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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 192 187
Rank change year-on-year +50 -5 +109
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 285 179 234
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.95% 1.28% 1.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.69% 9.20% 9.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 110 178
10th Percentile £403 £413 £363
25th Percentile £463 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £700 £705 £679
90th Percentile £886 £826 £775
England median daily rate £525 £600 £592
% change year-on-year -12.50% +1.30% -1.28%
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 2,665 1,945 2,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.22% 13.94% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,772 1,181 1,845
10th Percentile £350 £300 £363
25th Percentile £415 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year - -5.83% -1.11%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £700
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 30 56
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £22.58 £24.57 £19.81
Median hourly rate £26.57 £37.90 £32.11
Median % change year-on-year -29.89% +18.05% -8.27%
75th Percentile £36.73 £82.00 £51.94
90th Percentile £75.21 £95.25 £64.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.17% - +15.38%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +9 56 £513 -4.65% 30
South London -3 5 £525 -6.25% 18
West London -17 2 £423 -21.40% 16
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 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.40%) Confluence
4 1 (0.35%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.40%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 109 (38.25%) Azure
2 68 (23.86%) AWS
3 34 (11.93%) Entra ID
4 31 (10.88%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (7.72%) Azure Sentinel
5 22 (7.72%) GCP
6 15 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
7 14 (4.91%) SaaS
8 13 (4.56%) OpenShift
9 11 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (3.86%) GitHub
10 9 (3.16%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 9 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (2.81%) IaaS
11 8 (2.81%) PaaS
12 7 (2.46%) AWS KMS
12 7 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (12.63%) Firewall
2 24 (8.42%) Network Security
3 11 (3.86%) DNS
3 11 (3.86%) VPN
4 6 (2.11%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.75%) DHCP
5 5 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.40%) Modbus
6 4 (1.40%) WAN
7 3 (1.05%) NGFW
7 3 (1.05%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.05%) SSL
8 2 (0.70%) LAN
8 2 (0.70%) S/MIME
9 1 (0.35%) BGP
9 1 (0.35%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.35%) Internet
9 1 (0.35%) Intranet
9 1 (0.35%) OSPF
9 1 (0.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (1.40%) DocumentDB
2 4 (1.40%) DynamoDB
2 4 (1.40%) MySQL
2 4 (1.40%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.40%) Redis
3 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.70%) Metadata
3 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.70%) Power BI
3 2 (0.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.35%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.35%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 16 (5.61%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.56%) JIRA
3 6 (2.11%) GitLab
4 3 (1.05%) Snyk
5 2 (0.70%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.35%) Ant
6 1 (0.35%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.35%) Git
6 1 (0.35%) JMeter
6 1 (0.35%) MSTest
6 1 (0.35%) Selenium
6 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 99 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 74 (25.96%) Finance
3 39 (13.68%) Public Sector
4 26 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.02%) Banking
6 15 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (4.91%) Legal
8 13 (4.56%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (3.51%) Law
10 8 (2.81%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.46%) Telecoms
12 6 (2.11%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.11%) Police
13 3 (1.05%) Electronics
13 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.05%) Local Government
13 3 (1.05%) Marketing
14 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 48 (16.84%) Architect
2 41 (14.39%) Analyst
3 33 (11.58%) Senior
4 25 (8.77%) Consultant
5 24 (8.42%) Security Architect
5 24 (8.42%) Security Engineer
6 20 (7.02%) Security Analyst
7 17 (5.96%) Security Manager
8 14 (4.91%) Project Manager
9 13 (4.56%) Lead
9 13 (4.56%) Security Specialist
10 11 (3.86%) Security Consultant
11 10 (3.51%) CyberArk Architect
11 10 (3.51%) Operations Manager
12 9 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (2.81%) AWS Architect
13 8 (2.81%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 8 (2.81%) Tester
14 7 (2.46%) IT Manager
14 7 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.32%) OpenID
2 15 (5.26%) SAML
3 13 (4.56%) LDAP
3 13 (4.56%) REST
4 12 (4.21%) OAuth
5 9 (3.16%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.75%) RESTful
