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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 184 173
Rank change year-on-year +40 -11 +134
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 273 211 262
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.91% 1.35% 1.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.53% 10.06% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 136 201
10th Percentile £400 £444 £425
25th Percentile £463 £513 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.04% +2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £690 £680
90th Percentile £823 £813 £775
England median daily rate £525 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £45.93 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £49.19 £43.45 -
Median hourly rate £70.75 £78.40 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% - -
75th Percentile £94.06 £83.20 -
90th Percentile £94.63 £89.10 -
England median hourly rate £36.00 £67.55 £46.75
% change year-on-year -46.70% +44.49% +43.85%

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 2,593 2,098 2,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.14% 13.45% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,722 1,290 2,042
10th Percentile £325 £306 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.65%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £689
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 28 46
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.70 £18.58
25th Percentile £25.15 £32.84 £22.07
Median hourly rate £31.49 £40.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.72% +25.38% +5.69%
75th Percentile £43.60 £79.60 £50.33
90th Percentile £68.12 £95.75 £66.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £35.79
% change year-on-year -13.28% -18.97% +59.07%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 52 £525 -8.70% 36
South London -2 5 £525 - 5
West London -8 4 £423 -39.64% 8
North London - 1 £650 - 2
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 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.83%) Confluence
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.37%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.20%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 122 (44.69%) Azure
2 74 (27.11%) AWS
3 34 (12.45%) Entra ID
3 34 (12.45%) GCP
4 27 (9.89%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (8.06%) Azure Sentinel
6 21 (7.69%) SaaS
7 16 (5.86%) GitHub
8 14 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (4.40%) IaaS
9 12 (4.40%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (4.03%) PaaS
11 10 (3.66%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 8 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.20%) AWS KMS
14 6 (2.20%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (1.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 34 (12.45%) Firewall
2 27 (9.89%) Network Security
3 9 (3.30%) VPN
4 6 (2.20%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (2.20%) WAN
5 5 (1.83%) DNS
5 5 (1.83%) SD-WAN
6 4 (1.47%) DHCP
6 4 (1.47%) Modbus
7 3 (1.10%) SSL
7 3 (1.10%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.73%) DMZ
8 2 (0.73%) NGFW
8 2 (0.73%) S/MIME
8 2 (0.73%) SSH
8 2 (0.73%) Telnet
8 2 (0.73%) VLAN
9 1 (0.37%) BGP
9 1 (0.37%) OSPF
9 1 (0.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.20%) Delta Lake
2 3 (1.10%) Power BI
3 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.73%) Metadata
3 2 (0.73%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.37%) GIS
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.37%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 20 (7.33%) JIRA
2 8 (2.93%) Snyk
3 5 (1.83%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.10%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.73%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.73%) ERwin
5 2 (0.73%) GitLab
5 2 (0.73%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.73%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.37%) Ant
6 1 (0.37%) Git
6 1 (0.37%) JMeter
6 1 (0.37%) MSTest
6 1 (0.37%) Selenium
6 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (31.50%) Social Skills
2 63 (23.08%) Finance
3 38 (13.92%) Public Sector
4 24 (8.79%) Banking
5 20 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.03%) Legal
8 9 (3.30%) Law
8 9 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.93%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.56%) Police
11 6 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.20%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.20%) Local Government
11 6 (2.20%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.20%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.10%) Electronics
12 3 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.10%) Marketing
13 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (16.85%) Architect
2 45 (16.48%) Analyst
3 36 (13.19%) Senior
4 27 (9.89%) Security Engineer
5 24 (8.79%) Consultant
5 24 (8.79%) Security Architect
6 22 (8.06%) Lead
7 19 (6.96%) Security Analyst
8 13 (4.76%) Security Consultant
9 10 (3.66%) Azure Architect
9 10 (3.66%) Security Manager
9 10 (3.66%) Security Specialist
9 10 (3.66%) Tester
10 9 (3.30%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (2.93%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 8 (2.93%) Project Manager
