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

 6 months to
27 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 156 233
Rank change year-on-year -9 +77 -50
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 726 493 353
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 1.79% 1.03%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.34% 10.49% 7.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 341 276
10th Percentile £413 £350 £400
25th Percentile £488 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £773 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £578
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.43% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 10 2
10th Percentile £43.81 £29.31 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £35.77 £26.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £57.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +107.26% -60.71%
75th Percentile £82.25 £69.94 £28.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £100.55 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £57.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +31.58% +107.26% -57.13%

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 7,775 4,700 4,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.28% 17.03% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,989 3,076 2,909
10th Percentile £349 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -1.59%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £504
% change year-on-year - -0.79% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 520 215 307
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £10.95
25th Percentile £19.49 £18.21 £14.07
Median hourly rate £38.11 £31.64 £26.56
Median % change year-on-year +20.45% +19.13% -37.51%
75th Percentile £69.81 £65.00 £59.38
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.55 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.86 £27.53 £25.00
% change year-on-year +41.16% +10.12% -35.42%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -13 302 £550 -4.35% 174
South East +15 241 £563 -4.26% 107
North of England -73 53 £540 -1.82% 70
Midlands -32 50 £500 +11.11% 33
West Midlands -26 45 £500 +11.11% 18
South West -46 38 £610 -2.40% 42
North West -36 30 £550 - 51
East of England -8 28 £515 +0.49% 19
Yorkshire -54 23 £540 +13.68% 16
East Midlands -17 5 £536 +26.12% 15
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 24 (3.31%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.75%) Confluence
3 12 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.96%) IIS
5 3 (0.41%) Apache
5 3 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
7 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.83%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.14%) iTrent
3 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 246 (33.88%) Azure
2 154 (21.21%) AWS
3 106 (14.60%) Entra ID
4 82 (11.29%) GCP
5 68 (9.37%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (4.96%) SaaS
7 33 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (3.72%) Azure Sentinel
9 24 (3.31%) Serverless
10 19 (2.62%) GitHub
10 19 (2.62%) OCI
11 17 (2.34%) Power Platform
12 16 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (1.38%) Azure Key Vault
13 10 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 8 (1.10%) IaaS
15 8 (1.10%) PaaS
16 7 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (0.96%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 65 (8.95%) Firewall
2 61 (8.40%) Network Security
3 24 (3.31%) VPN
4 13 (1.79%) DNS
5 12 (1.65%) NGFW
5 12 (1.65%) WAN
5 12 (1.65%) Wireless
6 11 (1.52%) Intrusion Detection
7 10 (1.38%) LAN
8 9 (1.24%) HTTP
9 7 (0.96%) SSH
9 7 (0.96%) SSL
9 7 (0.96%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.83%) DHCP
10 6 (0.83%) HTTPS
10 6 (0.83%) SAN
11 5 (0.69%) BGP
11 5 (0.69%) IPsec
11 5 (0.69%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.31%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.07%) Power BI
3 9 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (1.24%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.69%) Big Data
4 5 (0.69%) Metadata
5 4 (0.55%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.55%) Delta Lake
5 4 (0.55%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.28%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.28%) MySQL
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.14%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (3.58%) JIRA
2 7 (0.96%) Burp Suite
3 5 (0.69%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.69%) Snyk
4 4 (0.55%) Git
5 3 (0.41%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.28%) GitLab
6 2 (0.28%) JMeter
6 2 (0.28%) MSTest
6 2 (0.28%) Selenium
6 2 (0.28%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.14%) MSI
7 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.14%) sqlmap
General
1 249 (34.30%) Social Skills
2 118 (16.25%) Finance
3 100 (13.77%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 64 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
6 43 (5.92%) Legal
7 34 (4.68%) Aerospace
8 26 (3.58%) Banking
9 20 (2.75%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (2.07%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.93%) Military
13 12 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.52%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.10%) Retail
17 7 (0.96%) Law
18 5 (0.69%) Local Government
19 3 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 116 (15.98%) Architect
2 107 (14.74%) Analyst
3 73 (10.06%) Consultant
4 60 (8.26%) Lead
5 54 (7.44%) Security Architect
6 50 (6.89%) Security Consultant
6 50 (6.89%) Security Engineer
7 46 (6.34%) Security Analyst
8 40 (5.51%) Senior
9 37 (5.10%) Project Manager
10 34 (4.68%) Security Manager
11 30 (4.13%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 28 (3.86%) Business Analyst
13 24 (3.31%) Security Specialist
