ISO/IEC 27001 Contracts

ISO/IEC 27001
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 219 235
Rank change year-on-year +12 +16 +53
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 385 475 687
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.32% 1.09% 1.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.45% 7.60% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 356 490
10th Percentile £314 £363 £424
25th Percentile £500 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -2.54% +7.27%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £765 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 15
10th Percentile £51.25 - £45.00
25th Percentile £60.75 - £48.13
Median hourly rate £61.50 £83.41 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.27% +19.16% +27.38%
75th Percentile £83.20 - £75.24
90th Percentile £85.56 - £78.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.50 £83.41 £71.49
% change year-on-year -26.27% +16.67% +30.71%

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 4,558 6,250 7,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 14.34% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,921 3,951 5,482
10th Percentile £265 £295 £275
25th Percentile £400 £402 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 383 225
10th Percentile £18.04 £10.95 £13.21
25th Percentile £22.21 £13.18 £18.70
Median hourly rate £34.50 £21.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -44.00% +33.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £83.01 £67.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.78 £18.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +126.53% -50.34% +72.21%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Top 17 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +28 343 £575 - 630
London +24 190 £600 +2.56% 265
UK excluding London +5 154 £550 -4.35% 390
Work from Home -25 104 £550 -8.33% 357
South East +67 63 £550 +19.57% 103
North of England +2 29 £550 -4.35% 118
Midlands +26 25 £525 +16.67% 48
South West +22 25 £600 - 59
West Midlands +20 21 £575 - 36
Yorkshire +20 12 £325 -42.22% 41
North West -25 10 £550 -8.33% 68
North East +5 7 £700 +33.33% 11
East of England +25 6 £522 +9.89% 32
Scotland -31 5 £463 -19.57% 25
East Midlands +8 4 £400 -11.11% 12
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 7
Wales +3 1 £190 -70.77% 4

