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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 152 216
Rank change year-on-year -17 +64 -44
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 755 519 360
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 1.90% 1.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.39% 11.07% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 358 281
10th Percentile £413 £350 £406
25th Percentile £481 £454 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £583
% change year-on-year - -5.58% -2.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 10 2
10th Percentile £44.79 £29.31 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £33.90 £26.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £52.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.24% +90.91% -51.39%
75th Percentile £80.00 £69.94 £28.75
90th Percentile £84.60 £100.55 -
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £52.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +35.24% +90.91% -44.44%

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 8,042 4,687 4,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.63% 17.12% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,090 3,067 2,665
10th Percentile £337 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 219 238
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £11.33
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.88 £13.89
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +15.05% -21.43%
75th Percentile £69.77 £64.38 £63.31
90th Percentile £78.35 £83.55 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £30.00 £25.30
% change year-on-year +20.23% +18.58% -26.67%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -17 328 £569 +1.07% 584
South East +4 213 £563 -4.26% 153
North of England -58 75 £530 -3.64% 115
North West -20 53 £530 -3.64% 71
Midlands -45 49 £500 +11.11% 51
West Midlands -26 45 £500 -4.76% 31
South West -43 44 £613 -2.00% 103
East of England -9 33 £515 -1.90% 51
Yorkshire -49 20 £520 +12.43% 32
East Midlands -26 4 - - 20
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 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.72%) Confluence
3 11 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.19%) IIS
5 3 (0.40%) Apache
6 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.79%) 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
1 280 (37.09%) Azure
2 173 (22.91%) AWS
3 126 (16.69%) Entra ID
4 95 (12.58%) GCP
5 71 (9.40%) Microsoft 365
6 44 (5.83%) SaaS
7 31 (4.11%) Azure Sentinel
8 29 (3.84%) GitHub
8 29 (3.84%) Microsoft Purview
9 28 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (3.44%) Serverless
11 21 (2.78%) OCI
12 18 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (2.38%) Power Platform
13 14 (1.85%) Azure Key Vault
14 13 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (1.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 10 (1.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 9 (1.19%) AWS CloudTrail
17 9 (1.19%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (8.48%) Firewall
2 60 (7.95%) Network Security
3 20 (2.65%) VPN
4 15 (1.99%) DNS
5 12 (1.59%) WAN
6 11 (1.46%) LAN
6 11 (1.46%) Wireless
7 10 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (0.93%) DHCP
8 7 (0.93%) NGFW
8 7 (0.93%) SAN
9 6 (0.79%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.79%) IPsec
9 6 (0.79%) Modbus
9 6 (0.79%) NAS
9 6 (0.79%) SSL
9 6 (0.79%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.79%) VLAN
9 6 (0.79%) X.509
10 5 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.59%) Power BI
3 10 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (1.32%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.79%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.66%) Big Data
5 5 (0.66%) Delta Lake
5 5 (0.66%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.53%) Metadata
6 4 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.26%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.26%) MySQL
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (2.91%) JIRA
2 13 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.32%) GitLab
4 6 (0.79%) Burp Suite
4 6 (0.79%) Git
5 5 (0.66%) Snyk
6 4 (0.53%) Selenium
7 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.26%) JMeter
7 2 (0.26%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.26%) MSTest
7 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.26%) TestRail
8 1 (0.13%) MSI
8 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.13%) sqlmap
General
1 266 (35.23%) Social Skills
2 115 (15.23%) Finance
3 99 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (12.45%) Public Sector
5 64 (8.48%) Documentation Skills
6 47 (6.23%) Legal
7 37 (4.90%) Aerospace
8 26 (3.44%) Manufacturing
9 25 (3.31%) Banking
9 25 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (2.91%) Military
11 17 (2.25%) Telecoms
12 16 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.06%) Local Government
14 8 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.79%) Retail
17 4 (0.53%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 148 (19.60%) Architect
2 107 (14.17%) Analyst
3 72 (9.54%) Lead
4 66 (8.74%) Consultant
5 65 (8.61%) Security Architect
6 48 (6.36%) Security Analyst
7 47 (6.23%) Senior
8 43 (5.70%) Security Engineer
9 42 (5.56%) Security Consultant
10 37 (4.90%) Security Manager
11 34 (4.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 32 (4.24%) Project Manager
13 26 (3.44%) Security Specialist
14 25 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (2.78%) Business Analyst
