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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 162 214
Rank change year-on-year -13 +52 -16
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 308 234 187
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.54% 1.72% 1.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.27% 10.10% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 172 150
10th Percentile £425 £422 £438
25th Percentile £488 £505 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.38%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £688
90th Percentile £759 £824 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%

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 3,724 2,317 2,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.60% 17.04% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,508 1,559 1,556
10th Percentile £350 £319 £350
25th Percentile £428 £413 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £652 £675
90th Percentile £735 £750 £791
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 37 47
10th Percentile £21.07 £22.75 £17.24
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.15 £21.13
Median hourly rate £28.80 £34.48 £26.68
Median % change year-on-year -16.49% +29.24% -32.32%
75th Percentile £53.56 £44.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £65.02 £55.70 £57.00
England median hourly rate £38.86 £31.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +23.37% +14.55% -34.16%

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 July 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 July 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 -7 45 £575 -10.16% 34
South London -11 9 £500 +11.11% 3
East London -3 4 £750 +28.21% 3
North London -1 1 £650 -
West London -22 1 £600 +41.18% 8
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 15 (4.87%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.92%) Confluence
3 7 (2.27%) IIS
3 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.32%) Apache
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.32%) nginx
4 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.30%) 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
1 124 (40.26%) Azure
2 79 (25.65%) AWS
3 48 (15.58%) Entra ID
4 42 (13.64%) GCP
5 34 (11.04%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (5.52%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (4.22%) Microsoft Purview
7 13 (4.22%) SaaS
8 11 (3.57%) OCI
9 10 (3.25%) GitHub
10 9 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.92%) Serverless
11 7 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.30%) Datadog
13 4 (1.30%) OneDrive
13 4 (1.30%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.47%) Network Security
2 15 (4.87%) Firewall
3 9 (2.92%) DNS
3 9 (2.92%) VPN
4 6 (1.95%) HTTPS
5 5 (1.62%) Kerberos
5 5 (1.62%) NGFW
5 5 (1.62%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.30%) Cisco IPT
6 4 (1.30%) DHCP
6 4 (1.30%) Internet
6 4 (1.30%) SSL
6 4 (1.30%) WAN
6 4 (1.30%) Wireless
6 4 (1.30%) X.509
7 3 (0.97%) HTTP
7 3 (0.97%) LAN
8 2 (0.65%) IPv4
8 2 (0.65%) IPv6
8 2 (0.65%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (1.30%) Big Data
2 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (0.65%) Power BI
3 1 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (6.49%) JIRA
2 5 (1.62%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.30%) Burp Suite
3 4 (1.30%) Snyk
4 2 (0.65%) Git
4 2 (0.65%) GitLab
4 2 (0.65%) JMeter
4 2 (0.65%) MSTest
4 2 (0.65%) Selenium
4 2 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 100 (32.47%) Social Skills
2 84 (27.27%) Finance
3 44 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (10.39%) Public Sector
5 26 (8.44%) Legal
6 19 (6.17%) Banking
7 10 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.25%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.60%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.62%) Law
11 5 (1.62%) Local Government
12 3 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.97%) Retail
13 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.32%) Automotive
14 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (19.81%) Architect
2 45 (14.61%) Analyst
3 29 (9.42%) Senior
4 28 (9.09%) Consultant
5 27 (8.77%) Lead
6 25 (8.12%) Security Architect
7 22 (7.14%) Security Engineer
8 20 (6.49%) Security Analyst
9 16 (5.19%) Project Manager
9 16 (5.19%) Security Consultant
10 13 (4.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 13 (4.22%) Security Manager
10 13 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.25%) Head of Security
11 10 (3.25%) Security Specialist
12 9 (2.92%) Business Analyst
12 9 (2.92%) IT Manager
13 8 (2.60%) Cloud Architect
13 8 (2.60%) Cloud Engineer
14 6 (1.95%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.57%) REST
2 8 (2.60%) SAML
3 7 (2.27%) LDAP
3 7 (2.27%) OAuth
