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

 6 months to
27 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 195 165
Rank change year-on-year +58 -30 +135
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 668 365 558
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.10% 1.28% 1.51%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.13% 9.03% 10.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 238 415
10th Percentile £385 £405 £406
25th Percentile £450 £500 £508
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 £788 £766
UK median daily rate £525 £576 £600
% change year-on-year -8.89% -3.96% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 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% -21.57%
75th Percentile £57.75 £83.20 £78.36
90th Percentile £89.93 £85.56 £85.36
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £73.60 £44.50
% change year-on-year -51.09% +65.39% -21.57%

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 5,508 4,044 5,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.32% 14.18% 14.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,580 2,356 3,553
10th Percentile £313 £266 £325
25th Percentile £406 £385 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £634 £650
90th Percentile £706 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 285 161 218
10th Percentile £15.61 £14.70 £14.12
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.12 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.18% -9.80% +51.65%
75th Percentile £60.61 £64.73 £63.81
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £83.30
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -12.12% +46.67%

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 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 27 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 27 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 +40 283 £550 -8.33% 247
South East +50 136 £500 -9.09% 282
North of England +2 74 £500 -14.53% 207
South West +29 61 £500 -23.08% 142
Midlands -7 58 £475 -5.00% 184
Yorkshire -1 45 £500 +11.11% 84
West Midlands -11 35 £550 +10.00% 99
North West -11 24 £519 -13.54% 108
East Midlands -2 23 £450 -10.10% 75
East of England -11 22 £552 -4.09% 137
North East -4 5 £400 +14.29% 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 23 (3.44%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.95%) Confluence
4 3 (0.45%) 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 28 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.05%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (0.90%) Maximo
1 6 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle CRM
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 298 (44.61%) Azure
2 227 (33.98%) AWS
3 114 (17.07%) GCP
4 81 (12.13%) Entra ID
5 70 (10.48%) Microsoft 365
6 48 (7.19%) Azure Sentinel
7 29 (4.34%) SaaS
8 23 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (3.29%) GitHub
10 20 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (2.84%) Microsoft Purview
11 19 (2.84%) OpenShift
12 18 (2.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 17 (2.54%) Power Platform
14 15 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (2.25%) OCI
14 15 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (2.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 12 (1.80%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 99 (14.82%) Firewall
2 63 (9.43%) Network Security
3 42 (6.29%) VPN
4 17 (2.54%) WAN
4 17 (2.54%) Wireless
5 15 (2.25%) SD-WAN
6 13 (1.95%) DNS
7 12 (1.80%) LAN
8 11 (1.65%) DHCP
9 9 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
10 8 (1.20%) VLAN
11 7 (1.05%) BGP
11 7 (1.05%) Kerberos
11 7 (1.05%) OSPF
11 7 (1.05%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.90%) WLAN
13 5 (0.75%) EIGRP
13 5 (0.75%) IPv4
13 5 (0.75%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.95%) Power BI
2 7 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.90%) Delta Lake
4 5 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.75%) Metadata
4 5 (0.75%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.45%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.45%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.45%) Tableau
6 2 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.30%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.30%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.30%) MySQL
6 2 (0.30%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (5.54%) JIRA
2 15 (2.25%) Burp Suite
2 15 (2.25%) Metasploit
3 12 (1.80%) GitLab
3 12 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.50%) Git
5 9 (1.35%) Snyk
6 6 (0.90%) CircleCI
6 6 (0.90%) Postman
6 6 (0.90%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.45%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.30%) ERwin
8 2 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.15%) Ant
9 1 (0.15%) JMeter
9 1 (0.15%) MSTest
9 1 (0.15%) Selenium
9 1 (0.15%) TestDirector
9 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 282 (42.22%) Social Skills
2 120 (17.96%) Finance
3 80 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
3 80 (11.98%) Public Sector
4 45 (6.74%) Legal
5 42 (6.29%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
7 24 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
8 23 (3.44%) Banking
9 14 (2.10%) Manufacturing
9 14 (2.10%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.80%) Law
11 11 (1.65%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.65%) Marketing
12 10 (1.50%) Police
13 9 (1.35%) Electronics
13 9 (1.35%) Local Government
14 8 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 113 (16.92%) Architect
2 109 (16.32%) Analyst
3 70 (10.48%) Consultant
4 58 (8.68%) Security Architect
5 53 (7.93%) Security Engineer
5 53 (7.93%) Senior
6 50 (7.49%) Security Analyst
7 38 (5.69%) Lead
8 32 (4.79%) Security Consultant
9 24 (3.59%) Security Specialist
