ISO/IEC 27001 Contracts in the North of England

ISO/IEC 27001
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 125 172
Rank change year-on-year -13 +47 +1
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 31 55 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.94% 1.16% 0.69%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.51% 7.47% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 47 27
10th Percentile £235 £425 £404
25th Percentile £345 £474 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +21.05% -6.86%
75th Percentile £609 £668 £656
90th Percentile £709 £717 £730
England median daily rate £575 £575 £591
% change year-on-year - -2.64% +7.38%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 476 736 801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.42% 15.58% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 411 488
10th Percentile £245 £325 £288
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £588
90th Percentile £695 £675 £650
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 85 39
10th Percentile £14.27 - £20.54
25th Percentile £22.14 £10.95 £29.92
Median hourly rate £24.67 £12.84 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.15% -67.90% +113.90%
75th Percentile £39.69 £26.66 £49.46
90th Percentile £79.39 £48.75 £69.60
England median hourly rate £35.00 £22.04 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.84% -44.91% +46.79%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the North of England

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the North of England

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the North of England

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the North of England

ISO/IEC 27001
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Yorkshire +14 13 £325 -42.22% 62
North West -25 11 £550 -8.33% 69
North East +1 7 £700 +33.33% 17
ISO/IEC 27001
England

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) Azure
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (9.68%) AWS
3 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.23%) Cloudflare
4 1 (3.23%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) Network Security
1 4 (12.90%) VPN
2 3 (9.68%) Firewall
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (3.23%) DHCP
3 1 (3.23%) DNS
3 1 (3.23%) Kerberos
3 1 (3.23%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.23%) VLAN
3 1 (3.23%) WAN
General
1 14 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
3 5 (16.13%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Finance
5 2 (6.45%) Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Architect
1 6 (19.35%) Security Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Consultant
3 4 (12.90%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Desktop Support
3 4 (12.90%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Lead
3 4 (12.90%) Security Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Security Consultant
3 4 (12.90%) Support Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) IT Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) IT Manager
4 3 (9.68%) IT Security Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Information Assurance Leader
5 2 (6.45%) IT Services Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Service Continuity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) LDAP
2 2 (6.45%) OAuth
2 2 (6.45%) OpenID
2 2 (6.45%) SAML
3 1 (3.23%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (16.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.23%) CESG
4 1 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.23%) PKI
4 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Data Protection
2 9 (29.03%) Information Security
2 9 (29.03%) Risk Management
3 8 (25.81%) ITIL
3 8 (25.81%) Zero Trust
4 7 (22.58%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (19.35%) Service Delivery
6 5 (16.13%) Cloud Security
6 5 (16.13%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (16.13%) Information Security Management
6 5 (16.13%) ISMS
6 5 (16.13%) ITSM
6 5 (16.13%) Roadmaps
6 5 (16.13%) Security Management
7 4 (12.90%) Case Management
7 4 (12.90%) Customer Service
8 3 (9.68%) Budget Management
8 3 (9.68%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.45%) Python
2 1 (3.23%) Go
2 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) Degree
2 7 (22.58%) CISSP
3 5 (16.13%) CISM
4 4 (12.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (9.68%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
6 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
7 1 (3.23%) CCIE
7 1 (3.23%) CCNA
7 1 (3.23%) CCNP
7 1 (3.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (3.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (35.48%) NIST
2 10 (32.26%) PCI DSS
3 4 (12.90%) GDPR
4 3 (9.68%) ISO 22301
4 3 (9.68%) ISO 31000
5 2 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (6.45%) GRC
5 2 (6.45%) NCSC
5 2 (6.45%) PMO
5 2 (6.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (6.45%) SOC 2
6 1 (3.23%) COBIT
6 1 (3.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (3.23%) JSP 440
6 1 (3.23%) NIST 800
6 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (12.90%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) Ansible
3 1 (3.23%) Nessus
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.81%) Cisco
3 7 (22.58%) ServiceNow
4 5 (16.13%) Fortinet
4 5 (16.13%) HP
4 5 (16.13%) Veeam
4 5 (16.13%) VMware
5 4 (12.90%) Citrix
6 1 (3.23%) Aruba
6 1 (3.23%) Centrify
6 1 (3.23%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.23%) Meraki
6 1 (3.23%) Qualys
6 1 (3.23%) Thycotic