ISO/IEC 27001 Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

ISO/IEC 27001
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 100 81
Rank change year-on-year -9 -19 +51
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 43 30 66
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.60% 1.13% 2.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.29% 7.44% 15.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 24 59
10th Percentile £379 £406 £423
25th Percentile £410 £488 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £545 £541 £675
90th Percentile £641 £599 £730
England median daily rate £550 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 463 403 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.21% 15.12% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 246 284
10th Percentile £302 £236 £300
25th Percentile £375 £353 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% -0.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £595 £588
90th Percentile £650 £725 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 25
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.00 £12.98
25th Percentile £16.12 £13.14 £17.13
Median hourly rate £25.04 £21.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -23.64% +39.84%
75th Percentile £34.16 £49.38 £31.76
90th Percentile £40.46 £55.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £39.60
% change year-on-year -7.14% -11.62% +76.00%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the Midlands

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the Midlands

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

ISO/IEC 27001
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 September 2025. 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
East Midlands +13 24 £449 -10.20% 16
West Midlands -14 19 £563 +12.50% 26
ISO/IEC 27001
England

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 24 (55.81%) Azure
2 18 (41.86%) AWS
3 8 (18.60%) GCP
3 8 (18.60%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (16.28%) Entra ID
5 6 (13.95%) Power Platform
6 4 (9.30%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.98%) GitHub
7 3 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.98%) SaaS
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (4.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (4.65%) Collibra
8 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (4.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) Firewall
2 3 (6.98%) Network Security
3 1 (2.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.33%) Kerberos
3 1 (2.33%) Modbus
3 1 (2.33%) MQTT
3 1 (2.33%) SSH
3 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) Power BI
2 4 (9.30%) Tableau
3 2 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.65%) Delta Lake
3 2 (4.65%) GIS
3 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) JIRA
2 1 (2.33%) GitLab
2 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.33%) TestDirector
2 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (44.19%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.28%) Finance
3 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Legal
6 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.33%) Local Government
6 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Architect
2 6 (13.95%) Security Manager
3 5 (11.63%) Analyst
3 5 (11.63%) Security Specialist
3 5 (11.63%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.98%) Product Owner
4 3 (6.98%) Programme Manager
5 2 (4.65%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Consultant
5 2 (4.65%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 2 (4.65%) Data Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (4.65%) Lead
5 2 (4.65%) Security Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Senior
6 1 (2.33%) Information Analyst
6 1 (2.33%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (2.33%) Security Consultant
6 1 (2.33%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) SailPoint
2 3 (6.98%) FIDO
2 3 (6.98%) OAuth
2 3 (6.98%) SAML
3 2 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.65%) Kafka
4 1 (2.33%) LDAP
4 1 (2.33%) Loki
4 1 (2.33%) Lucene
4 1 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Management Information System
2 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.30%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.98%) SCADA
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.65%) IoT
5 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.33%) MISP
5 1 (2.33%) NHS
5 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.33%) PMI
5 1 (2.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.93%) Windows
2 6 (13.95%) Mac OS
3 5 (11.63%) Linux
4 2 (4.65%) AIX
4 2 (4.65%) Solaris
4 2 (4.65%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.88%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (30.23%) Agile
3 12 (27.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (25.58%) Data Protection
4 11 (25.58%) Information Security
4 11 (25.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (23.26%) Roadmaps
6 9 (20.93%) Zero Trust
7 8 (18.60%) Identity Management
8 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
8 7 (16.28%) Enterprise Architecture
8 7 (16.28%) Threat Modelling
9 6 (13.95%) Budgeting
9 6 (13.95%) DevOps
9 6 (13.95%) Incident Response
9 6 (13.95%) IT Audit
9 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (13.95%) Security Operations
9 6 (13.95%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (13.95%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.60%) Bash
2 7 (16.28%) PowerShell
3 5 (11.63%) Python
4 2 (4.65%) Bicep
4 2 (4.65%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (4.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) CISSP
2 10 (23.26%) CISM
3 8 (18.60%) Degree
4 7 (16.28%) CISA
4 7 (16.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 4 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
6 3 (6.98%) CEH
6 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
7 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.33%) CAPM
8 1 (2.33%) CBAP
8 1 (2.33%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (2.33%) CSSLP
8 1 (2.33%) ISACA
8 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
8 1 (2.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (46.51%) NIST
2 16 (37.21%) GDPR
3 10 (23.26%) NIST 800
4 7 (16.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (13.95%) COBIT
5 6 (13.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 4 (9.30%) QA
7 3 (6.98%) NCSC
7 3 (6.98%) PCI DSS
8 2 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
8 2 (4.65%) SOC 2
9 1 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (2.33%) HIPAA
9 1 (2.33%) ISO 19650
9 1 (2.33%) ISO 22301
9 1 (2.33%) ISO 9001
9 1 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Active Directory
1 6 (13.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (13.95%) SCCM
2 6 (13.95%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (11.63%) RSA Archer
4 4 (9.30%) Terraform
5 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
5 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.33%) Ansible
6 1 (2.33%) Fluentd
6 1 (2.33%) Grafana
6 1 (2.33%) Kibana
6 1 (2.33%) logstash
6 1 (2.33%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 15 (34.88%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.95%) Citrix
2 6 (13.95%) Rapid7
2 6 (13.95%) VMware
3 4 (9.30%) Alteryx
3 4 (9.30%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.65%) Cisco
4 2 (4.65%) Databricks
4 2 (4.65%) Informatica
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle
4 2 (4.65%) SAP
5 1 (2.33%) Autodesk
5 1 (2.33%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.33%) Splunk