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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 186 176
Rank change year-on-year +45 -10 +120
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 284 211 256
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.97% 1.40% 1.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.88% 10.28% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 134 196
10th Percentile £400 £429 £400
25th Percentile £463 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £682
90th Percentile £810 £846 £775
England median daily rate £525 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £45.93 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £49.19 £43.45 -
Median hourly rate £70.75 £78.40 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% - -
75th Percentile £94.06 £83.20 -
90th Percentile £94.63 £89.10 -
England median hourly rate £36.00 £67.55 £44.50
% change year-on-year -46.70% +51.79% -21.57%

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 2,610 2,052 2,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.15% 13.65% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,743 1,247 1,954
10th Percentile £331 £300 £363
25th Percentile £414 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £558
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -3.59% -0.89%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £695
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 31 48
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.00 £18.75
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.99 £22.22
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.80 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% +9.04% -3.57%
75th Percentile £43.60 £71.70 £51.00
90th Percentile £68.12 £95.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.11 £35.95
% change year-on-year -16.46% -16.26% +59.88%

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 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in London

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 December 2025. 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 +15 53 £525 -8.70% 30
South London -4 5 £525 -6.25% 4
West London -14 4 £423 -21.40% 7
North London - 1 £650 - 2
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 9 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.41%) Confluence
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.35%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.11%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 127 (44.72%) Azure
2 78 (27.46%) AWS
3 35 (12.32%) Entra ID
4 30 (10.56%) GCP
4 30 (10.56%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (8.10%) Azure Sentinel
6 17 (5.99%) SaaS
7 16 (5.63%) GitHub
8 14 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (4.58%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (3.87%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 8 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.82%) IaaS
11 8 (2.82%) PaaS
12 7 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.46%) AWS KMS
12 7 (2.46%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (1.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 37 (13.03%) Firewall
2 30 (10.56%) Network Security
3 11 (3.87%) VPN
4 7 (2.46%) WAN
5 6 (2.11%) Intrusion Detection
5 6 (2.11%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.76%) DNS
6 5 (1.76%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.41%) DHCP
7 4 (1.41%) Modbus
8 3 (1.06%) SSL
9 2 (0.70%) DMZ
9 2 (0.70%) NGFW
9 2 (0.70%) S/MIME
9 2 (0.70%) SSH
9 2 (0.70%) Telnet
9 2 (0.70%) VLAN
10 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.35%) Skype
10 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.11%) Delta Lake
2 3 (1.06%) Power BI
3 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.70%) Metadata
3 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.35%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.35%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 19 (6.69%) JIRA
2 8 (2.82%) Snyk
3 5 (1.76%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.06%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.70%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.70%) ERwin
5 2 (0.70%) GitLab
5 2 (0.70%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.35%) Ant
6 1 (0.35%) Git
6 1 (0.35%) JMeter
6 1 (0.35%) MSTest
6 1 (0.35%) Selenium
6 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 88 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 67 (23.59%) Finance
3 39 (13.73%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.10%) Banking
5 21 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.28%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (4.58%) Legal
8 10 (3.52%) Law
9 9 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.46%) Police
12 6 (2.11%) Financial Institution
12 6 (2.11%) Local Government
12 6 (2.11%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.11%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.76%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (1.06%) Electronics
15 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (1.06%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 45 (15.85%) Analyst
1 45 (15.85%) Architect
2 37 (13.03%) Senior
3 30 (10.56%) Security Engineer
4 25 (8.80%) Consultant
4 25 (8.80%) Security Architect
5 22 (7.75%) Lead
6 19 (6.69%) Security Analyst
7 13 (4.58%) Security Consultant
8 11 (3.87%) Security Manager
9 10 (3.52%) Security Specialist
9 10 (3.52%) Tester
10 9 (3.17%) Azure Architect
