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

 6 months to
22 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 215 179
Rank change year-on-year +83 -36 +112
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 654 330 499
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.02% 1.23% 1.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.74% 8.56% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 205 372
10th Percentile £400 £410 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £592
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +1.30% -1.28%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £673
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £583
% change year-on-year -12.50% +2.95% -2.87%
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% -11.00%
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% -11.00%

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 5,573 3,855 5,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.21% 14.37% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,613 2,241 3,459
10th Percentile £320 £263 £318
25th Percentile £411 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
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 302 153 265
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.70 £12.68
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.50 £15.39
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.21 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.75% +0.70% +15.38%
75th Percentile £62.86 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £69.62 £75.00 £78.36
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £29.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -11.14% -3.33% +20.00%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +39 285 £558 -7.08% 149
South East +36 122 £492 -4.00% 164
North of England -10 77 £513 -13.50% 76
Midlands -10 62 £465 -7.00% 71
South West +16 55 £488 -22.00% 71
Yorkshire -18 39 £500 -13.04% 27
West Midlands -22 38 £556 +11.25% 35
North West -12 33 £610 +1.67% 40
East Midlands -3 24 £447 +11.75% 35
East of England -12 19 £553 +1.10% 55
North East -11 5 £400 +14.29% 9
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 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
1 22 (3.36%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.83%) Confluence
3 3 (0.46%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 2 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.15%) Apache
5 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) IIS
5 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 24 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.76%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (1.22%) Maximo
2 6 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 272 (41.59%) Azure
2 209 (31.96%) AWS
3 97 (14.83%) GCP
4 82 (12.54%) Entra ID
5 68 (10.40%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (7.49%) Azure Sentinel
7 29 (4.43%) OpenShift
8 26 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (3.98%) SaaS
9 22 (3.36%) Microsoft Purview
10 21 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (2.75%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 17 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (2.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (2.45%) GitHub
14 15 (2.29%) Amazon S3
14 15 (2.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 15 (2.29%) OCI
15 14 (2.14%) Azure AKS
15 14 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 99 (15.14%) Firewall
2 60 (9.17%) Network Security
3 44 (6.73%) VPN
4 19 (2.91%) Wireless
5 18 (2.75%) DNS
6 14 (2.14%) WAN
7 12 (1.83%) LAN
7 12 (1.83%) SD-WAN
8 11 (1.68%) DHCP
9 10 (1.53%) BGP
9 10 (1.53%) Cisco ASA
10 8 (1.22%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (1.22%) MPLS
11 7 (1.07%) Kerberos
11 7 (1.07%) OSPF
11 7 (1.07%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.92%) S/MIME
12 6 (0.92%) VLAN
12 6 (0.92%) WLAN
13 5 (0.76%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (1.53%) Power BI
3 7 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.92%) DynamoDB
4 6 (0.92%) MySQL
4 6 (0.92%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (0.76%) Metadata
5 5 (0.76%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.61%) DocumentDB
6 4 (0.61%) Redis
7 3 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.46%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.46%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.46%) Tableau
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (3.67%) JIRA
2 22 (3.36%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.60%) Burp Suite
3 17 (2.60%) Metasploit
4 15 (2.29%) GitLab
5 6 (0.92%) Git
6 3 (0.46%) Snyk
7 1 (0.15%) Ant
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
1 277 (42.35%) Social Skills
2 119 (18.20%) Finance
3 78 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (11.47%) Public Sector
5 55 (8.41%) Documentation Skills
6 42 (6.42%) Legal
7 29 (4.43%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (3.67%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (3.21%) Banking
11 12 (1.83%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.68%) Law
13 10 (1.53%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.38%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.22%) Marketing
15 8 (1.22%) Police
16 7 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 5 (0.76%) Aviation
17 5 (0.76%) Electronics
18 4 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 108 (16.51%) Architect
2 95 (14.53%) Analyst
3 68 (10.40%) Consultant
4 55 (8.41%) Security Architect
5 50 (7.65%) Security Engineer
6 47 (7.19%) Security Analyst
7 46 (7.03%) Senior
8 30 (4.59%) Lead
9 29 (4.43%) Security Manager
10 28 (4.28%) Security Consultant
11 25 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
12 23 (3.52%) Security Specialist
13 22 (3.36%) Tester
14 20 (3.06%) Project Manager
15 18 (2.75%) Penetration Tester
16 17 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
17 16 (2.45%) Security Officer
18 15 (2.29%) SOC Analyst
19 14 (2.14%) Security Advisor
20 13 (1.99%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (7.80%) LDAP
2 36 (5.50%) SAML
3 34 (5.20%) OAuth
4 33 (5.05%) OpenID
5 18 (2.75%) OAuth2
6 16 (2.45%) REST
7 12 (1.83%) ARM Templates
7 12 (1.83%) SailPoint
8 9 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.22%) RESTful
10 6 (0.92%) Middleware
11 5 (0.76%) AWS CDK
11 5 (0.76%) JWT
11 5 (0.76%) Kafka
11 5 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (0.76%) Spring
12 4 (0.61%) gRPC
12 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
12 4 (0.61%) React
12 4 (0.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 83 (12.69%) Security Posture
2 60 (9.17%) Management Information System
3 49 (7.49%) Cloud Native
4 44 (6.73%) Onboarding
5 32 (4.89%) Cyber Threat
6 22 (3.36%) Operational Technology
6 22 (3.36%) Security Operations Centre
7 21 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (2.29%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.99%) PKI
11 12 (1.83%) Cloud Security Posture
11 12 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.83%) NHS
12 11 (1.68%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.53%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.53%) SCADA
14 8 (1.22%) CSOC
14 8 (1.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 8 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 66 (10.09%) Windows
2 34 (5.20%) Linux
3 14 (2.14%) Mac OS
4 13 (1.99%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.61%) AIX
6 4 (0.61%) Solaris
7 3 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.31%) VMS
9 1 (0.15%) Android
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (41.13%) Cybersecurity
2 178 (27.22%) Information Security
3 167 (25.54%) Cloud Security
4 158 (24.16%) Incident Response
5 149 (22.78%) Risk Management
6 148 (22.63%) SIEM
7 131 (20.03%) Stakeholder Management
8 120 (18.35%) DevOps
9 117 (17.89%) CI/CD
10 109 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 96 (14.68%) Zero Trust
12 93 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 86 (13.15%) Identity Access Management
14 84 (12.84%) Security Operations
15 82 (12.54%) Data Protection
15 82 (12.54%) Threat Modelling
16 80 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
16 80 (12.23%) Security Architecture
17 76 (11.62%) DevSecOps
18 75 (11.47%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 111 (16.97%) PowerShell
2 72 (11.01%) Python
3 29 (4.43%) Bash
4 20 (3.06%) Bicep
5 15 (2.29%) SQL
6 11 (1.68%) Java
7 10 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.61%) Go
8 4 (0.61%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.61%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.31%) BeanShell
9 2 (0.31%) C
9 2 (0.31%) Rust
9 2 (0.31%) Solidity
10 1 (0.15%) C#
10 1 (0.15%) PHP
10 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 226 (34.56%) Security Cleared
2 199 (30.43%) CISSP
3 183 (27.98%) SC Cleared
4 153 (23.39%) CISM
5 91 (13.91%) Degree
6 53 (8.10%) DV Cleared
7 40 (6.12%) CISA
8 36 (5.50%) Azure Certification
8 36 (5.50%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (5.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 31 (4.74%) AWS Certification
11 29 (4.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (3.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 24 (3.67%) CEH
12 24 (3.67%) GIAC
12 24 (3.67%) Master's Degree
13 22 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
13 22 (3.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 21 (3.21%) CCSP
14 21 (3.21%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 392 (59.94%) NIST
2 246 (37.61%) GDPR
3 103 (15.75%) PCI DSS
4 80 (12.23%) NCSC
5 71 (10.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 67 (10.24%) GRC
7 38 (5.81%) COBIT
7 38 (5.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 35 (5.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 30 (4.59%) SOC 2
10 27 (4.13%) NIST 800
10 27 (4.13%) QA
11 18 (2.75%) JSP 440
12 17 (2.60%) HIPAA
13 16 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 14 (2.14%) PMO
14 14 (2.14%) SLA
15 11 (1.68%) Def Stans
16 10 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 90 (13.76%) Active Directory
2 24 (3.67%) Docker
3 18 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.61%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.15%) Firmware
6 1 (0.15%) Snort
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (9.48%) Kubernetes
2 58 (8.87%) Terraform
3 42 (6.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (4.28%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (3.52%) SCCM
6 15 (2.29%) Ansible
6 15 (2.29%) Nmap
7 12 (1.83%) QRadar
8 9 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 9 (1.38%) Fluentd
9 8 (1.22%) Nessus
9 8 (1.22%) RSA Archer
10 6 (0.92%) CSIRT
10 6 (0.92%) PingFederate
11 5 (0.76%) Grafana
12 4 (0.61%) Prometheus
13 3 (0.46%) CASB
13 3 (0.46%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.46%) SCOM
13 3 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 148 (22.63%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.72%) CyberArk
3 49 (7.49%) Splunk
4 29 (4.43%) BeyondTrust
5 23 (3.52%) VMware
6 22 (3.36%) Cisco
6 22 (3.36%) Oracle
6 22 (3.36%) ServiceNow
7 20 (3.06%) Google
8 18 (2.75%) SAP
9 17 (2.60%) Fortinet
10 13 (1.99%) Citrix
10 13 (1.99%) Rapid7
11 12 (1.83%) Palo Alto
12 10 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (1.53%) IBM
12 10 (1.53%) Okta
12 10 (1.53%) Qualys
13 9 (1.38%) Cribl.io
13 9 (1.38%) Ping Identity
511 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England