ISO/IEC 27001 Contracts in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 27001
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for ISO/IEC 27001 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 196 235
Rank change year-on-year +9 +39 +23
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 224 294 323
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.09% 1.23% 1.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.28% 8.32% 7.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 213 239
10th Percentile £363 £406 £310
25th Percentile £425 £458 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.49% +21.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £638
90th Percentile £721 £765 £763
UK median daily rate £575 £591 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% +7.38% +8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 9
10th Percentile - £50.97 £43.21
25th Percentile - £59.73 £43.95
Median hourly rate £83.41 £71.49 £54.43
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +31.34% +43.99%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £67.00
90th Percentile - £79.53 £70.08
UK median hourly rate £83.41 £70.00 £54.69
% change year-on-year +19.16% +27.99% +44.69%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 27001 is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,076 3,535 4,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.90% 14.80% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,806 2,382 3,098
10th Percentile £251 £219 £204
25th Percentile £363 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £479 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +6.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £572
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 189 193
10th Percentile £10.95 £12.67 £11.39
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.09 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £32.50 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -44.62% +54.39% -
75th Percentile £45.00 £59.28 £45.20
90th Percentile £67.70 £77.50 £64.19
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +25.00% +33.33%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 27001
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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 of England +40 54 £575 +21.05% 63
South West +25 49 £600 -4.00% 41
North West +48 45 £600 +31.43% 34
Scotland +38 42 £563 -5.70% 15
South East -36 39 £460 -26.40% 57
Midlands 0 24 £488 -17.02% 40
West Midlands -12 18 £550 -4.35% 23
East of England +18 14 £475 -14.03% 23
Yorkshire +11 7 £563 -4.26% 22
East Midlands +22 6 £450 -35.71% 16
Wales +11 2 £650 +18.18% 10
North East - 2 £525 - 7
ISO/IEC 27001
UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.79%) Apache Solr
2 4 (1.79%) nginx
3 2 (0.89%) Confluence
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.45%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.34%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 34 (15.18%) Azure
2 25 (11.16%) AWS
3 18 (8.04%) Azure Sentinel
4 8 (3.57%) GCP
5 7 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.23%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.23%) Serverless
8 4 (1.79%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.34%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (1.34%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (1.34%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.89%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (0.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.27%) Firewall
2 15 (6.70%) Network Security
3 5 (2.23%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.79%) DNS
4 4 (1.79%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.79%) Intranet
4 4 (1.79%) IPsec
4 4 (1.79%) SCCP
4 4 (1.79%) WAN
5 3 (1.34%) LAN
6 2 (0.89%) Broadband
6 2 (0.89%) Internet
6 2 (0.89%) VPN
7 1 (0.45%) BGP
7 1 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.45%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.45%) OSPF
7 1 (0.45%) SNMP
7 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.13%) MySQL
1 7 (3.13%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.79%) Couchbase
3 3 (1.34%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.34%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.34%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.89%) Big Data
4 2 (0.89%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Git
1 3 (1.34%) JIRA
1 3 (1.34%) SonarQube
General
1 70 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 48 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 23 (10.27%) Legal
4 19 (8.48%) Finance
5 14 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 13 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.91%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.23%) Electronics
8 5 (2.23%) Marketing
8 5 (2.23%) Retail
9 4 (1.79%) French Language
9 4 (1.79%) German Language
10 3 (1.34%) Banking
10 3 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.34%) Local Government
10 3 (1.34%) Police
11 2 (0.89%) Automotive
