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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 142 216
Rank change year-on-year -33 +74 -52
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 761 569 367
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 2.04% 1.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.15% 11.63% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 383 258
10th Percentile £419 £350 £414
25th Percentile £481 £447 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £576
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.56% -3.96%
75th Percentile £644 £651 £675
90th Percentile £745 £775 £749
UK median daily rate £546 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.78% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 21 5
10th Percentile £43.81 £30.61 -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £33.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +111.94% -4.29% -21.35%
75th Percentile £80.00 £60.00 -
90th Percentile £86.39 £95.00 £61.04
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 8,319 4,894 4,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.87% 17.51% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,191 3,185 2,441
10th Percentile £325 £300 £297
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -3.29% -4.26%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £713 £756
UK median daily rate £508 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 644 241 201
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.36
25th Percentile £16.75 £17.69 £18.00
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -7.14% -11.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.40 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.25 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.46 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +4.87% +9.09% -22.82%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -20 355 £575 +4.55% 653
South East -9 177 £525 -5.62% 206
North of England -44 88 £500 +2.56% 165
South West -47 53 £525 -9.68% 83
North West -12 52 £525 -4.55% 89
Midlands -40 47 £500 +9.59% 81
West Midlands -24 42 £500 -11.11% 52
Yorkshire -40 32 £475 +3.26% 57
East of England -23 26 £525 -4.55% 46
East Midlands -36 5 £575 +28.06% 29
North East -38 2 £500 -35.48% 19
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 16 (2.10%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.84%) IIS
3 10 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.05%) Confluence
5 3 (0.39%) Apache
5 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Documentum
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 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
1 274 (36.01%) Azure
2 170 (22.34%) AWS
3 132 (17.35%) Entra ID
4 97 (12.75%) GCP
5 81 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
6 45 (5.91%) SaaS
7 36 (4.73%) Azure Sentinel
8 29 (3.81%) Microsoft Purview
9 26 (3.42%) GitHub
9 26 (3.42%) OCI
10 24 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (2.23%) Power Platform
13 15 (1.97%) Serverless
14 13 (1.71%) IaaS
14 13 (1.71%) PaaS
14 13 (1.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (1.58%) Azure Key Vault
16 11 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
16 11 (1.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 68 (8.94%) Network Security
2 66 (8.67%) Firewall
3 21 (2.76%) VPN
4 11 (1.45%) DNS
5 10 (1.31%) Intrusion Detection
6 9 (1.18%) WAN
6 9 (1.18%) Wireless
7 8 (1.05%) LAN
7 8 (1.05%) X.509
8 7 (0.92%) Modbus
8 7 (0.92%) NGFW
9 6 (0.79%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.79%) SSL
9 6 (0.79%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.66%) Internet
10 5 (0.66%) IPsec
10 5 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.66%) SAN
10 5 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
10 5 (0.66%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.76%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.05%) Power BI
3 6 (0.79%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.66%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.26%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.26%) EDMS
6 2 (0.26%) Metadata
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (3.15%) JIRA
2 17 (2.23%) 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
General
1 302 (39.68%) Social Skills
2 109 (14.32%) Finance
3 96 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 93 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (7.88%) Documentation Skills
6 41 (5.39%) Legal
7 36 (4.73%) Manufacturing
8 34 (4.47%) Aerospace
9 29 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (3.42%) Banking
11 23 (3.02%) Military
12 18 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (1.71%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.31%) Local Government
15 9 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.53%) Cyber-Physical System
17 4 (0.53%) International Banking
17 4 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 156 (20.50%) Architect
2 99 (13.01%) Analyst
3 81 (10.64%) Lead
4 71 (9.33%) Consultant
5 68 (8.94%) Security Architect
6 54 (7.10%) Security Engineer
7 50 (6.57%) Senior
8 49 (6.44%) Security Analyst
9 40 (5.26%) Security Manager
10 39 (5.12%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 35 (4.60%) Security Consultant
12 27 (3.55%) Security Specialist
13 24 (3.15%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 21 (2.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 20 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
16 19 (2.50%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 18 (2.37%) Project Manager
18 17 (2.23%) Cloud Engineer
19 16 (2.10%) IAM Specialist
19 16 (2.10%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (7.62%) Terraform
2 54 (7.10%) LDAP
3 34 (4.47%) SailPoint
4 32 (4.20%) OAuth
4 32 (4.20%) SAML
5 26 (3.42%) OpenID
6 23 (3.02%) OAuth2
7 15 (1.97%) REST
8 13 (1.71%) Web Services
9 8 (1.05%) JSON
9 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (0.92%) Middleware
11 5 (0.66%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (0.66%) Kafka
11 5 (0.66%) RESTful
12 4 (0.53%) JWT
12 4 (0.53%) Node.js
12 4 (0.53%) Playwright
12 4 (0.53%) React
Miscellaneous
1 78 (10.25%) Onboarding
1 78 (10.25%) Operational Technology
2 63 (8.28%) Management Information System
2 63 (8.28%) Security Posture
3 58 (7.62%) Cyber Threat
4 56 (7.36%) Cloud Native
5 26 (3.42%) PKI
6 25 (3.29%) Data Centre
7 23 (3.02%) SCADA
8 19 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.50%) IoT
8 19 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
9 18 (2.37%) Cyber Defence
10 14 (1.84%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.45%) NHS
13 10 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.18%) Industrial Internet of Things
14 9 (1.18%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 108 (14.19%) Windows
2 68 (8.94%) Linux
3 36 (4.73%) Unix
4 33 (4.34%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.92%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.79%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.66%) CentOS
9 3 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.26%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.13%) Android
11 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.13%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.13%) VMS
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (57.16%) Cybersecurity
2 213 (27.99%) Risk Management
3 209 (27.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 196 (25.76%) Information Security
5 176 (23.13%) SIEM
6 155 (20.37%) Vulnerability Management
7 153 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 146 (19.19%) Security Architecture
8 146 (19.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 138 (18.13%) Incident Response
10 136 (17.87%) Cloud Security
11 110 (14.45%) Security Operations
12 102 (13.40%) ITSM
12 102 (13.40%) Roadmaps
13 95 (12.48%) Identity Access Management
14 92 (12.09%) Zero Trust
15 87 (11.43%) DevOps
16 85 (11.17%) Problem-Solving
16 85 (11.17%) RBAC
17 79 (10.38%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 112 (14.72%) PowerShell
2 99 (13.01%) Python
3 32 (4.20%) Bash
4 14 (1.84%) Bicep
4 14 (1.84%) SQL
5 8 (1.05%) Java
6 7 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (0.79%) BeanShell
7 6 (0.79%) Perl
8 5 (0.66%) Go
9 2 (0.26%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.13%) Korn
10 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 293 (38.50%) Security Cleared
2 220 (28.91%) SC Cleared
3 211 (27.73%) CISSP
4 160 (21.02%) CISM
5 90 (11.83%) Degree
6 68 (8.94%) DV Cleared
7 66 (8.67%) Cisco Certification
8 64 (8.41%) CRISC
9 57 (7.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 46 (6.04%) CISA
11 33 (4.34%) Azure Certification
11 33 (4.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 32 (4.20%) CompTIA Security+
13 31 (4.07%) CCSP
13 31 (4.07%) GIAC
14 27 (3.55%) CEH
14 27 (3.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 26 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
16 23 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
17 22 (2.89%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 480 (63.07%) NIST
2 138 (18.13%) GDPR
3 136 (17.87%) GRC
4 111 (14.59%) NCSC
5 99 (13.01%) Cyber Essentials
6 75 (9.86%) PCI DSS
7 47 (6.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 42 (5.52%) SOC 2
9 33 (4.34%) NIST 800
10 31 (4.07%) COBIT
11 26 (3.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (2.89%) Data Quality
12 22 (2.89%) HIPAA
13 20 (2.63%) ISO 9001
13 20 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 18 (2.37%) ISO 22301
15 16 (2.10%) ISO 31000
15 16 (2.10%) QA
16 13 (1.71%) JSP 440
17 11 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 154 (20.24%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.76%) Docker
3 13 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.05%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.66%) Firmware
5 5 (0.66%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.39%) vSphere
7 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.13%) Ceph
8 1 (0.13%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (6.18%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (3.42%) Ansible
4 17 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.92%) CASB
5 7 (0.92%) QRadar
6 4 (0.53%) Argo
6 4 (0.53%) Grafana
6 4 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.39%) Nessus
7 3 (0.39%) Podman
7 3 (0.39%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.39%) Puppet
8 2 (0.26%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.26%) Istio
8 2 (0.26%) Nexpose
8 2 (0.26%) SCCM
9 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 198 (26.02%) Microsoft
2 67 (8.80%) CyberArk
3 51 (6.70%) ServiceNow
4 31 (4.07%) BeyondTrust
5 29 (3.81%) Google
5 29 (3.81%) Oracle
6 26 (3.42%) Splunk
7 23 (3.02%) CrowdStrike
8 22 (2.89%) Cisco
9 21 (2.76%) Qualys
10 18 (2.37%) Palo Alto
11 17 (2.23%) Rapid7
12 16 (2.10%) VMware
13 14 (1.84%) Okta
14 12 (1.58%) SAP
14 12 (1.58%) Tenable
15 9 (1.18%) Databricks
15 9 (1.18%) Tripwire
16 8 (1.05%) F5
16 8 (1.05%) SolarWinds