ISO 9001 Contract Job Trends

ISO 9001
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ISO 9001 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 541 604
Rank change year-on-year +24 +63 +200
Contract jobs citing ISO 9001 30 28 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.074% 0.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.54% 0.55% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 28
10th Percentile £393 £363 £406
25th Percentile £422 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £598
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -24.69% +44.85%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £630
90th Percentile £625 £630 £640
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £413 £413
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile - - £19.83
25th Percentile - £26.25 £32.31
Median hourly rate £69.65 £27.50 £52.10
Median % change year-on-year +153.27% -47.22% +30.25%
75th Percentile - £38.75 £74.21
90th Percentile - £44.75 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.65 £27.50 £59.68
% change year-on-year +153.27% -53.92% +49.21%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

ISO 9001 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 5,594 5,090 7,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 13.38% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,581 3,022 4,814
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -2.43% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 262 254
10th Percentile £13.60 £12.25 £14.08
25th Percentile £17.45 £15.00 £18.71
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.09 £35.57
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% -23.83% +45.16%
75th Percentile £57.50 £58.44 £64.88
90th Percentile £80.55 £70.00 £78.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.18 £26.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year +6.34% -25.35% +68.17%

ISO 9001
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ISO 9001 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ISO 9001 in the UK

ISO 9001
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO 9001.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO 9001

ISO 9001
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO 9001 over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 9001 in the UK

ISO 9001
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO 9001.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO 9001

ISO 9001
Top 13 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 9001 within the UK over the 6 months to 16 September 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 +19 30 £488 +8.33% 123
UK excluding London +8 23 £488 +18.18% 115
South East +18 14 £400 -3.03% 33
Work from Home +33 9 £575 +27.78% 50
London +30 5 £513 -13.87% 24
South West +23 3 £600 -7.69% 20
North of England -11 3 £500 - 21
Midlands - 2 £538 - 24
North East - 2 £500 - 6
Yorkshire -14 1 - - 7
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 15
West Midlands - 1 £575 - 8
East of England - 1 £475 - 9

ISO 9001
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 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Primavera
1 1 (3.33%) Q-Pulse
1 1 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.33%) Azure
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (3.33%) Cloudflare
2 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Metadata
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Selenium
2 1 (3.33%) TestRail
2 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Manufacturing
3 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (13.33%) Finance
5 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
6 3 (10.00%) Aerospace
7 2 (6.67%) Automotive
7 2 (6.67%) Legal
7 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (6.67%) Publishing
8 1 (3.33%) Back Office
8 1 (3.33%) Banking
8 1 (3.33%) Electronics
8 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (3.33%) Law
8 1 (3.33%) Marketing
8 1 (3.33%) Military
8 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (16.67%) Designer
1 5 (16.67%) PCB Designer
2 4 (13.33%) Lead
3 3 (10.00%) Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Auditor
3 3 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (6.67%) Change Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Security Auditor
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Head of Information
5 1 (3.33%) Head of Information Security
5 1 (3.33%) Head of Security
5 1 (3.33%) Integration Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Integration Test Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) IT Change Manager
5 1 (3.33%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Quality Auditor
5 1 (3.33%) Transformation Director
5 1 (3.33%) XML Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) FpML
1 1 (3.33%) Loki
1 1 (3.33%) XML
1 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) FPGA
2 3 (10.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (20.00%) ITIL
3 4 (13.33%) Business Case
3 4 (13.33%) Configuration Management
3 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (13.33%) Design for Manufacturing
3 4 (13.33%) Design for Test
3 4 (13.33%) Internal Audit
3 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
3 4 (13.33%) Quality Management
3 4 (13.33%) Service Delivery
4 3 (10.00%) Change Management
4 3 (10.00%) Information Security
4 3 (10.00%) ITSM
4 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (10.00%) Service Management
4 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (6.67%) Information Security Management
5 2 (6.67%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) HND
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) Degree
4 2 (6.67%) CISM
4 2 (6.67%) CISSP
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.33%) HNC
5 1 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (16.67%) QA
3 4 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (10.00%) ECSS
4 3 (10.00%) GDPR
5 1 (3.33%) COSO
5 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (3.33%) DO-254
5 1 (3.33%) GMP
5 1 (3.33%) GRC
5 1 (3.33%) ISO 31000
5 1 (3.33%) NIST
5 1 (3.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Cadence
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Google
2 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.33%) BMC
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.33%) Remedy
3 1 (3.33%) SAP