile £76.05 £84.38 £82.40
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 5,793 3,780 5,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.25% 14.63% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,751 2,204 3,581
10th Percentile £325 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £378 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £640
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 147 310
10th Percentile £15.29 £14.70 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £20.24 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £25.06
Median % change year-on-year -20.81% +26.75% -14.04%
75th Percentile £63.43 £65.00 £49.06
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £73.88
UK median hourly rate £26.11 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -9.97% +16.00% -12.28%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +43 287 £565 -5.83% 116
South East +48 138 £492 -6.29% 103
North of England -15 73 £520 -11.11% 44
Midlands -12 66 £475 -5.00% 51
South West +17 58 £513 -18.00% 44
West Midlands -24 39 £550 +10.00% 33
Yorkshire -24 38 £500 -13.04% 14
North West -11 30 £550 -8.33% 22
East Midlands -9 27 £449 +12.25% 18
East of England -13 17 £553 +1.10% 28
North East -10 5 £400 +14.29% 8
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 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.64%) Confluence
4 5 (0.75%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.30%) Apache
5 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 23 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (1.19%) Maximo
3 2 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 266 (39.70%) Azure
2 212 (31.64%) AWS
3 101 (15.07%) GCP
4 82 (12.24%) Entra ID
5 67 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 48 (7.16%) Azure Sentinel
7 35 (5.22%) OpenShift
8 27 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (3.73%) Microsoft Purview
10 23 (3.43%) SaaS
11 21 (3.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 20 (2.99%) OCI
13 19 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (2.54%) Power Platform
14 17 (2.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (2.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 16 (2.39%) GitHub
16 15 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (2.24%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (14.63%) Firewall
2 62 (9.25%) Network Security
3 48 (7.16%) VPN
4 19 (2.84%) Wireless
5 18 (2.69%) DNS
6 14 (2.09%) BGP
7 13 (1.94%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (1.94%) WAN
8 12 (1.79%) LAN
8 12 (1.79%) MPLS
9 11 (1.64%) DHCP
9 11 (1.64%) SD-WAN
10 8 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (1.19%) OSPF
11 7 (1.04%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.90%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.90%) S/MIME
12 6 (0.90%) VLAN
12 6 (0.90%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.94%) Power BI
2 11 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.90%) DynamoDB
4 6 (0.90%) MySQL
4 6 (0.90%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.90%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (0.75%) Metadata
6 4 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.60%) DocumentDB
6 4 (0.60%) Redis
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%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 26 (3.88%) Jenkins
2 23 (3.43%) JIRA
3 17 (2.54%) Burp Suite
3 17 (2.54%) Metasploit
4 14 (2.09%) GitLab
5 7 (1.04%) 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
1 286 (42.69%) Social Skills
2 116 (17.31%) Finance
3 75 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (11.19%) Public Sector
4 61 (9.10%) Documentation Skills
5 40 (5.97%) Legal
6 32 (4.78%) Influencing Skills
7 26 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
8 23 (3.43%) Banking
8 23 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (2.24%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.49%) Law
10 10 (1.49%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.34%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.19%) Marketing
12 8 (1.19%) Police
13 7 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.75%) Aviation
15 4 (0.60%) Electronics
15 4 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 106 (15.82%) Architect
2 96 (14.33%) Analyst
3 70 (10.45%) Consultant
4 57 (8.51%) Security Engineer
5 47 (7.01%) Security Architect
6 46 (6.87%) Security Analyst
6 46 (6.87%) Senior
7 30 (4.48%) Lead
8 28 (4.18%) Security Consultant
8 28 (4.18%) Security Specialist
9 26 (3.88%) Security Manager
10 24 (3.58%) Azure Engineer
11 22 (3.28%) Tester
12 18 (2.69%) Penetration Tester
12 18 (2.69%) Project Manager
13 17 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (2.39%) CyberArk Architect
15 15 (2.24%) Security Officer
15 15 (2.24%) SOC Analyst
16 14 (2.09%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (8.96%) LDAP
2 42 (6.27%) SAML
3 40 (5.97%) OpenID
4 36 (5.37%) OAuth
5 20 (2.99%) OAuth2
6 15 (2.24%) Oracle Fusion
6 15 (2.24%) REST
7 12 (1.79%) SailPoint
8 11 (1.64%) ARM Templates
9 7 (1.04%) RESTful
10 6 (0.90%) AWS CDK
10 6 (0.90%) Kafka
10 6 (0.90%) Middleware
11 5 (0.75%) JWT
11 5 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (0.75%) Spring
12 4 (0.60%) gRPC
12 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
12 4 (0.60%) React
