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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 138 224
Rank change year-on-year -37 +86 -62
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 760 560 358
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 2.01% 1.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.19% 11.61% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 378 260
10th Percentile £413 £350 £412
25th Percentile £478 £447 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £741
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 19 4
10th Percentile £43.81 £30.39 -
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 £52.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.11 £78.00 -
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 8,271 4,825 4,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.77% 17.32% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,185 3,152 2,531
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.46%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £720 £756
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +0.24% -0.99% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 603 228 208
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year - -2.99% -6.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.49 £65.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.83 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.40 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.98% +9.09% -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 25 September 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 September 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 September 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 -23 348 £575 +4.31% 627
South East -5 193 £530 -3.64% 191
North of England -42 80 £495 -2.94% 150
South West -39 54 £525 -14.29% 87
North West -31 48 £525 -4.55% 96
Midlands -45 43 £500 +7.82% 73
West Midlands -19 39 £500 -13.04% 51
Yorkshire -44 30 £469 +1.90% 34
East of England -26 29 £515 -1.90% 43
East Midlands -31 4 - - 22
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 18 (2.37%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.71%) IIS
3 11 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.32%) Confluence
5 3 (0.39%) Apache
6 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.79%) 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
1 277 (36.45%) Azure
2 167 (21.97%) AWS
3 134 (17.63%) Entra ID
4 93 (12.24%) GCP
5 80 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
6 44 (5.79%) SaaS
7 35 (4.61%) Azure Sentinel
8 28 (3.68%) Microsoft Purview
9 26 (3.42%) GitHub
10 25 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (3.03%) OCI
12 18 (2.37%) Power Platform
13 17 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (2.11%) Serverless
14 16 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (1.84%) Azure Key Vault
16 12 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (1.58%) IaaS
16 12 (1.58%) PaaS
17 11 (1.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 63 (8.29%) Firewall
2 62 (8.16%) Network Security
3 22 (2.89%) VPN
4 14 (1.84%) DNS
5 10 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
5 10 (1.32%) Wireless
6 9 (1.18%) WAN
7 8 (1.05%) LAN
8 7 (0.92%) NGFW
8 7 (0.92%) SSL
8 7 (0.92%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.92%) X.509
9 6 (0.79%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.79%) Modbus
9 6 (0.79%) VLAN
10 5 (0.66%) Internet
10 5 (0.66%) IPsec
10 5 (0.66%) SAN
10 5 (0.66%) SSH
10 5 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.89%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.05%) Power BI
3 7 (0.92%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (0.79%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.26%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.26%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.26%) Metadata
6 2 (0.26%) MySQL
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
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 20 (2.63%) JIRA
2 17 (2.24%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.71%) GitLab
4 9 (1.18%) Git
5 5 (0.66%) Snyk
6 4 (0.53%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.39%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.39%) Selenium
7 3 (0.39%) TestRail
8 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.13%) MSI
General
1 296 (38.95%) Social Skills
2 112 (14.74%) Finance
3 96 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 61 (8.03%) Documentation Skills
6 42 (5.53%) Legal
7 35 (4.61%) Manufacturing
8 33 (4.34%) Aerospace
9 27 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (3.29%) Banking
11 23 (3.03%) Military
12 18 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.84%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.18%) Local Government
15 9 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.79%) Retail
18 5 (0.66%) Financial Institution
19 4 (0.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 155 (20.39%) Architect
2 103 (13.55%) Analyst
3 77 (10.13%) Lead
4 68 (8.95%) Consultant
5 67 (8.82%) Security Architect
6 49 (6.45%) Security Analyst
6 49 (6.45%) Security Engineer
6 49 (6.45%) Senior
7 38 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 37 (4.87%) Security Manager
9 33 (4.34%) Security Consultant
10 24 (3.16%) Security Specialist
11 23 (3.03%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 22 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
13 21 (2.76%) Project Manager
14 19 (2.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 18 (2.37%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 15 (1.97%) Cloud Engineer
16 15 (1.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 14 (1.84%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (7.89%) Terraform
2 55 (7.24%) LDAP
3 34 (4.47%) SAML
4 33 (4.34%) OAuth
5 32 (4.21%) SailPoint
6 27 (3.55%) OpenID
7 21 (2.76%) OAuth2
8 14 (1.84%) REST
9 13 (1.71%) Web Services
10 9 (1.18%) Microsoft Graph
11 8 (1.05%) Middleware
12 6 (0.79%) RESTful
13 5 (0.66%) ARM Templates
13 5 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (0.66%) Kafka
14 4 (0.53%) JSON
14 4 (0.53%) JWT
14 4 (0.53%) Node.js
14 4 (0.53%) Playwright
14 4 (0.53%) React
Miscellaneous
1 75 (9.87%) Onboarding
2 74 (9.74%) Operational Technology
3 61 (8.03%) Management Information System
3 61 (8.03%) Security Posture
4 56 (7.37%) Cloud Native
4 56 (7.37%) Cyber Threat
5 28 (3.68%) PKI
6 25 (3.29%) Data Centre
7 24 (3.16%) SCADA
8 18 (2.37%) Cyber Defence
8 18 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (2.37%) IoT
8 18 (2.37%) Security Operations Centre
9 15 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.58%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.45%) NHS
13 8 (1.05%) Industrial Internet of Things
13 8 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 109 (14.34%) Windows
2 69 (9.08%) Linux
3 35 (4.61%) Unix
3 35 (4.61%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.92%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.66%) CentOS
8 3 (0.39%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.26%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.13%) Android
10 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (56.45%) Cybersecurity
2 215 (28.29%) Risk Management
3 195 (25.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 187 (24.61%) Information Security
5 178 (23.42%) SIEM
6 152 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 148 (19.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 146 (19.21%) Vulnerability Management
9 145 (19.08%) Security Architecture
10 137 (18.03%) Incident Response
11 125 (16.45%) Cloud Security
12 112 (14.74%) Security Operations
13 105 (13.82%) ITSM
14 101 (13.29%) Roadmaps
15 95 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
16 92 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
17 87 (11.45%) Zero Trust
18 86 (11.32%) RBAC
19 85 (11.18%) DevOps
20 80 (10.53%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 115 (15.13%) PowerShell
2 100 (13.16%) Python
3 35 (4.61%) Bash
4 14 (1.84%) Bicep
5 13 (1.71%) SQL
6 8 (1.05%) Java
7 6 (0.79%) BeanShell
7 6 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (0.79%) Perl
8 5 (0.66%) Go
9 2 (0.26%) Ruby
10 1 (0.13%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.13%) Korn
10 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 291 (38.29%) Security Cleared
2 214 (28.16%) SC Cleared
3 199 (26.18%) CISSP
4 149 (19.61%) CISM
5 90 (11.84%) Degree
6 71 (9.34%) DV Cleared
7 65 (8.55%) Cisco Certification
8 56 (7.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 56 (7.37%) CRISC
9 35 (4.61%) CISA
10 34 (4.47%) Azure Certification
11 33 (4.34%) CompTIA Security+
12 31 (4.08%) GIAC
13 30 (3.95%) CEH
14 29 (3.82%) CCSP
15 27 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
16 25 (3.29%) PMI Certification
17 24 (3.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 24 (3.16%) PMP
18 21 (2.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 477 (62.76%) NIST
2 150 (19.74%) GDPR
3 127 (16.71%) GRC
4 102 (13.42%) NCSC
5 95 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 68 (8.95%) PCI DSS
7 46 (6.05%) SOC 2
8 44 (5.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 34 (4.47%) NIST 800
10 30 (3.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 29 (3.82%) COBIT
12 24 (3.16%) HIPAA
13 21 (2.76%) Data Quality
14 18 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 17 (2.24%) ISO 22301
15 17 (2.24%) ISO 9001
16 15 (1.97%) ISO 31000
17 14 (1.84%) JSP 440
17 14 (1.84%) QA
18 12 (1.58%) SLA
System Software
1 157 (20.66%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.76%) Docker
3 14 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.18%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.53%) Firmware
5 4 (0.53%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.39%) vSphere
7 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.13%) Ceph
8 1 (0.13%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 48 (6.32%) Kubernetes
2 32 (4.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (3.42%) Ansible
4 22 (2.89%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.92%) QRadar
6 6 (0.79%) CASB
7 4 (0.53%) Argo
7 4 (0.53%) Grafana
7 4 (0.53%) Podman
7 4 (0.53%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.39%) Nessus
8 3 (0.39%) Puppet
9 2 (0.26%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.26%) Istio
9 2 (0.26%) Nexpose
9 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.26%) SCCM
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 189 (24.87%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.21%) CyberArk
3 49 (6.45%) ServiceNow
4 31 (4.08%) BeyondTrust
4 31 (4.08%) Oracle
5 28 (3.68%) Google
6 23 (3.03%) Splunk
7 22 (2.89%) CrowdStrike
8 20 (2.63%) Cisco
8 20 (2.63%) Qualys
9 17 (2.24%) Palo Alto
10 16 (2.11%) VMware
11 14 (1.84%) Okta
11 14 (1.84%) Rapid7
12 12 (1.58%) SAP
12 12 (1.58%) Tenable
13 8 (1.05%) Databricks
13 8 (1.05%) F5
13 8 (1.05%) Tripwire
14 7 (0.92%) SolarWinds