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

 6 months to
28 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 214 181
Rank change year-on-year +76 -33 +104
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 666 322 499
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.03% 1.22% 1.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.87% 8.45% 9.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 199 376
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £667
90th Percentile £777 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -9.87% +1.30% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 14
10th Percentile - £30.40 -
25th Percentile £33.50 £35.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £73.60 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.09% +65.39% -39.02%
75th Percentile £55.56 £83.20 £71.02
90th Percentile £79.35 £85.56 £81.90
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £73.60 £44.50
% change year-on-year -51.09% +65.39% -39.02%

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 5,613 3,810 5,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.11% 14.40% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,628 2,207 3,546
10th Percentile £322 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +0.95%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £706 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 151 281
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.70 £12.43
25th Percentile £18.16 £20.75 £14.59
Median hourly rate £25.46 £30.21 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.72% +0.70% +4.35%
75th Percentile £63.48 £65.00 £54.56
90th Percentile £69.62 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.34 £29.00 £27.90
% change year-on-year -9.17% +3.94% +7.31%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 +57 295 £565 -5.83% 149
South East +48 123 £492 -6.29% 166
North of England -7 75 £508 -14.24% 65
Midlands -7 64 £465 -7.00% 71
South West +9 55 £488 -22.00% 61
West Midlands -15 38 £550 +10.00% 35
Yorkshire -17 38 £500 -13.04% 24
North West -12 32 £600 - 33
East Midlands -10 26 £447 +11.75% 35
East of England -7 18 £553 +1.10% 55
North East -13 5 £400 +14.29% 8
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 22 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
1 22 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.80%) Confluence
3 4 (0.60%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 2 (0.30%) Apache
4 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) IIS
5 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 24 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.75%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (1.20%) Maximo
1 8 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 275 (41.29%) Azure
2 212 (31.83%) AWS
3 102 (15.32%) GCP
4 82 (12.31%) Entra ID
5 69 (10.36%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (7.51%) Azure Sentinel
7 35 (5.26%) OpenShift
8 27 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (3.90%) SaaS
10 22 (3.30%) Microsoft Purview
11 21 (3.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 20 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (2.70%) OCI
14 17 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (2.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (2.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 16 (2.40%) GitHub
16 15 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (2.25%) Azure AKS
17 14 (2.10%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 96 (14.41%) Firewall
2 57 (8.56%) Network Security
3 45 (6.76%) VPN
4 19 (2.85%) Wireless
5 18 (2.70%) DNS
6 13 (1.95%) WAN
7 12 (1.80%) LAN
8 11 (1.65%) BGP
8 11 (1.65%) DHCP
8 11 (1.65%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.50%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (1.35%) MPLS
11 8 (1.20%) Intrusion Detection
11 8 (1.20%) OSPF
12 7 (1.05%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.90%) Kerberos
13 6 (0.90%) S/MIME
13 6 (0.90%) VLAN
13 6 (0.90%) WLAN
14 5 (0.75%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (1.50%) Power BI
3 7 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.90%) DynamoDB
4 6 (0.90%) MySQL
4 6 (0.90%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (0.75%) Metadata
5 5 (0.75%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.60%) DocumentDB
6 4 (0.60%) Redis
7 3 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.45%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.45%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.45%) Tableau
8 2 (0.30%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 26 (3.90%) Jenkins
2 24 (3.60%) JIRA
3 18 (2.70%) Burp Suite
3 18 (2.70%) Metasploit
4 14 (2.10%) GitLab
5 7 (1.05%) Git
6 3 (0.45%) Snyk
7 1 (0.15%) Ant
7 1 (0.15%) AppScan
7 1 (0.15%) JMeter
7 1 (0.15%) MSTest
7 1 (0.15%) Selenium
7 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.15%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 283 (42.49%) Social Skills
2 123 (18.47%) Finance
3 76 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 63 (9.46%) Documentation Skills
6 42 (6.31%) Legal
7 34 (5.11%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (3.15%) Banking
11 13 (1.95%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.65%) Law
12 11 (1.65%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.50%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.35%) Marketing
15 8 (1.20%) Police
16 7 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 5 (0.75%) Aviation
17 5 (0.75%) Electronics
18 4 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 111 (16.67%) Architect
2 97 (14.56%) Analyst
3 69 (10.36%) Consultant
4 53 (7.96%) Security Architect
5 50 (7.51%) Security Engineer
6 47 (7.06%) Security Analyst
6 47 (7.06%) Senior
7 30 (4.50%) Lead
8 29 (4.35%) Security Manager
9 28 (4.20%) Security Consultant
10 25 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
10 25 (3.75%) Security Specialist
11 22 (3.30%) Tester
12 20 (3.00%) Project Manager
13 18 (2.70%) Penetration Tester
13 18 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (2.40%) CyberArk Architect
15 15 (2.25%) Security Officer
15 15 (2.25%) SOC Analyst
16 14 (2.10%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.71%) LDAP
2 41 (6.16%) SAML
3 39 (5.86%) OpenID
4 35 (5.26%) OAuth
5 19 (2.85%) OAuth2
6 16 (2.40%) REST
7 12 (1.80%) ARM Templates
7 12 (1.80%) Oracle Fusion
7 12 (1.80%) SailPoint
8 8 (1.20%) RESTful
9 7 (1.05%) Middleware
10 6 (0.90%) AWS CDK
10 6 (0.90%) Kafka
11 5 (0.75%) JWT
11 5 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (0.75%) Spring
12 4 (0.60%) .NET
12 4 (0.60%) Hibernate
12 4 (0.60%) JPA
12 4 (0.60%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 81 (12.16%) Security Posture
2 60 (9.01%) Management Information System
3 51 (7.66%) Onboarding
4 49 (7.36%) Cloud Native
5 30 (4.50%) Cyber Threat
6 25 (3.75%) Operational Technology
7 21 (3.15%) Security Operations Centre
8 18 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (2.25%) Data Centre
11 13 (1.95%) PKI
11 13 (1.95%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.65%) NHS
12 11 (1.65%) SCADA
13 9 (1.35%) Cloud Security Posture
14 8 (1.20%) CSOC
14 8 (1.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 8 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 65 (9.76%) Windows
2 36 (5.41%) Linux
3 14 (2.10%) Mac OS
4 13 (1.95%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.65%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.45%) AIX
7 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.45%) Solaris
8 2 (0.30%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.30%) VMS
9 1 (0.15%) Android
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) CentOS
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.15%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (42.04%) Cybersecurity
2 177 (26.58%) Information Security
3 166 (24.92%) Cloud Security
4 154 (23.12%) Incident Response
5 152 (22.82%) SIEM
6 148 (22.22%) Risk Management
7 140 (21.02%) Stakeholder Management
8 128 (19.22%) DevOps
9 123 (18.47%) CI/CD
10 106 (15.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 96 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 95 (14.26%) Zero Trust
13 86 (12.91%) Threat Modelling
14 85 (12.76%) Identity Access Management
15 83 (12.46%) Security Operations
16 82 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
17 81 (12.16%) Data Protection
18 79 (11.86%) DevSecOps
19 78 (11.71%) Security Architecture
20 75 (11.26%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 114 (17.12%) PowerShell
2 75 (11.26%) Python
3 27 (4.05%) Bash
4 21 (3.15%) Bicep
5 15 (2.25%) SQL
6 11 (1.65%) Java
6 11 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (0.60%) Go
7 4 (0.60%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.60%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.30%) BeanShell
8 2 (0.30%) C
8 2 (0.30%) Rust
8 2 (0.30%) Solidity
9 1 (0.15%) C#
9 1 (0.15%) Lisp
9 1 (0.15%) PHP
9 1 (0.15%) Ruby
9 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 235 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 196 (29.43%) CISSP
3 190 (28.53%) SC Cleared
4 153 (22.97%) CISM
5 92 (13.81%) Degree
6 53 (7.96%) DV Cleared
7 38 (5.71%) CISA
8 33 (4.95%) Azure Certification
8 33 (4.95%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (4.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 29 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 28 (4.20%) AWS Certification
11 25 (3.75%) GIAC
11 25 (3.75%) Master's Degree
12 24 (3.60%) CEH
13 23 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
14 22 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
15 21 (3.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 20 (3.00%) CompTIA Security+
16 20 (3.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 404 (60.66%) NIST
2 244 (36.64%) GDPR
3 98 (14.71%) PCI DSS
4 90 (13.51%) NCSC
5 71 (10.66%) GRC
6 69 (10.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 40 (6.01%) COBIT
8 38 (5.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 36 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 31 (4.65%) SOC 2
11 28 (4.20%) QA
12 27 (4.05%) NIST 800
13 18 (2.70%) JSP 440
14 17 (2.55%) HIPAA
15 16 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 14 (2.10%) PMO
16 14 (2.10%) SLA
17 11 (1.65%) Def Stans
17 11 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 10 (1.50%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 93 (13.96%) Active Directory
2 20 (3.00%) Docker
3 18 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.60%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.15%) Firmware
6 1 (0.15%) GPFS
6 1 (0.15%) Lustre
6 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.15%) Snort
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (10.06%) Kubernetes
2 59 (8.86%) Terraform
3 43 (6.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (4.50%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (3.45%) SCCM
6 17 (2.55%) Ansible
7 15 (2.25%) Nmap
8 11 (1.65%) Nessus
8 11 (1.65%) QRadar
9 9 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (1.35%) Fluentd
10 8 (1.20%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.90%) PingFederate
12 5 (0.75%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.60%) Grafana
14 3 (0.45%) CASB
14 3 (0.45%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
14 3 (0.45%) SCOM
14 3 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 149 (22.37%) Microsoft
2 65 (9.76%) CyberArk
3 56 (8.41%) Splunk
4 32 (4.80%) BeyondTrust
5 25 (3.75%) Oracle
6 22 (3.30%) Cisco
6 22 (3.30%) ServiceNow
6 22 (3.30%) VMware
7 20 (3.00%) Google
8 18 (2.70%) SAP
9 16 (2.40%) Fortinet
10 14 (2.10%) Rapid7
11 12 (1.80%) Citrix
11 12 (1.80%) Palo Alto
12 11 (1.65%) Qualys
13 10 (1.50%) IBM
13 10 (1.50%) Okta
14 9 (1.35%) Cribl.io
14 9 (1.35%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (1.35%) Ping Identity
488 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England