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

 6 months to
1 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 212 186
Rank change year-on-year +79 -26 +101
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 660 322 503
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.01% 1.22% 1.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.68% 8.38% 9.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 196 381
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £667
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £593 £575
% change year-on-year -11.39% +3.04% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 14
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% -39.35%
75th Percentile £55.56 £83.20 £71.02
90th Percentile £79.35 £85.56 £81.90
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £73.60 £44.50
% change year-on-year -51.09% +65.39% -39.35%

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 5,649 3,844 5,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.17% 14.51% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,664 2,232 3,606
10th Percentile £325 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £380 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £704 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 153 296
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.76 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.00 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.62 £28.37
Median % change year-on-year -20.46% +11.46% -0.80%
75th Percentile £63.50 £65.00 £51.94
90th Percentile £69.53 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £26.11 £29.00 £26.66
% change year-on-year -9.97% +8.78% +2.54%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +50 289 £565 -5.83% 175
South East +46 124 £492 -6.29% 142
North of England -8 76 £516 -11.75% 51
Midlands -13 64 £475 -5.00% 60
South West +9 57 £500 -20.00% 54
West Midlands -18 39 £550 +10.00% 34
Yorkshire -19 38 £500 -13.04% 17
North West -9 33 £575 -4.17% 30
East Midlands -3 25 £447 +11.75% 26
East of England -15 17 £553 +1.10% 41
North East -14 5 £400 +14.29% 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 22 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.82%) Confluence
4 4 (0.61%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.30%) Apache
5 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 24 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.76%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (1.21%) Maximo
1 8 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 268 (40.61%) Azure
2 209 (31.67%) AWS
3 100 (15.15%) GCP
4 80 (12.12%) Entra ID
5 66 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 48 (7.27%) Azure Sentinel
7 35 (5.30%) OpenShift
8 27 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (3.79%) SaaS
10 24 (3.64%) Microsoft Purview
11 21 (3.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 20 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (2.73%) OCI
14 17 (2.58%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (2.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (2.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 16 (2.42%) GitHub
15 16 (2.42%) Power Platform
16 15 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (2.27%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 99 (15.00%) Firewall
2 64 (9.70%) Network Security
3 47 (7.12%) VPN
4 19 (2.88%) Wireless
5 18 (2.73%) DNS
6 13 (1.97%) BGP
6 13 (1.97%) WAN
7 12 (1.82%) Cisco ASA
7 12 (1.82%) LAN
8 11 (1.67%) DHCP
8 11 (1.67%) MPLS
8 11 (1.67%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.21%) Intrusion Detection
9 8 (1.21%) OSPF
10 7 (1.06%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.91%) Kerberos
11 6 (0.91%) NGFW
11 6 (0.91%) S/MIME
11 6 (0.91%) VLAN
11 6 (0.91%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.82%) Power BI
2 11 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.91%) DynamoDB
4 6 (0.91%) MySQL
4 6 (0.91%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (0.76%) Metadata
6 4 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.61%) DocumentDB
6 4 (0.61%) Redis
6 4 (0.61%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.45%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.45%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.45%) Tableau
8 2 (0.30%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 26 (3.94%) Jenkins
2 24 (3.64%) JIRA
3 18 (2.73%) Burp Suite
3 18 (2.73%) Metasploit
4 14 (2.12%) GitLab
5 7 (1.06%) Git
6 3 (0.45%) Snyk
7 1 (0.15%) Ant
7 1 (0.15%) AppScan
7 1 (0.15%) JMeter
7 1 (0.15%) MSTest
7 1 (0.15%) Selenium
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.15%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 284 (43.03%) Social Skills
2 119 (18.03%) Finance
3 76 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (10.91%) Public Sector
5 63 (9.55%) Documentation Skills
6 41 (6.21%) Legal
7 32 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (3.18%) Banking
11 13 (1.97%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.67%) Law
12 11 (1.67%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.52%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.36%) Marketing
15 8 (1.21%) Police
16 7 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 5 (0.76%) Aviation
17 5 (0.76%) Electronics
18 4 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 109 (16.52%) Architect
2 96 (14.55%) Analyst
3 69 (10.45%) Consultant
4 52 (7.88%) Security Architect
4 52 (7.88%) Security Engineer
5 47 (7.12%) Senior
6 46 (6.97%) Security Analyst
7 29 (4.39%) Lead
8 28 (4.24%) Security Consultant
9 26 (3.94%) Security Manager
10 25 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
10 25 (3.79%) Security Specialist
11 22 (3.33%) Tester
12 18 (2.73%) Penetration Tester
