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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 191 220
Rank change year-on-year +50 +29 +28
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 709 340 391
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.77% 1.39% 1.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.42% 8.82% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 223 300
10th Percentile £413 £364 £363
25th Percentile £481 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.59%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £768
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 8 1
10th Percentile £36.00 £51.25 -
25th Percentile £43.81 £58.37 -
Median hourly rate £59.07 £61.50 £83.41
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -26.27% +19.16%
75th Percentile £82.25 £79.60 -
90th Percentile £83.50 £86.74 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £83.41
% change year-on-year +2.67% -26.27% +19.16%

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 6,801 3,857 5,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.94% 15.77% 14.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,435 2,475 3,349
10th Percentile £339 £272 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £602 £630 £638
90th Percentile £704 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 427 160 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.78 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.27 £13.14
Median hourly rate £30.58 £34.75 £22.42
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +55.00% -44.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £80.31 £79.11 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £34.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -5.80% +64.29% -44.00%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +14 284 £575 -4.17% 120
South East +32 208 £560 +1.82% 104
North of England -24 79 £548 -0.45% 59
Midlands -37 54 £500 -4.76% 43
West Midlands -37 44 £500 -13.04% 30
North West -5 38 £577 +4.86% 39
South West -22 38 £550 -8.33% 39
Yorkshire -36 36 £500 +53.85% 13
East of England -16 21 £550 +5.36% 21
East Midlands -30 10 £442 +10.56% 12
North East -21 5 £400 -42.86% 7
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 19 (2.68%) Confluence
2 17 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.85%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 3 (0.42%) Apache
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (3.24%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.85%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.55%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.85%) Maximo
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 249 (35.12%) Azure
2 198 (27.93%) AWS
3 94 (13.26%) GCP
4 65 (9.17%) Entra ID
5 51 (7.19%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (4.37%) OpenShift
7 28 (3.95%) Azure Sentinel
8 25 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (3.53%) Microsoft Purview
8 25 (3.53%) Serverless
9 20 (2.82%) OCI
10 19 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (2.54%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 18 (2.54%) GitHub
11 18 (2.54%) Power Platform
12 14 (1.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 14 (1.97%) SaaS
13 13 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (1.69%) Azure AKS
15 11 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (10.58%) Firewall
2 58 (8.18%) Network Security
3 42 (5.92%) VPN
4 19 (2.68%) DNS
5 18 (2.54%) Wireless
6 11 (1.55%) DHCP
7 9 (1.27%) BGP
7 9 (1.27%) HTTP
8 8 (1.13%) MPLS
8 8 (1.13%) WAN
9 7 (0.99%) NGFW
10 6 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (0.85%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.85%) TACACS
11 5 (0.71%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.71%) LAN
11 5 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.71%) SSH
11 5 (0.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.40%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.97%) Power BI
3 10 (1.41%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.85%) Metadata
6 6 (0.85%) MySQL
7 5 (0.71%) Big Data
7 5 (0.71%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.71%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.56%) DocumentDB
8 4 (0.56%) Redis
9 3 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.42%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.28%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 22 (3.10%) Jenkins
2 18 (2.54%) Burp Suite
2 18 (2.54%) JIRA
2 18 (2.54%) Metasploit
3 11 (1.55%) GitLab
4 5 (0.71%) Git
5 2 (0.28%) JMeter
5 2 (0.28%) MSTest
5 2 (0.28%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) AppScan
6 1 (0.14%) MSI
6 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.14%) Snyk
6 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.14%) sqlmap
General
1 256 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 118 (16.64%) Finance
3 94 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (11.42%) Public Sector
5 66 (9.31%) Documentation Skills
6 54 (7.62%) Legal
7 31 (4.37%) Banking
8 29 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (2.54%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.26%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.97%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.69%) Law
14 10 (1.41%) Retail
14 10 (1.41%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.85%) Marketing
16 4 (0.56%) Military
16 4 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.42%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 124 (17.49%) Architect
2 88 (12.41%) Analyst
3 83 (11.71%) Consultant
4 56 (7.90%) Security Engineer
5 54 (7.62%) Security Consultant
6 53 (7.48%) Security Architect
7 43 (6.06%) Lead
8 41 (5.78%) Project Manager
9 39 (5.50%) Security Manager
10 38 (5.36%) Security Analyst