3 7 (2.27%) SailPoint
4 3 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (0.97%) JSON
4 3 (0.97%) Middleware
4 3 (0.97%) OpenID
5 2 (0.65%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.65%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.65%) Playwright
5 2 (0.65%) RESTful
6 1 (0.32%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.32%) Flask
6 1 (0.32%) Kafka
6 1 (0.32%) RAML
6 1 (0.32%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.74%) Security Posture
2 29 (9.42%) Cloud Native
3 23 (7.47%) Onboarding
4 18 (5.84%) Operational Technology
5 15 (4.87%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.60%) PKI
8 7 (2.27%) CMDB
8 7 (2.27%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.27%) SCADA
9 6 (1.95%) BYOD
9 6 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.62%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.62%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (1.62%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.30%) NHS
11 4 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.97%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 35 (11.36%) Windows
2 12 (3.90%) Linux
3 9 (2.92%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.30%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.30%) Unix
6 3 (0.97%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.65%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.65%) Android
7 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.65%) CentOS
7 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (46.43%) Cybersecurity
2 80 (25.97%) Information Security
3 74 (24.03%) Risk Management
4 64 (20.78%) Cloud Security
4 64 (20.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 63 (20.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 51 (16.56%) Security Architecture
7 49 (15.91%) Incident Response
7 49 (15.91%) Roadmaps
8 48 (15.58%) Agile
8 48 (15.58%) Vulnerability Management
9 46 (14.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (13.31%) CI/CD
10 41 (13.31%) DevOps
11 40 (12.99%) Zero Trust
12 38 (12.34%) Security Operations
13 37 (12.01%) Data Protection
13 37 (12.01%) Identity Access Management
14 36 (11.69%) SIEM
14 36 (11.69%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 24 (7.79%) PowerShell
2 23 (7.47%) Python
3 9 (2.92%) SQL
4 7 (2.27%) Bash
5 3 (0.97%) Bicep
5 3 (0.97%) C#
5 3 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.65%) Java
6 2 (0.65%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.32%) BeanShell
7 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 99 (32.14%) CISSP
2 65 (21.10%) Security Cleared
3 61 (19.81%) CISM
4 53 (17.21%) SC Cleared
5 37 (12.01%) Degree
6 30 (9.74%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (8.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 24 (7.79%) CRISC
9 22 (7.14%) CISA
10 20 (6.49%) CEH
11 17 (5.52%) CompTIA Security+
11 17 (5.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 17 (5.52%) PMI Certification
11 17 (5.52%) PMP
12 16 (5.19%) Azure Certification
12 16 (5.19%) GIAC
12 16 (5.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 11 (3.57%) AWS Certification
14 10 (3.25%) CCSP
15 8 (2.60%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (63.31%) NIST
2 83 (26.95%) GDPR
3 59 (19.16%) GRC
4 41 (13.31%) PCI DSS
5 38 (12.34%) SOC 2
6 35 (11.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 33 (10.71%) COBIT
8 31 (10.06%) NCSC
9 19 (6.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 15 (4.87%) NIST 800
12 12 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 12 (3.90%) ITGC
12 12 (3.90%) SLA
13 11 (3.57%) HIPAA
14 7 (2.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 5 (1.62%) Government Security Classifications
17 4 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (1.30%) PMO
System Software
1 36 (11.69%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.57%) Docker
3 1 (0.32%) Firmware
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 16 (5.19%) Terraform
2 15 (4.87%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.62%) Ansible
6 3 (0.97%) Puppet
7 2 (0.65%) Grafana
7 2 (0.65%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.65%) Nexpose
7 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.32%) CASB
8 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.32%) Nessus
8 1 (0.32%) QRadar
8 1 (0.32%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 86 (27.92%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.42%) ServiceNow
3 18 (5.84%) CyberArk
4 14 (4.55%) Splunk
5 11 (3.57%) CrowdStrike
5 11 (3.57%) Google
6 10 (3.25%) Qualys
6 10 (3.25%) Tenable
7 6 (1.95%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.62%) Okta
8 5 (1.62%) Oracle
8 5 (1.62%) Rapid7
9 4 (1.30%) Veracode
9 4 (1.30%) Workday
9 4 (1.30%) Zscaler
10 3 (0.97%) Cisco
10 3 (0.97%) Juniper
10 3 (0.97%) SAP
11 2 (0.65%) Forcepoint
11 2 (0.65%) IBM