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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 182 184
Rank change year-on-year +47 +2 +114
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 279 197 234
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.96% 1.40% 1.30%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.76% 10.12% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 122 177
10th Percentile £400 £414 £390
25th Percentile £463 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £705 £680
90th Percentile £800 £834 £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 2,592 1,946 2,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.21% 13.79% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,731 1,176 1,826
10th Percentile £350 £300 £363
25th Percentile £416 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £571
Median % change year-on-year - -8.10% +3.86%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £778 £789
England median daily rate £500 £500 £549
% change year-on-year - -8.88% +4.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 30 49
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.81 £18.83
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.65 £24.97
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% - +22.81%
75th Percentile £39.87 £78.40 £52.50
90th Percentile £74.48 £95.25 £64.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.11 £33.00
% change year-on-year -16.46% -8.77% +36.08%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +13 54 £525 -7.69% 49
South London -6 5 £525 -6.25% 17
West London -15 3 £423 -21.40% 16
North London - 1 £650 - 3
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 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.43%) Confluence
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.36%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.15%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 115 (41.22%) Azure
2 72 (25.81%) AWS
3 34 (12.19%) Entra ID
4 29 (10.39%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (8.96%) GCP
6 23 (8.24%) Azure Sentinel
7 17 (6.09%) SaaS
8 15 (5.38%) GitHub
9 14 (5.02%) Microsoft Purview
10 13 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (2.87%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 8 (2.87%) IaaS
13 8 (2.87%) PaaS
14 7 (2.51%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (2.51%) AWS KMS
14 7 (2.51%) Azure Key Vault
14 7 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (2.15%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 37 (13.26%) Firewall
2 28 (10.04%) Network Security
3 11 (3.94%) VPN
4 9 (3.23%) DNS
5 7 (2.51%) Intrusion Detection
6 6 (2.15%) WAN
7 5 (1.79%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.79%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.43%) DHCP
8 4 (1.43%) Modbus
9 3 (1.08%) SSL
10 2 (0.72%) LAN
10 2 (0.72%) NGFW
10 2 (0.72%) S/MIME
11 1 (0.36%) BGP
11 1 (0.36%) DMZ
11 1 (0.36%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.36%) OSPF
11 1 (0.36%) Telnet
11 1 (0.36%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (1.08%) DocumentDB
2 3 (1.08%) DynamoDB
2 3 (1.08%) MySQL
2 3 (1.08%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.08%) Power BI
2 3 (1.08%) Redis
3 2 (0.72%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.72%) Metadata
3 2 (0.72%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.72%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.36%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.36%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.36%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 17 (6.09%) JIRA
2 8 (2.87%) Snyk
3 7 (2.51%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.79%) CircleCI
4 5 (1.79%) GitLab
5 3 (1.08%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.72%) 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 91 (32.62%) Social Skills
2 65 (23.30%) Finance
3 41 (14.70%) Public Sector
4 24 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.53%) Banking
6 15 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (5.02%) Legal
8 11 (3.94%) Law
9 9 (3.23%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.51%) Police
12 6 (2.15%) Local Government
12 6 (2.15%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.15%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.43%) Investment Banking
15 3 (1.08%) Electronics
15 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (1.08%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 42 (15.05%) Analyst
2 39 (13.98%) Architect
3 36 (12.90%) Senior
4 25 (8.96%) Security Engineer
5 23 (8.24%) Consultant
6 22 (7.89%) Security Architect
7 20 (7.17%) Lead
8 19 (6.81%) Security Analyst
9 17 (6.09%) Security Manager
10 14 (5.02%) Project Manager
11 12 (4.30%) Security Specialist
12 11 (3.94%) Security Consultant
13 9 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 9 (3.23%) Tester
14 8 (2.87%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (2.87%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 8 (2.87%) Operations Manager
14 8 (2.87%) Senior Consultant
15 7 (2.51%) IT Manager
15 7 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.30%) REST
2 10 (3.58%) OAuth
