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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 187 224
Rank change year-on-year +43 +37 +5
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 716 353 395
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.76% 1.45% 1.07%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.40% 9.08% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 232 305
10th Percentile £413 £318 £363
25th Percentile £481 £493 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £559 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.07% -2.78% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £797 £772
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 8 1
10th Percentile £36.00 £51.25 -
25th Percentile £43.81 £58.37 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £83.41
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% -26.27% +19.16%
75th Percentile £82.25 £79.60 -
90th Percentile £83.40 £86.74 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £83.41
% change year-on-year -10.56% -26.27% +19.16%

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 6,883 3,888 5,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.89% 16.00% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,488 2,502 3,347
10th Percentile £340 £268 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £638
90th Percentile £701 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 154 347
10th Percentile £14.07 £18.11 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.56 £13.18
Median hourly rate £31.86 £37.02 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year -13.94% +65.71% -40.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £78.61 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £20.80
% change year-on-year - +68.25% -40.56%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +7 293 £575 -2.13% 136
South East +34 222 £563 +2.27% 94
North of England -22 72 £540 -1.82% 66
Midlands -37 49 £500 -4.76% 45
West Midlands -39 40 £500 -13.04% 31
South West -24 37 £600 +4.35% 37
North West -11 35 £574 +4.27% 43
Yorkshire -34 32 £500 +53.85% 13
East of England -23 21 £550 +5.36% 26
East Midlands -27 9 £442 +10.56% 13
North East -20 5 £400 -42.86% 10
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 19 (2.65%) Confluence
2 15 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.70%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 3 (0.42%) Apache
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.28%) IIS
7 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.26%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.70%) Maximo
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 258 (36.03%) Azure
2 199 (27.79%) AWS
3 97 (13.55%) GCP
4 72 (10.06%) Entra ID
5 60 (8.38%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (3.63%) Azure Sentinel
7 24 (3.35%) OpenShift
7 24 (3.35%) Serverless
8 22 (3.07%) Microsoft Purview
9 20 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (2.65%) GitHub
10 19 (2.65%) OCI
10 19 (2.65%) SaaS
11 16 (2.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 16 (2.23%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 13 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (1.54%) Azure AKS
13 11 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 71 (9.92%) Firewall
2 58 (8.10%) Network Security
3 35 (4.89%) VPN
4 18 (2.51%) DNS
4 18 (2.51%) Wireless
5 10 (1.40%) DHCP
6 9 (1.26%) BGP
6 9 (1.26%) HTTP
6 9 (1.26%) NGFW
7 8 (1.12%) MPLS
7 8 (1.12%) WAN
8 6 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.84%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (0.84%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.84%) TACACS
9 5 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (0.70%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.70%) SSH
9 5 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.51%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.82%) Power BI
3 11 (1.54%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.98%) Metadata
5 7 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.84%) MySQL
7 5 (0.70%) Big Data
7 5 (0.70%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.70%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.56%) DocumentDB
8 4 (0.56%) Redis
9 3 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.42%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.28%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 21 (2.93%) Jenkins
2 18 (2.51%) Burp Suite
2 18 (2.51%) Metasploit
3 17 (2.37%) JIRA
4 5 (0.70%) GitLab
5 4 (0.56%) Git
6 2 (0.28%) JMeter
6 2 (0.28%) MSTest
6 2 (0.28%) Selenium
7 1 (0.14%) AppScan
7 1 (0.14%) MSI
7 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.14%) Snyk
7 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.14%) sqlmap
General
1 261 (36.45%) Social Skills
2 127 (17.74%) Finance
3 92 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (11.03%) Public Sector
5 67 (9.36%) Documentation Skills
6 52 (7.26%) Legal
7 33 (4.61%) Banking
8 28 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (2.51%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.23%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.96%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.68%) Law
14 10 (1.40%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.26%) Retail
16 7 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.84%) Marketing
18 5 (0.70%) Military
19 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
20 3 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 127 (17.74%) Architect
2 87 (12.15%) Analyst
3 77 (10.75%) Consultant
4 55 (7.68%) Security Architect
5 51 (7.12%) Security Engineer
6 50 (6.98%) Security Consultant
7 44 (6.15%) Lead
8 43 (6.01%) Project Manager
9 39 (5.45%) Security Analyst
10 38 (5.31%) Security Manager
