ISO/IEC 27001 Contracts in England

ISO/IEC 27001
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for ISO/IEC 27001 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 233 308
Rank change year-on-year +9 +75 +2
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 394 575 637
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.07% 1.15% 0.90%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.54% 8.62% 6.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 428 489
10th Percentile £363 £421 £363
25th Percentile £459 £495 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £591 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +7.38% +8.11%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £771 £779 £770
UK median daily rate £575 £591 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% +7.38% +8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 9
10th Percentile - £45.00 £43.21
25th Percentile - £59.73 £43.95
Median hourly rate £83.41 £70.00 £54.43
Median % change year-on-year +19.16% +28.61% +43.99%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £67.00
90th Percentile - £79.30 £70.08
UK median hourly rate £83.41 £70.00 £54.69
% change year-on-year +19.16% +27.99% +44.69%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

ISO/IEC 27001 is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,228 6,670 9,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.18% 13.35% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,353 4,545 6,433
10th Percentile £300 £281 £289
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.24% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 214 259
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.06 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £19.07 £16.38
Median hourly rate £22.34 £36.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.37% +31.82% +30.95%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.92 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.60 £79.93 £68.35
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +27.27% +30.95%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in England

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in England.

Daily rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in England

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in England

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 5 May 2024. 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 +33 202 £585 -4.88% 139
North of England +45 54 £575 +21.05% 70
South West +25 48 £600 -4.00% 44
North West +49 45 £600 +31.43% 39
South East -35 39 £460 -26.40% 66
Midlands -2 24 £488 -17.02% 42
West Midlands -9 18 £550 -4.35% 24
East of England +26 14 £475 -14.03% 27
Yorkshire +10 7 £563 -4.26% 23
East Midlands +22 6 £450 -35.71% 17
North East - 2 £525 - 8
ISO/IEC 27001
UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.78%) nginx
3 4 (1.02%) Apache Solr
3 4 (1.02%) CMS
3 4 (1.02%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.51%) IIS
4 2 (0.51%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.25%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 84 (21.32%) Azure
2 64 (16.24%) AWS
3 23 (5.84%) Azure Sentinel
3 23 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (4.06%) GCP
5 10 (2.54%) Entra ID
6 9 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (2.28%) SaaS
7 8 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.78%) AWS CloudTrail
8 7 (1.78%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.52%) GitHub
9 6 (1.52%) Serverless
10 5 (1.27%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.02%) Azure AKS
11 4 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.02%) IaaS
12 3 (0.76%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 61 (15.48%) Firewall
2 38 (9.64%) Network Security
3 19 (4.82%) WAN
4 14 (3.55%) DNS
5 13 (3.30%) SD-WAN
6 11 (2.79%) Intrusion Detection
6 11 (2.79%) TCP/IP
7 10 (2.54%) VPN
8 6 (1.52%) LAN
9 5 (1.27%) Internet
10 4 (1.02%) HTTPS
10 4 (1.02%) Intranet
10 4 (1.02%) IPsec
10 4 (1.02%) Skype
11 3 (0.76%) Broadband
11 3 (0.76%) DHCP
11 3 (0.76%) SNMP
12 2 (0.51%) DMZ
12 2 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.78%) MySQL
1 7 (1.78%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.02%) Big Data
2 4 (1.02%) Couchbase
2 4 (1.02%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.76%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.51%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (0.51%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (2.28%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.27%) Git
3 3 (0.76%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.51%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.51%) GitLab
4 2 (0.51%) JIRA
4 2 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.51%) RStudio
5 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.25%) Mocha
General
1 94 (23.86%) Social Skills
2 81 (20.56%) Finance
3 62 (15.74%) Public Sector
4 48 (12.18%) Legal
5 23 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.57%) Banking
6 18 (4.57%) Manufacturing
7 14 (3.55%) Local Government
8 13 (3.30%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.03%) Retail
10 6 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.27%) Electronics
11 5 (1.27%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.27%) German Language
11 5 (1.27%) Law
11 5 (1.27%) Marketing
12 4 (1.02%) French Language
13 3 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.76%) Police
Job Titles
1 79 (20.05%) Architect
2 64 (16.24%) Analyst
3 59 (14.97%) Consultant
4 55 (13.96%) Security Architect
5 49 (12.44%) Security Consultant
6 38 (9.64%) Senior
7 29 (7.36%) Security Engineer
8 26 (6.60%) Lead
8 26 (6.60%) Security Analyst
