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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 168 202
Rank change year-on-year +3 +34 +24
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 285 196 204
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.58% 1.60% 1.17%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.67% 9.98% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 141 167
10th Percentile £425 £400 £363
25th Percentile £500 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -1.71% -7.41%
75th Percentile £722 £688 £695
90th Percentile £890 £825 £775
England median daily rate £574 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.27% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £78.40 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £57.00 £83.41
% change year-on-year -3.50% -31.67% +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 3,286 1,963 2,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.16% 16.04% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,219 1,299 1,745
10th Percentile £350 £319 £350
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 29 62
10th Percentile £19.76 £21.00 £12.70
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.75 £17.85
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +42.68% -30.91%
75th Percentile £40.46 £55.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.38 £79.36 £57.13
England median hourly rate £33.55 £35.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -4.14% +52.17% -38.67%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +14 55 £575 -9.09% 51
South London -15 9 £500 +11.11% 2
East London -13 2 £650 +11.11% 4
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 9 (3.16%) Confluence
2 8 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.05%) IIS
5 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.35%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) nginx
5 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.05%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.35%) iTrent
2 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 102 (35.79%) Azure
2 72 (25.26%) AWS
3 29 (10.18%) GCP
4 24 (8.42%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (8.07%) Entra ID
6 13 (4.56%) OpenShift
7 12 (4.21%) Azure Sentinel
8 10 (3.51%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (3.51%) SaaS
9 9 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (3.16%) GitHub
10 8 (2.81%) Serverless
11 7 (2.46%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 6 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.11%) OCI
13 5 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.40%) Amazon MSK
14 4 (1.40%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (1.40%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.26%) Firewall
2 14 (4.91%) DNS
2 14 (4.91%) Network Security
3 6 (2.11%) DHCP
3 6 (2.11%) VPN
4 5 (1.75%) Kerberos
4 5 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.40%) NGFW
5 4 (1.40%) WAN
6 3 (1.05%) Cisco IPT
6 3 (1.05%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (1.05%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.70%) HTTP
7 2 (0.70%) IPv4
7 2 (0.70%) IPv6
7 2 (0.70%) LAN
7 2 (0.70%) SSL
8 1 (0.35%) Internet
8 1 (0.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.75%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.40%) Big Data
2 4 (1.40%) DocumentDB
2 4 (1.40%) DynamoDB
2 4 (1.40%) MySQL
2 4 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.40%) Redis
3 2 (0.70%) Metadata
4 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.35%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (6.32%) Jenkins
2 11 (3.86%) JIRA
3 4 (1.40%) GitLab
4 2 (0.70%) JMeter
4 2 (0.70%) MSTest
4 2 (0.70%) Selenium
5 1 (0.35%) Snyk
General
1 95 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 84 (29.47%) Finance
3 46 (16.14%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (9.12%) Legal
4 26 (9.12%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.07%) Banking
6 21 (7.37%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (5.96%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (4.21%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.81%) Law
9 8 (2.81%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.05%) Retail
12 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Back Office
13 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.35%) Local Government
13 1 (0.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 59 (20.70%) Architect
2 36 (12.63%) Analyst
3 29 (10.18%) Consultant
4 25 (8.77%) Senior
5 23 (8.07%) Security Architect
6 22 (7.72%) Lead
7 20 (7.02%) Security Engineer
8 18 (6.32%) CyberArk Architect
8 18 (6.32%) Project Manager
9 15 (5.26%) Security Analyst
9 15 (5.26%) Security Consultant
10 13 (4.56%) Security Manager
10 13 (4.56%) Security Specialist
11 11 (3.86%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (3.51%) Migration Manager
