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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 143 230
Rank change year-on-year -33 +87 -66
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 746 557 357
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 2.01% 1.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.09% 11.59% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 380 255
10th Percentile £413 £350 £413
25th Percentile £481 £447 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -4.76% -3.75%
75th Percentile £645 £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 59 19 4
10th Percentile £43.81 £30.39 -
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 £55.63 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.39 £78.00 -
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 8,203 4,804 4,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.78% 17.32% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,138 3,137 2,502
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £716 £760
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.35% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 229 203
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.79 £15.99
Median hourly rate £32.40 £32.50 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -4.21% -11.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.40 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.39 £80.55 £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 28 September 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 September 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 September 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 -17 340 £575 +4.55% 522
South East +3 187 £538 -2.27% 147
North of England -48 83 £500 - 131
South West -40 54 £525 -14.29% 74
North West -30 50 £525 -4.55% 78
Midlands -44 42 £500 +7.82% 72
West Midlands -26 38 £500 -13.04% 45
Yorkshire -46 31 £475 +3.26% 38
East of England -16 27 £515 -1.90% 39
East Midlands -35 4 - - 27
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 (2.28%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.74%) IIS
3 10 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.21%) 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 6 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 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
1 273 (36.60%) Azure
2 166 (22.25%) AWS
3 130 (17.43%) Entra ID
4 98 (13.14%) GCP
5 78 (10.46%) Microsoft 365
6 44 (5.90%) SaaS
7 35 (4.69%) Azure Sentinel
8 29 (3.89%) Microsoft Purview
9 25 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (3.35%) GitHub
9 25 (3.35%) OCI
10 19 (2.55%) Power Platform
11 17 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (1.88%) Azure Key Vault
12 14 (1.88%) Serverless
13 13 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (1.61%) IaaS
14 12 (1.61%) PaaS
15 11 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (1.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 66 (8.85%) Firewall
2 64 (8.58%) Network Security
3 23 (3.08%) VPN
4 11 (1.47%) DNS
5 10 (1.34%) Intrusion Detection
6 9 (1.21%) WAN
6 9 (1.21%) Wireless
7 8 (1.07%) LAN
8 7 (0.94%) NGFW
8 7 (0.94%) 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 (2.95%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.21%) Power BI
3 6 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (0.80%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.67%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.54%) 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 23 (3.08%) JIRA
2 17 (2.28%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.74%) GitLab
4 9 (1.21%) Git
5 5 (0.67%) Snyk
6 4 (0.54%) 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
1 293 (39.28%) Social Skills
2 109 (14.61%) Finance
3 95 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 93 (12.47%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (8.18%) Documentation Skills
6 42 (5.63%) Legal
7 34 (4.56%) Manufacturing
8 32 (4.29%) Aerospace
9 27 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (3.22%) Banking
11 23 (3.08%) Military
12 18 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.88%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.21%) Local Government
15 9 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.67%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.67%) Retail
18 4 (0.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 152 (20.38%) Architect
2 100 (13.40%) Analyst
3 77 (10.32%) Lead
4 66 (8.85%) Consultant
4 66 (8.85%) Security Architect
5 52 (6.97%) Security Engineer
6 49 (6.57%) Security Analyst
6 49 (6.57%) Senior
7 38 (5.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 36 (4.83%) Security Manager
9 32 (4.29%) Security Consultant
10 25 (3.35%) Security Specialist
11 23 (3.08%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 21 (2.82%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 21 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (2.68%) Project Manager
