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

 6 months to
17 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 177 252
Rank change year-on-year +18 +75 -38
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 722 382 353
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.54% 0.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.95% 9.45% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 255 277
10th Percentile £413 £324 £364
25th Percentile £492 £481 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% -4.35% -1.76%
75th Percentile £673 £659 £669
90th Percentile £775 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £563 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -2.17% +2.68% -4.09%
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% -59.00%

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 7,258 4,042 5,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.91% 16.34% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,694 2,606 3,174
10th Percentile £345 £268 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -4.52% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.48% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 175 384
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.19 £10.95
25th Percentile £19.19 £22.14 £12.84
Median hourly rate £33.98 £32.81 £24.09
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +36.20% -43.32%
75th Percentile £67.50 £68.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.55 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £31.76 £23.80
% change year-on-year +13.35% +33.45% -36.53%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +9 306 £575 - 160
South East +33 225 £563 -6.25% 162
North of England -45 64 £545 -0.91% 110
Midlands -33 48 £500 +11.11% 76
West Midlands -31 41 £500 -4.76% 48
South West -19 39 £600 - 53
North West -17 38 £577 +4.86% 59
Yorkshire -48 26 £520 +41.50% 35
East of England -23 18 £525 - 53
East Midlands -19 7 £447 +11.19% 28
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 (2.77%) Confluence
2 18 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.97%) 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 17 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.69%) Maximo
1 5 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.14%) iTrent
2 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 251 (34.76%) Azure
2 176 (24.38%) AWS
3 87 (12.05%) Entra ID
3 87 (12.05%) GCP
4 66 (9.14%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (4.57%) Azure Sentinel
6 31 (4.29%) Microsoft Purview
7 29 (4.02%) SaaS
8 26 (3.60%) Serverless
9 22 (3.05%) GitHub
9 22 (3.05%) OpenShift
10 20 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (2.22%) OCI
11 16 (2.22%) Power Platform
12 15 (2.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 13 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (1.52%) Azure AKS
16 10 (1.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 65 (9.00%) Firewall
2 59 (8.17%) Network Security
3 30 (4.16%) VPN
4 17 (2.35%) DNS
5 9 (1.25%) BGP
5 9 (1.25%) HTTP
5 9 (1.25%) NGFW
5 9 (1.25%) Wireless
6 8 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
6 8 (1.11%) MPLS
6 8 (1.11%) WAN
7 7 (0.97%) DHCP
7 7 (0.97%) SSH
8 6 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.83%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (0.83%) HTTPS
8 6 (0.83%) LAN
8 6 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (0.83%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.83%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.05%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.94%) Power BI
3 12 (1.66%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.97%) Metadata
6 6 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (0.83%) MySQL
7 5 (0.69%) Big Data
8 4 (0.55%) DocumentDB
8 4 (0.55%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.55%) 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 26 (3.60%) JIRA
2 22 (3.05%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.66%) Burp Suite
4 10 (1.39%) Metasploit
5 7 (0.97%) GitLab
6 3 (0.42%) Git
6 3 (0.42%) Snyk
7 2 (0.28%) JMeter
7 2 (0.28%) MSTest
7 2 (0.28%) Selenium
7 2 (0.28%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.14%) AppScan
8 1 (0.14%) MSI
8 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.14%) sqlmap
General
1 252 (34.90%) Social Skills
2 132 (18.28%) Finance
3 97 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (12.19%) Public Sector
5 71 (9.83%) Documentation Skills
6 48 (6.65%) Legal
7 28 (3.88%) Banking
8 23 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (2.63%) Aerospace
10 17 (2.35%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (2.08%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.52%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.11%) Law
14 8 (1.11%) Military
14 8 (1.11%) Retail
15 5 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 130 (18.01%) Architect
2 96 (13.30%) Analyst
3 72 (9.97%) Consultant
4 56 (7.76%) Security Architect
5 51 (7.06%) Lead
6 49 (6.79%) Security Engineer
7 45 (6.23%) Project Manager
7 45 (6.23%) Security Consultant
8 41 (5.68%) Security Analyst
8 41 (5.68%) Security Manager
9 37 (5.12%) Senior
10 27 (3.74%) Business Analyst
10 27 (3.74%) Security Specialist
11 24 (3.32%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 22 (3.05%) Cloud Architect
13 21 (2.91%) Security Project Manager
14 19 (2.63%) CyberArk Architect
14 19 (2.63%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 19 (2.63%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 19 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.65%) LDAP
2 40 (5.54%) OpenID
2 40 (5.54%) SAML
3 34 (4.71%) OAuth
4 22 (3.05%) OAuth2
5 19 (2.63%) SailPoint
6 16 (2.22%) REST
7 10 (1.39%) Kafka
7 10 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (1.25%) Middleware
8 9 (1.25%) Web Services
9 8 (1.11%) RESTful
10 7 (0.97%) ARM Templates
10 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
11 6 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (0.69%) Spring
12 5 (0.69%) Spring Boot
13 4 (0.55%) 802.1X
13 4 (0.55%) Hibernate
13 4 (0.55%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 76 (10.53%) Onboarding
2 69 (9.56%) Operational Technology
3 64 (8.86%) Cloud Native
4 54 (7.48%) Security Posture
5 50 (6.93%) Management Information System
6 26 (3.60%) SCADA
7 23 (3.19%) Data Centre
7 23 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (2.77%) Analytical Mindset
8 20 (2.77%) PKI
9 19 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
10 18 (2.49%) Product Ownership
11 16 (2.22%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.94%) CMDB
12 14 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
13 12 (1.66%) Cyber Defence
13 12 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (1.39%) BYOD
15 10 (1.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 117 (16.20%) Windows
2 76 (10.53%) Linux
3 37 (5.12%) Windows Server
4 36 (4.99%) Unix
5 11 (1.52%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.42%) CentOS
7 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
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%) 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 10
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (50.28%) Cybersecurity
2 208 (28.81%) Information Security
3 177 (24.52%) Risk Management
4 159 (22.02%) SIEM
5 144 (19.94%) Stakeholder Management
6 134 (18.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 129 (17.87%) Cloud Security
8 116 (16.07%) DevOps
9 107 (14.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 107 (14.82%) Security Architecture
10 106 (14.68%) CI/CD
11 103 (14.27%) Incident Response
12 96 (13.30%) Security Operations
12 96 (13.30%) Vulnerability Management
13 94 (13.02%) Roadmaps
13 94 (13.02%) Threat Modelling
14 89 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
15 88 (12.19%) Agile
16 86 (11.91%) ITSM
17 80 (11.08%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 102 (14.13%) PowerShell
2 98 (13.57%) Python
3 27 (3.74%) SQL
4 24 (3.32%) Bash
5 15 (2.08%) Bicep
6 8 (1.11%) Java
7 5 (0.69%) Perl
8 4 (0.55%) Go
8 4 (0.55%) PHP
9 3 (0.42%) C#
9 3 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.42%) Ruby
10 2 (0.28%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.14%) Lisp
11 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 283 (39.20%) Security Cleared
2 217 (30.06%) SC Cleared
3 175 (24.24%) CISSP
4 129 (17.87%) CISM
5 111 (15.37%) Degree
6 66 (9.14%) DV Cleared
7 50 (6.93%) Cisco Certification
8 40 (5.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 38 (5.26%) CRISC
9 38 (5.26%) PMI Certification
10 36 (4.99%) PMP
11 34 (4.71%) GIAC
12 31 (4.29%) CISA
13 29 (4.02%) CompTIA Security+
14 27 (3.74%) Azure Certification
15 26 (3.60%) CEH
15 26 (3.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 25 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
17 21 (2.91%) AWS Certification
17 21 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 464 (64.27%) NIST
2 192 (26.59%) GDPR
3 96 (13.30%) GRC
4 89 (12.33%) PCI DSS
5 77 (10.66%) NCSC
6 76 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 61 (8.45%) SOC 2
8 49 (6.79%) COBIT
9 39 (5.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 33 (4.57%) NIST 800
11 25 (3.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 20 (2.77%) Data Quality
13 18 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 17 (2.35%) HIPAA
15 16 (2.22%) QA
16 15 (2.08%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 15 (2.08%) ISO 31000
16 15 (2.08%) JSP 440
17 14 (1.94%) SLA
18 13 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 113 (15.65%) Active Directory
2 25 (3.46%) Docker
3 19 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.66%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.97%) 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 57 (7.89%) Kubernetes
2 49 (6.79%) Terraform
3 29 (4.02%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (2.49%) Ansible
4 18 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.11%) Nmap
6 7 (0.97%) Nessus
7 6 (0.83%) Grafana
7 6 (0.83%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.69%) CASB
8 5 (0.69%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.42%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.42%) OpenVAS
9 3 (0.42%) Podman
9 3 (0.42%) Puppet
9 3 (0.42%) QRadar
9 3 (0.42%) SCOM
10 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.28%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 141 (19.53%) Microsoft
2 75 (10.39%) CyberArk
3 39 (5.40%) BeyondTrust
3 39 (5.40%) ServiceNow
4 37 (5.12%) Oracle
5 36 (4.99%) Splunk
6 26 (3.60%) Cisco
7 21 (2.91%) VMware
8 16 (2.22%) Google
9 11 (1.52%) Qualys
9 11 (1.52%) Tenable
10 10 (1.39%) Rapid7
11 9 (1.25%) Fortinet
11 9 (1.25%) Palo Alto
12 8 (1.11%) Okta
13 7 (0.97%) IBM
13 7 (0.97%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.97%) SAP
14 6 (0.83%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.83%) Zscaler
569 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England