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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 158 223
Rank change year-on-year -20 +65 -34
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 322 238 181
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.61% 1.77% 1.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.50% 10.31% 8.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 176 144
10th Percentile £425 £421 £450
25th Percentile £488 £500 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £559 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% -6.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £666 £676 £688
90th Percentile £763 £831 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -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 3,788 2,309 2,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.88% 17.19% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,568 1,552 1,502
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £794
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 47 44
10th Percentile £18.63 - £17.05
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.15 £21.19
Median hourly rate £33.12 £34.00 £27.26
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +24.72% -0.87%
75th Percentile £41.68 £43.98 £49.06
90th Percentile £65.44 £54.25 £68.31
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £27.50
% change year-on-year +14.00% +15.05% -21.43%

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 20 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 20 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 -6 44 £575 -10.30% 34
East London -1 4 £750 +32.16% 3
South London -4 3 £637 +41.56% 4
West London -25 2 £625 +47.06% 11
North London -3 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 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.17%) IIS
3 6 (1.86%) Confluence
3 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.31%) Apache
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.31%) nginx
4 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.31%) iTrent
2 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 140 (43.48%) Azure
2 92 (28.57%) AWS
3 53 (16.46%) Entra ID
4 51 (15.84%) GCP
5 36 (11.18%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (5.90%) Azure Sentinel
7 15 (4.66%) SaaS
8 14 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (3.42%) OCI
10 10 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (3.11%) GitHub
10 10 (3.11%) Serverless
11 8 (2.48%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (1.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 5 (1.55%) AWS CloudTrail
14 5 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 4 (1.24%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.70%) Network Security
2 17 (5.28%) Firewall
3 9 (2.80%) DNS
4 8 (2.48%) VPN
5 6 (1.86%) HTTPS
6 5 (1.55%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.55%) NGFW
6 5 (1.55%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.24%) Cisco IPT
7 4 (1.24%) DHCP
7 4 (1.24%) Internet
7 4 (1.24%) SSL
7 4 (1.24%) WAN
7 4 (1.24%) Wireless
7 4 (1.24%) X.509
8 3 (0.93%) 4G
8 3 (0.93%) 5G
8 3 (0.93%) HTTP
8 3 (0.93%) LAN
8 3 (0.93%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (1.24%) Big Data
2 2 (0.62%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (0.62%) Power BI
3 1 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (5.28%) JIRA
2 6 (1.86%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.24%) Burp Suite
3 4 (1.24%) Snyk
4 3 (0.93%) Git
4 3 (0.93%) GitLab
4 3 (0.93%) Selenium
5 2 (0.62%) JMeter
5 2 (0.62%) MSTest
5 2 (0.62%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.31%) TestRail
General
1 100 (31.06%) Social Skills
2 87 (27.02%) Finance
3 45 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.32%) Public Sector
5 28 (8.70%) Legal
6 20 (6.21%) Banking
7 12 (3.73%) Telecoms
8 11 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.86%) Local Government
11 6 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.55%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.55%) Law
13 3 (0.93%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.93%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.93%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.93%) Retail
14 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (22.67%) Architect
2 40 (12.42%) Analyst
3 33 (10.25%) Lead
4 30 (9.32%) Security Architect
4 30 (9.32%) Senior
5 29 (9.01%) Consultant
6 19 (5.90%) Security Analyst
7 18 (5.59%) Security Engineer
8 17 (5.28%) Security Consultant
9 16 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (4.66%) Project Manager
10 15 (4.66%) Security Manager
11 13 (4.04%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 11 (3.42%) Cloud Architect
12 11 (3.42%) IT Manager
13 9 (2.80%) Head of Security
13 9 (2.80%) Security Specialist
14 8 (2.48%) Business Analyst
14 8 (2.48%) Cloud Engineer
