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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 154 211
Rank change year-on-year -15 +57 -23
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 329 239 184
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.64% 1.76% 1.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.71% 10.31% 8.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 174 146
10th Percentile £425 £422 £450
25th Percentile £488 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £571 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% -4.79% -2.44%
75th Percentile £675 £677 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £775
England median daily rate £557 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +1.18% -5.98% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £52.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +42.86% +90.91% -59.00%

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 3,778 2,318 2,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.81% 17.09% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,556 1,556 1,504
10th Percentile £350 £314 £350
25th Percentile £430 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 45 44
10th Percentile £18.35 - £17.05
25th Percentile £24.81 £25.15 £21.19
Median hourly rate £34.06 £34.48 £27.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +26.49% -0.87%
75th Percentile £44.75 £44.75 £49.06
90th Percentile £66.71 £54.50 £68.31
England median hourly rate £38.72 £31.64 £27.50
% change year-on-year +22.38% +15.05% -21.99%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -4 46 £573 -9.56% 26
East London -5 4 £750 +32.16% 2
South London -6 4 £569 +26.33% 2
West London -22 2 £625 +47.06% 11
North London -2 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 14 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.13%) IIS
3 6 (1.82%) Confluence
3 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.30%) nginx
4 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.30%) iTrent
2 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 140 (42.55%) Azure
2 91 (27.66%) AWS
3 54 (16.41%) Entra ID
4 51 (15.50%) GCP
5 37 (11.25%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (6.38%) Azure Sentinel
7 15 (4.56%) Microsoft Purview
7 15 (4.56%) SaaS
8 11 (3.34%) OCI
9 10 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (3.04%) GitHub
9 10 (3.04%) Serverless
10 9 (2.74%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (1.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 5 (1.52%) AWS CloudTrail
13 5 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (1.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.51%) Network Security
2 16 (4.86%) Firewall
3 9 (2.74%) DNS
4 8 (2.43%) VPN
5 6 (1.82%) HTTPS
6 5 (1.52%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.52%) NGFW
6 5 (1.52%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.22%) Cisco IPT
7 4 (1.22%) DHCP
7 4 (1.22%) Internet
7 4 (1.22%) SSL
7 4 (1.22%) WAN
7 4 (1.22%) Wireless
7 4 (1.22%) X.509
8 3 (0.91%) 4G
8 3 (0.91%) 5G
8 3 (0.91%) HTTP
8 3 (0.91%) LAN
8 3 (0.91%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (1.22%) Big Data
2 3 (0.91%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.61%) Power BI
4 1 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.30%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (5.17%) JIRA
2 6 (1.82%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.22%) Burp Suite
3 4 (1.22%) Snyk
4 3 (0.91%) Git
4 3 (0.91%) GitLab
4 3 (0.91%) Selenium
5 2 (0.61%) JMeter
5 2 (0.61%) MSTest
5 2 (0.61%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.30%) TestRail
General
1 104 (31.61%) Social Skills
2 88 (26.75%) Finance
3 46 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (9.73%) Public Sector
5 27 (8.21%) Legal
6 21 (6.38%) Banking
7 12 (3.65%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.13%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.82%) Local Government
11 6 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.52%) Law
13 3 (0.91%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.91%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.91%) Retail
14 1 (0.30%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (21.88%) Architect
2 42 (12.77%) Analyst
3 32 (9.73%) Lead
4 30 (9.12%) Security Architect
4 30 (9.12%) Senior
5 29 (8.81%) Consultant
6 20 (6.08%) Security Analyst
7 19 (5.78%) Security Engineer
8 17 (5.17%) Security Consultant
9 16 (4.86%) Project Manager
9 16 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (4.56%) Security Manager
11 14 (4.26%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 12 (3.65%) IT Manager
13 11 (3.34%) Cloud Architect
14 10 (3.04%) Head of Security
15 9 (2.74%) Security Specialist
16 8 (2.43%) Business Analyst
16 8 (2.43%) Cloud Engineer
17 7 (2.13%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.65%) REST
2 8 (2.43%) LDAP
2 8 (2.43%) SailPoint
2 8 (2.43%) SAML