12 18 (2.73%) Project Manager
13 17 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (2.42%) CyberArk Architect
15 15 (2.27%) Security Officer
15 15 (2.27%) SOC Analyst
16 14 (2.12%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (9.09%) LDAP
2 41 (6.21%) SAML
3 39 (5.91%) OpenID
4 35 (5.30%) OAuth
5 19 (2.88%) OAuth2
6 16 (2.42%) REST
7 12 (1.82%) ARM Templates
7 12 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
7 12 (1.82%) SailPoint
8 7 (1.06%) RESTful
9 6 (0.91%) AWS CDK
9 6 (0.91%) Kafka
9 6 (0.91%) Middleware
10 5 (0.76%) JWT
10 5 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (0.76%) Spring
11 4 (0.61%) .NET
11 4 (0.61%) Hibernate
11 4 (0.61%) JPA
11 4 (0.61%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 80 (12.12%) Security Posture
2 59 (8.94%) Management Information System
3 51 (7.73%) Onboarding
4 46 (6.97%) Cloud Native
5 28 (4.24%) Cyber Threat
6 25 (3.79%) Operational Technology
7 22 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
8 17 (2.58%) Data Centre
8 17 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (2.27%) PKI
11 12 (1.82%) NHS
11 12 (1.82%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.67%) SCADA
13 9 (1.36%) Cloud Security Posture
14 8 (1.21%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 8 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (1.21%) Public Cloud
15 7 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 62 (9.39%) Windows
2 37 (5.61%) Linux
3 14 (2.12%) Mac OS
4 13 (1.97%) Windows 10
5 10 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.45%) AIX
7 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.45%) Solaris
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%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (41.97%) Cybersecurity
2 175 (26.52%) Information Security
3 160 (24.24%) Cloud Security
4 150 (22.73%) Risk Management
5 149 (22.58%) SIEM
6 147 (22.27%) Incident Response
7 142 (21.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 125 (18.94%) DevOps
9 121 (18.33%) CI/CD
10 106 (16.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 94 (14.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 94 (14.24%) Zero Trust
12 84 (12.73%) Identity Access Management
13 83 (12.58%) Threat Modelling
14 80 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
14 80 (12.12%) Security Operations
15 79 (11.97%) Data Protection
16 78 (11.82%) DevSecOps
17 76 (11.52%) Security Architecture
18 75 (11.36%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 113 (17.12%) PowerShell
2 77 (11.67%) Python
3 27 (4.09%) Bash
4 21 (3.18%) Bicep
5 15 (2.27%) SQL
6 11 (1.67%) Java
7 10 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.61%) Go
8 4 (0.61%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.61%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.45%) PHP
10 2 (0.30%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.30%) C
10 2 (0.30%) Rust
10 2 (0.30%) Solidity
11 1 (0.15%) C#
11 1 (0.15%) Lisp
11 1 (0.15%) Ruby
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 236 (35.76%) Security Cleared
2 192 (29.09%) SC Cleared
3 190 (28.79%) CISSP
4 147 (22.27%) CISM
5 89 (13.48%) Degree
6 55 (8.33%) DV Cleared
7 36 (5.45%) CISA
8 33 (5.00%) Azure Certification
8 33 (5.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 32 (4.85%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (4.24%) AWS Certification
11 27 (4.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 25 (3.79%) GIAC
13 24 (3.64%) Master's Degree
14 23 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
15 22 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
15 22 (3.33%) CEH
16 21 (3.18%) CompTIA Security+
17 20 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 19 (2.88%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 396 (60.00%) NIST
2 238 (36.06%) GDPR
3 97 (14.70%) PCI DSS
4 91 (13.79%) NCSC
5 73 (11.06%) GRC
6 69 (10.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 39 (5.91%) COBIT
8 38 (5.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 38 (5.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 31 (4.70%) SOC 2
10 28 (4.24%) QA
11 27 (4.09%) NIST 800
12 18 (2.73%) JSP 440
13 16 (2.42%) HIPAA
13 16 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 14 (2.12%) PMO
15 13 (1.97%) SLA
16 12 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
17 11 (1.67%) Def Stans
17 11 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 91 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 20 (3.03%) Docker
2 20 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.61%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.15%) Firmware
6 1 (0.15%) GPFS
6 1 (0.15%) Lustre
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (9.85%) Kubernetes
2 58 (8.79%) Terraform
3 42 (6.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (3.48%) SCCM
6 17 (2.58%) Ansible
7 15 (2.27%) Nmap
8 9 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 9 (1.36%) Fluentd
8 9 (1.36%) Nessus
8 9 (1.36%) QRadar
9 8 (1.21%) RSA Archer
10 6 (0.91%) PingFederate
11 5 (0.76%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.61%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.61%) Grafana
12 4 (0.61%) SCOM
13 3 (0.45%) CASB
13 3 (0.45%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 146 (22.12%) Microsoft
2 65 (9.85%) CyberArk
3 52 (7.88%) Splunk
4 32 (4.85%) BeyondTrust
5 26 (3.94%) Cisco
6 24 (3.64%) Oracle
6 24 (3.64%) VMware
7 22 (3.33%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.73%) Google
8 18 (2.73%) SAP
9 17 (2.58%) Fortinet
10 14 (2.12%) Palo Alto
10 14 (2.12%) Rapid7
11 12 (1.82%) Citrix
12 10 (1.52%) IBM
12 10 (1.52%) Okta
13 9 (1.36%) Cribl.io
13 9 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (1.36%) Ping Identity
13 9 (1.36%) Qualys
448 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England