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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 190 186
Rank change year-on-year +40 -4 +96
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 284 173 229
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.91% 1.28% 1.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.33% 8.94% 9.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 109 182
10th Percentile £402 £413 £363
25th Percentile £463 £513 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £650
90th Percentile £900 £838 £768
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £57.05 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £66.13 £51.90 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £73.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.89% - -
75th Percentile £94.38 £83.20 -
90th Percentile £94.75 £87.92 -
England median hourly rate £36.00 £67.55 £44.50
% change year-on-year -46.70% +51.79% -39.35%

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 2,748 1,936 2,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.49% 14.29% 13.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,818 1,172 1,843
10th Percentile £350 £300 £363
25th Percentile £418 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -3.93%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 29 61
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.59 £22.27 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.11 £39.00 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year -33.05% +48.63% -17.35%
75th Percentile £35.25 £83.20 £49.08
90th Percentile £80.09 £95.50 £61.75
England median hourly rate £24.19 £31.76 £25.12
% change year-on-year -23.84% +26.46% -13.40%

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 9 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in London over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

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 9 February 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 +5 53 £525 -2.33% 28
South London -6 5 £525 -6.25% 4
West London -15 2 £423 -21.40% 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 9 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.41%) Confluence
4 1 (0.35%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 104 (36.62%) Azure
2 71 (25.00%) AWS
3 33 (11.62%) Entra ID
4 28 (9.86%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (8.10%) GCP
6 20 (7.04%) Azure Sentinel
7 16 (5.63%) OpenShift
8 15 (5.28%) Microsoft Purview
9 13 (4.58%) SaaS
10 12 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (3.87%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 11 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (3.87%) GitHub
12 8 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (2.82%) AWS KMS
12 8 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (2.46%) IaaS
13 7 (2.46%) OCI
13 7 (2.46%) PaaS
13 7 (2.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 34 (11.97%) Firewall
2 25 (8.80%) Network Security
3 11 (3.87%) DNS
3 11 (3.87%) VPN
4 6 (2.11%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.76%) DHCP
5 5 (1.76%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.41%) Modbus
6 4 (1.41%) WAN
7 3 (1.06%) NGFW
7 3 (1.06%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.06%) SSL
8 2 (0.70%) LAN
8 2 (0.70%) S/MIME
9 1 (0.35%) BGP
9 1 (0.35%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.35%) Internet
9 1 (0.35%) Intranet
9 1 (0.35%) OSPF
9 1 (0.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (1.41%) DocumentDB
2 4 (1.41%) DynamoDB
2 4 (1.41%) MySQL
2 4 (1.41%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.41%) Redis
3 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.70%) Metadata
3 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.70%) Power BI
4 1 (0.35%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.35%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 18 (6.34%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.23%) JIRA
3 5 (1.76%) GitLab
4 3 (1.06%) Snyk
5 2 (0.70%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.35%) Ant
6 1 (0.35%) Burp Suite
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
1 101 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 77 (27.11%) Finance
3 35 (12.32%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.04%) Banking
6 18 (6.34%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (5.63%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (5.28%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (4.23%) Legal
10 9 (3.17%) Financial Institution
10 9 (3.17%) Law
11 8 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.46%) Telecoms
13 6 (2.11%) Police
14 5 (1.76%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.70%) Electronics
16 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.70%) Local Government
16 2 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 50 (17.61%) Architect
2 43 (15.14%) Analyst
3 34 (11.97%) Senior
4 24 (8.45%) Consultant
4 24 (8.45%) Security Architect
4 24 (8.45%) Security Engineer
5 20 (7.04%) Security Analyst
6 17 (5.99%) Security Manager
7 14 (4.93%) Security Specialist
8 13 (4.58%) CyberArk Architect
8 13 (4.58%) Project Manager
9 12 (4.23%) Lead
10 11 (3.87%) Security Consultant
11 10 (3.52%) Operations Manager
12 8 (2.82%) AWS Architect
12 8 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (2.82%) Tester
13 7 (2.46%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (2.46%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 7 (2.46%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.39%) OpenID
2 18 (6.34%) SAML
3 15 (5.28%) LDAP
4 13 (4.58%) OAuth
5 12 (4.23%) REST
6 9 (3.17%) OAuth2
7 5 (1.76%) Spring
8 4 (1.41%) gRPC
8 4 (1.41%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.41%) JPA
8 4 (1.41%) Kafka
8 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Graph
8 4 (1.41%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.41%) RESTful
8 4 (1.41%) SailPoint
8 4 (1.41%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.41%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (1.06%) Next.js
9 3 (1.06%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.97%) Onboarding
2 29 (10.21%) Cloud Native
3 26 (9.15%) Management Information System
3 26 (9.15%) Security Posture
4 13 (4.58%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (3.87%) NHS
6 9 (3.17%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (2.46%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.46%) Operational Technology
8 6 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.76%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.41%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.06%) Insider Threat
11 3 (1.06%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.04%) Windows
2 8 (2.82%) Linux
3 7 (2.46%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.76%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.70%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.70%) VMS
6 1 (0.35%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (41.90%) Cybersecurity
2 77 (27.11%) Risk Management
3 74 (26.06%) Information Security
4 73 (25.70%) Cloud Security
5 70 (24.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 56 (19.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 54 (19.01%) Incident Response
7 54 (19.01%) SIEM
8 53 (18.66%) CI/CD
9 42 (14.79%) DevOps
10 39 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (13.03%) Identity Access Management
11 37 (13.03%) Security Architecture
12 36 (12.68%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (12.68%) Threat Modelling
13 35 (12.32%) Zero Trust
14 34 (11.97%) Regulatory Compliance
15 31 (10.92%) Agile
16 30 (10.56%) Data Loss Prevention
16 30 (10.56%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 35 (12.32%) PowerShell
2 15 (5.28%) Python
3 9 (3.17%) SQL
4 8 (2.82%) Java
5 6 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (1.76%) Bash
7 4 (1.41%) Bicep
8 3 (1.06%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.06%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.35%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.35%) C
9 1 (0.35%) Go
9 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 82 (28.87%) Security Cleared
2 78 (27.46%) SC Cleared
3 67 (23.59%) CISSP
4 49 (17.25%) CISM
5 34 (11.97%) Degree
6 14 (4.93%) CISA
6 14 (4.93%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (4.23%) CompTIA Security+
7 12 (4.23%) CRISC
7 12 (4.23%) PMI Certification
7 12 (4.23%) PMP
8 11 (3.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 10 (3.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 9 (3.17%) AWS Certification
10 9 (3.17%) Azure Certification
11 8 (2.82%) CEH
11 8 (2.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 7 (2.46%) CCSP
12 7 (2.46%) CREST Certified
12 7 (2.46%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (55.99%) NIST
2 87 (30.63%) GDPR
3 59 (20.77%) NCSC
4 36 (12.68%) GRC
5 35 (12.32%) PCI DSS
6 27 (9.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 23 (8.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 18 (6.34%) COBIT
9 16 (5.63%) SOC 2
10 13 (4.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (3.17%) ITGC
12 8 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 8 (2.82%) NIST 800
13 7 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (2.46%) SOX 404
14 6 (2.11%) SLA
15 5 (1.76%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (1.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 5 (1.76%) QA
16 3 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 30 (10.56%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.93%) Docker
3 4 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (10.56%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (6.69%) Terraform
4 13 (4.58%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.46%) SCCM
6 6 (2.11%) Ansible
7 5 (1.76%) Nessus
8 4 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.06%) CASB
9 3 (1.06%) QRadar
10 2 (0.70%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.35%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.35%) Grafana
11 1 (0.35%) Nmap
11 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.35%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.35%) SELinux
11 1 (0.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 61 (21.48%) Microsoft
2 29 (10.21%) CyberArk
3 23 (8.10%) Splunk
4 13 (4.58%) Oracle
5 11 (3.87%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.52%) Google
6 10 (3.52%) SAP
7 6 (2.11%) Cisco
7 6 (2.11%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.11%) Okta
7 6 (2.11%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.76%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.41%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.41%) Qualys
9 4 (1.41%) Tenable
10 3 (1.06%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.70%) Apple
11 2 (0.70%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.70%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.70%) VMware