11 2 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 49 (21.88%) Analyst
2 39 (17.41%) Architect
3 33 (14.73%) Consultant
4 25 (11.16%) Security Architect
4 25 (11.16%) Security Consultant
5 22 (9.82%) Senior
6 21 (9.38%) Lead
7 20 (8.93%) Security Analyst
8 16 (7.14%) Security Engineer
9 14 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 14 (6.25%) Security Advisor
9 14 (6.25%) SOC Analyst
10 10 (4.46%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (4.02%) Lead Architect
12 8 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 8 (3.57%) Developer
12 8 (3.57%) Information Security Consultant
12 8 (3.57%) Security Officer
13 7 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.13%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.79%) JSON
1 4 (1.79%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (1.79%) YAML
2 3 (1.34%) Kafka
3 2 (0.89%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 50 (22.32%) Management Information System
2 17 (7.59%) Security Posture
3 15 (6.70%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (4.02%) CCTV
4 9 (4.02%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.57%) CESG
5 8 (3.57%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.68%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.23%) Cyberattack
7 5 (2.23%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.34%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (1.34%) Insider Threat
9 3 (1.34%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.34%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.34%) Wiki
10 2 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.45%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 39 (17.41%) Linux
2 17 (7.59%) Windows
3 11 (4.91%) Mac OS X
4 4 (1.79%) CentOS
5 3 (1.34%) zOS
6 2 (0.89%) Unix
6 2 (0.89%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (53.13%) Cybersecurity
2 97 (43.30%) Information Security
3 66 (29.46%) Risk Management
4 40 (17.86%) SIEM
5 35 (15.63%) Security Architecture
6 32 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
7 30 (13.39%) ISMS
8 28 (12.50%) Incident Management
9 27 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 25 (11.16%) Penetration Testing
11 24 (10.71%) Information Assurance
12 22 (9.82%) ITIL
12 22 (9.82%) Threat Modelling
12 22 (9.82%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 21 (9.38%) Cloud Security
13 21 (9.38%) Incident Response
14 20 (8.93%) Agile
15 19 (8.48%) Business Continuity
15 19 (8.48%) Security Management
16 18 (8.04%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.57%) C#
1 8 (3.57%) C++
2 6 (2.68%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (1.79%) Bash
3 4 (1.79%) PHP
3 4 (1.79%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.79%) Python
3 4 (1.79%) SQL
4 3 (1.34%) Go
5 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 100 (44.64%) Security Cleared
2 85 (37.95%) SC Cleared
3 72 (32.14%) CISSP
4 49 (21.88%) CISM
5 23 (10.27%) CISA
6 20 (8.93%) DV Cleared
7 19 (8.48%) Degree
8 17 (7.59%) Cisco Certification
8 17 (7.59%) CompTIA Security+
9 15 (6.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 14 (6.25%) CISMP
11 11 (4.91%) CRISC
12 10 (4.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 10 (4.46%) CEH
12 10 (4.46%) CLAS
12 10 (4.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 9 (4.02%) CESG Certified Professional
13 9 (4.02%) SSCP
14 8 (3.57%) ISACA
15 5 (2.23%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (48.21%) NIST
2 39 (17.41%) GDPR
3 32 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 29 (12.95%) PCI DSS
5 25 (11.16%) HIPAA
6 18 (8.04%) NCSC
7 17 (7.59%) GRC
7 17 (7.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 13 (5.80%) COBIT
9 12 (5.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 11 (4.91%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 11 (4.91%) ISO 9001
11 10 (4.46%) JSP 440
12 8 (3.57%) RMADS
13 7 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
13 7 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 7 (3.13%) QA
14 6 (2.68%) Government Security Classifications
14 6 (2.68%) PMO
15 5 (2.23%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 5 (2.23%) Docker
2 4 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (4.91%) Terraform
2 9 (4.02%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.13%) Ansible
4 4 (1.79%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (1.34%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.89%) IBM BigFix
6 2 (0.89%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.80%) Cisco
3 10 (4.46%) Splunk
4 7 (3.13%) Rapid7
5 6 (2.68%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.23%) F5
6 5 (2.23%) Google
6 5 (2.23%) SAP
6 5 (2.23%) Sophos
7 3 (1.34%) Oracle
7 3 (1.34%) Qualys
7 3 (1.34%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.89%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.89%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.89%) Darktrace
8 2 (0.89%) Databricks
8 2 (0.89%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.89%) Remedy
8 2 (0.89%) Teradata
8 2 (0.89%) VMware
439 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs Nationwide