ISO/IEC 27001 Contract Job Trends in the City of London

ISO/IEC 27001
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 84 81
Rank change year-on-year +11 -3 +69
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 51 38 53
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.84% 2.01% 2.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.78% 13.01% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 16 43
10th Percentile £400 £419 £400
25th Percentile £434 £459 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £569 £620
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -8.27% -4.62%
75th Percentile £828 £708 £680
90th Percentile £907 £800 £763
Central London median daily rate £525 £569 £620
% change year-on-year -7.69% -8.27% -4.62%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

ISO/IEC 27001 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 in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 370 292 395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.60% 15.46% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 155 285
10th Percentile £325 £313 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% -1.50%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £680
90th Percentile £825 £775 £759
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £20.01 - -
25th Percentile £24.18 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £27.29 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +271.79%
75th Percentile £31.00 - £73.75
90th Percentile £33.70 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.75 £72.50
% change year-on-year -9.18% -60.34% +271.79%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

ISO/IEC 27001 job vacancy trend in the City of London

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ISO/IEC 27001.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ISO/IEC 27001

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the City of London

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ISO/IEC 27001.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ISO/IEC 27001

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.96%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (54.90%) Azure
2 13 (25.49%) AWS
3 12 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (19.61%) Entra ID
5 9 (17.65%) GCP
6 6 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (11.76%) SaaS
7 5 (9.80%) IaaS
7 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (9.80%) OCI
7 5 (9.80%) PaaS
8 4 (7.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (7.84%) GitHub
9 3 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (5.88%) Cloud Run
9 3 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (5.88%) Google Gemini
9 3 (5.88%) Vertex AI
10 2 (3.92%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (21.57%) Firewall
2 5 (9.80%) DNS
2 5 (9.80%) Network Security
3 4 (7.84%) DHCP
3 4 (7.84%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (7.84%) VPN
4 2 (3.92%) Modbus
5 1 (1.96%) LAN
5 1 (1.96%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.96%) Skype
5 1 (1.96%) WAN
5 1 (1.96%) WebEx
5 1 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) BigQuery
1 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database
1 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.96%) Metadata
2 1 (1.96%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Snyk
2 1 (1.96%) Ant
2 1 (1.96%) Git
2 1 (1.96%) JIRA
2 1 (1.96%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (45.10%) Finance
2 18 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.73%) Banking
4 6 (11.76%) Financial Institution
5 4 (7.84%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.92%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.92%) Law
6 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.96%) Back Office
7 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (19.61%) Architect
2 8 (15.69%) Senior
3 6 (11.76%) Security Architect
4 4 (7.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Migration Manager
4 4 (7.84%) Migration Project Manager
4 4 (7.84%) Programme Manager
4 4 (7.84%) Project Manager
4 4 (7.84%) Security Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Security Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) Consultant
5 3 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Lead
5 3 (5.88%) Service Desk Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Security Architect
6 2 (3.92%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.80%) REST
2 2 (3.92%) CSS
2 2 (3.92%) CSS3
2 2 (3.92%) GraphQL
2 2 (3.92%) HTML
2 2 (3.92%) HTML5
2 2 (3.92%) JWT
2 2 (3.92%) Next.js
2 2 (3.92%) OAuth
2 2 (3.92%) OAuth2
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (3.92%) React
2 2 (3.92%) Redux
2 2 (3.92%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (3.92%) WebSockets
2 2 (3.92%) Zustand
3 1 (1.96%) Faiss
3 1 (1.96%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.96%) LangChain
3 1 (1.96%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Security Posture
2 5 (9.80%) Management Information System
2 5 (9.80%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.84%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.92%) Insider Threat
5 2 (3.92%) Life Science
5 2 (3.92%) Operational Technology
5 2 (3.92%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (3.92%) SCADA
6 1 (1.96%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.96%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.96%) NHS
6 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Linux
1 6 (11.76%) Windows
1 6 (11.76%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (23.53%) Incident Response
2 12 (23.53%) Security Architecture
2 12 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 11 (21.57%) Cloud Security
3 11 (21.57%) ITIL
3 11 (21.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (19.61%) Information Security
4 10 (19.61%) Migration
5 9 (17.65%) Agile
5 9 (17.65%) Change Management
5 9 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 9 (17.65%) SIEM
6 8 (15.69%) DevOps
7 7 (13.73%) Risk Management
7 7 (13.73%) Zero Trust
8 6 (11.76%) Data Loss Prevention
8 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (11.76%) Roadmaps
8 6 (11.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.73%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.88%) Python
3 2 (3.92%) SQL
3 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.96%) Bash
4 1 (1.96%) Bicep
4 1 (1.96%) Java
4 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.96%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (17.65%) CISSP
2 8 (15.69%) CISM
3 7 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.73%) Security Cleared
4 5 (9.80%) PMI Certification
4 5 (9.80%) PMP
5 3 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.88%) CISA
5 3 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (5.88%) Degree
5 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.92%) CCNP
6 2 (3.92%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (3.92%) CISMP
6 2 (3.92%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (3.92%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (3.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 2 (3.92%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (3.92%) MCITP
6 2 (3.92%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (47.06%) GDPR
2 21 (41.18%) NIST
3 10 (19.61%) NCSC
4 9 (17.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (9.80%) PCI DSS
6 4 (7.84%) GRC
6 4 (7.84%) SOC 2
7 3 (5.88%) COBIT
7 3 (5.88%) SLA
8 2 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (3.92%) EU AI Act
8 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (3.92%) ITGC
8 2 (3.92%) NIST 800
9 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
9 1 (1.96%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (1.96%) ISO 9001
9 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (21.57%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.80%) Docker
3 4 (7.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (19.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (15.69%) Terraform
3 4 (7.84%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.92%) Ansible
4 2 (3.92%) SCOM
5 1 (1.96%) Grafana
5 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (31.37%) Microsoft
2 9 (17.65%) Google
3 8 (15.69%) CyberArk
4 6 (11.76%) Oracle
5 3 (5.88%) OpenAI
6 2 (3.92%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.92%) HP
6 2 (3.92%) LogRhythm
6 2 (3.92%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.92%) Rockwell
7 1 (1.96%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.96%) Databricks
7 1 (1.96%) Datto
7 1 (1.96%) Polycom
7 1 (1.96%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.96%) Splunk
7 1 (1.96%) Veeam
7 1 (1.96%) VMware