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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 180 203
Rank change year-on-year +24 +23 +53
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 310 175 201
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.83% 1.39% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.81% 9.02% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 116 165
10th Percentile £413 £425 £363
25th Percentile £500 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £709 £688 £688
90th Percentile £883 £806 £775
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.25 £68.80 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £83.20 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.17% - -
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
90th Percentile - £90.28 -
England median hourly rate £81.00 £61.50 £85.21
% change year-on-year +31.72% -27.83% +21.72%

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 3,160 1,941 2,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.70% 15.37% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,105 1,300 1,738
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -4.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £510 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 25 57
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.88 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.39 £22.27 £17.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £39.04 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year -33.12% +48.78% -40.17%
75th Percentile £36.41 £78.40 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.30 £89.53 £59.20
England median hourly rate £27.50 £32.66 £22.01
% change year-on-year -15.79% +48.36% -48.21%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +18 57 £563 -11.42% 33
South London -8 14 £519 +15.28%
West London -22 2 £423 +12.67% 4
East London -5 1 £550 -10.57% 12
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 (3.87%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.23%) Confluence
2 10 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
Applications
1 3 (0.97%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 102 (32.90%) Azure
2 74 (23.87%) AWS
3 28 (9.03%) Entra ID
4 25 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (7.74%) GCP
6 14 (4.52%) OpenShift
7 13 (4.19%) Azure Sentinel
7 13 (4.19%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (3.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 10 (3.23%) GitHub
10 9 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (2.90%) SaaS
11 8 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (2.26%) AWS KMS
12 7 (2.26%) OCI
12 7 (2.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (1.94%) Serverless
14 5 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.61%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.45%) Firewall
2 19 (6.13%) Network Security
3 15 (4.84%) DNS
4 11 (3.55%) VPN
5 8 (2.58%) DHCP
6 6 (1.94%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.61%) WAN
8 4 (1.29%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.97%) Cisco IPT
9 3 (0.97%) LAN
9 3 (0.97%) NGFW
9 3 (0.97%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.65%) HTTP
10 2 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.65%) IPv4
10 2 (0.65%) IPv6
10 2 (0.65%) Modbus
10 2 (0.65%) SSL
11 1 (0.32%) Internet
11 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (1.29%) Big Data
1 4 (1.29%) DocumentDB
1 4 (1.29%) DynamoDB
1 4 (1.29%) MySQL
1 4 (1.29%) NoSQL
1 4 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (1.29%) Redis
2 2 (0.65%) BigQuery
2 2 (0.65%) Metadata
2 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.32%) EDRMS
3 1 (0.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (5.48%) Jenkins
2 15 (4.84%) JIRA
3 5 (1.61%) GitLab
4 3 (0.97%) JMeter
4 3 (0.97%) MSTest
4 3 (0.97%) Selenium
5 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.32%) Git
5 1 (0.32%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.32%) Snyk
5 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 110 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 83 (26.77%) Finance
3 39 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (11.94%) Public Sector
5 24 (7.74%) Banking
6 21 (6.77%) Influencing Skills
6 21 (6.77%) Legal
7 18 (5.81%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (4.52%) Financial Institution
9 13 (4.19%) Law
10 8 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.94%) Police
11 6 (1.94%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Local Government
13 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.32%) Marketing
13 1 (0.32%) Military
Job Titles
1 55 (17.74%) Architect
2 45 (14.52%) Analyst
3 34 (10.97%) Senior
4 32 (10.32%) Consultant
5 25 (8.06%) Security Engineer
6 24 (7.74%) Security Architect
7 18 (5.81%) Project Manager
7 18 (5.81%) Security Analyst
8 17 (5.48%) CyberArk Architect
9 16 (5.16%) Security Consultant
10 15 (4.84%) Lead
10 15 (4.84%) Security Manager
10 15 (4.84%) Security Specialist
11 11 (3.55%) Migration Manager
11 11 (3.55%) Migration Project Manager
12 10 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (3.23%) Operations Manager
13 9 (2.90%) AWS Architect
13 9 (2.90%) IT Analyst
13 9 (2.90%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.13%) OpenID
2 17 (5.48%) SAML
3 16 (5.16%) LDAP
4 10 (3.23%) OAuth
4 10 (3.23%) REST
5 6 (1.94%) RESTful
6 5 (1.61%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.61%) Spring
7 4 (1.29%) gRPC
7 4 (1.29%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.29%) JPA
7 4 (1.29%) Kafka
7 4 (1.29%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.29%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.29%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (0.97%) Middleware
9 2 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.65%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.58%) Onboarding
2 29 (9.35%) Cloud Native
3 23 (7.42%) Security Posture
4 17 (5.48%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.90%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.58%) Operational Technology
6 8 (2.58%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (2.26%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.61%) BYOD
8 5 (1.61%) CMDB
8 5 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.61%) NHS
9 4 (1.29%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.97%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.03%) Windows
2 11 (3.55%) Linux
3 10 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.97%) Unix
5 2 (0.65%) Android
5 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (38.39%) Cybersecurity
2 84 (27.10%) Information Security
3 68 (21.94%) Cloud Security
3 68 (21.94%) Stakeholder Management
4 67 (21.61%) Risk Management
5 56 (18.06%) CI/CD
6 51 (16.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 50 (16.13%) DevOps
8 49 (15.81%) Agile
8 49 (15.81%) Incident Response
9 48 (15.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 46 (14.84%) SIEM
11 43 (13.87%) Threat Modelling
12 42 (13.55%) Security Architecture
13 37 (11.94%) Infrastructure as Code
13 37 (11.94%) Security Operations
14 35 (11.29%) Data Protection
15 33 (10.65%) ITIL
15 33 (10.65%) Regulatory Compliance
16 32 (10.32%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 27 (8.71%) PowerShell
2 14 (4.52%) Python
3 10 (3.23%) SQL
4 6 (1.94%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (1.61%) Java
6 3 (0.97%) Bash
6 3 (0.97%) C#
6 3 (0.97%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.32%) Bicep
7 1 (0.32%) C
7 1 (0.32%) Go
7 1 (0.32%) Ruby
7 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 98 (31.61%) Security Cleared
2 88 (28.39%) SC Cleared
3 76 (24.52%) CISSP
4 54 (17.42%) CISM
5 38 (12.26%) Degree
6 24 (7.74%) Cisco Certification
7 20 (6.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 19 (6.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 18 (5.81%) CEH
9 18 (5.81%) CRISC
9 18 (5.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 17 (5.48%) PMI Certification
10 17 (5.48%) PMP
11 15 (4.84%) CISA
11 15 (4.84%) CompTIA Security+
12 12 (3.87%) GIAC
13 10 (3.23%) AWS Certification
13 10 (3.23%) Azure Certification
14 9 (2.90%) CCSP
15 8 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (57.74%) NIST
2 90 (29.03%) GDPR
3 56 (18.06%) NCSC
4 45 (14.52%) GRC
5 38 (12.26%) PCI DSS
6 29 (9.35%) COBIT
7 28 (9.03%) Cyber Essentials
8 21 (6.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 20 (6.45%) SOC 2
10 14 (4.52%) NIST 800
11 12 (3.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 12 (3.87%) ITGC
12 10 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 8 (2.58%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 8 (2.58%) SLA
14 7 (2.26%) SOX 404
15 6 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (1.61%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 26 (8.39%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.55%) Docker
3 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.32%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 28 (9.03%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.16%) Terraform
3 12 (3.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.94%) Nessus
6 4 (1.29%) Ansible
6 4 (1.29%) CASB
7 3 (0.97%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.65%) Grafana
8 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.65%) SCCM
9 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.32%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.32%) Nmap
9 1 (0.32%) QRadar
9 1 (0.32%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.32%) SELinux
Vendors
1 56 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 37 (11.94%) CyberArk
3 24 (7.74%) Splunk
4 22 (7.10%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.19%) Oracle
6 9 (2.90%) SAP
7 7 (2.26%) Cisco
7 7 (2.26%) Google
7 7 (2.26%) Tenable
8 5 (1.61%) Qualys
9 4 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.97%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.97%) Okta
10 3 (0.97%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.97%) Workday
10 3 (0.97%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.65%) Databricks
11 2 (0.65%) Forcepoint
11 2 (0.65%) IBM
11 2 (0.65%) Rapid7