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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 197 188
Rank change year-on-year +53 -9 +92
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 308 170 234
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.91% 1.31% 1.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.16% 8.81% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 108 193
10th Percentile £413 £421 £363
25th Percentile £483 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £585
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +6.84% -4.88%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £675
90th Percentile £857 £850 £774
England median daily rate £540 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £57.05 - -
25th Percentile £66.13 £68.80 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £83.20 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.17% - -
75th Percentile £94.38 - -
90th Percentile £94.75 £90.28 -
England median hourly rate £36.00 £73.60 £44.50
% change year-on-year -51.09% +65.39% -39.02%

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 3,031 1,929 2,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.81% 14.87% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,030 1,254 1,775
10th Percentile £350 £310 £363
25th Percentile £423 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.14%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £798 £780
England median daily rate £510 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +1.80% -4.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 25 61
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.88 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.56 £22.27 £17.75
Median hourly rate £26.11 £39.00 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year -33.05% +48.63% -30.49%
75th Percentile £56.38 £78.40 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.69 £93.75 £57.50
England median hourly rate £26.44 £31.88 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.06% +27.52% -37.50%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 10 March 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 +13 57 £563 +7.14% 17
South London -4 14 £519 -7.37% 1
West London -21 2 £423 -21.40% 4
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 11 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (33.12%) Azure
2 72 (23.38%) AWS
3 32 (10.39%) Entra ID
4 30 (9.74%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (7.47%) GCP
6 19 (6.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 17 (5.52%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (4.55%) OpenShift
9 11 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (3.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 10 (3.25%) SaaS
11 9 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.92%) GitHub
12 8 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (2.27%) AWS KMS
13 7 (2.27%) OCI
13 7 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.95%) Serverless
15 5 (1.62%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.09%) Firewall
2 24 (7.79%) Network Security
3 11 (3.57%) DNS
3 11 (3.57%) VPN
4 5 (1.62%) DHCP
4 5 (1.62%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (1.30%) NGFW
5 4 (1.30%) WAN
6 3 (0.97%) Cisco IPT
6 3 (0.97%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.97%) SSL
7 2 (0.65%) IPv4
7 2 (0.65%) IPv6
7 2 (0.65%) LAN
7 2 (0.65%) Modbus
7 2 (0.65%) S/MIME
8 1 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.32%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (1.30%) DocumentDB
1 4 (1.30%) DynamoDB
1 4 (1.30%) MySQL
1 4 (1.30%) NoSQL
1 4 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (1.30%) Redis
2 2 (0.65%) Big Data
2 2 (0.65%) BigQuery
2 2 (0.65%) Metadata
2 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
2 2 (0.65%) Power BI
3 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.32%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 17 (5.52%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.22%) JIRA
3 5 (1.62%) GitLab
4 2 (0.65%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.65%) Snyk
5 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.32%) Git
5 1 (0.32%) JMeter
5 1 (0.32%) MSTest
5 1 (0.32%) Selenium
5 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 113 (36.69%) Social Skills
2 86 (27.92%) Finance
3 37 (12.01%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.82%) Banking
5 21 (6.82%) Legal
6 18 (5.84%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (5.84%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (4.22%) Financial Institution
8 12 (3.90%) Law
9 11 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.60%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.95%) Police
13 3 (0.97%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.97%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.65%) Electronics
14 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.65%) Marketing
15 1 (0.32%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 49 (15.91%) Architect
2 46 (14.94%) Analyst
3 36 (11.69%) Senior
4 30 (9.74%) Consultant
5 27 (8.77%) Security Engineer
6 24 (7.79%) Security Architect
7 19 (6.17%) Security Analyst
8 18 (5.84%) Security Manager
9 17 (5.52%) Project Manager
10 15 (4.87%) Lead
10 15 (4.87%) Security Specialist
11 14 (4.55%) CyberArk Architect
11 14 (4.55%) Security Consultant
12 10 (3.25%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (3.25%) Operations Manager
13 9 (2.92%) AWS Architect
13 9 (2.92%) Migration Manager
13 9 (2.92%) Migration Project Manager
