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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 145 210
Rank change year-on-year -27 +65 -26
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 346 252 192
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.70% 1.88% 1.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.82% 10.83% 8.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 171 142
10th Percentile £431 £400 £450
25th Percentile £500 £492 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £553 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% -5.56% -6.40%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £675
90th Percentile £775 £850 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £583
% change year-on-year - -5.58% -2.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +35.71% -26.32%
England median hourly rate £71.00 £33.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +111.94% +7.20% -34.21%

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 3,923 2,326 2,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.28% 17.32% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,657 1,543 1,412
10th Percentile £350 £325 £336
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
England median daily rate £512 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.39% -4.76% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 49 42
10th Percentile £15.88 - £18.13
25th Percentile £21.33 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.00 £29.81
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +14.06% -4.61%
75th Percentile £40.00 £42.75 £49.69
90th Percentile £55.78 £54.35 £71.88
England median hourly rate £33.36 £32.50 £30.56
% change year-on-year +2.65% +6.35% -18.51%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -30 39 £552 -15.15% 65
East London 0 4 £750 +32.16% 6
West London -21 4 £525 +23.53% 12
South London -8 2 £495 +10.00% 6
North London 0 1 £650 -
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 (3.47%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.02%) IIS
3 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.29%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.29%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) nginx
5 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.87%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.29%) iTrent
2 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 152 (43.93%) Azure
2 98 (28.32%) AWS
3 67 (19.36%) Entra ID
4 53 (15.32%) GCP
5 44 (12.72%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (6.36%) Azure Sentinel
7 17 (4.91%) Microsoft Purview
8 16 (4.62%) SaaS
9 15 (4.34%) OCI
10 11 (3.18%) GitHub
11 10 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (2.89%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (2.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (2.60%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (2.60%) Serverless
13 8 (2.31%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 8 (2.31%) Power Platform
14 7 (2.02%) AWS CloudTrail
14 7 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.38%) Network Security
2 23 (6.65%) Firewall
3 11 (3.18%) DNS
4 10 (2.89%) VPN
5 6 (1.73%) HTTPS
5 6 (1.73%) X.509
6 5 (1.45%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.45%) Wireless
7 4 (1.16%) DHCP
7 4 (1.16%) Internet
7 4 (1.16%) IPsec
7 4 (1.16%) Kerberos
7 4 (1.16%) Modbus
7 4 (1.16%) NGFW
8 3 (0.87%) 4G
8 3 (0.87%) 5G
8 3 (0.87%) SAN
8 3 (0.87%) SSL
8 3 (0.87%) WAN
9 2 (0.58%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
1 3 (0.87%) Power BI
2 2 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.58%) Big Data
2 2 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (0.58%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (4.62%) JIRA
2 10 (2.89%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.02%) GitLab
4 4 (1.16%) Burp Suite
4 4 (1.16%) Git
4 4 (1.16%) Snyk
5 2 (0.58%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.58%) Selenium
5 2 (0.58%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.58%) TestRail
General
1 123 (35.55%) Social Skills
2 77 (22.25%) Finance
3 47 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (11.85%) Public Sector
5 26 (7.51%) Legal
6 16 (4.62%) Banking
7 12 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (3.47%) Manufacturing
8 11 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.60%) Local Government
9 9 (2.60%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.87%) Cyber-Physical System
13 3 (0.87%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.87%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.87%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.87%) Retail
14 2 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 87 (25.14%) Architect
2 44 (12.72%) Analyst
3 39 (11.27%) Security Architect
4 37 (10.69%) Lead
5 30 (8.67%) Consultant
6 27 (7.80%) Senior
7 22 (6.36%) Security Analyst
8 20 (5.78%) Security Engineer
9 19 (5.49%) Security Manager
9 19 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (4.62%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 15 (4.34%) Project Manager
11 15 (4.34%) Security Consultant
12 11 (3.18%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 10 (2.89%) Head of Security
13 10 (2.89%) IT Manager
14 9 (2.60%) Cloud Engineer
15 8 (2.31%) Cloud Architect
15 8 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
15 8 (2.31%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.51%) Terraform
2 14 (4.05%) REST
3 13 (3.76%) SailPoint
4 11 (3.18%) LDAP
4 11 (3.18%) OAuth
4 11 (3.18%) SAML
5 5 (1.45%) JSON
5 5 (1.45%) OpenID
6 4 (1.16%) JDBC
6 4 (1.16%) SOAP
7 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (0.87%) OAuth2
7 3 (0.87%) Playwright
8 2 (0.58%) Azure Blueprints
8 2 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.58%) Middleware
8 2 (0.58%) pytest
8 2 (0.58%) Software Packaging
9 1 (0.29%) Spring
9 1 (0.29%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.12%) Security Posture
2 33 (9.54%) Cloud Native
3 27 (7.80%) Onboarding
4 22 (6.36%) Operational Technology
5 21 (6.07%) Cyber Threat
6 19 (5.49%) Management Information System
7 15 (4.34%) PKI
8 10 (2.89%) IoT
9 8 (2.31%) Cloud Security Posture
9 8 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.31%) SCADA
10 7 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.02%) NHS
11 5 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
11 5 (1.45%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.16%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.16%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
13 3 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.12%) Windows
2 13 (3.76%) Linux
3 8 (2.31%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.45%) Unix
4 5 (1.45%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.16%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.58%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (0.58%) CentOS
7 1 (0.29%) Android
7 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (55.78%) Cybersecurity
2 94 (27.17%) Risk Management
3 92 (26.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 83 (23.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 79 (22.83%) Cloud Security
6 72 (20.81%) Security Architecture
7 67 (19.36%) Information Security
8 63 (18.21%) Vulnerability Management
9 60 (17.34%) Incident Response
9 60 (17.34%) Roadmaps
10 53 (15.32%) TOGAF
11 52 (15.03%) SIEM
12 48 (13.87%) Identity Access Management
12 48 (13.87%) Zero Trust
13 47 (13.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 47 (13.58%) DevOps
14 45 (13.01%) Security Operations
14 45 (13.01%) Threat Modelling
15 44 (12.72%) Data Protection
16 43 (12.43%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 31 (8.96%) PowerShell
2 25 (7.23%) Python
3 8 (2.31%) Bash
4 7 (2.02%) Java
5 6 (1.73%) BeanShell
5 6 (1.73%) SQL
6 5 (1.45%) Bicep
6 5 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 110 (31.79%) CISSP
2 83 (23.99%) Security Cleared
3 70 (20.23%) CISM
4 64 (18.50%) SC Cleared
5 31 (8.96%) CRISC
6 26 (7.51%) Degree
7 24 (6.94%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (6.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 22 (6.36%) Azure Certification
9 19 (5.49%) PMP
10 18 (5.20%) CEH
10 18 (5.20%) CISA
10 18 (5.20%) GIAC
10 18 (5.20%) PMI Certification
11 16 (4.62%) CompTIA Security+
12 14 (4.05%) DV Cleared
13 13 (3.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 12 (3.47%) CCSP
15 10 (2.89%) AWS Certification
16 9 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (61.27%) NIST
2 77 (22.25%) GDPR
3 54 (15.61%) GRC
4 51 (14.74%) NCSC
5 46 (13.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 37 (10.69%) PCI DSS
7 34 (9.83%) SOC 2
8 30 (8.67%) COBIT
9 27 (7.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 22 (6.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (4.34%) NIST 800
12 12 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 11 (3.18%) ITGC
13 11 (3.18%) PMO
13 11 (3.18%) SLA
14 10 (2.89%) HIPAA
15 9 (2.60%) QA
16 8 (2.31%) ISO 22301
17 5 (1.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 4 (1.16%) Data Quality
System Software
1 49 (14.16%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.18%) Docker
3 4 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.29%) Firmware
4 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (6.36%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (3.18%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.02%) Ansible
5 3 (0.87%) Nessus
5 3 (0.87%) Puppet
6 2 (0.58%) Argo
6 2 (0.58%) Grafana
6 2 (0.58%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.58%) Nexpose
6 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.58%) QRadar
7 1 (0.29%) CASB
7 1 (0.29%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 104 (30.06%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.67%) ServiceNow
3 18 (5.20%) CyberArk
4 16 (4.62%) CrowdStrike
5 14 (4.05%) Splunk
6 13 (3.76%) Qualys
7 12 (3.47%) Tenable
8 11 (3.18%) Google
9 9 (2.60%) Okta
9 9 (2.60%) Palo Alto
10 8 (2.31%) Rapid7
11 7 (2.02%) Oracle
11 7 (2.02%) SAP
11 7 (2.02%) Zscaler
12 5 (1.45%) VMware
12 5 (1.45%) Workday
13 4 (1.16%) ForgeRock
13 4 (1.16%) Salesforce
13 4 (1.16%) Veracode
14 3 (0.87%) Databricks