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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 183 185
Rank change year-on-year +50 +2 +111
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 275 192 241
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.95% 1.37% 1.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.72% 9.94% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 119 182
10th Percentile £400 £413 £378
25th Percentile £463 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +2.65% -6.48%
75th Percentile £675 £706 £680
90th Percentile £788 £838 £775
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -
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 2,565 1,931 2,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.18% 13.75% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,707 1,172 1,837
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% +1.80%
75th Percentile £638 £657 £700
90th Percentile £750 £788 £789
England median daily rate £500 £500 £543
% change year-on-year - -7.92% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 29 50
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.00 £18.92
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.80 £24.43
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +22.81%
75th Percentile £38.13 £78.40 £52.50
90th Percentile £75.21 £95.50 £65.30
England median hourly rate £25.63 £30.21 £32.50
% change year-on-year -15.16% -7.05% +32.65%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +3 52 £525 -7.69% 46
South London -6 5 £525 -6.25% 16
West London -15 3 £423 -21.40% 15
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 8 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.45%) Confluence
3 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.36%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 113 (41.09%) Azure
2 71 (25.82%) AWS
3 34 (12.36%) Entra ID
4 29 (10.55%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (8.73%) GCP
6 23 (8.36%) Azure Sentinel
7 16 (5.82%) GitHub
7 16 (5.82%) SaaS
8 14 (5.09%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (5.09%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (2.91%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 8 (2.91%) IaaS
11 8 (2.91%) PaaS
12 7 (2.55%) AWS KMS
12 7 (2.55%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (2.55%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (13.09%) Firewall
2 27 (9.82%) Network Security
3 10 (3.64%) DNS
3 10 (3.64%) VPN
4 6 (2.18%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (2.18%) WAN
5 5 (1.82%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.45%) DHCP
6 4 (1.45%) Modbus
7 3 (1.09%) SSL
8 2 (0.73%) LAN
8 2 (0.73%) NGFW
8 2 (0.73%) S/MIME
9 1 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.36%) Skype
9 1 (0.36%) VLAN
9 1 (0.36%) WebEx
9 1 (0.36%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.36%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (1.45%) DocumentDB
2 4 (1.45%) DynamoDB
2 4 (1.45%) MySQL
2 4 (1.45%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.45%) Redis
3 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.73%) Metadata
3 2 (0.73%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.73%) Power BI
3 2 (0.73%) 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 15 (5.45%) JIRA
2 8 (2.91%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.91%) Snyk
3 6 (2.18%) GitLab
4 5 (1.82%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.73%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.36%) Ant
6 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.36%) ERwin
6 1 (0.36%) Git
6 1 (0.36%) JMeter
6 1 (0.36%) MSTest
6 1 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.36%) Selenium
6 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 87 (31.64%) Social Skills
2 63 (22.91%) Finance
3 40 (14.55%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.91%) Banking
6 15 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (5.09%) Legal
8 11 (4.00%) Law
9 9 (3.27%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.55%) Police
12 6 (2.18%) Local Government
12 6 (2.18%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.18%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.45%) Investment Banking
15 3 (1.09%) Electronics
15 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (1.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (14.55%) Analyst
1 40 (14.55%) Architect
2 34 (12.36%) Senior
3 25 (9.09%) Security Engineer
4 22 (8.00%) Consultant
4 22 (8.00%) Security Architect
5 20 (7.27%) Lead
6 19 (6.91%) Security Analyst
7 16 (5.82%) Security Manager
8 13 (4.73%) Project Manager
9 12 (4.36%) Security Specialist
10 11 (4.00%) Security Consultant