15 7 (2.17%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.21%) Terraform
2 13 (4.04%) REST
3 9 (2.80%) LDAP
4 8 (2.48%) SailPoint
4 8 (2.48%) SAML
5 7 (2.17%) OAuth
6 4 (1.24%) Middleware
7 3 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.93%) JSON
7 3 (0.93%) OpenID
7 3 (0.93%) Playwright
7 3 (0.93%) SOAP
8 2 (0.62%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.62%) Azure Blueprints
8 2 (0.62%) JDBC
8 2 (0.62%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.62%) RESTful
9 1 (0.31%) .NET
9 1 (0.31%) Web Services
9 1 (0.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.94%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.32%) Security Posture
3 26 (8.07%) Onboarding
4 17 (5.28%) Management Information System
5 15 (4.66%) Operational Technology
6 11 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (2.80%) PKI
8 8 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (2.17%) Cloud Security Posture
9 7 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.86%) CMDB
10 6 (1.86%) Cyber Defence
10 6 (1.86%) NHS
10 6 (1.86%) SCADA
11 5 (1.55%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.24%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.24%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.24%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.18%) Windows
2 12 (3.73%) Linux
3 9 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.55%) Unix
5 4 (1.24%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.93%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.62%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.62%) CentOS
8 1 (0.31%) Android
8 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (49.69%) Cybersecurity
2 79 (24.53%) Risk Management
3 75 (23.29%) Cloud Security
4 74 (22.98%) Stakeholder Management
5 71 (22.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 70 (21.74%) Information Security
7 59 (18.32%) Security Architecture
8 57 (17.70%) Roadmaps
9 54 (16.77%) Incident Response
10 49 (15.22%) SIEM
10 49 (15.22%) Vulnerability Management
11 46 (14.29%) CI/CD
11 46 (14.29%) DevOps
12 43 (13.35%) Zero Trust
13 41 (12.73%) Agile
13 41 (12.73%) Data Protection
13 41 (12.73%) Identity Access Management
14 40 (12.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (12.42%) TOGAF
15 39 (12.11%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 25 (7.76%) PowerShell
2 24 (7.45%) Python
3 9 (2.80%) SQL
4 7 (2.17%) Bash
5 4 (1.24%) Bicep
5 4 (1.24%) Java
5 4 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (0.93%) BeanShell
6 3 (0.93%) C#
7 2 (0.62%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 96 (29.81%) CISSP
2 68 (21.12%) Security Cleared
3 57 (17.70%) CISM
4 53 (16.46%) SC Cleared
5 32 (9.94%) Degree
6 26 (8.07%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (7.45%) CRISC
8 23 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 20 (6.21%) CEH
10 18 (5.59%) Azure Certification
10 18 (5.59%) GIAC
11 17 (5.28%) CISA
11 17 (5.28%) CompTIA Security+
11 17 (5.28%) PMI Certification
11 17 (5.28%) PMP
12 14 (4.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 12 (3.73%) CCSP
14 11 (3.42%) AWS Certification
14 11 (3.42%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 10 (3.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (60.56%) NIST
2 80 (24.84%) GDPR
3 53 (16.46%) GRC
4 39 (12.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 38 (11.80%) NCSC
6 37 (11.49%) PCI DSS
7 31 (9.63%) COBIT
7 31 (9.63%) SOC 2
8 22 (6.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 21 (6.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 12 (3.73%) ITGC
10 12 (3.73%) NIST 800
11 11 (3.42%) HIPAA
11 11 (3.42%) SLA
12 8 (2.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (2.48%) PMO
13 5 (1.55%) QA
14 4 (1.24%) ISO 22301
14 4 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 41 (12.73%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.73%) Docker
3 2 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.31%) Firmware
4 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.31%) Varnish
4 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.86%) Ansible
5 3 (0.93%) Nessus
5 3 (0.93%) Puppet
6 2 (0.62%) Grafana
6 2 (0.62%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.62%) Nexpose
6 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.62%) QRadar
7 1 (0.31%) Argo
7 1 (0.31%) CASB
7 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.31%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 95 (29.50%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.63%) ServiceNow
3 19 (5.90%) CyberArk
4 16 (4.97%) Splunk
5 14 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
6 13 (4.04%) Google
7 11 (3.42%) Qualys
7 11 (3.42%) Tenable
8 7 (2.17%) Okta
8 7 (2.17%) Rapid7
9 6 (1.86%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.86%) Zscaler
10 5 (1.55%) Oracle
10 5 (1.55%) SAP
10 5 (1.55%) Workday
11 4 (1.24%) Veracode
12 3 (0.93%) Cisco
12 3 (0.93%) Databricks
12 3 (0.93%) Juniper
13 2 (0.62%) Salesforce