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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 154 207
Rank change year-on-year -23 +53 -23
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 343 253 200
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.69% 1.88% 1.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.77% 10.79% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 173 145
10th Percentile £426 £400 £450
25th Percentile £494 £495 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £553 £588
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% -5.96% -6.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £774 £850 £775
England median daily rate £548 £550 £584
% change year-on-year -0.37% -5.78% -2.71%
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% -29.78%

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 3,910 2,345 2,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.32% 17.42% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,654 1,562 1,435
10th Percentile £350 £325 £331
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 £684
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 49 41
10th Percentile £15.88 - £18.13
25th Percentile £21.33 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +21.43% +4.67%
75th Percentile £40.00 £42.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £55.78 £54.35 £71.88
England median hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £31.62
% change year-on-year +1.54% +2.78% -15.68%

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 20 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 20 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 -28 38 £550 -15.38% 65
West London -23 4 £525 +23.53% 12
East London 0 3 £750 +36.36% 6
South London -8 2 £495 - 4
North London 0 1 £650 - 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 11 (3.21%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.04%) IIS
3 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.17%) 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 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 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
1 151 (44.02%) Azure
2 100 (29.15%) AWS
3 67 (19.53%) Entra ID
4 57 (16.62%) GCP
5 42 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (6.71%) Azure Sentinel
7 16 (4.66%) Microsoft Purview
7 16 (4.66%) OCI
8 15 (4.37%) SaaS
9 12 (3.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (3.21%) GitHub
11 10 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (2.92%) Microsoft Copilot
12 9 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (2.62%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (2.62%) Serverless
13 8 (2.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 8 (2.33%) Power Platform
14 7 (2.04%) AWS CloudTrail
14 7 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (9.04%) Network Security
2 25 (7.29%) Firewall
3 11 (3.21%) DNS
3 11 (3.21%) VPN
4 7 (2.04%) X.509
5 6 (1.75%) HTTPS
6 5 (1.46%) IPsec
6 5 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.46%) Wireless
7 4 (1.17%) DHCP
7 4 (1.17%) Internet
7 4 (1.17%) Kerberos
7 4 (1.17%) Modbus
7 4 (1.17%) 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%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (0.58%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.29%) Big Data
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 15 (4.37%) JIRA
2 10 (2.92%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.04%) GitLab
4 4 (1.17%) Burp Suite
4 4 (1.17%) Git
4 4 (1.17%) Snyk
5 2 (0.58%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.58%) Selenium
5 2 (0.58%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.58%) TestRail
General
1 122 (35.57%) Social Skills
2 79 (23.03%) Finance
3 46 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (11.66%) Public Sector
5 26 (7.58%) Legal
6 17 (4.96%) Banking
7 13 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (3.50%) Manufacturing
9 11 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.62%) Local Government
10 9 (2.62%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.87%) Cyber-Physical System
14 3 (0.87%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.87%) Digital Healthcare
14 3 (0.87%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.87%) Retail
15 2 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 86 (25.07%) Architect
2 41 (11.95%) Analyst
3 38 (11.08%) Lead
4 37 (10.79%) Security Architect
5 29 (8.45%) Consultant
6 27 (7.87%) Senior
7 21 (6.12%) Security Engineer
8 20 (5.83%) Security Analyst
9 19 (5.54%) Security Manager
9 19 (5.54%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (4.08%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 14 (4.08%) Security Consultant
