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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 152 211
Rank change year-on-year -19 +59 -21
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 324 239 186
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.61% 1.79% 1.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.53% 10.43% 8.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 176 145
10th Percentile £425 £419 £443
25th Percentile £488 £500 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -2.44%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £850 £760
England median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
England median hourly rate £73.00 £52.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.05% +90.91% -59.00%

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 3,800 2,291 2,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.90% 17.12% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,557 1,534 1,475
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £756 £794
England median daily rate £508 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 49 41
10th Percentile £20.13 - £18.13
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.15 £22.00
Median hourly rate £28.55 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% +22.13% +1.24%
75th Percentile £40.00 £43.21 £50.00
90th Percentile £58.00 £54.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £25.77
% change year-on-year +14.00% +22.80% -27.42%

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 27 August 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
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 27 August 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 -17 43 £570 -12.31% 35
East London 0 4 £750 +36.36% 3
South London -12 2 £744 +65.22% 1
West London -22 2 £625 +47.06% 14
North London -2 1 £650 - 1
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 14 (4.32%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.16%) IIS
3 6 (1.85%) Confluence
3 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.31%) Apache
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.31%) nginx
4 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.31%) iTrent
2 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 146 (45.06%) Azure
2 96 (29.63%) AWS
3 56 (17.28%) Entra ID
3 56 (17.28%) GCP
4 36 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (5.86%) Azure Sentinel
6 16 (4.94%) SaaS
7 14 (4.32%) Microsoft Purview
8 13 (4.01%) OCI
9 11 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (3.40%) Serverless
10 9 (2.78%) GitHub
11 8 (2.47%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (2.16%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.16%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (2.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (1.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 6 (1.85%) AWS CloudTrail
14 4 (1.23%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (1.23%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.95%) Network Security
2 20 (6.17%) Firewall
3 9 (2.78%) DNS
4 8 (2.47%) VPN
5 6 (1.85%) HTTPS
5 6 (1.85%) X.509
6 5 (1.54%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.54%) NGFW
6 5 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.23%) DHCP
7 4 (1.23%) Internet
7 4 (1.23%) IPsec
7 4 (1.23%) SSL
7 4 (1.23%) WAN
7 4 (1.23%) Wireless
8 3 (0.93%) 4G
8 3 (0.93%) Cisco IPT
8 3 (0.93%) HTTP
8 3 (0.93%) LAN
8 3 (0.93%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (1.23%) Big Data
2 2 (0.62%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (0.62%) Power BI
3 1 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (5.25%) JIRA
2 7 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.23%) Burp Suite
3 4 (1.23%) Git
3 4 (1.23%) GitLab
3 4 (1.23%) Selenium
3 4 (1.23%) Snyk
4 2 (0.62%) JMeter
4 2 (0.62%) MSTest
4 2 (0.62%) Robot Framework
4 2 (0.62%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.62%) TestRail
General
1 106 (32.72%) Social Skills
2 82 (25.31%) Finance
3 47 (14.51%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.95%) Public Sector
5 27 (8.33%) Legal
6 19 (5.86%) Banking
7 11 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.40%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.85%) Local Government
9 6 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.54%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.23%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.23%) Law
12 3 (0.93%) Digital Health
12 3 (0.93%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (0.93%) Retail
13 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (23.46%) Architect
2 39 (12.04%) Analyst
3 34 (10.49%) Lead
4 32 (9.88%) Security Architect
5 30 (9.26%) Senior
6 27 (8.33%) Consultant
7 20 (6.17%) Security Analyst
8 18 (5.56%) Security Engineer
9 17 (5.25%) Security Consultant
10 16 (4.94%) Security Manager
10 16 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (4.63%) Project Manager
12 13 (4.01%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 11 (3.40%) Cloud Architect
14 10 (3.09%) IT Manager
15 9 (2.78%) Head of Security
15 9 (2.78%) Security Specialist
