ISMS Contracts in the South East

Information Security Management System (ISMS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring ISMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISMS over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 191 204
Rank change year-on-year +41 +13 +48
Contract jobs citing ISMS 2 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.066% 0.13% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.073% 0.15% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 9
10th Percentile - - £535
25th Percentile £185 £165 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £170 £685
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -75.18% +11.84%
75th Percentile £195 £444 £725
90th Percentile - £570 £813
England median daily rate £375 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -34.78% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £71.76
25th Percentile - - £72.60
Median hourly rate - - £74.00
75th Percentile - - £74.40
90th Percentile - - £74.63
England median hourly rate - - £74.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

ISMS falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,758 4,707 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.54% 84.81% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 2,740 3,571
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 435 221
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.26 £23.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.79
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

ISMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing ISMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for ISMS in the South East

ISMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISMS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for ISMS in the South East

ISMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISMS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for ISMS in the South East

ISMS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISMS within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Surrey - 1 - - 2
West Sussex - 1 £190 -
ISMS
England

ISMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) IT Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) IT Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Advisory Board
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco