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 22 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 521 571
Rank change year-on-year -94 +50 +131
Contract jobs citing ISO 27001 Lead Implementer 30 16 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.059% 0.053% 0.025%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.19% 0.17% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 7
10th Percentile £455 £436 £538
25th Percentile - £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £595
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -7.56% -15.00%
75th Percentile £553 £631 £607
90th Percentile £600 £688 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £526 £488 £595
% change year-on-year +7.90% -18.07% -

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 15,869 9,287 13,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.28% 31.01% 29.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,590 5,769 8,060
10th Percentile £350 £275 £312
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £500 £534
% change year-on-year +1.40% -6.28% +1.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,164 612 1,133
10th Percentile £17.24 £17.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £20.18 £19.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £29.27 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +70.82% -27.41% -26.85%
75th Percentile £72.54 £62.50 £64.25
90th Percentile £85.25 £76.25 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.94 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.95% -34.26% -20.34%

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 22 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISO 27001 Lead Implementer in the UK

ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Top 11 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 22 June 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 -85 28 £500 -9.13% 10
London -57 19 £500 -9.13% 2
Work from Home -40 16 £500 -6.98% 5
UK excluding London -98 11 £526 +7.90% 10
South West - 5 - -
Midlands -53 3 - - 3
North West -37 2 £526 -33.42% 1
North of England -74 2 £526 -20.00% 1
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
Scotland -7 1 - -
West Midlands -58 1 - - 1

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 5 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) AWS
2 5 (16.67%) Azure AKS
2 5 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 5 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 5 (16.67%) GCP
2 5 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (3.33%) Modbus
2 1 (3.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Finance
3 6 (20.00%) Legal
4 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (13.33%) Banking
6 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
7 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 5 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (16.67%) Lead
1 5 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
1 5 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Analyst
2 4 (13.33%) IT Manager
3 3 (10.00%) Change Manager
3 3 (10.00%) IT Change Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Consultant
4 1 (3.33%) Information Assurance Specialist
4 1 (3.33%) Information Specialist
4 1 (3.33%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Security Advisor
4 1 (3.33%) Security Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) Security Auditor
4 1 (3.33%) Security Consultant
4 1 (3.33%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.33%) SCADA
4 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Information Security
2 14 (46.67%) Cloud Security
2 14 (46.67%) Risk Management
3 12 (40.00%) Security Operations
4 9 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (30.00%) ISMS
4 9 (30.00%) ITIL
5 8 (26.67%) Agile
5 8 (26.67%) DevOps
6 7 (23.33%) Change Management
6 7 (23.33%) Migration
6 7 (23.33%) Risk Assessment
7 6 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
7 6 (20.00%) Risk Register
7 6 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
8 5 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (16.67%) Log Analytics
8 5 (16.67%) RBAC
8 5 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) Bicep
2 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (63.33%) CISSP
2 17 (56.67%) CISM
3 14 (46.67%) Security Cleared
4 13 (43.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 13 (43.33%) SC Cleared
5 7 (23.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 7 (23.33%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (20.00%) Azure Certification
6 6 (20.00%) DV Cleared
7 5 (16.67%) Degree
7 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (13.33%) CISA
9 3 (10.00%) CRISC
9 3 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (3.33%) CEH
10 1 (3.33%) CGEIT
10 1 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (3.33%) GIAC
10 1 (3.33%) GSEC
10 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (40.00%) NIST
3 9 (30.00%) GRC
4 8 (26.67%) GDPR
5 5 (16.67%) NIST 800
6 4 (13.33%) Government Security Classifications
6 4 (13.33%) PCI DSS
7 3 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (6.67%) COBIT
8 2 (6.67%) SLA
8 2 (6.67%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 5 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.33%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) ServiceNow
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.67%) IBM
3 5 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.33%) OneTrust