ISO/IEC 27001 Contracts in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 27001
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 190 194
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 +43
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 154 215 289
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.20% 1.06% 1.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.51% 7.15% 8.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 146 208
10th Percentile £235 £329 £406
25th Percentile £450 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £630 £648 £682
90th Percentile £713 £719 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £593
% change year-on-year - -3.04% +7.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 13
10th Percentile - - £47.00
25th Percentile £51.25 - £59.73
Median hourly rate £61.50 £83.41 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.27% +19.16% +28.61%
75th Percentile £62.24 - £77.50
90th Percentile £74.82 - £79.30
UK median hourly rate £67.55 £83.41 £67.07
% change year-on-year -19.02% +24.36% +22.64%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,050 3,009 3,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.04% 14.78% 14.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,290 1,778 2,318
10th Percentile £220 £250 £220
25th Percentile £362 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £484 £479
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +0.99% +6.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +2.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 306 188
10th Percentile £17.35 £10.95 £13.11
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.66 £18.07
Median hourly rate £50.00 £18.19 £32.94
Median % change year-on-year +174.88% -44.78% +46.12%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £60.50
90th Percentile £78.70 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £21.06 £35.00
% change year-on-year +66.21% -39.84% +8.12%

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 14 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 14 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
South East +76 62 £550 +33.33% 234
North of England 0 32 £550 -5.58% 131
South West +20 26 £575 -4.17% 62
Midlands +15 26 £550 +22.22% 44
West Midlands +19 23 £575 +4.55% 31
Yorkshire +19 14 £325 -40.91% 44
North West -19 11 £550 -9.09% 68
North East +2 7 £700 +33.33% 20
East of England +19 6 £522 +8.19% 45
East Midlands 0 3 £500 +37.93% 12
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 12
Wales +2 1 £190 -70.20% 11
Scotland -34 1 - - 41
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 11 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.30%) TPMS
4 1 (0.65%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 14 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.30%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (17.53%) Azure
2 19 (12.34%) AWS
3 16 (10.39%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (6.49%) GCP
5 5 (3.25%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (3.25%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.60%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.95%) GitHub
7 3 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.30%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (1.30%) AWS KMS
8 2 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.30%) Collibra
8 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.30%) OCI
8 2 (1.30%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.04%) VPN
2 13 (8.44%) Firewall
3 10 (6.49%) Network Security
4 5 (3.25%) WAN
5 3 (1.95%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.95%) VLAN
6 2 (1.30%) BGP
6 2 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.30%) LAN
6 2 (1.30%) Modbus
6 2 (1.30%) MPLS
6 2 (1.30%) OSPF
6 2 (1.30%) SSL
6 2 (1.30%) X.509
7 1 (0.65%) 5G
7 1 (0.65%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.65%) DHCP
7 1 (0.65%) DNS
7 1 (0.65%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.95%) GIS
1 3 (1.95%) Power BI
2 2 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.30%) Big Data
2 2 (1.30%) Delta Lake
2 2 (1.30%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.30%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.65%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.65%) GitLab
1 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.65%) JIRA
General
1 61 (39.61%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.23%) Public Sector
3 20 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.55%) Finance
5 7 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.25%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.60%) Legal
7 4 (2.60%) Retail
8 3 (1.95%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.95%) Military
9 2 (1.30%) Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Law
10 1 (0.65%) Local Government
10 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (15.58%) Architect
2 20 (12.99%) Senior
3 17 (11.04%) Information Specialist
3 17 (11.04%) Security Specialist
4 16 (10.39%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 15 (9.74%) Information Security Specialist
5 15 (9.74%) Senior Information Security Specialist
5 15 (9.74%) Senior Security Specialist
