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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 169 208
Rank change year-on-year -2 +39 +12
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 299 193 191
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.63% 1.60% 1.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.94% 9.84% 7.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 137 155
10th Percentile £425 £425 £363
25th Percentile £500 £506 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -1.71% -9.62%
75th Percentile £719 £688 £688
90th Percentile £888 £818 £775
England median daily rate £563 £551 £550
% change year-on-year +2.18% +0.09% -7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £73.60 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £57.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -3.50% +107.26% -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 3,345 1,962 2,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.24% 16.26% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,237 1,304 1,722
10th Percentile £350 £322 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 26 65
10th Percentile £19.27 £20.63 £13.29
25th Percentile £23.13 £22.39 £18.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +42.68% -7.89%
75th Percentile £41.80 £41.82 £43.75
90th Percentile £71.63 £60.00 £56.00
England median hourly rate £33.12 £34.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year -4.00% +44.96% -44.00%

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 3 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 3 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 +6 53 £575 -8.00% 38
South London -6 9 £500 +11.11% 2
East London -13 2 £650 +11.11% 3
North London -1 1 £650 +40.54% 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 10 (3.34%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.01%) Confluence
3 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) nginx
5 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.33%) iTrent
2 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 108 (36.12%) Azure
2 77 (25.75%) AWS
3 32 (10.70%) GCP
4 29 (9.70%) Entra ID
5 28 (9.36%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (5.35%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (4.35%) OpenShift
8 12 (4.01%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (3.68%) GitHub
9 11 (3.68%) SaaS
9 11 (3.68%) Serverless
10 9 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.34%) OCI
12 6 (2.01%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 5 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.69%) Firewall
1 17 (5.69%) Network Security
2 13 (4.35%) DNS
3 7 (2.34%) VPN
4 5 (1.67%) DHCP
4 5 (1.67%) HTTPS
4 5 (1.67%) Kerberos
4 5 (1.67%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.34%) NGFW
5 4 (1.34%) WAN
6 3 (1.00%) Cisco IPT
6 3 (1.00%) Internet
6 3 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (1.00%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.67%) HTTP
7 2 (0.67%) IPv4
7 2 (0.67%) IPv6
7 2 (0.67%) LAN
7 2 (0.67%) SAN
7 2 (0.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.67%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.34%) Big Data
2 4 (1.34%) DocumentDB
2 4 (1.34%) DynamoDB
2 4 (1.34%) MySQL
2 4 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.34%) Redis
3 3 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.67%) Metadata
4 2 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.33%) EDRMS
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.33%) Power BI
5 1 (0.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (6.35%) Jenkins
2 15 (5.02%) JIRA
3 4 (1.34%) GitLab
4 2 (0.67%) JMeter
4 2 (0.67%) MSTest
4 2 (0.67%) Selenium
5 1 (0.33%) Snyk
General
1 103 (34.45%) Social Skills
2 89 (29.77%) Finance
3 49 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.37%) Public Sector
5 26 (8.70%) Legal
6 22 (7.36%) Banking
7 20 (6.69%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (6.02%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (4.01%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.68%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.34%) Law
12 5 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.00%) Local Government
14 3 (1.00%) Retail
15 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.33%) Back Office
16 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (22.41%) Architect
2 36 (12.04%) Analyst
3 28 (9.36%) Consultant
4 26 (8.70%) Security Architect
5 25 (8.36%) Senior
6 24 (8.03%) Lead
7 20 (6.69%) Security Engineer
8 19 (6.35%) Project Manager
9 18 (6.02%) CyberArk Architect
10 15 (5.02%) Security Analyst
11 14 (4.68%) Security Consultant
11 14 (4.68%) Security Manager
12 13 (4.35%) Security Specialist
13 12 (4.01%) Cloud Architect
14 10 (3.34%) Migration Manager
14 10 (3.34%) Migration Project Manager
15 9 (3.01%) AWS Architect
15 9 (3.01%) Business Analyst
15 9 (3.01%) IT Manager
16 8 (2.68%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.02%) OpenID
1 18 (6.02%) SAML
2 17 (5.69%) LDAP
3 13 (4.35%) REST
4 10 (3.34%) OAuth
5 6 (2.01%) RESTful
6 5 (1.67%) Kafka
6 5 (1.67%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.67%) Spring
6 5 (1.67%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.34%) gRPC
7 4 (1.34%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.34%) JPA
7 4 (1.34%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.34%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (1.00%) Middleware
9 2 (0.67%) JSON
9 2 (0.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.38%) Cloud Native
2 37 (12.37%) Onboarding
3 28 (9.36%) Security Posture
4 21 (7.02%) Management Information System
5 12 (4.01%) Operational Technology
6 10 (3.34%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.34%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.01%) CMDB
8 6 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.67%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.34%) BYOD
10 4 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.34%) SCADA
11 3 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.00%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.00%) NHS
11 3 (1.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (11.71%) Windows
2 12 (4.01%) Linux
3 11 (3.68%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.00%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.00%) Unix
6 2 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (0.67%) Android
6 2 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.67%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (44.15%) Cybersecurity
2 86 (28.76%) Information Security
3 74 (24.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 73 (24.41%) Risk Management
5 65 (21.74%) Cloud Security
6 56 (18.73%) DevOps
6 56 (18.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 54 (18.06%) Security Architecture
8 52 (17.39%) Agile
8 52 (17.39%) CI/CD
9 48 (16.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (16.05%) Incident Response
10 46 (15.38%) SIEM
11 45 (15.05%) Threat Modelling
12 42 (14.05%) Roadmaps
13 41 (13.71%) Regulatory Compliance
14 40 (13.38%) Infrastructure as Code
15 37 (12.37%) Data Protection
16 36 (12.04%) Vulnerability Management
17 35 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 25 (8.36%) PowerShell
2 20 (6.69%) Python
3 15 (5.02%) SQL
4 7 (2.34%) Bash
5 5 (1.67%) Java
6 3 (1.00%) Bicep
6 3 (1.00%) C#
6 3 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.67%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.33%) Go
8 1 (0.33%) Ruby
8 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 88 (29.43%) CISSP
2 86 (28.76%) Security Cleared
3 73 (24.41%) SC Cleared
4 58 (19.40%) CISM
5 44 (14.72%) Degree
6 27 (9.03%) Cisco Certification
7 25 (8.36%) CRISC
8 24 (8.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 21 (7.02%) CISA
10 20 (6.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 19 (6.35%) PMI Certification
11 19 (6.35%) PMP
12 18 (6.02%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 17 (5.69%) CEH
13 17 (5.69%) CompTIA Security+
14 16 (5.35%) GIAC
15 13 (4.35%) Azure Certification
16 11 (3.68%) AWS Certification
16 11 (3.68%) CCSP
17 9 (3.01%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (60.87%) NIST
2 84 (28.09%) GDPR
3 53 (17.73%) NCSC
4 52 (17.39%) GRC
5 42 (14.05%) PCI DSS
6 36 (12.04%) COBIT
7 30 (10.03%) Cyber Essentials
8 24 (8.03%) SOC 2
9 16 (5.35%) NIST 800
9 16 (5.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (4.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (3.34%) SLA
12 8 (2.68%) HIPAA
12 8 (2.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (2.68%) ITGC
13 7 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (2.01%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 5 (1.67%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 23 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.34%) Docker
3 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.33%) Varnish
3 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (9.70%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.35%) Terraform
3 9 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.67%) Ansible
6 3 (1.00%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.00%) Puppet
7 2 (0.67%) CASB
7 2 (0.67%) Grafana
7 2 (0.67%) Nessus
7 2 (0.67%) Nexpose
7 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.33%) QRadar
8 1 (0.33%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.33%) SELinux
Vendors
1 64 (21.40%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.37%) CyberArk
3 25 (8.36%) Splunk
4 23 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.68%) Oracle
5 8 (2.68%) Tenable
6 7 (2.34%) Google
6 7 (2.34%) Qualys
7 6 (2.01%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.34%) Cisco
8 4 (1.34%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.00%) Okta
9 3 (1.00%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.00%) Rapid7
9 3 (1.00%) Workday
10 2 (0.67%) Databricks
10 2 (0.67%) Forcepoint
10 2 (0.67%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.67%) IBM
10 2 (0.67%) SAP