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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 191 180
Rank change year-on-year +45 -11 +144
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 262 210 281
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.94% 1.34% 1.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.79% 10.17% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 141 219
10th Percentile £400 £450 £437
25th Percentile £470 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £585 £620
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% -5.65% +3.33%
75th Percentile £681 £675 £700
90th Percentile £836 £788 £800
England median daily rate £529 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.07% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £45.93 - -
25th Percentile £49.19 £35.00 £43.75
Median hourly rate £70.75 £54.30 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.29% +14.32% -
75th Percentile £94.06 £79.60 £51.25
90th Percentile £94.63 £81.76 -
England median hourly rate £33.50 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -4.29% -21.35% +81.63%

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 2,428 2,065 2,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.94% 13.20% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,621 1,280 2,147
10th Percentile £325 £324 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -0.88%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £798
England median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 27 43
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.11
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.80 £21.13
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% +31.10%
75th Percentile £44.75 £63.44 £49.92
90th Percentile £67.00 £88.92 £64.90
England median hourly rate £30.75 £33.50 £35.82
% change year-on-year -8.22% -6.46% +44.47%

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 28 October 2025.

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 28 October 2025.

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 28 October 2025. 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 +2 43 £600 +9.09% 74
West London -1 5 £423 -39.64% 10
East London +2 4 £563 - 6
South London -3 3 £525 - 1
North London - 1 £650 -
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 7 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.53%) Confluence
3 3 (1.15%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 11 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.29%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.76%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 115 (43.89%) Azure
2 70 (26.72%) AWS
3 40 (15.27%) GCP
4 31 (11.83%) Entra ID
5 24 (9.16%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (8.40%) SaaS
7 21 (8.02%) Azure Sentinel
8 15 (5.73%) GitHub
9 14 (5.34%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (4.96%) IaaS
11 11 (4.20%) PaaS
12 10 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (3.82%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (2.67%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (2.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 5 (1.91%) Azure Machine Learning
16 4 (1.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 4 (1.53%) Cloud Run
16 4 (1.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 40 (15.27%) Firewall
2 28 (10.69%) Network Security
3 6 (2.29%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (2.29%) WAN
4 5 (1.91%) SD-WAN
5 4 (1.53%) VPN
6 3 (1.15%) Modbus
6 3 (1.15%) Skype
6 3 (1.15%) SSL
6 3 (1.15%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.15%) WebEx
7 2 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.76%) DMZ
7 2 (0.76%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.76%) NGFW
7 2 (0.76%) S/MIME
7 2 (0.76%) SSH
7 2 (0.76%) Telnet
7 2 (0.76%) VLAN
8 1 (0.38%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.29%) Delta Lake
2 3 (1.15%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.76%) GIS
3 2 (0.76%) Metadata
3 2 (0.76%) Power BI
3 2 (0.76%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.38%) Looker
4 1 (0.38%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 17 (6.49%) JIRA
2 8 (3.05%) Snyk
3 5 (1.91%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.15%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.76%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.76%) ERwin
5 2 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.76%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.38%) Ant
6 1 (0.38%) GitLab
6 1 (0.38%) JMeter
6 1 (0.38%) MSTest
6 1 (0.38%) Selenium
6 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 78 (29.77%) Social Skills
2 58 (22.14%) Finance
3 33 (12.60%) Public Sector
4 19 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.87%) Banking
6 14 (5.34%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (4.58%) Legal
8 9 (3.44%) Law
9 7 (2.67%) Police
9 7 (2.67%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.29%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.29%) Local Government
10 6 (2.29%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.29%) Marketing
10 6 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.91%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.15%) Electronics
12 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 54 (20.61%) Architect
2 38 (14.50%) Analyst
3 33 (12.60%) Security Architect
4 31 (11.83%) Senior
5 23 (8.78%) Consultant
5 23 (8.78%) Security Engineer
6 21 (8.02%) Lead
7 13 (4.96%) Security Analyst
7 13 (4.96%) Security Consultant
8 11 (4.20%) Security Specialist
9 10 (3.82%) Azure Architect
9 10 (3.82%) Cloud Architect
9 10 (3.82%) Security Manager
10 8 (3.05%) Enterprise Architect
10 8 (3.05%) Tester
11 7 (2.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 7 (2.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 7 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 6 (2.29%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.44%) OAuth
1 9 (3.44%) SailPoint
2 7 (2.67%) OAuth2
2 7 (2.67%) SAML
3 6 (2.29%) OpenID
4 5 (1.91%) LDAP
4 5 (1.91%) Loki
4 5 (1.91%) REST
5 3 (1.15%) GraphQL
5 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (1.15%) Next.js
5 3 (1.15%) React
5 3 (1.15%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (1.15%) WebSockets
6 2 (0.76%) CSS3
6 2 (0.76%) HTML5
6 2 (0.76%) JWT
6 2 (0.76%) Redux
6 2 (0.76%) RESTful
6 2 (0.76%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.16%) Management Information System
2 23 (8.78%) Cloud Native
3 22 (8.40%) Security Posture
4 16 (6.11%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (3.82%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.44%) NHS
7 7 (2.67%) PKI
8 6 (2.29%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.91%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.91%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.91%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.53%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.15%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.15%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.87%) Windows
2 8 (3.05%) Linux
3 7 (2.67%) Mac OS
4 5 (1.91%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.53%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.76%) VMS
7 1 (0.38%) Android
7 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.38%) CentOS
7 1 (0.38%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (44.66%) Cybersecurity
2 78 (29.77%) Cloud Security
3 67 (25.57%) Information Security
4 60 (22.90%) Risk Management
5 58 (22.14%) Incident Response
6 46 (17.56%) SIEM
7 43 (16.41%) DevOps
7 43 (16.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 38 (14.50%) CI/CD
8 38 (14.50%) Identity Access Management
9 37 (14.12%) DevSecOps
9 37 (14.12%) Vulnerability Management
10 35 (13.36%) Stakeholder Management
11 32 (12.21%) Security Architecture
11 32 (12.21%) Zero Trust
12 31 (11.83%) Data Loss Prevention
13 30 (11.45%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (10.31%) Security Operations
16 26 (9.92%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 32 (12.21%) PowerShell
2 21 (8.02%) Python
3 12 (4.58%) Bash
4 11 (4.20%) Bicep
5 7 (2.67%) SQL
6 5 (1.91%) Java
6 5 (1.91%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.15%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.15%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.76%) BeanShell
8 2 (0.76%) Go
9 1 (0.38%) C
9 1 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 69 (26.34%) CISSP
2 59 (22.52%) Security Cleared
3 55 (20.99%) SC Cleared
4 48 (18.32%) CISM
5 28 (10.69%) Degree
6 22 (8.40%) CISA
7 20 (7.63%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (5.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 15 (5.73%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 10 (3.82%) Azure Certification
9 10 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (3.82%) CRISC
10 9 (3.44%) CCSP
11 8 (3.05%) CEH
11 8 (3.05%) CREST Certified
11 8 (3.05%) FFIEC
11 8 (3.05%) SANS
12 7 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (2.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 7 (2.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (57.25%) NIST
2 80 (30.53%) GDPR
3 35 (13.36%) NCSC
4 29 (11.07%) PCI DSS
5 27 (10.31%) GRC
6 24 (9.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (8.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 22 (8.40%) SOC 2
8 17 (6.49%) COBIT
9 11 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 9 (3.44%) ITGC
11 8 (3.05%) HIPAA
12 7 (2.67%) NIST 800
13 6 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 6 (2.29%) SLA
13 6 (2.29%) SOX 404
14 3 (1.15%) EU AI Act
14 3 (1.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (1.15%) RMADS
System Software
1 30 (11.45%) Active Directory
2 20 (7.63%) Docker
3 5 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.76%) Firmware
4 2 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (10.69%) Terraform
2 19 (7.25%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (5.34%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (3.44%) SCCM
6 7 (2.67%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.29%) QRadar
8 5 (1.91%) Ansible
8 5 (1.91%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (1.91%) Nessus
9 4 (1.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.53%) CSIRT
10 3 (1.15%) CASB
11 2 (0.76%) Grafana
11 2 (0.76%) Nmap
11 2 (0.76%) SCOM
11 2 (0.76%) SELinux
12 1 (0.38%) Istio
12 1 (0.38%) linkerd
12 1 (0.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 66 (25.19%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.11%) Google
3 11 (4.20%) CyberArk
3 11 (4.20%) SAP
3 11 (4.20%) Tenable
4 9 (3.44%) Palo Alto
4 9 (3.44%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.44%) Splunk
5 8 (3.05%) Okta
5 8 (3.05%) OpenAI
5 8 (3.05%) Oracle
6 7 (2.67%) Cisco
6 7 (2.67%) Databricks
6 7 (2.67%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.91%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (1.91%) Qualys
8 4 (1.53%) Rapid7
8 4 (1.53%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.15%) Polycom
9 3 (1.15%) VMware