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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
31 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 201 166
Rank change year-on-year +63 -35 +129
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 654 360 551
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.07% 1.27% 1.52%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.93% 8.96% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 232 412
10th Percentile £393 £401 £401
25th Percentile £450 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £787 £767
UK median daily rate £526 £576 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -3.96% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 15
10th Percentile - £30.40 -
25th Percentile £33.50 £35.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £73.60 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.09% +65.39% -11.00%
75th Percentile £55.56 £83.20 £78.36
90th Percentile £79.35 £85.56 £85.36
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £73.60 £44.50
% change year-on-year -51.09% +65.39% -11.00%

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 5,484 4,018 5,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.32% 14.20% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,567 2,336 3,506
10th Percentile £313 £265 £325
25th Percentile £406 £382 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £650
90th Percentile £703 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 160 216
10th Percentile £15.61 £14.70 £14.10
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.27 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.67 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.98% -9.14% +43.40%
75th Percentile £60.77 £64.73 £61.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £83.18
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -12.12% +45.47%

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 31 December 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 31 December 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 31 December 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 +39 281 £550 -8.33% 242
South East +47 128 £500 -9.09% 425
North of England +1 74 £500 -14.53% 333
South West +29 60 £494 -24.04% 202
Midlands 0 58 £475 -5.00% 277
Yorkshire -6 45 £500 +11.11% 142
West Midlands -14 35 £550 +10.00% 143
North West -11 24 £519 -13.54% 166
East Midlands +4 23 £450 +12.38% 117
East of England -12 19 £553 -3.83% 212
North East -6 5 £400 +14.29% 25
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 (3.52%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.99%) Confluence
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.31%) 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 28 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.07%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (0.92%) Maximo
1 6 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 288 (44.04%) Azure
2 218 (33.33%) AWS
3 104 (15.90%) GCP
4 79 (12.08%) Entra ID
5 67 (10.24%) Microsoft 365
6 48 (7.34%) Azure Sentinel
7 29 (4.43%) SaaS
8 23 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (3.52%) GitHub
9 21 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (3.06%) Microsoft Purview
11 19 (2.91%) OpenShift
12 17 (2.60%) Power Platform
12 17 (2.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (2.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 16 (2.45%) OCI
14 15 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (2.14%) Amazon S3
15 14 (2.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 97 (14.83%) Firewall
2 61 (9.33%) Network Security
3 41 (6.27%) VPN
4 17 (2.60%) Wireless
5 16 (2.45%) DNS
5 16 (2.45%) WAN
6 14 (2.14%) SD-WAN
7 12 (1.83%) LAN
8 10 (1.53%) DHCP
9 9 (1.38%) Intrusion Detection
10 7 (1.07%) BGP
10 7 (1.07%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (1.07%) Kerberos
10 7 (1.07%) OSPF
10 7 (1.07%) TCP/IP
10 7 (1.07%) VLAN
11 6 (0.92%) WLAN
12 5 (0.76%) EIGRP
12 5 (0.76%) MPLS
12 5 (0.76%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.99%) Power BI
2 10 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.92%) Metadata
3 6 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.76%) DynamoDB
4 5 (0.76%) MySQL
4 5 (0.76%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.76%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.61%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (0.46%) DocumentDB
6 3 (0.46%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.46%) Redis
6 3 (0.46%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.46%) Tableau
7 2 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 37 (5.66%) JIRA
2 15 (2.29%) Burp Suite
2 15 (2.29%) GitLab
2 15 (2.29%) Jenkins
2 15 (2.29%) Metasploit
3 10 (1.53%) Git
4 9 (1.38%) Snyk
5 6 (0.92%) CircleCI
5 6 (0.92%) Postman
5 6 (0.92%) SoapUI
6 3 (0.46%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.31%) ERwin
7 2 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.15%) Ant
8 1 (0.15%) JMeter
8 1 (0.15%) MSTest
8 1 (0.15%) Selenium
8 1 (0.15%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 271 (41.44%) Social Skills
2 116 (17.74%) Finance
3 77 (11.77%) Public Sector
4 75 (11.47%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (6.73%) Legal
6 41 (6.27%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
7 25 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
8 23 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (3.36%) Banking
10 13 (1.99%) Manufacturing
10 13 (1.99%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.83%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.83%) Law
12 10 (1.53%) Marketing
12 10 (1.53%) Police
13 9 (1.38%) Local Government
14 8 (1.22%) Electronics
14 8 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 108 (16.51%) Architect
2 106 (16.21%) Analyst
3 70 (10.70%) Consultant
4 55 (8.41%) Security Architect
5 51 (7.80%) Senior
6 50 (7.65%) Security Analyst
6 50 (7.65%) Security Engineer
7 38 (5.81%) Lead
