ISO/IEC 27001 Contracts in England

ISO/IEC 27001
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for ISO/IEC 27001 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 230 313
Rank change year-on-year 0 +83 +5
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 379 559 620
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.04% 1.16% 0.88%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.40% 8.71% 6.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 415 478
10th Percentile £358 £425 £363
25th Percentile £447 £495 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £591 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +7.38% +7.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £771 £800 £770
UK median daily rate £575 £591 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% +7.38% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 9
10th Percentile - £44.13 £43.21
25th Percentile - £48.68 £43.95
Median hourly rate £83.41 £70.00 £54.43
Median % change year-on-year +19.16% +28.61% -3.49%
75th Percentile - £76.37 £67.00
90th Percentile - £79.08 £70.08
UK median hourly rate £83.41 £67.07 £54.69
% change year-on-year +24.36% +22.64% -3.03%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

ISO/IEC 27001 is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,125 6,421 9,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.09% 13.33% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,289 4,357 6,302
10th Percentile £300 £290 £290
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.31% +8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 215 265
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.63 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £20.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +27.12% +40.48%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £79.90 £69.52
UK median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -39.84% +7.69% +54.76%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in England

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in England.

Daily rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in England

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in England

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in England.

Hourly rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in England

ISO/IEC 27001
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London +27 202 £585 -6.60% 119
North of England +41 52 £575 +21.05% 58
South West +12 47 £600 -4.00% 36
North West +41 43 £600 +33.33% 26
South East -50 32 £413 -34.00% 59
Midlands -6 22 £450 -21.74% 49
West Midlands -10 15 £525 -8.70% 30
East of England +16 11 £365 -33.94% 27
East Midlands +17 7 £363 -48.21% 19
Yorkshire +5 7 £550 -13.73% 23
North East - 2 £525 - 9
ISO/IEC 27001
UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.11%) nginx
3 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.06%) Apache Solr
4 4 (1.06%) CMS
4 4 (1.06%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.53%) IIS
5 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.26%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 76 (20.05%) Azure
2 61 (16.09%) AWS
3 23 (6.07%) Azure Sentinel
4 22 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (4.22%) GCP
6 9 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (2.37%) Entra ID
6 9 (2.37%) SaaS
7 7 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (1.85%) AWS CloudTrail
7 7 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (1.85%) Serverless
8 6 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.58%) GitHub
9 5 (1.32%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.06%) IaaS
11 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.79%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 57 (15.04%) Firewall
2 39 (10.29%) Network Security
3 18 (4.75%) WAN
4 13 (3.43%) DNS
4 13 (3.43%) Intrusion Detection
4 13 (3.43%) SD-WAN
5 12 (3.17%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.64%) VPN
7 6 (1.58%) LAN
8 5 (1.32%) HTTPS
8 5 (1.32%) Internet
8 5 (1.32%) IPsec
9 4 (1.06%) Intranet
9 4 (1.06%) Skype
10 3 (0.79%) Broadband
10 3 (0.79%) Wireless
11 2 (0.53%) DHCP
11 2 (0.53%) DMZ
11 2 (0.53%) HTTP
11 2 (0.53%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.85%) MySQL
1 7 (1.85%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.06%) Big Data
2 4 (1.06%) Couchbase
2 4 (1.06%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.79%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.53%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.53%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.53%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (2.64%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.32%) Git
3 3 (0.79%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.53%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.53%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.53%) GitLab
4 2 (0.53%) JIRA
4 2 (0.53%) Mocha
4 2 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.53%) RStudio
5 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
General
1 91 (24.01%) Social Skills
2 85 (22.43%) Finance
3 55 (14.51%) Public Sector
4 47 (12.40%) Legal
5 24 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.01%) Banking
7 18 (4.75%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.43%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.90%) Local Government
10 8 (2.11%) Retail
11 6 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.32%) Electronics
12 5 (1.32%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.32%) German Language
12 5 (1.32%) Law
12 5 (1.32%) Marketing
13 4 (1.06%) French Language
13 4 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.79%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.79%) Police
Job Titles
1 74 (19.53%) Architect
2 61 (16.09%) Analyst
3 54 (14.25%) Consultant
4 49 (12.93%) Security Architect
5 44 (11.61%) Security Consultant
6 38 (10.03%) Senior
7 29 (7.65%) Security Engineer
8 24 (6.33%) Lead
9 23 (6.07%) Security Analyst
10 21 (5.54%) Security Manager
11 16 (4.22%) Security Specialist
11 16 (4.22%) SOC Analyst
12 14 (3.69%) Project Manager
13 12 (3.17%) IT Manager
14 11 (2.90%) Information Manager
14 11 (2.90%) Information Security Consultant
14 11 (2.90%) Security Officer
15 10 (2.64%) Cloud Consultant
15 10 (2.64%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 10 (2.64%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (1.85%) YAML
3 5 (1.32%) JSON
4 4 (1.06%) Kafka
4 4 (1.06%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (1.06%) OAuth
5 3 (0.79%) JWT
5 3 (0.79%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.53%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.53%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.53%) gRPC
6 2 (0.53%) Jest
6 2 (0.53%) MEAN Stack
6 2 (0.53%) MERN Stack
6 2 (0.53%) ModSecurity
6 2 (0.53%) Mongoose
6 2 (0.53%) NestJS
6 2 (0.53%) Node.js
6 2 (0.53%) OpenAPI
6 2 (0.53%) React
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.61%) Management Information System
2 21 (5.54%) Security Posture
3 20 (5.28%) Cyber Threat
4 15 (3.96%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (3.43%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.43%) PKI
6 9 (2.37%) CCTV
6 9 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.11%) CESG
8 7 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.58%) Freedom of Information
9 6 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.32%) Cyberattack
10 5 (1.32%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.32%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.06%) Blackberry
11 4 (1.06%) NHS
11 4 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.87%) Linux
2 33 (8.71%) Windows
3 10 (2.64%) Mac OS X
3 10 (2.64%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.58%) Unix
5 4 (1.06%) CentOS
6 3 (0.79%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.53%) zOS
8 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (46.97%) Cybersecurity
2 150 (39.58%) Information Security
3 105 (27.70%) Risk Management
4 62 (16.36%) SIEM
5 57 (15.04%) Security Architecture
6 52 (13.72%) Cloud Security
7 49 (12.93%) Data Protection
8 47 (12.40%) Stakeholder Management
9 44 (11.61%) Risk Assessment
10 43 (11.35%) Identity Access Management
11 42 (11.08%) Incident Response
12 37 (9.76%) Penetration Testing
12 37 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (8.71%) Vulnerability Management
14 32 (8.44%) Agile
14 32 (8.44%) DevOps
14 32 (8.44%) Information Assurance
14 32 (8.44%) ITIL
15 29 (7.65%) Project Management
16 27 (7.12%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (5.01%) PowerShell
2 15 (3.96%) Python
3 12 (3.17%) Kusto Query Language
4 10 (2.64%) Bash
5 9 (2.37%) C#
6 8 (2.11%) C++
7 6 (1.58%) SQL
8 4 (1.06%) PHP
9 3 (0.79%) Go
9 3 (0.79%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.53%) Java
10 2 (0.53%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.53%) R
10 2 (0.53%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 99 (26.12%) CISSP
2 87 (22.96%) Security Cleared
3 78 (20.58%) CISM
4 72 (19.00%) SC Cleared
5 39 (10.29%) CISA
6 36 (9.50%) Degree
7 27 (7.12%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (4.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 18 (4.75%) CompTIA Security+
8 18 (4.75%) DV Cleared
9 15 (3.96%) CISMP
10 14 (3.69%) CEH
11 13 (3.43%) CRISC
12 10 (2.64%) CCSK
12 10 (2.64%) CREST Certified
13 9 (2.37%) CESG Certified Professional
13 9 (2.37%) SSCP
13 9 (2.37%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (2.11%) CCSP
14 8 (2.11%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (48.81%) NIST
2 66 (17.41%) GDPR
3 56 (14.78%) PCI DSS
4 39 (10.29%) GRC
4 39 (10.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 29 (7.65%) COBIT
5 29 (7.65%) HIPAA
6 28 (7.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 26 (6.86%) NCSC
8 16 (4.22%) ISO 9001
9 14 (3.69%) ISO 22301
10 12 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 11 (2.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 10 (2.64%) JSP 440
12 10 (2.64%) QA
13 8 (2.11%) RMADS
14 6 (1.58%) NIST 800
14 6 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.79%) IASME
15 3 (0.79%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (4.75%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.90%) Docker
3 3 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.53%) Firmware
4 2 (0.53%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.53%) Squid
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (6.86%) Terraform
2 20 (5.28%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.43%) Ansible
4 4 (1.06%) Nessus
4 4 (1.06%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (0.79%) Grafana
5 3 (0.79%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.53%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.53%) Kibana
6 2 (0.53%) logstash
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.53%) Nmap
6 2 (0.53%) Packer
7 1 (0.26%) IBM BigFix
7 1 (0.26%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.26%) SCCM
7 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.26%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 77 (20.32%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.54%) Cisco
3 10 (2.64%) ServiceNow
3 10 (2.64%) Splunk
4 8 (2.11%) Google
4 8 (2.11%) Sparx
5 7 (1.85%) Rapid7
6 6 (1.58%) Darktrace
6 6 (1.58%) Qualys
6 6 (1.58%) SAP
7 5 (1.32%) Citrix
7 5 (1.32%) VMware
8 4 (1.06%) Becrypt
8 4 (1.06%) Palo Alto
9 3 (0.79%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.79%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.79%) Oracle
9 3 (0.79%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.79%) Sophos
451 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs Nationwide