ISO/IEC 27001 Contract Job Trends in London

ISO/IEC 27001
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 181 176
Rank change year-on-year +41 -5 +121
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 275 199 242
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.92% 1.39% 1.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.52% 10.10% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 124 184
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.33%
75th Percentile £660 £702 £682
90th Percentile £775 £832 £775
England median daily rate £525 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 0
10th Percentile £45.93 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £49.19 £51.90 -
Median hourly rate £70.75 £73.60 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.87% - -
75th Percentile £94.06 £83.20 -
90th Percentile £94.63 £87.92 -
England median hourly rate £36.00 £73.60 £44.50
% change year-on-year -51.09% +65.39% -11.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,614 1,971 2,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.27% 13.78% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,751 1,195 1,859
10th Percentile £343 £300 £363
25th Percentile £415 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -7.08% +2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 30 48
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.81 £18.75
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.65 £24.79
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% - +10.24%
75th Percentile £39.87 £78.40 £52.50
90th Percentile £74.48 £95.25 £64.65
England median hourly rate £26.11 £30.21 £33.75
% change year-on-year -13.57% -10.49% +40.63%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

ISO/IEC 27001 job vacancy trend in London

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in London over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in London

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in London over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in London

ISO/IEC 27001
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 4 January 2026. 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
Central London +9 52 £513 -9.89% 66
South London -7 5 £525 -6.25% 40
West London -14 3 £423 -21.40% 55
North London - 1 £650 - 9
ISO/IEC 27001
England

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 9 (3.27%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.45%) Confluence
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.36%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.18%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 117 (42.55%) Azure
2 71 (25.82%) AWS
3 34 (12.36%) Entra ID
4 29 (10.55%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (9.09%) GCP
6 23 (8.36%) Azure Sentinel
7 17 (6.18%) GitHub
7 17 (6.18%) SaaS
8 15 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (5.09%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (2.91%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 8 (2.91%) IaaS
12 8 (2.91%) PaaS
13 7 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (2.55%) AWS KMS
13 7 (2.55%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (2.18%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 36 (13.09%) Firewall
2 28 (10.18%) Network Security
3 11 (4.00%) VPN
4 9 (3.27%) DNS
5 6 (2.18%) Intrusion Detection
5 6 (2.18%) WAN
6 5 (1.82%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.82%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.45%) DHCP
7 4 (1.45%) Modbus
8 3 (1.09%) SSL
9 2 (0.73%) LAN
9 2 (0.73%) NGFW
9 2 (0.73%) S/MIME
10 1 (0.36%) BGP
10 1 (0.36%) DMZ
10 1 (0.36%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.36%) OSPF
10 1 (0.36%) Telnet
10 1 (0.36%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (1.09%) Delta Lake
2 3 (1.09%) DocumentDB
2 3 (1.09%) DynamoDB
2 3 (1.09%) MySQL
2 3 (1.09%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.09%) Power BI
2 3 (1.09%) Redis
3 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.73%) Metadata
3 2 (0.73%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.73%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.36%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.36%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 17 (6.18%) JIRA
2 8 (2.91%) Snyk
3 6 (2.18%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.82%) CircleCI
4 5 (1.82%) GitLab
5 3 (1.09%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.73%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.36%) Ant
7 1 (0.36%) ERwin
7 1 (0.36%) Git
7 1 (0.36%) JMeter
7 1 (0.36%) MSTest
7 1 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.36%) Selenium
7 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 88 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 61 (22.18%) Finance
3 40 (14.55%) Public Sector
4 20 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.27%) Banking
5 15 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (5.09%) Legal
7 11 (4.00%) Law
8 8 (2.91%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.55%) Police
10 6 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.18%) Local Government
10 6 (2.18%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.18%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.45%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.09%) Electronics
12 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 42 (15.27%) Analyst
2 41 (14.91%) Architect
3 36 (13.09%) Senior
4 25 (9.09%) Security Engineer
5 23 (8.36%) Consultant
6 22 (8.00%) Security Architect
7 20 (7.27%) Lead
8 19 (6.91%) Security Analyst
9 17 (6.18%) Security Manager
10 13 (4.73%) Project Manager
11 12 (4.36%) Security Specialist
12 11 (4.00%) Security Consultant
13 9 (3.27%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 9 (3.27%) Tester
14 8 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (2.91%) Cloud Architect
14 8 (2.91%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 8 (2.91%) Operations Manager
14 8 (2.91%) Senior Consultant
14 8 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.36%) REST
2 10 (3.64%) OAuth
3 8 (2.91%) OAuth2
3 8 (2.91%) OpenID
4 6 (2.18%) SAML
5 5 (1.82%) Loki
5 5 (1.82%) RESTful
5 5 (1.82%) SailPoint
6 4 (1.45%) LDAP
6 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (1.45%) Spring
7 3 (1.09%) .NET
7 3 (1.09%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.09%) gRPC
7 3 (1.09%) Hibernate
7 3 (1.09%) Kafka
7 3 (1.09%) Next.js
7 3 (1.09%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.09%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (1.09%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 25 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 24 (8.73%) Security Posture
3 18 (6.55%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.09%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (3.64%) NHS
6 8 (2.91%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (2.55%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.55%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.82%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.09%) Life Science
10 3 (1.09%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.09%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.09%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.27%) Windows
2 8 (2.91%) Linux
2 8 (2.91%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.82%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.73%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.73%) VMS
5 1 (0.36%) Android
5 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.36%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 75 (27.27%) Cloud Security
3 73 (26.55%) Information Security
4 70 (25.45%) Risk Management
5 63 (22.91%) Incident Response
6 56 (20.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 50 (18.18%) SIEM
8 48 (17.45%) CI/CD
9 46 (16.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 41 (14.91%) DevOps
11 36 (13.09%) Identity Access Management
12 33 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 33 (12.00%) Zero Trust
13 32 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (10.91%) Security Architecture
15 29 (10.55%) Roadmaps
16 28 (10.18%) Data Loss Prevention
16 28 (10.18%) DevSecOps
16 28 (10.18%) Security Operations
17 27 (9.82%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 38 (13.82%) PowerShell
2 16 (5.82%) Python
3 10 (3.64%) SQL
4 9 (3.27%) Java
5 7 (2.55%) Bash
5 7 (2.55%) Bicep
6 5 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.09%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.09%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.73%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.36%) C
Qualifications
1 73 (26.55%) CISSP
2 65 (23.64%) Security Cleared
3 63 (22.91%) SC Cleared
4 53 (19.27%) CISM
5 32 (11.64%) Degree
6 20 (7.27%) CISA
7 15 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (4.73%) CompTIA Security+
8 13 (4.73%) CRISC
8 13 (4.73%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 12 (4.36%) Azure Certification
10 10 (3.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 10 (3.64%) PMI Certification
10 10 (3.64%) PMP
10 10 (3.64%) SANS
11 9 (3.27%) CEH
12 8 (2.91%) AWS Certification
12 8 (2.91%) FFIEC
13 7 (2.55%) CREST Certified
13 7 (2.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (54.55%) NIST
2 87 (31.64%) GDPR
3 40 (14.55%) NCSC
4 32 (11.64%) GRC
4 32 (11.64%) PCI DSS
5 31 (11.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 22 (8.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (6.18%) COBIT
8 15 (5.45%) SOC 2
9 11 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (3.64%) ITGC
11 9 (3.27%) NIST 800
12 7 (2.55%) SOX 404
13 6 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 6 (2.18%) SLA
14 5 (1.82%) QA
15 4 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (1.09%) EU AI Act
16 3 (1.09%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 32 (11.64%) Active Directory
2 21 (7.64%) Docker
3 4 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (10.55%) Terraform
2 23 (8.36%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (4.36%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.55%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.55%) SCCM
6 6 (2.18%) Ansible
7 5 (1.82%) QRadar
8 4 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.45%) CASB
8 4 (1.45%) CSIRT
8 4 (1.45%) Nessus
9 2 (0.73%) Grafana
9 2 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.73%) Nmap
9 2 (0.73%) SCOM
10 1 (0.36%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.36%) Istio
10 1 (0.36%) WSUS
Vendors
1 71 (25.82%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.45%) CyberArk
3 14 (5.09%) Oracle
4 12 (4.36%) Google
4 12 (4.36%) Splunk
5 11 (4.00%) SAP
6 10 (3.64%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.55%) Fortinet
7 7 (2.55%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.18%) Cisco
8 6 (2.18%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (2.18%) Okta
8 6 (2.18%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.18%) Qualys
8 6 (2.18%) Tenable
9 4 (1.45%) Databricks
9 4 (1.45%) Rapid7
9 4 (1.45%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.09%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (1.09%) Thycotic