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

 6 months to
24 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 209 178
Rank change year-on-year +73 -31 +122
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 662 324 510
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.04% 1.21% 1.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.84% 8.42% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 201 379
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 £670
90th Percentile £798 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £529 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -11.90% +4.35% -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% -11.00%
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% -11.00%

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 5,590 3,848 5,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.19% 14.40% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,613 2,237 3,534
10th Percentile £323 £263 £315
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.38%
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 300 153 274
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.70 £12.67
25th Percentile £18.08 £20.50 £15.39
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.21 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.75% +0.70% +15.38%
75th Percentile £63.40 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £68.81 £75.00 £78.25
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £29.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year -11.14% +0.87% +15.00%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +54 289 £565 -5.83% 151
South East +46 125 £492 -6.29% 185
North of England -11 76 £508 -14.24% 86
Midlands -7 62 £465 -7.00% 81
South West +13 55 £488 -22.00% 76
Yorkshire -25 39 £500 -13.04% 31
West Midlands -27 38 £556 +11.25% 38
North West -15 32 £600 - 44
East Midlands -7 24 £447 +11.75% 42
East of England -10 19 £553 +1.10% 70
North East -11 5 £400 +14.29% 11
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 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
1 22 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.81%) Confluence
3 4 (0.60%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 1 (0.15%) Apache
4 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.15%) IIS
4 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 24 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.76%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (1.21%) Maximo
1 8 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 273 (41.24%) Azure
2 210 (31.72%) AWS
3 100 (15.11%) GCP
4 82 (12.39%) Entra ID
5 68 (10.27%) Microsoft 365
6 48 (7.25%) Azure Sentinel
7 34 (5.14%) OpenShift
8 26 (3.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (3.78%) SaaS
10 22 (3.32%) Microsoft Purview
11 21 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (2.72%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 17 (2.57%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (2.57%) OCI
13 17 (2.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 16 (2.42%) GitHub
15 15 (2.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 14 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
16 14 (2.11%) Amazon S3
16 14 (2.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 99 (14.95%) Firewall
2 59 (8.91%) Network Security
3 44 (6.65%) VPN
4 19 (2.87%) Wireless
5 18 (2.72%) DNS
6 13 (1.96%) WAN
7 12 (1.81%) LAN
8 11 (1.66%) DHCP
8 11 (1.66%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.51%) BGP
9 10 (1.51%) Cisco ASA
10 8 (1.21%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (1.21%) MPLS
11 7 (1.06%) Kerberos
11 7 (1.06%) OSPF
11 7 (1.06%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.91%) S/MIME
12 6 (0.91%) VLAN
12 6 (0.91%) WLAN
13 5 (0.76%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (1.51%) Power BI
3 7 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.91%) DynamoDB
4 6 (0.91%) MySQL
4 6 (0.91%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.76%) Metadata
5 5 (0.76%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
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%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.45%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.45%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.45%) Tableau
8 2 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (3.93%) Jenkins
2 24 (3.63%) JIRA
3 17 (2.57%) Burp Suite
3 17 (2.57%) Metasploit
4 15 (2.27%) GitLab
5 6 (0.91%) Git
6 3 (0.45%) Snyk
7 1 (0.15%) Ant
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
1 279 (42.15%) Social Skills
2 123 (18.58%) Finance
3 78 (11.78%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (11.18%) Public Sector
5 59 (8.91%) Documentation Skills
6 41 (6.19%) Legal
7 33 (4.98%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (3.17%) Banking
11 12 (1.81%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.66%) Law
12 11 (1.66%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.51%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.36%) Marketing
15 8 (1.21%) Police
16 7 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 5 (0.76%) Aviation
17 5 (0.76%) Electronics
18 4 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 113 (17.07%) Architect
2 96 (14.50%) Analyst
3 69 (10.42%) Consultant
4 56 (8.46%) Security Architect
5 50 (7.55%) Security Engineer
6 48 (7.25%) Security Analyst
7 44 (6.65%) Senior
8 30 (4.53%) Lead
9 29 (4.38%) Security Manager
10 28 (4.23%) Security Consultant
11 25 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
11 25 (3.78%) Security Specialist
