ISO 27001 Lead Auditor Contracts in the South East

ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for ISO 27001 Lead Auditor qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 190 212
Rank change year-on-year +28 +22 +51
Contract jobs citing ISO 27001 Lead Auditor 1 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.029% 0.11% 0.052%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.073% 0.24% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - £463 £388
25th Percentile - £478 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £426
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +32.12% -53.97%
75th Percentile - £597 £469
90th Percentile - £600 £488
England median daily rate £675 £560 £625
% change year-on-year +20.54% -10.40% -1.96%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

ISO 27001 Lead Auditor 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 in the South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,374 2,462 2,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 40.06% 45.06% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 886 1,479 1,333
10th Percentile £255 £351 £305
25th Percentile £413 £450 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £600 £646 £623
90th Percentile £663 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 216 131
10th Percentile - £17.80 £19.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £26.93 £47.13
Median hourly rate £32.41 £57.35 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year -43.50% -6.94% +36.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.39 £72.42
90th Percentile £84.22 £87.46 £75.67
England median hourly rate £25.80 £43.00 £56.35
% change year-on-year -40.00% -23.68% +36.25%

ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing ISO 27001 Lead Auditor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for ISO 27001 Lead Auditor in the South East

ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISO 27001 Lead Auditor in the South East.

Daily rate trend for ISO 27001 Lead Auditor in the South East

ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
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 ISO 27001 Lead Auditor within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
Berkshire +23 1 £500 -16.67%
Thames Valley +21 1 £500 -16.67%
ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
England

ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Audit Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Auditing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISA
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk