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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 157 211
Rank change year-on-year -17 +54 -23
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 328 239 189
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.64% 1.80% 1.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.57% 10.57% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 172 147
10th Percentile £425 £418 £445
25th Percentile £488 £500 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% -6.21% -2.44%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £850 £753
England median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £52.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +35.24% +90.91% -51.39%

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 3,826 2,261 2,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.10% 17.03% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,579 1,507 1,467
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £756 £800
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 51 40
10th Percentile £19.76 - £18.13
25th Percentile £23.50 £25.15 £23.35
Median hourly rate £28.55 £34.00 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% +21.78% +1.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £43.98 £50.44
90th Percentile £58.25 £55.00 £72.56
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £27.50
% change year-on-year +14.00% +15.05% -21.43%

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 2 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 2 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 -16 41 £553 -14.92% 51
East London 0 4 £750 +36.36% 4
South London -14 2 £744 +65.22% 3
West London -17 2 £625 +47.06% 17
North London +1 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 13 (3.96%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.13%) IIS
3 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.52%) Confluence
5 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.30%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.30%) nginx
5 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.30%) iTrent
2 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 149 (45.43%) Azure
2 97 (29.57%) AWS
3 60 (18.29%) Entra ID
4 58 (17.68%) GCP
5 37 (11.28%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (6.10%) Azure Sentinel
7 16 (4.88%) SaaS
8 14 (4.27%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (4.27%) OCI
9 13 (3.96%) GitHub
10 12 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.74%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (2.74%) Serverless
12 8 (2.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 8 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (2.13%) AWS CloudTrail
13 7 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (1.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.23%) Network Security
2 20 (6.10%) Firewall
3 10 (3.05%) DNS
4 8 (2.44%) VPN
5 6 (1.83%) HTTPS
5 6 (1.83%) X.509
6 5 (1.52%) DHCP
6 5 (1.52%) Wireless
7 4 (1.22%) Internet
7 4 (1.22%) IPsec
7 4 (1.22%) Kerberos
7 4 (1.22%) Modbus
7 4 (1.22%) NGFW
7 4 (1.22%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.22%) WAN
8 3 (0.91%) 4G
8 3 (0.91%) 5G
8 3 (0.91%) LAN
8 3 (0.91%) SAN
8 3 (0.91%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (1.22%) Big Data
2 3 (0.91%) Data Lake
2 3 (0.91%) Power BI
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.30%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (4.88%) JIRA
2 8 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.52%) GitLab
4 4 (1.22%) Burp Suite
4 4 (1.22%) Git
4 4 (1.22%) Selenium
4 4 (1.22%) Snyk
5 2 (0.61%) JMeter
5 2 (0.61%) MSTest
5 2 (0.61%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.61%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.61%) TestRail
General
1 111 (33.84%) Social Skills
2 77 (23.48%) Finance
3 47 (14.33%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (10.06%) Public Sector
5 27 (8.23%) Legal
6 17 (5.18%) Banking
7 11 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.35%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.13%) Local Government
11 6 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.91%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.91%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.91%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.91%) Retail
14 2 (0.61%) Law
14 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (23.48%) Architect
2 40 (12.20%) Analyst
3 34 (10.37%) Lead
4 33 (10.06%) Security Architect
5 31 (9.45%) Senior
6 27 (8.23%) Consultant
7 20 (6.10%) Security Analyst
8 18 (5.49%) Security Engineer
9 16 (4.88%) Security Consultant
9 16 (4.88%) Security Manager
9 16 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (4.27%) Project Manager
11 13 (3.96%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 10 (3.05%) Head of Security
12 10 (3.05%) IT Manager
13 9 (2.74%) Cloud Architect
13 9 (2.74%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
