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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 185 189
Rank change year-on-year +46 +4 +93
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 311 172 225
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.94% 1.31% 1.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.26% 8.90% 9.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 106 183
10th Percentile £412 £419 £363
25th Percentile £480 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £700 £731 £675
90th Percentile £851 £843 £775
England median daily rate £537 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.50% +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 £36.00 £67.55 £44.50
% change year-on-year -46.70% +51.79% -39.02%

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 3,032 1,933 2,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.87% 14.69% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,020 1,239 1,784
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 £675 £686
90th Percentile £750 £787 £780
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 26 63
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.07 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.72 £22.75 £18.38
Median hourly rate £26.11 £37.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.43% +28.70% -17.86%
75th Percentile £56.06 £78.40 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.68 £93.75 £60.90
England median hourly rate £25.77 £32.81 £25.57
% change year-on-year -21.46% +28.30% -31.81%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 4 March 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 +2.44% 40
South London -8 12 £506 -9.60% 3
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 (3.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (3.22%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (32.15%) Azure
2 70 (22.51%) AWS
3 33 (10.61%) Entra ID
4 30 (9.65%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (6.43%) Azure Sentinel
5 20 (6.43%) GCP
6 16 (5.14%) Microsoft Purview
7 14 (4.50%) OpenShift
8 12 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (3.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 10 (3.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (3.22%) SaaS
10 9 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (2.89%) GitHub
11 7 (2.25%) AWS KMS
11 7 (2.25%) OCI
11 7 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (1.93%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 32 (10.29%) Firewall
2 24 (7.72%) Network Security
3 12 (3.86%) DNS
3 12 (3.86%) VPN
4 6 (1.93%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.61%) DHCP
6 4 (1.29%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.29%) NGFW
6 4 (1.29%) SSL
6 4 (1.29%) WAN
7 3 (0.96%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.64%) Cisco IPT
8 2 (0.64%) LAN
8 2 (0.64%) Modbus
8 2 (0.64%) S/MIME
9 1 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.32%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.32%) HTTP
9 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (1.29%) DocumentDB
2 4 (1.29%) DynamoDB
2 4 (1.29%) MySQL
2 4 (1.29%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.29%) Redis
3 2 (0.64%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.64%) Metadata
3 2 (0.64%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.64%) Power BI
4 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.32%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 18 (5.79%) Jenkins
2 14 (4.50%) JIRA
3 5 (1.61%) GitLab
4 2 (0.64%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.64%) Snyk
5 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.32%) Git
5 1 (0.32%) JMeter
5 1 (0.32%) MSTest
5 1 (0.32%) Selenium
5 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 115 (36.98%) Social Skills
2 87 (27.97%) Finance
3 35 (11.25%) Public Sector
4 34 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.75%) Banking
6 18 (5.79%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (5.79%) Influencing Skills
6 18 (5.79%) Legal
7 15 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (3.86%) Financial Institution
9 11 (3.54%) Law
10 7 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.93%) Police
11 6 (1.93%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.96%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.64%) Electronics
13 2 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.64%) Marketing
14 1 (0.32%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 49 (15.76%) Analyst
2 46 (14.79%) Architect
3 36 (11.58%) Senior
4 30 (9.65%) Consultant
5 28 (9.00%) Security Engineer
6 23 (7.40%) Security Architect
7 21 (6.75%) Security Analyst
8 18 (5.79%) Security Specialist
9 17 (5.47%) Security Manager
10 16 (5.14%) Project Manager
11 14 (4.50%) Lead
11 14 (4.50%) Security Consultant
12 13 (4.18%) CyberArk Architect
13 10 (3.22%) Operations Manager
14 9 (2.89%) AWS Architect
15 8 (2.57%) Azure Engineer
15 8 (2.57%) Cloud Architect
15 8 (2.57%) Migration Manager
15 8 (2.57%) Senior Consultant
15 8 (2.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.43%) OpenID
2 18 (5.79%) SAML
3 14 (4.50%) LDAP
4 11 (3.54%) OAuth
4 11 (3.54%) REST
