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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 161 215
Rank change year-on-year -21 +54 -16
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 306 234 186
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.54% 1.72% 1.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.33% 10.17% 8.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 171 152
10th Percentile £425 £425 £438
25th Percentile £488 £508 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.16% -5.75%
75th Percentile £653 £688 £678
90th Percentile £763 £825 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%

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 3,672 2,301 2,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.48% 16.93% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,465 1,545 1,597
10th Percentile £350 £322 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.87%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £737 £750 £800
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 35 50
10th Percentile £21.07 £22.75 £16.23
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.15 £18.13
Median hourly rate £28.80 £34.48 £25.37
Median % change year-on-year -16.49% +35.91% -35.64%
75th Percentile £53.56 £46.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £65.02 £56.05 £55.50
England median hourly rate £38.72 £31.64 £26.16
% change year-on-year +22.38% +20.94% -38.44%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -11 44 £588 -8.27% 31
South London -6 9 £500 +11.11% 1
East London -5 3 £750 +28.21% 4
North London -2 1 £650 - 1
West London -19 1 £600 +41.18% 8
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 15 (4.90%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.94%) Confluence
3 7 (2.29%) IIS
3 7 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.33%) Apache
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.33%) nginx
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.33%) iTrent
2 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 122 (39.87%) Azure
2 78 (25.49%) AWS
3 48 (15.69%) Entra ID
4 42 (13.73%) GCP
5 34 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
7 14 (4.58%) SaaS
8 13 (4.25%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (3.59%) GitHub
9 11 (3.59%) OCI
10 9 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.94%) Serverless
11 7 (2.29%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (1.31%) AWS KMS
13 4 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.31%) Datadog
13 4 (1.31%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.54%) Network Security
2 15 (4.90%) Firewall
3 9 (2.94%) DNS
3 9 (2.94%) VPN
4 6 (1.96%) HTTPS
5 5 (1.63%) Kerberos
5 5 (1.63%) NGFW
5 5 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.31%) Cisco IPT
6 4 (1.31%) DHCP
6 4 (1.31%) Internet
6 4 (1.31%) SSL
6 4 (1.31%) WAN
6 4 (1.31%) Wireless
6 4 (1.31%) X.509
7 3 (0.98%) HTTP
7 3 (0.98%) LAN
8 2 (0.65%) IPv4
8 2 (0.65%) IPv6
8 2 (0.65%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (1.31%) Big Data
2 2 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (0.65%) Power BI
3 1 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (6.54%) JIRA
2 6 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.63%) Snyk
4 4 (1.31%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.65%) Git
5 2 (0.65%) GitLab
5 2 (0.65%) JMeter
5 2 (0.65%) MSTest
5 2 (0.65%) Selenium
5 2 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 101 (33.01%) Social Skills
2 87 (28.43%) Finance
3 46 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (10.46%) Public Sector
5 26 (8.50%) Legal
6 21 (6.86%) Banking
7 10 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.27%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.94%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.63%) Law
12 5 (1.63%) Local Government
13 4 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.98%) Retail
15 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.33%) Back Office
16 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (18.63%) Architect
2 46 (15.03%) Analyst
3 30 (9.80%) Senior
4 29 (9.48%) Consultant
5 27 (8.82%) Lead
6 24 (7.84%) Security Architect
7 22 (7.19%) Security Engineer
8 20 (6.54%) Security Analyst
9 16 (5.23%) Security Consultant
10 15 (4.90%) Project Manager
11 13 (4.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 12 (3.92%) Security Manager
12 12 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (3.27%) Security Specialist
14 9 (2.94%) Business Analyst
14 9 (2.94%) Head of Security
14 9 (2.94%) IT Manager
15 8 (2.61%) Cloud Architect
16 7 (2.29%) Cloud Engineer
17 6 (1.96%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.59%) REST
2 9 (2.94%) SAML
3 8 (2.61%) LDAP
3 8 (2.61%) OAuth
4 6 (1.96%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.31%) OpenID
