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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 169 224
Rank change year-on-year +5 +55 -9
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 310 191 183
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.63% 1.52% 1.03%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.91% 9.29% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 140 150
10th Percentile £425 £425 £429
25th Percentile £500 £505 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -1.71% -7.14%
75th Percentile £706 £688 £675
90th Percentile £888 £814 £775
England median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -0.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £73.60 -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +2.67% +123.62% -60.71%

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 3,480 2,055 2,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.28% 16.40% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,339 1,355 1,700
10th Percentile £350 £313 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £763 £800
England median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 29 62
10th Percentile £19.00 £21.00 £12.70
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.15 £17.81
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.50 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +43.81% -4.04%
75th Percentile £41.92 £51.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.68 £57.13
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.66 £23.80
% change year-on-year +10.24% +37.21% -43.02%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +8 54 £575 -8.00% 16
South London +1 9 £500 +11.11% 3
East London -9 2 £650 +11.11% 1
North London +1 1 £650 +40.54% 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 12 (3.87%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.90%) Confluence
3 8 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.26%) IIS
5 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.32%) nginx
5 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.32%) iTrent
2 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 118 (38.06%) Azure
2 82 (26.45%) AWS
3 37 (11.94%) GCP
4 33 (10.65%) Entra ID
5 32 (10.32%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (5.81%) Azure Sentinel
7 15 (4.84%) GitHub
8 13 (4.19%) Microsoft Purview
8 13 (4.19%) Serverless
9 12 (3.87%) OpenShift
9 12 (3.87%) SaaS
10 9 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (1.94%) OCI
14 5 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.48%) Network Security
2 14 (4.52%) DNS
2 14 (4.52%) Firewall
3 6 (1.94%) HTTPS
3 6 (1.94%) VPN
4 5 (1.61%) DHCP
4 5 (1.61%) Kerberos
5 4 (1.29%) Internet
5 4 (1.29%) NGFW
5 4 (1.29%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.97%) Cisco IPT
6 3 (0.97%) HTTP
6 3 (0.97%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.97%) WAN
6 3 (0.97%) X.509
7 2 (0.65%) IPv4
7 2 (0.65%) IPv6
7 2 (0.65%) LAN
7 2 (0.65%) SAN
7 2 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.61%) NoSQL
1 5 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (1.29%) Big Data
2 4 (1.29%) DocumentDB
2 4 (1.29%) DynamoDB
2 4 (1.29%) MySQL
2 4 (1.29%) Redis
3 2 (0.65%) Metadata
3 2 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.65%) Power BI
4 1 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (6.77%) Jenkins
2 20 (6.45%) JIRA
3 6 (1.94%) GitLab
4 5 (1.61%) Snyk
5 4 (1.29%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.65%) JMeter
6 2 (0.65%) MSTest
6 2 (0.65%) Selenium
6 2 (0.65%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.32%) Git
General
1 109 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 90 (29.03%) Finance
3 50 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 25 (8.06%) Legal
6 22 (7.10%) Banking
7 18 (5.81%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (5.81%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (3.87%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.58%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.94%) Law
10 6 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.29%) Local Government
11 4 (1.29%) Retail
12 3 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.32%) Back Office
14 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 68 (21.94%) Architect
2 39 (12.58%) Analyst
3 30 (9.68%) Consultant
4 25 (8.06%) Senior
5 24 (7.74%) Lead
5 24 (7.74%) Security Architect
6 21 (6.77%) Project Manager
6 21 (6.77%) Security Engineer
7 18 (5.81%) Security Analyst
8 17 (5.48%) CyberArk Architect
9 16 (5.16%) Security Manager
10 15 (4.84%) Security Consultant
11 13 (4.19%) Security Specialist
12 12 (3.87%) Cloud Architect
12 12 (3.87%) IT Manager
13 10 (3.23%) AWS Architect
13 10 (3.23%) Migration Manager
13 10 (3.23%) Migration Project Manager
13 10 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (2.90%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.81%) OpenID
1 18 (5.81%) SAML
2 17 (5.48%) LDAP
3 14 (4.52%) REST
4 11 (3.55%) OAuth
