ISO/IEC 27001 Contracts in England

ISO/IEC 27001
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 248 205
Rank change year-on-year +84 -43 +92
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 451 358 608
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.70% 0.96% 1.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.29% 7.13% 9.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 279 452
10th Percentile £350 £400 £425
25th Percentile £457 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £701
90th Percentile £750 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £591
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.64% +7.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 13
10th Percentile £29.31 - £44.00
25th Percentile £35.77 £26.25 £59.73
Median hourly rate £57.00 £27.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.26% -60.71% +6.40%
75th Percentile £69.94 £28.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £100.55 - £79.30
UK median hourly rate £57.00 £27.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +107.26% -60.71% +2.07%

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 4,381 5,019 6,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.50% 13.49% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,830 3,140 4,446
10th Percentile £275 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 377 236
10th Percentile £15.13 £11.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £19.31 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.88 £24.43 £41.77
Median % change year-on-year +30.50% -41.51% +60.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.19 £70.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £24.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year +25.00% -36.42% +39.81%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in England

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in England.

Daily rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in England

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in England

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in England.

Hourly rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in England

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in England over the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 July 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 +60 218 £551 -5.90% 448
South East +93 91 £550 +26.07% 188
North of England +6 50 £550 -1.79% 151
South West +35 35 £613 +2.08% 85
Midlands +13 28 £450 -10.00% 65
Yorkshire +27 27 £488 -11.36% 67
West Midlands +12 18 £450 -10.00% 43
North West -14 18 £550 -7.56% 72
East of England +34 17 £519 +42.19% 55
East Midlands -1 10 £425 -5.56% 21
North East +2 5 £700 +33.33% 12
ISO/IEC 27001
UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (4.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.11%) Confluence
4 2 (0.44%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.44%) TPMS
5 1 (0.22%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.67%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.44%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.22%) Oracle CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Q-Pulse
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 155 (34.37%) Azure
2 114 (25.28%) AWS
3 74 (16.41%) GCP
4 38 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (7.10%) Entra ID
6 25 (5.54%) Azure Sentinel
7 18 (3.99%) SaaS
8 16 (3.55%) Serverless
9 14 (3.10%) Power Platform
10 13 (2.88%) GitHub
10 13 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (2.44%) OCI
13 10 (2.22%) IaaS
14 8 (1.77%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 8 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (1.77%) OneDrive
14 8 (1.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (11.09%) Network Security
2 42 (9.31%) Firewall
3 29 (6.43%) VPN
4 10 (2.22%) WAN
5 8 (1.77%) DNS
5 8 (1.77%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.55%) NAS
6 7 (1.55%) SAN
7 5 (1.11%) VLAN
8 4 (0.89%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.89%) SSL
9 3 (0.67%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.67%) LAN
9 3 (0.67%) SMTP
9 3 (0.67%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.44%) BGP
10 2 (0.44%) DHCP
10 2 (0.44%) MPLS
10 2 (0.44%) OSPF
10 2 (0.44%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.88%) Power BI
2 9 (2.00%) GIS
3 8 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (1.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 6 (1.33%) Delta Lake
6 5 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.11%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.11%) Tableau
7 4 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.67%) Big Data
8 3 (0.67%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.67%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.44%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.22%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.22%) Looker
10 1 (0.22%) Metadata
10 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (5.32%) JIRA
2 7 (1.55%) Git
2 7 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.33%) Postman
4 5 (1.11%) GitLab
4 5 (1.11%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.22%) ERwin
5 1 (0.22%) JMeter
5 1 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.22%) Selenium
5 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 174 (38.58%) Social Skills
2 82 (18.18%) Finance
3 52 (11.53%) Public Sector
4 47 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.10%) Telecoms
6 19 (4.21%) Legal
7 18 (3.99%) Banking
8 12 (2.66%) Marketing
9 11 (2.44%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.22%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.77%) Electronics
11 8 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.11%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.11%) Retail
14 4 (0.89%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.89%) Law
14 4 (0.89%) Local Government
14 4 (0.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 104 (23.06%) Architect
2 73 (16.19%) Security Architect
3 58 (12.86%) Consultant
4 43 (9.53%) Security Consultant
5 36 (7.98%) Analyst
5 36 (7.98%) Senior
6 35 (7.76%) Security Engineer
7 32 (7.10%) Lead
8 29 (6.43%) Security Manager
9 26 (5.76%) Security Specialist
10 15 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
10 15 (3.33%) Support Engineer
11 13 (2.88%) Desktop Engineer
11 13 (2.88%) Desktop Support
11 13 (2.88%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 13 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (2.66%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 12 (2.66%) Information Specialist
13 11 (2.44%) Security Analyst
14 10 (2.22%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.33%) OAuth
1 15 (3.33%) OpenID
1 15 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 15 (3.33%) SailPoint
1 15 (3.33%) SAML
2 8 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (1.77%) LDAP
3 6 (1.33%) REST
4 5 (1.11%) Web Services
5 4 (0.89%) FIDO
5 4 (0.89%) Google JAX
5 4 (0.89%) JAX
5 4 (0.89%) PyTorch
5 4 (0.89%) scikit-learn
5 4 (0.89%) SOAP
5 4 (0.89%) TensorFlow
6 3 (0.67%) Kafka
6 3 (0.67%) Middleware
6 3 (0.67%) Node.js
6 3 (0.67%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 60 (13.30%) Security Posture
2 50 (11.09%) Management Information System
3 21 (4.66%) Cloud Native
4 19 (4.21%) Cyber Threat
5 16 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
7 14 (3.10%) Operational Technology
8 12 (2.66%) PKI
9 11 (2.44%) Data Centre
10 10 (2.22%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.77%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.55%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.55%) SCADA
13 6 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.33%) NHS
14 5 (1.11%) Cyber Defence
14 5 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.76%) Windows
2 19 (4.21%) Linux
3 13 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.77%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.89%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.44%) AIX
7 2 (0.44%) Solaris
8 1 (0.22%) CentOS
8 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.22%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
2 114 (25.28%) Risk Management
3 107 (23.73%) Cloud Security
4 105 (23.28%) Information Security
5 88 (19.51%) Incident Response
6 70 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 65 (14.41%) Security Architecture
8 65 (14.41%) Vulnerability Management
9 64 (14.19%) Identity Access Management
10 62 (13.75%) SIEM
11 60 (13.30%) Agile
12 57 (12.64%) DevOps
13 54 (11.97%) Security Operations
14 50 (11.09%) ITIL
15 48 (10.64%) Threat Modelling
16 47 (10.42%) Risk Assessment
17 45 (9.98%) Zero Trust
18 44 (9.76%) CI/CD
19 43 (9.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 60 (13.30%) Python
2 47 (10.42%) PowerShell
3 25 (5.54%) SQL
4 19 (4.21%) Bash
5 17 (3.77%) Java
6 9 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
7 8 (1.77%) Bicep
8 7 (1.55%) C#
9 6 (1.33%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.89%) C++
10 4 (0.89%) R
11 3 (0.67%) C
11 3 (0.67%) Ruby
12 2 (0.44%) Go
12 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.22%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.22%) Groovy
13 1 (0.22%) Perl
13 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 143 (31.71%) CISSP
2 112 (24.83%) Security Cleared
3 100 (22.17%) CISM
4 81 (17.96%) SC Cleared
5 73 (16.19%) Degree
6 35 (7.76%) CISA
7 29 (6.43%) DV Cleared
8 28 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (5.32%) AWS Certification
9 24 (5.32%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (4.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 20 (4.43%) Azure Certification
11 20 (4.43%) CRISC
12 19 (4.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 19 (4.21%) CESG Certified Professional
13 18 (3.99%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (3.77%) CEH
14 17 (3.77%) GIAC
15 14 (3.10%) CompTIA Security+
16 13 (2.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (58.76%) NIST
2 141 (31.26%) GDPR
3 54 (11.97%) PCI DSS
4 35 (7.76%) GRC
5 33 (7.32%) NCSC
5 33 (7.32%) NIST 800
6 29 (6.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 27 (5.99%) Cyber Essentials
7 27 (5.99%) SOC 2
8 22 (4.88%) COBIT
8 22 (4.88%) HIPAA
8 22 (4.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 19 (4.21%) RMADS
10 14 (3.10%) QA
11 12 (2.66%) JSP 440
12 11 (2.44%) ISO 9001
12 11 (2.44%) SLA
13 9 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (2.00%) ISO 22301
14 6 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 47 (10.42%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.66%) Docker
3 7 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.22%) Firmware
5 1 (0.22%) KVM
5 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (6.43%) Terraform
2 24 (5.32%) Kubernetes
3 23 (5.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (2.22%) Grafana
6 9 (2.00%) Ansible
7 8 (1.77%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.55%) RSA Archer
8 7 (1.55%) SCCM
9 5 (1.11%) Nessus
10 4 (0.89%) QRadar
11 3 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.44%) CASB
12 2 (0.44%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 2 (0.44%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.44%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.44%) Puppet
12 2 (0.44%) SELinux
13 1 (0.22%) OPNET
13 1 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 107 (23.73%) Microsoft
2 38 (8.43%) ServiceNow
3 24 (5.32%) CyberArk
4 22 (4.88%) Oracle
5 19 (4.21%) Google
6 18 (3.99%) Splunk
7 17 (3.77%) Citrix
8 15 (3.33%) SAP
9 14 (3.10%) Cisco
10 13 (2.88%) BeyondTrust
11 11 (2.44%) VMware
12 10 (2.22%) Okta
12 10 (2.22%) Palo Alto
12 10 (2.22%) Tenable
13 9 (2.00%) Rapid7
14 8 (1.77%) Qualys
14 8 (1.77%) Thycotic
15 7 (1.55%) Databricks
15 7 (1.55%) Fortinet
16 6 (1.33%) CrowdStrike