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

 6 months to
13 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 215 187
Rank change year-on-year +74 -28 +94
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 682 317 471
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.00% 1.22% 1.25%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.54% 8.28% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 193 354
10th Percentile £400 £413 £379
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £667
90th Percentile £763 £797 £746
UK median daily rate £529 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -11.90% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 10 13
10th Percentile £29.57 £32.70 -
25th Percentile - £41.44 £42.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £67.55 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.41% +51.79% -39.35%
75th Percentile £48.35 £82.00 £49.00
90th Percentile £76.05 £84.38 £82.40
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £73.60 £44.50
% change year-on-year -51.09% +65.39% -39.35%

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 5,911 3,829 5,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.32% 14.69% 14.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,820 2,254 3,555
10th Percentile £325 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £376 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 149 305
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.94 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.23 £20.30 £14.50
Median hourly rate £24.19 £31.76 £25.12
Median % change year-on-year -23.84% +26.46% -13.84%
75th Percentile £63.40 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.61 £75.00 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £26.11 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -9.97% +16.00% -12.28%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +58 295 £565 -5.83% 112
South East +34 139 £492 -6.29% 108
North of England -8 75 £520 -12.24% 48
Midlands -10 66 £475 -5.00% 46
South West +17 59 £500 -20.00% 40
West Midlands -24 39 £550 +8.37% 31
Yorkshire -31 39 £500 -14.89% 12
North West -16 31 £550 -8.33% 27
East Midlands -8 27 £449 +12.25% 15
East of England -18 17 £553 +1.10% 27
North East -12 5 £400 +14.29% 9
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 23 (3.37%) SharePoint
2 22 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.91%) Confluence
4 5 (0.73%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.29%) Apache
5 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 23 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (1.17%) Maximo
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 266 (39.00%) Azure
2 212 (31.09%) AWS
3 100 (14.66%) GCP
4 82 (12.02%) Entra ID
5 67 (9.82%) Microsoft 365
6 48 (7.04%) Azure Sentinel
7 35 (5.13%) OpenShift
8 27 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (3.67%) Microsoft Purview
10 24 (3.52%) SaaS
11 21 (3.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 20 (2.93%) OCI
13 19 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (2.49%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (2.49%) Power Platform
14 17 (2.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (2.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 16 (2.35%) GitHub
16 15 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (2.20%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 100 (14.66%) Firewall
2 62 (9.09%) Network Security
3 50 (7.33%) VPN
4 21 (3.08%) Wireless
5 18 (2.64%) DNS
6 15 (2.20%) BGP
7 14 (2.05%) WAN
8 13 (1.91%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (1.91%) MPLS
9 12 (1.76%) LAN
9 12 (1.76%) SD-WAN
10 11 (1.61%) DHCP
11 9 (1.32%) OSPF
12 8 (1.17%) Intrusion Detection
13 7 (1.03%) TCP/IP
14 6 (0.88%) IPv6
14 6 (0.88%) Kerberos
14 6 (0.88%) S/MIME
14 6 (0.88%) VLAN
14 6 (0.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.91%) Power BI
2 11 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.03%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.88%) DynamoDB
4 6 (0.88%) MySQL
4 6 (0.88%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (0.73%) Metadata
6 4 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.59%) DocumentDB
6 4 (0.59%) Redis
7 3 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.44%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.44%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.44%) Tableau
8 2 (0.29%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 26 (3.81%) Jenkins
2 24 (3.52%) JIRA
3 18 (2.64%) Burp Suite
3 18 (2.64%) Metasploit
4 14 (2.05%) GitLab
5 7 (1.03%) Git
6 3 (0.44%) 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%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.15%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 292 (42.82%) Social Skills
2 120 (17.60%) Finance
3 77 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (11.14%) Public Sector
5 62 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
6 41 (6.01%) Legal
7 32 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
8 25 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (3.37%) Banking
9 23 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (2.35%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.47%) Law
11 10 (1.47%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.32%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.17%) Marketing
13 8 (1.17%) Police
14 7 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.73%) Aviation
16 4 (0.59%) Electronics
16 4 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 107 (15.69%) Architect
2 97 (14.22%) Analyst
3 71 (10.41%) Consultant
4 60 (8.80%) Security Engineer
5 48 (7.04%) Senior
6 47 (6.89%) Security Architect
7 46 (6.74%) Security Analyst
8 29 (4.25%) Lead
8 29 (4.25%) Security Consultant
8 29 (4.25%) Security Specialist
9 27 (3.96%) Security Manager
10 24 (3.52%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (3.37%) Tester
12 19 (2.79%) Penetration Tester
13 18 (2.64%) Project Manager
14 17 (2.49%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (2.35%) CyberArk Architect
16 15 (2.20%) Security Officer
16 15 (2.20%) SOC Analyst
17 14 (2.05%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (8.80%) LDAP
2 42 (6.16%) SAML
3 40 (5.87%) OpenID
4 36 (5.28%) OAuth
5 20 (2.93%) OAuth2
6 15 (2.20%) Oracle Fusion
6 15 (2.20%) REST
7 12 (1.76%) SailPoint
8 11 (1.61%) ARM Templates
9 7 (1.03%) RESTful
10 6 (0.88%) AWS CDK
10 6 (0.88%) Kafka
10 6 (0.88%) Middleware
11 5 (0.73%) JWT
11 5 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (0.73%) Spring
12 4 (0.59%) .NET
12 4 (0.59%) Hibernate
12 4 (0.59%) JPA
12 4 (0.59%) React
Miscellaneous
1 82 (12.02%) Security Posture
2 62 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 58 (8.50%) Onboarding
4 47 (6.89%) Cloud Native
5 28 (4.11%) Operational Technology
6 27 (3.96%) Cyber Threat
7 21 (3.08%) Security Operations Centre
8 18 (2.64%) Data Centre
9 17 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (2.05%) PKI
12 13 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.76%) NHS
13 12 (1.76%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.61%) SCADA
15 9 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
15 9 (1.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 9 (1.32%) Public Cloud
16 8 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
16 8 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 67 (9.82%) Windows
2 41 (6.01%) Linux
3 14 (2.05%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.91%) Mac OS
5 11 (1.61%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.03%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.88%) Unix
8 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.44%) VMS
9 2 (0.29%) AIX
9 2 (0.29%) Android
9 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.29%) Solaris
10 1 (0.15%) CentOS
10 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.15%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (42.08%) Cybersecurity
2 199 (29.18%) Information Security
3 164 (24.05%) Risk Management
4 162 (23.75%) Cloud Security
5 146 (21.41%) SIEM
5 146 (21.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 142 (20.82%) Incident Response
7 123 (18.04%) DevOps
8 122 (17.89%) CI/CD
9 103 (15.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 101 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 90 (13.20%) Zero Trust
12 86 (12.61%) Security Operations
13 83 (12.17%) Threat Modelling
14 82 (12.02%) Data Protection
14 82 (12.02%) Regulatory Compliance
15 81 (11.88%) Identity Access Management
16 80 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
17 77 (11.29%) DevSecOps
18 75 (11.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 114 (16.72%) PowerShell
2 82 (12.02%) Python
3 24 (3.52%) Bash
4 21 (3.08%) Bicep
5 16 (2.35%) SQL
6 10 (1.47%) Java
6 10 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (0.59%) Go
7 4 (0.59%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.59%) PHP
7 4 (0.59%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.29%) C
8 2 (0.29%) Rust
8 2 (0.29%) Solidity
9 1 (0.15%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.15%) C#
9 1 (0.15%) Lisp
9 1 (0.15%) Ruby
9 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 255 (37.39%) Security Cleared
2 208 (30.50%) SC Cleared
3 190 (27.86%) CISSP
4 147 (21.55%) CISM
5 93 (13.64%) Degree
6 57 (8.36%) DV Cleared
7 37 (5.43%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (5.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 33 (4.84%) CISA
9 32 (4.69%) Azure Certification
10 28 (4.11%) AWS Certification
11 27 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (3.81%) Master's Degree
13 24 (3.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 24 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
13 24 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
14 22 (3.23%) GIAC
14 22 (3.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 21 (3.08%) CEH
16 20 (2.93%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 411 (60.26%) NIST
2 240 (35.19%) GDPR
3 100 (14.66%) PCI DSS
4 95 (13.93%) NCSC
5 82 (12.02%) GRC
6 72 (10.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 42 (6.16%) COBIT
8 40 (5.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 37 (5.43%) SOC 2
10 36 (5.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 32 (4.69%) NIST 800
12 29 (4.25%) QA
13 20 (2.93%) JSP 440
14 17 (2.49%) PMO
15 16 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 16 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 14 (2.05%) SLA
17 13 (1.91%) Actionable Recommendations
18 12 (1.76%) HIPAA
19 11 (1.61%) Def Stans
System Software
1 93 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 21 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.93%) Docker
4 7 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.59%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.15%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) GPFS
7 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.15%) Lustre
7 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (9.53%) Kubernetes
2 59 (8.65%) Terraform
3 39 (5.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (4.25%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (3.08%) SCCM
6 18 (2.64%) Ansible
7 16 (2.35%) Nmap
8 10 (1.47%) Nessus
9 9 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (1.32%) Fluentd
10 8 (1.17%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.88%) PingFederate
11 6 (0.88%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.59%) CASB
12 4 (0.59%) Grafana
12 4 (0.59%) QRadar
13 3 (0.44%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.44%) OpenVAS
13 3 (0.44%) Prometheus
13 3 (0.44%) SCOM
Vendors
1 142 (20.82%) Microsoft
2 69 (10.12%) CyberArk
3 46 (6.74%) Splunk
4 37 (5.43%) BeyondTrust
5 30 (4.40%) Cisco
6 29 (4.25%) Oracle
7 24 (3.52%) ServiceNow
7 24 (3.52%) VMware
8 19 (2.79%) Google
9 17 (2.49%) Fortinet
9 17 (2.49%) SAP
10 16 (2.35%) Rapid7
11 15 (2.20%) Palo Alto
12 11 (1.61%) Okta
13 10 (1.47%) Citrix
13 10 (1.47%) IBM
13 10 (1.47%) Qualys
14 9 (1.32%) Cribl.io
14 9 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (1.32%) Ping Identity
337 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England