ISO/IEC 27001 Contract Job Trends in the South East

ISO/IEC 27001
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 120 108
Rank change year-on-year +49 -12 +77
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 120 51 96
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.78% 1.50% 1.92%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.13% 9.60% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 34 69
10th Percentile £412 £373 £453
25th Percentile £448 £453 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% -10.42% +6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £667
90th Percentile £731 £675 £673
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - £16.87 -
25th Percentile - £24.19 -
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% - -
75th Percentile - £49.68 -
90th Percentile £63.00 £57.22 -
England median hourly rate £36.00 £73.60 £44.50
% change year-on-year -51.09% +65.39% -11.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

ISO/IEC 27001 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 744 531 864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.25% 15.63% 17.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 274 527
10th Percentile £300 £228 £186
25th Percentile £413 £367 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £588 £621 £600
90th Percentile £684 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £543
% change year-on-year - -7.92% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 24 46
10th Percentile £15.97 £19.04 £17.60
25th Percentile £17.34 £23.39 £25.63
Median hourly rate £48.72 £51.00 £52.81
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% -3.42% +124.38%
75th Percentile £75.01 £62.24 £71.55
90th Percentile £86.58 £65.35 £77.45
England median hourly rate £25.63 £30.21 £32.50
% change year-on-year -15.16% -7.05% +32.65%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

ISO/IEC 27001 job vacancy trend in the South East

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ISO/IEC 27001.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ISO/IEC 27001

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the South East over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the South East

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ISO/IEC 27001.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ISO/IEC 27001

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the South East over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the South East

ISO/IEC 27001
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/IEC 27001 within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Thames Valley +36 78 £492 -18.00% 36
Berkshire +42 65 £492 -18.00% 20
Hampshire -1 24 £563 +2.27% 20
Surrey +4 12 £475 +16.56% 27
Oxfordshire -10 8 £460 -8.00% 8
West Sussex -7 6 £700 +47.37% 9
Buckinghamshire 0 5 £500 -2.15% 8
Sussex - 1 £900 - 1
Home Counties - 1 - -
ISO/IEC 27001
England

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (3.33%) Confluence
2 3 (2.50%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 12 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 12 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 57 (47.50%) Azure
2 55 (45.83%) AWS
3 26 (21.67%) GCP
4 8 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.00%) OCI
6 4 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.50%) GitHub
7 3 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.67%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.83%) IaaS
9 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 27 (22.50%) Firewall
2 12 (10.00%) Wireless
3 11 (9.17%) Network Security
4 5 (4.17%) VPN
5 4 (3.33%) S/MIME
6 3 (2.50%) HTTP
7 2 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.83%) DHCP
8 1 (0.83%) DMZ
8 1 (0.83%) DNS
8 1 (0.83%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.67%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.67%) MySQL
3 2 (1.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.67%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (11.67%) Burp Suite
1 14 (11.67%) Metasploit
2 4 (3.33%) JIRA
3 3 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.83%) Git
4 1 (0.83%) GitLab
General
1 69 (57.50%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.50%) Documentation Skills
3 17 (14.17%) Finance
4 15 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.83%) Legal
7 3 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.83%) Military
8 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (17.50%) Analyst
2 15 (12.50%) Penetration Tester
3 13 (10.83%) Architect
3 13 (10.83%) Tester
4 10 (8.33%) Consultant
5 9 (7.50%) Security Analyst
6 7 (5.83%) Information Security Officer
6 7 (5.83%) Security Architect
6 7 (5.83%) Security Officer
6 7 (5.83%) SOC Analyst
7 6 (5.00%) Information Officer
8 5 (4.17%) Information Analyst
8 5 (4.17%) Information Security Analyst
8 5 (4.17%) Security Consultant
8 5 (4.17%) Technical Specialist
9 4 (3.33%) Lead
10 3 (2.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 3 (2.50%) Functional Consultant
10 3 (2.50%) Oracle Consultant
10 3 (2.50%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.67%) LDAP
2 6 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (2.50%) OAuth
3 3 (2.50%) OpenID
4 2 (1.67%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.67%) SAML
5 1 (0.83%) Django
5 1 (0.83%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.83%) Flask
5 1 (0.83%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.83%) REST
5 1 (0.83%) RESTful
5 1 (0.83%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.83%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 7 (5.83%) Operational Technology
2 7 (5.83%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.33%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.33%) PKI
5 4 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.33%) Smartcard
6 3 (2.50%) BYOD
6 3 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.50%) Replication
7 2 (1.67%) Clustering
7 2 (1.67%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.50%) Windows
2 6 (5.00%) Linux
3 2 (1.67%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (50.83%) Cybersecurity
2 40 (33.33%) Information Security
3 37 (30.83%) SIEM
4 34 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (24.17%) Cloud Security
6 26 (21.67%) CI/CD
6 26 (21.67%) Penetration Testing
6 26 (21.67%) Risk Management
7 25 (20.83%) DevOps
8 24 (20.00%) DevSecOps
8 24 (20.00%) Incident Response
8 24 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
9 19 (15.83%) Security Management
10 16 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
12 14 (11.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 13 (10.83%) Data Protection
13 13 (10.83%) Security Operations
14 12 (10.00%) Agile
15 11 (9.17%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 31 (25.83%) PowerShell
2 28 (23.33%) Python
3 5 (4.17%) Bash
4 2 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (42.50%) Security Cleared
2 49 (40.83%) CISSP
3 39 (32.50%) SC Cleared
4 37 (30.83%) CISM
5 21 (17.50%) Degree
6 14 (11.67%) CHECK Team Member
7 12 (10.00%) CREST Certified
7 12 (10.00%) Cyber Scheme
7 12 (10.00%) DV Cleared
8 10 (8.33%) Postgraduate
9 9 (7.50%) AWS Certification
10 8 (6.67%) GIAC
11 7 (5.83%) Azure Certification
11 7 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (4.17%) GCFA
12 5 (4.17%) GCIA
12 5 (4.17%) GCIH
12 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (4.17%) PMI Certification
13 4 (3.33%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (70.00%) NIST
2 67 (55.83%) GDPR
3 30 (25.00%) PCI DSS
4 14 (11.67%) PMO
5 13 (10.83%) QA
6 12 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (8.33%) GRC
8 7 (5.83%) COBIT
8 7 (5.83%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (4.17%) NCSC
9 5 (4.17%) PSD2
10 4 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (3.33%) HIPAA
10 4 (3.33%) JSP 440
11 3 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (1.67%) NIST 800
12 2 (1.67%) SLA
13 1 (0.83%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 24 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.17%) Docker
3 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (11.67%) Nmap
2 4 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.33%) Terraform
3 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (1.67%) CSIRT
4 2 (1.67%) RSA Archer
4 2 (1.67%) SCCM
5 1 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.83%) Ansible
5 1 (0.83%) Argo
5 1 (0.83%) Grafana
5 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (17.50%) CyberArk
2 20 (16.67%) BeyondTrust
3 19 (15.83%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.67%) Oracle
4 8 (6.67%) Splunk
5 4 (3.33%) ArcSight
5 4 (3.33%) Thales
6 3 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (2.50%) LogRhythm
7 2 (1.67%) Citrix
7 2 (1.67%) VMware
8 1 (0.83%) Carbon Black
8 1 (0.83%) Intel
8 1 (0.83%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow