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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 177 201
Rank change year-on-year +18 +24 +29
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 286 190 204
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.62% 1.51% 1.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.88% 9.54% 8.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 132 165
10th Percentile £423 £414 £363
25th Percentile £500 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £723 £724 £700
90th Percentile £888 £834 £775
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £83.20 -
England median hourly rate £59.07 £61.50 £83.41
% change year-on-year -3.95% -26.27% +19.16%

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 3,220 1,992 2,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.20% 15.87% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,169 1,316 1,768
10th Percentile £350 £313 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £749 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 28 64
10th Percentile £19.76 £19.44 £13.09
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.27 £18.04
Median hourly rate £27.75 £34.75 £25.62
Median % change year-on-year -20.14% +35.64% -16.68%
75th Percentile £50.25 £57.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.30 £86.37 £56.38
England median hourly rate £30.58 £34.75 £22.75
% change year-on-year -12.00% +52.75% -46.47%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +18 56 £525 -18.03% 30
South London -9 11 £500 +11.11% 1
East London -10 1 £550 -10.57% 5
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 10 (3.50%) Confluence
2 9 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.70%) IIS
4 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.35%) Apache
4 1 (0.35%) nginx
4 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.05%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 102 (35.66%) Azure
2 73 (25.52%) AWS
3 26 (9.09%) GCP
4 24 (8.39%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 14 (4.90%) OpenShift
7 10 (3.50%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (3.50%) Azure Sentinel
7 10 (3.50%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (3.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 9 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (3.15%) GitHub
9 8 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (2.80%) OCI
9 8 (2.80%) SaaS
10 7 (2.45%) AWS KMS
10 7 (2.45%) Serverless
10 7 (2.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.29%) Network Security
2 17 (5.94%) DNS
2 17 (5.94%) Firewall
3 10 (3.50%) VPN
4 9 (3.15%) DHCP
5 5 (1.75%) Kerberos
5 5 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.40%) WAN
7 3 (1.05%) Cisco IPT
7 3 (1.05%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.70%) HTTP
8 2 (0.70%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.70%) IPv4
8 2 (0.70%) IPv6
8 2 (0.70%) LAN
8 2 (0.70%) Modbus
8 2 (0.70%) NGFW
8 2 (0.70%) SSL
9 1 (0.35%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (1.40%) Big Data
1 4 (1.40%) DocumentDB
1 4 (1.40%) DynamoDB
1 4 (1.40%) MySQL
1 4 (1.40%) NoSQL
1 4 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (1.40%) Redis
2 2 (0.70%) Metadata
2 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.35%) EDRMS
3 1 (0.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (5.94%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.55%) JIRA
3 5 (1.75%) GitLab
4 2 (0.70%) JMeter
4 2 (0.70%) MSTest
4 2 (0.70%) Selenium
5 1 (0.35%) Git
5 1 (0.35%) Snyk
General
1 102 (35.66%) Social Skills
2 80 (27.97%) Finance
3 41 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.49%) Public Sector
5 26 (9.09%) Banking
5 26 (9.09%) Legal
6 21 (7.34%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (5.94%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (4.90%) Financial Institution
9 10 (3.50%) Law
10 7 (2.45%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.05%) Retail
13 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.35%) Back Office
14 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.35%) Local Government
14 1 (0.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 54 (18.88%) Architect
2 35 (12.24%) Analyst
3 29 (10.14%) Consultant
4 26 (9.09%) Senior
5 22 (7.69%) Security Engineer
6 20 (6.99%) Lead
6 20 (6.99%) Project Manager
7 19 (6.64%) Security Architect
8 17 (5.94%) CyberArk Architect
9 16 (5.59%) Security Consultant
10 15 (5.24%) Security Analyst
10 15 (5.24%) Security Manager
11 14 (4.90%) Security Specialist
12 11 (3.85%) Migration Manager
12 11 (3.85%) Migration Project Manager
13 10 (3.50%) AWS Architect
14 9 (3.15%) Cloud Architect
15 8 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
15 8 (2.80%) IT Analyst
15 8 (2.80%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.64%) OpenID
2 18 (6.29%) SAML
3 17 (5.94%) LDAP
4 12 (4.20%) REST
5 10 (3.50%) OAuth
6 6 (2.10%) RESTful
7 5 (1.75%) OAuth2
