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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 186 187
Rank change year-on-year +38 +1 +93
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 305 176 224
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.93% 1.32% 1.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.25% 9.04% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 107 180
10th Percentile £408 £413 £363
25th Percentile £463 £513 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £675
90th Percentile £867 £841 £775
England median daily rate £530 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -11.67% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £57.05 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £66.13 £51.90 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £73.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.89% - -
75th Percentile £94.38 £83.20 -
90th Percentile £94.75 £87.92 -
England median hourly rate £34.75 £67.55 £44.50
% change year-on-year -48.55% +51.79% -39.35%

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 2,977 1,947 2,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.84% 14.56% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,983 1,227 1,782
10th Percentile £350 £308 £363
25th Percentile £417 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -3.93%
75th Percentile £638 £665 £688
90th Percentile £750 £792 £788
England median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 27 60
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.41 £23.23 £18.69
Median hourly rate £26.11 £39.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.05% +41.84% -21.44%
75th Percentile £50.56 £80.80 £41.50
90th Percentile £81.79 £94.25 £61.75
England median hourly rate £25.77 £31.76 £26.24
% change year-on-year -18.86% +21.04% -25.03%

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 25 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in London over the 6 months to 25 February 2026.

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 25 February 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 57 £525 -6.67% 28
South London -8 11 £513 -8.48% 1
West London -24 2 £423 -21.40% 5
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 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (2.95%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.62%) Confluence
4 1 (0.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 104 (34.10%) Azure
2 71 (23.28%) AWS
3 34 (11.15%) Entra ID
4 30 (9.84%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (6.89%) GCP
6 20 (6.56%) Azure Sentinel
7 16 (5.25%) Microsoft Purview
8 15 (4.92%) OpenShift
9 12 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (3.61%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 11 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (3.61%) GitHub
10 11 (3.61%) SaaS
11 9 (2.95%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (2.62%) AWS KMS
12 8 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (2.30%) OCI
13 7 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.16%) Firewall
2 25 (8.20%) Network Security
3 12 (3.93%) VPN
4 11 (3.61%) DNS
5 5 (1.64%) DHCP
5 5 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.31%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.31%) WAN
7 3 (0.98%) NGFW
7 3 (0.98%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.98%) SSL
8 2 (0.66%) LAN
8 2 (0.66%) Modbus
8 2 (0.66%) S/MIME
9 1 (0.33%) BGP
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco IPT
9 1 (0.33%) Internet
9 1 (0.33%) Intranet
9 1 (0.33%) OSPF
9 1 (0.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (1.31%) DocumentDB
2 4 (1.31%) DynamoDB
2 4 (1.31%) MySQL
2 4 (1.31%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.31%) Redis
3 2 (0.66%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.66%) Metadata
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.66%) Power BI
4 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.33%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 18 (5.90%) Jenkins
2 14 (4.59%) JIRA
3 5 (1.64%) GitLab
4 3 (0.98%) Snyk
5 2 (0.66%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.33%) Ant
6 1 (0.33%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.33%) Git
6 1 (0.33%) JMeter
6 1 (0.33%) MSTest
6 1 (0.33%) Selenium
6 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 112 (36.72%) Social Skills
2 84 (27.54%) Finance
3 36 (11.80%) Public Sector
4 31 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.56%) Banking
6 19 (6.23%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (5.57%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (5.25%) Legal
9 15 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (3.93%) Financial Institution
11 10 (3.28%) Law
12 6 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.97%) Police
12 6 (1.97%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.98%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.66%) Electronics
14 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.66%) Marketing
15 1 (0.33%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 49 (16.07%) Architect
2 46 (15.08%) Analyst
3 35 (11.48%) Senior
4 28 (9.18%) Consultant
5 27 (8.85%) Security Engineer
6 25 (8.20%) Security Architect
7 21 (6.89%) Security Analyst
8 17 (5.57%) Security Manager
8 17 (5.57%) Security Specialist
9 15 (4.92%) Project Manager
10 13 (4.26%) CyberArk Architect
10 13 (4.26%) Lead
10 13 (4.26%) Security Consultant
