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

 6 months to
25 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 194 215
Rank change year-on-year +57 +21 +40
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 727 319 413
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.94% 1.31% 1.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.14% 8.49% 7.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 201 319
10th Percentile £413 £400 £363
25th Percentile £463 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £658 £675 £673
90th Percentile £770 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 2
10th Percentile £31.13 £47.33 £83.77
25th Percentile £36.00 £60.75 £84.31
Median hourly rate £81.00 £67.55 £85.21
Median % change year-on-year +19.92% -20.72% +21.72%
75th Percentile £83.00 £82.00 £86.10
90th Percentile £84.00 £84.38 £86.64
UK median hourly rate £81.00 £73.60 £85.21
% change year-on-year +10.05% -13.62% +21.72%

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 6,528 3,756 5,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.40% 15.47% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,234 2,426 3,426
10th Percentile £340 £263 £304
25th Percentile £413 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £704 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 384 161 335
10th Percentile £15.40 £17.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.41
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +36.17% -44.71%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.40 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £29.77 £31.76 £22.01
% change year-on-year -6.28% +44.30% -44.98%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +33 308 £575 -4.17% 122
South East +36 182 £525 -4.55% 93
North of England -14 81 £540 -10.00% 69
Midlands -30 59 £500 +5.26% 36
South West +8 47 £531 -15.00% 46
West Midlands -24 45 £500 -4.76% 27
North West -8 39 £577 -9.88% 43
Yorkshire -30 37 £500 -11.11% 19
East of England -25 19 £553 +8.54% 20
East Midlands -23 14 £442 +10.56% 9
North East -13 5 £400 -17.95% 7
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 (3.16%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.75%) Confluence
3 18 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.83%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.28%) Apache
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.51%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.96%) Maximo
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 262 (36.04%) Azure
2 217 (29.85%) AWS
3 99 (13.62%) GCP
4 69 (9.49%) Entra ID
5 51 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (5.23%) Azure Sentinel
7 30 (4.13%) OpenShift
8 26 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (3.58%) Microsoft Purview
9 23 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (3.16%) Serverless
10 21 (2.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 19 (2.61%) OCI
12 18 (2.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 18 (2.48%) GitHub
13 17 (2.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 16 (2.20%) Power Platform
15 15 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (2.06%) SaaS
16 14 (1.93%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (12.52%) Firewall
2 67 (9.22%) Network Security
3 48 (6.60%) VPN
4 22 (3.03%) Wireless
5 20 (2.75%) DNS
6 17 (2.34%) WAN
7 15 (2.06%) LAN
8 14 (1.93%) BGP
8 14 (1.93%) SD-WAN
9 13 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
9 13 (1.79%) DHCP
9 13 (1.79%) MPLS
10 9 (1.24%) IPv6
11 8 (1.10%) HTTP
11 8 (1.10%) IPv4
11 8 (1.10%) NGFW
11 8 (1.10%) OSPF
12 6 (0.83%) S/MIME
12 6 (0.83%) TACACS
12 6 (0.83%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.65%) Power BI
2 8 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.96%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.83%) DynamoDB
5 5 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (0.69%) Big Data
5 5 (0.69%) Metadata
5 5 (0.69%) Oracle Database
5 5 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.69%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.55%) DocumentDB
6 4 (0.55%) MySQL
6 4 (0.55%) Redis
7 3 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.41%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.28%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 24 (3.30%) Jenkins
1 24 (3.30%) JIRA
2 20 (2.75%) Metasploit
3 19 (2.61%) Burp Suite
4 11 (1.51%) GitLab
5 7 (0.96%) Git
6 3 (0.41%) JMeter
6 3 (0.41%) MSTest
6 3 (0.41%) Selenium
7 1 (0.14%) AppScan
7 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.14%) Snyk
7 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.14%) sqlmap
7 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 277 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 121 (16.64%) Finance
3 88 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (11.97%) Public Sector
5 63 (8.67%) Documentation Skills
6 49 (6.74%) Legal
7 33 (4.54%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (3.58%) Banking
9 16 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (2.06%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.06%) Law
11 13 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.65%) Aerospace
12 12 (1.65%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.10%) Marketing
13 8 (1.10%) Police
14 6 (0.83%) Retail
15 5 (0.69%) Aviation
16 4 (0.55%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 130 (17.88%) Architect
2 95 (13.07%) Analyst
3 86 (11.83%) Consultant
4 62 (8.53%) Security Engineer
5 58 (7.98%) Security Architect
6 47 (6.46%) Security Consultant
6 47 (6.46%) Senior
7 40 (5.50%) Security Analyst
8 39 (5.36%) Lead
9 37 (5.09%) Project Manager
10 35 (4.81%) Security Manager
11 21 (2.89%) Azure Engineer
11 21 (2.89%) Business Analyst
12 20 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
12 20 (2.75%) Tester
13 19 (2.61%) CyberArk Architect
13 19 (2.61%) Penetration Tester
13 19 (2.61%) Security Specialist
14 18 (2.48%) Cloud Architect
