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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 153 211
Rank change year-on-year -21 +58 -17
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 327 239 184
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.62% 1.76% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.65% 10.37% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 175 146
10th Percentile £425 £425 £444
25th Percentile £488 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.44%
75th Percentile £653 £683 £688
90th Percentile £768 £825 £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% -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 3,779 2,305 2,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.75% 16.98% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,553 1,556 1,515
10th Percentile £350 £314 £350
25th Percentile £428 £413 £426
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 41 43
10th Percentile £18.07 - £16.99
25th Percentile £24.38 £25.15 £21.13
Median hourly rate £29.04 £34.50 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +29.31% -32.32%
75th Percentile £41.68 £44.75 £46.25
90th Percentile £65.44 £55.00 £59.00
England median hourly rate £39.00 £31.64 £27.50
% change year-on-year +23.26% +15.05% -31.80%

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 11 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 11 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 -17 46 £573 -10.55% 42
South London -3 9 £500 +11.11% 3
East London -2 4 £750 +28.21% 2
West London -21 2 £625 +47.06% 9
North London -2 1 £650 - 1
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 (4.28%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.75%) Confluence
3 7 (2.14%) IIS
4 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.31%) Apache
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.31%) nginx
5 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.31%) iTrent
2 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 138 (42.20%) Azure
2 86 (26.30%) AWS
3 53 (16.21%) Entra ID
4 47 (14.37%) GCP
5 37 (11.31%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (6.12%) Azure Sentinel
7 15 (4.59%) Microsoft Purview
7 15 (4.59%) SaaS
8 11 (3.36%) OCI
9 10 (3.06%) GitHub
10 9 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.75%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (2.75%) Serverless
11 7 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (2.14%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 4 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.22%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.95%) Network Security
2 16 (4.89%) Firewall
3 9 (2.75%) DNS
4 8 (2.45%) VPN
5 6 (1.83%) HTTPS
6 5 (1.53%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.53%) NGFW
6 5 (1.53%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.22%) Cisco IPT
7 4 (1.22%) DHCP
7 4 (1.22%) Internet
7 4 (1.22%) SSL
7 4 (1.22%) WAN
7 4 (1.22%) Wireless
7 4 (1.22%) X.509
8 3 (0.92%) 4G
8 3 (0.92%) 5G
8 3 (0.92%) HTTP
8 3 (0.92%) LAN
8 3 (0.92%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (1.22%) Big Data
2 3 (0.92%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.61%) Power BI
4 1 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (6.12%) JIRA
2 5 (1.53%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.22%) Burp Suite
3 4 (1.22%) Snyk
4 2 (0.61%) Git
4 2 (0.61%) GitLab
4 2 (0.61%) JMeter
4 2 (0.61%) MSTest
4 2 (0.61%) Selenium
4 2 (0.61%) SonarQube
General
1 110 (33.64%) Social Skills
2 89 (27.22%) Finance
3 49 (14.98%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (10.70%) Public Sector
5 28 (8.56%) Legal
6 21 (6.42%) Banking
7 11 (3.36%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.45%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.83%) Local Government
10 6 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.53%) Law
12 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.92%) Retail
13 2 (0.61%) Digital Health
13 2 (0.61%) Digital Healthcare
14 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (21.71%) Architect
2 43 (13.15%) Analyst
3 31 (9.48%) Lead
4 30 (9.17%) Security Architect
4 30 (9.17%) Senior
5 29 (8.87%) Consultant
6 22 (6.73%) Security Engineer
7 20 (6.12%) Security Analyst
8 17 (5.20%) Security Consultant
9 16 (4.89%) Project Manager
9 16 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (4.28%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 13 (3.98%) Security Manager
12 10 (3.06%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (3.06%) Head of Security
13 9 (2.75%) Business Analyst
13 9 (2.75%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (2.75%) IT Manager
13 9 (2.75%) Security Specialist
14 7 (2.14%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.67%) REST
2 8 (2.45%) LDAP
2 8 (2.45%) SailPoint
