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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 188 193
Rank change year-on-year +43 +5 +78
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 311 172 218
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.89% 1.34% 1.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.01% 8.91% 8.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 112 180
10th Percentile £413 £425 £363
25th Percentile £477 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +6.52% -4.49%
75th Percentile £700 £706 £675
90th Percentile £860 £800 £768
England median daily rate £548 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.75% +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 £72.00 £73.60 £63.96
% change year-on-year -2.17% +15.08% -8.64%

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 3,108 1,931 2,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.92% 15.06% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,060 1,272 1,753
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £424 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £786
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 27 60
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.23 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.11 £39.04 £25.81
Median % change year-on-year -33.12% +51.26% -41.15%
75th Percentile £57.00 £78.40 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.67 £93.75 £57.93
England median hourly rate £26.11 £32.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -18.41% +30.61% -40.96%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +18 57 £525 -9.68% 28
South London -8 14 £519 +15.28%
West London -19 2 £423 -21.40% 6
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 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 106 (34.08%) Azure
2 74 (23.79%) AWS
3 32 (10.29%) Entra ID
4 29 (9.32%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (8.04%) GCP
6 19 (6.11%) Azure Sentinel
7 17 (5.47%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (4.50%) OpenShift
9 11 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (3.54%) SaaS
10 10 (3.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 10 (3.22%) GitHub
11 9 (2.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (2.57%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (2.25%) AWS KMS
13 7 (2.25%) OCI
13 7 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (1.93%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (1.93%) Serverless
15 5 (1.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.72%) Network Security
2 23 (7.40%) Firewall
3 12 (3.86%) DNS
4 11 (3.54%) VPN
5 6 (1.93%) DHCP
6 5 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.61%) WAN
7 4 (1.29%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.96%) Cisco IPT
8 3 (0.96%) LAN
8 3 (0.96%) NGFW
8 3 (0.96%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.96%) SSL
9 2 (0.64%) IPv4
9 2 (0.64%) IPv6
9 2 (0.64%) Modbus
9 2 (0.64%) S/MIME
10 1 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.32%) Internet
10 1 (0.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (1.29%) DocumentDB
1 4 (1.29%) DynamoDB
1 4 (1.29%) MySQL
1 4 (1.29%) NoSQL
1 4 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (1.29%) Redis
2 3 (0.96%) Big Data
3 2 (0.64%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.64%) Metadata
3 2 (0.64%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.64%) Power BI
4 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.32%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 17 (5.47%) Jenkins
2 14 (4.50%) JIRA
3 5 (1.61%) GitLab
4 3 (0.96%) JMeter
4 3 (0.96%) MSTest
4 3 (0.96%) Selenium
5 2 (0.64%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.32%) Git
6 1 (0.32%) Snyk
6 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 109 (35.05%) Social Skills
2 82 (26.37%) Finance
3 38 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (11.58%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.43%) Banking
5 20 (6.43%) Legal
6 19 (6.11%) Influencing Skills
7 18 (5.79%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (4.18%) Financial Institution
8 13 (4.18%) Law
9 9 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.57%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.93%) Police
13 2 (0.64%) Electronics
13 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.64%) Marketing
14 1 (0.32%) Military
14 1 (0.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (16.40%) Architect
2 43 (13.83%) Analyst
3 41 (13.18%) Senior
4 32 (10.29%) Consultant
5 27 (8.68%) Security Engineer
6 25 (8.04%) Security Architect
7 18 (5.79%) Security Analyst
7 18 (5.79%) Security Manager
8 17 (5.47%) Lead
8 17 (5.47%) Project Manager
9 16 (5.14%) Security Consultant
10 15 (4.82%) Security Specialist
11 14 (4.50%) CyberArk Architect
12 10 (3.22%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (3.22%) Migration Manager
12 10 (3.22%) Migration Project Manager
12 10 (3.22%) Operations Manager
13 9 (2.89%) AWS Architect
13 9 (2.89%) Senior Consultant
14 8 (2.57%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.43%) OpenID
2 17 (5.47%) SAML
3 15 (4.82%) LDAP
