ISO/IEC 42001 Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 42001
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ISO/IEC 42001 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 42001 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.028% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 42001 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 3,526 2,047 3,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.30% 16.11% 15.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,214 1,298 1,964
10th Percentile £306 £207 £250
25th Percentile £400 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £582
90th Percentile £675 £652 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 138 306
10th Percentile £14.47 £15.89 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.38 £22.14 £13.25
Median hourly rate £30.58 £31.88 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% +55.51% -38.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.01 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £32.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.88% +33.33% -36.42%

ISO/IEC 42001
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISO/IEC 42001 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

ISO/IEC 42001 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 42001
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 42001 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South East - 1 £550 - 3
ISO/IEC 42001
UK

ISO/IEC 42001
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DMZ
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 1 (100.00%) JSP 440
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS