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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 126 158
Rank change year-on-year +1 +32 +41
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 54 44 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.36% 1.06% 0.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.87% 7.96% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 40 36
10th Percentile £235 £425 £406
25th Percentile £367 £466 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +16.67% +2.00%
75th Percentile £608 £669 £641
90th Percentile £741 £726 £775
England median daily rate £550 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.50
75th Percentile - - £22.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.00 £27.50 £67.07
% change year-on-year +107.26% -59.00% +6.46%

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 609 553 784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.39% 13.36% 14.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 323 443
10th Percentile £268 £302 £300
25th Percentile £365 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.04% -0.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £588
90th Percentile £650 £660 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 46 49
10th Percentile £13.50 - £16.55
25th Percentile - £10.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £22.14 £11.20 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +97.77% -65.55% +41.30%
75th Percentile £35.82 £20.36 £47.00
90th Percentile £71.45 £43.10 £68.47
England median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +9.09% -35.29% +79.51%

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 August 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 August 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 +19 32 £475 -13.64% 45
North West -17 18 £550 -8.33% 67
North East -1 4 £700 +33.33% 12
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 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.78%) AWS
2 13 (24.07%) Azure
3 9 (16.67%) GCP
4 6 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (7.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (7.41%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (7.41%) AWS KMS
5 4 (7.41%) GitHub
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.56%) Serverless
6 3 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon Macie
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.81%) VPN
2 5 (9.26%) Firewall
3 4 (7.41%) Network Security
4 2 (3.70%) DNS
4 2 (3.70%) SSL
4 2 (3.70%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.85%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (3.70%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (14.81%) JIRA
2 6 (11.11%) Postman
2 6 (11.11%) SoapUI
3 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.70%) Git
4 2 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 33 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.07%) Finance
3 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.56%) Banking
4 3 (5.56%) Local Government
5 2 (3.70%) Legal
5 2 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.85%) Games
6 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (18.52%) Analyst
2 8 (14.81%) Architect
2 8 (14.81%) Consultant
3 7 (12.96%) Security Architect
4 6 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Desktop Support
4 6 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Support Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Security Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Test Analyst
6 4 (7.41%) Lead
6 4 (7.41%) Security Consultant
7 3 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) IT Manager
7 3 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (5.56%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Programme Director
8 2 (3.70%) Information Assurance Consultant
8 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Information Assurance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (3.70%) LDAP
1 2 (3.70%) OAuth
1 2 (3.70%) OpenID
1 2 (3.70%) SAML
2 1 (1.85%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.85%) Regular Expression
2 1 (1.85%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.41%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.85%) CESG
4 1 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Licensing
4 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.85%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.85%) PKI
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (38.89%) Cloud Security
1 21 (38.89%) Risk Management
2 16 (29.63%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (24.07%) DevSecOps
3 13 (24.07%) Information Security
4 12 (22.22%) Incident Response
5 11 (20.37%) CI/CD
5 11 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (18.52%) ITIL
7 9 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (16.67%) Software Testing
7 9 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (14.81%) Agile
8 8 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (14.81%) Service Delivery
8 8 (14.81%) Threat Intelligence
8 8 (14.81%) Zero Trust
9 7 (12.96%) ITSM
9 7 (12.96%) Scrum
9 7 (12.96%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.56%) Python
2 2 (3.70%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (31.48%) CISSP
2 16 (29.63%) CISM
3 7 (12.96%) Degree
3 7 (12.96%) Security Cleared
4 6 (11.11%) ISTQB
4 6 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
6 4 (7.41%) AWS Certification
7 3 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 3 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 3 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.85%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (1.85%) CRISC
9 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (59.26%) NIST
2 16 (29.63%) GDPR
3 13 (24.07%) PCI DSS
4 6 (11.11%) SOC 2
5 5 (9.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (7.41%) GRC
6 4 (7.41%) ISO 22301
6 4 (7.41%) QA
7 3 (5.56%) COBIT
7 3 (5.56%) ISO 31000
7 3 (5.56%) NCSC
8 2 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (1.85%) HIPAA
9 1 (1.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (1.85%) ISO 9001
9 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.85%) JSP 440
9 1 (1.85%) NIST 800
9 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (12.96%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.41%) Docker
3 1 (1.85%) Snort
Systems Management
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.41%) Terraform
4 3 (5.56%) Ansible
4 3 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.70%) Grafana
5 2 (3.70%) Kustomize
5 2 (3.70%) Puppet
6 1 (1.85%) Nessus
Vendors
1 22 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 6 (11.11%) BeyondTrust
3 6 (11.11%) Citrix
3 6 (11.11%) CyberArk
3 6 (11.11%) Google
3 6 (11.11%) Thycotic
4 3 (5.56%) Cisco
4 3 (5.56%) Splunk
5 2 (3.70%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (3.70%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.70%) HP
5 2 (3.70%) Veeam
5 2 (3.70%) VMware
6 1 (1.85%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.85%) F5
6 1 (1.85%) Imperva
6 1 (1.85%) OneTrust
6 1 (1.85%) Qualys