10 23 (3.44%) Security Manager
11 21 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
11 21 (3.14%) Tester
12 19 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
13 16 (2.40%) Penetration Tester
13 16 (2.40%) Project Manager
13 16 (2.40%) SOC Analyst
14 15 (2.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 14 (2.10%) Cloud Architect
15 14 (2.10%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (5.69%) LDAP
2 25 (3.74%) OAuth
3 24 (3.59%) SAML
4 17 (2.54%) OpenID
5 13 (1.95%) SailPoint
6 12 (1.80%) REST
7 10 (1.50%) ARM Templates
7 10 (1.50%) OAuth2
8 9 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (0.90%) Loki
10 5 (0.75%) AWS CDK
11 4 (0.60%) .NET
11 4 (0.60%) Google JAX
11 4 (0.60%) JAX
11 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (0.60%) Middleware
11 4 (0.60%) PyTorch
11 4 (0.60%) React
11 4 (0.60%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 84 (12.57%) Security Posture
2 61 (9.13%) Management Information System
3 46 (6.89%) Cloud Native
4 36 (5.39%) Cyber Threat
5 30 (4.49%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.74%) Security Operations Centre
7 23 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 21 (3.14%) Operational Technology
9 20 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (2.69%) Data Centre
11 13 (1.95%) Cloud Security Posture
11 13 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.65%) NHS
13 10 (1.50%) PKI
13 10 (1.50%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.50%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.50%) SCADA
14 8 (1.20%) CSOC
14 8 (1.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 6 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 68 (10.18%) Windows
2 33 (4.94%) Linux
3 19 (2.84%) Mac OS
4 16 (2.40%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.80%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.60%) AIX
6 4 (0.60%) Solaris
7 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.30%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.30%) 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
1 262 (39.22%) Cybersecurity
2 177 (26.50%) Cloud Security
3 170 (25.45%) Incident Response
4 167 (25.00%) Information Security
5 148 (22.16%) Risk Management
6 146 (21.86%) SIEM
7 124 (18.56%) CI/CD
8 119 (17.81%) DevOps
9 110 (16.47%) Stakeholder Management
10 109 (16.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 97 (14.52%) Zero Trust
12 91 (13.62%) Identity Access Management
13 88 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
14 87 (13.02%) Data Protection
15 86 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
15 86 (12.87%) DevSecOps
16 84 (12.57%) Security Operations
17 80 (11.98%) Threat Modelling
18 77 (11.53%) Security Architecture
19 73 (10.93%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 124 (18.56%) PowerShell
2 79 (11.83%) Python
3 37 (5.54%) Bash
4 22 (3.29%) Bicep
5 13 (1.95%) SQL
6 10 (1.50%) Java
7 9 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (0.75%) C
8 5 (0.75%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.60%) C++
9 4 (0.60%) R
9 4 (0.60%) 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%) C#
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 214 (32.04%) CISSP
2 204 (30.54%) Security Cleared
3 166 (24.85%) SC Cleared
4 159 (23.80%) CISM
5 91 (13.62%) Degree
6 42 (6.29%) Azure Certification
7 41 (6.14%) Cisco Certification
7 41 (6.14%) DV Cleared
8 40 (5.99%) CISA
9 37 (5.54%) AWS Certification
10 31 (4.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 30 (4.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 28 (4.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 27 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
14 26 (3.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 26 (3.89%) Master's Degree
15 25 (3.74%) CEH
16 23 (3.44%) CCSP
17 22 (3.29%) GIAC
18 20 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 392 (58.68%) NIST
2 260 (38.92%) GDPR
3 100 (14.97%) PCI DSS
4 77 (11.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 70 (10.48%) NCSC
6 63 (9.43%) GRC
7 39 (5.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 35 (5.24%) COBIT
9 34 (5.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 29 (4.34%) SOC 2
11 27 (4.04%) NIST 800
12 23 (3.44%) QA
13 17 (2.54%) HIPAA
14 16 (2.40%) JSP 440
15 15 (2.25%) ISO 9001
16 14 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 12 (1.80%) ITGC
17 12 (1.80%) PMO
17 12 (1.80%) SLA
18 11 (1.65%) Def Stans
System Software
1 88 (13.17%) Active Directory
2 28 (4.19%) Docker
3 19 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.60%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.45%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) Snort
7 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (9.28%) Terraform
2 57 (8.53%) Kubernetes
3 46 (6.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (4.19%) SCCM
5 25 (3.74%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (2.69%) Ansible
7 13 (1.95%) Nmap
8 12 (1.80%) QRadar
9 11 (1.65%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (1.35%) Fluentd
11 8 (1.20%) Nessus
11 8 (1.20%) RSA Archer
12 6 (0.90%) CSIRT
12 6 (0.90%) Grafana
12 6 (0.90%) PingFederate
13 5 (0.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 4 (0.60%) CASB
15 2 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
15 2 (0.30%) logstash
Vendors
1 170 (25.45%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.34%) CyberArk
3 47 (7.04%) Splunk
4 34 (5.09%) BeyondTrust
5 25 (3.74%) Google
6 23 (3.44%) Oracle
6 23 (3.44%) ServiceNow
6 23 (3.44%) VMware
7 22 (3.29%) Cisco
7 22 (3.29%) SAP
8 17 (2.54%) Citrix
8 17 (2.54%) CrowdStrike
9 16 (2.40%) Fortinet
10 15 (2.25%) Rapid7
11 14 (2.10%) Palo Alto
12 13 (1.95%) Qualys
13 12 (1.80%) ArcSight
13 12 (1.80%) Tenable
14 10 (1.50%) Thycotic
15 9 (1.35%) Okta
1,164 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England