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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 217 206
Rank change year-on-year +83 -11 +60
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 712 300 445
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.95% 1.22% 1.17%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.22% 7.92% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 184 346
10th Percentile £408 £416 £365
25th Percentile £463 £509 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £667
90th Percentile £770 £800 £744
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 9 9
10th Percentile £31.25 £51.00 -
25th Percentile £33.50 £60.75 £42.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £73.60 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.63% +65.39% -37.75%
75th Percentile £82.25 £83.20 £46.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £85.56 £84.13
UK median hourly rate £63.00 £73.60 £44.50
% change year-on-year -14.40% +65.39% -37.75%

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 6,345 3,786 5,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.37% 15.35% 14.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,101 2,394 3,495
10th Percentile £335 £263 £306
25th Percentile £413 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -4.27% -
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £702 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 155 356
10th Percentile £15.60 £16.24 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.48 £22.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £26.11 £32.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +30.00% -37.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.44
90th Percentile £79.26 £78.58 £67.44
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £31.88 £24.50
% change year-on-year -12.36% +30.12% -34.67%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +44 305 £575 -8.00% 127
South East +42 178 £515 -10.43% 110
North of England -15 74 £540 -10.00% 64
Midlands -21 59 £475 -20.83% 36
South West +8 50 £525 -16.00% 43
Yorkshire -23 40 £512 -9.00% 14
West Midlands -31 40 £513 -16.33% 30
North West -15 29 £577 -9.88% 45
East Midlands -19 19 £447 +11.75% 6
East of England -20 17 £575 +12.86% 21
North East -15 5 £400 -17.95% 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 22 (3.09%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.81%) Confluence
3 19 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.84%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.28%) Apache
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.98%) Maximo
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 256 (35.96%) Azure
2 209 (29.35%) AWS
3 94 (13.20%) GCP
4 73 (10.25%) Entra ID
5 56 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (6.04%) Azure Sentinel
7 30 (4.21%) OpenShift
8 29 (4.07%) Microsoft Purview
9 25 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (2.95%) OCI
12 20 (2.81%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 18 (2.53%) Power Platform
14 17 (2.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 17 (2.39%) GitHub
14 17 (2.39%) Serverless
14 17 (2.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (2.25%) SaaS
16 14 (1.97%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (13.06%) Firewall
2 66 (9.27%) Network Security
3 46 (6.46%) VPN
4 22 (3.09%) Wireless
5 20 (2.81%) DNS
6 16 (2.25%) WAN
7 14 (1.97%) BGP
7 14 (1.97%) LAN
8 13 (1.83%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (1.83%) DHCP
8 13 (1.83%) MPLS
8 13 (1.83%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.26%) HTTP
9 9 (1.26%) IPv6
10 8 (1.12%) IPv4
10 8 (1.12%) NGFW
10 8 (1.12%) OSPF
11 7 (0.98%) Intrusion Detection
12 6 (0.84%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.84%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.97%) Power BI
2 10 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.12%) NoSQL
4 7 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.98%) SQL Server
5 6 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (0.84%) DynamoDB
5 6 (0.84%) MySQL
6 5 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (0.70%) Metadata
7 4 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.56%) DocumentDB
7 4 (0.56%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.56%) Redis
8 3 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.42%) Big Data
8 3 (0.42%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.42%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 27 (3.79%) JIRA
2 24 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.67%) Metasploit
4 18 (2.53%) Burp Suite
5 11 (1.54%) GitLab
6 7 (0.98%) Git
7 3 (0.42%) JMeter
7 3 (0.42%) MSTest
7 3 (0.42%) Selenium
8 1 (0.14%) AppScan
8 1 (0.14%) Snyk
8 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 289 (40.59%) Social Skills
2 118 (16.57%) Finance
3 86 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (11.66%) Public Sector
5 65 (9.13%) Documentation Skills
6 48 (6.74%) Legal
7 31 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
8 23 (3.23%) Banking
9 22 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.97%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.83%) Law
13 12 (1.69%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.54%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.40%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.12%) Marketing
16 8 (1.12%) Police
17 6 (0.84%) Retail
18 5 (0.70%) Aviation
18 5 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 112 (15.73%) Architect
2 94 (13.20%) Analyst
3 83 (11.66%) Consultant
4 60 (8.43%) Security Engineer
5 51 (7.16%) Senior
6 49 (6.88%) Security Architect
7 44 (6.18%) Security Consultant
8 43 (6.04%) Security Analyst
9 34 (4.78%) Lead
9 34 (4.78%) Security Manager
10 31 (4.35%) Project Manager
11 23 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (3.23%) Security Specialist
12 22 (3.09%) Tester