5 6 (1.94%) OAuth2
5 6 (1.94%) RESTful
6 5 (1.61%) Kafka
6 5 (1.61%) Spring
6 5 (1.61%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.29%) gRPC
7 4 (1.29%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.29%) JPA
7 4 (1.29%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.29%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.97%) JSON
8 3 (0.97%) Middleware
8 3 (0.97%) SailPoint
9 2 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 43 (13.87%) Cloud Native
2 33 (10.65%) Onboarding
3 29 (9.35%) Security Posture
4 21 (6.77%) Management Information System
5 14 (4.52%) Operational Technology
6 12 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.58%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.94%) CMDB
9 6 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.94%) SCADA
10 5 (1.61%) BYOD
10 5 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.61%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.29%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.97%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (0.97%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.97%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.61%) Windows
2 14 (4.52%) Linux
3 10 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.29%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.29%) Unix
6 2 (0.65%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (0.65%) Android
6 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.65%) CentOS
6 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (45.48%) Cybersecurity
2 85 (27.42%) Information Security
3 79 (25.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 74 (23.87%) Risk Management
5 65 (20.97%) Cloud Security
6 61 (19.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 59 (19.03%) DevOps
8 58 (18.71%) Agile
9 57 (18.39%) Security Architecture
10 55 (17.74%) CI/CD
11 49 (15.81%) Threat Modelling
12 48 (15.48%) Incident Response
13 47 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 47 (15.16%) Roadmaps
14 44 (14.19%) Infrastructure as Code
14 44 (14.19%) SIEM
15 41 (13.23%) Regulatory Compliance
16 38 (12.26%) Vulnerability Management
17 37 (11.94%) Data Protection
17 37 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 23 (7.42%) PowerShell
1 23 (7.42%) Python
2 16 (5.16%) SQL
3 7 (2.26%) Bash
4 5 (1.61%) Java
5 3 (0.97%) Bicep
5 3 (0.97%) C#
5 3 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.65%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.32%) Go
7 1 (0.32%) Ruby
7 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 92 (29.68%) CISSP
2 84 (27.10%) Security Cleared
3 71 (22.90%) SC Cleared
4 59 (19.03%) CISM
5 44 (14.19%) Degree
6 29 (9.35%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (9.03%) CRISC
8 26 (8.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 24 (7.74%) CISA
10 21 (6.77%) GIAC
10 21 (6.77%) PMI Certification
10 21 (6.77%) PMP
11 20 (6.45%) CEH
12 19 (6.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 18 (5.81%) CompTIA Security+
14 17 (5.48%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 14 (4.52%) Azure Certification
16 12 (3.87%) AWS Certification
17 11 (3.55%) CCSP
18 9 (2.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (62.90%) NIST
2 87 (28.06%) GDPR
3 58 (18.71%) GRC
4 49 (15.81%) NCSC
5 45 (14.52%) PCI DSS
6 37 (11.94%) COBIT
7 29 (9.35%) SOC 2
8 28 (9.03%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (5.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (4.84%) NIST 800
11 12 (3.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 11 (3.55%) SLA
13 10 (3.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 9 (2.90%) HIPAA
15 8 (2.58%) ITGC
16 6 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 6 (1.94%) QA
17 5 (1.61%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 27 (8.71%) Active Directory
2 13 (4.19%) Docker
3 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.32%) Varnish
3 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (10.65%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.45%) Terraform
3 11 (3.55%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.94%) Ansible
6 3 (0.97%) Puppet
7 2 (0.65%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.65%) Grafana
7 2 (0.65%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.65%) Nessus
7 2 (0.65%) Nexpose
7 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.32%) CASB
8 1 (0.32%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.32%) SELinux
Vendors
1 72 (23.23%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.68%) CyberArk
3 28 (9.03%) ServiceNow
4 26 (8.39%) Splunk
5 9 (2.90%) Google
5 9 (2.90%) Tenable
6 8 (2.58%) Qualys
7 7 (2.26%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (1.94%) Oracle
9 4 (1.29%) Okta
9 4 (1.29%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.29%) Rapid7
9 4 (1.29%) Veracode
9 4 (1.29%) Zscaler
10 3 (0.97%) Cisco
10 3 (0.97%) Workday
11 2 (0.65%) Forcepoint
11 2 (0.65%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.65%) IBM
11 2 (0.65%) SAP