ISO 27001 Lead Implementer Contract Job Trends

ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ISO 27001 Lead Implementer qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 524 592
Rank change year-on-year -47 +68 +147
Contract jobs citing ISO 27001 Lead Implementer 45 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.007% 0.011%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.32% 0.022% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 0 1
10th Percentile £447 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.08%
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £698 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
Median hourly rate £33.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.50 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

ISO 27001 Lead Implementer falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 14,173 8,953 13,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.97% 29.98% 30.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,358 5,531 8,335
10th Percentile £331 £285 £288
25th Percentile £420 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £614 £628 £650
90th Percentile £719 £725 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,042 446 998
10th Percentile £16.17 £20.06 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.38 £24.50 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.77 £42.21 £40.28
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +4.79% -19.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.50 £82.18 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £47.81 £40.97
% change year-on-year -47.39% +16.68% -8.96%

ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISO 27001 Lead Implementer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

ISO 27001 Lead Implementer job vacancy trend in the UK

ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO 27001 Lead Implementer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO 27001 Lead Implementer

ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO 27001 Lead Implementer over the 6 months to 3 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 27001 Lead Implementer in the UK

ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISO 27001 Lead Implementer within the UK over the 6 months to 3 March 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
England -45 43 £500 - 12
UK excluding London -57 23 £450 - 7
London - 20 £500 - 7
South West - 17 - - 1
Work from Home -15 16 £500 - 7
South East - 4 £449 - 5
West Midlands -51 1 - -
Midlands -55 1 - -
North West - 1 £675 -
North of England - 1 £675 -

ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 15 (33.33%) Azure
2 9 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 8 (17.78%) OpenShift
4 7 (15.56%) Azure AKS
4 7 (15.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 7 (15.56%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (13.33%) AWS
6 5 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (11.11%) GCP
7 4 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (2.22%) Akamai
9 1 (2.22%) GitHub
9 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) VPN
2 4 (8.89%) Firewall
3 2 (4.44%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.22%) DNS
4 1 (2.22%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) EDRMS
1 1 (2.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 27 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.67%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (20.00%) Finance
4 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.11%) Banking
5 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.67%) Legal
7 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Information Security Advisor
1 10 (22.22%) Security Advisor
2 7 (15.56%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Consultant
4 4 (8.89%) IT Manager
4 4 (8.89%) Security Consultant
5 3 (6.67%) Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Change Manager
5 3 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 3 (6.67%) IT Change Manager
5 3 (6.67%) Lead
5 3 (6.67%) Security Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.89%) Security Posture
2 12 (26.67%) Management Information System
3 7 (15.56%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (15.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (11.11%) Public Cloud
5 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.22%) NHS
6 1 (2.22%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.22%) SCADA
6 1 (2.22%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (57.78%) Information Security
1 26 (57.78%) Risk Management
2 20 (44.44%) Cloud Security
3 15 (33.33%) Security Operations
4 14 (31.11%) Computer Science
5 13 (28.89%) Information Security Governance
6 12 (26.67%) Identity Access Management
6 12 (26.67%) SIEM
7 10 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (22.22%) Facilities Management
7 10 (22.22%) Internal Audit
7 10 (22.22%) ITIL
7 10 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (20.00%) DevOps
9 8 (17.78%) Agile
9 8 (17.78%) Change Management
9 8 (17.78%) Migration
9 8 (17.78%) Regulatory Compliance
9 8 (17.78%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) Bicep
2 1 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 27 (60.00%) CISSP
2 26 (57.78%) Security Cleared
3 25 (55.56%) CISM
4 24 (53.33%) SC Cleared
5 14 (31.11%) Degree
6 13 (28.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 11 (24.44%) Master's Degree
8 10 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (20.00%) DV Cleared
10 8 (17.78%) Azure Certification
11 7 (15.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (15.56%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (8.89%) CISA
13 3 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (4.44%) CEH
14 2 (4.44%) CGEIT
15 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
15 1 (2.22%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (40.00%) NIST
3 17 (37.78%) GRC
4 12 (26.67%) GDPR
5 10 (22.22%) Def Stans
6 8 (17.78%) NIST 800
7 4 (8.89%) Government Security Classifications
7 4 (8.89%) PCI DSS
8 3 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (4.44%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (4.44%) COBIT
9 2 (4.44%) NCSC
9 2 (4.44%) SLA
9 2 (4.44%) SOC 2
10 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
10 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (2.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (2.22%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (17.78%) Terraform
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.22%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 8 (17.78%) Red Hat
4 7 (15.56%) IBM
5 3 (6.67%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.44%) Palo Alto