6 3 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.98%) JSON
6 3 (0.98%) Middleware
7 2 (0.65%) Azure Blueprints
7 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.65%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.65%) Playwright
7 2 (0.65%) RESTful
8 1 (0.33%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.33%) Flask
8 1 (0.33%) Kafka
8 1 (0.33%) RAML
8 1 (0.33%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.80%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.48%) Security Posture
3 25 (8.17%) Onboarding
4 18 (5.88%) Operational Technology
5 14 (4.58%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.61%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.29%) CMDB
8 7 (2.29%) PKI
8 7 (2.29%) SCADA
9 6 (1.96%) BYOD
9 6 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.63%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (1.63%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.31%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.98%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (11.44%) Windows
2 12 (3.92%) Linux
3 9 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.31%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.31%) Unix
6 3 (0.98%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.65%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (0.65%) Android
7 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.65%) CentOS
7 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (46.08%) Cybersecurity
2 81 (26.47%) Information Security
3 72 (23.53%) Risk Management
4 63 (20.59%) Cloud Security
4 63 (20.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 60 (19.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 51 (16.67%) Security Architecture
7 47 (15.36%) Agile
7 47 (15.36%) Incident Response
7 47 (15.36%) Roadmaps
8 45 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (14.71%) Vulnerability Management
9 41 (13.40%) DevOps
10 40 (13.07%) CI/CD
10 40 (13.07%) Zero Trust
11 37 (12.09%) Security Operations
12 35 (11.44%) Identity Access Management
12 35 (11.44%) SIEM
12 35 (11.44%) Threat Modelling
13 34 (11.11%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 24 (7.84%) PowerShell
1 24 (7.84%) Python
2 9 (2.94%) SQL
3 7 (2.29%) Bash
4 4 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (0.98%) Bicep
5 3 (0.98%) C#
6 2 (0.65%) Java
6 2 (0.65%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.33%) BeanShell
7 1 (0.33%) Ruby
7 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 99 (32.35%) CISSP
2 67 (21.90%) Security Cleared
3 61 (19.93%) CISM
4 55 (17.97%) SC Cleared
5 38 (12.42%) Degree
6 30 (9.80%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (8.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 24 (7.84%) CRISC
9 22 (7.19%) CISA
10 20 (6.54%) CEH
11 19 (6.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 18 (5.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 17 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
14 16 (5.23%) GIAC
14 16 (5.23%) PMI Certification
14 16 (5.23%) PMP
15 14 (4.58%) Azure Certification
16 12 (3.92%) AWS Certification
17 10 (3.27%) CCSP
18 8 (2.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (62.75%) NIST
2 81 (26.47%) GDPR
3 60 (19.61%) GRC
4 41 (13.40%) PCI DSS
5 37 (12.09%) SOC 2
6 35 (11.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 34 (11.11%) COBIT
8 32 (10.46%) NCSC
9 19 (6.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 17 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 15 (4.90%) NIST 800
12 12 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 12 (3.92%) ITGC
12 12 (3.92%) SLA
13 11 (3.59%) HIPAA
14 7 (2.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 5 (1.63%) Government Security Classifications
17 4 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
17 4 (1.31%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (11.44%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.59%) 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 17 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.23%) Terraform
3 13 (4.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.96%) Ansible
6 3 (0.98%) Puppet
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%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.33%) QRadar
8 1 (0.33%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 84 (27.45%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.48%) ServiceNow
3 18 (5.88%) CyberArk
4 16 (5.23%) Splunk
5 11 (3.59%) CrowdStrike
5 11 (3.59%) Google
6 10 (3.27%) Qualys
6 10 (3.27%) Tenable
7 6 (1.96%) Oracle
7 6 (1.96%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.63%) Okta
8 5 (1.63%) Rapid7
9 4 (1.31%) Veracode
9 4 (1.31%) Workday
9 4 (1.31%) Zscaler
10 3 (0.98%) Cisco
10 3 (0.98%) Juniper
10 3 (0.98%) SAP
11 2 (0.65%) Forcepoint
11 2 (0.65%) IBM