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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 215 205
Rank change year-on-year +78 -10 +63
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 706 303 446
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.00% 1.20% 1.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.47% 7.92% 8.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 181 337
10th Percentile £408 £400 £365
25th Percentile £461 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £667
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £537 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.46% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 10 12
10th Percentile £31.81 £32.70 -
25th Percentile £33.50 £41.44 £42.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £67.55 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.70% +51.79% -39.02%
75th Percentile £68.63 £82.00 £56.34
90th Percentile £82.78 £84.38 £82.91
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £73.60 £44.50
% change year-on-year -51.09% +65.39% -39.02%

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 6,154 3,825 5,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.43% 15.11% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,975 2,327 3,550
10th Percentile £331 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £601 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £516
% change year-on-year - -3.01% -1.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 156 342
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.50 £11.95
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.81 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £32.66 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.08% +26.74% -26.39%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.40 £72.44
UK median hourly rate £27.69 £31.76 £25.00
% change year-on-year -12.81% +27.04% -23.17%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 2 March 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 +46 305 £575 -8.00% 122
South East +40 156 £500 -2.44% 118
North of England -4 79 £527 -12.13% 54
Midlands -10 62 £479 -20.25% 44
South West +19 59 £525 -16.00% 47
Yorkshire -25 43 £500 -16.67% 17
West Midlands -22 39 £540 -10.00% 31
North West -15 31 £577 -9.88% 32
East Midlands -14 23 £449 +12.25% 13
East of England -24 16 £564 +8.67% 33
North East -10 5 £400 +14.29% 5
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 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 22 (3.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (2.69%) Confluence
4 6 (0.85%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.28%) Apache
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (3.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (1.56%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.99%) Maximo
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 260 (36.83%) Azure
2 210 (29.75%) AWS
3 97 (13.74%) GCP
4 80 (11.33%) Entra ID
5 68 (9.63%) Microsoft 365
6 45 (6.37%) Azure Sentinel
7 32 (4.53%) OpenShift
8 27 (3.82%) Microsoft Purview
9 26 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (2.97%) OCI
11 20 (2.83%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 19 (2.69%) SaaS
13 18 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (2.27%) Power Platform
16 15 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (2.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 15 (2.12%) Azure Monitor
17 14 (1.98%) Amazon S3
17 14 (1.98%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 96 (13.60%) Firewall
2 63 (8.92%) Network Security
3 49 (6.94%) VPN
4 21 (2.97%) Wireless
5 18 (2.55%) DNS
6 15 (2.12%) BGP
7 14 (1.98%) WAN
8 13 (1.84%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (1.84%) MPLS
9 12 (1.70%) LAN
9 12 (1.70%) SD-WAN
10 11 (1.56%) DHCP
11 9 (1.27%) OSPF
12 8 (1.13%) NGFW
13 7 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
14 6 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (0.85%) SSH
14 6 (0.85%) TACACS
14 6 (0.85%) VLAN
14 6 (0.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.70%) Power BI
2 11 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (0.99%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.85%) DynamoDB
4 6 (0.85%) Metadata
4 6 (0.85%) MySQL
4 6 (0.85%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.57%) DocumentDB
6 4 (0.57%) Redis
7 3 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.42%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.42%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.28%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 26 (3.68%) Jenkins
1 26 (3.68%) JIRA
2 18 (2.55%) Burp Suite
2 18 (2.55%) Metasploit
3 14 (1.98%) GitLab
4 7 (0.99%) Git
5 2 (0.28%) Snyk
6 1 (0.14%) AppScan
6 1 (0.14%) JMeter
6 1 (0.14%) MSTest
6 1 (0.14%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 302 (42.78%) Social Skills
2 124 (17.56%) Finance
3 81 (11.47%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (10.76%) Public Sector
5 65 (9.21%) Documentation Skills
6 44 (6.23%) Legal
7 34 (4.82%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
9 25 (3.54%) Banking
10 23 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (2.55%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.56%) Law
13 10 (1.42%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.27%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.13%) Marketing
15 8 (1.13%) Police
16 6 (0.85%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.71%) Aviation
17 5 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 4 (0.57%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 103 (14.59%) Analyst
2 102 (14.45%) Architect
3 81 (11.47%) Consultant
4 62 (8.78%) Security Engineer
5 47 (6.66%) Security Analyst
5 47 (6.66%) Security Architect
6 45 (6.37%) Senior
7 35 (4.96%) Security Consultant
8 31 (4.39%) Lead
9 29 (4.11%) Security Manager
10 26 (3.68%) Project Manager
10 26 (3.68%) Security Specialist
