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

 6 months to
15 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 184 248
Rank change year-on-year +27 +64 -37
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 721 380 353
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.54% 0.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.99% 9.44% 6.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 251 277
10th Percentile £413 £316 £364
25th Percentile £492 £481 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -1.95%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £669
90th Percentile £775 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £563 £551 £560
% change year-on-year +2.18% -1.70% -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 9 2
10th Percentile £43.62 £29.11 -
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +123.62% -60.71%
75th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £82.72 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +2.67% +123.62% -59.00%

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 7,219 4,025 5,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.85% 16.30% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,669 2,588 3,193
10th Percentile £350 £268 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £609 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.67% -3.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 464 172 384
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.14 £10.95
25th Percentile £19.29 £22.14 £12.96
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.66 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% +35.05% -43.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £50.44
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.37 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.04 £31.76 £23.80
% change year-on-year +13.46% +33.45% -36.53%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 +7 308 £585 +1.74% 124
South East +35 222 £563 -6.25% 117
North of England -55 64 £545 -0.91% 61
Midlands -32 48 £500 +11.11% 47
West Midlands -39 41 £500 -4.76% 30
South West -18 40 £600 - 43
North West -20 38 £577 +4.86% 34
Yorkshire -44 26 £520 +41.50% 20
East of England -26 17 £540 +2.86% 20
East Midlands -21 7 £447 +11.19% 17
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 20 (2.77%) Confluence
2 17 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.97%) IIS
5 3 (0.42%) Apache
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
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 17 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.69%) Maximo
1 5 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.14%) iTrent
2 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 251 (34.81%) Azure
2 177 (24.55%) AWS
3 87 (12.07%) GCP
4 86 (11.93%) Entra ID
5 65 (9.02%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (4.58%) Azure Sentinel
7 31 (4.30%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (3.74%) SaaS
9 26 (3.61%) Serverless
10 22 (3.05%) GitHub
10 22 (3.05%) OpenShift
11 20 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (2.22%) Power Platform
13 15 (2.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 15 (2.08%) OCI
14 13 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
16 11 (1.53%) Azure AKS
17 10 (1.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 63 (8.74%) Firewall
2 59 (8.18%) Network Security
3 30 (4.16%) VPN
4 16 (2.22%) DNS
5 9 (1.25%) BGP
5 9 (1.25%) HTTP
5 9 (1.25%) NGFW
5 9 (1.25%) Wireless
6 8 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
6 8 (1.11%) MPLS
6 8 (1.11%) WAN
7 7 (0.97%) DHCP
7 7 (0.97%) SSH
8 6 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.83%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (0.83%) HTTPS
8 6 (0.83%) LAN
8 6 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (0.83%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.83%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.05%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.94%) Power BI
3 12 (1.66%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.97%) Metadata
6 6 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (0.83%) MySQL
7 5 (0.69%) Big Data
8 4 (0.55%) DocumentDB
8 4 (0.55%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.55%) Redis
9 3 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.42%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.42%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.28%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 26 (3.61%) JIRA
2 22 (3.05%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.66%) Burp Suite
4 10 (1.39%) Metasploit
5 7 (0.97%) GitLab
6 3 (0.42%) Git
6 3 (0.42%) Snyk
7 2 (0.28%) JMeter
7 2 (0.28%) MSTest
7 2 (0.28%) Selenium
7 2 (0.28%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.14%) AppScan
8 1 (0.14%) MSI
8 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.14%) sqlmap
General
1 252 (34.95%) Social Skills
2 133 (18.45%) Finance
3 97 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (12.07%) Public Sector
5 72 (9.99%) Documentation Skills
6 47 (6.52%) Legal
7 28 (3.88%) Banking
8 23 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.50%) Aerospace
10 17 (2.36%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (2.08%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.39%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.11%) Law
14 8 (1.11%) Military
14 8 (1.11%) Retail
15 4 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 131 (18.17%) Architect
2 98 (13.59%) Analyst
3 72 (9.99%) Consultant
4 59 (8.18%) Security Architect
5 49 (6.80%) Security Engineer
6 47 (6.52%) Lead
7 46 (6.38%) Security Consultant
8 45 (6.24%) Project Manager
9 41 (5.69%) Security Analyst
9 41 (5.69%) Security Manager
10 38 (5.27%) Senior
11 28 (3.88%) Business Analyst
12 27 (3.74%) Security Specialist
13 24 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 23 (3.19%) Cloud Architect
15 21 (2.91%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 21 (2.91%) Security Project Manager
