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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 241 207
Rank change year-on-year +59 -34 +90
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 466 422 703
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.52% 0.97% 1.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.33% 7.09% 9.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 318 506
10th Percentile £359 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £466 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £666 £700
90th Percentile £775 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 15
10th Percentile £29.31 - £44.25
25th Percentile £35.77 £26.25 £48.13
Median hourly rate £57.00 £27.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.26% -60.71% +6.40%
75th Percentile £69.94 £28.75 £77.47
90th Percentile £100.55 - £78.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.00 £27.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +107.26% -60.71% +11.11%

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 4,995 5,952 7,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.32% 13.70% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,204 3,694 5,172
10th Percentile £280 £282 £300
25th Percentile £400 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -1.05% -4.04% +7.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 431 254
10th Percentile £14.78 £11.07 £13.79
25th Percentile £18.50 £13.50 £19.07
Median hourly rate £31.49 £23.80 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.31% -36.53% +37.61%
75th Percentile £64.38 £49.38 £63.05
90th Percentile £84.15 £70.00 £79.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.59 £20.46 £36.50
% change year-on-year +39.74% -43.95% +63.75%

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 29 June 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 29 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Top 18 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 29 June 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 +74 410 £550 -4.35% 1,006
UK excluding London +53 207 £550 - 640
London +62 199 £575 -1.92% 468
Work from Home +25 138 £550 -4.35% 524
South East +90 78 £575 +31.81% 207
North of England +6 43 £550 -1.79% 143
South West +36 33 £613 +2.08% 69
Midlands +6 28 £450 -10.00% 76
Yorkshire +19 20 £525 -4.55% 71
West Midlands +13 18 £450 -10.00% 46
North West -12 18 £550 -7.56% 59
East of England +31 16 £522 +43.01% 65
East Midlands +2 10 £414 -8.11% 29
North East +4 5 £700 +33.33% 13
Scotland -32 4 £448 -18.64% 46
Wales +12 3 £413 -35.29% 30
Channel Islands - 3 £725 -
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 11

