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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 188 186
Rank change year-on-year +49 -2 +97
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 314 176 232
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.93% 1.31% 1.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.24% 8.89% 9.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 110 190
10th Percentile £413 £424 £363
25th Percentile £484 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £700 £731 £675
90th Percentile £861 £850 £775
England median daily rate £539 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.21% +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 3,065 1,980 2,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.85% 14.77% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,040 1,272 1,810
10th Percentile £350 £309 £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 £680
90th Percentile £750 £788 £780
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 27 63
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.25 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.56 £23.23 £18.38
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +21.74% -17.86%
75th Percentile £56.38 £78.40 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.69 £93.75 £60.90
England median hourly rate £26.11 £31.88 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.10% +27.52% -33.33%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +16 58 £544 +3.57% 31
South London -8 12 £506 -9.60% 2
West London -21 2 £423 -21.40% 2
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 11 (3.50%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.23%) 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
1 101 (32.17%) Azure
2 71 (22.61%) AWS
3 33 (10.51%) Entra ID
4 30 (9.55%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (6.69%) GCP
6 20 (6.37%) Azure Sentinel
7 17 (5.41%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (4.46%) OpenShift
9 11 (3.50%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (3.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 10 (3.18%) SaaS
11 9 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.87%) GitHub
12 8 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (2.23%) AWS KMS
13 7 (2.23%) OCI
13 7 (2.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.91%) Serverless
15 5 (1.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 32 (10.19%) Firewall
2 24 (7.64%) Network Security
3 12 (3.82%) DNS
3 12 (3.82%) VPN
4 6 (1.91%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.59%) DHCP
6 4 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.27%) NGFW
6 4 (1.27%) SSL
6 4 (1.27%) 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 4 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (1.27%) DocumentDB
1 4 (1.27%) DynamoDB
1 4 (1.27%) MySQL
1 4 (1.27%) NoSQL
1 4 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (1.27%) Redis
2 2 (0.64%) BigQuery
2 2 (0.64%) Metadata
2 2 (0.64%) Oracle Database
2 2 (0.64%) Power BI
3 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.32%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 18 (5.73%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.14%) JIRA
3 5 (1.59%) 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 (36.62%) Social Skills
2 88 (28.03%) Finance
3 35 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (11.15%) Public Sector
4 22 (7.01%) Banking
5 19 (6.05%) Influencing Skills
6 18 (5.73%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (5.73%) Legal
7 15 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (3.82%) Financial Institution
9 11 (3.50%) Law
10 7 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.91%) Police
11 6 (1.91%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.96%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.96%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.64%) Electronics
13 2 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.64%) Marketing
14 1 (0.32%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 49 (15.61%) Analyst
2 48 (15.29%) Architect
3 36 (11.46%) Senior
4 30 (9.55%) Consultant
5 28 (8.92%) Security Engineer
6 25 (7.96%) Security Architect
7 21 (6.69%) Security Analyst
8 18 (5.73%) Security Manager
9 17 (5.41%) Security Specialist
10 16 (5.10%) Project Manager
11 15 (4.78%) Lead
12 14 (4.46%) CyberArk Architect
12 14 (4.46%) Security Consultant
13 10 (3.18%) AWS Architect
13 10 (3.18%) Cloud Architect
13 10 (3.18%) Operations Manager
14 8 (2.55%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (2.55%) Migration Manager
14 8 (2.55%) Migration Project Manager
14 8 (2.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.37%) OpenID
2 18 (5.73%) SAML
3 14 (4.46%) LDAP
4 11 (3.50%) OAuth
4 11 (3.50%) REST
5 7 (2.23%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (1.59%) RESTful
6 5 (1.59%) SailPoint
6 5 (1.59%) Spring
7 4 (1.27%) .NET
7 4 (1.27%) gRPC
7 4 (1.27%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.27%) JPA
7 4 (1.27%) Kafka
7 4 (1.27%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.27%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.27%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (0.64%) React
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.78%) Onboarding
2 28 (8.92%) Cloud Native
3 25 (7.96%) Security Posture
4 23 (7.32%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.50%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (2.87%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.55%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.23%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.23%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.91%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.91%) NHS
10 5 (1.59%) BYOD
10 5 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.27%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.96%) CMDB
13 2 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.96%) Windows
2 8 (2.55%) Linux
3 7 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.59%) 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
1 127 (40.45%) Cybersecurity
2 96 (30.57%) Information Security
3 83 (26.43%) Risk Management
4 78 (24.84%) Cloud Security
5 75 (23.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 59 (18.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 53 (16.88%) SIEM
8 51 (16.24%) CI/CD
9 50 (15.92%) Incident Response
10 49 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (14.01%) Agile
12 43 (13.69%) DevOps
13 41 (13.06%) Security Architecture
14 39 (12.42%) Security Operations
15 38 (12.10%) Threat Modelling
16 36 (11.46%) Regulatory Compliance
16 36 (11.46%) Zero Trust
17 34 (10.83%) Infrastructure as Code
17 34 (10.83%) ITIL
17 34 (10.83%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 35 (11.15%) PowerShell
2 13 (4.14%) Python
3 9 (2.87%) SQL
4 8 (2.55%) Java
5 6 (1.91%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (1.27%) 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 92 (29.30%) Security Cleared
2 87 (27.71%) SC Cleared
3 82 (26.11%) CISSP
4 62 (19.75%) CISM
5 40 (12.74%) Degree
6 24 (7.64%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (6.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 20 (6.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 20 (6.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 18 (5.73%) CISA
10 17 (5.41%) CRISC
11 15 (4.78%) PMI Certification
11 15 (4.78%) PMP
12 13 (4.14%) CEH
12 13 (4.14%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (3.18%) Azure Certification
13 10 (3.18%) CCSP
14 9 (2.87%) AWS Certification
14 9 (2.87%) GIAC
14 9 (2.87%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (57.64%) NIST
2 93 (29.62%) GDPR
3 55 (17.52%) NCSC
4 50 (15.92%) GRC
5 45 (14.33%) PCI DSS
6 29 (9.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 23 (7.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 23 (7.32%) SOC 2
8 22 (7.01%) COBIT
9 12 (3.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 12 (3.82%) NIST 800
10 9 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 9 (2.87%) ITGC
10 9 (2.87%) SLA
11 7 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (2.23%) SOX 404
12 6 (1.91%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (1.59%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (1.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 29 (9.24%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.18%) Docker
3 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.32%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 27 (8.60%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (4.14%) Terraform
4 12 (3.82%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.23%) SCCM
6 6 (1.91%) Ansible
7 5 (1.59%) Nessus
8 4 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.27%) 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 63 (20.06%) Microsoft
2 33 (10.51%) CyberArk
3 25 (7.96%) Splunk
4 19 (6.05%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.14%) Oracle
6 10 (3.18%) SAP
7 7 (2.23%) Cisco
7 7 (2.23%) Google
8 6 (1.91%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.91%) Tenable
9 5 (1.59%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (1.59%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.59%) Okta
9 5 (1.59%) Qualys
10 4 (1.27%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.64%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (0.64%) Databricks
11 2 (0.64%) LogRhythm
11 2 (0.64%) Rapid7
11 2 (0.64%) Thycotic