7 5 (1.75%) Spring
8 4 (1.40%) gRPC
8 4 (1.40%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.40%) JPA
8 4 (1.40%) Kafka
8 4 (1.40%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.40%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.40%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (1.05%) Middleware
10 2 (0.70%) .NET
10 2 (0.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.94%) Onboarding
2 30 (10.49%) Cloud Native
3 23 (8.04%) Security Posture
4 17 (5.94%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.80%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.10%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.10%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.10%) Security Operations Centre
8 5 (1.75%) BYOD
8 5 (1.75%) CMDB
8 5 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.75%) NHS
8 5 (1.75%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.05%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.05%) Replication
9 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.79%) Windows
2 12 (4.20%) Linux
3 10 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.05%) Unix
5 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.35%) CentOS
6 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (38.11%) Cybersecurity
2 83 (29.02%) Information Security
3 70 (24.48%) Risk Management
4 64 (22.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 60 (20.98%) Cloud Security
6 54 (18.88%) CI/CD
7 52 (18.18%) Agile
8 48 (16.78%) DevOps
9 47 (16.43%) Incident Response
9 47 (16.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 45 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (14.69%) Security Architecture
11 42 (14.69%) Threat Modelling
12 40 (13.99%) SIEM
13 39 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
14 36 (12.59%) Roadmaps
15 34 (11.89%) Data Protection
16 32 (11.19%) Regulatory Compliance
16 32 (11.19%) Security Operations
17 31 (10.84%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 26 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 15 (5.24%) Python
3 10 (3.50%) SQL
4 5 (1.75%) Bash
4 5 (1.75%) Java
5 4 (1.40%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.05%) C#
7 2 (0.70%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.35%) Bicep
8 1 (0.35%) Go
8 1 (0.35%) Ruby
8 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 78 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 76 (26.57%) CISSP
3 66 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 51 (17.83%) CISM
5 40 (13.99%) Degree
6 24 (8.39%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (7.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 21 (7.34%) CRISC
8 20 (6.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 19 (6.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 19 (6.64%) PMI Certification
9 19 (6.64%) PMP
10 17 (5.94%) CISA
11 15 (5.24%) CompTIA Security+
12 14 (4.90%) CEH
13 12 (4.20%) AWS Certification
13 12 (4.20%) Azure Certification
13 12 (4.20%) GIAC
14 10 (3.50%) CCSP
15 8 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (58.74%) NIST
2 93 (32.52%) GDPR
3 48 (16.78%) GRC
4 47 (16.43%) NCSC
5 42 (14.69%) PCI DSS
6 27 (9.44%) COBIT
7 25 (8.74%) Cyber Essentials
8 20 (6.99%) SOC 2
9 17 (5.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (5.24%) NIST 800
11 10 (3.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (2.80%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (2.45%) ITGC
13 7 (2.45%) SLA
14 6 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (1.75%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 4 (1.40%) HIPAA
16 4 (1.40%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 24 (8.39%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.85%) Docker
3 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.35%) Varnish
4 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (9.79%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.94%) Terraform
3 9 (3.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.75%) Ansible
5 3 (1.05%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.05%) Nessus
6 2 (0.70%) CASB
6 2 (0.70%) Grafana
6 2 (0.70%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.35%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.35%) Puppet
7 1 (0.35%) QRadar
7 1 (0.35%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.35%) SELinux
Vendors
1 47 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.24%) CyberArk
3 24 (8.39%) Splunk
4 22 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.45%) Oracle
6 5 (1.75%) Qualys
6 5 (1.75%) Tenable
7 4 (1.40%) Google
8 3 (1.05%) Cisco
8 3 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.05%) Workday
9 2 (0.70%) Databricks
9 2 (0.70%) Forcepoint
9 2 (0.70%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.70%) IBM
9 2 (0.70%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.70%) SAP
9 2 (0.70%) VMware
9 2 (0.70%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.35%) Varonis