16 19 (2.64%) CyberArk Architect
16 19 (2.64%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 19 (2.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.66%) LDAP
2 40 (5.55%) OpenID
2 40 (5.55%) SAML
3 34 (4.72%) OAuth
4 22 (3.05%) OAuth2
5 18 (2.50%) SailPoint
6 16 (2.22%) REST
7 11 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
8 10 (1.39%) Kafka
9 9 (1.25%) Middleware
9 9 (1.25%) Web Services
10 8 (1.11%) RESTful
11 7 (0.97%) ARM Templates
11 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
12 6 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (0.69%) Spring
13 5 (0.69%) Spring Boot
14 4 (0.55%) 802.1X
14 4 (0.55%) Hibernate
14 4 (0.55%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 78 (10.82%) Onboarding
2 68 (9.43%) Operational Technology
3 65 (9.02%) Cloud Native
4 52 (7.21%) Security Posture
5 50 (6.93%) Management Information System
6 25 (3.47%) SCADA
7 23 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 22 (3.05%) Data Centre
9 20 (2.77%) Analytical Mindset
9 20 (2.77%) PKI
10 18 (2.50%) Product Ownership
10 18 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
11 15 (2.08%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.94%) CMDB
12 14 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
13 13 (1.80%) Cyber Defence
14 12 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (1.39%) BYOD
16 10 (1.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 116 (16.09%) Windows
2 76 (10.54%) Linux
3 37 (5.13%) Windows Server
4 36 (4.99%) Unix
5 11 (1.53%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.42%) CentOS
7 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.28%) AIX
8 2 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.28%) Android
8 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.28%) Solaris
8 2 (0.28%) VMS
8 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.14%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.14%) Rocky
9 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (50.62%) Cybersecurity
2 208 (28.85%) Information Security
3 176 (24.41%) Risk Management
4 158 (21.91%) SIEM
5 141 (19.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 136 (18.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 133 (18.45%) Cloud Security
8 116 (16.09%) DevOps
9 110 (15.26%) Security Architecture
10 106 (14.70%) CI/CD
10 106 (14.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 104 (14.42%) Incident Response
12 97 (13.45%) Threat Modelling
13 96 (13.31%) Vulnerability Management
14 94 (13.04%) Security Operations
15 92 (12.76%) Roadmaps
16 89 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
17 88 (12.21%) Agile
18 87 (12.07%) ITSM
19 81 (11.23%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 102 (14.15%) PowerShell
2 98 (13.59%) Python
3 27 (3.74%) SQL
4 24 (3.33%) Bash
5 15 (2.08%) Bicep
6 8 (1.11%) Java
7 5 (0.69%) Perl
8 4 (0.55%) Go
8 4 (0.55%) PHP
9 3 (0.42%) C#
9 3 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.42%) Ruby
10 2 (0.28%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.14%) Lisp
11 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 282 (39.11%) Security Cleared
2 218 (30.24%) SC Cleared
3 174 (24.13%) CISSP
4 128 (17.75%) CISM
5 110 (15.26%) Degree
6 64 (8.88%) DV Cleared
7 49 (6.80%) Cisco Certification
8 39 (5.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 38 (5.27%) PMI Certification
10 37 (5.13%) CRISC
11 36 (4.99%) PMP
12 34 (4.72%) GIAC
13 31 (4.30%) CISA
14 29 (4.02%) CompTIA Security+
15 27 (3.74%) Azure Certification
15 27 (3.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 26 (3.61%) CEH
17 25 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
18 21 (2.91%) AWS Certification
18 21 (2.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 467 (64.77%) NIST
2 190 (26.35%) GDPR
3 94 (13.04%) GRC
4 89 (12.34%) PCI DSS
5 78 (10.82%) NCSC
6 77 (10.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 59 (8.18%) SOC 2
8 50 (6.93%) COBIT
9 38 (5.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 33 (4.58%) NIST 800
11 26 (3.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 20 (2.77%) Data Quality
13 18 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 17 (2.36%) HIPAA
15 16 (2.22%) QA
16 15 (2.08%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 15 (2.08%) JSP 440
17 14 (1.94%) ISO 31000
17 14 (1.94%) SLA
18 13 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 111 (15.40%) Active Directory
2 25 (3.47%) Docker
3 19 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.66%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) vSphere
7 1 (0.14%) Ceph
7 1 (0.14%) GPFS
7 1 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) Lustre
7 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.14%) Varnish
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 57 (7.91%) Kubernetes
2 49 (6.80%) Terraform
3 29 (4.02%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (2.50%) Ansible
5 17 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.11%) Nmap
7 7 (0.97%) Nessus
8 6 (0.83%) CASB
8 6 (0.83%) Grafana
8 6 (0.83%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.69%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.42%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.42%) OpenVAS
10 3 (0.42%) Podman
10 3 (0.42%) Puppet
10 3 (0.42%) QRadar
10 3 (0.42%) SCOM
11 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.28%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 139 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 75 (10.40%) CyberArk
3 39 (5.41%) BeyondTrust
4 38 (5.27%) ServiceNow
5 37 (5.13%) Oracle
5 37 (5.13%) Splunk
6 26 (3.61%) Cisco
7 21 (2.91%) VMware
8 16 (2.22%) Google
9 11 (1.53%) Qualys
9 11 (1.53%) Tenable
10 10 (1.39%) Rapid7
11 9 (1.25%) Fortinet
11 9 (1.25%) Palo Alto
12 8 (1.11%) Okta
13 7 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (0.97%) IBM
13 7 (0.97%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.97%) SAP
14 6 (0.83%) SolarWinds
367 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England