5 7 (2.25%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (1.61%) RESTful
6 5 (1.61%) SailPoint
6 5 (1.61%) Spring
7 4 (1.29%) .NET
7 4 (1.29%) gRPC
7 4 (1.29%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.29%) JPA
7 4 (1.29%) Kafka
7 4 (1.29%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.29%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.29%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (0.64%) React
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.90%) Onboarding
2 28 (9.00%) Cloud Native
3 25 (8.04%) Security Posture
4 23 (7.40%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.86%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (2.89%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.57%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (2.25%) NHS
8 7 (2.25%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.25%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.93%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.29%) BYOD
11 4 (1.29%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.96%) CMDB
13 2 (0.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 2 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.72%) Windows
2 8 (2.57%) Linux
3 7 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.61%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.96%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.64%) Android
6 2 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (40.51%) Cybersecurity
2 94 (30.23%) Information Security
3 84 (27.01%) Risk Management
4 78 (25.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 77 (24.76%) Cloud Security
6 58 (18.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 52 (16.72%) SIEM
8 51 (16.40%) CI/CD
9 50 (16.08%) Incident Response
10 49 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (14.15%) Agile
12 42 (13.50%) DevOps
13 40 (12.86%) Security Architecture
14 39 (12.54%) Security Operations
15 37 (11.90%) Regulatory Compliance
15 37 (11.90%) Threat Modelling
16 36 (11.58%) Zero Trust
17 34 (10.93%) ITIL
18 33 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
19 31 (9.97%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 35 (11.25%) PowerShell
2 13 (4.18%) Python
3 9 (2.89%) SQL
4 8 (2.57%) Java
5 6 (1.93%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (1.29%) Bash
7 2 (0.64%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.32%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.32%) Bicep
8 1 (0.32%) C
8 1 (0.32%) C#
8 1 (0.32%) Go
8 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 91 (29.26%) Security Cleared
2 87 (27.97%) SC Cleared
3 81 (26.05%) CISSP
4 61 (19.61%) CISM
5 39 (12.54%) Degree
6 23 (7.40%) Cisco Certification
7 20 (6.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 20 (6.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 20 (6.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 18 (5.79%) CRISC
9 17 (5.47%) CISA
10 15 (4.82%) PMI Certification
10 15 (4.82%) PMP
11 12 (3.86%) CompTIA Security+
12 11 (3.54%) CEH
13 10 (3.22%) Azure Certification
13 10 (3.22%) CCSP
14 9 (2.89%) AWS Certification
14 9 (2.89%) Master's Degree
15 8 (2.57%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (57.23%) NIST
2 94 (30.23%) GDPR
3 55 (17.68%) NCSC
4 50 (16.08%) GRC
5 44 (14.15%) PCI DSS
6 27 (8.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 23 (7.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 23 (7.40%) SOC 2
8 21 (6.75%) COBIT
9 12 (3.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 12 (3.86%) NIST 800
10 9 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 9 (2.89%) ITGC
10 9 (2.89%) SLA
11 7 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (2.25%) SOX 404
12 6 (1.93%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (1.61%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (1.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 29 (9.32%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.22%) Docker
3 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (8.68%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (4.18%) Terraform
4 12 (3.86%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.25%) SCCM
6 6 (1.93%) Ansible
7 5 (1.61%) Nessus
8 4 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.29%) CASB
9 2 (0.64%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.32%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.32%) Nmap
10 1 (0.32%) QRadar
10 1 (0.32%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.32%) SELinux
10 1 (0.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 62 (19.94%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.29%) CyberArk
3 23 (7.40%) Splunk
4 19 (6.11%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.18%) Oracle
6 10 (3.22%) SAP
7 7 (2.25%) Cisco
8 6 (1.93%) Google
8 6 (1.93%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.61%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (1.61%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.61%) Okta
9 5 (1.61%) Qualys
9 5 (1.61%) Tenable
10 3 (0.96%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.64%) Apple
11 2 (0.64%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (0.64%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.64%) Databricks
11 2 (0.64%) Thycotic