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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 - 639
Rank change year-on-year - - +216
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27005 10 0 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% - 0.073%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.19% - 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 34
10th Percentile £333 - £442
25th Percentile £400 - £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 - £613
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.26%
75th Percentile £499 - £775
90th Percentile £551 - £814
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - £624
% change year-on-year - - +13.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.61 - -
Median hourly rate £32.74 - -
75th Percentile £34.86 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.74 - -

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 5,147 5,936 7,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.29% 13.67% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,302 3,681 5,225
10th Percentile £280 £284 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -3.62% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 430 257
10th Percentile £14.78 £11.07 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £13.52 £19.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.05% -37.37% +40.74%
75th Percentile £62.63 £49.69 £63.23
90th Percentile £83.19 £70.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.18 £21.64 £37.50
% change year-on-year +30.22% -42.29% +67.45%

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 4 July 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 6 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 4 July 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 - 10 £448 - 43
London - 8 £424 - 19
Work from Home - 4 £400 - 24
UK excluding London - 2 £600 - 23
East of England - 1 - - 5
South East - 1 £600 - 5

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 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Consultant
1 5 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Information Security Consultant
2 4 (40.00%) Information Security Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Information Manager
3 3 (30.00%) Information Security Manager
3 3 (30.00%) Risk Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Security Manager
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Consultant
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Information Security Consultant
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Information Security Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Manager
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Security Consultant
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Information Security
2 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) EBIOS
3 4 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 4 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (30.00%) Risk Assessment
4 3 (30.00%) Risk Register
5 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 2 (20.00%) Security Operations
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
6 1 (10.00%) OWASP
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) CISSP
2 5 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (50.00%) CRISC
2 5 (50.00%) Degree
3 4 (40.00%) CISM
4 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (20.00%) CEH
6 1 (10.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) NIST
2 5 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (40.00%) GRC
4 2 (20.00%) GDPR
4 2 (20.00%) NCSC
4 2 (20.00%) NIST 800
5 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (10.00%) ISO 31000
5 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk
1 1 (10.00%) Tenable