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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 211 207
Rank change year-on-year +71 -4 +58
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 723 304 428
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.96% 1.24% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.25% 8.06% 7.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 187 331
10th Percentile £413 £420 £363
25th Percentile £463 £513 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £667
90th Percentile £759 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £545 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -9.17% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 5
10th Percentile £30.32 £51.00 -
25th Percentile £36.00 £60.75 £42.25
Median hourly rate £72.00 £73.60 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +65.39% -36.43%
75th Percentile £82.69 £83.20 £83.41
90th Percentile £84.00 £85.56 £85.56
UK median hourly rate £80.50 £73.60 £44.50
% change year-on-year +9.38% +65.39% -36.43%

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 6,424 3,771 5,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.44% 15.35% 14.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,157 2,408 3,482
10th Percentile £334 £263 £305
25th Percentile £413 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -4.71% -
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 158 343
10th Percentile £15.60 £16.24 £10.96
25th Percentile £18.40 £22.04 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.94 £32.66 £24.97
Median % change year-on-year -20.56% +30.78% -38.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £80.20 £78.49 £67.48
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £32.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.88% +33.33% -36.42%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +40 307 £565 -9.60% 119
South East +46 184 £515 -10.43% 101
North of England -15 78 £540 -10.00% 66
Midlands -10 60 £491 -18.17% 34
South West +5 46 £525 -16.00% 43
West Midlands -32 42 £513 -16.33% 24
Yorkshire -24 39 £504 -10.45% 15
North West -9 34 £600 -6.25% 44
East of England -20 19 £575 +12.86% 19
East Midlands -18 18 £442 +10.56% 10
North East -13 5 £400 -17.95% 7
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 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.90%) Confluence
3 19 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.83%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (0.28%) Apache
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.97%) Maximo
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 266 (36.79%) Azure
2 215 (29.74%) AWS
3 98 (13.55%) GCP
4 76 (10.51%) Entra ID
5 55 (7.61%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (5.95%) Azure Sentinel
7 30 (4.15%) Microsoft Purview
7 30 (4.15%) OpenShift
8 26 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (2.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 21 (2.90%) Serverless
11 20 (2.77%) OCI
12 19 (2.63%) GitHub
12 19 (2.63%) Power Platform
13 18 (2.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 18 (2.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 17 (2.35%) SaaS
15 16 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 96 (13.28%) Firewall
2 68 (9.41%) Network Security
3 48 (6.64%) VPN
4 22 (3.04%) Wireless
5 21 (2.90%) DNS
6 17 (2.35%) WAN
7 15 (2.07%) LAN
8 14 (1.94%) BGP
8 14 (1.94%) DHCP
8 14 (1.94%) SD-WAN
9 13 (1.80%) Cisco ASA
9 13 (1.80%) MPLS
10 10 (1.38%) HTTP
11 9 (1.24%) IPv6
12 8 (1.11%) IPv4
12 8 (1.11%) NGFW
12 8 (1.11%) OSPF
13 6 (0.83%) S/MIME
13 6 (0.83%) TACACS
13 6 (0.83%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.07%) Power BI
2 11 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (1.24%) NoSQL
4 7 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.97%) SQL Server
5 6 (0.83%) DynamoDB
5 6 (0.83%) MySQL
6 5 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (0.69%) Metadata
6 5 (0.69%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.55%) DocumentDB
7 4 (0.55%) Redis
8 3 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.41%) Big Data
8 3 (0.41%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.41%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (3.87%) JIRA
2 24 (3.32%) Jenkins
3 20 (2.77%) Metasploit
4 19 (2.63%) Burp Suite
5 11 (1.52%) GitLab
6 7 (0.97%) Git
7 3 (0.41%) JMeter
7 3 (0.41%) MSTest
7 3 (0.41%) Selenium
8 1 (0.14%) AppScan
8 1 (0.14%) Snyk
8 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.14%) sqlmap
8 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 283 (39.14%) Social Skills
2 118 (16.32%) Finance
3 84 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
3 84 (11.62%) Public Sector
4 66 (9.13%) Documentation Skills
5 47 (6.50%) Legal
6 30 (4.15%) Influencing Skills
7 23 (3.18%) Banking
8 18 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.07%) Law
11 14 (1.94%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.66%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.52%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.52%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.11%) Marketing
14 8 (1.11%) Police
15 6 (0.83%) Retail
16 5 (0.69%) Aviation
16 5 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 118 (16.32%) Architect
2 92 (12.72%) Analyst
3 87 (12.03%) Consultant
4 63 (8.71%) Security Engineer
5 53 (7.33%) Senior
6 50 (6.92%) Security Architect
7 48 (6.64%) Security Consultant
8 41 (5.67%) Security Analyst
9 36 (4.98%) Lead
10 35 (4.84%) Security Manager
11 32 (4.43%) Project Manager
12 23 (3.18%) Azure Engineer
13 22 (3.04%) Security Specialist
13 22 (3.04%) Tester
14 20 (2.77%) Penetration Tester
14 20 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
15 17 (2.35%) Cloud Architect
15 17 (2.35%) CyberArk Architect
16 15 (2.07%) Business Analyst
16 15 (2.07%) Security Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.02%) LDAP
2 36 (4.98%) OpenID
2 36 (4.98%) SAML
3 30 (4.15%) OAuth
4 17 (2.35%) Oracle Fusion
5 16 (2.21%) OAuth2
5 16 (2.21%) REST
6 14 (1.94%) SailPoint
7 11 (1.52%) ARM Templates
8 9 (1.24%) Kafka
8 9 (1.24%) Middleware
9 8 (1.11%) RESTful
10 6 (0.83%) AWS CDK
11 5 (0.69%) .NET
11 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (0.69%) Node.js
11 5 (0.69%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (0.69%) Spring
12 4 (0.55%) gRPC
12 4 (0.55%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 67 (9.27%) Security Posture
2 62 (8.58%) Onboarding
3 54 (7.47%) Cloud Native
4 44 (6.09%) Management Information System
5 35 (4.84%) Operational Technology
6 26 (3.60%) Data Centre
7 22 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 21 (2.90%) Product Ownership
8 21 (2.90%) Security Operations Centre
9 20 (2.77%) Cyber Threat
10 16 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (2.21%) PKI
10 16 (2.21%) SCADA
11 15 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.80%) BYOD
13 12 (1.66%) Public Cloud
14 11 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
15 10 (1.38%) CMDB
15 10 (1.38%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 77 (10.65%) Windows
2 43 (5.95%) Linux
3 21 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.38%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.11%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.97%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.97%) Unix
7 4 (0.55%) AIX
7 4 (0.55%) Solaris
8 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.28%) Android
9 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.14%) Rocky
10 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (43.57%) Cybersecurity
2 209 (28.91%) Information Security
3 165 (22.82%) Cloud Security
4 155 (21.44%) Risk Management
5 146 (20.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 141 (19.50%) SIEM
7 136 (18.81%) CI/CD
8 133 (18.40%) DevOps
9 126 (17.43%) Incident Response
10 111 (15.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 105 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 98 (13.55%) Threat Modelling
12 98 (13.55%) Zero Trust
13 97 (13.42%) Security Operations
14 92 (12.72%) Agile
15 84 (11.62%) Data Protection
16 83 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
16 83 (11.48%) Security Architecture
17 82 (11.34%) Regulatory Compliance
18 81 (11.20%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 110 (15.21%) PowerShell
2 86 (11.89%) Python
3 22 (3.04%) SQL
4 21 (2.90%) Bicep
5 17 (2.35%) Bash
6 10 (1.38%) Java
6 10 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (0.55%) C#
7 4 (0.55%) Go
7 4 (0.55%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.55%) PHP
8 2 (0.28%) C
8 2 (0.28%) Rust
8 2 (0.28%) Solidity
8 2 (0.28%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.14%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.14%) Lisp
9 1 (0.14%) Ruby
9 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 281 (38.87%) Security Cleared
2 226 (31.26%) SC Cleared
3 197 (27.25%) CISSP
4 151 (20.89%) CISM
5 100 (13.83%) Degree
6 62 (8.58%) DV Cleared
7 45 (6.22%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (4.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 33 (4.56%) Azure Certification
8 33 (4.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 31 (4.29%) AWS Certification
9 31 (4.29%) CISA
10 28 (3.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 28 (3.87%) PMI Certification
11 27 (3.73%) CEH
11 27 (3.73%) PMP
12 24 (3.32%) GIAC
12 24 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (3.18%) CompTIA Security+
14 22 (3.04%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 447 (61.83%) NIST
2 254 (35.13%) GDPR
3 105 (14.52%) PCI DSS
4 96 (13.28%) NCSC
5 79 (10.93%) Cyber Essentials
6 72 (9.96%) GRC
7 48 (6.64%) COBIT
8 44 (6.09%) SOC 2
9 39 (5.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 36 (4.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 33 (4.56%) NIST 800
12 28 (3.87%) QA
13 24 (3.32%) JSP 440
14 20 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 19 (2.63%) PMO
16 17 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 15 (2.07%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 15 (2.07%) SLA
18 13 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
19 11 (1.52%) HIPAA
System Software
1 92 (12.72%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.04%) Docker
3 20 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.55%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.55%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.14%) Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) GPFS
7 1 (0.14%) Lustre
7 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.14%) Varnish
7 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (8.99%) Kubernetes
2 58 (8.02%) Terraform
3 32 (4.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (3.87%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (2.35%) Ansible
5 17 (2.35%) Nmap
6 14 (1.94%) SCCM
7 10 (1.38%) Nessus
8 9 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.97%) CASB
10 6 (0.83%) Fluentd
10 6 (0.83%) Grafana
10 6 (0.83%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.69%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.69%) RSA Archer
12 4 (0.55%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.55%) PingFederate
13 3 (0.41%) OpenVAS
13 3 (0.41%) QRadar
13 3 (0.41%) SCOM
Vendors
1 135 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 78 (10.79%) CyberArk
3 44 (6.09%) Splunk
4 39 (5.39%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (4.70%) Oracle
6 32 (4.43%) Cisco
6 32 (4.43%) ServiceNow
7 23 (3.18%) VMware
8 20 (2.77%) SAP
9 19 (2.63%) Fortinet
10 17 (2.35%) Google
11 15 (2.07%) Palo Alto
11 15 (2.07%) Rapid7
12 11 (1.52%) IBM
12 11 (1.52%) Okta
13 10 (1.38%) Qualys
14 9 (1.24%) Tenable
15 7 (0.97%) Cribl.io
15 7 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
15 7 (0.97%) Red Hat