2 8 (2.45%) SAML
3 7 (2.14%) OAuth
4 4 (1.22%) Middleware
5 3 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (0.92%) JSON
5 3 (0.92%) OpenID
6 2 (0.61%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.61%) Azure Blueprints
6 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.61%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.61%) Playwright
6 2 (0.61%) RESTful
6 2 (0.61%) SOAP
7 1 (0.31%) .NET
7 1 (0.31%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.31%) Web Services
7 1 (0.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.48%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.17%) Security Posture
3 26 (7.95%) Onboarding
4 17 (5.20%) Management Information System
4 17 (5.20%) Operational Technology
5 13 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.75%) PKI
7 8 (2.45%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (2.45%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.14%) CMDB
8 7 (2.14%) SCADA
9 6 (1.83%) BYOD
9 6 (1.83%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (1.83%) Cyber Defence
9 6 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.53%) NHS
10 5 (1.53%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 34 (10.40%) Windows
2 12 (3.67%) Linux
3 9 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.22%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.22%) Unix
6 3 (0.92%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.61%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.61%) CentOS
8 1 (0.31%) Android
8 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (49.54%) Cybersecurity
2 83 (25.38%) Information Security
3 79 (24.16%) Cloud Security
4 77 (23.55%) Risk Management
5 75 (22.94%) Stakeholder Management
6 69 (21.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 59 (18.04%) Security Architecture
8 56 (17.13%) Roadmaps
9 54 (16.51%) Incident Response
10 51 (15.60%) Vulnerability Management
11 46 (14.07%) Agile
11 46 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 45 (13.76%) CI/CD
13 44 (13.46%) DevOps
13 44 (13.46%) SIEM
14 43 (13.15%) Security Operations
14 43 (13.15%) Zero Trust
15 42 (12.84%) Threat Modelling
16 41 (12.54%) Data Protection
16 41 (12.54%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (7.65%) PowerShell
2 23 (7.03%) Python
3 9 (2.75%) SQL
4 7 (2.14%) Bash
5 4 (1.22%) Bicep
5 4 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (0.92%) C#
6 3 (0.92%) Java
7 2 (0.61%) BeanShell
7 2 (0.61%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 107 (32.72%) CISSP
2 74 (22.63%) Security Cleared
3 66 (20.18%) CISM
4 60 (18.35%) SC Cleared
5 37 (11.31%) Degree
6 33 (10.09%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (8.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 28 (8.56%) CRISC
9 22 (6.73%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 21 (6.42%) CEH
11 20 (6.12%) CISA
12 19 (5.81%) Azure Certification
12 19 (5.81%) GIAC
13 18 (5.50%) CompTIA Security+
14 17 (5.20%) PMI Certification
14 17 (5.20%) PMP
15 16 (4.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 13 (3.98%) CCSP
17 11 (3.36%) AWS Certification
18 9 (2.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (62.08%) NIST
2 86 (26.30%) GDPR
3 58 (17.74%) GRC
4 40 (12.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 38 (11.62%) PCI DSS
6 36 (11.01%) NCSC
7 35 (10.70%) COBIT
8 34 (10.40%) SOC 2
9 21 (6.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 20 (6.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (3.98%) SLA
12 12 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 12 (3.67%) ITGC
12 12 (3.67%) NIST 800
13 11 (3.36%) HIPAA
14 8 (2.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (2.14%) PMO
16 5 (1.53%) Government Security Classifications
17 4 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 40 (12.23%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.36%) Docker
3 2 (0.61%) 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 (5.50%) Terraform
2 16 (4.89%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.53%) Ansible
6 3 (0.92%) Nessus
6 3 (0.92%) Puppet
7 2 (0.61%) Grafana
7 2 (0.61%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.61%) Nexpose
7 2 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.31%) CASB
8 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.31%) QRadar
8 1 (0.31%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 95 (29.05%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.79%) ServiceNow
3 19 (5.81%) CyberArk
4 15 (4.59%) Splunk
5 13 (3.98%) CrowdStrike
6 12 (3.67%) Google
6 12 (3.67%) Qualys
6 12 (3.67%) Tenable
7 7 (2.14%) Rapid7
8 6 (1.83%) Okta
8 6 (1.83%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.83%) Zscaler
9 5 (1.53%) Oracle
9 5 (1.53%) Workday
10 4 (1.22%) SAP
10 4 (1.22%) Veracode
11 3 (0.92%) Cisco
11 3 (0.92%) Databricks
11 3 (0.92%) Juniper
12 2 (0.61%) IBM