ISO/IEC 27001 Contract Job Trends

ISO/IEC 27001
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 188 238
Rank change year-on-year +20 +50 -21
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 784 426 430
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.57% 1.44% 0.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.36% 8.92% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 280 325
10th Percentile £413 £315 £385
25th Percentile £488 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -4.30% -1.53%
75th Percentile £662 £669 £666
90th Percentile £775 £775 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 10 2
10th Percentile £43.62 £29.31 -
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +123.62% -60.71%
75th Percentile £82.25 £76.93 £28.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £84.88 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.61 £61.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +3.44% +123.62% -60.71%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 8,379 4,777 5,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 16.15% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,367 3,041 3,738
10th Percentile £343 £275 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% -3.29%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £717 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 495 197 433
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.84 £21.25 £13.19
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.76 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +13.35% +33.45% -36.53%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £19.18
% change year-on-year +23.08% +69.49% -48.87%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

ISO/IEC 27001 job vacancy trend in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO/IEC 27001.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO/IEC 27001

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO/IEC 27001.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO/IEC 27001

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 June 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
England +21 719 £575 +4.45% 384
UK excluding London +27 408 £550 - 312
London +1 306 £585 +1.74% 127
Work from Home +53 278 £575 +4.55% 196
South East +35 222 £563 -6.25% 116
North of England -44 64 £545 -0.91% 66
Midlands -33 48 £500 +11.11% 55
West Midlands -31 41 £500 -4.76% 38
South West -14 40 £600 +4.35% 42
North West -19 38 £577 +4.86% 37
Yorkshire -42 26 £520 +41.50% 21
East of England -24 17 £540 +2.86% 19
Scotland -12 10 £350 -22.22% 14
Wales -9 7 £725 +281.58% 5
East Midlands -22 7 £447 +11.19% 17
Channel Islands 0 1 £575 +2.68%

