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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
24 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 150 227
Rank change year-on-year -18 +77 -54
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 754 518 352
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 1.87% 1.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.43% 10.85% 8.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 364 279
10th Percentile £413 £352 £400
25th Percentile £475 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £583
% change year-on-year - -5.58% -2.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 10 2
10th Percentile £45.52 £29.31 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £33.90 £26.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £52.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +90.91% -59.00%
75th Percentile £80.00 £69.94 £28.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £100.55 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £52.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +42.86% +90.91% -57.13%

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 7,997 4,776 4,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.51% 17.22% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,086 3,129 2,705
10th Percentile £331 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 550 229 255
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £17.58 £18.50 £13.26
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +18.59% -25.37%
75th Percentile £69.96 £63.75 £62.83
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +24.38% +16.00% -29.58%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -15 318 £552 -4.09% 121
South East +7 229 £563 -4.26% 95
North of England -48 76 £530 -3.64% 60
North West -15 54 £537 -2.36% 35
Midlands -35 48 £500 +11.11% 33
West Midlands -25 44 £500 +2.56% 19
South West -49 38 £625 - 56
East of England -11 31 £515 +0.49% 33
Yorkshire -47 20 £500 +8.11% 19
East Midlands -22 4 - - 14
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 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.99%) Confluence
3 11 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.06%) IIS
5 3 (0.40%) Apache
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.27%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.13%) iTrent
2 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.13%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 274 (36.34%) Azure
2 167 (22.15%) AWS
3 120 (15.92%) Entra ID
4 88 (11.67%) GCP
5 70 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
6 44 (5.84%) SaaS
7 30 (3.98%) Azure Sentinel
8 29 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
9 26 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (3.45%) Serverless
10 25 (3.32%) GitHub
11 18 (2.39%) Power Platform
12 17 (2.25%) OCI
13 15 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (1.72%) Azure Key Vault
15 10 (1.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 10 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (1.06%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 8 (1.06%) IaaS
16 8 (1.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 64 (8.49%) Firewall
2 63 (8.36%) Network Security
3 21 (2.79%) VPN
4 14 (1.86%) DNS
5 12 (1.59%) WAN
6 11 (1.46%) Intrusion Detection
6 11 (1.46%) LAN
7 10 (1.33%) NGFW
7 10 (1.33%) Wireless
8 7 (0.93%) HTTP
8 7 (0.93%) SAN
8 7 (0.93%) SSL
8 7 (0.93%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.80%) DHCP
9 6 (0.80%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.80%) NAS
10 5 (0.66%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.66%) Modbus
10 5 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
10 5 (0.66%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.79%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.59%) Power BI
3 10 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (1.33%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.66%) Big Data
4 5 (0.66%) Data Lake
4 5 (0.66%) Delta Lake
4 5 (0.66%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.53%) Metadata
5 4 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.27%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.27%) MySQL
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (3.18%) JIRA
2 11 (1.46%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.06%) GitLab
4 6 (0.80%) Burp Suite
5 5 (0.66%) Git
5 5 (0.66%) Snyk
6 3 (0.40%) Selenium
7 2 (0.27%) JMeter
7 2 (0.27%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.27%) MSTest
7 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.13%) MSI
8 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.13%) sqlmap
8 1 (0.13%) TestRail
General
1 253 (33.55%) Social Skills
2 123 (16.31%) Finance
3 102 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (12.60%) Public Sector
5 65 (8.62%) Documentation Skills
6 46 (6.10%) Legal
7 40 (5.31%) Aerospace
8 27 (3.58%) Banking
9 26 (3.45%) Manufacturing
10 22 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (2.65%) Military
12 18 (2.39%) Telecoms
13 16 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.06%) Retail
16 7 (0.93%) Local Government
17 6 (0.80%) Law
18 5 (0.66%) Financial Institution
19 4 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (18.30%) Architect
2 109 (14.46%) Analyst
3 72 (9.55%) Consultant
4 69 (9.15%) Lead
5 64 (8.49%) Security Architect
6 48 (6.37%) Security Analyst
6 48 (6.37%) Security Consultant
7 45 (5.97%) Senior
8 43 (5.70%) Security Engineer
9 36 (4.77%) Security Manager
10 33 (4.38%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 32 (4.24%) Project Manager
12 27 (3.58%) Security Specialist
13 25 (3.32%) Business Analyst
13 25 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
14 21 (2.79%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 19 (2.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 18 (2.39%) Cloud Architect
17 17 (2.25%) Cybersecurity Consultant
17 17 (2.25%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.37%) Terraform
2 35 (4.64%) LDAP
3 31 (4.11%) OAuth
4 30 (3.98%) SAML
5 29 (3.85%) SailPoint
6 25 (3.32%) OpenID
7 19 (2.52%) OAuth2
8 15 (1.99%) REST
9 12 (1.59%) Web Services
10 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Graph
11 8 (1.06%) Kafka
12 7 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (0.80%) ARM Templates
14 5 (0.66%) Middleware
15 4 (0.53%) JSON
16 3 (0.40%) 802.1X
16 3 (0.40%) FIDO
16 3 (0.40%) SOAP
17 2 (0.27%) AWS CDK
17 2 (0.27%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 76 (10.08%) Operational Technology
2 75 (9.95%) Onboarding
3 56 (7.43%) Security Posture
4 53 (7.03%) Cloud Native
5 50 (6.63%) Management Information System
6 34 (4.51%) Cyber Threat
7 29 (3.85%) SCADA
8 24 (3.18%) Data Centre
9 22 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 22 (2.92%) PKI
10 20 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (2.65%) Security Operations Centre
11 18 (2.39%) Cyber Defence
11 18 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.86%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.72%) Product Ownership
14 12 (1.59%) NHS
15 11 (1.46%) CMDB
15 11 (1.46%) IoT
15 11 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 109 (14.46%) Windows
2 66 (8.75%) Linux
3 36 (4.77%) Unix
4 35 (4.64%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.66%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.53%) CentOS
9 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.13%) Android
11 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.13%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.13%) VMS
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (55.70%) Cybersecurity
2 200 (26.53%) Risk Management
3 181 (24.01%) Information Security
4 164 (21.75%) SIEM
5 159 (21.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 153 (20.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 129 (17.11%) Vulnerability Management
8 125 (16.58%) Incident Response
9 121 (16.05%) Cloud Security
10 116 (15.38%) Security Architecture
11 113 (14.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 105 (13.93%) Security Operations
13 96 (12.73%) Roadmaps
14 93 (12.33%) Zero Trust
15 88 (11.67%) CI/CD
15 88 (11.67%) DevOps
16 87 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
17 85 (11.27%) Identity Access Management
18 84 (11.14%) ITSM
19 80 (10.61%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 112 (14.85%) PowerShell
2 96 (12.73%) Python
3 33 (4.38%) Bash
4 20 (2.65%) SQL
5 17 (2.25%) Bicep
6 6 (0.80%) Java
6 6 (0.80%) Perl
7 5 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (0.53%) BeanShell
9 2 (0.27%) C#
9 2 (0.27%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.27%) Ruby
10 1 (0.13%) Go
10 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 269 (35.68%) Security Cleared
2 208 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 187 (24.80%) CISSP
4 130 (17.24%) CISM
5 92 (12.20%) Degree
6 64 (8.49%) Cisco Certification
7 53 (7.03%) DV Cleared
8 52 (6.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 44 (5.84%) CRISC
10 36 (4.77%) CEH
11 34 (4.51%) CompTIA Security+
12 32 (4.24%) PMI Certification
13 31 (4.11%) GIAC
14 30 (3.98%) CISA
14 30 (3.98%) PMP
15 29 (3.85%) Azure Certification
16 25 (3.32%) CCSP
16 25 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
17 23 (3.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 21 (2.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 461 (61.14%) NIST
2 174 (23.08%) GDPR
3 118 (15.65%) GRC
4 92 (12.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 87 (11.54%) NCSC
6 63 (8.36%) PCI DSS
7 53 (7.03%) SOC 2
8 42 (5.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 34 (4.51%) NIST 800
10 32 (4.24%) COBIT
10 32 (4.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 24 (3.18%) Data Quality
12 21 (2.79%) HIPAA
12 21 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 16 (2.12%) JSP 440
14 12 (1.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 12 (1.59%) ISO 31000
14 12 (1.59%) ITGC
14 12 (1.59%) SLA
15 11 (1.46%) PMO
System Software
1 136 (18.04%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.05%) Docker
3 15 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.59%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.40%) vSphere
6 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.13%) Ceph
7 1 (0.13%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) Varnish
7 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (5.31%) Kubernetes
2 28 (3.71%) Single Sign-On
3 27 (3.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (3.05%) Ansible
5 7 (0.93%) QRadar
6 6 (0.80%) Grafana
7 5 (0.66%) CASB
7 5 (0.66%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.53%) Nessus
8 4 (0.53%) Podman
9 3 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.40%) Puppet
9 3 (0.40%) RSA Archer
10 2 (0.27%) Argo
10 2 (0.27%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.27%) Istio
10 2 (0.27%) Nexpose
11 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 181 (24.01%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.43%) CyberArk
3 46 (6.10%) ServiceNow
4 34 (4.51%) BeyondTrust
5 32 (4.24%) Oracle
6 23 (3.05%) Splunk
7 19 (2.52%) Google
8 17 (2.25%) Cisco
9 16 (2.12%) VMware
10 15 (1.99%) CrowdStrike
11 14 (1.86%) SAP
12 13 (1.72%) Palo Alto
13 12 (1.59%) Qualys
14 11 (1.46%) Databricks
14 11 (1.46%) Tenable
15 9 (1.19%) Rapid7
16 8 (1.06%) Okta
17 7 (0.93%) Juniper
18 6 (0.80%) Fortinet
18 6 (0.80%) SolarWinds
354 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in England