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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 103 144
Rank change year-on-year +47 +41 +16
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 183 53 66
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.47% 1.76% 1.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.27% 10.33% 6.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 29 53
10th Percentile £387 £372 £370
25th Percentile £458 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £667
90th Percentile £725 £655 -
England median daily rate £545 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -9.17% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 0
10th Percentile £27.02 £26.62 -
25th Percentile £36.00 £48.56 -
Median hourly rate £81.50 £61.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% - -
75th Percentile £82.25 £62.24 -
90th Percentile £84.00 - -
England median hourly rate £63.00 £73.60 £44.50
% change year-on-year -14.40% +65.39% -37.75%

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 903 513 973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.12% 17.04% 17.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 635 292 523
10th Percentile £300 £200 £250
25th Percentile £414 £362 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +3.09% +4.30%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £575
90th Percentile £698 £650 £649
England median daily rate £510 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +1.75% -4.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 32 69
10th Percentile £13.38 £20.37 £15.38
25th Percentile £19.66 £24.18 £19.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £46.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.59% +54.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £82.25 £62.86 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £67.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.94 £32.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year -19.57% +29.00% -38.27%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 15 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
Thames Valley +35 135 £500 -19.35% 29
Berkshire +35 110 £500 -16.67% 15
Hampshire -5 29 £563 +2.27% 18
Oxfordshire +1 14 £440 -29.60% 8
Surrey -1 14 £475 +5.56% 7
Buckinghamshire -14 11 £750 +28.21% 6
West Sussex -12 6 £635 +71.62% 4
Home Counties - 1 - -
Sussex - 1 £900 - 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 6 (3.28%) Confluence
1 6 (3.28%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
2 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (8.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (7.10%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (7.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (6.01%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 64 (34.97%) AWS
1 64 (34.97%) Azure
2 30 (16.39%) GCP
3 11 (6.01%) OCI
4 9 (4.92%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.73%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (2.19%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.19%) GitHub
6 4 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.09%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.55%) PaaS
9 1 (0.55%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (15.30%) Firewall
2 15 (8.20%) Wireless
3 12 (6.56%) Network Security
4 8 (4.37%) VPN
5 7 (3.83%) HTTP
6 4 (2.19%) S/MIME
6 4 (2.19%) SSH
7 3 (1.64%) DHCP
7 3 (1.64%) DNS
7 3 (1.64%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.64%) WAN
8 2 (1.09%) LAN
8 2 (1.09%) NAS
8 2 (1.09%) SAN
9 1 (0.55%) BGP
9 1 (0.55%) DMZ
9 1 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.55%) MPLS
9 1 (0.55%) OSPF
9 1 (0.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.28%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (2.73%) Power BI
3 3 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.64%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.09%) Metadata
4 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.09%) MySQL
4 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.09%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (8.74%) Burp Suite
1 16 (8.74%) Metasploit
2 5 (2.73%) JIRA
3 2 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.55%) Git
4 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 92 (50.27%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.94%) Documentation Skills
3 21 (11.48%) Finance
3 21 (11.48%) Public Sector
4 17 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.01%) Aerospace
6 8 (4.37%) Legal
7 5 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.73%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.64%) Retail
9 2 (1.09%) Digital Health
9 2 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 26 (14.21%) Analyst
2 21 (11.48%) Consultant
3 17 (9.29%) Penetration Tester
4 15 (8.20%) Tester
5 14 (7.65%) Security Consultant
6 11 (6.01%) Architect
6 11 (6.01%) Project Manager
6 11 (6.01%) Security Analyst
7 9 (4.92%) Security Manager
