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

 6 months to
5 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 175 237
Rank change year-on-year +18 +62 -13
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 700 376 359
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.56% 0.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.93% 9.61% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 250 278
10th Percentile £413 £313 £363
25th Percentile £483 £478 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £672 £650 £670
90th Percentile £774 £752 £754
UK median daily rate £550 £559 £575
% change year-on-year -1.61% -2.78% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 9 2
10th Percentile £43.50 £29.11 -
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +123.62% -60.71%
75th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £82.72 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +2.67% +123.62% -59.00%

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 7,049 3,911 5,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.80% 16.24% 13.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,569 2,515 3,215
10th Percentile £350 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £601 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 452 162 370
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.55 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.64 £22.14 £13.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +44.96% -44.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.99 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £32.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year +10.98% +41.30% -39.07%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +8 304 £575 - 190
South East +29 210 £563 -6.25% 128
North of England -53 65 £540 -1.82% 90
Midlands -29 49 £500 - 54
West Midlands -36 40 £500 -13.04% 40
North West -14 37 £562 +2.14% 55
South West -22 37 £600 +4.35% 58
Yorkshire -42 27 £520 +41.50% 23
East of England -26 15 £505 -3.26% 26
East Midlands -21 9 £442 -1.94% 14
North East -34 1 £400 -42.86% 12
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 19 (2.71%) Confluence
2 16 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.86%) IIS
5 3 (0.43%) Apache
5 3 (0.43%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
6 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.86%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.71%) Maximo
1 5 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.14%) iTrent
3 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 252 (36.00%) Azure
2 180 (25.71%) AWS
3 89 (12.71%) GCP
4 88 (12.57%) Entra ID
5 69 (9.86%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (4.29%) Azure Sentinel
7 29 (4.14%) Microsoft Purview
8 26 (3.71%) Serverless
9 24 (3.43%) OpenShift
10 23 (3.29%) SaaS
11 21 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (3.00%) GitHub
12 16 (2.29%) Power Platform
13 15 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (2.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 14 (2.00%) OCI
15 13 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
17 11 (1.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 11 (1.57%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (8.86%) Firewall
2 57 (8.14%) Network Security
3 33 (4.71%) VPN
4 15 (2.14%) DNS
5 10 (1.43%) Wireless
6 9 (1.29%) BGP
6 9 (1.29%) HTTP
6 9 (1.29%) NGFW
7 8 (1.14%) MPLS
7 8 (1.14%) WAN
8 7 (1.00%) DHCP
9 6 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.86%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (0.86%) LAN
9 6 (0.86%) Reverse Proxy
9 6 (0.86%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.86%) SSH
9 6 (0.86%) TACACS
9 6 (0.86%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.86%) SQL Server
2 14 (2.00%) Power BI
3 12 (1.71%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.00%) Metadata
6 6 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (0.86%) MySQL
7 5 (0.71%) Big Data
7 5 (0.71%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.57%) DocumentDB
8 4 (0.57%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.57%) Redis
9 3 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.43%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.29%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 23 (3.29%) JIRA
2 21 (3.00%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.71%) Burp Suite
4 11 (1.57%) Metasploit
5 6 (0.86%) GitLab
6 2 (0.29%) JMeter
6 2 (0.29%) MSTest
6 2 (0.29%) Selenium
6 2 (0.29%) Snyk
7 1 (0.14%) AppScan
7 1 (0.14%) Git
7 1 (0.14%) MSI
7 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.14%) sqlmap
General
1 250 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 131 (18.71%) Finance
3 92 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 68 (9.71%) Documentation Skills
6 47 (6.71%) Legal
7 29 (4.14%) Banking
8 26 (3.71%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.43%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.14%) Aerospace
11 15 (2.14%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.43%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.29%) Law
14 8 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.14%) Military
14 8 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.14%) Retail
15 4 (0.57%) Marketing
16 3 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 128 (18.29%) Architect
2 86 (12.29%) Analyst
3 75 (10.71%) Consultant
4 54 (7.71%) Security Architect
5 50 (7.14%) Security Engineer
6 48 (6.86%) Security Consultant
7 45 (6.43%) Lead
8 44 (6.29%) Project Manager
9 39 (5.57%) Security Manager
10 37 (5.29%) Security Analyst
11 35 (5.00%) Senior
12 27 (3.86%) Security Specialist
13 25 (3.57%) Business Analyst
14 22 (3.14%) Cloud Architect
15 20 (2.86%) CyberArk Architect
15 20 (2.86%) Security Project Manager
16 19 (2.71%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 18 (2.57%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 18 (2.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 17 (2.43%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.71%) LDAP
2 38 (5.43%) OpenID
2 38 (5.43%) SAML
3 31 (4.43%) OAuth
4 19 (2.71%) OAuth2
5 16 (2.29%) REST
6 13 (1.86%) SailPoint
7 11 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
8 10 (1.43%) Kafka
9 9 (1.29%) Middleware
10 8 (1.14%) RESTful
11 7 (1.00%) ARM Templates
11 7 (1.00%) Web Services
12 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
13 5 (0.71%) Spring
13 5 (0.71%) Spring Boot
14 4 (0.57%) 802.1X
14 4 (0.57%) Hibernate
14 4 (0.57%) JPA
14 4 (0.57%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 76 (10.86%) Onboarding
2 64 (9.14%) Operational Technology
3 63 (9.00%) Cloud Native
4 49 (7.00%) Management Information System
5 48 (6.86%) Security Posture
6 25 (3.57%) SCADA
7 21 (3.00%) Data Centre
7 21 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (3.00%) PKI
8 20 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (2.57%) Product Ownership
10 14 (2.00%) CMDB
11 13 (1.86%) Security Operations Centre
11 13 (1.86%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.43%) BYOD
14 10 (1.43%) Cyber Defence
15 9 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
15 9 (1.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 113 (16.14%) Windows
2 69 (9.86%) Linux
3 36 (5.14%) Windows Server
4 32 (4.57%) Unix
5 10 (1.43%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.14%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.86%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.29%) AIX
9 2 (0.29%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.29%) CentOS
9 2 (0.29%) Solaris
9 2 (0.29%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Rocky
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (49.14%) Cybersecurity
2 205 (29.29%) Information Security
3 167 (23.86%) Risk Management
4 151 (21.57%) SIEM
5 139 (19.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 130 (18.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 128 (18.29%) Cloud Security
8 118 (16.86%) DevOps
9 108 (15.43%) CI/CD
10 106 (15.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 106 (15.14%) Security Architecture
11 96 (13.71%) Incident Response
12 95 (13.57%) Threat Modelling
13 91 (13.00%) Vulnerability Management
14 89 (12.71%) Roadmaps
15 88 (12.57%) Agile
15 88 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
15 88 (12.57%) Security Operations
16 84 (12.00%) Data Protection
17 80 (11.43%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 98 (14.00%) PowerShell
2 88 (12.57%) Python
3 28 (4.00%) SQL
4 23 (3.29%) Bash
5 15 (2.14%) Bicep
6 8 (1.14%) Java
7 4 (0.57%) C#
7 4 (0.57%) Go
7 4 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (0.57%) PHP
8 3 (0.43%) Ruby
9 2 (0.29%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.14%) Lisp
10 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 270 (38.57%) Security Cleared
2 213 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 176 (25.14%) CISSP
4 132 (18.86%) CISM
5 107 (15.29%) Degree
6 60 (8.57%) DV Cleared
7 48 (6.86%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (5.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 36 (5.14%) CRISC
9 36 (5.14%) PMI Certification
10 34 (4.86%) GIAC
10 34 (4.86%) PMP
11 33 (4.71%) CISA
12 28 (4.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 27 (3.86%) Azure Certification
14 26 (3.71%) CEH
15 24 (3.43%) CompTIA Security+
16 23 (3.29%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 21 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
18 20 (2.86%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 451 (64.43%) NIST
2 192 (27.43%) GDPR
3 86 (12.29%) PCI DSS
4 85 (12.14%) GRC
5 78 (11.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 78 (11.14%) NCSC
6 57 (8.14%) SOC 2
7 48 (6.86%) COBIT
8 35 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 31 (4.43%) NIST 800
10 26 (3.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 20 (2.86%) Data Quality
12 18 (2.57%) QA
13 16 (2.29%) HIPAA
14 15 (2.14%) JSP 440
14 15 (2.14%) SLA
15 14 (2.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 14 (2.00%) ISO 31000
15 14 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 13 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 105 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.29%) Docker
2 23 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.71%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.14%) Ceph
6 1 (0.14%) GPFS
6 1 (0.14%) KVM
6 1 (0.14%) Lustre
6 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.14%) Varnish
6 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (7.86%) Kubernetes
2 47 (6.71%) Terraform
3 27 (3.86%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (2.43%) Ansible
6 9 (1.29%) Nmap
7 7 (1.00%) Grafana
7 7 (1.00%) Nessus
8 6 (0.86%) CASB
8 6 (0.86%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.71%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.71%) SCCM
10 4 (0.57%) QRadar
11 3 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.43%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.43%) OpenVAS
11 3 (0.43%) Podman
11 3 (0.43%) Puppet
11 3 (0.43%) SCOM
12 2 (0.29%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 141 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 74 (10.57%) CyberArk
3 37 (5.29%) BeyondTrust
4 36 (5.14%) ServiceNow
4 36 (5.14%) Splunk
5 34 (4.86%) Oracle
6 25 (3.57%) Cisco
7 24 (3.43%) VMware
8 19 (2.71%) Google
9 13 (1.86%) Qualys
10 11 (1.57%) Tenable
11 9 (1.29%) Fortinet
11 9 (1.29%) Rapid7
12 8 (1.14%) Palo Alto
12 8 (1.14%) SAP
13 7 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (1.00%) IBM
13 7 (1.00%) Okta
13 7 (1.00%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.86%) Zscaler
513 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England