11 36 (5.03%) Senior
12 26 (3.63%) Security Specialist
13 25 (3.49%) Business Analyst
14 21 (2.93%) CyberArk Architect
15 20 (2.79%) Cloud Architect
15 20 (2.79%) Security Project Manager
16 17 (2.37%) Azure Engineer
16 17 (2.37%) Penetration Tester
17 16 (2.23%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 16 (2.23%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.96%) LDAP
2 38 (5.31%) SAML
3 37 (5.17%) OpenID
4 32 (4.47%) OAuth
5 19 (2.65%) OAuth2
6 15 (2.09%) Oracle Fusion
6 15 (2.09%) REST
7 12 (1.68%) SailPoint
8 10 (1.40%) Middleware
9 9 (1.26%) Kafka
10 8 (1.12%) ARM Templates
10 8 (1.12%) RESTful
11 5 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (0.70%) Spring
11 5 (0.70%) Web Services
12 4 (0.56%) AWS CDK
12 4 (0.56%) Hibernate
12 4 (0.56%) JPA
12 4 (0.56%) JWT
12 4 (0.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 70 (9.78%) Onboarding
2 59 (8.24%) Cloud Native
3 55 (7.68%) Operational Technology
4 52 (7.26%) Security Posture
5 47 (6.56%) Management Information System
6 24 (3.35%) SCADA
7 22 (3.07%) Data Centre
8 21 (2.93%) PKI
9 19 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (2.65%) Product Ownership
10 18 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.82%) CMDB
11 13 (1.82%) Security Operations Centre
11 13 (1.82%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.40%) BYOD
14 10 (1.40%) NHS
15 9 (1.26%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 104 (14.53%) Windows
2 63 (8.80%) Linux
3 30 (4.19%) Windows Server
4 29 (4.05%) Unix
5 8 (1.12%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.98%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.70%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.28%) AIX
9 2 (0.28%) CentOS
9 2 (0.28%) Solaris
9 2 (0.28%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) Android
10 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (46.65%) Cybersecurity
2 215 (30.03%) Information Security
3 174 (24.30%) Risk Management
4 140 (19.55%) SIEM
5 136 (18.99%) Cloud Security
6 135 (18.85%) Stakeholder Management
7 126 (17.60%) DevOps
8 124 (17.32%) CI/CD
9 122 (17.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 102 (14.25%) Security Architecture
11 101 (14.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 97 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
13 96 (13.41%) Incident Response
14 95 (13.27%) Threat Modelling
15 88 (12.29%) Agile
16 83 (11.59%) Data Protection
17 82 (11.45%) Security Operations
18 81 (11.31%) Roadmaps
19 75 (10.47%) Vulnerability Management
20 74 (10.34%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 101 (14.11%) PowerShell
2 93 (12.99%) Python
3 23 (3.21%) SQL
4 22 (3.07%) Bash
5 14 (1.96%) Bicep
6 8 (1.12%) Java
7 4 (0.56%) C#
7 4 (0.56%) Go
7 4 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (0.56%) PHP
8 3 (0.42%) Ruby
9 2 (0.28%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.14%) Lisp
10 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 273 (38.13%) Security Cleared
2 216 (30.17%) SC Cleared
3 182 (25.42%) CISSP
4 136 (18.99%) CISM
5 106 (14.80%) Degree
6 59 (8.24%) DV Cleared
7 49 (6.84%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (5.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 35 (4.89%) PMI Certification
10 34 (4.75%) CISA
10 34 (4.75%) CRISC
11 33 (4.61%) PMP
12 32 (4.47%) GIAC
13 28 (3.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 27 (3.77%) CEH
15 26 (3.63%) Azure Certification
16 24 (3.35%) AWS Certification
16 24 (3.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 23 (3.21%) CompTIA Security+
18 19 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 454 (63.41%) NIST
2 225 (31.42%) GDPR
3 97 (13.55%) PCI DSS
4 89 (12.43%) GRC
5 75 (10.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 73 (10.20%) NCSC
7 54 (7.54%) SOC 2
8 49 (6.84%) COBIT
9 37 (5.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 33 (4.61%) NIST 800
11 27 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 25 (3.49%) QA
13 19 (2.65%) JSP 440
14 17 (2.37%) Data Quality
14 17 (2.37%) PMO
15 14 (1.96%) HIPAA
15 14 (1.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 14 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 14 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 13 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 108 (15.08%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.07%) Docker
2 22 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.40%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.14%) Ceph
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) GPFS
6 1 (0.14%) Lustre
6 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 56 (7.82%) Kubernetes
2 48 (6.70%) Terraform
3 24 (3.35%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (2.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (2.23%) Nmap
6 15 (2.09%) Ansible
7 8 (1.12%) Nessus
8 7 (0.98%) Grafana
9 6 (0.84%) CASB
9 6 (0.84%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.70%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.70%) SCCM
11 4 (0.56%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.42%) OpenVAS
12 3 (0.42%) Podman
12 3 (0.42%) QRadar
12 3 (0.42%) SCOM
13 2 (0.28%) RSA Archer
14 1 (0.14%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 125 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 88 (12.29%) CyberArk
3 45 (6.28%) BeyondTrust
4 34 (4.75%) Oracle
5 33 (4.61%) Splunk
6 29 (4.05%) ServiceNow
7 24 (3.35%) Cisco
8 23 (3.21%) VMware
9 18 (2.51%) Google
10 11 (1.54%) Fortinet
10 11 (1.54%) SAP
11 10 (1.40%) Qualys
12 9 (1.26%) Rapid7
13 8 (1.12%) IBM
13 8 (1.12%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.98%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.98%) Tenable
15 6 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
15 6 (0.84%) Okta
15 6 (0.84%) Zscaler