10 9 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 8 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (2.82%) Operations Manager
11 8 (2.82%) Project Manager
11 8 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.46%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.17%) REST
2 7 (2.46%) OAuth
3 6 (2.11%) SailPoint
3 6 (2.11%) SAML
4 5 (1.76%) Loki
4 5 (1.76%) OAuth2
4 5 (1.76%) OpenID
5 4 (1.41%) LDAP
5 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (1.06%) .NET
6 3 (1.06%) GraphQL
6 3 (1.06%) Next.js
6 3 (1.06%) React
6 3 (1.06%) Tailwind CSS
6 3 (1.06%) WebSockets
7 2 (0.70%) CSS
7 2 (0.70%) HTML5
7 2 (0.70%) Middleware
7 2 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.15%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.45%) Security Posture
3 23 (8.10%) Management Information System
4 17 (5.99%) Onboarding
5 16 (5.63%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (3.52%) NHS
7 9 (3.17%) Security Operations Centre
8 8 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.46%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.46%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.76%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.76%) Reinsurance
11 4 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.41%) PKI
11 4 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (1.06%) CSOC
12 3 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.75%) Windows
2 9 (3.17%) Linux
2 9 (3.17%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.76%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.41%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.70%) VMS
7 1 (0.35%) Android
7 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.35%) CentOS
7 1 (0.35%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (41.20%) Cybersecurity
2 80 (28.17%) Cloud Security
3 75 (26.41%) Information Security
4 69 (24.30%) Risk Management
5 65 (22.89%) Incident Response
6 55 (19.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 51 (17.96%) CI/CD
8 50 (17.61%) SIEM
9 43 (15.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 42 (14.79%) DevOps
11 38 (13.38%) Identity Access Management
12 36 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (12.32%) Zero Trust
14 33 (11.62%) Infrastructure as Code
15 31 (10.92%) Security Architecture
15 31 (10.92%) Security Operations
16 30 (10.56%) Vulnerability Management
17 29 (10.21%) DevSecOps
18 28 (9.86%) Data Protection
19 27 (9.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 45 (15.85%) PowerShell
2 19 (6.69%) Python
3 10 (3.52%) Bash
4 9 (3.17%) Bicep
5 7 (2.46%) SQL
6 6 (2.11%) Java
7 5 (1.76%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.06%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.06%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.70%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.35%) C
10 1 (0.35%) Go
Qualifications
1 72 (25.35%) CISSP
2 62 (21.83%) Security Cleared
3 60 (21.13%) SC Cleared
4 51 (17.96%) CISM
5 32 (11.27%) Degree
6 21 (7.39%) CISA
7 16 (5.63%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (5.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 14 (4.93%) Azure Certification
9 11 (3.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 10 (3.52%) CompTIA Security+
10 10 (3.52%) CRISC
11 9 (3.17%) CEH
12 8 (2.82%) AWS Certification
12 8 (2.82%) CCSP
12 8 (2.82%) FFIEC
12 8 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (2.82%) SANS
13 7 (2.46%) CREST Certified
13 7 (2.46%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (55.28%) NIST
2 89 (31.34%) GDPR
3 38 (13.38%) NCSC
4 34 (11.97%) GRC
4 34 (11.97%) PCI DSS
5 30 (10.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 24 (8.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 19 (6.69%) COBIT
8 18 (6.34%) SOC 2
9 11 (3.87%) ITGC
10 10 (3.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (3.52%) NIST 800
11 7 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (2.46%) SLA
11 7 (2.46%) SOX 404
12 6 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 3 (1.06%) EU AI Act
13 3 (1.06%) HIPAA
13 3 (1.06%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.70%) QA
System Software
1 32 (11.27%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.34%) Docker
3 6 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.70%) Firmware
5 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (9.86%) Terraform
2 22 (7.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (7.04%) Kubernetes
4 12 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (3.17%) SCCM
6 7 (2.46%) Ansible
6 7 (2.46%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.11%) Nessus
8 5 (1.76%) QRadar
9 4 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.41%) CASB
9 4 (1.41%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.70%) Grafana
10 2 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.70%) Nmap
10 2 (0.70%) SCOM
11 1 (0.35%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.35%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 72 (25.35%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.93%) CyberArk
3 13 (4.58%) Google
3 13 (4.58%) Oracle
3 13 (4.58%) ServiceNow
4 12 (4.23%) SAP
5 11 (3.87%) Splunk
6 10 (3.52%) Tenable
7 8 (2.82%) OpenAI
7 8 (2.82%) Qualys
8 7 (2.46%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (2.46%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.46%) Okta
8 7 (2.46%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.11%) Cisco
9 6 (2.11%) Databricks
9 6 (2.11%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.41%) BeyondTrust
10 4 (1.41%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.41%) Thycotic