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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 125 109
Rank change year-on-year +51 -16 +88
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 111 52 111
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.78% 1.28% 2.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.74% 9.61% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 31 78
10th Percentile £397 £372 £448
25th Percentile £447 £450 £537
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £604
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.76% +8.54%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £671
90th Percentile £738 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £40.50 £16.28 -
25th Percentile £47.25 £22.69 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +112.73% - -
75th Percentile £69.75 £37.12 -
90th Percentile £76.50 £52.19 -
England median hourly rate £33.50 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -4.29% -21.35% +36.92%

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 705 541 878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.69% 13.30% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 281 499
10th Percentile £251 £233 £195
25th Percentile £411 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +13.51%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £624
90th Percentile £650 £690 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 30 58
10th Percentile £15.12 £17.38 £17.83
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.56 £30.19
Median hourly rate £18.87 £54.18 £51.58
Median % change year-on-year -65.17% +5.05% +134.44%
75th Percentile £69.65 £63.25 £69.00
90th Percentile £82.20 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.11 £39.00
% change year-on-year -16.46% -22.81% +65.96%

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 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
Thames Valley +48 72 £500 -14.53% 75
Berkshire +40 56 £500 -16.67% 38
Hampshire +20 30 £539 -6.35% 30
Oxfordshire -4 12 £488 +8.33% 24
Surrey +3 6 £463 +13.50% 12
Buckinghamshire +4 4 £450 -11.94% 15
West Sussex -8 4 £660 +38.95% 11
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 (3.60%) Confluence
2 2 (1.80%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 43 (38.74%) Azure
2 38 (34.23%) AWS
3 26 (23.42%) GCP
4 13 (11.71%) Entra ID
5 9 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.60%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (3.60%) Azure Storage
6 4 (3.60%) OCI
7 3 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.70%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (2.70%) GitHub
7 3 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.90%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (0.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.90%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 17 (15.32%) Network Security
2 14 (12.61%) Firewall
3 4 (3.60%) NAS
3 4 (3.60%) SAN
3 4 (3.60%) VPN
4 3 (2.70%) HTTP
5 2 (1.80%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.90%) DHCP
6 1 (0.90%) DMZ
6 1 (0.90%) DNS
6 1 (0.90%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.70%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.80%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.80%) MySQL
3 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.80%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Git
1 5 (4.50%) JIRA
2 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.90%) GitLab
General
1 66 (59.46%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (13.51%) Finance
3 15 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 14 (12.61%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (9.91%) Legal
6 1 (0.90%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.90%) Military
6 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (18.02%) Architect
2 18 (16.22%) Analyst
3 15 (13.51%) Consultant
4 12 (10.81%) Security Architect
5 11 (9.91%) Security Consultant
6 9 (8.11%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 9 (8.11%) Security Specialist
6 9 (8.11%) SOC Analyst
7 6 (5.41%) Security Analyst
7 6 (5.41%) Senior
8 4 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 4 (3.60%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (3.60%) Technical Specialist
9 3 (2.70%) Developer
9 3 (2.70%) Lead
10 2 (1.80%) Database Specialist
10 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Architect
10 2 (1.80%) Information Analyst
10 2 (1.80%) Oracle Consultant
10 2 (1.80%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.81%) LDAP
2 6 (5.41%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (3.60%) Google JAX
3 4 (3.60%) JAX
3 4 (3.60%) PyTorch
3 4 (3.60%) scikit-learn
3 4 (3.60%) TensorFlow
4 3 (2.70%) OAuth
4 3 (2.70%) OpenID
5 2 (1.80%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.80%) SAML
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.90%) Django
6 1 (0.90%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.90%) Flask
6 1 (0.90%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.90%) REST
6 1 (0.90%) RESTful
6 1 (0.90%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.51%) Security Posture
2 9 (8.11%) Management Information System
2 9 (8.11%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.41%) Operational Technology
4 5 (4.50%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.60%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.70%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.70%) BYOD
6 3 (2.70%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (2.70%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.70%) Replication
6 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.80%) Clustering
7 2 (1.80%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.80%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.61%) Windows
2 9 (8.11%) Linux
3 5 (4.50%) Mac OS
3 5 (4.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (48.65%) Cybersecurity
2 38 (34.23%) SIEM
3 32 (28.83%) Risk Management
4 28 (25.23%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (23.42%) Incident Response
6 23 (20.72%) CI/CD
6 23 (20.72%) Security Architecture
6 23 (20.72%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (18.92%) Information Security
8 20 (18.02%) DevOps
9 19 (17.12%) Identity Access Management
10 18 (16.22%) DevSecOps
11 17 (15.32%) Agile
11 17 (15.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 16 (14.41%) Data Protection
12 16 (14.41%) Threat Intelligence
12 16 (14.41%) Threat Modelling
13 15 (13.51%) Cloud Security
13 15 (13.51%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 15 (13.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 31 (27.93%) PowerShell
2 28 (25.23%) Python
3 7 (6.31%) Bash
4 4 (3.60%) C++
4 4 (3.60%) Java
4 4 (3.60%) R
4 4 (3.60%) SQL
5 3 (2.70%) C
6 1 (0.90%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 48 (43.24%) Security Cleared
2 42 (37.84%) CISSP
3 34 (30.63%) SC Cleared
4 32 (28.83%) CISM
5 15 (13.51%) Degree
6 12 (10.81%) AWS Certification
6 12 (10.81%) Azure Certification
7 11 (9.91%) DV Cleared
8 10 (9.01%) GCIA
9 9 (8.11%) GCFA
9 9 (8.11%) GCIH
9 9 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (7.21%) CFCE
11 7 (6.31%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (6.31%) GIAC
12 5 (4.50%) PMI Certification
13 4 (3.60%) CCSP
13 4 (3.60%) Master's Degree
13 4 (3.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (67.57%) NIST
2 57 (51.35%) GDPR
3 12 (10.81%) PCI DSS
4 7 (6.31%) COBIT
4 7 (6.31%) HIPAA
5 6 (5.41%) GRC
5 6 (5.41%) ISO 9001
5 6 (5.41%) NIST 800
5 6 (5.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (4.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (4.50%) PMO
6 5 (4.50%) PSD2
6 5 (4.50%) RMADS
7 4 (3.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (3.60%) EU AI Act
7 4 (3.60%) JSP 440
7 4 (3.60%) NCSC
8 3 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (2.70%) QA
9 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 21 (18.92%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.50%) Docker
3 4 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (4.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 5 (4.50%) SCCM
4 4 (3.60%) Terraform
5 2 (1.80%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.90%) Ansible
6 1 (0.90%) Argo
6 1 (0.90%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.90%) Grafana
6 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.90%) QRadar
Vendors
1 26 (23.42%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.71%) CyberArk
2 13 (11.71%) Splunk
3 12 (10.81%) BeyondTrust
4 8 (7.21%) ArcSight
4 8 (7.21%) Oracle
5 7 (6.31%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (6.31%) LogRhythm
6 5 (4.50%) Citrix
6 5 (4.50%) VMware
7 4 (3.60%) EMC
7 4 (3.60%) NetApp
7 4 (3.60%) Pure Storage
8 2 (1.80%) Cisco
8 2 (1.80%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.80%) Sophos
9 1 (0.90%) BMC
9 1 (0.90%) Carbon Black
9 1 (0.90%) Intel
9 1 (0.90%) Remedy
192 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs in the South East