12 4 (0.60%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 79 (11.79%) Security Posture
2 60 (8.96%) Management Information System
3 55 (8.21%) Onboarding
4 47 (7.01%) Cloud Native
5 27 (4.03%) Cyber Threat
5 27 (4.03%) Operational Technology
6 22 (3.28%) Security Operations Centre
7 17 (2.54%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (2.09%) PKI
10 13 (1.94%) NHS
11 12 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.79%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.64%) SCADA
13 9 (1.34%) Cloud Security Posture
14 8 (1.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 8 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (1.04%) CSOC
15 7 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 65 (9.70%) Windows
2 39 (5.82%) Linux
3 14 (2.09%) Mac OS
4 13 (1.94%) Windows 10
4 13 (1.94%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.04%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.75%) Unix
7 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.30%) AIX
8 2 (0.30%) Solaris
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%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.15%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (42.09%) Cybersecurity
2 186 (27.76%) Information Security
3 160 (23.88%) Risk Management
4 158 (23.58%) Cloud Security
5 146 (21.79%) SIEM
6 143 (21.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 142 (21.19%) Incident Response
8 122 (18.21%) DevOps
9 121 (18.06%) CI/CD
10 104 (15.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 98 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 91 (13.58%) Zero Trust
13 83 (12.39%) Identity Access Management
14 82 (12.24%) Security Operations
15 80 (11.94%) Data Protection
15 80 (11.94%) Threat Modelling
16 79 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
17 78 (11.64%) Regulatory Compliance
18 77 (11.49%) DevSecOps
19 75 (11.19%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 115 (17.16%) PowerShell
2 80 (11.94%) Python
3 26 (3.88%) Bash
4 21 (3.13%) Bicep
5 16 (2.39%) SQL
6 10 (1.49%) Java
6 10 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (0.60%) Go
7 4 (0.60%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.60%) PHP
7 4 (0.60%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.30%) C
8 2 (0.30%) Rust
8 2 (0.30%) Solidity
9 1 (0.15%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.15%) C#
9 1 (0.15%) Lisp
9 1 (0.15%) Ruby
9 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 246 (36.72%) Security Cleared
2 200 (29.85%) SC Cleared
3 183 (27.31%) CISSP
4 142 (21.19%) CISM
5 89 (13.28%) Degree
6 56 (8.36%) DV Cleared
7 33 (4.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 32 (4.78%) Azure Certification
8 32 (4.78%) Cisco Certification
9 31 (4.63%) CISA
10 27 (4.03%) AWS Certification
11 26 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (3.58%) Master's Degree
13 23 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
14 22 (3.28%) GIAC
15 21 (3.13%) CEH
15 21 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
16 20 (2.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 19 (2.84%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 404 (60.30%) NIST
2 237 (35.37%) GDPR
3 96 (14.33%) PCI DSS
4 94 (14.03%) NCSC
5 75 (11.19%) GRC
6 72 (10.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 40 (5.97%) COBIT
8 39 (5.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 36 (5.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 34 (5.07%) SOC 2
11 31 (4.63%) NIST 800
12 28 (4.18%) QA
13 20 (2.99%) JSP 440
14 16 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 14 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 14 (2.09%) PMO
16 12 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
16 12 (1.79%) HIPAA
16 12 (1.79%) SLA
17 11 (1.64%) Def Stans
System Software
1 93 (13.88%) Active Directory
2 21 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.99%) Docker
4 7 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.60%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.15%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) GPFS
7 1 (0.15%) Lustre
7 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (9.70%) Kubernetes
2 58 (8.66%) Terraform
3 41 (6.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (4.33%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (3.43%) SCCM
6 17 (2.54%) Ansible
7 15 (2.24%) Nmap
8 10 (1.49%) Nessus
9 9 (1.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (1.34%) Fluentd
10 8 (1.19%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.90%) PingFederate
11 6 (0.90%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.75%) QRadar
13 4 (0.60%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.60%) Grafana
14 3 (0.45%) CASB
14 3 (0.45%) OpenVAS
14 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
14 3 (0.45%) SCOM
Vendors
1 143 (21.34%) Microsoft
2 68 (10.15%) CyberArk
3 47 (7.01%) Splunk
4 36 (5.37%) BeyondTrust
5 29 (4.33%) Cisco
5 29 (4.33%) Oracle
6 25 (3.73%) VMware
7 22 (3.28%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.84%) Google
9 17 (2.54%) Fortinet
9 17 (2.54%) SAP
10 16 (2.39%) Rapid7
11 14 (2.09%) Palo Alto
12 12 (1.79%) Citrix
13 11 (1.64%) Okta
14 10 (1.49%) IBM
14 10 (1.49%) Qualys
15 9 (1.34%) Cribl.io
15 9 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
15 9 (1.34%) Ping Identity
340 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England