ISO/IEC 27001 Contract Job Trends in Leeds

ISO/IEC 27001
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 56 59
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +38
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 21 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.76% 0.62% 0.91%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.44% 5.08% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 3 8
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £466 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £325 £500
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -35.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £540 £469 £578
90th Percentile £600 £548 £591
West Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +15.56% -10.00% +29.03%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 136 59 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 17.89% 12.19% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 43 82
10th Percentile £350 £263 £264
25th Percentile £440 £325 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -17.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £581 £588
90th Percentile £606 £735 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £510 £413 £449
% change year-on-year +23.64% -8.18% -10.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.01 £31.47 -
Median hourly rate £17.12 £32.81 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.82% - -
75th Percentile £18.23 £34.15 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.12 £32.81 £16.11
% change year-on-year -47.82% +103.66% -13.85%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

ISO/IEC 27001 job vacancy trend in Leeds

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing ISO/IEC 27001.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing ISO/IEC 27001

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in Leeds over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in Leeds

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing ISO/IEC 27001.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing ISO/IEC 27001

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) AWS
2 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (14.29%) OCI
4 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) Firewall
2 4 (19.05%) Network Security
3 1 (4.76%) BGP
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (4.76%) EIGRP
3 1 (4.76%) LAN
3 1 (4.76%) OSPF
3 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.76%) VLAN
3 1 (4.76%) VPN
3 1 (4.76%) WAN
3 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 11 (52.38%) Legal
2 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
3 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Finance
5 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) Security Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Security Operations Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Security Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Governance Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Management Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Risk Management Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) ARM Templates
1 2 (9.52%) AWS CDK
1 2 (9.52%) Flash
1 2 (9.52%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
1 4 (19.05%) Cloud Security Posture
1 4 (19.05%) Security Posture
2 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Blockchain
3 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.76%) NHS
4 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Cloud Security
2 10 (47.62%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (47.62%) SIEM
3 8 (38.10%) Information Security
3 8 (38.10%) Risk Management
3 8 (38.10%) Vulnerability Management
4 7 (33.33%) Incident Response
5 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 6 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
6 5 (23.81%) DevSecOps
6 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (23.81%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 5 (23.81%) Zero Trust
7 4 (19.05%) Application Security
7 4 (19.05%) Data Security
7 4 (19.05%) Regulatory Compliance
7 4 (19.05%) Remediation Plan
7 4 (19.05%) Security Operations
7 4 (19.05%) SOAR
7 4 (19.05%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) Bicep
2 2 (9.52%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) Rust
2 2 (9.52%) Solidity
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) CISSP
2 4 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 3 (14.29%) CCSP
3 3 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (14.29%) GCIA
3 3 (14.29%) GCIH
3 3 (14.29%) GIAC
3 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) SSCP
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
4 2 (9.52%) CCSK
4 2 (9.52%) CEH
4 2 (9.52%) CISA
4 2 (9.52%) CISM
4 2 (9.52%) OSCP
5 1 (4.76%) CCNP
5 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (57.14%) NIST
2 8 (38.10%) PCI DSS
3 7 (33.33%) GDPR
4 6 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (19.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (14.29%) NIST 800
6 3 (14.29%) PSD2
7 2 (9.52%) GRC
7 2 (9.52%) SOC 2
8 1 (4.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) SCCM
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Rapid7
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) Splunk
4 1 (4.76%) VMware