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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 143 229
Rank change year-on-year -36 +86 -67
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 750 560 357
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 2.00% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.02% 11.57% 8.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 380 255
10th Percentile £416 £350 £413
25th Percentile £485 £447 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.75%
75th Percentile £650 £651 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 20 4
10th Percentile £43.81 £30.50 -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £33.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +111.94% +7.20% -29.78%
75th Percentile £80.00 £57.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.25 £75.25 -
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 4,839 4,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.87% 17.32% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,211 3,153 2,475
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £717 £762
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.45% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 629 231 204
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.88 £17.13
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -5.70% -12.57%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.40 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.32 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.40 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.98% +9.09% -22.54%

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 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 1 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 1 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 -14 345 £575 +4.55% 661
South East +1 182 £538 -2.27% 210
North of England -51 85 £500 - 164
South West -38 54 £525 -9.68% 96
North West -21 52 £525 -4.55% 99
Midlands -49 43 £500 +8.11% 84
West Midlands -18 39 £500 -11.11% 56
Yorkshire -46 31 £475 +3.26% 48
East of England -20 28 £510 -2.86% 48
East Midlands -35 4 - - 28
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 17 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.87%) IIS
3 10 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.20%) Confluence
5 3 (0.40%) Apache
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.27%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.80%) 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
1 272 (36.27%) Azure
2 169 (22.53%) AWS
3 130 (17.33%) Entra ID
4 99 (13.20%) GCP
5 79 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
6 45 (6.00%) SaaS
7 35 (4.67%) Azure Sentinel
8 29 (3.87%) Microsoft Purview
9 26 (3.47%) GitHub
9 26 (3.47%) OCI
10 25 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (2.53%) Power Platform
12 18 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (2.13%) Serverless
14 14 (1.87%) Azure Key Vault
15 13 (1.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 12 (1.60%) IaaS
16 12 (1.60%) PaaS
17 11 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
17 11 (1.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 67 (8.93%) Firewall
2 64 (8.53%) Network Security
3 23 (3.07%) VPN
4 11 (1.47%) DNS
5 10 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 9 (1.20%) WAN
6 9 (1.20%) Wireless
7 8 (1.07%) LAN
8 7 (0.93%) NGFW
8 7 (0.93%) X.509
9 6 (0.80%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.80%) Modbus
9 6 (0.80%) SSL
9 6 (0.80%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.67%) Internet
10 5 (0.67%) IPsec
10 5 (0.67%) SAN
10 5 (0.67%) SSH
10 5 (0.67%) Structured Cabling
10 5 (0.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.93%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.20%) Power BI
3 6 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (0.80%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.67%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.27%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.27%) Metadata
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.13%) EDMS
7 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (3.20%) JIRA
2 17 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.73%) GitLab
4 9 (1.20%) Git
5 5 (0.67%) Snyk
6 4 (0.53%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.40%) Selenium
7 3 (0.40%) TestRail
8 2 (0.27%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.13%) MSI
General
1 296 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 109 (14.53%) Finance
3 95 (12.67%) Public Sector
4 94 (12.53%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (8.13%) Documentation Skills
6 40 (5.33%) Legal
7 33 (4.40%) Aerospace
7 33 (4.40%) Manufacturing
8 28 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (3.33%) Banking
10 23 (3.07%) Military
11 17 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.87%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.33%) Local Government
15 8 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.67%) Retail
18 4 (0.53%) Cyber-Physical System
18 4 (0.53%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 154 (20.53%) Architect
2 100 (13.33%) Analyst
3 76 (10.13%) Lead
4 68 (9.07%) Consultant
5 67 (8.93%) Security Architect
6 52 (6.93%) Security Engineer
7 49 (6.53%) Security Analyst
7 49 (6.53%) Senior
8 39 (5.20%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 38 (5.07%) Security Manager
10 33 (4.40%) Security Consultant
11 26 (3.47%) Security Specialist
