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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 203 168
Rank change year-on-year +66 -35 +126
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 655 366 612
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.15% 1.18% 1.57%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.21% 8.81% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 243 459
10th Percentile £372 £425 £425
25th Percentile £447 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £648 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £768
UK median daily rate £535 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 16
10th Percentile - £21.98 -
25th Percentile £33.50 £32.81 £42.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £48.25 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.38% +3.20% +43.85%
75th Percentile £64.50 £79.60 £78.36
90th Percentile £94.50 £86.74 £85.04
UK median hourly rate £40.73 £44.04 £46.75
% change year-on-year -7.52% -5.80% +43.85%

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 5,366 4,153 5,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.61% 13.44% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,473 2,411 3,728
10th Percentile £313 £290 £319
25th Percentile £404 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £757
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 184 224
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.26 £15.27
25th Percentile £17.69 £16.25 £21.44
Median hourly rate £25.63 £29.00 £40.77
Median % change year-on-year -11.62% -28.87% +77.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.51 £68.50
90th Percentile £79.93 £70.00 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £25.63 £27.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -5.07% -32.50% +73.91%

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 +45 274 £550 -7.17% 153
South East +52 126 £500 -13.04% 164
North of England +2 72 £508 -14.24% 61
South West +29 59 £550 -15.38% 46
Midlands +2 59 £464 -7.25% 51
Yorkshire +9 44 £500 -27.54% 21
West Midlands -5 32 £525 +5.00% 31
East Midlands +8 27 £450 -10.00% 20
East of England +2 27 £552 -6.13% 22
North West -15 25 £600 +1.27% 35
North East -4 3 £260 -25.71% 5
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 29 (4.43%) SharePoint
2 26 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.75%) Confluence
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 2 (0.31%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.15%) IIS
Applications
1 24 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.07%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.46%) Maximo
3 2 (0.31%) Oracle CRM
3 2 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 283 (43.21%) Azure
2 214 (32.67%) AWS
3 120 (18.32%) GCP
4 84 (12.82%) Entra ID
5 70 (10.69%) Microsoft 365
6 51 (7.79%) Azure Sentinel
7 38 (5.80%) SaaS
8 25 (3.82%) Microsoft Purview
9 23 (3.51%) GitHub
10 21 (3.21%) Power Platform
11 20 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (2.60%) IaaS
13 17 (2.60%) OneDrive
14 16 (2.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 16 (2.44%) PaaS
15 15 (2.29%) OpenShift
15 15 (2.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 13 (1.98%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 90 (13.74%) Firewall
2 66 (10.08%) Network Security
3 34 (5.19%) VPN
4 16 (2.44%) WAN
5 15 (2.29%) DNS
5 15 (2.29%) SD-WAN
6 11 (1.68%) LAN
7 10 (1.53%) DHCP
8 9 (1.37%) Cisco ASA
8 9 (1.37%) Intrusion Detection
8 9 (1.37%) VLAN
9 8 (1.22%) BGP
9 8 (1.22%) Kerberos
9 8 (1.22%) OSPF
10 7 (1.07%) Wireless
11 6 (0.92%) MPLS
11 6 (0.92%) WLAN
12 5 (0.76%) EIGRP
12 5 (0.76%) IPv4
12 5 (0.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.75%) Power BI
2 8 (1.22%) Tableau
3 6 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.92%) Delta Lake
4 5 (0.76%) Metadata
5 4 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.61%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.46%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.46%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.31%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.31%) MySQL
7 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 48 (7.33%) JIRA
2 12 (1.83%) GitLab
3 11 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.37%) Git
4 9 (1.37%) Snyk
5 6 (0.92%) CircleCI
5 6 (0.92%) Postman
5 6 (0.92%) SoapUI
6 4 (0.61%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.61%) Metasploit
7 3 (0.46%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.31%) ERwin
8 2 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.15%) Ant
9 1 (0.15%) JMeter
9 1 (0.15%) MSTest
9 1 (0.15%) Selenium
9 1 (0.15%) TestDirector
9 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 276 (42.14%) Social Skills
2 126 (19.24%) Finance
3 80 (12.21%) Public Sector
4 78 (11.91%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (6.26%) Legal
6 40 (6.11%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
8 23 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (3.36%) Banking
10 21 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (2.60%) Telecoms
12 16 (2.44%) Manufacturing
13 12 (1.83%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.83%) Law
13 12 (1.83%) Marketing
14 11 (1.68%) Electronics
14 11 (1.68%) Police
15 10 (1.53%) Local Government
16 7 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 5 (0.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 111 (16.95%) Architect
2 101 (15.42%) Analyst
3 74 (11.30%) Consultant
4 59 (9.01%) Security Architect
5 55 (8.40%) Security Engineer
6 51 (7.79%) Senior
7 42 (6.41%) Security Analyst
8 38 (5.80%) Lead
8 38 (5.80%) Security Consultant
9 32 (4.89%) Security Specialist
10 26 (3.97%) Security Manager
11 22 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
