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

 6 months to
14 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 203 173
Rank change year-on-year +64 -30 +121
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 645 341 520
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.04% 1.27% 1.44%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.80% 8.91% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 216 383
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £673
90th Percentile £750 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £527 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -9.87% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 15
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 £78.36
90th Percentile £79.35 £85.56 £85.36
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 5,464 3,828 5,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.26% 14.29% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,549 2,230 3,426
10th Percentile £313 £263 £319
25th Percentile £409 £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £541
Median % change year-on-year - -7.62% +3.10%
75th Percentile £614 £637 £650
90th Percentile £705 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 149 227
10th Percentile £15.66 £14.70 £13.11
25th Percentile £18.08 £20.50 £17.36
Median hourly rate £26.11 £30.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.97% -7.69% +31.10%
75th Percentile £61.79 £65.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £70.14 £75.00 £79.87
UK median hourly rate £26.34 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.17% -10.77% +35.42%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +39 283 £550 -8.33% 163
South East +37 121 £492 -8.47% 180
North of England -8 74 £520 -10.34% 88
Midlands -4 59 £475 -5.00% 79
South West +9 54 £481 -25.96% 85
Yorkshire -13 38 £500 +11.11% 40
West Midlands -16 36 £556 +11.25% 37
North West -13 31 £610 +1.67% 40
East Midlands -4 23 £449 +12.25% 40
East of England -10 18 £553 -3.83% 76
North East -10 5 £400 +14.29% 8
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 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 22 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.86%) Confluence
3 3 (0.47%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
4 2 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.16%) Apache
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.16%) IIS
5 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 26 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.09%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (1.24%) Maximo
2 6 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle CRM
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 277 (42.95%) Azure
2 209 (32.40%) AWS
3 94 (14.57%) GCP
4 77 (11.94%) Entra ID
5 65 (10.08%) Microsoft 365
6 48 (7.44%) Azure Sentinel
7 28 (4.34%) SaaS
8 23 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (3.41%) OpenShift
10 21 (3.26%) GitHub
10 21 (3.26%) Microsoft Purview
11 20 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (2.64%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (2.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 16 (2.48%) OCI
15 15 (2.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 15 (2.33%) Amazon S3
15 15 (2.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 13 (2.02%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 99 (15.35%) Firewall
2 57 (8.84%) Network Security
3 41 (6.36%) VPN
4 19 (2.95%) Wireless
5 18 (2.79%) DNS
6 15 (2.33%) WAN
7 13 (2.02%) SD-WAN
8 12 (1.86%) LAN
9 11 (1.71%) DHCP
10 8 (1.24%) Intrusion Detection
11 7 (1.09%) BGP
11 7 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (1.09%) Kerberos
11 7 (1.09%) OSPF
11 7 (1.09%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.93%) S/MIME
12 6 (0.93%) VLAN
12 6 (0.93%) WLAN
13 5 (0.78%) IPv4
13 5 (0.78%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (1.40%) Power BI
3 7 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.93%) DynamoDB
4 6 (0.93%) Metadata
4 6 (0.93%) MySQL
4 6 (0.93%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (0.78%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.62%) DocumentDB
6 4 (0.62%) Redis
7 3 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.47%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.47%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.47%) Tableau
8 2 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (4.03%) JIRA
2 17 (2.64%) Burp Suite
2 17 (2.64%) Metasploit
3 15 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.17%) GitLab
5 9 (1.40%) Snyk
6 6 (0.93%) CircleCI
6 6 (0.93%) Git
7 1 (0.16%) Ant
7 1 (0.16%) ERwin
7 1 (0.16%) JMeter
7 1 (0.16%) MSTest
7 1 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.16%) Selenium
7 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.16%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 262 (40.62%) Social Skills
2 113 (17.52%) Finance
3 75 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (11.16%) Public Sector
5 48 (7.44%) Documentation Skills
6 40 (6.20%) Legal
7 26 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
9 23 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (3.26%) Banking
11 13 (2.02%) Financial Institution
11 13 (2.02%) Law
12 12 (1.86%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.55%) Police
13 10 (1.55%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.40%) Marketing
15 8 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (1.09%) Local Government
17 6 (0.93%) Electronics
18 5 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 100 (15.50%) Architect
2 95 (14.73%) Analyst
3 69 (10.70%) Consultant
4 52 (8.06%) Security Architect
5 48 (7.44%) Security Analyst
6 47 (7.29%) Senior
7 46 (7.13%) Security Engineer
8 36 (5.58%) Lead
9 30 (4.65%) Security Consultant