12 22 (3.32%) Tester
13 20 (3.02%) Project Manager
14 18 (2.72%) Penetration Tester
15 17 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
16 16 (2.42%) Security Officer
17 15 (2.27%) CyberArk Architect
17 15 (2.27%) SOC Analyst
18 14 (2.11%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (8.31%) LDAP
2 40 (6.04%) SAML
3 37 (5.59%) OpenID
4 34 (5.14%) OAuth
5 18 (2.72%) OAuth2
6 16 (2.42%) REST
7 12 (1.81%) ARM Templates
7 12 (1.81%) SailPoint
8 11 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.21%) RESTful
10 7 (1.06%) Middleware
11 5 (0.76%) AWS CDK
11 5 (0.76%) JWT
11 5 (0.76%) Kafka
11 5 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (0.76%) Spring
12 4 (0.60%) gRPC
12 4 (0.60%) React
12 4 (0.60%) Spring Boot
12 4 (0.60%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 83 (12.54%) Security Posture
2 60 (9.06%) Management Information System
3 53 (8.01%) Cloud Native
4 48 (7.25%) Onboarding
5 31 (4.68%) Cyber Threat
6 23 (3.47%) Operational Technology
7 22 (3.32%) Security Operations Centre
8 21 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (2.27%) Data Centre
11 13 (1.96%) PKI
12 12 (1.81%) Cloud Security Posture
12 12 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.66%) NHS
13 11 (1.66%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.51%) Public Cloud
14 10 (1.51%) SCADA
15 8 (1.21%) CSOC
15 8 (1.21%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 8 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 66 (9.97%) Windows
2 36 (5.44%) Linux
3 14 (2.11%) Mac OS
4 13 (1.96%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.81%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.60%) AIX
6 4 (0.60%) Solaris
6 4 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise 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%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.15%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (41.39%) Cybersecurity
2 179 (27.04%) Information Security
3 167 (25.23%) Cloud Security
4 157 (23.72%) Incident Response
5 151 (22.81%) SIEM
6 148 (22.36%) Risk Management
7 138 (20.85%) Stakeholder Management
8 124 (18.73%) DevOps
9 123 (18.58%) CI/CD
10 108 (16.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 96 (14.50%) Zero Trust
12 95 (14.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 88 (13.29%) Threat Modelling
14 87 (13.14%) Identity Access Management
15 84 (12.69%) Security Operations
16 81 (12.24%) Data Protection
16 81 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
17 80 (12.08%) Security Architecture
18 78 (11.78%) DevSecOps
19 77 (11.63%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 112 (16.92%) PowerShell
2 72 (10.88%) Python
3 29 (4.38%) Bash
4 20 (3.02%) Bicep
5 14 (2.11%) SQL
6 11 (1.66%) Java
7 10 (1.51%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.60%) Go
8 4 (0.60%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.60%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.30%) BeanShell
9 2 (0.30%) C
9 2 (0.30%) Rust
9 2 (0.30%) Solidity
10 1 (0.15%) C#
10 1 (0.15%) PHP
10 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 233 (35.20%) Security Cleared
2 198 (29.91%) CISSP
3 188 (28.40%) SC Cleared
4 151 (22.81%) CISM
5 91 (13.75%) Degree
6 54 (8.16%) DV Cleared
7 39 (5.89%) CISA
8 37 (5.59%) Cisco Certification
9 36 (5.44%) Azure Certification
10 32 (4.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 31 (4.68%) AWS Certification
12 29 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 25 (3.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 25 (3.78%) CEH
13 25 (3.78%) GIAC
13 25 (3.78%) Master's Degree
14 22 (3.32%) CCSP
14 22 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
15 21 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
15 21 (3.17%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 402 (60.73%) NIST
2 243 (36.71%) GDPR
3 103 (15.56%) PCI DSS
4 88 (13.29%) NCSC
5 69 (10.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 67 (10.12%) GRC
7 39 (5.89%) COBIT
8 38 (5.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 35 (5.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 30 (4.53%) SOC 2
11 28 (4.23%) QA
12 27 (4.08%) NIST 800
13 18 (2.72%) JSP 440
14 17 (2.57%) HIPAA
15 16 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 14 (2.11%) PMO
16 14 (2.11%) SLA
17 11 (1.66%) Def Stans
18 10 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
18 10 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 91 (13.75%) Active Directory
2 24 (3.63%) Docker
3 18 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.76%) 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 (10.12%) Kubernetes
2 58 (8.76%) Terraform
3 42 (6.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (3.47%) SCCM
6 16 (2.42%) Ansible
7 15 (2.27%) Nmap
8 11 (1.66%) QRadar
9 9 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (1.36%) Fluentd
9 9 (1.36%) Nessus
10 8 (1.21%) RSA Archer
11 6 (0.91%) PingFederate
12 5 (0.76%) CSIRT
12 5 (0.76%) Grafana
13 4 (0.60%) Prometheus
14 3 (0.45%) CASB
14 3 (0.45%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.45%) SCOM
14 3 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 147 (22.21%) Microsoft
2 61 (9.21%) CyberArk
3 52 (7.85%) Splunk
4 29 (4.38%) BeyondTrust
5 24 (3.63%) Oracle
6 23 (3.47%) VMware
7 22 (3.32%) Cisco
7 22 (3.32%) ServiceNow
8 20 (3.02%) Google
9 18 (2.72%) SAP
10 16 (2.42%) Fortinet
11 14 (2.11%) Rapid7
12 13 (1.96%) Citrix
13 12 (1.81%) Palo Alto
14 11 (1.66%) Qualys
15 10 (1.51%) CrowdStrike
15 10 (1.51%) IBM
15 10 (1.51%) Okta
16 9 (1.36%) Cribl.io
16 9 (1.36%) Ping Identity
571 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England