16 20 (2.65%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 20 (2.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 18 (2.38%) Security Project Manager
18 17 (2.25%) Cloud Architect
19 16 (2.12%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (7.15%) Terraform
2 44 (5.83%) LDAP
3 34 (4.50%) OAuth
4 32 (4.24%) SailPoint
5 31 (4.11%) SAML
6 26 (3.44%) OpenID
7 19 (2.52%) OAuth2
8 17 (2.25%) REST
9 12 (1.59%) Web Services
10 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Graph
11 8 (1.06%) Kafka
12 7 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (0.79%) ARM Templates
14 5 (0.66%) Middleware
14 5 (0.66%) SOAP
15 4 (0.53%) JDBC
15 4 (0.53%) JSON
16 3 (0.40%) FIDO
16 3 (0.40%) Playwright
17 2 (0.26%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 75 (9.93%) Onboarding
1 75 (9.93%) Operational Technology
2 56 (7.42%) Security Posture
3 55 (7.28%) Management Information System
4 53 (7.02%) Cloud Native
5 39 (5.17%) Cyber Threat
6 27 (3.58%) SCADA
7 23 (3.05%) Data Centre
7 23 (3.05%) PKI
8 20 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (2.65%) Security Operations Centre
9 19 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (2.25%) Cyber Defence
11 13 (1.72%) IoT
12 11 (1.46%) NHS
12 11 (1.46%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.19%) CMDB
13 9 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 109 (14.44%) Windows
2 67 (8.87%) Linux
3 37 (4.90%) Unix
4 34 (4.50%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.66%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.53%) CentOS
9 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.26%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
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 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (55.76%) Cybersecurity
2 201 (26.62%) Risk Management
3 178 (23.58%) Information Security
4 170 (22.52%) SIEM
5 167 (22.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 160 (21.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 134 (17.75%) Vulnerability Management
8 130 (17.22%) Incident Response
9 123 (16.29%) Cloud Security
10 122 (16.16%) Security Architecture
11 121 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 101 (13.38%) Security Operations
13 93 (12.32%) DevOps
13 93 (12.32%) Roadmaps
14 92 (12.19%) Zero Trust
15 91 (12.05%) Identity Access Management
16 90 (11.92%) ITSM
17 89 (11.79%) CI/CD
18 88 (11.66%) Problem-Solving
19 83 (10.99%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 117 (15.50%) PowerShell
2 100 (13.25%) Python
3 35 (4.64%) Bash
4 20 (2.65%) SQL
5 18 (2.38%) Bicep
6 8 (1.06%) Java
7 6 (0.79%) BeanShell
7 6 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (0.79%) Perl
8 3 (0.40%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.26%) C#
9 2 (0.26%) Ruby
10 1 (0.13%) Go
10 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 273 (36.16%) Security Cleared
2 206 (27.28%) SC Cleared
3 193 (25.56%) CISSP
4 137 (18.15%) CISM
5 91 (12.05%) Degree
6 63 (8.34%) Cisco Certification
7 61 (8.08%) DV Cleared
8 51 (6.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 49 (6.49%) CRISC
10 36 (4.77%) CEH
11 34 (4.50%) CISA
12 33 (4.37%) CompTIA Security+
13 31 (4.11%) Azure Certification
13 31 (4.11%) GIAC
13 31 (4.11%) PMI Certification
14 29 (3.84%) PMP
15 26 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
16 25 (3.31%) CCSP
17 23 (3.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 22 (2.91%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 467 (61.85%) NIST
2 167 (22.12%) GDPR
3 119 (15.76%) GRC
4 91 (12.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 90 (11.92%) NCSC
6 61 (8.08%) PCI DSS
7 51 (6.75%) SOC 2
8 41 (5.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 35 (4.64%) COBIT
9 35 (4.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 34 (4.50%) NIST 800
11 23 (3.05%) Data Quality
12 21 (2.78%) HIPAA
13 18 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 16 (2.12%) JSP 440
15 13 (1.72%) ISO 31000
15 13 (1.72%) ITGC
16 12 (1.59%) ISO 22301
16 12 (1.59%) ISO 9001
17 11 (1.46%) SLA
System Software
1 144 (19.07%) Active Directory
2 27 (3.58%) Docker
3 15 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.72%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.40%) Firmware
5 3 (0.40%) vSphere
6 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.13%) Ceph
7 1 (0.13%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.13%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) Varnish
7 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 42 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 28 (3.71%) Single Sign-On
3 25 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (3.18%) Ansible
5 7 (0.93%) QRadar
6 6 (0.79%) Grafana
7 5 (0.66%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.53%) Nessus
8 4 (0.53%) Podman
9 3 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.40%) Argo
9 3 (0.40%) CASB
9 3 (0.40%) Puppet
9 3 (0.40%) RSA Archer
10 2 (0.26%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.26%) Istio
10 2 (0.26%) Nexpose
11 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 182 (24.11%) Microsoft
2 65 (8.61%) CyberArk
3 44 (5.83%) ServiceNow
4 34 (4.50%) BeyondTrust
5 33 (4.37%) Oracle
6 24 (3.18%) Splunk
7 21 (2.78%) Google
8 18 (2.38%) Cisco
8 18 (2.38%) CrowdStrike
9 17 (2.25%) VMware
10 16 (2.12%) SAP
11 15 (1.99%) Qualys
12 13 (1.72%) Palo Alto
13 12 (1.59%) Tenable
14 11 (1.46%) Databricks
15 10 (1.32%) Okta
16 9 (1.19%) Rapid7
17 7 (0.93%) Juniper
18 6 (0.79%) SolarWinds
18 6 (0.79%) Zscaler