11 9 (3.27%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 8 (2.91%) AWS Architect
12 8 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (2.91%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 8 (2.91%) Operations Manager
12 8 (2.91%) Tester
13 7 (2.55%) IT Manager
13 7 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.73%) REST
2 11 (4.00%) OAuth
3 10 (3.64%) OpenID
4 9 (3.27%) OAuth2
5 7 (2.55%) SAML
6 5 (1.82%) LDAP
6 5 (1.82%) Loki
6 5 (1.82%) RESTful
6 5 (1.82%) SailPoint
6 5 (1.82%) Spring
7 4 (1.45%) gRPC
7 4 (1.45%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.45%) JPA
7 4 (1.45%) Kafka
7 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (1.45%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.45%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.45%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (1.09%) .NET
8 3 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 25 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 24 (8.73%) Security Posture
3 19 (6.91%) 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
8 6 (2.18%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.82%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.09%) CSOC
11 3 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.09%) Life Science
11 3 (1.09%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.09%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.00%) Windows
2 9 (3.27%) Linux
3 8 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.82%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.73%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.73%) VMS
6 1 (0.36%) Android
6 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (40.73%) Cybersecurity
2 74 (26.91%) Cloud Security
3 72 (26.18%) Risk Management
4 70 (25.45%) Information Security
5 61 (22.18%) Incident Response
6 56 (20.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 52 (18.91%) Stakeholder Management
8 51 (18.55%) SIEM
9 47 (17.09%) CI/CD
10 41 (14.91%) DevOps
11 36 (13.09%) Identity Access Management
12 35 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (12.00%) Zero Trust
14 32 (11.64%) Infrastructure as Code
15 31 (11.27%) Security Architecture
16 29 (10.55%) Roadmaps
17 28 (10.18%) Data Loss Prevention
17 28 (10.18%) Security Operations
18 27 (9.82%) Agile
18 27 (9.82%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 36 (13.09%) PowerShell
2 15 (5.45%) Python
3 10 (3.64%) SQL
4 9 (3.27%) Java
5 7 (2.55%) Bash
6 5 (1.82%) 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 70 (25.45%) CISSP
2 69 (25.09%) Security Cleared
3 65 (23.64%) SC Cleared
4 51 (18.55%) CISM
5 34 (12.36%) Degree
6 20 (7.27%) CISA
7 15 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (4.73%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 12 (4.36%) CompTIA Security+
10 11 (4.00%) CRISC
11 10 (3.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 10 (3.64%) Azure Certification
11 10 (3.64%) PMI Certification
11 10 (3.64%) PMP
12 9 (3.27%) CEH
12 9 (3.27%) SANS
13 8 (2.91%) AWS Certification
13 8 (2.91%) FFIEC
14 7 (2.55%) DV Cleared
14 7 (2.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (53.82%) NIST
2 87 (31.64%) GDPR
3 44 (16.00%) NCSC
4 34 (12.36%) PCI DSS
5 33 (12.00%) GRC
6 30 (10.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 23 (8.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 18 (6.55%) COBIT
9 15 (5.45%) SOC 2
10 11 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (3.64%) ITGC
12 8 (2.91%) NIST 800
13 7 (2.55%) SLA
13 7 (2.55%) SOX 404
14 6 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 6 (2.18%) QA
15 4 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (1.09%) EU AI Act
16 3 (1.09%) HIPAA
System Software
1 32 (11.64%) Active Directory
2 22 (8.00%) Docker
3 4 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (9.82%) Terraform
2 24 (8.73%) 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%) SCOM
10 1 (0.36%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.36%) Istio
10 1 (0.36%) linkerd
10 1 (0.36%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 66 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.18%) CyberArk
3 14 (5.09%) Oracle
4 13 (4.73%) Splunk
5 12 (4.36%) Google
6 11 (4.00%) SAP
7 10 (3.64%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.55%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.18%) Cisco
9 6 (2.18%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (2.18%) Okta
9 6 (2.18%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.82%) Qualys
10 5 (1.82%) Tenable
11 4 (1.45%) OpenAI
12 3 (1.09%) BeyondTrust
12 3 (1.09%) Rapid7
12 3 (1.09%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.09%) Thycotic
13 2 (0.73%) VMware