15 7 (2.13%) Enterprise Architect
15 7 (2.13%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.93%) Terraform
2 15 (4.57%) REST
3 12 (3.66%) SailPoint
4 11 (3.35%) LDAP
4 11 (3.35%) OAuth
5 10 (3.05%) SAML
6 5 (1.52%) OpenID
6 5 (1.52%) SOAP
7 4 (1.22%) JDBC
7 4 (1.22%) JSON
7 4 (1.22%) Middleware
8 3 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.91%) OAuth2
8 3 (0.91%) Playwright
9 2 (0.61%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.61%) Azure Blueprints
9 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.61%) pytest
10 1 (0.30%) Flask
10 1 (0.30%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.06%) Security Posture
2 32 (9.76%) Cloud Native
3 28 (8.54%) Onboarding
4 19 (5.79%) Management Information System
5 18 (5.49%) Operational Technology
6 13 (3.96%) Cyber Threat
7 11 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (3.05%) PKI
9 9 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.13%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (1.83%) IoT
11 6 (1.83%) NHS
11 6 (1.83%) SCADA
12 5 (1.52%) CMDB
12 5 (1.52%) Cyber Defence
12 5 (1.52%) Data Centre
13 4 (1.22%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.22%) Product Ownership
13 4 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 36 (10.98%) Windows
2 12 (3.66%) Linux
3 10 (3.05%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.52%) Unix
5 4 (1.22%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.91%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.61%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.61%) CentOS
8 1 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (52.44%) Cybersecurity
2 83 (25.30%) Risk Management
3 80 (24.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 77 (23.48%) Cloud Security
5 74 (22.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 70 (21.34%) Information Security
7 62 (18.90%) Security Architecture
8 57 (17.38%) Roadmaps
9 55 (16.77%) Incident Response
9 55 (16.77%) Vulnerability Management
10 51 (15.55%) SIEM
11 48 (14.63%) DevOps
12 47 (14.33%) CI/CD
13 46 (14.02%) Identity Access Management
14 45 (13.72%) Data Protection
15 44 (13.41%) TOGAF
15 44 (13.41%) Zero Trust
16 43 (13.11%) Threat Modelling
17 41 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
18 40 (12.20%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 31 (9.45%) PowerShell
2 29 (8.84%) Python
3 9 (2.74%) Bash
3 9 (2.74%) SQL
4 7 (2.13%) Java
5 6 (1.83%) BeanShell
6 5 (1.52%) Bicep
6 5 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (0.91%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.61%) C#
Qualifications
1 104 (31.71%) CISSP
2 72 (21.95%) Security Cleared
3 63 (19.21%) CISM
4 56 (17.07%) SC Cleared
5 30 (9.15%) Degree
6 29 (8.84%) CRISC
7 25 (7.62%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (6.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 21 (6.40%) CEH
9 20 (6.10%) Azure Certification
9 20 (6.10%) CISA
10 18 (5.49%) GIAC
11 17 (5.18%) CompTIA Security+
12 16 (4.88%) PMI Certification
12 16 (4.88%) PMP
13 13 (3.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 11 (3.35%) AWS Certification
14 11 (3.35%) CCSP
14 11 (3.35%) DV Cleared
15 8 (2.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (62.20%) NIST
2 76 (23.17%) GDPR
3 53 (16.16%) GRC
4 41 (12.50%) NCSC
5 39 (11.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 35 (10.67%) PCI DSS
7 33 (10.06%) COBIT
8 32 (9.76%) SOC 2
9 24 (7.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 22 (6.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 13 (3.96%) NIST 800
12 12 (3.66%) ITGC
13 11 (3.35%) HIPAA
14 10 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 10 (3.05%) SLA
15 8 (2.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 8 (2.44%) PMO
15 8 (2.44%) QA
16 5 (1.52%) ISO 22301
17 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 46 (14.02%) Active Directory
2 15 (4.57%) Docker
3 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) Firmware
4 1 (0.30%) Varnish
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (6.40%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (3.35%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.13%) Ansible
5 3 (0.91%) Nessus
5 3 (0.91%) Puppet
6 2 (0.61%) Argo
6 2 (0.61%) Grafana
6 2 (0.61%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.61%) Nexpose
6 2 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.61%) QRadar
7 1 (0.30%) CASB
7 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.30%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 97 (29.57%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.54%) ServiceNow
3 20 (6.10%) CyberArk
4 16 (4.88%) CrowdStrike
4 16 (4.88%) Splunk
5 14 (4.27%) Google
6 12 (3.66%) Qualys
6 12 (3.66%) Tenable
7 9 (2.74%) Okta
8 7 (2.13%) Rapid7
8 7 (2.13%) SAP
9 6 (1.83%) Oracle
9 6 (1.83%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.83%) Zscaler
10 5 (1.52%) Workday
11 4 (1.22%) ForgeRock
11 4 (1.22%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.22%) Veracode
12 3 (0.91%) Cisco
12 3 (0.91%) Juniper