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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 198 218
Rank change year-on-year +59 +20 +42
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 743 317 410
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.96% 1.31% 1.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.24% 8.42% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 199 317
10th Percentile £408 £400 £363
25th Percentile £463 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £652 £668 £675
90th Percentile £770 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 2
10th Percentile £31.94 £51.25 £83.77
25th Percentile £38.37 £56.00 £84.31
Median hourly rate £81.25 £61.50 £85.21
Median % change year-on-year +32.12% -27.83% +21.72%
75th Percentile £83.00 £80.80 £86.10
90th Percentile £84.00 £83.20 £86.64
UK median hourly rate £81.25 £67.55 £85.21
% change year-on-year +20.29% -20.72% +21.72%

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 6,613 3,764 5,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.42% 15.52% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,285 2,440 3,413
10th Percentile £340 £265 £305
25th Percentile £413 £386 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 160 340
10th Percentile £15.31 £17.04 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.30
Median hourly rate £28.28 £32.66 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% +43.54% -46.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.43 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £30.58 £32.50 £21.73
% change year-on-year -5.91% +49.56% -45.68%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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 +39 313 £575 -4.17% 119
South East +32 187 £525 -4.55% 96
North of England -10 82 £540 -6.09% 74
Midlands -33 63 £500 +5.26% 37
West Midlands -25 49 £513 -2.38% 28
South West +3 47 £525 -16.00% 46
North West -8 40 £574 -0.26% 47
Yorkshire -25 37 £500 -11.11% 19
East of England -18 21 £553 +8.54% 19
East Midlands -23 14 £442 +10.56% 9
North East -12 5 £400 -17.95% 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 23 (3.10%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.83%) Confluence
3 18 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.81%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.27%) Apache
5 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.13%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 19 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.48%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.94%) Maximo
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 264 (35.53%) Azure
2 221 (29.74%) AWS
3 97 (13.06%) GCP
4 73 (9.83%) Entra ID
5 51 (6.86%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (4.85%) Azure Sentinel
7 30 (4.04%) OpenShift
8 28 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (3.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 25 (3.36%) Serverless
11 23 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (2.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 20 (2.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 19 (2.56%) GitHub
14 19 (2.56%) OCI
15 18 (2.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 18 (2.42%) Power Platform
16 15 (2.02%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (2.02%) SaaS
17 14 (1.88%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (11.98%) Firewall
2 64 (8.61%) Network Security
3 47 (6.33%) VPN
4 23 (3.10%) DNS
5 22 (2.96%) Wireless
6 17 (2.29%) WAN
7 15 (2.02%) BGP
7 15 (2.02%) DHCP
8 14 (1.88%) LAN
8 14 (1.88%) SD-WAN
9 13 (1.75%) Cisco ASA
9 13 (1.75%) MPLS
10 10 (1.35%) HTTP
11 9 (1.21%) IPv6
11 9 (1.21%) OSPF
12 8 (1.08%) IPv4
12 8 (1.08%) NGFW
13 7 (0.94%) VLAN
14 6 (0.81%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (0.81%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.88%) Power BI
2 10 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (1.21%) NoSQL
4 7 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (0.81%) DynamoDB
5 6 (0.81%) MySQL
6 5 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (0.67%) Big Data
6 5 (0.67%) Metadata
6 5 (0.67%) Oracle Database
6 5 (0.67%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.54%) DocumentDB
7 4 (0.54%) Redis
8 3 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.40%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.27%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.27%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 24 (3.23%) Jenkins
1 24 (3.23%) JIRA
2 19 (2.56%) Burp Suite
2 19 (2.56%) Metasploit
3 11 (1.48%) GitLab
4 7 (0.94%) Git
5 3 (0.40%) JMeter
5 3 (0.40%) MSTest
5 3 (0.40%) Selenium
6 1 (0.13%) AppScan
6 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.13%) Snyk
6 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.13%) sqlmap
6 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 281 (37.82%) Social Skills
2 125 (16.82%) Finance
3 90 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (11.84%) Public Sector
5 63 (8.48%) Documentation Skills
6 49 (6.59%) Legal
7 32 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (3.90%) Banking
9 16 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (2.02%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.02%) Law
11 14 (1.88%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.75%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.62%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.08%) Marketing
14 8 (1.08%) Police
15 7 (0.94%) Retail
16 5 (0.67%) Aviation
17 4 (0.54%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 131 (17.63%) Architect
2 98 (13.19%) Analyst
3 89 (11.98%) Consultant
4 60 (8.08%) Security Engineer
5 57 (7.67%) Security Architect
6 49 (6.59%) Security Consultant
7 47 (6.33%) Senior
8 40 (5.38%) Security Analyst
9 38 (5.11%) Lead
10 37 (4.98%) Project Manager
11 36 (4.85%) Security Manager
12 21 (2.83%) Azure Engineer
12 21 (2.83%) Business Analyst
12 21 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (2.69%) CyberArk Architect
13 20 (2.69%) Tester
