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

 6 months to
10 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 172 237
Rank change year-on-year +21 +65 -15
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 715 385 358
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 1.57% 0.96%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.04% 9.64% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 254 279
10th Percentile £413 £313 £363
25th Percentile £492 £496 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £559 £560
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% -0.18% -2.61%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £669
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £563 £575 £553
% change year-on-year -2.17% +3.98% -3.83%
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% -60.71%

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 7,121 3,992 5,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.86% 16.32% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,609 2,561 3,210
10th Percentile £350 £268 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 454 172 380
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £12.96
Median hourly rate £33.55 £34.50 £23.90
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +44.35% -43.76%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.15 £82.94 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £23.30
% change year-on-year +7.69% +39.51% -39.82%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -6 303 £580 +0.87% 125
South East +32 221 £563 -6.25% 114
North of England -50 65 £550 - 69
Midlands -39 50 £500 -2.44% 54
West Midlands -32 41 £500 -13.04% 39
South West -15 39 £600 - 43
North West -15 38 £577 +4.86% 42
Yorkshire -46 27 £540 +46.94% 18
East of England -21 16 £540 +2.86% 21
East Midlands -23 9 £442 +10.01% 15
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 (2.80%) Confluence
2 17 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.84%) 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 18 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.70%) Maximo
1 5 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.14%) iTrent
2 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 251 (35.10%) Azure
2 178 (24.90%) AWS
3 89 (12.45%) GCP
4 88 (12.31%) Entra ID
5 66 (9.23%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (4.34%) Azure Sentinel
7 29 (4.06%) Microsoft Purview
8 25 (3.50%) SaaS
8 25 (3.50%) Serverless
9 23 (3.22%) OpenShift
10 21 (2.94%) GitHub
11 20 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (2.24%) Power Platform
13 15 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (2.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 15 (2.10%) OCI
14 13 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
16 11 (1.54%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 11 (1.54%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (8.67%) Firewall
2 58 (8.11%) Network Security
3 31 (4.34%) VPN
4 15 (2.10%) DNS
5 10 (1.40%) Wireless
6 9 (1.26%) BGP
6 9 (1.26%) NGFW
7 8 (1.12%) HTTP
7 8 (1.12%) MPLS
7 8 (1.12%) WAN
8 7 (0.98%) DHCP
8 7 (0.98%) Intrusion Detection
9 6 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.84%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (0.84%) LAN
9 6 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
9 6 (0.84%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.84%) SSH
9 6 (0.84%) TACACS
10 5 (0.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.08%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.96%) Power BI
3 12 (1.68%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.98%) Metadata
6 6 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (0.84%) MySQL
7 5 (0.70%) Big Data
8 4 (0.56%) DocumentDB
8 4 (0.56%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.56%) 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 24 (3.36%) JIRA
2 21 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.68%) Burp Suite
4 11 (1.54%) Metasploit
5 6 (0.84%) GitLab
6 2 (0.28%) Git
6 2 (0.28%) JMeter
6 2 (0.28%) MSTest
6 2 (0.28%) Selenium
6 2 (0.28%) Snyk
7 1 (0.14%) AppScan
7 1 (0.14%) MSI
7 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.14%) sqlmap
General
1 254 (35.52%) Social Skills
2 130 (18.18%) Finance
3 95 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (12.45%) Public Sector
5 72 (10.07%) Documentation Skills
6 47 (6.57%) Legal
7 28 (3.92%) Banking
8 24 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.52%) Aerospace
10 17 (2.38%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (2.10%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.26%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.12%) Law
13 8 (1.12%) Military
13 8 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.12%) Retail
14 7 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.42%) Marketing
15 3 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (18.46%) Architect
2 92 (12.87%) Analyst
3 73 (10.21%) Consultant
4 58 (8.11%) Security Architect
5 49 (6.85%) Security Engineer
6 47 (6.57%) Lead
7 46 (6.43%) Security Consultant
8 44 (6.15%) Project Manager
9 40 (5.59%) Security Manager
10 39 (5.45%) Security Analyst
11 36 (5.03%) Senior
12 27 (3.78%) Security Specialist
13 26 (3.64%) Business Analyst
14 22 (3.08%) Cloud Architect
14 22 (3.08%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 21 (2.94%) Security Project Manager
16 20 (2.80%) CyberArk Architect
16 20 (2.80%) Cybersecurity Architect
