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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 185 208
Rank change year-on-year +36 +23 +47
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 308 174 202
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.85% 1.38% 1.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.86% 9.00% 8.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 117 165
10th Percentile £413 £425 £363
25th Percentile £488 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +2.61% -6.50%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £688
90th Percentile £850 £800 £775
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 £73.00 £67.55 £85.21
% change year-on-year +8.07% -20.72% +21.72%

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 3,125 1,933 2,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.74% 15.28% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,073 1,291 1,730
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £425 £406 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £688
90th Percentile £750 £765 £788
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 25 54
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.88 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.11 £22.27 £17.02
Median hourly rate £26.11 £39.04 £25.81
Median % change year-on-year -33.12% +51.26% -41.15%
75th Percentile £57.13 £78.40 £47.75
90th Percentile £76.68 £89.53 £60.48
England median hourly rate £27.88 £31.76 £22.67
% change year-on-year -12.22% +40.10% -46.66%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +14 55 £563 -10.71% 33
South London -9 14 £519 +15.28%
West London -18 2 £423 +12.67% 4
East London -9 1 £550 -10.57% 12
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 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.92%) Confluence
4 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.97%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 102 (33.12%) Azure
2 77 (25.00%) AWS
3 27 (8.77%) Entra ID
4 26 (8.44%) GCP
5 25 (8.12%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
6 14 (4.55%) OpenShift
7 13 (4.22%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (3.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 10 (3.25%) GitHub
9 10 (3.25%) SaaS
10 9 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.27%) AWS KMS
12 7 (2.27%) OCI
12 7 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (1.95%) Serverless
14 5 (1.62%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.79%) Network Security
2 21 (6.82%) Firewall
3 12 (3.90%) DNS
4 11 (3.57%) VPN
5 6 (1.95%) DHCP
6 5 (1.62%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.62%) WAN
7 3 (0.97%) Cisco IPT
7 3 (0.97%) LAN
7 3 (0.97%) NGFW
7 3 (0.97%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.97%) SSL
8 2 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.65%) IPv4
8 2 (0.65%) IPv6
8 2 (0.65%) Modbus
8 2 (0.65%) S/MIME
9 1 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.32%) HTTP
9 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (1.30%) Big Data
1 4 (1.30%) DocumentDB
1 4 (1.30%) DynamoDB
1 4 (1.30%) MySQL
1 4 (1.30%) NoSQL
1 4 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (1.30%) Redis
2 2 (0.65%) BigQuery
2 2 (0.65%) Metadata
2 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
2 2 (0.65%) Power BI
3 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.32%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 17 (5.52%) Jenkins
2 15 (4.87%) JIRA
3 5 (1.62%) GitLab
4 3 (0.97%) JMeter
4 3 (0.97%) MSTest
4 3 (0.97%) Selenium
5 2 (0.65%) 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 (35.39%) Social Skills
2 82 (26.62%) Finance
3 41 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 23 (7.47%) Banking
6 21 (6.82%) Influencing Skills
6 21 (6.82%) Legal
7 18 (5.84%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (4.22%) Financial Institution
8 13 (4.22%) Law
9 9 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.60%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.95%) Police
12 2 (0.65%) Electronics
12 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.65%) Marketing
13 1 (0.32%) Local Government
13 1 (0.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (18.18%) Architect
2 44 (14.29%) Analyst
3 35 (11.36%) Senior
4 32 (10.39%) Consultant
5 26 (8.44%) Security Architect
6 25 (8.12%) Security Engineer
7 18 (5.84%) Security Analyst
8 17 (5.52%) CyberArk Architect
8 17 (5.52%) Lead
8 17 (5.52%) Project Manager
9 16 (5.19%) Security Consultant
10 15 (4.87%) Security Manager
10 15 (4.87%) Security Specialist
11 10 (3.25%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (3.25%) Migration Manager
11 10 (3.25%) Migration Project Manager
11 10 (3.25%) Operations Manager
12 9 (2.92%) AWS Architect
12 9 (2.92%) Business Analyst
12 9 (2.92%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.49%) OpenID
2 17 (5.52%) SAML