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 20 (4.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.07%) Confluence
4 2 (0.43%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.43%) TPMS
5 1 (0.21%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.64%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.43%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle CRM
3 1 (0.21%) Q-Pulse
3 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 148 (31.76%) Azure
2 110 (23.61%) AWS
3 72 (15.45%) GCP
4 34 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (6.65%) Entra ID
6 25 (5.36%) Azure Sentinel
7 18 (3.86%) SaaS
8 16 (3.43%) Serverless
9 13 (2.79%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (2.58%) GitHub
10 12 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (2.58%) Power Platform
11 11 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (2.36%) OCI
12 10 (2.15%) IaaS
13 8 (1.72%) AWS KMS
13 8 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (1.72%) OneDrive
13 8 (1.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (12.88%) Network Security
2 48 (10.30%) Firewall
3 31 (6.65%) VPN
4 10 (2.15%) WAN
5 8 (1.72%) DNS
5 8 (1.72%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.50%) NAS
6 7 (1.50%) SAN
7 5 (1.07%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (1.07%) SSL
8 4 (0.86%) BGP
8 4 (0.86%) OSPF
8 4 (0.86%) VLAN
9 3 (0.64%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.64%) LAN
9 3 (0.64%) SMTP
9 3 (0.64%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.43%) DHCP
10 2 (0.43%) EIGRP
10 2 (0.43%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.58%) Power BI
2 10 (2.15%) Oracle Reports
3 9 (1.93%) GIS
3 9 (1.93%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 5 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.07%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.07%) Tableau
5 4 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.64%) Big Data
6 3 (0.64%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.64%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.64%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.64%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.43%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.21%) Looker
8 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (3.65%) JIRA
2 9 (1.93%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.50%) GitLab
4 3 (0.64%) Git
5 1 (0.21%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.21%) JMeter
5 1 (0.21%) Postman
5 1 (0.21%) Selenium
5 1 (0.21%) Snyk
5 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 172 (36.91%) Social Skills
2 93 (19.96%) Finance
3 49 (10.52%) Public Sector
4 47 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.15%) Legal
6 22 (4.72%) Telecoms
7 18 (3.86%) Banking
8 12 (2.58%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.58%) Marketing
9 11 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.15%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.50%) Electronics
11 7 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.29%) Retail
13 5 (1.07%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.86%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.86%) Law
14 4 (0.86%) Local Government
14 4 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 102 (21.89%) Architect
2 76 (16.31%) Security Architect
3 64 (13.73%) Consultant
4 49 (10.52%) Security Consultant
5 35 (7.51%) Lead
6 33 (7.08%) Security Manager
7 32 (6.87%) Analyst
7 32 (6.87%) Senior
8 31 (6.65%) Security Engineer
8 31 (6.65%) Security Specialist
9 16 (3.43%) Support Engineer
10 13 (2.79%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 13 (2.79%) Desktop Engineer
10 13 (2.79%) Desktop Support
10 13 (2.79%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 13 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (2.58%) Information Specialist
12 11 (2.36%) Business Analyst
12 11 (2.36%) Cloud Architect
12 11 (2.36%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.08%) SAML
2 18 (3.86%) OAuth
2 18 (3.86%) OpenID
3 17 (3.65%) Oracle Fusion
3 17 (3.65%) SailPoint
4 8 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (1.72%) LDAP
5 6 (1.29%) REST
6 5 (1.07%) Web Services
7 4 (0.86%) FIDO
7 4 (0.86%) Middleware
7 4 (0.86%) SOAP
8 3 (0.64%) Apache Axis
8 3 (0.64%) Kafka
8 3 (0.64%) Node.js
8 3 (0.64%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.21%) FHIR
9 1 (0.21%) Spring
9 1 (0.21%) XML
9 1 (0.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (16.09%) Security Posture
2 50 (10.73%) Management Information System
3 24 (5.15%) Cloud Native
4 18 (3.86%) Cyber Threat
5 16 (3.43%) Security Operations Centre
6 15 (3.22%) Operational Technology
7 13 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (2.58%) PKI
9 11 (2.36%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.93%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.72%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.72%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.50%) SCADA
12 7 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.29%) NHS
14 5 (1.07%) Cyber Defence
14 5 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.44%) Windows
2 18 (3.86%) Linux
3 13 (2.79%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.64%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.43%) AIX
7 2 (0.43%) Solaris
8 1 (0.21%) VMS
8 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (37.98%) Cybersecurity
2 127 (27.25%) Risk Management
3 119 (25.54%) Information Security
4 112 (24.03%) Cloud Security
5 96 (20.60%) Incident Response
6 80 (17.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 78 (16.74%) Vulnerability Management
8 69 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 65 (13.95%) Security Architecture
9 65 (13.95%) SIEM
10 63 (13.52%) Identity Access Management
11 62 (13.30%) Agile
12 58 (12.45%) DevOps
13 56 (12.02%) Security Operations
14 52 (11.16%) Zero Trust
15 50 (10.73%) Threat Modelling
16 48 (10.30%) Risk Assessment
17 44 (9.44%) Roadmaps
18 43 (9.23%) ITIL
19 42 (9.01%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (12.23%) Python
2 39 (8.37%) PowerShell
3 24 (5.15%) SQL
4 18 (3.86%) Bash
5 14 (3.00%) Java
6 9 (1.93%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (1.50%) C#
8 6 (1.29%) Bicep
8 6 (1.29%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.64%) Go
9 3 (0.64%) Ruby
10 2 (0.43%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.21%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.21%) Groovy
11 1 (0.21%) Perl
11 1 (0.21%) PHP
11 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 156 (33.48%) CISSP
2 114 (24.46%) CISM
3 110 (23.61%) Security Cleared
4 82 (17.60%) SC Cleared
5 73 (15.67%) Degree
6 40 (8.58%) CISA
7 29 (6.22%) DV Cleared
8 28 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (6.01%) CRISC
9 25 (5.36%) AWS Certification
9 25 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (5.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 21 (4.51%) GIAC
11 20 (4.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 19 (4.08%) CEH
12 19 (4.08%) CESG Certified Professional
13 18 (3.86%) Azure Certification
14 16 (3.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 14 (3.00%) CompTIA Security+
15 14 (3.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (59.01%) NIST
2 140 (30.04%) GDPR
3 60 (12.88%) PCI DSS
4 44 (9.44%) GRC
5 37 (7.94%) SOC 2
6 36 (7.73%) NCSC
6 36 (7.73%) NIST 800
7 31 (6.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 29 (6.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 29 (6.22%) HIPAA
9 24 (5.15%) COBIT
10 22 (4.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (3.86%) RMADS
12 12 (2.58%) JSP 440
12 12 (2.58%) QA
13 10 (2.15%) SLA
14 9 (1.93%) ISO 22301
15 8 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (1.50%) ISO 9001
17 6 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 48 (10.30%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.58%) Docker
3 6 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.21%) KVM
6 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (7.30%) Terraform
2 26 (5.58%) Kubernetes
3 22 (4.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (4.51%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (2.15%) Grafana
6 9 (1.93%) Ansible
7 8 (1.72%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.50%) RSA Archer
9 5 (1.07%) QRadar
10 4 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.86%) Nessus
11 2 (0.43%) CASB
11 2 (0.43%) CSIRT
11 2 (0.43%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.43%) Puppet
11 2 (0.43%) SCCM
11 2 (0.43%) SELinux
12 1 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.21%) Autotask
12 1 (0.21%) Istio
Vendors
1 94 (20.17%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.73%) ServiceNow
3 24 (5.15%) Oracle
4 21 (4.51%) CyberArk
5 20 (4.29%) Splunk
6 19 (4.08%) Google
7 15 (3.22%) Cisco
8 13 (2.79%) Citrix
8 13 (2.79%) SAP
9 11 (2.36%) Palo Alto
10 9 (1.93%) BeyondTrust
10 9 (1.93%) Okta
10 9 (1.93%) Rapid7
10 9 (1.93%) Tenable
11 7 (1.50%) Fortinet
11 7 (1.50%) SolarWinds
11 7 (1.50%) VMware
12 6 (1.29%) EMC
12 6 (1.29%) ESRI
12 6 (1.29%) Qualys