6 14 (9.09%) Consultant
6 14 (9.09%) Security Architect
7 12 (7.79%) Security Manager
7 12 (7.79%) Support Engineer
8 11 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
8 11 (7.14%) Desktop Support
8 11 (7.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 9 (5.84%) Security Consultant
10 8 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.19%) Security Engineer
11 7 (4.55%) Lead
11 7 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.95%) Apache Axis
1 3 (1.95%) LDAP
1 3 (1.95%) OAuth
1 3 (1.95%) OpenID
1 3 (1.95%) SAML
2 2 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.30%) Kafka
3 1 (0.65%) .NET
3 1 (0.65%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.65%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.65%) FHIR
3 1 (0.65%) Hugging Face
3 1 (0.65%) OAuth2
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.65%) REST
3 1 (0.65%) Web Services
3 1 (0.65%) XML
3 1 (0.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.39%) Management Information System
2 14 (9.09%) Operational Technology
3 13 (8.44%) Security Posture
4 9 (5.84%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (5.19%) SCADA
6 7 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (4.55%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.90%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.90%) Data Centre
8 5 (3.25%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.60%) PKI
10 3 (1.95%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.95%) CCTV
11 2 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (1.30%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.30%) IoT
11 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.49%) Windows
2 7 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.90%) Linux
3 6 (3.90%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (32.47%) Cybersecurity
2 39 (25.32%) Risk Management
3 38 (24.68%) Information Security
4 34 (22.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 25 (16.23%) Incident Response
5 25 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (14.94%) ITIL
7 21 (13.64%) Cloud Security
8 19 (12.34%) Data Protection
8 19 (12.34%) Project Management
9 18 (11.69%) Security Management
10 17 (11.04%) Roadmaps
10 17 (11.04%) Threat Modelling
11 15 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (9.74%) Decision-Making
11 15 (9.74%) Security Architecture
11 15 (9.74%) Service Delivery
12 13 (8.44%) Collaborative Working
12 13 (8.44%) Incident Management
12 13 (8.44%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 15 (9.74%) Python
2 11 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.90%) SQL
4 4 (2.60%) C#
4 4 (2.60%) Java
4 4 (2.60%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (1.95%) Ruby
6 2 (1.30%) Bash
6 2 (1.30%) Bicep
7 1 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.65%) Go
7 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 47 (30.52%) CISSP
3 45 (29.22%) CISM
4 36 (23.38%) Degree
5 34 (22.08%) SC Cleared
6 23 (14.94%) DV Cleared
7 15 (9.74%) CISA
8 11 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 9 (5.84%) CEH
9 9 (5.84%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (3.90%) CRISC
10 6 (3.90%) Master's Degree
11 5 (3.25%) CESG Certified Professional
11 5 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (3.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 4 (2.60%) AWS Certification
12 4 (2.60%) Azure Certification
12 4 (2.60%) PMI Certification
12 4 (2.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (40.26%) NIST
2 31 (20.13%) GDPR
3 19 (12.34%) PCI DSS
4 14 (9.09%) NCSC
5 13 (8.44%) GRC
6 12 (7.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (7.79%) NIST 800
7 9 (5.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 7 (4.55%) JSP 440
9 6 (3.90%) ISO 9001
9 6 (3.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (3.90%) SOC 2
10 5 (3.25%) PMO
10 5 (3.25%) QA
10 5 (3.25%) RMADS
11 4 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (2.60%) HIPAA
11 4 (2.60%) ISO 22301
11 4 (2.60%) ISO 31000
12 3 (1.95%) Def Stans
System Software
1 21 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (9.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (5.19%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (3.25%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.60%) Terraform
5 3 (1.95%) CSIRT
6 2 (1.30%) Ansible
6 2 (1.30%) Grafana
7 1 (0.65%) Autotask
7 1 (0.65%) CASB
7 1 (0.65%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.65%) Nessus
7 1 (0.65%) OPNET
7 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.65%) QRadar
7 1 (0.65%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (22.08%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.39%) ServiceNow
3 11 (7.14%) Cisco
3 11 (7.14%) Citrix
4 7 (4.55%) Fortinet
5 5 (3.25%) HP
5 5 (3.25%) Oracle
5 5 (3.25%) SolarWinds
5 5 (3.25%) Splunk
5 5 (3.25%) Veeam
5 5 (3.25%) VMware
6 4 (2.60%) SAP
7 3 (1.95%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.95%) Google
8 2 (1.30%) Databricks
8 2 (1.30%) Informatica
8 2 (1.30%) Juniper
8 2 (1.30%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.65%) Forcepoint
9 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
967 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs Nationwide