6 5 (1.75%) SailPoint
6 5 (1.75%) Spring
7 4 (1.40%) gRPC
7 4 (1.40%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.40%) JPA
7 4 (1.40%) Kafka
7 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (1.40%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.40%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.40%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (1.05%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.05%) Next.js
8 3 (1.05%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.18%) Cloud Native
1 29 (10.18%) Onboarding
2 27 (9.47%) Management Information System
2 27 (9.47%) Security Posture
3 14 (4.91%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (3.51%) NHS
5 9 (3.16%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (2.46%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.11%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.75%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.05%) Insider Threat
10 3 (1.05%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.05%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.07%) Windows
2 9 (3.16%) Linux
2 9 (3.16%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.75%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.70%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.70%) VMS
5 1 (0.35%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (41.75%) Cybersecurity
2 76 (26.67%) Risk Management
3 75 (26.32%) Cloud Security
4 74 (25.96%) Information Security
5 68 (23.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 59 (20.70%) Incident Response
7 57 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 53 (18.60%) SIEM
9 51 (17.89%) CI/CD
10 43 (15.09%) DevOps
11 40 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (12.98%) Identity Access Management
13 36 (12.63%) Security Architecture
14 35 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
14 35 (12.28%) Zero Trust
15 32 (11.23%) Agile
15 32 (11.23%) Threat Modelling
16 31 (10.88%) Regulatory Compliance
17 30 (10.53%) Security Operations
18 29 (10.18%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 37 (12.98%) PowerShell
2 16 (5.61%) Python
3 9 (3.16%) Java
3 9 (3.16%) SQL
4 7 (2.46%) Bash
5 6 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (1.40%) Bicep
7 3 (1.05%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.05%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.70%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.35%) C
9 1 (0.35%) Go
Qualifications
1 80 (28.07%) Security Cleared
2 75 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 68 (23.86%) CISSP
4 51 (17.89%) CISM
5 34 (11.93%) Degree
6 18 (6.32%) CISA
7 14 (4.91%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (4.56%) CompTIA Security+
8 13 (4.56%) CRISC
9 12 (4.21%) PMI Certification
9 12 (4.21%) PMP
10 10 (3.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 10 (3.51%) Azure Certification
10 10 (3.51%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 9 (3.16%) SANS
12 8 (2.81%) AWS Certification
12 8 (2.81%) CEH
12 8 (2.81%) FFIEC
12 8 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (2.46%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (54.74%) NIST
2 89 (31.23%) GDPR
3 54 (18.95%) NCSC
4 37 (12.98%) PCI DSS
5 35 (12.28%) GRC
6 28 (9.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 24 (8.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 19 (6.67%) COBIT
9 14 (4.91%) SOC 2
10 12 (4.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (3.51%) ITGC
12 8 (2.81%) NIST 800
12 8 (2.81%) SLA
13 7 (2.46%) SOX 404
14 6 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 6 (2.11%) QA
15 5 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (1.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 34 (11.93%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.26%) Docker
3 4 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (9.82%) Kubernetes
2 22 (7.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (7.02%) Terraform
4 13 (4.56%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.46%) SCCM
6 6 (2.11%) Ansible
7 4 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (1.40%) Nessus
7 4 (1.40%) QRadar
8 3 (1.05%) CASB
8 3 (1.05%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.70%) Grafana
9 2 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.70%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.70%) SCOM
10 1 (0.35%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.35%) linkerd
10 1 (0.35%) Nmap
10 1 (0.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 67 (23.51%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.47%) CyberArk
3 20 (7.02%) Splunk
4 14 (4.91%) Oracle
5 11 (3.86%) Google
5 11 (3.86%) SAP
5 11 (3.86%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.46%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.11%) Cisco
7 6 (2.11%) Okta
7 6 (2.11%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.40%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.40%) Qualys
9 4 (1.40%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.40%) Tenable
10 3 (1.05%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (1.05%) Thycotic
11 2 (0.70%) Databricks
11 2 (0.70%) Zscaler