12 24 (3.20%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 21 (2.80%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 20 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
15 19 (2.53%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 19 (2.53%) Project Manager
16 17 (2.27%) Cloud Engineer
17 16 (2.13%) IT Manager
18 15 (2.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (7.73%) Terraform
2 53 (7.07%) LDAP
3 32 (4.27%) OAuth
3 32 (4.27%) SailPoint
3 32 (4.27%) SAML
4 26 (3.47%) OpenID
5 21 (2.80%) OAuth2
6 14 (1.87%) REST
7 13 (1.73%) Web Services
8 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Graph
9 8 (1.07%) JSON
10 7 (0.93%) Middleware
11 5 (0.67%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (0.67%) Kafka
11 5 (0.67%) 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 (10.40%) Onboarding
2 76 (10.13%) Operational Technology
3 62 (8.27%) Security Posture
4 60 (8.00%) Management Information System
5 58 (7.73%) Cyber Threat
6 57 (7.60%) Cloud Native
7 28 (3.73%) PKI
8 26 (3.47%) Data Centre
9 24 (3.20%) SCADA
10 19 (2.53%) Security Operations Centre
11 18 (2.40%) Cyber Defence
11 18 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (2.40%) IoT
12 13 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (1.73%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.33%) NHS
14 8 (1.07%) Cloud Security Posture
14 8 (1.07%) Industrial Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 110 (14.67%) Windows
2 68 (9.07%) Linux
3 36 (4.80%) Unix
4 33 (4.40%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.93%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.67%) CentOS
9 3 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.27%) 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
1 428 (57.07%) Cybersecurity
2 206 (27.47%) Risk Management
3 193 (25.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 190 (25.33%) Information Security
5 179 (23.87%) SIEM
6 151 (20.13%) Vulnerability Management
7 150 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 147 (19.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 143 (19.07%) Security Architecture
10 139 (18.53%) Incident Response
11 130 (17.33%) Cloud Security
12 112 (14.93%) Security Operations
13 102 (13.60%) ITSM
14 100 (13.33%) Roadmaps
15 94 (12.53%) Identity Access Management
16 88 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
17 86 (11.47%) DevOps
17 86 (11.47%) Zero Trust
18 83 (11.07%) RBAC
19 78 (10.40%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 111 (14.80%) PowerShell
2 99 (13.20%) Python
3 33 (4.40%) Bash
4 15 (2.00%) SQL
5 14 (1.87%) Bicep
6 8 (1.07%) Java
7 6 (0.80%) BeanShell
7 6 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (0.80%) Perl
8 5 (0.67%) Go
9 2 (0.27%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.13%) Korn
10 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 286 (38.13%) Security Cleared
2 214 (28.53%) SC Cleared
3 200 (26.67%) CISSP
4 152 (20.27%) CISM
5 87 (11.60%) Degree
6 69 (9.20%) DV Cleared
7 65 (8.67%) Cisco Certification
8 59 (7.87%) CRISC
9 57 (7.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 41 (5.47%) CISA
11 33 (4.40%) Azure Certification
12 31 (4.13%) CompTIA Security+
13 30 (4.00%) CCSP
13 30 (4.00%) GIAC
13 30 (4.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 27 (3.60%) CEH
14 27 (3.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 26 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
16 22 (2.93%) PMI Certification
17 21 (2.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 472 (62.93%) NIST
2 138 (18.40%) GDPR
3 132 (17.60%) GRC
4 107 (14.27%) NCSC
5 96 (12.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 72 (9.60%) PCI DSS
7 45 (6.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 42 (5.60%) SOC 2
9 33 (4.40%) NIST 800
10 31 (4.13%) COBIT
11 27 (3.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 23 (3.07%) Data Quality
12 23 (3.07%) HIPAA
13 19 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 18 (2.40%) ISO 22301
14 18 (2.40%) ISO 9001
15 16 (2.13%) ISO 31000
16 14 (1.87%) JSP 440
16 14 (1.87%) QA
17 12 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 152 (20.27%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.80%) Docker
3 13 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.07%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.67%) ISA Server
6 4 (0.53%) Firmware
7 3 (0.40%) vSphere
8 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.13%) Ceph
9 1 (0.13%) KVM
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (6.27%) Kubernetes
2 32 (4.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (3.47%) Ansible
4 18 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.07%) QRadar
6 7 (0.93%) CASB
7 4 (0.53%) Argo
7 4 (0.53%) Grafana
7 4 (0.53%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.40%) Nessus
8 3 (0.40%) Podman
8 3 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.40%) Puppet
9 2 (0.27%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.27%) Istio
9 2 (0.27%) Nexpose
9 2 (0.27%) SCCM
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 193 (25.73%) Microsoft
2 68 (9.07%) CyberArk
3 50 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 31 (4.13%) BeyondTrust
5 30 (4.00%) Oracle
6 29 (3.87%) Google
7 27 (3.60%) Splunk
8 23 (3.07%) CrowdStrike
9 21 (2.80%) Cisco
9 21 (2.80%) Qualys
10 18 (2.40%) Palo Alto
11 16 (2.13%) Rapid7
12 15 (2.00%) VMware
13 14 (1.87%) Okta
14 12 (1.60%) SAP
14 12 (1.60%) Tenable
15 9 (1.20%) Tripwire
16 8 (1.07%) Databricks
16 8 (1.07%) F5
17 7 (0.93%) Zscaler