16 8 (2.47%) AWS Architect
16 8 (2.47%) Business Analyst
16 8 (2.47%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.79%) Terraform
2 14 (4.32%) REST
3 11 (3.40%) OAuth
3 11 (3.40%) SAML
4 10 (3.09%) LDAP
4 10 (3.09%) SailPoint
5 5 (1.54%) OpenID
6 4 (1.23%) JSON
6 4 (1.23%) Middleware
6 4 (1.23%) SOAP
7 3 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.93%) JDBC
7 3 (0.93%) OAuth2
7 3 (0.93%) Playwright
8 2 (0.62%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.62%) Azure Blueprints
8 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.62%) pytest
9 1 (0.31%) RAML
9 1 (0.31%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.19%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.57%) Security Posture
3 27 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 17 (5.25%) Management Information System
4 17 (5.25%) Operational Technology
5 10 (3.09%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.78%) PKI
7 8 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.16%) Cloud Security Posture
8 7 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.85%) CMDB
9 6 (1.85%) Cyber Defence
9 6 (1.85%) NHS
9 6 (1.85%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.85%) SCADA
10 5 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.23%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.23%) IoT
11 4 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 38 (11.73%) Windows
2 12 (3.70%) Linux
3 9 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.54%) Unix
5 4 (1.23%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.93%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.62%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.62%) CentOS
8 1 (0.31%) Android
8 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (51.54%) Cybersecurity
2 78 (24.07%) Risk Management
3 76 (23.46%) Cloud Security
4 75 (23.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 71 (21.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 68 (20.99%) Information Security
7 61 (18.83%) Security Architecture
8 57 (17.59%) Roadmaps
9 52 (16.05%) Incident Response
9 52 (16.05%) SIEM
10 50 (15.43%) Vulnerability Management
11 46 (14.20%) DevOps
12 44 (13.58%) CI/CD
12 44 (13.58%) Identity Access Management
12 44 (13.58%) Zero Trust
13 43 (13.27%) Data Protection
13 43 (13.27%) Threat Modelling
14 42 (12.96%) TOGAF
15 41 (12.65%) Agile
16 40 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 27 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 26 (8.02%) Python
3 9 (2.78%) SQL
4 7 (2.16%) Bash
5 6 (1.85%) Java
6 5 (1.54%) BeanShell
7 4 (1.23%) Bicep
7 4 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.62%) C#
8 2 (0.62%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 99 (30.56%) CISSP
2 68 (20.99%) Security Cleared
3 60 (18.52%) CISM
4 52 (16.05%) SC Cleared
5 30 (9.26%) Degree
6 25 (7.72%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (7.72%) CRISC
7 23 (7.10%) CEH
8 22 (6.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 18 (5.56%) Azure Certification
9 18 (5.56%) GIAC
10 17 (5.25%) CISA
10 17 (5.25%) CompTIA Security+
10 17 (5.25%) PMI Certification
10 17 (5.25%) PMP
11 12 (3.70%) CCSP
12 11 (3.40%) DV Cleared
12 11 (3.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 10 (3.09%) AWS Certification
14 7 (2.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (61.73%) NIST
2 77 (23.77%) GDPR
3 52 (16.05%) GRC
4 38 (11.73%) Cyber Essentials
5 37 (11.42%) NCSC
5 37 (11.42%) PCI DSS
6 34 (10.49%) COBIT
7 30 (9.26%) SOC 2
8 22 (6.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 21 (6.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (4.01%) NIST 800
11 12 (3.70%) ITGC
12 11 (3.40%) HIPAA
12 11 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 11 (3.40%) SLA
13 8 (2.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (2.47%) PMO
14 6 (1.85%) QA
15 4 (1.23%) ISO 22301
15 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 43 (13.27%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.70%) Docker
3 2 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.31%) Firmware
4 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.31%) Varnish
4 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (5.86%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (3.40%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.16%) Ansible
5 3 (0.93%) Nessus
5 3 (0.93%) Puppet
6 2 (0.62%) Argo
6 2 (0.62%) CASB
6 2 (0.62%) Grafana
6 2 (0.62%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.62%) Nexpose
6 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.62%) QRadar
7 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.31%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 96 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.26%) ServiceNow
3 19 (5.86%) CyberArk
4 16 (4.94%) Splunk
5 15 (4.63%) CrowdStrike
6 13 (4.01%) Google
7 11 (3.40%) Qualys
7 11 (3.40%) Tenable
8 8 (2.47%) Okta
9 7 (2.16%) Rapid7
9 7 (2.16%) Zscaler
10 6 (1.85%) Oracle
10 6 (1.85%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.85%) SAP
11 5 (1.54%) Workday
12 4 (1.23%) Veracode
13 3 (0.93%) Cisco
13 3 (0.93%) Databricks
13 3 (0.93%) Juniper
13 3 (0.93%) Salesforce