11 10 (3.28%) Operations Manager
12 9 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (2.62%) AWS Architect
13 8 (2.62%) Tester
14 7 (2.30%) Cloud Architect
14 7 (2.30%) Migration Project Manager
14 7 (2.30%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.56%) OpenID
2 17 (5.57%) SAML
3 14 (4.59%) LDAP
4 12 (3.93%) OAuth
4 12 (3.93%) REST
5 8 (2.62%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (1.64%) RESTful
6 5 (1.64%) SailPoint
6 5 (1.64%) Spring
7 4 (1.31%) .NET
7 4 (1.31%) gRPC
7 4 (1.31%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.31%) JPA
7 4 (1.31%) Kafka
7 4 (1.31%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.31%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.31%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (0.98%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.48%) Onboarding
2 28 (9.18%) Cloud Native
3 26 (8.52%) Security Posture
4 24 (7.87%) Management Information System
5 13 (4.26%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (3.28%) NHS
7 8 (2.62%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.62%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (2.30%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.97%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.64%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.98%) BYOD
12 3 (0.98%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.21%) Windows
2 8 (2.62%) Linux
3 7 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.64%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.98%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.66%) Android
6 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 91 (29.84%) Information Security
3 82 (26.89%) Risk Management
4 79 (25.90%) Cloud Security
5 78 (25.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 58 (19.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 53 (17.38%) CI/CD
8 52 (17.05%) Incident Response
9 51 (16.72%) SIEM
10 47 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (14.43%) DevOps
12 41 (13.44%) Agile
13 39 (12.79%) Security Architecture
14 37 (12.13%) Regulatory Compliance
14 37 (12.13%) Threat Modelling
15 36 (11.80%) Security Operations
16 35 (11.48%) Infrastructure as Code
16 35 (11.48%) Zero Trust
17 34 (11.15%) Identity Access Management
18 31 (10.16%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 35 (11.48%) PowerShell
2 13 (4.26%) Python
3 9 (2.95%) SQL
4 8 (2.62%) Java
5 6 (1.97%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (1.31%) Bash
7 3 (0.98%) Bicep
7 3 (0.98%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.66%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.33%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.33%) C
9 1 (0.33%) C#
9 1 (0.33%) Go
9 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 90 (29.51%) Security Cleared
2 86 (28.20%) SC Cleared
3 80 (26.23%) CISSP
4 60 (19.67%) CISM
5 37 (12.13%) Degree
6 20 (6.56%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (6.23%) CRISC
8 18 (5.90%) CISA
8 18 (5.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 18 (5.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 17 (5.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 14 (4.59%) PMI Certification
10 14 (4.59%) PMP
11 12 (3.93%) CompTIA Security+
12 10 (3.28%) AWS Certification
12 10 (3.28%) Azure Certification
13 9 (2.95%) CCSP
13 9 (2.95%) CEH
13 9 (2.95%) Master's Degree
14 8 (2.62%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (56.39%) NIST
2 94 (30.82%) GDPR
3 58 (19.02%) NCSC
4 46 (15.08%) GRC
5 42 (13.77%) PCI DSS
6 27 (8.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 23 (7.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 22 (7.21%) SOC 2
9 21 (6.89%) COBIT
10 13 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 12 (3.93%) NIST 800
12 9 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 9 (2.95%) ITGC
13 8 (2.62%) SLA
14 7 (2.30%) SOX 404
15 6 (1.97%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (1.64%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (1.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 5 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 29 (9.51%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.93%) Docker
3 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (9.18%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (5.57%) Terraform
4 12 (3.93%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.30%) SCCM
6 6 (1.97%) Ansible
7 5 (1.64%) Nessus
8 4 (1.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.98%) CASB
10 2 (0.66%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.33%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.33%) Nmap
11 1 (0.33%) QRadar
11 1 (0.33%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.33%) SELinux
11 1 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 61 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.16%) CyberArk
3 22 (7.21%) Splunk
4 15 (4.92%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.26%) Oracle
6 10 (3.28%) SAP
7 8 (2.62%) Google
8 6 (1.97%) Cisco
8 6 (1.97%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (1.64%) Okta
9 5 (1.64%) Qualys
9 5 (1.64%) Tenable
10 4 (1.31%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.66%) Apple
11 2 (0.66%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.66%) Databricks
11 2 (0.66%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.66%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.66%) VMware