11 23 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (3.26%) Tester
12 19 (2.69%) Penetration Tester
13 16 (2.27%) CyberArk Architect
14 15 (2.12%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 15 (2.12%) Security Officer
15 14 (1.98%) Programme Manager
15 14 (1.98%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.36%) LDAP
2 40 (5.67%) SAML
3 39 (5.52%) OpenID
4 33 (4.67%) OAuth
5 18 (2.55%) OAuth2
6 17 (2.41%) Oracle Fusion
7 14 (1.98%) REST
8 13 (1.84%) SailPoint
9 10 (1.42%) ARM Templates
10 8 (1.13%) RESTful
11 6 (0.85%) AWS CDK
11 6 (0.85%) Kafka
11 6 (0.85%) Middleware
12 5 (0.71%) .NET
12 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (0.71%) Node.js
12 5 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (0.71%) Spring
13 4 (0.57%) Hibernate
13 4 (0.57%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 78 (11.05%) Security Posture
2 60 (8.50%) Onboarding
3 56 (7.93%) Management Information System
4 47 (6.66%) Cloud Native
5 30 (4.25%) Operational Technology
6 25 (3.54%) Cyber Threat
7 21 (2.97%) Security Operations Centre
8 19 (2.69%) Data Centre
8 19 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (2.41%) Product Ownership
10 15 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.98%) PKI
12 12 (1.70%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.56%) SCADA
14 10 (1.42%) NHS
15 9 (1.27%) BYOD
15 9 (1.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 8 (1.13%) Cloud Security Posture
16 8 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 73 (10.34%) Windows
2 42 (5.95%) Linux
3 15 (2.12%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.84%) Mac OS
5 11 (1.56%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.99%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.99%) Unix
7 4 (0.57%) AIX
7 4 (0.57%) Solaris
8 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.42%) VMS
9 2 (0.28%) Android
9 2 (0.28%) 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
1 305 (43.20%) Cybersecurity
2 211 (29.89%) Information Security
3 173 (24.50%) Risk Management
4 166 (23.51%) Cloud Security
5 159 (22.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 143 (20.25%) SIEM
7 133 (18.84%) Incident Response
8 121 (17.14%) CI/CD
9 120 (17.00%) DevOps
10 112 (15.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 105 (14.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 93 (13.17%) Security Operations
12 93 (13.17%) Zero Trust
13 85 (12.04%) Data Protection
14 84 (11.90%) Regulatory Compliance
14 84 (11.90%) Threat Modelling
15 82 (11.61%) Agile
16 81 (11.47%) Security Architecture
17 80 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
18 78 (11.05%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 115 (16.29%) PowerShell
2 79 (11.19%) Python
3 22 (3.12%) Bash
4 17 (2.41%) Bicep
4 17 (2.41%) SQL
5 10 (1.42%) Java
5 10 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (0.57%) Go
6 4 (0.57%) PHP
7 3 (0.42%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.28%) C
8 2 (0.28%) C#
8 2 (0.28%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.28%) Rust
8 2 (0.28%) Solidity
9 1 (0.14%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.14%) Lisp
9 1 (0.14%) Ruby
9 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 265 (37.54%) Security Cleared
2 217 (30.74%) SC Cleared
3 196 (27.76%) CISSP
4 151 (21.39%) CISM
5 98 (13.88%) Degree
6 55 (7.79%) DV Cleared
7 43 (6.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 42 (5.95%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (4.82%) CISA
10 32 (4.53%) Azure Certification
11 30 (4.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 28 (3.97%) AWS Certification
12 28 (3.97%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 26 (3.68%) Master's Degree
14 25 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
15 24 (3.40%) GIAC
16 23 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
16 23 (3.26%) CEH
16 23 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
16 23 (3.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 436 (61.76%) NIST
2 246 (34.84%) GDPR
3 106 (15.01%) PCI DSS
4 94 (13.31%) NCSC
5 88 (12.46%) GRC
6 74 (10.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 45 (6.37%) COBIT
8 44 (6.23%) SOC 2
9 38 (5.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 38 (5.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 31 (4.39%) NIST 800
11 27 (3.82%) QA
12 20 (2.83%) JSP 440
13 18 (2.55%) PMO
14 17 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 17 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 15 (2.12%) SLA
16 13 (1.84%) Actionable Recommendations
17 11 (1.56%) Def Stans
17 11 (1.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 92 (13.03%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.27%) Docker
4 7 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.42%) 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 62 (8.78%) Kubernetes
2 52 (7.37%) Terraform
3 37 (5.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (3.82%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (2.97%) SCCM
6 18 (2.55%) Ansible
7 16 (2.27%) Nmap
8 10 (1.42%) Nessus
9 9 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (1.13%) Fluentd
11 7 (0.99%) RSA Archer
12 6 (0.85%) CASB
12 6 (0.85%) PingFederate
12 6 (0.85%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.42%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.42%) Grafana
13 3 (0.42%) OpenVAS
13 3 (0.42%) QRadar
13 3 (0.42%) SCOM
14 2 (0.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 139 (19.69%) Microsoft
2 72 (10.20%) CyberArk
3 45 (6.37%) Splunk
4 37 (5.24%) BeyondTrust
5 31 (4.39%) Oracle
6 29 (4.11%) Cisco
6 29 (4.11%) ServiceNow
7 24 (3.40%) VMware
8 17 (2.41%) SAP
9 16 (2.27%) Fortinet
9 16 (2.27%) Rapid7
10 15 (2.12%) Google
10 15 (2.12%) Palo Alto
11 12 (1.70%) Qualys
12 10 (1.42%) Citrix
12 10 (1.42%) IBM
12 10 (1.42%) Okta
13 9 (1.27%) Cribl.io
13 9 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (1.27%) Ping Identity