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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 202 177
Rank change year-on-year +56 -25 +151
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 251 196 307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.87% 1.20% 1.41%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.77% 8.80% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 145 237
10th Percentile £398 £450 £438
25th Percentile £490 £513 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £588 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% -6.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £750
90th Percentile £850 £775 £838
England median daily rate £550 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £43.75 - £43.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -26.32% -
75th Percentile £51.25 - £51.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £33.50 £31.25 £46.00
% change year-on-year +7.20% -32.07% +87.76%

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 2,331 2,227 3,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.33% 13.67% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,545 1,435 2,300
10th Percentile £325 £333 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £798
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 42 33
10th Percentile - £18.13 £16.66
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £29.81 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% +8.40% +11.29%
75th Percentile £42.75 £49.69 £50.75
90th Percentile £54.35 £71.88 £63.95
England median hourly rate £32.50 £31.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year +4.43% -17.01% +66.67%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +12 43 £650 +13.04% 41
East London +5 5 £550 -5.98% 2
West London - 4 £425 - 9
North London - 1 £650 -
South London - 1 - - 2
ISO/IEC 27001
England

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.99%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.59%) Confluence
3 3 (1.20%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.40%) IIS
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.39%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.80%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 110 (43.82%) Azure
2 66 (26.29%) AWS
3 47 (18.73%) GCP
4 20 (7.97%) SaaS
5 17 (6.77%) Entra ID
5 17 (6.77%) GitHub
5 17 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (5.98%) Azure Sentinel
7 14 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (4.78%) IaaS
9 11 (4.38%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (3.98%) PaaS
11 6 (2.39%) Serverless
12 5 (1.99%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 5 (1.99%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (1.99%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.59%) Cloud Run
13 4 (1.59%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 37 (14.74%) Firewall
2 30 (11.95%) Network Security
3 5 (1.99%) SD-WAN
3 5 (1.99%) VPN
3 5 (1.99%) WAN
4 4 (1.59%) VLAN
5 3 (1.20%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (1.20%) Modbus
5 3 (1.20%) Skype
5 3 (1.20%) WebEx
6 2 (0.80%) DMZ
6 2 (0.80%) DNS
6 2 (0.80%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.80%) SSH
6 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.80%) Telnet
7 1 (0.40%) BGP
7 1 (0.40%) Intranet
7 1 (0.40%) OSPF
7 1 (0.40%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.79%) Delta Lake
2 6 (2.39%) GIS
3 5 (1.99%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.20%) Power BI
5 2 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.80%) Metadata
5 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.40%) Looker
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.40%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (5.98%) JIRA
2 8 (3.19%) Snyk
3 5 (1.99%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.20%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.80%) ERwin
5 2 (0.80%) GitLab
5 2 (0.80%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.40%) Ant
6 1 (0.40%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.40%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
General
1 83 (33.07%) Social Skills
2 62 (24.70%) Finance
3 28 (11.16%) Public Sector
4 22 (8.76%) Banking
5 20 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.18%) Financial Institution
7 12 (4.78%) Legal
8 9 (3.59%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.79%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.79%) Law
11 6 (2.39%) Local Government
12 5 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.59%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.59%) Marketing
13 4 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.20%) Games
15 2 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.80%) French Language
15 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (24.30%) Architect
2 37 (14.74%) Security Architect
3 28 (11.16%) Lead
4 27 (10.76%) Analyst
5 25 (9.96%) Consultant
5 25 (9.96%) Senior
6 21 (8.37%) Security Engineer
7 17 (6.77%) Security Consultant
8 12 (4.78%) Cloud Architect
9 10 (3.98%) Azure Architect
9 10 (3.98%) Security Manager
9 10 (3.98%) Security Specialist
10 9 (3.59%) Security Analyst
