ISO/IEC 27001 Contracts in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 27001
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 202 196 243
Rank change year-on-year -6 +47 +12
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 205 287 309
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.01% 1.25% 1.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.90% 8.45% 7.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 206 228
10th Percentile £316 £406 £310
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £638 £680 £638
90th Percentile £711 £775 £764
UK median daily rate £575 £591 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% +7.38% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 9
10th Percentile - £47.00 £43.21
25th Percentile - £59.73 £43.95
Median hourly rate £83.41 £70.00 £54.43
Median % change year-on-year +19.16% +28.61% -3.49%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £67.00
90th Percentile - £79.30 £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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,970 3,395 4,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.64% 14.76% 14.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,751 2,261 3,030
10th Percentile £250 £223 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +6.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £680 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.31% +8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 188 207
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.44
25th Percentile £12.75 £18.09 £15.78
Median hourly rate £18.27 £32.94 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.54% +46.41% +7.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £69.05
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 27001
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +41 52 £575 +21.05% 58
South West +12 47 £600 -4.00% 35
North West +41 43 £600 +33.33% 26
Scotland +35 40 £563 -3.68% 11
South East -50 32 £413 -34.00% 58
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
Wales +13 1 £638 +10.87% 4
ISO/IEC 27001
UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (2.93%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.95%) Apache Solr
2 4 (1.95%) nginx
3 2 (0.98%) Confluence
3 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.49%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.46%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 30 (14.63%) Azure
2 22 (10.73%) AWS
3 18 (8.78%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (3.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (3.41%) GCP
5 5 (2.44%) Amazon S3
5 5 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.44%) Serverless
6 4 (1.95%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (1.95%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.46%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (1.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (1.46%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (0.98%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.98%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.29%) Firewall
2 15 (7.32%) Network Security
3 5 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.95%) DNS
4 4 (1.95%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.95%) Intranet
4 4 (1.95%) IPsec
4 4 (1.95%) SCCP
5 3 (1.46%) WAN
6 2 (0.98%) Broadband
6 2 (0.98%) Internet
6 2 (0.98%) LAN
6 2 (0.98%) Wireless
7 1 (0.49%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.41%) MySQL
1 7 (3.41%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.95%) Couchbase
3 3 (1.46%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.46%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.46%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.98%) Big Data
4 2 (0.98%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Git
1 3 (1.46%) JIRA
1 3 (1.46%) SonarQube
General
1 63 (30.73%) Public Sector
2 47 (22.93%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.22%) Legal
4 19 (9.27%) Finance
5 14 (6.83%) Manufacturing
6 12 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (5.37%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.44%) Electronics
8 5 (2.44%) Marketing
8 5 (2.44%) Retail
9 4 (1.95%) French Language
9 4 (1.95%) German Language
10 3 (1.46%) Banking
10 3 (1.46%) Police
11 2 (0.98%) Automotive
11 2 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.98%) Local Government
11 2 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 45 (21.95%) Analyst
2 35 (17.07%) Architect
3 30 (14.63%) Consultant
4 22 (10.73%) Security Consultant
5 21 (10.24%) Security Architect
6 20 (9.76%) Senior
7 18 (8.78%) Lead
7 18 (8.78%) Security Analyst
8 16 (7.80%) Security Engineer
9 14 (6.83%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 13 (6.34%) Security Advisor
10 13 (6.34%) SOC Analyst
11 10 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (4.39%) Lead Architect
13 8 (3.90%) Developer
13 8 (3.90%) Information Security Consultant
14 7 (3.41%) Security Officer
14 7 (3.41%) Security Specialist
15 6 (2.93%) Security Manager
15 6 (2.93%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.95%) JSON
1 4 (1.95%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (1.95%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (1.95%) YAML
2 3 (1.46%) Kafka
3 2 (0.98%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 48 (23.41%) Management Information System
2 17 (8.29%) Security Posture
3 15 (7.32%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (4.39%) CCTV
4 9 (4.39%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.90%) CESG
6 7 (3.41%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.44%) Cyberattack
8 4 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.95%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.46%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (1.46%) Insider Threat
9 3 (1.46%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.46%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.46%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.46%) Wiki
10 2 (0.98%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.49%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 37 (18.05%) Linux
2 16 (7.80%) Windows
3 10 (4.88%) Mac OS X
4 4 (1.95%) CentOS
5 3 (1.46%) zOS
6 2 (0.98%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.49%) Unix
7 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (52.68%) Cybersecurity
2 90 (43.90%) Information Security
3 64 (31.22%) Risk Management
4 36 (17.56%) SIEM
5 32 (15.61%) Security Architecture
6 30 (14.63%) Vulnerability Management
7 27 (13.17%) Incident Management
8 25 (12.20%) Penetration Testing
9 24 (11.71%) ISMS
10 23 (11.22%) Information Assurance
10 23 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (10.73%) Threat Modelling
12 20 (9.76%) Vulnerability Assessment
13 19 (9.27%) Cloud Security
13 19 (9.27%) Incident Response
14 18 (8.78%) Agile
15 17 (8.29%) Business Continuity
15 17 (8.29%) ITIL
15 17 (8.29%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (8.29%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.90%) C#
1 8 (3.90%) C++
2 6 (2.93%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (1.95%) Bash
3 4 (1.95%) PHP
3 4 (1.95%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.95%) Python
3 4 (1.95%) SQL
4 3 (1.46%) Go
5 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 84 (40.98%) Security Cleared
2 70 (34.15%) SC Cleared
3 67 (32.68%) CISSP
4 44 (21.46%) CISM
5 23 (11.22%) CISA
6 18 (8.78%) DV Cleared
7 17 (8.29%) CompTIA Security+
8 15 (7.32%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (7.32%) Degree
9 14 (6.83%) CISMP
9 14 (6.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 11 (5.37%) CRISC
11 10 (4.88%) CEH
11 10 (4.88%) CLAS
11 10 (4.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 9 (4.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 9 (4.39%) CESG Certified Professional
12 9 (4.39%) SSCP
13 8 (3.90%) ISACA
14 5 (2.44%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (48.78%) NIST
2 36 (17.56%) GDPR
3 29 (14.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 28 (13.66%) PCI DSS
5 24 (11.71%) HIPAA
6 17 (8.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 16 (7.80%) GRC
8 14 (6.83%) NCSC
9 12 (5.85%) COBIT
10 11 (5.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 10 (4.88%) JSP 440
12 9 (4.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 9 (4.39%) ISO 9001
13 8 (3.90%) RMADS
14 7 (3.41%) Disclosure Scotland
14 7 (3.41%) QA
15 6 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 5 (2.44%) ISO 22301
16 5 (2.44%) PMO
17 3 (1.46%) Def Stans
System Software
1 5 (2.44%) Docker
2 3 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.98%) Firmware
4 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (4.39%) Kubernetes
1 9 (4.39%) Terraform
2 7 (3.41%) Ansible
3 4 (1.95%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 3 (1.46%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.49%) IBM BigFix
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.49%) SCCM
5 1 (0.49%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 35 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.34%) Cisco
3 10 (4.88%) Splunk
4 5 (2.44%) Google
4 5 (2.44%) Rapid7
4 5 (2.44%) SAP
4 5 (2.44%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.46%) F5
5 3 (1.46%) Qualys
5 3 (1.46%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.46%) Sophos
6 2 (0.98%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.98%) Broadcom
6 2 (0.98%) Brocade
6 2 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (0.98%) Darktrace
6 2 (0.98%) Databricks
6 2 (0.98%) Oracle
6 2 (0.98%) Teradata
7 1 (0.49%) Fortinet
447 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs Nationwide