14 8 (2.60%) Senior Consultant
14 8 (2.60%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.49%) OpenID
2 17 (5.52%) SAML
3 15 (4.87%) LDAP
4 11 (3.57%) OAuth
4 11 (3.57%) REST
5 7 (2.27%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (1.62%) RESTful
6 5 (1.62%) SailPoint
6 5 (1.62%) Spring
7 4 (1.30%) .NET
7 4 (1.30%) gRPC
7 4 (1.30%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.30%) JPA
7 4 (1.30%) Kafka
7 4 (1.30%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.30%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.30%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (0.65%) React
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.34%) Onboarding
2 28 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 25 (8.12%) Security Posture
4 20 (6.49%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.25%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (2.92%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.60%) Operational Technology
7 8 (2.60%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (2.27%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.27%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.95%) NHS
10 5 (1.62%) BYOD
10 5 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.97%) CMDB
12 3 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
13 2 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.44%) Windows
2 8 (2.60%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.27%) Linux
4 5 (1.62%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.97%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.65%) Android
6 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (39.29%) Cybersecurity
2 93 (30.19%) Information Security
3 76 (24.68%) Risk Management
4 73 (23.70%) Cloud Security
5 71 (23.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 53 (17.21%) CI/CD
6 53 (17.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 52 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (16.23%) SIEM
9 49 (15.91%) Incident Response
10 45 (14.61%) Agile
11 43 (13.96%) DevOps
12 39 (12.66%) Security Architecture
12 39 (12.66%) Threat Modelling
13 37 (12.01%) Security Operations
14 36 (11.69%) Regulatory Compliance
15 35 (11.36%) Zero Trust
16 34 (11.04%) Data Protection
17 33 (10.71%) ITIL
18 32 (10.39%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 35 (11.36%) PowerShell
2 13 (4.22%) Python
3 9 (2.92%) SQL
4 8 (2.60%) Java
5 6 (1.95%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (1.30%) Bash
7 2 (0.65%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.32%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.32%) Bicep
8 1 (0.32%) C
8 1 (0.32%) C#
8 1 (0.32%) Go
8 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 93 (30.19%) Security Cleared
2 88 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 82 (26.62%) CISSP
4 61 (19.81%) CISM
5 43 (13.96%) Degree
6 25 (8.12%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (6.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 20 (6.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 20 (6.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 18 (5.84%) CISA
10 17 (5.52%) CRISC
11 16 (5.19%) PMI Certification
11 16 (5.19%) PMP
12 13 (4.22%) CEH
12 13 (4.22%) CompTIA Security+
13 12 (3.90%) Azure Certification
14 10 (3.25%) AWS Certification
14 10 (3.25%) CCSP
14 10 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
15 9 (2.92%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (56.82%) NIST
2 96 (31.17%) GDPR
3 54 (17.53%) NCSC
4 46 (14.94%) GRC
5 42 (13.64%) PCI DSS
6 29 (9.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (7.14%) SOC 2
8 21 (6.82%) COBIT
8 21 (6.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (3.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 12 (3.90%) NIST 800
10 9 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 9 (2.92%) ITGC
11 8 (2.60%) SLA
12 7 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 7 (2.27%) SOX 404
13 6 (1.95%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (1.62%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (1.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 5 (1.62%) QA
System Software
1 29 (9.42%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.90%) Docker
3 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.32%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 29 (9.42%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (3.90%) Terraform
4 11 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.27%) SCCM
6 5 (1.62%) Nessus
7 4 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (1.30%) Ansible
7 4 (1.30%) CASB
8 2 (0.65%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.65%) Grafana
8 2 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.32%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.32%) Nmap
9 1 (0.32%) QRadar
9 1 (0.32%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.32%) SELinux
9 1 (0.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 62 (20.13%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.36%) CyberArk
3 24 (7.79%) Splunk
4 17 (5.52%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.22%) Oracle
6 10 (3.25%) SAP
7 8 (2.60%) Cisco
7 8 (2.60%) Google
8 6 (1.95%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.95%) Tenable
9 5 (1.62%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.62%) Okta
9 5 (1.62%) Qualys
10 4 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.97%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.65%) Apple
12 2 (0.65%) BeyondTrust
12 2 (0.65%) Databricks
12 2 (0.65%) Thycotic
12 2 (0.65%) VMware