11 35 (4.94%) Senior
12 24 (3.39%) Business Analyst
13 21 (2.96%) Security Project Manager
14 20 (2.82%) CyberArk Architect
15 18 (2.54%) Azure Engineer
15 18 (2.54%) Cloud Architect
15 18 (2.54%) Penetration Tester
16 17 (2.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 17 (2.40%) Tester
17 16 (2.26%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.76%) LDAP
2 38 (5.36%) OpenID
2 38 (5.36%) SAML
3 32 (4.51%) OAuth
4 20 (2.82%) OAuth2
5 17 (2.40%) Oracle Fusion
6 13 (1.83%) REST
7 11 (1.55%) SailPoint
8 10 (1.41%) ARM Templates
8 10 (1.41%) Middleware
9 9 (1.27%) Kafka
10 8 (1.13%) AWS CDK
10 8 (1.13%) RESTful
11 5 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (0.71%) Spring
11 5 (0.71%) Web Services
12 4 (0.56%) gRPC
12 4 (0.56%) JWT
12 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Graph
12 4 (0.56%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.59%) Onboarding
2 59 (8.32%) Cloud Native
3 53 (7.48%) Security Posture
4 46 (6.49%) Operational Technology
5 43 (6.06%) Management Information System
6 22 (3.10%) Data Centre
7 21 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (2.82%) SCADA
9 19 (2.68%) Product Ownership
10 18 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (2.40%) PKI
12 15 (2.12%) Security Operations Centre
13 13 (1.83%) CMDB
13 13 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.83%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.55%) BYOD
16 10 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (1.41%) NHS
17 9 (1.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 92 (12.98%) Windows
2 56 (7.90%) Linux
3 32 (4.51%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.96%) Unix
5 8 (1.13%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.85%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.71%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.28%) AIX
9 2 (0.28%) CentOS
9 2 (0.28%) Solaris
9 2 (0.28%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) Android
10 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (43.72%) Cybersecurity
2 212 (29.90%) Information Security
3 165 (23.27%) Risk Management
4 138 (19.46%) Cloud Security
5 136 (19.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 131 (18.48%) SIEM
7 124 (17.49%) CI/CD
8 123 (17.35%) DevOps
9 114 (16.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 94 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 93 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
11 93 (13.12%) Threat Modelling
12 91 (12.83%) Incident Response
13 87 (12.27%) Security Architecture
14 86 (12.13%) Agile
15 82 (11.57%) Security Operations
16 81 (11.42%) Data Protection
16 81 (11.42%) Infrastructure as Code
17 77 (10.86%) Roadmaps
18 70 (9.87%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 104 (14.67%) PowerShell
2 89 (12.55%) Python
3 23 (3.24%) SQL
4 21 (2.96%) Bash
5 16 (2.26%) Bicep
6 8 (1.13%) Java
7 6 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.56%) C#
8 4 (0.56%) Go
8 4 (0.56%) PHP
9 3 (0.42%) Ruby
10 2 (0.28%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.14%) C
11 1 (0.14%) Lisp
11 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 261 (36.81%) Security Cleared
2 207 (29.20%) SC Cleared
3 169 (23.84%) CISSP
4 130 (18.34%) CISM
5 100 (14.10%) Degree
6 58 (8.18%) DV Cleared
7 40 (5.64%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (4.65%) CISA
8 33 (4.65%) PMI Certification
9 32 (4.51%) PMP
10 29 (4.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 28 (3.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 27 (3.81%) CRISC
13 26 (3.67%) AWS Certification
13 26 (3.67%) Azure Certification
14 25 (3.53%) CEH
15 24 (3.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 23 (3.24%) CompTIA Security+
17 22 (3.10%) GIAC
18 19 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 444 (62.62%) NIST
2 229 (32.30%) GDPR
3 97 (13.68%) PCI DSS
4 84 (11.85%) GRC
5 71 (10.01%) NCSC
6 63 (8.89%) Cyber Essentials
7 53 (7.48%) SOC 2
8 46 (6.49%) COBIT
9 35 (4.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 33 (4.65%) NIST 800
11 26 (3.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 26 (3.67%) QA
12 18 (2.54%) JSP 440
13 17 (2.40%) PMO
14 16 (2.26%) Data Quality
15 14 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 13 (1.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 13 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 13 (1.83%) SLA
17 12 (1.69%) HIPAA
System Software
1 101 (14.25%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.24%) Docker
3 22 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.41%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.14%) Ceph
7 1 (0.14%) Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) GPFS
7 1 (0.14%) Lustre
7 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 64 (9.03%) Kubernetes
2 54 (7.62%) Terraform
3 24 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (2.40%) Ansible
6 16 (2.26%) Nmap
7 8 (1.13%) Nessus
8 7 (0.99%) Grafana
9 6 (0.85%) CASB
9 6 (0.85%) Fluentd
9 6 (0.85%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.71%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.71%) SCCM
11 4 (0.56%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.42%) OpenVAS
12 3 (0.42%) Podman
12 3 (0.42%) QRadar
12 3 (0.42%) SCOM
13 2 (0.28%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 117 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 85 (11.99%) CyberArk
3 43 (6.06%) BeyondTrust
4 41 (5.78%) Splunk
5 36 (5.08%) Oracle
6 33 (4.65%) ServiceNow
7 23 (3.24%) VMware
8 22 (3.10%) Cisco
9 16 (2.26%) Google
10 11 (1.55%) Fortinet
10 11 (1.55%) SAP
11 10 (1.41%) Qualys
12 9 (1.27%) IBM
12 9 (1.27%) Rapid7
13 8 (1.13%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.99%) Tenable
15 6 (0.85%) Cribl.io
15 6 (0.85%) Palo Alto
16 5 (0.71%) Databricks
16 5 (0.71%) Okta