8 32 (4.89%) Security Consultant
9 25 (3.82%) Security Specialist
10 24 (3.67%) Security Manager
11 21 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
11 21 (3.21%) Tester
12 19 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
13 17 (2.60%) Project Manager
14 16 (2.45%) Penetration Tester
14 16 (2.45%) SOC Analyst
15 15 (2.29%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 14 (2.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 14 (2.14%) Information Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (5.81%) LDAP
2 28 (4.28%) OAuth
3 24 (3.67%) SAML
4 20 (3.06%) OpenID
5 15 (2.29%) REST
6 13 (1.99%) OAuth2
6 13 (1.99%) SailPoint
7 10 (1.53%) ARM Templates
7 10 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (0.92%) Loki
8 6 (0.92%) RESTful
9 5 (0.76%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.61%) Google JAX
10 4 (0.61%) JAX
10 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (0.61%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (0.61%) PyTorch
10 4 (0.61%) React
10 4 (0.61%) scikit-learn
10 4 (0.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 82 (12.54%) Security Posture
2 62 (9.48%) Management Information System
3 47 (7.19%) Cloud Native
4 36 (5.50%) Cyber Threat
5 29 (4.43%) Onboarding
6 23 (3.52%) Security Operations Centre
7 21 (3.21%) Operational Technology
8 20 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (2.75%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.99%) Cloud Security Posture
11 12 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.68%) NHS
13 10 (1.53%) PKI
13 10 (1.53%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.53%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.53%) SCADA
14 8 (1.22%) CSOC
14 8 (1.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 6 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 65 (9.94%) Windows
2 33 (5.05%) Linux
3 16 (2.45%) Mac OS
4 14 (2.14%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.61%) AIX
6 4 (0.61%) Solaris
7 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.31%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.31%) VMS
9 1 (0.15%) Android
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (39.45%) Cybersecurity
2 170 (25.99%) Cloud Security
3 167 (25.54%) Incident Response
4 166 (25.38%) Information Security
5 145 (22.17%) Risk Management
5 145 (22.17%) SIEM
6 124 (18.96%) CI/CD
7 118 (18.04%) DevOps
8 110 (16.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 109 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 92 (14.07%) Zero Trust
11 88 (13.46%) Identity Access Management
12 87 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
13 86 (13.15%) DevSecOps
14 82 (12.54%) Data Protection
15 81 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 81 (12.39%) Security Operations
16 77 (11.77%) Security Architecture
17 76 (11.62%) Threat Modelling
18 74 (11.31%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 117 (17.89%) PowerShell
2 78 (11.93%) Python
3 34 (5.20%) Bash
4 20 (3.06%) Bicep
5 17 (2.60%) SQL
6 13 (1.99%) Java
7 9 (1.38%) 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 (0.31%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.31%) Go
10 2 (0.31%) Rust
10 2 (0.31%) Solidity
11 1 (0.15%) C#
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 212 (32.42%) CISSP
2 198 (30.28%) Security Cleared
3 161 (24.62%) SC Cleared
4 158 (24.16%) CISM
5 89 (13.61%) Degree
6 41 (6.27%) DV Cleared
7 40 (6.12%) CISA
7 40 (6.12%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (5.50%) Azure Certification
9 33 (5.05%) AWS Certification
10 30 (4.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 28 (4.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 27 (4.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 26 (3.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 25 (3.82%) CEH
14 25 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
15 24 (3.67%) Master's Degree
16 23 (3.52%) CCSP
17 22 (3.36%) GIAC
18 21 (3.21%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 387 (59.17%) NIST
2 250 (38.23%) GDPR
3 99 (15.14%) PCI DSS
4 77 (11.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 71 (10.86%) NCSC
6 61 (9.33%) GRC
7 39 (5.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 36 (5.50%) COBIT
9 34 (5.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 27 (4.13%) NIST 800
10 27 (4.13%) SOC 2
11 26 (3.98%) QA
12 17 (2.60%) HIPAA
13 16 (2.45%) JSP 440
14 14 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 13 (1.99%) ISO 9001
16 12 (1.83%) PMO
16 12 (1.83%) SLA
17 11 (1.68%) Def Stans
17 11 (1.68%) ITGC
System Software
1 86 (13.15%) Active Directory
2 31 (4.74%) Docker
3 16 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.61%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.31%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) Snort
7 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (9.63%) Terraform
2 60 (9.17%) Kubernetes
3 43 (6.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (3.82%) SCCM
4 25 (3.82%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (2.75%) Ansible
6 13 (1.99%) Nmap
7 12 (1.83%) QRadar
8 11 (1.68%) Prometheus
9 9 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (1.38%) Fluentd
10 8 (1.22%) Nessus
10 8 (1.22%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.92%) CSIRT
11 6 (0.92%) Grafana
11 6 (0.92%) PingFederate
12 5 (0.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 4 (0.61%) CASB
14 2 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 167 (25.54%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.49%) CyberArk
3 48 (7.34%) Splunk
4 33 (5.05%) BeyondTrust
5 24 (3.67%) Google
5 24 (3.67%) Oracle
6 21 (3.21%) Cisco
6 21 (3.21%) SAP
6 21 (3.21%) ServiceNow
6 21 (3.21%) VMware
7 17 (2.60%) CrowdStrike
8 15 (2.29%) Fortinet
8 15 (2.29%) Rapid7
9 14 (2.14%) Citrix
10 13 (1.99%) Palo Alto
11 12 (1.83%) ArcSight
11 12 (1.83%) Qualys
12 11 (1.68%) Tenable
13 9 (1.38%) LogRhythm
13 9 (1.38%) Okta
1,658 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England