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.04%) Confluence
4 2 (0.52%) TPMS
5 1 (0.26%) IIS
5 1 (0.26%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 11 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.04%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 105 (27.27%) Azure
2 74 (19.22%) AWS
3 44 (11.43%) GCP
4 25 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (5.71%) Entra ID
6 18 (4.68%) Azure Sentinel
7 11 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (2.34%) OCI
8 9 (2.34%) SaaS
9 8 (2.08%) Serverless
10 6 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (1.56%) IaaS
10 6 (1.56%) PaaS
10 6 (1.56%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.56%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.30%) AWS KMS
11 5 (1.30%) GitHub
11 5 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 46 (11.95%) Network Security
2 39 (10.13%) Firewall
3 22 (5.71%) VPN
4 9 (2.34%) Intrusion Detection
5 7 (1.82%) WAN
6 5 (1.30%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.30%) VLAN
7 4 (1.04%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (1.04%) LAN
8 3 (0.78%) DNS
8 3 (0.78%) NAS
8 3 (0.78%) SAN
8 3 (0.78%) SSL
8 3 (0.78%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.78%) Wireless
9 2 (0.52%) BGP
9 2 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.52%) Modbus
9 2 (0.52%) TACACS
9 2 (0.52%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.56%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.30%) GIS
2 5 (1.30%) Power BI
2 5 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.78%) Big Data
5 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.26%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.26%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (2.34%) JIRA
2 6 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.30%) GitLab
4 1 (0.26%) Git
4 1 (0.26%) JMeter
4 1 (0.26%) Postman
4 1 (0.26%) Selenium
General
1 144 (37.40%) Social Skills
2 60 (15.58%) Finance
3 53 (13.77%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (12.73%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.68%) Legal
5 18 (4.68%) Telecoms
6 17 (4.42%) Banking
7 13 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.08%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.82%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.82%) Local Government
10 7 (1.82%) Retail
11 5 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.30%) Military
11 5 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.04%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.04%) Law
Job Titles
1 87 (22.60%) Architect
2 59 (15.32%) Security Architect
3 46 (11.95%) Consultant
4 34 (8.83%) Senior
5 30 (7.79%) Security Consultant
6 27 (7.01%) Lead
6 27 (7.01%) Security Engineer
7 26 (6.75%) Security Manager
8 25 (6.49%) Analyst
9 24 (6.23%) Security Specialist
10 17 (4.42%) Information Specialist
10 17 (4.42%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 16 (4.16%) Senior Security Specialist
12 15 (3.90%) Information Security Specialist
12 15 (3.90%) Senior Information Security Specialist
13 12 (3.12%) IT Engineer
13 12 (3.12%) Security Analyst
13 12 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.60%) Business Analyst
14 10 (2.60%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.16%) SAML
2 14 (3.64%) OAuth
3 13 (3.38%) OpenID
4 12 (3.12%) LDAP
5 7 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (1.82%) REST
5 7 (1.82%) SailPoint
6 6 (1.56%) Web Services
7 5 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.04%) SOAP
9 3 (0.78%) Apache Axis
9 3 (0.78%) Middleware
9 3 (0.78%) Node.js
10 2 (0.52%) 802.1X
10 2 (0.52%) XML
10 2 (0.52%) YAML
11 1 (0.26%) Hugging Face
11 1 (0.26%) Serverless Framework
11 1 (0.26%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.26%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 64 (16.62%) Security Posture
2 56 (14.55%) Management Information System
3 24 (6.23%) Operational Technology
4 19 (4.94%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.38%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (2.86%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.34%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.34%) Security Operations Centre
9 8 (2.08%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.08%) PKI
10 7 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.56%) SCADA
11 6 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.04%) CESG
12 4 (1.04%) Cyberattack
13 3 (0.78%) Blog
13 3 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.23%) Windows
2 19 (4.94%) Linux
3 12 (3.12%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.52%) AIX
6 2 (0.52%) Solaris
7 1 (0.26%) VMS
7 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (41.04%) Cybersecurity
2 111 (28.83%) Risk Management
3 105 (27.27%) Information Security
4 86 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
5 84 (21.82%) Incident Response
6 79 (20.52%) Cloud Security
7 66 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 55 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
9 54 (14.03%) Risk Assessment
10 53 (13.77%) Security Architecture
11 49 (12.73%) Identity Access Management
11 49 (12.73%) SIEM
12 43 (11.17%) Computer Science
13 40 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (10.13%) ITIL
15 38 (9.87%) Security Operations
16 37 (9.61%) DevOps
16 37 (9.61%) Roadmaps
17 34 (8.83%) Project Management
18 33 (8.57%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (13.25%) Python
2 40 (10.39%) PowerShell
3 15 (3.90%) Java
3 15 (3.90%) SQL
4 11 (2.86%) Bash
5 8 (2.08%) C#
6 5 (1.30%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (0.78%) Ruby
8 1 (0.26%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.26%) Bicep
8 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.26%) Go
8 1 (0.26%) Groovy
8 1 (0.26%) PHP
8 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 143 (37.14%) CISSP
2 95 (24.68%) CISM
3 93 (24.16%) Security Cleared
4 75 (19.48%) Degree
5 61 (15.84%) SC Cleared
6 41 (10.65%) CISA
7 33 (8.57%) CRISC
8 31 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (7.79%) DV Cleared
10 24 (6.23%) CEH
11 22 (5.71%) CompTIA Security+
12 21 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
13 19 (4.94%) AWS Certification
14 15 (3.90%) GIAC
14 15 (3.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 14 (3.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 13 (3.38%) Azure Certification
17 11 (2.86%) GCIH
17 11 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
18 10 (2.60%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (55.32%) NIST
2 112 (29.09%) GDPR
3 55 (14.29%) PCI DSS
4 37 (9.61%) GRC
5 26 (6.75%) NCSC
6 25 (6.49%) HIPAA
6 25 (6.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 25 (6.49%) NIST 800
7 24 (6.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 24 (6.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 22 (5.71%) SOC 2
9 10 (2.60%) SLA
10 8 (2.08%) COBIT
10 8 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (2.08%) QA
11 7 (1.82%) ISO 22301
11 7 (1.82%) JSP 440
12 6 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (1.56%) ISO 31000
12 6 (1.56%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 34 (8.83%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.82%) Docker
3 4 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.52%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.26%) KVM
5 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (5.71%) Terraform
2 18 (4.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (3.64%) Kubernetes
4 13 (3.38%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (2.08%) Ansible
5 8 (2.08%) Grafana
6 5 (1.30%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.04%) CASB
7 4 (1.04%) QRadar
7 4 (1.04%) RSA Archer
7 4 (1.04%) SCCM
8 3 (0.78%) CSIRT
8 3 (0.78%) Nessus
9 2 (0.52%) OPNET
10 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.26%) Autotask
10 1 (0.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.26%) logstash
10 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 76 (19.74%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.27%) ServiceNow
3 22 (5.71%) Cisco
4 19 (4.94%) CyberArk
5 14 (3.64%) Splunk
6 12 (3.12%) Google
6 12 (3.12%) Oracle
6 12 (3.12%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.34%) BeyondTrust
7 9 (2.34%) Citrix
8 8 (2.08%) Fortinet
8 8 (2.08%) Okta
8 8 (2.08%) VMware
9 6 (1.56%) HP
9 6 (1.56%) SAP
9 6 (1.56%) Veeam
10 5 (1.30%) Qualys
10 5 (1.30%) Tenable
11 4 (1.04%) ESRI
11 4 (1.04%) Thycotic