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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 207 167
Rank change year-on-year +74 -40 +143
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 657 369 613
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.15% 1.20% 1.58%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.24% 8.81% 11.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 246 458
10th Percentile £375 £414 £425
25th Percentile £448 £500 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £584 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.06% -2.71% -
75th Percentile £648 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £537 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.61% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 7 16
10th Percentile - £25.80 -
25th Percentile £33.50 £35.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £61.50 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.46% +31.54% +43.85%
75th Percentile £63.38 £80.80 £78.36
90th Percentile £94.38 £87.92 £85.04
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £52.77 £46.75
% change year-on-year -31.78% +12.87% +43.85%

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 5,366 4,187 5,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.57% 13.58% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,474 2,435 3,712
10th Percentile £313 £288 £320
25th Percentile £404 £394 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 180 224
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.26 £15.27
25th Percentile £17.69 £17.41 £21.44
Median hourly rate £25.63 £29.00 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.62% -25.64% +71.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.78 £67.63
90th Percentile £79.90 £70.00 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £26.31 £26.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -0.74% -26.39% +53.19%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 +51 274 £550 -8.33% 135
South East +53 129 £500 -13.04% 142
North of England -1 73 £516 -11.75% 45
Midlands +8 60 £464 -7.25% 48
South West +39 59 £550 -15.38% 47
Yorkshire +8 45 £500 -20.95% 12
West Midlands -1 34 £538 +7.50% 28
East of England +6 27 £553 -5.87% 21
East Midlands +3 26 £450 -10.10% 20
North West -17 24 £600 +1.27% 29
North East -4 4 £403 +15.00% 4
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 29 (4.41%) SharePoint
2 27 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.74%) Confluence
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.15%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 27 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.07%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.46%) Maximo
3 2 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle CRM
4 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 290 (44.14%) Azure
2 216 (32.88%) AWS
3 120 (18.26%) GCP
4 84 (12.79%) Entra ID
5 70 (10.65%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (7.91%) Azure Sentinel
7 36 (5.48%) SaaS
8 25 (3.81%) Microsoft Purview
9 23 (3.50%) GitHub
10 22 (3.35%) Power Platform
11 20 (3.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (2.59%) OneDrive
14 16 (2.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 16 (2.44%) IaaS
15 15 (2.28%) PaaS
15 15 (2.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 14 (2.13%) OpenShift
17 13 (1.98%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 93 (14.16%) Firewall
2 63 (9.59%) Network Security
3 35 (5.33%) VPN
4 16 (2.44%) DNS
4 16 (2.44%) WAN
5 15 (2.28%) SD-WAN
6 11 (1.67%) DHCP
6 11 (1.67%) LAN
6 11 (1.67%) Wireless
7 9 (1.37%) Intrusion Detection
7 9 (1.37%) VLAN
8 8 (1.22%) BGP
8 8 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (1.22%) Kerberos
8 8 (1.22%) OSPF
9 6 (0.91%) MPLS
9 6 (0.91%) WLAN
10 5 (0.76%) EIGRP
10 5 (0.76%) IPv4
10 5 (0.76%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.74%) Power BI
2 8 (1.22%) Tableau
3 6 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.91%) Delta Lake
4 5 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.76%) Metadata
5 4 (0.61%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.46%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.30%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.30%) MySQL
7 2 (0.30%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.30%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 48 (7.31%) JIRA
2 12 (1.83%) GitLab
3 11 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.52%) Git
5 9 (1.37%) Snyk
6 8 (1.22%) Burp Suite
6 8 (1.22%) Metasploit
7 6 (0.91%) CircleCI
7 6 (0.91%) Postman
7 6 (0.91%) SoapUI
8 3 (0.46%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.30%) ERwin
9 2 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.15%) Ant
10 1 (0.15%) JMeter
10 1 (0.15%) MSTest
10 1 (0.15%) Selenium
10 1 (0.15%) TestDirector
10 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 285 (43.38%) Social Skills
2 123 (18.72%) Finance
3 80 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
3 80 (12.18%) Public Sector
4 40 (6.09%) Documentation Skills
4 40 (6.09%) Legal
5 24 (3.65%) Banking
5 24 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
5 24 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
6 22 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (2.44%) Telecoms
8 15 (2.28%) Manufacturing
9 12 (1.83%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.67%) Law
10 11 (1.67%) Marketing
11 10 (1.52%) Electronics
11 10 (1.52%) Local Government
11 10 (1.52%) Police
12 7 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 110 (16.74%) Architect
2 105 (15.98%) Analyst
3 74 (11.26%) Consultant
4 58 (8.83%) Security Architect
5 56 (8.52%) Security Engineer
6 53 (8.07%) Senior
7 45 (6.85%) Security Analyst
8 38 (5.78%) Lead
8 38 (5.78%) Security Consultant
9 29 (4.41%) Security Specialist
10 22 (3.35%) Security Manager
10 22 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
11 20 (3.04%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 16 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (2.44%) Tester
13 15 (2.28%) Cloud Architect
14 14 (2.13%) Azure Architect
14 14 (2.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 14 (2.13%) Security Advisor
14 14 (2.13%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (5.78%) LDAP
2 25 (3.81%) OAuth
3 23 (3.50%) SAML
4 22 (3.35%) SailPoint
5 16 (2.44%) OpenID
6 11 (1.67%) OAuth2
7 10 (1.52%) REST
8 8 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.07%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.91%) Loki
11 5 (0.76%) AWS CDK
12 4 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (0.61%) Google JAX
12 4 (0.61%) JAX
12 4 (0.61%) PyTorch
12 4 (0.61%) scikit-learn
12 4 (0.61%) TensorFlow
13 3 (0.46%) GraphQL
13 3 (0.46%) Next.js
13 3 (0.46%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 81 (12.33%) Security Posture
2 62 (9.44%) Management Information System
3 47 (7.15%) Cloud Native
4 37 (5.63%) Cyber Threat
5 25 (3.81%) Security Operations Centre
6 22 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (3.20%) Onboarding
8 17 (2.59%) Data Centre
8 17 (2.59%) Operational Technology
9 16 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.98%) Cloud Security Posture
10 13 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.98%) NHS
11 12 (1.83%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.67%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 9 (1.37%) SCADA
14 8 (1.22%) CSOC
14 8 (1.22%) PKI
15 6 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 58 (8.83%) Windows
2 32 (4.87%) Linux
3 16 (2.44%) Mac OS
4 11 (1.67%) Windows 10
5 9 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.61%) AIX
6 4 (0.61%) Solaris
7 2 (0.30%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.30%) VMS
8 1 (0.15%) Android
8 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (40.33%) Cybersecurity
2 166 (25.27%) Cloud Security
3 165 (25.11%) Information Security
4 162 (24.66%) Incident Response
5 153 (23.29%) Risk Management
6 139 (21.16%) SIEM
7 116 (17.66%) CI/CD
8 114 (17.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 110 (16.74%) DevOps
9 110 (16.74%) Stakeholder Management
10 96 (14.61%) Zero Trust
11 91 (13.85%) Identity Access Management
12 86 (13.09%) DevSecOps
12 86 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
13 83 (12.63%) Security Operations
14 82 (12.48%) Threat Modelling
15 77 (11.72%) Security Architecture
16 75 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 75 (11.42%) Infrastructure as Code
17 73 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 121 (18.42%) PowerShell
2 79 (12.02%) Python
3 34 (5.18%) Bash
4 22 (3.35%) Bicep
5 13 (1.98%) SQL
6 10 (1.52%) Java
7 8 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (0.76%) C
8 5 (0.76%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.61%) C++
9 4 (0.61%) R
9 4 (0.61%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.30%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.30%) Go
10 2 (0.30%) Rust
10 2 (0.30%) Solidity
11 1 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 212 (32.27%) CISSP
2 191 (29.07%) Security Cleared
3 157 (23.90%) CISM
4 152 (23.14%) SC Cleared
5 87 (13.24%) Degree
6 44 (6.70%) CISA
7 43 (6.54%) Cisco Certification
8 40 (6.09%) Azure Certification
9 37 (5.63%) DV Cleared
9 37 (5.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 36 (5.48%) AWS Certification
11 33 (5.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 28 (4.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 28 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
13 27 (4.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 25 (3.81%) CEH
15 23 (3.50%) CCSP
15 23 (3.50%) Master's Degree
16 19 (2.89%) CompTIA Security+
17 18 (2.74%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 394 (59.97%) NIST
2 256 (38.96%) GDPR
3 87 (13.24%) PCI DSS
4 72 (10.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 67 (10.20%) NCSC
6 62 (9.44%) GRC
7 43 (6.54%) COBIT
8 37 (5.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 35 (5.33%) NIST 800
10 34 (5.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 33 (5.02%) SOC 2
12 22 (3.35%) HIPAA
13 21 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 19 (2.89%) QA
15 16 (2.44%) JSP 440
16 14 (2.13%) ISO 9001
16 14 (2.13%) RMADS
17 11 (1.67%) Def Stans
17 11 (1.67%) ITGC
17 11 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 91 (13.85%) Active Directory
2 30 (4.57%) Docker
3 14 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.61%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.46%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) Snort
7 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (9.59%) Terraform
2 54 (8.22%) Kubernetes
3 39 (5.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (3.50%) SCCM
6 18 (2.74%) Ansible
7 14 (2.13%) RSA Archer
8 13 (1.98%) QRadar
9 11 (1.67%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (1.37%) Fluentd
11 8 (1.22%) Nessus
12 6 (0.91%) Grafana
12 6 (0.91%) Nmap
12 6 (0.91%) PingFederate
13 5 (0.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 5 (0.76%) CSIRT
14 4 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (0.46%) CASB
16 2 (0.30%) logstash
Vendors
1 168 (25.57%) Microsoft
2 47 (7.15%) Splunk
3 46 (7.00%) CyberArk
4 34 (5.18%) BeyondTrust
5 26 (3.96%) ServiceNow
6 24 (3.65%) Google
7 23 (3.50%) Cisco
8 22 (3.35%) SAP
9 21 (3.20%) Oracle
10 20 (3.04%) Rapid7
11 18 (2.74%) VMware
12 17 (2.59%) Fortinet
13 16 (2.44%) CrowdStrike
13 16 (2.44%) Palo Alto
14 13 (1.98%) Tenable
15 12 (1.83%) ArcSight
15 12 (1.83%) Citrix
16 11 (1.67%) Okta
16 11 (1.67%) Thycotic
17 10 (1.52%) Qualys
362 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England