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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 174 207
Rank change year-on-year +14 +33 +21
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 284 190 200
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.61% 1.50% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.86% 9.53% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 133 162
10th Percentile £416 £415 £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 £717 £720 £697
90th Percentile £888 £833 £775
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £83.20 -
England median hourly rate £59.07 £61.50 £83.41
% change year-on-year -3.95% -26.27% +19.16%

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 3,205 1,993 2,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.18% 15.74% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,156 1,319 1,750
10th Percentile £350 £313 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -3.64% -2.65%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 28 64
10th Percentile £19.76 £19.44 £13.09
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.27 £18.04
Median hourly rate £27.75 £34.75 £25.62
Median % change year-on-year -20.14% +35.64% -16.68%
75th Percentile £50.25 £57.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.30 £86.37 £56.38
England median hourly rate £30.58 £34.75 £22.42
% change year-on-year -12.00% +55.00% -44.64%

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 28 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 28 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 +14 56 £525 -17.97% 35
South London -9 11 £500 +11.11% 1
East London -11 1 £550 -10.57% 5
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 10 (3.52%) Confluence
2 9 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.35%) Apache
3 1 (0.35%) nginx
3 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 99 (34.86%) Azure
2 70 (24.65%) AWS
3 26 (9.15%) GCP
4 24 (8.45%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (7.75%) Entra ID
6 14 (4.93%) OpenShift
7 10 (3.52%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (3.52%) Azure Sentinel
7 10 (3.52%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (3.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 9 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (3.17%) GitHub
9 8 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (2.82%) OCI
9 8 (2.82%) SaaS
10 7 (2.46%) AWS KMS
10 7 (2.46%) Serverless
10 7 (2.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.34%) Network Security
2 17 (5.99%) DNS
2 17 (5.99%) Firewall
3 10 (3.52%) VPN
4 9 (3.17%) DHCP
5 5 (1.76%) Kerberos
5 5 (1.76%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.41%) WAN
7 3 (1.06%) Cisco IPT
7 3 (1.06%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.70%) HTTP
8 2 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.70%) IPv4
8 2 (0.70%) IPv6
8 2 (0.70%) LAN
8 2 (0.70%) Modbus
8 2 (0.70%) NGFW
8 2 (0.70%) SSL
9 1 (0.35%) NAS
9 1 (0.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (1.41%) Big Data
1 4 (1.41%) DocumentDB
1 4 (1.41%) DynamoDB
1 4 (1.41%) MySQL
1 4 (1.41%) NoSQL
1 4 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (1.41%) Redis
2 2 (0.70%) Metadata
2 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.35%) EDRMS
3 1 (0.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (5.99%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.58%) JIRA
3 5 (1.76%) GitLab
4 2 (0.70%) JMeter
4 2 (0.70%) MSTest
4 2 (0.70%) Selenium
5 1 (0.35%) Git
5 1 (0.35%) Snyk
General
1 100 (35.21%) Social Skills
2 77 (27.11%) Finance
3 41 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.56%) Public Sector
5 26 (9.15%) Banking
5 26 (9.15%) Legal
6 21 (7.39%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (5.99%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (4.93%) Financial Institution
9 10 (3.52%) Law
10 7 (2.46%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.06%) Retail
13 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.35%) Back Office
14 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.35%) Local Government
14 1 (0.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 54 (19.01%) Architect
2 35 (12.32%) Analyst
3 30 (10.56%) Consultant
4 26 (9.15%) Senior
5 22 (7.75%) Security Engineer
6 20 (7.04%) Lead
7 19 (6.69%) Security Architect
8 18 (6.34%) Project Manager
9 17 (5.99%) CyberArk Architect
10 16 (5.63%) Security Consultant
11 15 (5.28%) Security Analyst
11 15 (5.28%) Security Manager
12 14 (4.93%) Security Specialist
13 11 (3.87%) Migration Manager
13 11 (3.87%) Migration Project Manager
14 10 (3.52%) AWS Architect
15 9 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
16 8 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
16 8 (2.82%) IT Analyst
16 8 (2.82%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.69%) OpenID
2 18 (6.34%) SAML
3 17 (5.99%) LDAP
4 10 (3.52%) OAuth
4 10 (3.52%) REST