14 19 (2.56%) Penetration Tester
14 19 (2.56%) Security Specialist
15 18 (2.42%) Cloud Architect
15 18 (2.42%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.67%) LDAP
2 35 (4.71%) OpenID
2 35 (4.71%) SAML
3 29 (3.90%) OAuth
4 17 (2.29%) Oracle Fusion
5 15 (2.02%) OAuth2
5 15 (2.02%) REST
6 11 (1.48%) ARM Templates
7 10 (1.35%) SailPoint
8 9 (1.21%) Kafka
8 9 (1.21%) Middleware
9 8 (1.08%) AWS CDK
9 8 (1.08%) RESTful
10 5 (0.67%) Node.js
10 5 (0.67%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (0.67%) Spring
11 4 (0.54%) 802.1X
11 4 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.54%) Hibernate
11 4 (0.54%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 66 (8.88%) Onboarding
2 62 (8.34%) Security Posture
3 55 (7.40%) Cloud Native
4 44 (5.92%) Management Information System
5 40 (5.38%) Operational Technology
6 26 (3.50%) Data Centre
6 26 (3.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 22 (2.96%) Product Ownership
7 22 (2.96%) Security Operations Centre
8 19 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
9 18 (2.42%) SCADA
10 16 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.88%) PKI
12 13 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.75%) CMDB
13 12 (1.62%) BYOD
13 12 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.62%) Public Cloud
14 11 (1.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 85 (11.44%) Windows
2 49 (6.59%) Linux
3 26 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.35%) Unix
5 7 (0.94%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.94%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.94%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.54%) AIX
6 4 (0.54%) Solaris
7 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.27%) Android
8 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.13%) Rocky
9 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (44.01%) Cybersecurity
2 206 (27.73%) Information Security
3 161 (21.67%) Cloud Security
4 158 (21.27%) Risk Management
5 150 (20.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 137 (18.44%) DevOps
7 136 (18.30%) SIEM
8 134 (18.03%) CI/CD
9 120 (16.15%) Incident Response
10 115 (15.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 105 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 100 (13.46%) Threat Modelling
13 97 (13.06%) Security Operations
14 91 (12.25%) Agile
14 91 (12.25%) Zero Trust
15 89 (11.98%) Security Architecture
16 86 (11.57%) Infrastructure as Code
17 85 (11.44%) Problem-Solving
18 84 (11.31%) Data Protection
19 78 (10.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 103 (13.86%) PowerShell
2 84 (11.31%) Python
3 22 (2.96%) SQL
4 20 (2.69%) Bicep
5 16 (2.15%) Bash
6 10 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
7 8 (1.08%) Java
8 4 (0.54%) C#
8 4 (0.54%) Go
8 4 (0.54%) PHP
9 3 (0.40%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.40%) Ruby
10 2 (0.27%) C
10 2 (0.27%) Rust
10 2 (0.27%) Solidity
10 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.13%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.13%) Lisp
11 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 291 (39.17%) Security Cleared
2 229 (30.82%) SC Cleared
3 190 (25.57%) CISSP
4 141 (18.98%) CISM
5 93 (12.52%) Degree
6 66 (8.88%) DV Cleared
7 45 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (4.31%) AWS Certification
9 31 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 31 (4.17%) Azure Certification
9 31 (4.17%) CISA
10 30 (4.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 29 (3.90%) CEH
11 29 (3.90%) PMI Certification
12 28 (3.77%) PMP
13 26 (3.50%) GIAC
14 25 (3.36%) CompTIA Security+
14 25 (3.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 24 (3.23%) CRISC
16 21 (2.83%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 462 (62.18%) NIST
2 250 (33.65%) GDPR
3 107 (14.40%) PCI DSS
4 96 (12.92%) NCSC
5 79 (10.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 78 (10.50%) GRC
7 51 (6.86%) COBIT
8 49 (6.59%) SOC 2
9 41 (5.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 39 (5.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 33 (4.44%) NIST 800
12 28 (3.77%) QA
13 25 (3.36%) JSP 440
14 20 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 18 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 17 (2.29%) PMO
17 15 (2.02%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 15 (2.02%) SLA
18 13 (1.75%) Data Quality
19 12 (1.62%) ITGC
System Software
1 94 (12.65%) Active Directory
2 22 (2.96%) Docker
3 21 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.94%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.54%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.13%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) GPFS
7 1 (0.13%) Lustre
7 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.13%) Varnish
7 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (8.75%) Kubernetes
2 62 (8.34%) Terraform
3 29 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
4 24 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (2.56%) Ansible
6 17 (2.29%) Nmap
7 11 (1.48%) Nessus
8 9 (1.21%) SCCM
9 8 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.94%) CASB
10 7 (0.94%) Grafana
11 6 (0.81%) Fluentd
11 6 (0.81%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.67%) Prometheus
13 4 (0.54%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.54%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.54%) QRadar
13 4 (0.54%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.40%) OpenVAS
14 3 (0.40%) SCOM
Vendors
1 125 (16.82%) Microsoft
2 81 (10.90%) CyberArk
3 47 (6.33%) Splunk
4 41 (5.52%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (4.58%) Oracle
6 33 (4.44%) Cisco
6 33 (4.44%) ServiceNow
7 23 (3.10%) VMware
8 19 (2.56%) SAP
9 18 (2.42%) Fortinet
9 18 (2.42%) Google
10 14 (1.88%) Palo Alto
11 11 (1.48%) IBM
11 11 (1.48%) Qualys
11 11 (1.48%) Rapid7
12 10 (1.35%) Okta
12 10 (1.35%) Tenable
13 7 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (0.94%) Ping Identity
13 7 (0.94%) Zscaler
360 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England