12 21 (3.21%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 16 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
14 15 (2.29%) Azure Architect
14 15 (2.29%) Cloud Architect
14 15 (2.29%) Project Manager
15 14 (2.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 14 (2.14%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 14 (2.14%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (5.65%) LDAP
2 25 (3.82%) OAuth
3 23 (3.51%) SAML
4 22 (3.36%) SailPoint
5 17 (2.60%) OpenID
6 11 (1.68%) OAuth2
7 10 (1.53%) REST
8 9 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.07%) ARM Templates
9 7 (1.07%) Loki
10 5 (0.76%) AWS CDK
11 4 (0.61%) Google JAX
11 4 (0.61%) JAX
11 4 (0.61%) PyTorch
11 4 (0.61%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.61%) TensorFlow
12 3 (0.46%) GraphQL
12 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Graph
12 3 (0.46%) Next.js
12 3 (0.46%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 76 (11.60%) Security Posture
2 62 (9.47%) Management Information System
3 45 (6.87%) Cloud Native
4 37 (5.65%) Cyber Threat
5 25 (3.82%) Security Operations Centre
6 22 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (3.21%) Onboarding
8 17 (2.60%) Data Centre
9 16 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (2.44%) Operational Technology
10 13 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.98%) NHS
11 12 (1.83%) Cloud Security Posture
12 11 (1.68%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.53%) Product Ownership
14 9 (1.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 9 (1.37%) SCADA
15 8 (1.22%) CSOC
15 8 (1.22%) PKI
16 7 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 55 (8.40%) Windows
2 33 (5.04%) Linux
3 17 (2.60%) Mac OS
4 11 (1.68%) Windows 10
5 9 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.61%) AIX
6 4 (0.61%) Solaris
7 2 (0.31%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.31%) VMS
8 1 (0.15%) Android
8 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (40.46%) Cybersecurity
2 166 (25.34%) Cloud Security
3 163 (24.89%) Information Security
4 160 (24.43%) Incident Response
5 152 (23.21%) Risk Management
6 141 (21.53%) SIEM
7 115 (17.56%) CI/CD
8 112 (17.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 108 (16.49%) DevOps
10 107 (16.34%) Stakeholder Management
11 98 (14.96%) Zero Trust
12 91 (13.89%) Identity Access Management
13 86 (13.13%) DevSecOps
14 84 (12.82%) Security Operations
14 84 (12.82%) Threat Modelling
15 83 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
16 79 (12.06%) Security Architecture
17 75 (11.45%) Infrastructure as Code
17 75 (11.45%) Vulnerability Management
18 73 (11.15%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 119 (18.17%) PowerShell
2 78 (11.91%) Python
3 35 (5.34%) Bash
4 22 (3.36%) Bicep
5 13 (1.98%) SQL
6 10 (1.53%) Java
7 8 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (0.76%) C
8 5 (0.76%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.61%) C++
9 4 (0.61%) R
9 4 (0.61%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.46%) Go
11 2 (0.31%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.31%) Rust
11 2 (0.31%) Solidity
12 1 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 218 (33.28%) CISSP
2 193 (29.47%) Security Cleared
3 163 (24.89%) CISM
4 153 (23.36%) SC Cleared
5 83 (12.67%) Degree
6 46 (7.02%) Cisco Certification
7 43 (6.56%) CISA
8 42 (6.41%) Azure Certification
9 38 (5.80%) DV Cleared
9 38 (5.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 37 (5.65%) AWS Certification
11 33 (5.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 31 (4.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 28 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
14 27 (4.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 25 (3.82%) CCSP
16 24 (3.66%) CEH
17 22 (3.36%) Master's Degree
18 21 (3.21%) GIAC
19 19 (2.90%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 394 (60.15%) NIST
2 251 (38.32%) GDPR
3 81 (12.37%) PCI DSS
4 73 (11.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 71 (10.84%) NCSC
6 59 (9.01%) GRC
7 41 (6.26%) COBIT
8 36 (5.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 34 (5.19%) NIST 800
10 33 (5.04%) SOC 2
11 32 (4.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 22 (3.36%) HIPAA
13 21 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 17 (2.60%) JSP 440
15 16 (2.44%) RMADS
16 15 (2.29%) ISO 9001
16 15 (2.29%) QA
17 11 (1.68%) Def Stans
17 11 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 11 (1.68%) SLA
System Software
1 92 (14.05%) Active Directory
2 31 (4.73%) Docker
3 14 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.61%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.46%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) Snort
7 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (9.77%) Terraform
2 54 (8.24%) Kubernetes
3 39 (5.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (4.27%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (3.51%) SCCM
6 18 (2.75%) Ansible
7 14 (2.14%) RSA Archer
8 13 (1.98%) QRadar
9 12 (1.83%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (1.37%) Fluentd
11 8 (1.22%) Nessus
12 6 (0.92%) Grafana
12 6 (0.92%) PingFederate
13 5 (0.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 5 (0.76%) CSIRT
13 5 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.46%) CASB
15 2 (0.31%) Nmap
15 2 (0.31%) SCOM
Vendors
1 167 (25.50%) Microsoft
2 47 (7.18%) Splunk
3 45 (6.87%) CyberArk
4 34 (5.19%) BeyondTrust
5 26 (3.97%) ServiceNow
6 24 (3.66%) Cisco
6 24 (3.66%) Google
7 21 (3.21%) Oracle
7 21 (3.21%) SAP
8 20 (3.05%) Rapid7
9 18 (2.75%) VMware
10 17 (2.60%) Fortinet
10 17 (2.60%) Palo Alto
11 16 (2.44%) CrowdStrike
12 13 (1.98%) Tenable
13 12 (1.83%) ArcSight
13 12 (1.83%) Citrix
14 11 (1.68%) Thycotic
15 10 (1.53%) Okta
15 10 (1.53%) Qualys
431 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England