17 19 (2.66%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 19 (2.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (6.85%) LDAP
2 40 (5.59%) OpenID
2 40 (5.59%) SAML
3 33 (4.62%) OAuth
4 21 (2.94%) OAuth2
5 16 (2.24%) SailPoint
6 14 (1.96%) REST
7 11 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
8 10 (1.40%) Kafka
9 9 (1.26%) Middleware
9 9 (1.26%) Web Services
10 8 (1.12%) RESTful
11 7 (0.98%) ARM Templates
12 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
13 5 (0.70%) Spring
13 5 (0.70%) Spring Boot
14 4 (0.56%) 802.1X
14 4 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
14 4 (0.56%) Hibernate
14 4 (0.56%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 78 (10.91%) Onboarding
2 68 (9.51%) Operational Technology
3 62 (8.67%) Cloud Native
4 50 (6.99%) Management Information System
4 50 (6.99%) Security Posture
5 25 (3.50%) SCADA
6 22 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (2.94%) Data Centre
7 21 (2.94%) PKI
8 20 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (2.52%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
11 14 (1.96%) CMDB
11 14 (1.96%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
12 12 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.54%) Cyber Defence
13 11 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.40%) BYOD
15 9 (1.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 116 (16.22%) Windows
2 73 (10.21%) Linux
3 36 (5.03%) Windows Server
4 35 (4.90%) Unix
5 10 (1.40%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.84%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.56%) Windows 10
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%) CentOS
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 Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (50.63%) Cybersecurity
2 205 (28.67%) Information Security
3 173 (24.20%) Risk Management
4 157 (21.96%) SIEM
5 139 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 137 (19.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 130 (18.18%) Cloud Security
8 117 (16.36%) DevOps
9 108 (15.10%) Security Architecture
10 107 (14.97%) CI/CD
10 107 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 98 (13.71%) Incident Response
12 96 (13.43%) Threat Modelling
13 94 (13.15%) Vulnerability Management
14 91 (12.73%) Roadmaps
14 91 (12.73%) Security Operations
15 88 (12.31%) Agile
15 88 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
16 85 (11.89%) ITSM
17 82 (11.47%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 102 (14.27%) PowerShell
2 96 (13.43%) Python
3 27 (3.78%) SQL
4 25 (3.50%) Bash
5 15 (2.10%) Bicep
6 8 (1.12%) Java
7 4 (0.56%) Go
7 4 (0.56%) PHP
8 3 (0.42%) C#
8 3 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.42%) Perl
8 3 (0.42%) Ruby
9 2 (0.28%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.14%) Lisp
10 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 283 (39.58%) Security Cleared
2 221 (30.91%) SC Cleared
3 173 (24.20%) CISSP
4 129 (18.04%) CISM
5 109 (15.24%) Degree
6 63 (8.81%) DV Cleared
7 49 (6.85%) Cisco Certification
8 39 (5.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 37 (5.17%) PMI Certification
10 36 (5.03%) CRISC
11 35 (4.90%) PMP
12 34 (4.76%) GIAC
13 31 (4.34%) CISA
14 27 (3.78%) CompTIA Security+
14 27 (3.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 26 (3.64%) CEH
16 25 (3.50%) Azure Certification
16 25 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
17 21 (2.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 20 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 464 (64.90%) NIST
2 190 (26.57%) GDPR
3 91 (12.73%) GRC
4 86 (12.03%) PCI DSS
5 80 (11.19%) NCSC
6 77 (10.77%) Cyber Essentials
7 58 (8.11%) SOC 2
8 49 (6.85%) COBIT
9 36 (5.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 33 (4.62%) NIST 800
11 27 (3.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 20 (2.80%) Data Quality
13 18 (2.52%) QA
14 17 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 16 (2.24%) HIPAA
16 15 (2.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 15 (2.10%) JSP 440
17 14 (1.96%) ISO 31000
17 14 (1.96%) SLA
18 13 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 111 (15.52%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.22%) Docker
3 22 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.68%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.98%) 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 55 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 46 (6.43%) Terraform
3 28 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (2.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (2.38%) Ansible
6 9 (1.26%) Nmap
7 7 (0.98%) Nessus
8 6 (0.84%) CASB
8 6 (0.84%) Grafana
8 6 (0.84%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.70%) 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%) SCCM
10 3 (0.42%) SCOM
11 2 (0.28%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 140 (19.58%) Microsoft
2 76 (10.63%) CyberArk
3 40 (5.59%) BeyondTrust
4 37 (5.17%) Oracle
5 36 (5.03%) ServiceNow
5 36 (5.03%) Splunk
6 26 (3.64%) Cisco
7 24 (3.36%) VMware
8 17 (2.38%) Google
9 11 (1.54%) Qualys
9 11 (1.54%) Tenable
10 10 (1.40%) Rapid7
11 9 (1.26%) Fortinet
12 8 (1.12%) Palo Alto
13 7 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (0.98%) IBM
13 7 (0.98%) Okta
13 7 (0.98%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.98%) SAP
14 6 (0.84%) Zscaler
386 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England