3 7 (2.13%) OAuth
4 4 (1.22%) Middleware
5 3 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (0.91%) JSON
5 3 (0.91%) OpenID
5 3 (0.91%) Playwright
6 2 (0.61%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.61%) Azure Blueprints
6 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.61%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.61%) RESTful
6 2 (0.61%) SOAP
7 1 (0.30%) Django
7 1 (0.30%) Web Services
7 1 (0.30%) XML
7 1 (0.30%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.73%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.12%) Security Posture
3 26 (7.90%) Onboarding
4 17 (5.17%) Management Information System
5 16 (4.86%) Operational Technology
6 13 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (2.74%) PKI
8 8 (2.43%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (2.13%) Cloud Security Posture
9 7 (2.13%) CMDB
9 7 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.13%) SCADA
10 6 (1.82%) BYOD
10 6 (1.82%) Cyber Defence
10 6 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.82%) NHS
11 5 (1.52%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.22%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.64%) Windows
2 12 (3.65%) Linux
3 9 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.52%) Unix
5 4 (1.22%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.91%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.61%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.61%) CentOS
8 1 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (49.85%) Cybersecurity
2 78 (23.71%) Risk Management
3 77 (23.40%) Cloud Security
3 77 (23.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 74 (22.49%) Information Security
5 72 (21.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 59 (17.93%) Security Architecture
7 58 (17.63%) Roadmaps
8 55 (16.72%) Incident Response
9 50 (15.20%) SIEM
10 49 (14.89%) Vulnerability Management
11 47 (14.29%) DevOps
12 46 (13.98%) CI/CD
13 44 (13.37%) Zero Trust
14 42 (12.77%) Agile
14 42 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (12.77%) Data Protection
15 41 (12.46%) Identity Access Management
15 41 (12.46%) Security Operations
16 40 (12.16%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 25 (7.60%) PowerShell
2 24 (7.29%) Python
3 9 (2.74%) SQL
4 7 (2.13%) Bash
5 4 (1.22%) Bicep
5 4 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (0.91%) C#
6 3 (0.91%) Java
7 2 (0.61%) BeanShell
7 2 (0.61%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 100 (30.40%) CISSP
2 71 (21.58%) Security Cleared
3 61 (18.54%) CISM
4 56 (17.02%) SC Cleared
5 34 (10.33%) Degree
6 28 (8.51%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (7.90%) CRISC
8 24 (7.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 21 (6.38%) CEH
10 20 (6.08%) GIAC
11 19 (5.78%) Azure Certification
12 18 (5.47%) CISA
12 18 (5.47%) CompTIA Security+
12 18 (5.47%) PMI Certification
12 18 (5.47%) PMP
13 15 (4.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 13 (3.95%) CCSP
15 11 (3.34%) AWS Certification
15 11 (3.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 10 (3.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (61.09%) NIST
2 82 (24.92%) GDPR
3 53 (16.11%) GRC
4 41 (12.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 38 (11.55%) NCSC
6 37 (11.25%) PCI DSS
7 33 (10.03%) SOC 2
8 32 (9.73%) COBIT
9 22 (6.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 20 (6.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 12 (3.65%) ITGC
11 12 (3.65%) NIST 800
12 11 (3.34%) HIPAA
12 11 (3.34%) SLA
13 8 (2.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 7 (2.13%) PMO
15 5 (1.52%) QA
16 4 (1.22%) ISO 22301
16 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 40 (12.16%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.65%) Docker
3 2 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) Firmware
4 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.30%) Varnish
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (6.08%) Terraform
2 18 (5.47%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (3.34%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.82%) Ansible
6 3 (0.91%) Nessus
6 3 (0.91%) Puppet
7 2 (0.61%) Grafana
7 2 (0.61%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.61%) Nexpose
7 2 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.61%) QRadar
8 1 (0.30%) Argo
8 1 (0.30%) CASB
8 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.30%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 97 (29.48%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.12%) ServiceNow
3 19 (5.78%) CyberArk
4 17 (5.17%) Splunk
5 14 (4.26%) CrowdStrike
6 13 (3.95%) Google
7 12 (3.65%) Qualys
7 12 (3.65%) Tenable
8 7 (2.13%) Rapid7
9 6 (1.82%) Okta
9 6 (1.82%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.82%) Zscaler
10 5 (1.52%) Oracle
10 5 (1.52%) Workday
11 4 (1.22%) SAP
11 4 (1.22%) Veracode
12 3 (0.91%) Cisco
12 3 (0.91%) Databricks
12 3 (0.91%) Juniper
13 2 (0.61%) IBM