13 20 (2.81%) Penetration Tester
14 17 (2.39%) Cloud Architect
14 17 (2.39%) CyberArk Architect
14 17 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
15 15 (2.11%) Business Analyst
15 15 (2.11%) Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (8.01%) LDAP
2 35 (4.92%) OpenID
2 35 (4.92%) SAML
3 27 (3.79%) OAuth
4 17 (2.39%) Oracle Fusion
5 15 (2.11%) OAuth2
6 14 (1.97%) REST
7 13 (1.83%) SailPoint
8 11 (1.54%) ARM Templates
9 9 (1.26%) Middleware
10 8 (1.12%) Kafka
10 8 (1.12%) RESTful
11 6 (0.84%) AWS CDK
12 5 (0.70%) .NET
12 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (0.70%) Node.js
12 5 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (0.70%) Spring
13 4 (0.56%) Hibernate
13 4 (0.56%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 72 (10.11%) Security Posture
2 62 (8.71%) Onboarding
3 52 (7.30%) Cloud Native
4 49 (6.88%) Management Information System
5 33 (4.63%) Operational Technology
6 25 (3.51%) Data Centre
7 21 (2.95%) Cyber Threat
7 21 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (2.95%) Security Operations Centre
8 20 (2.81%) Product Ownership
9 15 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.97%) PKI
11 13 (1.83%) SCADA
12 12 (1.69%) BYOD
12 12 (1.69%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (1.40%) CMDB
15 9 (1.26%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 76 (10.67%) Windows
2 40 (5.62%) Linux
3 20 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.40%) Windows 10
5 9 (1.26%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.98%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.98%) Unix
7 4 (0.56%) AIX
7 4 (0.56%) Solaris
8 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.28%) Android
9 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.14%) Rocky
10 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (43.68%) Cybersecurity
2 214 (30.06%) Information Security
3 165 (23.17%) Cloud Security
4 159 (22.33%) Risk Management
5 146 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
6 141 (19.80%) SIEM
7 129 (18.12%) CI/CD
8 126 (17.70%) DevOps
9 123 (17.28%) Incident Response
10 111 (15.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 107 (15.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 95 (13.34%) Security Operations
13 94 (13.20%) Zero Trust
14 92 (12.92%) Threat Modelling
15 89 (12.50%) Agile
16 82 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
16 82 (11.52%) Security Architecture
17 81 (11.38%) Data Protection
17 81 (11.38%) Regulatory Compliance
18 78 (10.96%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 107 (15.03%) PowerShell
2 82 (11.52%) Python
3 20 (2.81%) SQL
4 19 (2.67%) Bicep
5 18 (2.53%) Bash
6 10 (1.40%) Java
6 10 (1.40%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (0.56%) C#
7 4 (0.56%) Go
7 4 (0.56%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.56%) PHP
8 2 (0.28%) C
8 2 (0.28%) Rust
8 2 (0.28%) Solidity
8 2 (0.28%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.14%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.14%) Lisp
9 1 (0.14%) Ruby
9 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 275 (38.62%) Security Cleared
2 222 (31.18%) SC Cleared
3 192 (26.97%) CISSP
4 147 (20.65%) CISM
5 103 (14.47%) Degree
6 61 (8.57%) DV Cleared
7 45 (6.32%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (5.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 33 (4.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 33 (4.63%) Azure Certification
10 31 (4.35%) AWS Certification
10 31 (4.35%) CISA
11 28 (3.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 27 (3.79%) PMI Certification
13 26 (3.65%) CEH
13 26 (3.65%) PMP
14 24 (3.37%) GIAC
14 24 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
15 23 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
16 22 (3.09%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 437 (61.38%) NIST
2 250 (35.11%) GDPR
3 104 (14.61%) PCI DSS
4 92 (12.92%) NCSC
5 78 (10.96%) Cyber Essentials
6 75 (10.53%) GRC
7 46 (6.46%) COBIT
8 43 (6.04%) SOC 2
9 38 (5.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 34 (4.78%) NIST 800
10 34 (4.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 28 (3.93%) QA
12 23 (3.23%) JSP 440
13 19 (2.67%) PMO
14 18 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 17 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 15 (2.11%) SLA
17 14 (1.97%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 13 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
19 11 (1.54%) HIPAA
System Software
1 89 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 19 (2.67%) Docker
3 18 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.56%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.14%) Firmware
8 1 (0.14%) GPFS
8 1 (0.14%) Lustre
8 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Varnish
8 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (8.71%) Kubernetes
2 54 (7.58%) Terraform
3 33 (4.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (2.39%) Nmap
6 15 (2.11%) Ansible
6 15 (2.11%) SCCM
7 10 (1.40%) Nessus
8 8 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.98%) CASB
10 6 (0.84%) Fluentd
10 6 (0.84%) Grafana
10 6 (0.84%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.70%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.56%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.56%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.56%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.42%) OpenVAS
13 3 (0.42%) QRadar
13 3 (0.42%) SCOM
Vendors
1 132 (18.54%) Microsoft
2 76 (10.67%) CyberArk
3 44 (6.18%) Splunk
4 38 (5.34%) BeyondTrust
5 33 (4.63%) Oracle
6 31 (4.35%) ServiceNow
7 30 (4.21%) Cisco
8 21 (2.95%) VMware
9 19 (2.67%) SAP
10 17 (2.39%) Fortinet
10 17 (2.39%) Google
11 16 (2.25%) Rapid7
12 15 (2.11%) Palo Alto
13 11 (1.54%) IBM
14 10 (1.40%) Okta
14 10 (1.40%) Qualys
15 9 (1.26%) Tenable
16 7 (0.98%) Cribl.io
16 7 (0.98%) Ping Identity
16 7 (0.98%) Zscaler