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 21 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.55%) Confluence
3 13 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.89%) IIS
5 4 (0.51%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
6 3 (0.38%) Apache
7 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.77%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.64%) Maximo
2 5 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.13%) iTrent
4 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 284 (36.22%) Azure
2 193 (24.62%) AWS
3 97 (12.37%) GCP
4 96 (12.24%) Entra ID
5 70 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (4.59%) Azure Sentinel
7 31 (3.95%) Microsoft Purview
8 30 (3.83%) SaaS
9 26 (3.32%) Serverless
10 24 (3.06%) GitHub
11 23 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (2.81%) OpenShift
13 17 (2.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 17 (2.17%) Power Platform
14 16 (2.04%) OCI
15 15 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (1.66%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (1.40%) Azure AKS
18 10 (1.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 73 (9.31%) Network Security
2 69 (8.80%) Firewall
3 32 (4.08%) VPN
4 20 (2.55%) DNS
5 14 (1.79%) HTTP
6 11 (1.40%) WAN
7 9 (1.15%) BGP
7 9 (1.15%) MPLS
7 9 (1.15%) NGFW
7 9 (1.15%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.15%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.15%) Wireless
8 8 (1.02%) Cisco IOS
8 8 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (0.89%) DHCP
9 7 (0.89%) IPsec
9 7 (0.89%) LAN
9 7 (0.89%) SSH
10 6 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.81%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.79%) Power BI
3 12 (1.53%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.89%) Big Data
5 7 (0.89%) Metadata
6 6 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (0.77%) MySQL
7 4 (0.51%) DocumentDB
7 4 (0.51%) DynamoDB
7 4 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.51%) Redis
8 3 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.38%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.26%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 25 (3.19%) JIRA
2 20 (2.55%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.40%) Burp Suite
4 10 (1.28%) Metasploit
5 7 (0.89%) GitLab
6 5 (0.64%) JMeter
6 5 (0.64%) MSTest
6 5 (0.64%) Selenium
7 4 (0.51%) Git
8 3 (0.38%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.26%) Snyk
10 1 (0.13%) AppScan
10 1 (0.13%) MSI
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.13%) sqlmap
General
1 271 (34.57%) Social Skills
2 132 (16.84%) Finance
3 98 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (12.37%) Public Sector
5 77 (9.82%) Documentation Skills
6 50 (6.38%) Legal
7 28 (3.57%) Banking
8 23 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.30%) Aerospace
9 18 (2.30%) Telecoms
10 17 (2.17%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (1.91%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (1.15%) Military
14 8 (1.02%) Law
14 8 (1.02%) Retail
15 4 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 152 (19.39%) Architect
2 102 (13.01%) Analyst
3 77 (9.82%) Security Architect
4 74 (9.44%) Consultant
5 54 (6.89%) Lead
6 52 (6.63%) Security Engineer
7 50 (6.38%) Project Manager
8 48 (6.12%) Security Consultant
9 45 (5.74%) Senior
10 43 (5.48%) Security Analyst
11 42 (5.36%) Security Manager
12 30 (3.83%) Business Analyst
13 28 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 27 (3.44%) Security Specialist
15 24 (3.06%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 22 (2.81%) Cloud Architect
17 21 (2.68%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 21 (2.68%) Security Project Manager
18 20 (2.55%) IT Manager
19 19 (2.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (6.51%) LDAP
2 44 (5.61%) OpenID
2 44 (5.61%) SAML
3 36 (4.59%) OAuth
4 24 (3.06%) OAuth2
5 20 (2.55%) SailPoint
6 17 (2.17%) REST
7 13 (1.66%) Web Services
8 12 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
9 10 (1.28%) Kafka
9 10 (1.28%) Middleware
9 10 (1.28%) RESTful
10 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Graph
11 8 (1.02%) ARM Templates
12 7 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (0.64%) Spring
13 5 (0.64%) Spring Boot
14 4 (0.51%) Hibernate
14 4 (0.51%) JPA
14 4 (0.51%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 86 (10.97%) Onboarding
2 72 (9.18%) Operational Technology
3 66 (8.42%) Cloud Native
4 54 (6.89%) Management Information System
4 54 (6.89%) Security Posture
5 26 (3.32%) Data Centre
5 26 (3.32%) SCADA
6 23 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 20 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 20 (2.55%) PKI
8 19 (2.42%) Security Operations Centre
9 18 (2.30%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.91%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.79%) CMDB
12 14 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
13 13 (1.66%) Cyber Defence
14 12 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.53%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.40%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 124 (15.82%) Windows
2 81 (10.33%) Linux
3 37 (4.72%) Windows Server
4 36 (4.59%) Unix
5 11 (1.40%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.38%) CentOS
9 2 (0.26%) AIX
9 2 (0.26%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.26%) Android
9 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.26%) Solaris
9 2 (0.26%) VMS
9 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.13%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Rocky
10 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (50.51%) Cybersecurity
2 217 (27.68%) Information Security
3 193 (24.62%) Risk Management
4 168 (21.43%) SIEM
5 150 (19.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 146 (18.62%) Cloud Security
7 144 (18.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 125 (15.94%) DevOps
9 123 (15.69%) Security Architecture
10 115 (14.67%) Threat Modelling
11 113 (14.41%) Incident Response
12 110 (14.03%) Continuous Improvement
13 109 (13.90%) CI/CD
14 104 (13.27%) Agile
15 99 (12.63%) Vulnerability Management
16 97 (12.37%) Roadmaps
16 97 (12.37%) Security Operations
17 92 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
17 92 (11.73%) Zero Trust
18 90 (11.48%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 111 (14.16%) Python
2 110 (14.03%) PowerShell
3 30 (3.83%) SQL
4 28 (3.57%) Bash
5 15 (1.91%) Bicep
6 8 (1.02%) C#
6 8 (1.02%) Java
7 6 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.64%) Perl
9 4 (0.51%) Go
9 4 (0.51%) PHP
9 4 (0.51%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.38%) Ruby
11 1 (0.13%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 311 (39.67%) Security Cleared
2 246 (31.38%) SC Cleared
3 194 (24.74%) CISSP
4 140 (17.86%) CISM
5 114 (14.54%) Degree
6 64 (8.16%) DV Cleared
7 61 (7.78%) Cisco Certification
8 49 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 39 (4.97%) PMI Certification
10 38 (4.85%) CRISC
11 37 (4.72%) PMP
12 35 (4.46%) CISA
13 33 (4.21%) CompTIA Security+
13 33 (4.21%) GIAC
14 31 (3.95%) CEH
15 30 (3.83%) Azure Certification
16 29 (3.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 28 (3.57%) CCSP
18 25 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
19 24 (3.06%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 503 (64.16%) NIST
2 205 (26.15%) GDPR
3 101 (12.88%) GRC
4 91 (11.61%) PCI DSS
5 87 (11.10%) NCSC
6 82 (10.46%) Cyber Essentials
7 62 (7.91%) SOC 2
8 52 (6.63%) COBIT
9 40 (5.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 33 (4.21%) NIST 800
11 27 (3.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 20 (2.55%) Data Quality
12 20 (2.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 19 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 17 (2.17%) HIPAA
14 17 (2.17%) QA
15 15 (1.91%) JSP 440
16 14 (1.79%) ISO 31000
16 14 (1.79%) SLA
17 13 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 116 (14.80%) Active Directory
2 31 (3.95%) Docker
3 19 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.53%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.26%) vSphere
7 1 (0.13%) Ceph
7 1 (0.13%) GPFS
7 1 (0.13%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) Lustre
7 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.13%) Varnish
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (7.53%) Kubernetes
2 48 (6.12%) Terraform
3 31 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (2.30%) Ansible
6 9 (1.15%) Grafana
7 8 (1.02%) Nmap
7 8 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.02%) QRadar
8 7 (0.89%) Nessus
9 6 (0.77%) CASB
9 6 (0.77%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.51%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.38%) OpenVAS
11 3 (0.38%) Podman
11 3 (0.38%) Puppet
11 3 (0.38%) SCOM
12 2 (0.26%) Istio
12 2 (0.26%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 150 (19.13%) Microsoft
2 77 (9.82%) CyberArk
3 42 (5.36%) Splunk
4 40 (5.10%) BeyondTrust
5 38 (4.85%) Oracle
5 38 (4.85%) ServiceNow
6 28 (3.57%) Cisco
7 21 (2.68%) VMware
8 20 (2.55%) Google
9 12 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
9 12 (1.53%) Fortinet
10 11 (1.40%) Palo Alto
10 11 (1.40%) Qualys
10 11 (1.40%) Tenable
11 10 (1.28%) Okta
11 10 (1.28%) Rapid7
12 7 (0.89%) IBM
12 7 (0.89%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.89%) SAP
13 6 (0.77%) SolarWinds
424 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs Nationwide