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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 180 231
Rank change year-on-year +19 +51 -18
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 307 191 185
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.62% 1.54% 1.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.89% 9.44% 7.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 139 153
10th Percentile £425 £425 £413
25th Percentile £500 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -1.71% -9.20%
75th Percentile £719 £688 £675
90th Percentile £888 £815 £768
England median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -1.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £73.60 -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +2.67% +123.62% -60.71%

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 3,454 2,023 2,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.24% 16.28% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,320 1,340 1,707
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £763 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -0.05% -4.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 27 64
10th Percentile £19.02 £20.75 £13.09
25th Percentile £22.87 £22.75 £17.94
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +42.68% -5.18%
75th Percentile £41.80 £52.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.40 £73.36 £56.38
England median hourly rate £35.00 £32.66 £24.00
% change year-on-year +7.18% +36.06% -43.53%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +5 54 £575 -8.00% 24
South London -1 9 £500 +11.11% 3
East London -10 2 £650 +11.11% 2
North London +2 1 £650 +40.54% 1
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 (3.91%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.93%) Confluence
3 8 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.28%) IIS
5 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) nginx
5 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.98%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.33%) iTrent
2 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 116 (37.79%) Azure
2 79 (25.73%) AWS
3 35 (11.40%) GCP
4 34 (11.07%) Entra ID
5 33 (10.75%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (6.19%) Azure Sentinel
7 15 (4.89%) GitHub
8 14 (4.56%) Microsoft Purview
9 13 (4.23%) Serverless
10 12 (3.91%) OpenShift
10 12 (3.91%) SaaS
11 9 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (2.28%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (1.95%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (1.95%) OCI
15 5 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
16 4 (1.30%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.21%) Network Security
2 15 (4.89%) Firewall
3 14 (4.56%) DNS
4 6 (1.95%) HTTPS
4 6 (1.95%) VPN
5 5 (1.63%) DHCP
5 5 (1.63%) Kerberos
6 4 (1.30%) Internet
6 4 (1.30%) NGFW
6 4 (1.30%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.98%) Cisco IPT
7 3 (0.98%) HTTP
7 3 (0.98%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.98%) WAN
8 2 (0.65%) IPv4
8 2 (0.65%) IPv6
8 2 (0.65%) LAN
8 2 (0.65%) SAN
8 2 (0.65%) SSL
8 2 (0.65%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.63%) NoSQL
1 5 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (1.30%) Big Data
2 4 (1.30%) DocumentDB
2 4 (1.30%) DynamoDB
2 4 (1.30%) MySQL
2 4 (1.30%) Redis
3 2 (0.65%) Metadata
3 2 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.33%) Power BI
4 1 (0.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (6.84%) Jenkins
2 19 (6.19%) JIRA
3 6 (1.95%) GitLab
4 4 (1.30%) Snyk
5 3 (0.98%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.65%) JMeter
6 2 (0.65%) MSTest
6 2 (0.65%) Selenium
6 2 (0.65%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.33%) Git
General
1 109 (35.50%) Social Skills
2 91 (29.64%) Finance
3 50 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.77%) Public Sector
5 26 (8.47%) Legal
6 22 (7.17%) Banking
7 18 (5.86%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (5.54%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (3.91%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.61%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.95%) Law
11 6 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.30%) Local Government
13 3 (0.98%) Retail
14 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.33%) Back Office
15 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 67 (21.82%) Architect
2 37 (12.05%) Analyst
3 30 (9.77%) Consultant
4 25 (8.14%) Senior
5 24 (7.82%) Lead
6 23 (7.49%) Security Architect
7 21 (6.84%) Project Manager
8 20 (6.51%) Security Engineer
9 17 (5.54%) CyberArk Architect
9 17 (5.54%) Security Analyst
10 16 (5.21%) Security Manager
11 14 (4.56%) Security Consultant
12 13 (4.23%) Security Specialist
13 12 (3.91%) Cloud Architect
13 12 (3.91%) IT Manager
14 10 (3.26%) AWS Architect
14 10 (3.26%) Migration Manager
14 10 (3.26%) Migration Project Manager
14 10 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (2.93%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.86%) OpenID
1 18 (5.86%) SAML
2 17 (5.54%) LDAP
3 14 (4.56%) REST
4 11 (3.58%) OAuth
5 6 (1.95%) OAuth2
5 6 (1.95%) RESTful
6 5 (1.63%) Kafka
6 5 (1.63%) Spring
6 5 (1.63%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.30%) gRPC
7 4 (1.30%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.30%) JPA
7 4 (1.30%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.30%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.98%) JSON
8 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (0.98%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.33%) Cloud Native
2 34 (11.07%) Onboarding
3 29 (9.45%) Security Posture
4 21 (6.84%) Management Information System
5 14 (4.56%) Operational Technology
6 12 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.61%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.95%) CMDB
9 6 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.95%) SCADA
10 5 (1.63%) BYOD
10 5 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.63%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (0.98%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.98%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.73%) Windows
2 14 (4.56%) Linux
3 10 (3.26%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.30%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.30%) Unix
6 2 (0.65%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (0.65%) Android
6 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.65%) CentOS
6 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (44.95%) Cybersecurity
2 85 (27.69%) Information Security
3 78 (25.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 75 (24.43%) Risk Management
5 65 (21.17%) Cloud Security
6 59 (19.22%) DevOps
7 58 (18.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 55 (17.92%) Agile
8 55 (17.92%) CI/CD
9 54 (17.59%) Security Architecture
10 50 (16.29%) Incident Response
11 49 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 48 (15.64%) Roadmaps
13 46 (14.98%) Threat Modelling
14 44 (14.33%) Infrastructure as Code
14 44 (14.33%) SIEM
15 41 (13.36%) Regulatory Compliance
16 39 (12.70%) Vulnerability Management
17 38 (12.38%) Data Protection
18 37 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 24 (7.82%) PowerShell
2 22 (7.17%) Python
3 16 (5.21%) SQL
4 7 (2.28%) Bash
5 5 (1.63%) Java
6 3 (0.98%) Bicep
6 3 (0.98%) C#
6 3 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.65%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.33%) Go
8 1 (0.33%) Ruby
8 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 92 (29.97%) CISSP
2 83 (27.04%) Security Cleared
3 70 (22.80%) SC Cleared
4 59 (19.22%) CISM
5 45 (14.66%) Degree
6 28 (9.12%) Cisco Certification
7 27 (8.79%) CRISC
8 25 (8.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 22 (7.17%) CISA
10 21 (6.84%) PMI Certification
10 21 (6.84%) PMP
11 19 (6.19%) GIAC
11 19 (6.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 18 (5.86%) CEH
12 18 (5.86%) CompTIA Security+
13 16 (5.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 15 (4.89%) Azure Certification
15 12 (3.91%) AWS Certification
16 11 (3.58%) CCSP
17 9 (2.93%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (61.89%) NIST
2 88 (28.66%) GDPR
3 56 (18.24%) GRC
4 49 (15.96%) NCSC
5 46 (14.98%) PCI DSS
6 38 (12.38%) COBIT
7 29 (9.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 29 (9.45%) SOC 2
8 17 (5.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (4.89%) NIST 800
10 13 (4.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 11 (3.58%) SLA
12 9 (2.93%) HIPAA
12 9 (2.93%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 8 (2.61%) ITGC
14 6 (1.95%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 6 (1.95%) QA
15 5 (1.63%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 28 (9.12%) Active Directory
2 13 (4.23%) Docker
3 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.33%) Varnish
3 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (10.75%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.51%) Terraform
3 11 (3.58%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (2.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.95%) Ansible
6 3 (0.98%) Puppet
7 2 (0.65%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.65%) Grafana
7 2 (0.65%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.65%) Nessus
7 2 (0.65%) Nexpose
7 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.33%) CASB
8 1 (0.33%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.33%) SELinux
Vendors
1 71 (23.13%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.77%) CyberArk
3 28 (9.12%) ServiceNow
4 26 (8.47%) Splunk
5 9 (2.93%) Google
5 9 (2.93%) Tenable
6 7 (2.28%) Oracle
6 7 (2.28%) Qualys
7 6 (1.95%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.30%) Okta
8 4 (1.30%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.30%) Rapid7
8 4 (1.30%) Veracode
8 4 (1.30%) Zscaler
9 3 (0.98%) Cisco
9 3 (0.98%) Workday
10 2 (0.65%) Checkmarx
10 2 (0.65%) Databricks
10 2 (0.65%) IBM
10 2 (0.65%) SAP