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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 146 224
Rank change year-on-year -30 +78 -62
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 750 560 361
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 2.00% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.04% 11.54% 8.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 381 258
10th Percentile £416 £350 £413
25th Percentile £481 £447 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year -0.82% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 21 4
10th Percentile £43.81 £30.61 -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £33.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +111.94% +7.20% -29.78%
75th Percentile £80.00 £60.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.25 £95.00 -
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £33.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +111.94% -4.29% -21.35%

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 8,296 4,853 4,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.82% 17.34% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,196 3,159 2,493
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £715 £759
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.40% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 631 235 205
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.96 £16.23
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.74 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -3.52% -13.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.25 £82.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.40 £31.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +2.87% +14.51% -22.54%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -17 349 £575 +4.55% 684
South East -6 180 £538 -3.37% 218
North of England -51 83 £500 - 175
South West -40 53 £525 -9.68% 104
North West -25 50 £525 -4.55% 103
Midlands -51 45 £500 +8.11% 100
West Midlands -18 41 £500 -11.11% 69
Yorkshire -39 31 £475 +3.26% 54
East of England -20 27 £510 -2.86% 50
East Midlands -34 4 - - 31
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 16 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.87%) IIS
3 10 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.07%) Confluence
5 3 (0.40%) Apache
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.27%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
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
1 268 (35.73%) Azure
2 166 (22.13%) AWS
3 130 (17.33%) Entra ID
4 96 (12.80%) GCP
5 80 (10.67%) Microsoft 365
6 44 (5.87%) SaaS
7 35 (4.67%) Azure Sentinel
8 29 (3.87%) Microsoft Purview
9 26 (3.47%) GitHub
9 26 (3.47%) OCI
10 24 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (2.27%) Power Platform
13 16 (2.13%) Serverless
14 13 (1.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (1.60%) Azure Key Vault
15 12 (1.60%) IaaS
15 12 (1.60%) PaaS
16 11 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
16 11 (1.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 66 (8.80%) Firewall
2 64 (8.53%) Network Security
3 22 (2.93%) VPN
4 11 (1.47%) DNS
5 10 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 9 (1.20%) WAN
6 9 (1.20%) Wireless
7 8 (1.07%) LAN
8 7 (0.93%) NGFW
8 7 (0.93%) X.509
9 6 (0.80%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.80%) Modbus
9 6 (0.80%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.67%) Internet
10 5 (0.67%) IPsec
10 5 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.67%) SAN
10 5 (0.67%) SSL
10 5 (0.67%) Structured Cabling
10 5 (0.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.93%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.07%) Power BI
3 6 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (0.80%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.67%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.27%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.27%) Metadata
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.13%) EDMS
7 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (3.20%) JIRA
2 17 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.73%) GitLab
4 9 (1.20%) Git
5 5 (0.67%) Snyk
6 4 (0.53%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.40%) Selenium
7 3 (0.40%) TestRail
8 2 (0.27%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.13%) MSI
General
1 297 (39.60%) Social Skills
2 106 (14.13%) Finance
3 96 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (12.53%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.87%) Documentation Skills
6 41 (5.47%) Legal
7 37 (4.93%) Manufacturing
8 33 (4.40%) Aerospace
9 28 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (3.33%) Banking
11 23 (3.07%) Military
12 19 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (1.87%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.33%) Local Government
16 8 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
18 4 (0.53%) Cyber-Physical System
18 4 (0.53%) Financial Institution
18 4 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 152 (20.27%) Architect
2 99 (13.20%) Analyst
3 80 (10.67%) Lead
4 67 (8.93%) Consultant
5 66 (8.80%) Security Architect
6 52 (6.93%) Security Engineer
7 49 (6.53%) Security Analyst
7 49 (6.53%) Senior
8 40 (5.33%) Security Manager
9 38 (5.07%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 32 (4.27%) Security Consultant
11 26 (3.47%) Security Specialist
12 24 (3.20%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 21 (2.80%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 20 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
15 19 (2.53%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 19 (2.53%) Project Manager
16 17 (2.27%) Cloud Engineer
17 16 (2.13%) IT Manager
18 15 (2.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (7.73%) Terraform
2 53 (7.07%) LDAP
3 32 (4.27%) SailPoint
4 30 (4.00%) OAuth
4 30 (4.00%) SAML
5 24 (3.20%) OpenID
6 21 (2.80%) OAuth2
7 14 (1.87%) REST
8 13 (1.73%) Web Services
9 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (1.07%) JSON
11 7 (0.93%) Middleware
12 5 (0.67%) ARM Templates
12 5 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (0.67%) Kafka
12 5 (0.67%) RESTful
13 4 (0.53%) JWT
13 4 (0.53%) Node.js
13 4 (0.53%) Playwright
13 4 (0.53%) React
Miscellaneous
1 79 (10.53%) Operational Technology
2 78 (10.40%) Onboarding
3 62 (8.27%) Security Posture
4 61 (8.13%) Management Information System
5 59 (7.87%) Cyber Threat
6 57 (7.60%) Cloud Native
7 26 (3.47%) PKI
8 25 (3.33%) Data Centre
9 24 (3.20%) SCADA
10 19 (2.53%) Security Operations Centre
11 18 (2.40%) Cyber Defence
11 18 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (2.40%) IoT
12 13 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (1.73%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.33%) NHS
14 8 (1.07%) Industrial Internet of Things
14 8 (1.07%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 109 (14.53%) Windows
2 68 (9.07%) Linux
3 36 (4.80%) Unix
4 32 (4.27%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.93%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.67%) CentOS
9 3 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
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 2008
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (57.20%) Cybersecurity
2 209 (27.87%) Risk Management
3 198 (26.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 193 (25.73%) Information Security
5 179 (23.87%) SIEM
6 154 (20.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 152 (20.27%) Vulnerability Management
8 149 (19.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 141 (18.80%) Security Architecture
10 140 (18.67%) Incident Response
11 130 (17.33%) Cloud Security
12 112 (14.93%) Security Operations
13 102 (13.60%) ITSM
14 100 (13.33%) Roadmaps
15 93 (12.40%) Identity Access Management
16 86 (11.47%) Problem-Solving
16 86 (11.47%) Zero Trust
17 83 (11.07%) DevOps
17 83 (11.07%) RBAC
18 77 (10.27%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 112 (14.93%) PowerShell
2 100 (13.33%) Python
3 33 (4.40%) Bash
4 15 (2.00%) SQL
5 14 (1.87%) Bicep
6 8 (1.07%) Java
7 6 (0.80%) BeanShell
7 6 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (0.80%) Perl
8 5 (0.67%) Go
9 2 (0.27%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.13%) Korn
10 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 287 (38.27%) Security Cleared
2 216 (28.80%) SC Cleared
3 205 (27.33%) CISSP
4 155 (20.67%) CISM
5 89 (11.87%) Degree
6 68 (9.07%) DV Cleared
7 65 (8.67%) Cisco Certification
8 64 (8.53%) CRISC
9 57 (7.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 45 (6.00%) CISA
11 34 (4.53%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 33 (4.40%) Azure Certification
13 31 (4.13%) CCSP
13 31 (4.13%) CompTIA Security+
14 30 (4.00%) GIAC
15 27 (3.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 26 (3.47%) CEH
16 26 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
17 23 (3.07%) PMI Certification
18 22 (2.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 474 (63.20%) NIST
2 138 (18.40%) GDPR
3 134 (17.87%) GRC
4 107 (14.27%) NCSC
5 96 (12.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 72 (9.60%) PCI DSS
7 45 (6.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 42 (5.60%) SOC 2
9 34 (4.53%) NIST 800
10 31 (4.13%) COBIT
11 27 (3.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 23 (3.07%) Data Quality
12 23 (3.07%) HIPAA
13 19 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 18 (2.40%) ISO 22301
14 18 (2.40%) ISO 9001
15 16 (2.13%) ISO 31000
16 14 (1.87%) QA
17 13 (1.73%) JSP 440
18 11 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 151 (20.13%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.80%) Docker
3 13 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.07%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.67%) ISA Server
6 4 (0.53%) Firmware
7 3 (0.40%) vSphere
8 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.13%) Ceph
9 1 (0.13%) KVM
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (6.27%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (3.47%) Ansible
4 18 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.07%) QRadar
6 7 (0.93%) CASB
7 4 (0.53%) Argo
7 4 (0.53%) Grafana
7 4 (0.53%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.40%) Nessus
8 3 (0.40%) Podman
8 3 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.40%) Puppet
9 2 (0.27%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.27%) Istio
9 2 (0.27%) Nexpose
9 2 (0.27%) SCCM
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 194 (25.87%) Microsoft
2 68 (9.07%) CyberArk
3 51 (6.80%) ServiceNow
4 31 (4.13%) BeyondTrust
5 30 (4.00%) Oracle
6 29 (3.87%) Google
7 27 (3.60%) Splunk
8 23 (3.07%) CrowdStrike
9 21 (2.80%) Cisco
9 21 (2.80%) Qualys
10 18 (2.40%) Palo Alto
11 17 (2.27%) Rapid7
12 15 (2.00%) VMware
13 14 (1.87%) Okta
14 12 (1.60%) SAP
14 12 (1.60%) Tenable
15 9 (1.20%) Tripwire
16 8 (1.07%) Databricks
16 8 (1.07%) F5
16 8 (1.07%) SolarWinds