5 6 (2.11%) RESTful
6 5 (1.76%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.76%) Spring
7 4 (1.41%) gRPC
7 4 (1.41%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.41%) JPA
7 4 (1.41%) Kafka
7 4 (1.41%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.41%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.41%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (1.06%) Middleware
9 2 (0.70%) .NET
9 2 (0.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.03%) Onboarding
2 31 (10.92%) Cloud Native
3 22 (7.75%) Security Posture
4 17 (5.99%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.82%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.11%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.11%) Security Operations Centre
8 5 (1.76%) BYOD
8 5 (1.76%) CMDB
8 5 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.76%) NHS
8 5 (1.76%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.06%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.06%) Replication
9 3 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (9.15%) Windows
2 12 (4.23%) Linux
3 10 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.06%) Unix
5 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.35%) CentOS
6 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (38.73%) Cybersecurity
2 80 (28.17%) Information Security
3 70 (24.65%) Risk Management
4 63 (22.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 59 (20.77%) Cloud Security
6 54 (19.01%) CI/CD
7 50 (17.61%) Agile
8 47 (16.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 46 (16.20%) DevOps
10 44 (15.49%) Incident Response
11 43 (15.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 42 (14.79%) Security Architecture
12 42 (14.79%) Threat Modelling
13 40 (14.08%) SIEM
14 39 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
15 34 (11.97%) Roadmaps
16 32 (11.27%) Data Protection
17 31 (10.92%) Migration
17 31 (10.92%) Security Operations
18 30 (10.56%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 26 (9.15%) PowerShell
2 15 (5.28%) Python
3 10 (3.52%) SQL
4 5 (1.76%) Bash
4 5 (1.76%) Java
5 4 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.06%) C#
7 2 (0.70%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.35%) Bicep
8 1 (0.35%) Go
8 1 (0.35%) Ruby
8 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 78 (27.46%) Security Cleared
2 76 (26.76%) CISSP
3 66 (23.24%) SC Cleared
4 51 (17.96%) CISM
5 38 (13.38%) Degree
6 24 (8.45%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (7.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 21 (7.39%) CRISC
8 20 (7.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 19 (6.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 17 (5.99%) CISA
10 17 (5.99%) PMI Certification
10 17 (5.99%) PMP
11 15 (5.28%) CompTIA Security+
12 14 (4.93%) CEH
13 12 (4.23%) AWS Certification
13 12 (4.23%) Azure Certification
13 12 (4.23%) GIAC
14 10 (3.52%) CCSP
15 8 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (59.15%) NIST
2 90 (31.69%) GDPR
3 47 (16.55%) NCSC
4 45 (15.85%) GRC
5 40 (14.08%) PCI DSS
6 27 (9.51%) COBIT
7 25 (8.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 20 (7.04%) SOC 2
9 15 (5.28%) NIST 800
9 15 (5.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (3.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (2.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 7 (2.46%) ITGC
12 7 (2.46%) SLA
13 6 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (1.76%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (1.76%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 4 (1.41%) ISO 9001
15 4 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 24 (8.45%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.87%) Docker
3 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.35%) Varnish
4 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (9.86%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.99%) Terraform
3 9 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.76%) Ansible
5 3 (1.06%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.06%) Nessus
6 2 (0.70%) CASB
6 2 (0.70%) Grafana
6 2 (0.70%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.35%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.35%) Puppet
7 1 (0.35%) QRadar
7 1 (0.35%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.35%) SELinux
Vendors
1 47 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.32%) CyberArk
3 24 (8.45%) Splunk
4 22 (7.75%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.46%) Oracle
6 5 (1.76%) Qualys
6 5 (1.76%) Tenable
7 4 (1.41%) Google
8 3 (1.06%) Cisco
8 3 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.06%) Workday
9 2 (0.70%) Databricks
9 2 (0.70%) Forcepoint
9 2 (0.70%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.70%) IBM
9 2 (0.70%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.70%) SAP
9 2 (0.70%) VMware
9 2 (0.70%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.35%) Varonis