15 17 (2.34%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.57%) LDAP
2 36 (4.95%) OpenID
3 35 (4.81%) SAML
4 30 (4.13%) OAuth
5 17 (2.34%) OAuth2
5 17 (2.34%) Oracle Fusion
6 15 (2.06%) REST
7 11 (1.51%) ARM Templates
8 10 (1.38%) SailPoint
9 9 (1.24%) Kafka
9 9 (1.24%) Middleware
10 8 (1.10%) RESTful
11 6 (0.83%) AWS CDK
12 5 (0.69%) .NET
12 5 (0.69%) Node.js
12 5 (0.69%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (0.69%) Spring
13 4 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (0.55%) Hibernate
13 4 (0.55%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 65 (8.94%) Onboarding
2 62 (8.53%) Security Posture
3 55 (7.57%) Cloud Native
4 44 (6.05%) Management Information System
5 40 (5.50%) Operational Technology
6 26 (3.58%) Data Centre
7 24 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 22 (3.03%) Product Ownership
8 22 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
9 19 (2.61%) Cyber Threat
10 18 (2.48%) SCADA
11 16 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (2.20%) PKI
12 14 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.65%) Public Cloud
14 11 (1.51%) BYOD
15 10 (1.38%) CMDB
15 10 (1.38%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 80 (11.00%) Windows
2 46 (6.33%) Linux
3 23 (3.16%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.24%) Unix
5 7 (0.96%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.96%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.96%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.55%) AIX
6 4 (0.55%) Solaris
7 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.28%) Android
8 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) CentOS
9 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.14%) Rocky
9 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (44.02%) Cybersecurity
2 203 (27.92%) Information Security
3 161 (22.15%) Cloud Security
4 152 (20.91%) Risk Management
5 146 (20.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 139 (19.12%) SIEM
7 136 (18.71%) CI/CD
8 135 (18.57%) DevOps
9 121 (16.64%) Incident Response
10 114 (15.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 107 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 100 (13.76%) Threat Modelling
13 94 (12.93%) Security Operations
14 93 (12.79%) Zero Trust
15 89 (12.24%) Agile
16 86 (11.83%) Security Architecture
17 84 (11.55%) Data Protection
18 82 (11.28%) Infrastructure as Code
18 82 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
19 78 (10.73%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 100 (13.76%) PowerShell
2 84 (11.55%) Python
3 20 (2.75%) Bicep
3 20 (2.75%) SQL
4 14 (1.93%) Bash
5 10 (1.38%) Java
5 10 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (0.55%) C#
6 4 (0.55%) Go
6 4 (0.55%) PHP
7 3 (0.41%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.28%) C
8 2 (0.28%) Rust
8 2 (0.28%) Solidity
8 2 (0.28%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.14%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.14%) Lisp
9 1 (0.14%) Ruby
9 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 284 (39.06%) Security Cleared
2 226 (31.09%) SC Cleared
3 187 (25.72%) CISSP
4 138 (18.98%) CISM
5 93 (12.79%) Degree
6 65 (8.94%) DV Cleared
7 47 (6.46%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (4.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 32 (4.40%) Azure Certification
10 30 (4.13%) AWS Certification
10 30 (4.13%) CISA
10 30 (4.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 27 (3.71%) CEH
11 27 (3.71%) PMI Certification
12 26 (3.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 26 (3.58%) PMP
13 25 (3.44%) GIAC
14 23 (3.16%) CompTIA Security+
15 22 (3.03%) CCSP
16 21 (2.89%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 450 (61.90%) NIST
2 249 (34.25%) GDPR
3 105 (14.44%) PCI DSS
4 96 (13.20%) NCSC
5 80 (11.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 76 (10.45%) GRC
7 49 (6.74%) COBIT
7 49 (6.74%) SOC 2
8 41 (5.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 36 (4.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 32 (4.40%) NIST 800
11 28 (3.85%) QA
12 25 (3.44%) JSP 440
13 19 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 17 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 17 (2.34%) PMO
15 15 (2.06%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 15 (2.06%) SLA
16 11 (1.51%) HIPAA
16 11 (1.51%) RMADS
System Software
1 88 (12.10%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.16%) Docker
3 20 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.83%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.55%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.14%) Firmware
8 1 (0.14%) GPFS
8 1 (0.14%) Lustre
8 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Varnish
8 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (9.08%) Kubernetes
2 59 (8.12%) Terraform
3 28 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
4 26 (3.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (2.61%) Ansible
6 17 (2.34%) Nmap
7 11 (1.51%) Nessus
8 10 (1.38%) SCCM
9 8 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.96%) CASB
10 7 (0.96%) Grafana
11 6 (0.83%) Fluentd
11 6 (0.83%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.69%) Prometheus
13 4 (0.55%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.55%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.55%) QRadar
13 4 (0.55%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.41%) OpenVAS
14 3 (0.41%) SCOM
Vendors
1 126 (17.33%) Microsoft
2 81 (11.14%) CyberArk
3 47 (6.46%) Splunk
4 41 (5.64%) BeyondTrust
5 33 (4.54%) ServiceNow
6 32 (4.40%) Cisco
6 32 (4.40%) Oracle
7 22 (3.03%) VMware
8 19 (2.61%) SAP
9 18 (2.48%) Fortinet
9 18 (2.48%) Google
10 13 (1.79%) Palo Alto
11 11 (1.51%) IBM
11 11 (1.51%) Qualys
11 11 (1.51%) Rapid7
11 11 (1.51%) Tenable
12 10 (1.38%) Okta
13 7 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (0.96%) Ping Identity
13 7 (0.96%) Zscaler
353 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England