14 18 (2.41%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 17 (2.28%) Cloud Engineer
16 14 (1.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 14 (1.88%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (7.77%) Terraform
2 53 (7.10%) LDAP
3 32 (4.29%) OAuth
3 32 (4.29%) SailPoint
3 32 (4.29%) SAML
4 26 (3.49%) OpenID
5 21 (2.82%) OAuth2
6 14 (1.88%) REST
7 13 (1.74%) Web Services
8 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Graph
9 8 (1.07%) JSON
9 8 (1.07%) Middleware
10 6 (0.80%) RESTful
11 5 (0.67%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (0.67%) Kafka
12 4 (0.54%) JWT
12 4 (0.54%) Node.js
12 4 (0.54%) Playwright
12 4 (0.54%) React
Miscellaneous
1 78 (10.46%) Onboarding
2 74 (9.92%) Operational Technology
3 61 (8.18%) Security Posture
4 59 (7.91%) Management Information System
5 57 (7.64%) Cyber Threat
6 55 (7.37%) Cloud Native
7 28 (3.75%) PKI
8 25 (3.35%) Data Centre
9 24 (3.22%) SCADA
10 20 (2.68%) Security Operations Centre
11 18 (2.41%) Cyber Defence
11 18 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (2.41%) IoT
12 13 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (1.61%) Public Cloud
14 11 (1.47%) NHS
15 8 (1.07%) Cloud Security Posture
15 8 (1.07%) Industrial Internet of Things
15 8 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 106 (14.21%) Windows
2 66 (8.85%) Linux
3 34 (4.56%) Unix
4 32 (4.29%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.94%) 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
1 426 (57.10%) Cybersecurity
2 208 (27.88%) Risk Management
3 193 (25.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 187 (25.07%) Information Security
5 180 (24.13%) SIEM
6 149 (19.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 149 (19.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 148 (19.84%) Vulnerability Management
8 144 (19.30%) Security Architecture
9 138 (18.50%) Incident Response
10 124 (16.62%) Cloud Security
11 112 (15.01%) Security Operations
12 102 (13.67%) ITSM
13 98 (13.14%) Roadmaps
14 95 (12.73%) Identity Access Management
15 87 (11.66%) Problem-Solving
15 87 (11.66%) Zero Trust
16 83 (11.13%) DevOps
16 83 (11.13%) RBAC
17 78 (10.46%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 111 (14.88%) PowerShell
2 98 (13.14%) Python
3 33 (4.42%) Bash
4 15 (2.01%) SQL
5 14 (1.88%) 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 1 (0.13%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.13%) Korn
9 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 283 (37.94%) Security Cleared
2 210 (28.15%) SC Cleared
3 197 (26.41%) CISSP
4 149 (19.97%) CISM
5 86 (11.53%) Degree
6 70 (9.38%) DV Cleared
7 64 (8.58%) Cisco Certification
8 58 (7.77%) CRISC
9 56 (7.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 38 (5.09%) CISA
11 33 (4.42%) Azure Certification
12 31 (4.16%) CompTIA Security+
13 30 (4.02%) GIAC
14 29 (3.89%) CCSP
15 28 (3.75%) CEH
15 28 (3.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 26 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
17 25 (3.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 23 (3.08%) PMI Certification
19 22 (2.95%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 470 (63.00%) NIST
2 143 (19.17%) GDPR
3 130 (17.43%) GRC
4 102 (13.67%) NCSC
5 94 (12.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 67 (8.98%) PCI DSS
7 45 (6.03%) SOC 2
8 44 (5.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 32 (4.29%) NIST 800
10 31 (4.16%) COBIT
11 27 (3.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 23 (3.08%) Data Quality
12 23 (3.08%) HIPAA
13 18 (2.41%) ISO 22301
13 18 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 17 (2.28%) ISO 9001
15 15 (2.01%) ISO 31000
16 14 (1.88%) JSP 440
16 14 (1.88%) QA
17 11 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 152 (20.38%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.68%) Docker
3 13 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.07%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.54%) Firmware
5 4 (0.54%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.40%) vSphere
7 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.13%) Ceph
8 1 (0.13%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (6.30%) Kubernetes
2 32 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (3.49%) Ansible
4 19 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.94%) QRadar
6 6 (0.80%) CASB
7 4 (0.54%) Argo
7 4 (0.54%) Grafana
7 4 (0.54%) 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
1 189 (25.34%) Microsoft
2 69 (9.25%) CyberArk
3 50 (6.70%) ServiceNow
4 31 (4.16%) BeyondTrust
5 29 (3.89%) Oracle
6 28 (3.75%) Google
7 25 (3.35%) Splunk
8 22 (2.95%) CrowdStrike
9 20 (2.68%) Cisco
9 20 (2.68%) Qualys
10 18 (2.41%) Palo Alto
11 16 (2.14%) Rapid7
12 15 (2.01%) VMware
13 14 (1.88%) Okta
14 12 (1.61%) SAP
14 12 (1.61%) Tenable
15 8 (1.07%) Databricks
15 8 (1.07%) Tripwire
16 7 (0.94%) F5
16 7 (0.94%) Zscaler