10 28 (4.34%) Security Manager
11 25 (3.88%) Security Specialist
12 24 (3.72%) Azure Engineer
13 22 (3.41%) Tester
14 20 (3.10%) Project Manager
15 18 (2.79%) Penetration Tester
16 16 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
17 14 (2.17%) Security Advisor
17 14 (2.17%) Security Officer
17 14 (2.17%) SOC Analyst
18 13 (2.02%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (6.36%) LDAP
2 30 (4.65%) OAuth
3 26 (4.03%) SAML
4 23 (3.57%) OpenID
5 16 (2.48%) REST
6 15 (2.33%) OAuth2
7 13 (2.02%) SailPoint
8 12 (1.86%) ARM Templates
9 10 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (1.09%) RESTful
11 6 (0.93%) Loki
12 5 (0.78%) AWS CDK
12 5 (0.78%) Kafka
12 5 (0.78%) Middleware
12 5 (0.78%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (0.78%) Spring
13 4 (0.62%) .NET
13 4 (0.62%) Hibernate
13 4 (0.62%) JPA
13 4 (0.62%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 80 (12.40%) Security Posture
2 58 (8.99%) Management Information System
3 46 (7.13%) Cloud Native
4 34 (5.27%) Onboarding
5 31 (4.81%) Cyber Threat
6 22 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (3.41%) Operational Technology
7 21 (3.26%) Security Operations Centre
8 20 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (2.48%) Data Centre
10 13 (2.02%) Cloud Security Posture
11 11 (1.71%) NHS
12 10 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.55%) PKI
12 10 (1.55%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.55%) SCADA
13 9 (1.40%) Product Ownership
14 8 (1.24%) CSOC
14 8 (1.24%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 6 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 67 (10.39%) Windows
2 30 (4.65%) Linux
3 14 (2.17%) Mac OS
4 13 (2.02%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.86%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.62%) AIX
6 4 (0.62%) Solaris
7 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.31%) VMS
8 1 (0.16%) Android
8 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 173 (26.82%) Information Security
3 166 (25.74%) Cloud Security
4 158 (24.50%) Incident Response
5 147 (22.79%) Risk Management
6 145 (22.48%) SIEM
7 120 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
8 117 (18.14%) DevOps
9 114 (17.67%) CI/CD
10 107 (16.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 91 (14.11%) Zero Trust
12 86 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 84 (13.02%) Identity Access Management
14 81 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
14 81 (12.56%) Security Operations
15 78 (12.09%) Threat Modelling
16 77 (11.94%) DevSecOps
17 76 (11.78%) Data Protection
18 73 (11.32%) Security Architecture
19 69 (10.70%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 108 (16.74%) PowerShell
2 68 (10.54%) Python
3 29 (4.50%) Bash
4 20 (3.10%) Bicep
5 15 (2.33%) SQL
6 10 (1.55%) Java
7 9 (1.40%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.62%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.62%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.31%) BeanShell
9 2 (0.31%) C
9 2 (0.31%) Go
9 2 (0.31%) Rust
9 2 (0.31%) Solidity
10 1 (0.16%) C#
10 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 211 (32.71%) Security Cleared
2 199 (30.85%) CISSP
3 170 (26.36%) SC Cleared
4 153 (23.72%) CISM
5 92 (14.26%) Degree
6 51 (7.91%) DV Cleared
7 41 (6.36%) CISA
8 38 (5.89%) Cisco Certification
9 36 (5.58%) Azure Certification
10 34 (5.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 31 (4.81%) AWS Certification
12 29 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
13 25 (3.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 24 (3.72%) CEH
14 24 (3.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 24 (3.72%) Master's Degree
15 22 (3.41%) CCSP
15 22 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
15 22 (3.41%) GIAC
16 20 (3.10%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 383 (59.38%) NIST
2 241 (37.36%) GDPR
3 98 (15.19%) PCI DSS
4 73 (11.32%) NCSC
5 71 (11.01%) Cyber Essentials
6 63 (9.77%) GRC
7 38 (5.89%) COBIT
8 37 (5.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 33 (5.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 28 (4.34%) QA
10 28 (4.34%) SOC 2
11 27 (4.19%) NIST 800
12 20 (3.10%) JSP 440
13 15 (2.33%) HIPAA
14 14 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 14 (2.17%) PMO
15 13 (2.02%) SLA
16 11 (1.71%) Def Stans
17 10 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 10 (1.55%) ITGC
System Software
1 88 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 30 (4.65%) Docker
3 15 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.62%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.16%) Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) Snort
6 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (9.61%) Terraform
2 57 (8.84%) Kubernetes
3 42 (6.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (3.57%) SCCM
6 15 (2.33%) Ansible
6 15 (2.33%) Nmap
7 12 (1.86%) QRadar
8 9 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 9 (1.40%) Fluentd
8 9 (1.40%) Prometheus
9 8 (1.24%) RSA Archer
10 7 (1.09%) Nessus
11 6 (0.93%) CSIRT
11 6 (0.93%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.62%) CASB
12 4 (0.62%) Grafana
13 3 (0.47%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.31%) Kibana
14 2 (0.31%) logstash
Vendors
1 148 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.60%) CyberArk
3 42 (6.51%) Splunk
4 29 (4.50%) BeyondTrust
5 24 (3.72%) Oracle
6 20 (3.10%) ServiceNow
6 20 (3.10%) VMware
7 19 (2.95%) Cisco
7 19 (2.95%) Google
7 19 (2.95%) SAP
8 15 (2.33%) Fortinet
9 13 (2.02%) Citrix
9 13 (2.02%) Rapid7
10 12 (1.86%) Palo Alto
11 11 (1.71%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (1.55%) IBM
13 9 (1.40%) Cribl.io
13 9 (1.40%) Okta
13 9 (1.40%) Qualys
14 8 (1.24%) Ping Identity
606 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England