12 7 (2.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 7 (2.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 7 (2.56%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.93%) REST
2 7 (2.56%) OAuth
3 6 (2.20%) SailPoint
4 5 (1.83%) Loki
4 5 (1.83%) OAuth2
4 5 (1.83%) SAML
5 4 (1.47%) OpenID
6 3 (1.10%) .NET
6 3 (1.10%) GraphQL
6 3 (1.10%) LDAP
6 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (1.10%) Next.js
6 3 (1.10%) React
6 3 (1.10%) Tailwind CSS
6 3 (1.10%) WebSockets
7 2 (0.73%) CSS
7 2 (0.73%) HTML
7 2 (0.73%) JWT
7 2 (0.73%) Redux
7 2 (0.73%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.16%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.79%) Management Information System
2 24 (8.79%) Security Posture
3 15 (5.49%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (4.40%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.03%) NHS
6 9 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.30%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.56%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.83%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.83%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.47%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.47%) PKI
10 3 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.10%) CSOC
10 3 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.59%) Windows
2 8 (2.93%) Linux
3 6 (2.20%) Mac OS
3 6 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.83%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.73%) VMS
6 1 (0.37%) Android
6 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.37%) CentOS
6 1 (0.37%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (41.39%) Cybersecurity
2 79 (28.94%) Cloud Security
3 71 (26.01%) Information Security
4 66 (24.18%) Risk Management
5 59 (21.61%) Incident Response
6 54 (19.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 47 (17.22%) CI/CD
8 45 (16.48%) SIEM
9 42 (15.38%) DevOps
10 41 (15.02%) Stakeholder Management
11 37 (13.55%) Identity Access Management
12 34 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (12.09%) Infrastructure as Code
13 33 (12.09%) Zero Trust
14 32 (11.72%) DevSecOps
15 29 (10.62%) Security Architecture
15 29 (10.62%) Vulnerability Management
16 28 (10.26%) Security Operations
17 27 (9.89%) Data Loss Prevention
18 26 (9.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 41 (15.02%) PowerShell
2 19 (6.96%) Python
3 11 (4.03%) Bicep
4 10 (3.66%) Bash
5 7 (2.56%) SQL
6 6 (2.20%) Java
7 5 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.10%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.10%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.73%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.37%) C
10 1 (0.37%) Go
Qualifications
1 70 (25.64%) CISSP
2 60 (21.98%) Security Cleared
3 56 (20.51%) SC Cleared
4 49 (17.95%) CISM
5 28 (10.26%) Degree
6 22 (8.06%) CISA
7 17 (6.23%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (5.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 12 (4.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 12 (4.40%) Azure Certification
10 10 (3.66%) CompTIA Security+
11 9 (3.30%) CEH
11 9 (3.30%) CRISC
12 8 (2.93%) CCSP
12 8 (2.93%) FFIEC
12 8 (2.93%) SANS
13 7 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (2.56%) CREST Certified
13 7 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (2.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (54.95%) NIST
2 90 (32.97%) GDPR
3 36 (13.19%) NCSC
4 34 (12.45%) PCI DSS
5 33 (12.09%) GRC
6 25 (9.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 24 (8.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 19 (6.96%) SOC 2
9 18 (6.59%) COBIT
10 10 (3.66%) ITGC
11 9 (3.30%) NIST 800
12 8 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (2.56%) SOX 404
14 6 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 6 (2.20%) SLA
15 3 (1.10%) EU AI Act
15 3 (1.10%) HIPAA
15 3 (1.10%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 31 (11.36%) Active Directory
2 20 (7.33%) Docker
3 6 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.73%) Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (11.36%) Terraform
2 21 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 20 (7.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (3.30%) SCCM
6 7 (2.56%) Ansible
6 7 (2.56%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.20%) Nessus
8 4 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.47%) CSIRT
8 4 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.47%) QRadar
9 3 (1.10%) CASB
10 2 (0.73%) Grafana
10 2 (0.73%) Nmap
10 2 (0.73%) SCOM
11 1 (0.37%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.37%) Istio
11 1 (0.37%) linkerd
11 1 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 69 (25.27%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.86%) Google
3 12 (4.40%) CyberArk
3 12 (4.40%) SAP
3 12 (4.40%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.66%) Oracle
4 10 (3.66%) Tenable
5 9 (3.30%) Splunk
6 8 (2.93%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.56%) Databricks
7 7 (2.56%) Fortinet
7 7 (2.56%) Okta
7 7 (2.56%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.20%) Qualys
8 6 (2.20%) Rapid7
9 5 (1.83%) Cisco
9 5 (1.83%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.47%) BeyondTrust
10 4 (1.47%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.47%) Thycotic