11 13 (3.79%) Project Manager
12 11 (3.21%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 10 (2.92%) Head of Security
14 9 (2.62%) Cloud Engineer
14 9 (2.62%) IT Manager
15 8 (2.33%) Cloud Architect
15 8 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
15 8 (2.33%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.04%) Terraform
2 14 (4.08%) REST
3 13 (3.79%) SailPoint
4 12 (3.50%) OAuth
4 12 (3.50%) SAML
5 11 (3.21%) LDAP
6 5 (1.46%) JSON
6 5 (1.46%) OpenID
7 4 (1.17%) JDBC
7 4 (1.17%) SOAP
8 3 (0.87%) OAuth2
8 3 (0.87%) Playwright
9 2 (0.58%) Azure Blueprints
9 2 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.58%) Middleware
9 2 (0.58%) pytest
9 2 (0.58%) Software Packaging
10 1 (0.29%) Web Services
10 1 (0.29%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.50%) Security Posture
2 33 (9.62%) Cloud Native
3 27 (7.87%) Onboarding
4 22 (6.41%) Operational Technology
5 21 (6.12%) Cyber Threat
6 18 (5.25%) Management Information System
7 15 (4.37%) PKI
8 10 (2.92%) IoT
9 8 (2.33%) Cloud Security Posture
9 8 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.33%) SCADA
10 7 (2.04%) NHS
11 6 (1.75%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.75%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.46%) Cyber Defence
12 5 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.17%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.17%) Security Operations Centre
14 3 (0.87%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.20%) Windows
2 13 (3.79%) Linux
3 8 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.46%) Unix
4 5 (1.46%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.17%) 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
1 191 (55.69%) Cybersecurity
2 97 (28.28%) Risk Management
3 91 (26.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 82 (23.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 80 (23.32%) Cloud Security
6 72 (20.99%) Security Architecture
7 69 (20.12%) Information Security
8 62 (18.08%) Roadmaps
9 61 (17.78%) Vulnerability Management
10 60 (17.49%) Incident Response
11 53 (15.45%) Identity Access Management
11 53 (15.45%) TOGAF
12 51 (14.87%) SIEM
13 48 (13.99%) Zero Trust
14 47 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 47 (13.70%) DevOps
15 46 (13.41%) Security Operations
16 43 (12.54%) CI/CD
16 43 (12.54%) Threat Modelling
17 42 (12.24%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 32 (9.33%) PowerShell
2 26 (7.58%) Python
3 9 (2.62%) Bash
4 7 (2.04%) Java
5 6 (1.75%) BeanShell
5 6 (1.75%) SQL
6 5 (1.46%) Bicep
6 5 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 111 (32.36%) CISSP
2 82 (23.91%) Security Cleared
3 72 (20.99%) CISM
4 64 (18.66%) SC Cleared
5 32 (9.33%) CRISC
6 27 (7.87%) Degree
7 26 (7.58%) Cisco Certification
8 24 (7.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 23 (6.71%) Azure Certification
10 19 (5.54%) CISA
11 18 (5.25%) PMP
12 17 (4.96%) CEH
12 17 (4.96%) GIAC
12 17 (4.96%) PMI Certification
13 16 (4.66%) CompTIA Security+
14 14 (4.08%) DV Cleared
14 14 (4.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 13 (3.79%) AWS Certification
15 13 (3.79%) CCSP
16 9 (2.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (61.81%) NIST
2 73 (21.28%) GDPR
3 53 (15.45%) GRC
4 50 (14.58%) NCSC
5 46 (13.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 39 (11.37%) PCI DSS
7 32 (9.33%) SOC 2
8 27 (7.87%) COBIT
8 27 (7.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 22 (6.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (4.66%) NIST 800
11 12 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 11 (3.21%) ITGC
12 11 (3.21%) PMO
12 11 (3.21%) SLA
13 10 (2.92%) HIPAA
14 9 (2.62%) QA
15 8 (2.33%) ISO 22301
16 5 (1.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 4 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 50 (14.58%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.21%) Docker
3 4 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.29%) Firmware
4 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (6.71%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (3.21%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (2.62%) 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
Vendors
1 104 (30.32%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.45%) ServiceNow
3 18 (5.25%) CyberArk
4 16 (4.66%) CrowdStrike
5 15 (4.37%) Google
6 13 (3.79%) Qualys
6 13 (3.79%) Splunk
7 11 (3.21%) Tenable
8 10 (2.92%) Palo Alto
9 9 (2.62%) Okta
10 8 (2.33%) Rapid7
11 7 (2.04%) Oracle
11 7 (2.04%) SAP
11 7 (2.04%) Zscaler
12 5 (1.46%) VMware
12 5 (1.46%) Workday
13 4 (1.17%) Cisco
13 4 (1.17%) ForgeRock
13 4 (1.17%) Salesforce
13 4 (1.17%) Veracode