ISO/IEC 27005 Contract Job Trends

ISO/IEC 27005
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ISO/IEC 27005 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 549 586
Rank change year-on-year +3 +37 +219
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27005 14 1 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.043% 0.003% 0.094%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.24% 0.020% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 37
10th Percentile £438 - £458
25th Percentile £466 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +32.81% -33.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £673 - £710
90th Percentile £803 - £814
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - £675
% change year-on-year - - -1.82%
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 5,771 5,022 6,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.53% 13.39% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,691 2,916 4,579
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £400 £398 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £608 £625 £650
90th Percentile £706 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 239 254
10th Percentile £13.60 £13.26 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.61 £17.56 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £35.82
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -23.22% +44.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £79.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.08 £27.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -8.82% -29.03% +76.14%

ISO/IEC 27005
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISO/IEC 27005 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

ISO/IEC 27005 job vacancy trend in the UK

ISO/IEC 27005
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO/IEC 27005.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO/IEC 27005

ISO/IEC 27005
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27005 over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27005 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27005
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO/IEC 27005.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO/IEC 27005

ISO/IEC 27005
Top 7 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 27005 within the UK over the 6 months to 13 October 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 +33 13 £513 +28.13% 13
Work from Home +31 10 £515 +28.75% 9
London +28 10 £496 +24.06% 9
UK excluding London - 2 £550 - 6
North of England - 1 £550 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 1
East of England - 1 - - 2

ISO/IEC 27005
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.14%) IaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (7.14%) PaaS
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Legal
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Law
3 1 (7.14%) Police
3 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Consultant
1 4 (28.57%) Security Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) CISSP Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Risk Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Risk Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Risk Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Information Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Information Security Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Information Security Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Principal Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Security Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Security Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Risk Management
2 10 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (57.14%) Information Security
4 5 (35.71%) Risk Register
4 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (21.43%) Agile
6 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
6 3 (21.43%) EBIOS
6 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
6 3 (21.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (21.43%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
7 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
7 2 (14.29%) Security Operations
7 2 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
7 2 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) CISSP
2 5 (35.71%) CISM
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) CRISC
3 3 (21.43%) Degree
4 1 (7.14%) CEH
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (71.43%) NIST
2 5 (35.71%) GRC
2 5 (35.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (35.71%) NCSC
3 4 (28.57%) GDPR
4 3 (21.43%) PCI DSS
5 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (7.14%) COBIT
6 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Google
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft