ISO/IEC 27005 Contracts

ISO/IEC 27005
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ISO/IEC 27005 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISO/IEC 27005 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 580 691
Rank change year-on-year +70 +111 +141
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27005 10 2 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.005% 0.045%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.22% 0.032% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 23
10th Percentile £400 £526 £348
25th Percentile £412 £526 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £540 £564 £775
90th Percentile £630 £571 £811
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £540 £600
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

ISO/IEC 27005 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 4,564 6,247 7,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 14.34% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,922 3,954 5,483
10th Percentile £265 £296 £275
25th Percentile £400 £403 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £625 £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 179 382 225
10th Percentile £18.04 £10.95 £13.21
25th Percentile £22.21 £13.18 £18.70
Median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £83.01 £67.14 £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 27005
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ISO/IEC 27005 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27005 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27005
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27005.

Daily rate trend for ISO/IEC 27005 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27005
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27005 over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27005 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27005
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27005.

Hourly rate trend for ISO/IEC 27005 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27005
Top 5 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 27005 within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +65 10 £450 -16.67% 13
London - 7 £424 - 2
Work from Home +43 4 £440 -18.52% 9
UK excluding London +64 3 £600 +11.11% 12
South East +48 3 £600 +9.09%

ISO/IEC 27005
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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Consultant
1 6 (60.00%) Security Consultant
1 6 (60.00%) Security Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Information Security Engineer
3 4 (40.00%) Information Security Consultant
4 3 (30.00%) Information Manager
4 3 (30.00%) Information Security Manager
4 3 (30.00%) Security Manager
4 3 (30.00%) Senior
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Consultant
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Information Security Consultant
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Information Security Engineer
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Manager
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Security Consultant
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Bid Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) CISSP Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Security Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Information Security
2 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 4 (40.00%) EBIOS
4 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (30.00%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (20.00%) OWASP
6 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) SDLC
6 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
6 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (10.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) CISSP
1 6 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 5 (50.00%) CRISC
3 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (30.00%) CISM
5 2 (20.00%) CEH
6 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (10.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) NIST
2 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (30.00%) GRC
3 3 (30.00%) NIST 800
4 1 (10.00%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (10.00%) ISO 31000
4 1 (10.00%) JSP 440
4 1 (10.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk
1 1 (10.00%) Tenable
1 1 (10.00%) VMware