14 21 (2.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
15 19 (2.62%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 18 (2.48%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 18 (2.48%) Security Project Manager
17 17 (2.34%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (4.82%) LDAP
2 29 (3.99%) OAuth
3 28 (3.86%) SAML
4 25 (3.44%) SailPoint
5 23 (3.17%) OpenID
6 17 (2.34%) OAuth2
7 13 (1.79%) REST
8 11 (1.52%) Web Services
9 9 (1.24%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (0.96%) Kafka
11 5 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
12 4 (0.55%) 802.1X
12 4 (0.55%) Middleware
13 3 (0.41%) FIDO
13 3 (0.41%) GraphQL
13 3 (0.41%) JSON
14 2 (0.28%) EDI
14 2 (0.28%) Playwright
14 2 (0.28%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 76 (10.47%) Operational Technology
2 68 (9.37%) Onboarding
3 53 (7.30%) Security Posture
4 48 (6.61%) Cloud Native
5 42 (5.79%) Management Information System
6 30 (4.13%) Cyber Threat
7 28 (3.86%) SCADA
8 24 (3.31%) Data Centre
9 22 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
10 20 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 19 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (2.62%) PKI
12 17 (2.34%) Cyber Defence
13 16 (2.20%) Virtual Team
14 15 (2.07%) CMDB
14 15 (2.07%) Product Ownership
15 12 (1.65%) BYOD
16 11 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
17 10 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
18 9 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 114 (15.70%) Windows
2 73 (10.06%) Linux
3 39 (5.37%) Unix
4 38 (5.23%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.10%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.55%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.41%) CentOS
8 3 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.28%) AIX
9 2 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.28%) Android
9 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.28%) Solaris
9 2 (0.28%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (53.58%) Cybersecurity
2 199 (27.41%) Information Security
3 188 (25.90%) Risk Management
4 152 (20.94%) SIEM
5 149 (20.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 131 (18.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 118 (16.25%) Vulnerability Management
8 114 (15.70%) Incident Response
9 106 (14.60%) Cloud Security
9 106 (14.60%) Security Operations
10 104 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 98 (13.50%) Security Architecture
12 95 (13.09%) Roadmaps
13 86 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
14 82 (11.29%) ITSM
15 81 (11.16%) Agile
15 81 (11.16%) CI/CD
15 81 (11.16%) DevOps
15 81 (11.16%) Zero Trust
16 73 (10.06%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 105 (14.46%) PowerShell
2 97 (13.36%) Python
3 26 (3.58%) Bash
4 21 (2.89%) SQL
5 9 (1.24%) Bicep
6 6 (0.83%) Perl
7 3 (0.41%) C#
7 3 (0.41%) Java
7 3 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (0.41%) PHP
8 2 (0.28%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.28%) Ruby
9 1 (0.14%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.14%) Go
9 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 260 (35.81%) Security Cleared
2 202 (27.82%) SC Cleared
3 181 (24.93%) CISSP
4 131 (18.04%) CISM
5 103 (14.19%) Degree
6 60 (8.26%) Cisco Certification
7 51 (7.02%) DV Cleared
8 47 (6.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 38 (5.23%) CRISC
10 34 (4.68%) PMI Certification
11 32 (4.41%) PMP
12 31 (4.27%) CEH
12 31 (4.27%) CISA
13 30 (4.13%) CompTIA Security+
14 29 (3.99%) GIAC
15 27 (3.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 23 (3.17%) Azure Certification
16 23 (3.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 22 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
18 20 (2.75%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 445 (61.29%) NIST
2 188 (25.90%) GDPR
3 108 (14.88%) GRC
4 90 (12.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 72 (9.92%) PCI DSS
6 65 (8.95%) NCSC
7 62 (8.54%) SOC 2
8 39 (5.37%) COBIT
9 34 (4.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 33 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 33 (4.55%) NIST 800
11 23 (3.17%) Data Quality
12 22 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 20 (2.75%) HIPAA
14 15 (2.07%) ISO 31000
14 15 (2.07%) JSP 440
15 14 (1.93%) SLA
16 13 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 12 (1.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 12 (1.65%) ITGC
System Software
1 128 (17.63%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.03%) Docker
3 18 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.79%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.41%) vSphere
7 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.14%) Ceph
8 1 (0.14%) KVM
8 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 35 (4.82%) Terraform
2 29 (3.99%) Kubernetes
2 29 (3.99%) Single Sign-On
3 25 (3.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (2.20%) Ansible
5 5 (0.69%) CASB
5 5 (0.69%) Grafana
5 5 (0.69%) QRadar
6 4 (0.55%) Nessus
6 4 (0.55%) Podman
6 4 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.41%) Puppet
7 3 (0.41%) RSA Archer
7 3 (0.41%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.28%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.28%) Istio
8 2 (0.28%) Nexpose
8 2 (0.28%) Nmap
Vendors
1 159 (21.90%) Microsoft
2 60 (8.26%) CyberArk
3 44 (6.06%) ServiceNow
4 41 (5.65%) BeyondTrust
5 37 (5.10%) Oracle
6 25 (3.44%) Cisco
7 20 (2.75%) Splunk
8 19 (2.62%) VMware
9 16 (2.20%) Google
10 14 (1.93%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.79%) Qualys
12 12 (1.65%) CrowdStrike
13 11 (1.52%) Tenable
14 9 (1.24%) Rapid7
15 8 (1.10%) Databricks
15 8 (1.10%) Fortinet
15 8 (1.10%) Juniper
15 8 (1.10%) SAP
16 7 (0.96%) Okta
16 7 (0.96%) SolarWinds
405 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England