10 9 (3.59%) Senior Architect
11 7 (2.79%) Enterprise Architect
12 6 (2.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 6 (2.39%) Head of Information Security
12 6 (2.39%) IT Manager
12 6 (2.39%) Risk Analyst
12 6 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.59%) OAuth
2 8 (3.19%) SAML
3 7 (2.79%) OpenID
3 7 (2.79%) SailPoint
4 6 (2.39%) REST
5 5 (1.99%) Loki
5 5 (1.99%) OAuth2
6 4 (1.59%) LDAP
6 4 (1.59%) Middleware
7 3 (1.20%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.20%) Next.js
7 3 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.20%) React
7 3 (1.20%) Tailwind CSS
7 3 (1.20%) Web Services
7 3 (1.20%) WebSockets
8 2 (0.80%) HTML5
8 2 (0.80%) JWT
8 2 (0.80%) Redux
8 2 (0.80%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.54%) Security Posture
2 30 (11.95%) Management Information System
3 24 (9.56%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.38%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.59%) NHS
6 6 (2.39%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.39%) Operational Technology
6 6 (2.39%) PKI
7 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.59%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.59%) Reinsurance
7 4 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.20%) Life Science
8 3 (1.20%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.78%) Windows
2 9 (3.59%) Linux
3 5 (1.99%) Mac OS
3 5 (1.99%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.20%) VMS
5 1 (0.40%) CentOS
5 1 (0.40%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (44.62%) Cybersecurity
2 76 (30.28%) Cloud Security
3 74 (29.48%) Risk Management
4 66 (26.29%) Information Security
5 58 (23.11%) Incident Response
6 46 (18.33%) DevOps
7 43 (17.13%) SIEM
8 40 (15.94%) Vulnerability Management
9 38 (15.14%) CI/CD
10 36 (14.34%) Infrastructure as Code
10 36 (14.34%) Security Architecture
11 34 (13.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 33 (13.15%) Stakeholder Management
13 30 (11.95%) DevSecOps
13 30 (11.95%) Security Operations
14 29 (11.55%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (11.16%) Artificial Intelligence
16 27 (10.76%) Data Loss Prevention
16 27 (10.76%) Identity Access Management
16 27 (10.76%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 26 (10.36%) Python
2 24 (9.56%) PowerShell
3 14 (5.58%) Bash
4 13 (5.18%) SQL
5 12 (4.78%) Bicep
6 4 (1.59%) Java
6 4 (1.59%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.20%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.80%) C#
8 2 (0.80%) Go
9 1 (0.40%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.40%) Perl
9 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (28.29%) CISSP
2 42 (16.73%) CISM
3 33 (13.15%) Security Cleared
4 27 (10.76%) SC Cleared
5 25 (9.96%) CISA
6 24 (9.56%) Degree
7 21 (8.37%) Cisco Certification
8 17 (6.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 17 (6.77%) CRISC
9 15 (5.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 11 (4.38%) CCSP
11 10 (3.98%) Azure Certification
11 10 (3.98%) GIAC
11 10 (3.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 8 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (3.19%) SANS
13 7 (2.79%) FFIEC
14 6 (2.39%) CESG Certified Professional
14 6 (2.39%) GCIH
14 6 (2.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (60.96%) NIST
2 82 (32.67%) GDPR
3 34 (13.55%) PCI DSS
4 28 (11.16%) GRC
5 21 (8.37%) SOC 2
6 19 (7.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 18 (7.17%) NCSC
8 15 (5.98%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (5.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 12 (4.78%) SLA
11 11 (4.38%) COBIT
12 8 (3.19%) HIPAA
13 6 (2.39%) NIST 800
14 5 (1.99%) EU AI Act
15 3 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (1.20%) ITGC
15 3 (1.20%) RMADS
16 2 (0.80%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 2 (0.80%) ISO 31000
16 2 (0.80%) QA
System Software
1 20 (7.97%) Docker
2 19 (7.57%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.80%) Firmware
6 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (13.15%) Terraform
2 18 (7.17%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.19%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.79%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.39%) QRadar
6 5 (1.99%) Ansible
6 5 (1.99%) Grafana
7 4 (1.59%) CSIRT
7 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.80%) CASB
9 2 (0.80%) Nessus
9 2 (0.80%) SCCM
9 2 (0.80%) SCOM
9 2 (0.80%) SELinux
10 1 (0.40%) Istio
10 1 (0.40%) linkerd
10 1 (0.40%) Nmap
10 1 (0.40%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 55 (21.91%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.37%) Google
3 12 (4.78%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.59%) Splunk
5 8 (3.19%) CyberArk
5 8 (3.19%) Databricks
5 8 (3.19%) OpenAI
5 8 (3.19%) Tenable
6 6 (2.39%) ESRI
6 6 (2.39%) Okta
6 6 (2.39%) Oracle
6 6 (2.39%) Qualys
7 5 (1.99%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.99%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.59%) Cisco
8 4 (1.59%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.59%) Rapid7
8 4 (1.59%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.59%) VMware
9 3 (1.20%) HP