3 15 (4.87%) LDAP
4 11 (3.57%) OAuth
4 11 (3.57%) REST
5 7 (2.27%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.62%) RESTful
6 5 (1.62%) Spring
7 4 (1.30%) .NET
7 4 (1.30%) gRPC
7 4 (1.30%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.30%) JPA
7 4 (1.30%) Kafka
7 4 (1.30%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.30%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.30%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.30%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.65%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.99%) Onboarding
2 28 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 24 (7.79%) Security Posture
4 19 (6.17%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.92%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.60%) Operational Technology
6 8 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.60%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (2.27%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.62%) BYOD
8 5 (1.62%) CMDB
8 5 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.62%) NHS
9 4 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.09%) Windows
2 10 (3.25%) Linux
2 10 (3.25%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.97%) Unix
4 2 (0.65%) Android
4 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (37.66%) Cybersecurity
2 86 (27.92%) Information Security
3 72 (23.38%) Cloud Security
4 66 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 63 (20.45%) Risk Management
6 56 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 53 (17.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 49 (15.91%) Incident Response
8 49 (15.91%) SIEM
9 48 (15.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 47 (15.26%) DevOps
11 46 (14.94%) Agile
12 43 (13.96%) Threat Modelling
13 40 (12.99%) Security Architecture
14 36 (11.69%) Data Protection
14 36 (11.69%) Regulatory Compliance
14 36 (11.69%) Security Operations
15 35 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
16 32 (10.39%) ITIL
17 31 (10.06%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 29 (9.42%) PowerShell
2 17 (5.52%) Python
3 10 (3.25%) SQL
4 8 (2.60%) Java
5 6 (1.95%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (1.30%) Bash
7 3 (0.97%) C#
7 3 (0.97%) 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 97 (31.49%) Security Cleared
2 88 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 77 (25.00%) CISSP
4 54 (17.53%) CISM
5 39 (12.66%) Degree
6 26 (8.44%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 20 (6.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 18 (5.84%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 16 (5.19%) CEH
10 16 (5.19%) CRISC
10 16 (5.19%) PMI Certification
10 16 (5.19%) PMP
11 15 (4.87%) CISA
12 14 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
13 11 (3.57%) CCSP
13 11 (3.57%) GIAC
14 10 (3.25%) AWS Certification
14 10 (3.25%) Azure Certification
14 10 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (57.14%) NIST
2 93 (30.19%) GDPR
3 56 (18.18%) NCSC
4 45 (14.61%) GRC
5 40 (12.99%) PCI DSS
6 29 (9.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 27 (8.77%) COBIT
8 21 (6.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 20 (6.49%) SOC 2
10 15 (4.87%) NIST 800
11 13 (4.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 11 (3.57%) ITGC
13 10 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 8 (2.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 8 (2.60%) SLA
15 7 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 7 (2.27%) SOX 404
16 6 (1.95%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (1.62%) Government Security Classifications
17 5 (1.62%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 26 (8.44%) Active Directory
2 13 (4.22%) Docker
3 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.32%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 29 (9.42%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.87%) Terraform
3 14 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.95%) Nessus
6 5 (1.62%) Ansible
7 4 (1.30%) CASB
7 4 (1.30%) SCCM
8 3 (0.97%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.65%) Grafana
9 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.32%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
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 58 (18.83%) Microsoft
2 38 (12.34%) CyberArk
3 25 (8.12%) Splunk
4 23 (7.47%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.22%) Oracle
6 10 (3.25%) SAP
7 8 (2.60%) Cisco
7 8 (2.60%) Tenable
8 7 (2.27%) Google
9 5 (1.62%) Qualys
10 4 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.30%) Okta
10 4 (1.30%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.97%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.97%) Workday
11 3 (0.97%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.65%) CheckPoint
12 2 (0.65%) Databricks
12 2 (0.65%) IBM
12 2 (0.65%) Rapid7