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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 172 211
Rank change year-on-year +10 +39 +10
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 296 195 196
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.60% 1.60% 1.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.79% 9.90% 7.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 137 161
10th Percentile £425 £420 £363
25th Percentile £500 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -1.71% -9.20%
75th Percentile £711 £688 £688
90th Percentile £888 £818 £775
England median daily rate £563 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.23% +0.05% -6.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £78.40 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £57.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -3.50% +107.26% -60.71%

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 3,369 1,970 2,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.24% 16.19% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,263 1,310 1,735
10th Percentile £350 £320 £350
25th Percentile £424 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 27 63
10th Percentile £19.19 £20.75 £12.90
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.51 £17.94
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +42.68% -8.75%
75th Percentile £41.92 £47.00 £46.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.36 £56.75
England median hourly rate £33.98 £34.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year -1.51% +46.81% -41.25%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +8 52 £575 -8.00% 27
South London -9 9 £500 +11.11% 2
East London -15 2 £650 +11.11% 3
North London -1 1 £650 +40.54% 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 10 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.04%) Confluence
3 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.01%) IIS
5 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) nginx
5 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.34%) iTrent
2 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 109 (36.82%) Azure
2 76 (25.68%) AWS
3 32 (10.81%) GCP
4 28 (9.46%) Entra ID
4 28 (9.46%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (5.41%) Azure Sentinel
6 13 (4.39%) OpenShift
7 12 (4.05%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (3.72%) GitHub
9 10 (3.38%) SaaS
9 10 (3.38%) Serverless
10 9 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 6 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.03%) OCI
13 5 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (1.35%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.74%) Firewall
2 16 (5.41%) Network Security
3 13 (4.39%) DNS
4 7 (2.36%) VPN
5 5 (1.69%) DHCP
5 5 (1.69%) Kerberos
5 5 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.35%) NGFW
6 4 (1.35%) WAN
7 3 (1.01%) Cisco IPT
7 3 (1.01%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.01%) Internet
7 3 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (1.01%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.68%) HTTP
8 2 (0.68%) IPv4
8 2 (0.68%) IPv6
8 2 (0.68%) LAN
8 2 (0.68%) SSL
9 1 (0.34%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.69%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.35%) Big Data
2 4 (1.35%) DocumentDB
2 4 (1.35%) DynamoDB
2 4 (1.35%) MySQL
2 4 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.35%) Redis
3 3 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.68%) Metadata
5 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.34%) EDRMS
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.34%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (6.08%) Jenkins
2 14 (4.73%) JIRA
3 4 (1.35%) GitLab
4 2 (0.68%) JMeter
4 2 (0.68%) MSTest
4 2 (0.68%) Selenium
5 1 (0.34%) Snyk
General
1 101 (34.12%) Social Skills
2 86 (29.05%) Finance
3 50 (16.89%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 26 (8.78%) Legal
6 22 (7.43%) Banking
7 20 (6.76%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (6.08%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (4.05%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.70%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.36%) Law
12 4 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.01%) Local Government
13 3 (1.01%) Retail
14 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.34%) Back Office
15 1 (0.34%) Military
Job Titles
1 65 (21.96%) Architect
2 37 (12.50%) Analyst
3 27 (9.12%) Consultant
4 26 (8.78%) Security Architect
4 26 (8.78%) Senior
5 24 (8.11%) Lead
6 21 (7.09%) Security Engineer
7 18 (6.08%) CyberArk Architect
7 18 (6.08%) Project Manager
8 16 (5.41%) Security Analyst
9 14 (4.73%) Security Manager
10 13 (4.39%) Security Consultant
10 13 (4.39%) Security Specialist
11 11 (3.72%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (3.38%) Migration Manager
12 10 (3.38%) Migration Project Manager
13 9 (3.04%) Business Analyst
13 9 (3.04%) IT Manager
14 8 (2.70%) AWS Architect
14 8 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.42%) OpenID
1 19 (6.42%) SAML
2 17 (5.74%) LDAP
3 12 (4.05%) REST
