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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 188 174
Rank change year-on-year +53 -14 +125
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 285 189 232
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.98% 1.35% 1.29%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.73% 9.75% 9.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 117 176
10th Percentile £402 £413 £381
25th Percentile £463 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £793 £829 £775
England median daily rate £525 £600 £599
% change year-on-year -12.50% +0.21% -0.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 0
10th Percentile £45.93 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £49.19 £51.90 -
Median hourly rate £70.75 £73.60 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.87% - -
75th Percentile £94.06 £83.20 -
90th Percentile £94.63 £87.92 -
England median hourly rate £36.00 £73.60 £44.50
% change year-on-year -51.09% +65.39% -11.00%

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 2,656 1,938 2,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.45% 13.81% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,775 1,182 1,808
10th Percentile £350 £300 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £565
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -6.64% +1.62%
75th Percentile £638 £655 £700
90th Percentile £750 £787 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 29 50
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.00 £18.92
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.80 £24.43
Median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.09% - +22.81%
75th Percentile £36.73 £78.40 £52.50
90th Percentile £75.21 £95.50 £65.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -16.17% -9.09% +33.12%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +16 57 £513 -7.87% 40
South London -4 5 £525 -6.25% 15
West London -18 2 £423 -21.40% 14
North London +4 1 £650 +40.54% 3
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 9 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.40%) Confluence
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.35%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 116 (40.70%) Azure
2 72 (25.26%) AWS
3 33 (11.58%) Entra ID
4 31 (10.88%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (8.42%) GCP
6 23 (8.07%) Azure Sentinel
7 16 (5.61%) GitHub
7 16 (5.61%) SaaS
8 15 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
9 14 (4.91%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (2.81%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 8 (2.81%) IaaS
12 8 (2.81%) PaaS
13 7 (2.46%) AWS KMS
13 7 (2.46%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (2.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (12.63%) Firewall
2 26 (9.12%) Network Security
3 11 (3.86%) DNS
3 11 (3.86%) VPN
4 6 (2.11%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.75%) DHCP
5 5 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.75%) WAN
6 4 (1.40%) Modbus
6 4 (1.40%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.05%) NGFW
7 3 (1.05%) SSL
8 2 (0.70%) LAN
8 2 (0.70%) S/MIME
9 1 (0.35%) BGP
9 1 (0.35%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.35%) Internet
9 1 (0.35%) Intranet
9 1 (0.35%) OSPF
9 1 (0.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (1.40%) DocumentDB
2 4 (1.40%) DynamoDB
2 4 (1.40%) MySQL
2 4 (1.40%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.40%) Redis
3 3 (1.05%) Metadata
4 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.70%) Power BI
4 2 (0.70%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.35%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.35%) EDRMS
5 1 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.35%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 15 (5.26%) JIRA
2 8 (2.81%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.81%) Snyk
3 6 (2.11%) GitLab
4 5 (1.75%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.70%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.35%) Ant
6 1 (0.35%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.35%) ERwin
6 1 (0.35%) Git
6 1 (0.35%) JMeter
6 1 (0.35%) MSTest
6 1 (0.35%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.35%) Selenium
6 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 93 (32.63%) Social Skills
2 65 (22.81%) Finance
3 41 (14.39%) Public Sector
4 26 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.02%) Banking
6 15 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (4.91%) Legal
8 11 (3.86%) Law
9 9 (3.16%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.46%) Police
12 6 (2.11%) Local Government
12 6 (2.11%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.11%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.40%) Investment Banking
15 3 (1.05%) Electronics
15 3 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (1.05%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 41 (14.39%) Analyst
1 41 (14.39%) Architect
2 35 (12.28%) Senior
3 25 (8.77%) Consultant
4 24 (8.42%) Security Engineer
5 23 (8.07%) Security Architect
6 21 (7.37%) Lead
7 20 (7.02%) Security Analyst
8 17 (5.96%) Security Manager
9 14 (4.91%) Project Manager
10 12 (4.21%) Security Consultant
10 12 (4.21%) Security Specialist
11 9 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.16%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 9 (3.16%) IT Manager
11 9 (3.16%) Operations Manager
12 8 (2.81%) AWS Architect
12 8 (2.81%) Tester
13 7 (2.46%) Senior Consultant
13 7 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.56%) REST
2 11 (3.86%) OAuth
3 10 (3.51%) OpenID
4 9 (3.16%) OAuth2
5 7 (2.46%) SAML
6 5 (1.75%) LDAP
6 5 (1.75%) Loki
6 5 (1.75%) RESTful
6 5 (1.75%) SailPoint
6 5 (1.75%) Spring
7 4 (1.40%) gRPC
7 4 (1.40%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.40%) JPA
7 4 (1.40%) Kafka
7 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (1.40%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.40%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.40%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (1.05%) Next.js
8 3 (1.05%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.12%) Cloud Native
1 26 (9.12%) Management Information System
2 25 (8.77%) Security Posture
3 20 (7.02%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.91%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (3.86%) NHS
6 8 (2.81%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (2.46%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.11%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.75%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.05%) Life Science
11 3 (1.05%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.05%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.07%) Windows
2 9 (3.16%) Linux
2 9 (3.16%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.75%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.70%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.70%) VMS
5 1 (0.35%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (39.65%) Cybersecurity
2 75 (26.32%) Cloud Security
2 75 (26.32%) Risk Management
3 73 (25.61%) Information Security
4 61 (21.40%) Incident Response
5 59 (20.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 58 (20.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 50 (17.54%) SIEM
8 48 (16.84%) CI/CD
9 42 (14.74%) DevOps
10 39 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (12.98%) Identity Access Management
12 34 (11.93%) Zero Trust
13 32 (11.23%) Infrastructure as Code
13 32 (11.23%) Security Architecture
14 31 (10.88%) Agile
15 30 (10.53%) Roadmaps
16 29 (10.18%) Security Operations
17 28 (9.82%) Data Loss Prevention
17 28 (9.82%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 37 (12.98%) PowerShell
2 16 (5.61%) Python
3 11 (3.86%) SQL
4 9 (3.16%) Java
5 7 (2.46%) Bash
6 5 (1.75%) Bicep
6 5 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.05%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.05%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.70%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.35%) C
Qualifications
1 73 (25.61%) Security Cleared
2 69 (24.21%) CISSP
2 69 (24.21%) SC Cleared
3 51 (17.89%) CISM
4 35 (12.28%) Degree
5 21 (7.37%) CISA
6 14 (4.91%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (4.56%) CompTIA Security+
7 13 (4.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 11 (3.86%) CRISC
8 11 (3.86%) PMI Certification
8 11 (3.86%) PMP
9 10 (3.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 10 (3.51%) Azure Certification
10 9 (3.16%) SANS
11 8 (2.81%) AWS Certification
11 8 (2.81%) CEH
11 8 (2.81%) FFIEC
11 8 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (2.46%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (52.98%) NIST
2 92 (32.28%) GDPR
3 45 (15.79%) NCSC
4 35 (12.28%) GRC
4 35 (12.28%) PCI DSS
5 31 (10.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 24 (8.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 19 (6.67%) COBIT
8 15 (5.26%) SOC 2
9 11 (3.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (3.51%) ITGC
11 8 (2.81%) NIST 800
11 8 (2.81%) SLA
12 7 (2.46%) SOX 404
13 6 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 6 (2.11%) QA
14 5 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (1.05%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 34 (11.93%) Active Directory
2 22 (7.72%) Docker
3 4 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (9.47%) Terraform
2 24 (8.42%) Kubernetes
3 22 (7.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (4.21%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.46%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.46%) SCCM
6 6 (2.11%) Ansible
7 5 (1.75%) QRadar
8 4 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.40%) CSIRT
8 4 (1.40%) Nessus
9 3 (1.05%) CASB
10 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.70%) Grafana
10 2 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.70%) SCOM
11 1 (0.35%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.35%) Istio
11 1 (0.35%) Nmap
11 1 (0.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 69 (24.21%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.32%) CyberArk
3 14 (4.91%) Oracle
4 13 (4.56%) Splunk
5 12 (4.21%) Google
6 11 (3.86%) SAP
6 11 (3.86%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.81%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.11%) Cisco
8 6 (2.11%) Okta
8 6 (2.11%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.40%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.40%) Qualys
10 4 (1.40%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.40%) Tenable
11 3 (1.05%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (1.05%) Databricks
11 3 (1.05%) Thycotic
12 2 (0.70%) Zscaler