8 8 (4.37%) Security Project Manager
9 7 (3.83%) Business Analyst
9 7 (3.83%) Lead
9 7 (3.83%) SOC Analyst
10 6 (3.28%) Information Officer
10 6 (3.28%) Information Security Officer
10 6 (3.28%) Security Officer
10 6 (3.28%) Senior
11 5 (2.73%) Oracle Consultant
11 5 (2.73%) Oracle Functional Consultant
11 5 (2.73%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (14.75%) LDAP
2 13 (7.10%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.64%) OAuth
3 3 (1.64%) OpenID
4 2 (1.09%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.09%) SAML
5 1 (0.55%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.55%) Django
5 1 (0.55%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.55%) Flask
5 1 (0.55%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.55%) REST
5 1 (0.55%) RESTful
5 1 (0.55%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.29%) Security Posture
2 16 (8.74%) Operational Technology
3 13 (7.10%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.46%) Data Centre
4 10 (5.46%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.83%) BYOD
5 7 (3.83%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.73%) CMDB
7 5 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.73%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.73%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.19%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.19%) PKI
8 4 (2.19%) Smartcard
9 3 (1.64%) Replication
9 3 (1.64%) SCADA
9 3 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.09%) Clustering
10 2 (1.09%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 30 (16.39%) Windows
2 11 (6.01%) Linux
3 9 (4.92%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.73%) Unix
5 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (57.92%) Cybersecurity
2 67 (36.61%) Information Security
3 45 (24.59%) SIEM
4 38 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (20.77%) Risk Management
5 34 (18.58%) Cloud Security
6 33 (18.03%) CI/CD
6 33 (18.03%) DevOps
6 33 (18.03%) Security Management
7 31 (16.94%) Penetration Testing
8 28 (15.30%) Regulatory Compliance
8 28 (15.30%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (14.75%) DevSecOps
10 25 (13.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 24 (13.11%) Incident Response
11 24 (13.11%) Security Operations
12 22 (12.02%) Information Security Management
12 22 (12.02%) Validation
13 19 (10.38%) Change Management
14 18 (9.84%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (22.40%) PowerShell
1 41 (22.40%) Python
2 5 (2.73%) SQL
3 2 (1.09%) Bash
4 1 (0.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 85 (46.45%) Security Cleared
2 65 (35.52%) SC Cleared
3 55 (30.05%) CISSP
4 49 (26.78%) CISM
5 34 (18.58%) Degree
6 16 (8.74%) CHECK Team Member
6 16 (8.74%) DV Cleared
7 14 (7.65%) CREST Certified
7 14 (7.65%) Cyber Scheme
8 11 (6.01%) Postgraduate
9 10 (5.46%) PMI Certification
10 9 (4.92%) PMP
11 7 (3.83%) GIAC
12 6 (3.28%) AWS Certification
13 4 (2.19%) GCFA
13 4 (2.19%) GCIA
13 4 (2.19%) GCIH
13 4 (2.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (1.64%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (71.04%) NIST
2 85 (46.45%) GDPR
3 28 (15.30%) PCI DSS
4 18 (9.84%) QA
5 17 (9.29%) PMO
6 14 (7.65%) COBIT
7 13 (7.10%) GRC
7 13 (7.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (6.01%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (5.46%) NCSC
10 9 (4.92%) SOC 2
11 7 (3.83%) NIST 800
12 6 (3.28%) JSP 440
13 5 (2.73%) Data Quality
14 4 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 4 (2.19%) SLA
15 3 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (1.64%) ISO 22301
16 2 (1.09%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 39 (21.31%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.64%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (8.74%) Nmap
2 5 (2.73%) Terraform
3 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.19%) Nessus
4 3 (1.64%) OpenVAS
4 3 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.09%) Ansible
6 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.55%) Argo
6 1 (0.55%) CASB
6 1 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.55%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.55%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.55%) Grafana
6 1 (0.55%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.55%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 32 (17.49%) BeyondTrust
1 32 (17.49%) CyberArk
2 18 (9.84%) Oracle
3 15 (8.20%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.73%) Qualys
4 5 (2.73%) Splunk
5 4 (2.19%) Rapid7
5 4 (2.19%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.19%) Thales
6 3 (1.64%) ArcSight
6 3 (1.64%) VMware
7 2 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (1.09%) Google
7 2 (1.09%) LogRhythm
7 2 (1.09%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.55%) Arista
8 1 (0.55%) Carbon Black
8 1 (0.55%) Meraki
8 1 (0.55%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.55%) Palo Alto