4 11 (3.72%) OAuth
5 6 (2.03%) RESTful
6 5 (1.69%) Kafka
6 5 (1.69%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.69%) Spring
6 5 (1.69%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.35%) gRPC
7 4 (1.35%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.35%) JPA
7 4 (1.35%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.35%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (1.01%) Middleware
9 2 (0.68%) JSON
9 2 (0.68%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.18%) Cloud Native
2 37 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 27 (9.12%) Security Posture
4 20 (6.76%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.72%) Operational Technology
6 10 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.36%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.03%) CMDB
8 6 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.69%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.35%) BYOD
10 4 (1.35%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.01%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.01%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.01%) NHS
11 3 (1.01%) Replication
11 3 (1.01%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.15%) Windows
2 12 (4.05%) Linux
3 10 (3.38%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.01%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.01%) Unix
6 2 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (0.68%) Android
6 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.68%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.34%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (43.92%) Cybersecurity
2 83 (28.04%) Information Security
3 73 (24.66%) Risk Management
3 73 (24.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 66 (22.30%) Cloud Security
5 56 (18.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 55 (18.58%) DevOps
7 54 (18.24%) Security Architecture
8 51 (17.23%) Agile
8 51 (17.23%) CI/CD
9 47 (15.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (15.54%) Incident Response
10 46 (15.54%) SIEM
11 44 (14.86%) Threat Modelling
12 40 (13.51%) Roadmaps
13 39 (13.18%) Infrastructure as Code
13 39 (13.18%) Regulatory Compliance
14 36 (12.16%) Vulnerability Management
15 35 (11.82%) Data Protection
15 35 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 25 (8.45%) PowerShell
2 21 (7.09%) Python
3 14 (4.73%) SQL
4 7 (2.36%) Bash
5 5 (1.69%) Java
6 3 (1.01%) Bicep
6 3 (1.01%) C#
6 3 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.68%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.34%) Go
8 1 (0.34%) Ruby
8 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 86 (29.05%) CISSP
2 85 (28.72%) Security Cleared
3 73 (24.66%) SC Cleared
4 56 (18.92%) CISM
5 43 (14.53%) Degree
6 26 (8.78%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (8.11%) CRISC
8 23 (7.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 20 (6.76%) CISA
9 20 (6.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 18 (6.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 18 (6.08%) PMI Certification
10 18 (6.08%) PMP
11 17 (5.74%) CompTIA Security+
12 16 (5.41%) CEH
12 16 (5.41%) GIAC
13 13 (4.39%) Azure Certification
14 11 (3.72%) AWS Certification
14 11 (3.72%) CCSP
15 8 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (61.82%) NIST
2 83 (28.04%) GDPR
3 52 (17.57%) GRC
4 51 (17.23%) NCSC
5 40 (13.51%) PCI DSS
6 36 (12.16%) COBIT
7 29 (9.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 25 (8.45%) SOC 2
9 16 (5.41%) NIST 800
10 15 (5.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (4.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (3.38%) SLA
13 8 (2.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (2.70%) ITGC
14 7 (2.36%) HIPAA
14 7 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (2.03%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 5 (1.69%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 22 (7.43%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.38%) Docker
3 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.34%) Varnish
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (9.46%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.07%) Terraform
3 9 (3.04%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.69%) Ansible
6 3 (1.01%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.01%) Nessus
6 3 (1.01%) Puppet
7 2 (0.68%) CASB
7 2 (0.68%) Grafana
7 2 (0.68%) Nexpose
7 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.34%) QRadar
8 1 (0.34%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.34%) SELinux
Vendors
1 64 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.81%) CyberArk
3 25 (8.45%) Splunk
4 23 (7.77%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.70%) Qualys
5 8 (2.70%) Tenable
6 7 (2.36%) CrowdStrike
6 7 (2.36%) Google
6 7 (2.36%) Oracle
7 4 (1.35%) Cisco
7 4 (1.35%) Rapid7
7 4 (1.35%) Zscaler
8 3 (1.01%) Okta
8 3 (1.01%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.01%) Workday
9 2 (0.68%) Forcepoint
9 2 (0.68%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.68%) IBM
9 2 (0.68%) SAP
9 2 (0.68%) TOWER Software