3 9 (3.23%) OpenID
4 8 (2.87%) OAuth2
5 7 (2.51%) SAML
6 5 (1.79%) LDAP
6 5 (1.79%) Loki
6 5 (1.79%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (1.43%) RESTful
7 4 (1.43%) Spring
8 3 (1.08%) .NET
8 3 (1.08%) Hibernate
8 3 (1.08%) JPA
8 3 (1.08%) Kafka
8 3 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.08%) React
8 3 (1.08%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.08%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (1.08%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.96%) Cloud Native
1 25 (8.96%) Management Information System
2 24 (8.60%) Security Posture
3 19 (6.81%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.02%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (3.58%) NHS
6 8 (2.87%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (2.51%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.15%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.79%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.08%) CSOC
11 3 (1.08%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.08%) Life Science
11 3 (1.08%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.08%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.89%) Windows
2 9 (3.23%) Linux
3 8 (2.87%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.79%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.72%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.72%) VMS
6 1 (0.36%) Android
6 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.36%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (40.86%) Cybersecurity
2 75 (26.88%) Cloud Security
3 74 (26.52%) Information Security
4 73 (26.16%) Risk Management
5 63 (22.58%) Incident Response
6 55 (19.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 52 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 51 (18.28%) SIEM
9 47 (16.85%) CI/CD
10 40 (14.34%) DevOps
11 36 (12.90%) Identity Access Management
12 34 (12.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (11.83%) Zero Trust
14 31 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
14 31 (11.11%) Security Architecture
15 29 (10.39%) Roadmaps
16 28 (10.04%) Agile
16 28 (10.04%) Data Loss Prevention
16 28 (10.04%) DevSecOps
16 28 (10.04%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 36 (12.90%) PowerShell
2 16 (5.73%) Python
3 10 (3.58%) SQL
4 9 (3.23%) Java
5 7 (2.51%) Bash
6 5 (1.79%) Bicep
6 5 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.08%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.08%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.72%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.36%) C
Qualifications
1 73 (26.16%) CISSP
2 69 (24.73%) Security Cleared
3 65 (23.30%) SC Cleared
4 53 (19.00%) CISM
5 34 (12.19%) Degree
6 21 (7.53%) CISA
7 15 (5.38%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (4.66%) CompTIA Security+
8 13 (4.66%) CRISC
8 13 (4.66%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 11 (3.94%) PMI Certification
9 11 (3.94%) PMP
10 10 (3.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 10 (3.58%) Azure Certification
10 10 (3.58%) SANS
11 9 (3.23%) CEH
12 8 (2.87%) AWS Certification
12 8 (2.87%) FFIEC
13 7 (2.51%) CREST Certified
13 7 (2.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (54.12%) NIST
2 88 (31.54%) GDPR
3 44 (15.77%) NCSC
4 33 (11.83%) GRC
4 33 (11.83%) PCI DSS
5 30 (10.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 23 (8.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 18 (6.45%) COBIT
8 15 (5.38%) SOC 2
9 11 (3.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (3.58%) ITGC
11 9 (3.23%) NIST 800
12 7 (2.51%) SLA
12 7 (2.51%) SOX 404
13 6 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 5 (1.79%) QA
15 4 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (1.08%) EU AI Act
16 3 (1.08%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 32 (11.47%) Active Directory
2 21 (7.53%) Docker
3 4 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (9.32%) Terraform
2 23 (8.24%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (4.30%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.51%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.51%) SCCM
6 6 (2.15%) Ansible
7 5 (1.79%) QRadar
8 4 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.43%) CASB
8 4 (1.43%) CSIRT
8 4 (1.43%) Nessus
9 2 (0.72%) Grafana
9 2 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.72%) Nmap
9 2 (0.72%) SCOM
10 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.36%) Istio
10 1 (0.36%) linkerd
10 1 (0.36%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 68 (24.37%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.09%) CyberArk
3 14 (5.02%) Oracle
4 13 (4.66%) Splunk
5 12 (4.30%) Google
6 11 (3.94%) SAP
6 11 (3.94%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.51%) Fortinet
7 7 (2.51%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.15%) Cisco
8 6 (2.15%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (2.15%) Okta
8 6 (2.15%) Qualys
8 6 (2.15%) Tenable
9 4 (1.43%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.43%) Rapid7
9 4 (1.43%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.08%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (1.08%) Thycotic
11 2 (0.72%) Databricks