9 21 (5.33%) Security Manager
10 17 (4.31%) SOC Analyst
11 16 (4.06%) Security Specialist
12 14 (3.55%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 12 (3.05%) IT Manager
13 12 (3.05%) Project Manager
13 12 (3.05%) Security Officer
14 11 (2.79%) Information Analyst
14 11 (2.79%) Information Manager
14 11 (2.79%) Information Security Analyst
14 11 (2.79%) Information Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.28%) YAML
2 7 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (1.27%) JSON
4 4 (1.02%) LEMP Stack
5 3 (0.76%) Kafka
5 3 (0.76%) OAuth
6 2 (0.51%) JWT
6 2 (0.51%) ModSecurity
6 2 (0.51%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.51%) SAML
7 1 (0.25%) .NET
7 1 (0.25%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.25%) gRPC
7 1 (0.25%) Jest
7 1 (0.25%) LDAP
7 1 (0.25%) MEAN Stack
7 1 (0.25%) MERN Stack
7 1 (0.25%) Mongoose
7 1 (0.25%) NestJS
7 1 (0.25%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 46 (11.68%) Management Information System
2 20 (5.08%) Security Posture
3 19 (4.82%) Cyber Threat
4 14 (3.55%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.55%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (3.30%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.30%) PKI
6 10 (2.54%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.28%) CCTV
8 8 (2.03%) CESG
8 8 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.52%) Freedom of Information
9 6 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.27%) Cyberattack
10 5 (1.27%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.27%) NHS
10 5 (1.27%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.02%) Blackberry
11 4 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (12.18%) Linux
2 37 (9.39%) Windows
3 12 (3.05%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.79%) Mac OS X
5 7 (1.78%) Unix
6 5 (1.27%) CentOS
7 4 (1.02%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.51%) zOS
10 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (47.21%) Cybersecurity
2 159 (40.36%) Information Security
3 107 (27.16%) Risk Management
4 67 (17.01%) SIEM
5 62 (15.74%) Security Architecture
6 56 (14.21%) Cloud Security
7 52 (13.20%) Data Protection
8 48 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 45 (11.42%) Risk Assessment
10 44 (11.17%) Identity Access Management
11 43 (10.91%) Incident Response
12 38 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (9.39%) ITIL
14 36 (9.14%) Penetration Testing
15 34 (8.63%) DevOps
16 33 (8.38%) Information Assurance
16 33 (8.38%) Vulnerability Management
17 32 (8.12%) Security Management
18 31 (7.87%) Agile
19 30 (7.61%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (5.08%) PowerShell
2 17 (4.31%) Python
3 12 (3.05%) Kusto Query Language
4 9 (2.28%) Bash
4 9 (2.28%) C#
5 8 (2.03%) C++
6 6 (1.52%) SQL
7 4 (1.02%) PHP
8 3 (0.76%) Go
9 2 (0.51%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.51%) R
10 1 (0.25%) Java
10 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.25%) Ruby
10 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 107 (27.16%) CISSP
2 101 (25.63%) Security Cleared
3 85 (21.57%) CISM
3 85 (21.57%) SC Cleared
4 42 (10.66%) Degree
5 41 (10.41%) CISA
6 29 (7.36%) Cisco Certification
7 20 (5.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 20 (5.08%) DV Cleared
8 18 (4.57%) CompTIA Security+
9 15 (3.81%) CISMP
10 14 (3.55%) CEH
10 14 (3.55%) CRISC
11 12 (3.05%) CCSK
12 10 (2.54%) CREST Certified
13 9 (2.28%) CESG Certified Professional
13 9 (2.28%) SSCP
13 9 (2.28%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (2.03%) CCNP
14 8 (2.03%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (48.48%) NIST
2 70 (17.77%) GDPR
3 56 (14.21%) PCI DSS
4 41 (10.41%) GRC
5 39 (9.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 32 (8.12%) NCSC
7 31 (7.87%) HIPAA
8 30 (7.61%) COBIT
8 30 (7.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 19 (4.82%) ISO 9001
10 16 (4.06%) ISO 22301
11 15 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 13 (3.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 10 (2.54%) JSP 440
13 10 (2.54%) QA
14 8 (2.03%) RMADS
15 6 (1.52%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (1.52%) NIST 800
16 5 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 4 (1.02%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.54%) Docker
3 4 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.51%) Squid
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (6.35%) Terraform
2 20 (5.08%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.30%) Ansible
4 4 (1.02%) Nessus
4 4 (1.02%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (0.76%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.51%) Grafana
6 2 (0.51%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.51%) IBM BigFix
6 2 (0.51%) Kibana
6 2 (0.51%) logstash
6 2 (0.51%) Nmap
6 2 (0.51%) Packer
6 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.51%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.25%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.25%) SCCM
7 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 82 (20.81%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.33%) Cisco
3 11 (2.79%) ServiceNow
4 10 (2.54%) Splunk
5 9 (2.28%) Rapid7
5 9 (2.28%) Sparx
6 8 (2.03%) Google
7 7 (1.78%) Darktrace
8 6 (1.52%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.52%) Qualys
8 6 (1.52%) SAP
9 5 (1.27%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.27%) Sophos
10 4 (1.02%) Becrypt
10 4 (1.02%) Citrix
10 4 (1.02%) F5
10 4 (1.02%) Oracle
10 4 (1.02%) VMware
11 3 (0.76%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.76%) Fortinet
467 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs Nationwide