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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 190 188
Rank change year-on-year +51 -2 +85
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 300 178 227
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.93% 1.32% 1.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.27% 9.06% 9.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 108 182
10th Percentile £408 £413 £363
25th Percentile £463 £513 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £669
90th Percentile £878 £840 £768
England median daily rate £526 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.31% +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 2,920 1,964 2,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.76% 14.55% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,939 1,221 1,814
10th Percentile £350 £308 £363
25th Percentile £419 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 27 60
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.56 £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 £35.00 £80.80 £41.50
90th Percentile £80.09 £94.25 £61.75
England median hourly rate £25.64 £31.76 £26.66
% change year-on-year -19.29% +19.13% -23.83%

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 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 22 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 22 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 56 £525 -8.70% 30
South London -8 11 £513 -8.48% 1
West London -23 2 £423 -21.40% 7
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 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.67%) Confluence
4 1 (0.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 103 (34.33%) Azure
2 70 (23.33%) AWS
3 33 (11.00%) Entra ID
4 30 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (7.00%) GCP
6 20 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
7 16 (5.33%) Microsoft Purview
8 15 (5.00%) OpenShift
9 11 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (3.67%) SaaS
10 10 (3.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 10 (3.33%) GitHub
11 8 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.33%) AWS KMS
12 7 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.33%) OCI
12 7 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (2.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.33%) Firewall
2 25 (8.33%) Network Security
3 12 (4.00%) VPN
4 11 (3.67%) DNS
5 5 (1.67%) DHCP
5 5 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.33%) WAN
7 3 (1.00%) NGFW
7 3 (1.00%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.00%) SSL
8 2 (0.67%) LAN
8 2 (0.67%) Modbus
8 2 (0.67%) S/MIME
9 1 (0.33%) BGP
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.33%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.33%) Skype
9 1 (0.33%) WebEx
9 1 (0.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (1.33%) DocumentDB
2 4 (1.33%) DynamoDB
2 4 (1.33%) MySQL
2 4 (1.33%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.33%) Redis
3 2 (0.67%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.67%) Metadata
3 2 (0.67%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.67%) Power BI
4 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.33%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 18 (6.00%) Jenkins
2 14 (4.67%) JIRA
3 5 (1.67%) GitLab
4 3 (1.00%) Snyk
5 2 (0.67%) 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
1 111 (37.00%) Social Skills
2 82 (27.33%) Finance
3 35 (11.67%) Public Sector
4 31 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.67%) Banking
6 19 (6.33%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (5.67%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (5.33%) Legal
9 15 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (4.00%) Financial Institution
11 10 (3.33%) Law
12 6 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.00%) Police
13 5 (1.67%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.67%) Electronics
15 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.67%) Marketing
16 1 (0.33%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 48 (16.00%) Architect
2 46 (15.33%) Analyst
3 34 (11.33%) Senior
4 27 (9.00%) Security Engineer
5 25 (8.33%) Consultant
6 24 (8.00%) Security Architect
7 21 (7.00%) Security Analyst
8 17 (5.67%) Security Manager
8 17 (5.67%) Security Specialist
9 15 (5.00%) Project Manager
10 13 (4.33%) CyberArk Architect
10 13 (4.33%) Lead
11 11 (3.67%) Security Consultant
12 10 (3.33%) Operations Manager
13 9 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (2.67%) AWS Architect
14 8 (2.67%) Tester
15 7 (2.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 7 (2.33%) Migration Manager
15 7 (2.33%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.67%) OpenID
2 17 (5.67%) SAML
3 14 (4.67%) LDAP
4 12 (4.00%) OAuth
5 11 (3.67%) REST
6 8 (2.67%) OAuth2
7 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (1.67%) SailPoint
7 5 (1.67%) Spring
8 4 (1.33%) gRPC
8 4 (1.33%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.33%) JPA
8 4 (1.33%) Kafka
8 4 (1.33%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.33%) RESTful
8 4 (1.33%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.33%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (1.00%) .NET
10 2 (0.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.67%) Onboarding
2 28 (9.33%) Cloud Native
3 26 (8.67%) Security Posture
4 24 (8.00%) Management Information System
5 13 (4.33%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (3.33%) NHS
7 8 (2.67%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (2.33%) Operational Technology
9 6 (2.00%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.67%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.00%) BYOD
12 3 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.33%) Windows
2 8 (2.67%) Linux
3 7 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.67%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.00%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.67%) Android
6 2 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (40.33%) Cybersecurity
2 89 (29.67%) Information Security
3 80 (26.67%) Risk Management
4 78 (26.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 77 (25.67%) Cloud Security
6 58 (19.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 51 (17.00%) CI/CD
7 51 (17.00%) Incident Response
7 51 (17.00%) SIEM
8 46 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (14.33%) DevOps
10 40 (13.33%) Agile
11 38 (12.67%) Security Architecture
12 37 (12.33%) Regulatory Compliance
12 37 (12.33%) Threat Modelling
13 36 (12.00%) Security Operations
14 35 (11.67%) Zero Trust
15 34 (11.33%) Identity Access Management
15 34 (11.33%) Infrastructure as Code
16 30 (10.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 35 (11.67%) PowerShell
2 13 (4.33%) Python
3 9 (3.00%) SQL
4 8 (2.67%) Java
5 6 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (1.33%) Bash
7 3 (1.00%) Bicep
8 2 (0.67%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.67%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.33%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.33%) C
9 1 (0.33%) Go
9 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 89 (29.67%) Security Cleared
2 85 (28.33%) SC Cleared
3 79 (26.33%) CISSP
4 59 (19.67%) CISM
5 37 (12.33%) Degree
6 20 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (6.33%) CRISC
8 18 (6.00%) CISA
9 17 (5.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 17 (5.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 17 (5.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 14 (4.67%) PMI Certification
10 14 (4.67%) PMP
11 12 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
12 10 (3.33%) Azure Certification
13 9 (3.00%) AWS Certification
13 9 (3.00%) CCSP
13 9 (3.00%) CEH
13 9 (3.00%) Master's Degree
14 8 (2.67%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (56.67%) NIST
2 93 (31.00%) GDPR
3 57 (19.00%) NCSC
4 46 (15.33%) GRC
5 41 (13.67%) PCI DSS
6 27 (9.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 23 (7.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 21 (7.00%) COBIT
8 21 (7.00%) SOC 2
9 13 (4.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 12 (4.00%) NIST 800
11 9 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 9 (3.00%) ITGC
12 8 (2.67%) SLA
13 7 (2.33%) SOX 404
14 6 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (1.67%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (1.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 5 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 29 (9.67%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.67%) Docker
3 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (9.33%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (5.67%) Terraform
4 12 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.33%) SCCM
6 6 (2.00%) Ansible
7 5 (1.67%) Nessus
8 4 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.00%) CASB
10 2 (0.67%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.67%) 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 (20.33%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.33%) CyberArk
3 22 (7.33%) Splunk
4 15 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.33%) Oracle
6 10 (3.33%) SAP
7 8 (2.67%) Google
8 6 (2.00%) Cisco
8 6 (2.00%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (1.67%) Okta
9 5 (1.67%) Qualys
9 5 (1.67%) Tenable
10 4 (1.33%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.67%) Apple
11 2 (0.67%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.67%) LogRhythm
11 2 (0.67%) Rapid7
11 2 (0.67%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.67%) VMware