4 11 (3.54%) REST
5 10 (3.22%) OAuth
6 6 (1.93%) OAuth2
7 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (1.61%) RESTful
7 5 (1.61%) SailPoint
7 5 (1.61%) Spring
8 4 (1.29%) .NET
8 4 (1.29%) gRPC
8 4 (1.29%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.29%) JPA
8 4 (1.29%) Kafka
8 4 (1.29%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.29%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.29%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.22%) Onboarding
2 29 (9.32%) Cloud Native
3 26 (8.36%) Security Posture
4 20 (6.43%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.89%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (2.89%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.57%) Operational Technology
6 8 (2.57%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.57%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (2.25%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.93%) NHS
9 5 (1.61%) BYOD
9 5 (1.61%) CMDB
9 5 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.00%) Windows
2 10 (3.22%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.25%) Linux
4 5 (1.61%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.96%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.64%) Android
6 2 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (39.23%) Cybersecurity
2 89 (28.62%) Information Security
3 73 (23.47%) Cloud Security
4 68 (21.86%) Risk Management
5 66 (21.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 57 (18.33%) CI/CD
7 51 (16.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (16.08%) Incident Response
9 49 (15.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 48 (15.43%) Agile
10 48 (15.43%) SIEM
11 46 (14.79%) DevOps
12 42 (13.50%) Security Architecture
13 41 (13.18%) Threat Modelling
14 37 (11.90%) Security Operations
15 35 (11.25%) Infrastructure as Code
15 35 (11.25%) Regulatory Compliance
15 35 (11.25%) Zero Trust
16 34 (10.93%) Data Protection
17 33 (10.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 37 (11.90%) PowerShell
2 17 (5.47%) Python
3 10 (3.22%) SQL
4 8 (2.57%) Java
5 6 (1.93%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (1.61%) Bash
7 3 (0.96%) C#
7 3 (0.96%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.32%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.32%) Bicep
8 1 (0.32%) C
8 1 (0.32%) Go
8 1 (0.32%) Ruby
8 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 102 (32.80%) Security Cleared
2 94 (30.23%) SC Cleared
3 82 (26.37%) CISSP
4 60 (19.29%) CISM
5 41 (13.18%) Degree
6 27 (8.68%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (7.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 20 (6.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 20 (6.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 16 (5.14%) CEH
9 16 (5.14%) PMI Certification
9 16 (5.14%) PMP
10 15 (4.82%) CISA
10 15 (4.82%) CompTIA Security+
10 15 (4.82%) CRISC
11 11 (3.54%) Azure Certification
11 11 (3.54%) CCSP
11 11 (3.54%) GIAC
12 10 (3.22%) AWS Certification
12 10 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (55.95%) NIST
2 96 (30.87%) GDPR
3 58 (18.65%) NCSC
4 45 (14.47%) GRC
5 38 (12.22%) PCI DSS
6 29 (9.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 25 (8.04%) COBIT
8 21 (6.75%) SOC 2
9 17 (5.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (3.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 12 (3.86%) NIST 800
11 10 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 10 (3.22%) ITGC
12 8 (2.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (2.57%) SLA
13 7 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (2.25%) SOX 404
14 6 (1.93%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (1.61%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 30 (9.65%) Active Directory
2 13 (4.18%) Docker
3 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.32%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 29 (9.32%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (4.82%) Terraform
4 11 (3.54%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.25%) SCCM
6 5 (1.61%) Ansible
6 5 (1.61%) Nessus
7 4 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (1.29%) CASB
8 3 (0.96%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.64%) Grafana
9 2 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.64%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.32%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.32%) Nmap
10 1 (0.32%) QRadar
10 1 (0.32%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.32%) SELinux
10 1 (0.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 65 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 36 (11.58%) CyberArk
3 25 (8.04%) Splunk
4 19 (6.11%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.18%) Oracle
6 10 (3.22%) SAP
7 8 (2.57%) Cisco
8 7 (2.25%) Google
8 7 (2.25%) Tenable
9 6 (1.93%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.61%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.61%) Okta
11 4 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.29%) Qualys
12 3 (0.96%) Zscaler
13 2 (0.64%) BeyondTrust
13 2 (0.64%) Databricks
13 2 (0.64%) IBM
13 2 (0.64%) Thycotic
13 2 (0.64%) VMware