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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 169 223
Rank change year-on-year -5 +54 0
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 309 199 184
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.60% 1.55% 1.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.76% 9.44% 7.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 145 151
10th Percentile £425 £425 £438
25th Percentile £500 £500 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -1.71% -6.77%
75th Percentile £714 £688 £675
90th Percentile £888 £820 £775
England median daily rate £563 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +2.27% -4.35% -1.95%

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 3,527 2,107 2,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.31% 16.43% 13.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,363 1,398 1,680
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £758 £800
England median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 29 61
10th Percentile £19.09 £22.60 £12.50
25th Percentile £23.94 £25.15 £18.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +44.96% -6.67%
75th Percentile £41.80 £51.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £66.00 £57.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £32.50 £24.18
% change year-on-year +9.23% +34.41% -42.11%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +1 50 £575 -4.17% 9
South London +2 9 £500 +11.11% 3
East London -8 2 £650 +11.11% 3
North London +1 1 £650 +40.54%
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 12 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.91%) Confluence
3 8 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.27%) IIS
5 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.32%) nginx
5 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.32%) iTrent
2 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 118 (38.19%) Azure
2 82 (26.54%) AWS
3 38 (12.30%) GCP
4 36 (11.65%) Entra ID
5 33 (10.68%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (6.15%) Azure Sentinel
7 15 (4.85%) GitHub
8 14 (4.53%) Microsoft Purview
9 13 (4.21%) SaaS
9 13 (4.21%) Serverless
10 12 (3.88%) OpenShift
11 9 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (1.62%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.62%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (1.62%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.83%) Network Security
2 15 (4.85%) Firewall
3 13 (4.21%) DNS
4 7 (2.27%) VPN
5 6 (1.94%) HTTPS
6 5 (1.62%) DHCP
6 5 (1.62%) Kerberos
7 4 (1.29%) Internet
7 4 (1.29%) NGFW
7 4 (1.29%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.97%) Cisco IPT
8 3 (0.97%) HTTP
8 3 (0.97%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.97%) WAN
8 3 (0.97%) X.509
9 2 (0.65%) 4G
9 2 (0.65%) IPv4
9 2 (0.65%) IPv6
9 2 (0.65%) SAN
9 2 (0.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.62%) NoSQL
1 5 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (1.29%) Big Data
2 4 (1.29%) DocumentDB
2 4 (1.29%) DynamoDB
2 4 (1.29%) MySQL
2 4 (1.29%) Redis
3 2 (0.65%) Metadata
3 2 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.65%) Power BI
4 1 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (6.80%) Jenkins
2 20 (6.47%) JIRA
3 6 (1.94%) GitLab
4 5 (1.62%) Snyk
5 4 (1.29%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.65%) JMeter
6 2 (0.65%) MSTest
6 2 (0.65%) Selenium
6 2 (0.65%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.32%) Git
General
1 109 (35.28%) Social Skills
2 88 (28.48%) Finance
3 48 (15.53%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.71%) Public Sector
5 23 (7.44%) Legal
6 22 (7.12%) Banking
7 21 (6.80%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (6.15%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.24%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.91%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.94%) Law
11 6 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.29%) Local Government
12 4 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.29%) Retail
13 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.32%) Back Office
14 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (22.65%) Architect
2 39 (12.62%) Analyst
3 29 (9.39%) Consultant
4 26 (8.41%) Security Architect
5 25 (8.09%) Lead
5 25 (8.09%) Senior
6 22 (7.12%) Security Engineer
7 18 (5.83%) Project Manager
7 18 (5.83%) Security Analyst
8 17 (5.50%) CyberArk Architect
9 15 (4.85%) Security Consultant
10 14 (4.53%) Security Manager
11 12 (3.88%) Cloud Architect
11 12 (3.88%) IT Manager
11 12 (3.88%) Security Specialist
12 10 (3.24%) AWS Architect
12 10 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.91%) Business Analyst
13 9 (2.91%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 8 (2.59%) Head of Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.83%) OpenID
1 18 (5.83%) SAML
2 17 (5.50%) LDAP
3 14 (4.53%) REST
4 11 (3.56%) OAuth
5 6 (1.94%) OAuth2
5 6 (1.94%) RESTful
6 5 (1.62%) Kafka
6 5 (1.62%) Spring
6 5 (1.62%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.29%) gRPC
7 4 (1.29%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.29%) JPA
7 4 (1.29%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.29%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.97%) JSON
8 3 (0.97%) Middleware
8 3 (0.97%) SailPoint
9 2 (0.65%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.24%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.36%) Onboarding
3 31 (10.03%) Security Posture
4 17 (5.50%) Management Information System
5 15 (4.85%) Operational Technology
6 12 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.59%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.94%) BYOD
9 6 (1.94%) CMDB
9 6 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.94%) SCADA
10 5 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.62%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.29%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.29%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.97%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.65%) Windows
2 14 (4.53%) Linux
3 10 (3.24%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.29%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.29%) Unix
6 2 (0.65%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (0.65%) Android
6 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.65%) CentOS
6 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (46.60%) Cybersecurity
2 85 (27.51%) Information Security
3 79 (25.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 73 (23.62%) Risk Management
5 65 (21.04%) Cloud Security
6 61 (19.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 57 (18.45%) DevOps
8 56 (18.12%) CI/CD
8 56 (18.12%) Security Architecture
9 52 (16.83%) Agile
10 49 (15.86%) Roadmaps
10 49 (15.86%) Threat Modelling
11 47 (15.21%) Incident Response
12 46 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 45 (14.56%) SIEM
14 44 (14.24%) Infrastructure as Code
15 42 (13.59%) Regulatory Compliance
16 39 (12.62%) Vulnerability Management
17 36 (11.65%) Data Protection
18 35 (11.33%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 24 (7.77%) Python
2 23 (7.44%) PowerShell
3 15 (4.85%) SQL
4 7 (2.27%) Bash
5 5 (1.62%) Java
6 3 (0.97%) Bicep
6 3 (0.97%) C#
6 3 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.65%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.32%) Go
8 1 (0.32%) Ruby
8 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 92 (29.77%) CISSP
2 84 (27.18%) Security Cleared
3 71 (22.98%) SC Cleared
4 59 (19.09%) CISM
5 43 (13.92%) Degree
6 30 (9.71%) Cisco Certification
7 27 (8.74%) CRISC
8 26 (8.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 23 (7.44%) CISA
10 20 (6.47%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 19 (6.15%) CEH
11 19 (6.15%) GIAC
12 18 (5.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 17 (5.50%) CompTIA Security+
13 17 (5.50%) PMI Certification
13 17 (5.50%) PMP
14 14 (4.53%) Azure Certification
15 12 (3.88%) AWS Certification
16 11 (3.56%) CCSP
17 9 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (62.78%) NIST
2 86 (27.83%) GDPR
3 61 (19.74%) GRC
4 50 (16.18%) NCSC
5 46 (14.89%) PCI DSS
6 36 (11.65%) COBIT
7 31 (10.03%) SOC 2
8 29 (9.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 16 (5.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (4.85%) NIST 800
11 12 (3.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 11 (3.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 11 (3.56%) SLA
13 10 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 9 (2.91%) HIPAA
15 8 (2.59%) ITGC
16 7 (2.27%) QA
17 6 (1.94%) Government Security Classifications
17 6 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 5 (1.62%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 28 (9.06%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.53%) Docker
3 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.32%) Varnish
3 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (10.68%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.47%) Terraform
3 11 (3.56%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (3.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.94%) Ansible
6 3 (0.97%) Puppet
7 2 (0.65%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.65%) Grafana
7 2 (0.65%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.65%) Nessus
7 2 (0.65%) Nexpose
7 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.32%) CASB
8 1 (0.32%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.32%) SELinux
Vendors
1 73 (23.62%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.06%) CyberArk
2 28 (9.06%) ServiceNow
3 26 (8.41%) Splunk
4 9 (2.91%) Google
4 9 (2.91%) Tenable
5 8 (2.59%) CrowdStrike
5 8 (2.59%) Qualys
6 5 (1.62%) Oracle
6 5 (1.62%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.29%) Okta
7 4 (1.29%) Rapid7
7 4 (1.29%) Veracode
7 4 (1.29%) Zscaler
8 3 (0.97%) Cisco
8 3 (0.97%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.97%) Workday
9 2 (0.65%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.65%) Databricks
9 2 (0.65%) IBM