12 10 (3.51%) Migration Project Manager
13 9 (3.16%) Business Analyst
14 8 (2.81%) AWS Architect
14 8 (2.81%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (2.81%) Head of Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.67%) OpenID
1 19 (6.67%) SAML
2 17 (5.96%) LDAP
3 12 (4.21%) REST
4 11 (3.86%) OAuth
5 6 (2.11%) RESTful
6 5 (1.75%) Kafka
6 5 (1.75%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.75%) Spring
6 5 (1.75%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.40%) gRPC
7 4 (1.40%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.40%) JPA
7 4 (1.40%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.40%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (1.05%) Middleware
9 2 (0.70%) JSON
9 2 (0.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.63%) Onboarding
2 35 (12.28%) Cloud Native
3 24 (8.42%) Security Posture
4 18 (6.32%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.51%) Operational Technology
6 8 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.46%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.75%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.40%) BYOD
10 4 (1.40%) CMDB
10 4 (1.40%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.05%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.05%) NHS
11 3 (1.05%) Replication
11 3 (1.05%) SCADA
11 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.53%) Windows
2 9 (3.16%) Linux
3 7 (2.46%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.05%) Unix
5 2 (0.70%) Android
5 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.35%) CentOS
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (43.16%) Cybersecurity
2 80 (28.07%) Information Security
3 68 (23.86%) Risk Management
4 66 (23.16%) Stakeholder Management
5 60 (21.05%) Cloud Security
6 52 (18.25%) DevOps
7 51 (17.89%) Agile
7 51 (17.89%) CI/CD
7 51 (17.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 49 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (16.84%) Security Architecture
10 43 (15.09%) Incident Response
10 43 (15.09%) Threat Modelling
11 39 (13.68%) SIEM
12 38 (13.33%) Roadmaps
13 37 (12.98%) Infrastructure as Code
13 37 (12.98%) Regulatory Compliance
14 34 (11.93%) Data Protection
15 32 (11.23%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (10.88%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (7.72%) PowerShell
2 17 (5.96%) Python
3 12 (4.21%) SQL
4 6 (2.11%) Bash
5 5 (1.75%) Java
6 3 (1.05%) C#
6 3 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
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 83 (29.12%) Security Cleared
2 78 (27.37%) CISSP
3 72 (25.26%) SC Cleared
4 50 (17.54%) CISM
5 43 (15.09%) Degree
6 25 (8.77%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (7.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 21 (7.37%) CRISC
9 19 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 18 (6.32%) PMI Certification
10 18 (6.32%) PMP
11 17 (5.96%) CISA
11 17 (5.96%) CompTIA Security+
11 17 (5.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 16 (5.61%) CEH
13 15 (5.26%) GIAC
14 12 (4.21%) Azure Certification
15 10 (3.51%) CCSP
16 9 (3.16%) AWS Certification
17 8 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (61.40%) NIST
2 82 (28.77%) GDPR
3 50 (17.54%) NCSC
4 48 (16.84%) GRC
5 38 (13.33%) PCI DSS
6 34 (11.93%) COBIT
7 26 (9.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 23 (8.07%) SOC 2
9 16 (5.61%) NIST 800
9 16 (5.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (4.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (3.16%) ITGC
12 8 (2.81%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (2.46%) SLA
14 6 (2.11%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 5 (1.75%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (1.75%) HIPAA
16 4 (1.40%) QA
System Software
1 22 (7.72%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.51%) Docker
3 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.35%) Varnish
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (9.82%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.56%) Terraform
3 10 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.05%) Ansible
5 3 (1.05%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.05%) Nessus
5 3 (1.05%) Puppet
6 2 (0.70%) CASB
6 2 (0.70%) Grafana
6 2 (0.70%) Nexpose
6 2 (0.70%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.35%) QRadar
7 1 (0.35%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.35%) SELinux
Vendors
1 56 (19.65%) Microsoft
2 32 (11.23%) CyberArk
3 22 (7.72%) Splunk
4 18 (6.32%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.46%) Oracle
6 5 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (1.75%) Google
6 5 (1.75%) Qualys
6 5 (1.75%) Tenable
7 4 (1.40%) Cisco
7 4 (1.40%) Zscaler
8 3 (1.05%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.05%) SAP
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%) Okta
9 2 (0.70%) VMware