ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799) Contract Job Trends in the North of England

ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799) skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 161 181
Rank change year-on-year -59 +20 +44
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799) 3 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.056% 0.091% 0.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.39% 0.68% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £517 £522 £462
25th Percentile £534 £536 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £570 £618
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% -7.69% +7.39%
75th Percentile £590 £589 £632
90th Percentile £593 £594 £635
England median daily rate £530 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -9.40% +6.36% -12.37%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799) 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 776 442 763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.40% 13.41% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 287 432
10th Percentile £325 £250 £265
25th Percentile £394 £357 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -2.63% -2.56%
75th Percentile £563 £569 £575
90th Percentile £650 £682 £650
England median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 26 74
10th Percentile £15.40 £15.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £40.16 £17.24 £11.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £22.14 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +148.42% +36.25% -56.67%
75th Percentile £62.95 £28.38 £34.21
90th Percentile £69.89 £44.88 £48.75
England median hourly rate £25.94 £32.66 £25.38
% change year-on-year -20.56% +28.66% -27.49%

ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799) job vacancy trend in the North of England

ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)

ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)

ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
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 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799) within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 March 2026. 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
North West -39 3 £574 +0.61% 3
ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
England

ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
1 2 (66.67%) NGFW
2 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
1 2 (66.67%) GitOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Kanban
1 2 (66.67%) Product Backlog
1 2 (66.67%) Product Strategy
1 2 (66.67%) Product Vision
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
1 3 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (66.67%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) CASB
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft