ISO/IEC 27005 Contract Job Trends in London

ISO/IEC 27005
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring ISO/IEC 27005 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 392 418
Rank change year-on-year +27 +26 +175
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27005 10 1 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.075% 0.006% 0.077%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.42% 0.046% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 15
10th Percentile £392 - £455
25th Percentile £461 - £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.06% -20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £645 - £531
90th Percentile £810 - £616
England median daily rate £513 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +28.13% -30.43% -14.81%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

ISO/IEC 27005 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 2,355 2,166 2,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.71% 13.44% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,564 1,346 2,195
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +0.44%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £798
England median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 38 38
10th Percentile £22.75 £18.13 £17.77
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.80 £21.06
Median hourly rate £34.00 £32.35 £30.63
Median % change year-on-year +5.12% +5.62% +23.94%
75th Percentile £44.75 £51.31 £44.72
90th Percentile £67.50 £80.09 £62.58
England median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% -2.78% +48.45%

ISO/IEC 27005
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISO/IEC 27005 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

ISO/IEC 27005 job vacancy trend in London

ISO/IEC 27005
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ISO/IEC 27005.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ISO/IEC 27005

ISO/IEC 27005
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27005 in London over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27005 in London

ISO/IEC 27005
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 27005 within the London region over the 6 months to 12 October 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 - 1 £800 - 1
ISO/IEC 27005
England

ISO/IEC 27005
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) IaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Police
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Consultant
1 3 (30.00%) Lead
1 3 (30.00%) Security Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) CISSP Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Risk Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Information Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (10.00%) Security Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Information Security Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Information Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Risk Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Risk Management
2 6 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (40.00%) Information Security
5 3 (30.00%) Agile
5 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (30.00%) EBIOS
5 3 (30.00%) Risk Register
5 3 (30.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (30.00%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (20.00%) AI
6 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 2 (20.00%) Data Privacy
6 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 2 (20.00%) IT Governance
6 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) CISSP
2 4 (40.00%) CISM
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) CRISC
5 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) NIST
2 4 (40.00%) NCSC
3 3 (30.00%) GDPR
3 3 (30.00%) GRC
3 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
4 2 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft