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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 131 98
Rank change year-on-year +59 -33 +95
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 133 54 114
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.20% 1.33% 2.17%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.71% 9.47% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 33 79
10th Percentile £401 £373 £360
25th Percentile £447 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +5.49%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £667
90th Percentile £710 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £584 £600
% change year-on-year -10.06% -2.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile - £14.85 -
25th Percentile - £19.13 -
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% - -
75th Percentile - £45.50 -
90th Percentile £63.00 £55.54 -
England median hourly rate £36.00 £48.25 £46.75
% change year-on-year -25.38% +3.20% +43.85%

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 751 570 874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 18.06% 14.02% 16.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 295 495
10th Percentile £300 £233 £177
25th Percentile £413 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £523
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.26% +12.67%
75th Percentile £597 £626 £621
90th Percentile £669 £692 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £541
% change year-on-year - -7.62% +3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 31 53
10th Percentile £15.13 £17.63 £24.27
25th Percentile £16.50 £22.59 £31.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £53.00 £54.37
Median % change year-on-year -32.08% -2.52% +158.90%
75th Percentile £70.16 £62.99 £70.50
90th Percentile £86.40 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £26.11 £29.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -9.97% -28.40% +68.75%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +54 91 £492 -16.96% 44
Berkshire +51 71 £500 -16.67% 27
Hampshire +18 31 £540 -6.09% 19
Oxfordshire -3 13 £488 -2.50% 13
Buckinghamshire +7 7 £450 -11.94% 6
Surrey +1 7 £463 +13.50% 3
West Sussex -10 5 £660 +38.95% 6
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 (3.01%) Confluence
2 3 (2.26%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.51%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 52 (39.10%) Azure
2 48 (36.09%) AWS
3 31 (23.31%) GCP
4 13 (9.77%) Entra ID
5 9 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.51%) OCI
7 4 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.01%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.01%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (3.01%) Azure Storage
7 4 (3.01%) GitHub
7 4 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.50%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.75%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.53%) Firewall
2 17 (12.78%) Network Security
3 4 (3.01%) NAS
3 4 (3.01%) SAN
3 4 (3.01%) VPN
3 4 (3.01%) Wireless
4 3 (2.26%) HTTP
5 2 (1.50%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.75%) DHCP
6 1 (0.75%) DMZ
6 1 (0.75%) DNS
6 1 (0.75%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.26%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.50%) MySQL
3 2 (1.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.50%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Git
1 5 (3.76%) JIRA
2 4 (3.01%) Burp Suite
2 4 (3.01%) Metasploit
3 3 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.75%) GitLab
General
1 81 (60.90%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.05%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (15.04%) Documentation Skills
4 16 (12.03%) Public Sector
5 15 (11.28%) Finance
6 11 (8.27%) Legal
7 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.75%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.75%) Military
8 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (16.54%) Analyst
2 20 (15.04%) Architect
3 16 (12.03%) Consultant
4 12 (9.02%) Security Architect
5 11 (8.27%) Security Consultant
6 9 (6.77%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 9 (6.77%) Security Analyst
6 9 (6.77%) Security Specialist
6 9 (6.77%) SOC Analyst
7 6 (4.51%) Senior
8 5 (3.76%) Information Analyst
8 5 (3.76%) Information Security Analyst
8 5 (3.76%) Penetration Tester
8 5 (3.76%) Technical Specialist
8 5 (3.76%) Tester
9 4 (3.01%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 4 (3.01%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (3.01%) Lead
10 3 (2.26%) Developer
10 3 (2.26%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.29%) LDAP
2 8 (6.02%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (3.01%) Google JAX
3 4 (3.01%) JAX
3 4 (3.01%) PyTorch
3 4 (3.01%) scikit-learn
3 4 (3.01%) TensorFlow
4 3 (2.26%) OAuth
4 3 (2.26%) OpenID
5 2 (1.50%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.50%) SAML
6 1 (0.75%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.75%) Django
6 1 (0.75%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.75%) Flask
6 1 (0.75%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.75%) REST
6 1 (0.75%) RESTful
6 1 (0.75%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.75%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.53%) Security Posture
2 9 (6.77%) Management Information System
2 9 (6.77%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (4.51%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.51%) Operational Technology
4 5 (3.76%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.01%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.26%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.26%) BYOD
6 3 (2.26%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (2.26%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.26%) Replication
6 3 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.50%) Clustering
7 2 (1.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.50%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.53%) Windows
2 10 (7.52%) Linux
3 5 (3.76%) Mac OS
3 5 (3.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (48.12%) Cybersecurity
2 43 (32.33%) SIEM
3 37 (27.82%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (26.32%) Risk Management
5 31 (23.31%) Information Security
6 29 (21.80%) CI/CD
7 27 (20.30%) Incident Response
8 26 (19.55%) DevOps
8 26 (19.55%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (17.29%) DevSecOps
9 23 (17.29%) Security Architecture
10 19 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
11 18 (13.53%) Cloud Security
11 18 (13.53%) Data Protection
11 18 (13.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 17 (12.78%) Agile
12 17 (12.78%) Regulatory Compliance
13 16 (12.03%) Penetration Testing
13 16 (12.03%) Threat Intelligence
13 16 (12.03%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 38 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 35 (26.32%) Python
3 7 (5.26%) Bash
4 4 (3.01%) C++
4 4 (3.01%) Java
4 4 (3.01%) R
4 4 (3.01%) SQL
5 3 (2.26%) C
6 1 (0.75%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 57 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 47 (35.34%) CISSP
3 43 (32.33%) SC Cleared
4 37 (27.82%) CISM
5 18 (13.53%) Degree
6 13 (9.77%) AWS Certification
7 12 (9.02%) Azure Certification
8 11 (8.27%) DV Cleared
9 10 (7.52%) GCIA
10 9 (6.77%) GCFA
10 9 (6.77%) GCIH
10 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (6.02%) CFCE
12 7 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (5.26%) GIAC
13 5 (3.76%) PMI Certification
14 4 (3.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (3.01%) CCSP
14 4 (3.01%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (66.17%) NIST
2 70 (52.63%) GDPR
3 16 (12.03%) PCI DSS
4 9 (6.77%) COBIT
4 9 (6.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (6.77%) GRC
5 7 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 7 (5.26%) HIPAA
5 7 (5.26%) NIST 800
5 7 (5.26%) PMO
6 6 (4.51%) ISO 9001
6 6 (4.51%) QA
6 6 (4.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (3.76%) PSD2
7 5 (3.76%) RMADS
8 4 (3.01%) EU AI Act
8 4 (3.01%) JSP 440
8 4 (3.01%) NCSC
9 3 (2.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 28 (21.05%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.76%) Docker
3 4 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (6.77%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (3.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 5 (3.76%) SCCM
3 5 (3.76%) Terraform
4 4 (3.01%) Nmap
5 2 (1.50%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.75%) Ansible
6 1 (0.75%) Argo
6 1 (0.75%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.75%) Grafana
6 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.75%) QRadar
Vendors
1 26 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.04%) CyberArk
3 19 (14.29%) BeyondTrust
4 13 (9.77%) Splunk
5 10 (7.52%) Oracle
6 8 (6.02%) ArcSight
7 7 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
7 7 (5.26%) LogRhythm
8 5 (3.76%) Citrix
8 5 (3.76%) VMware
9 4 (3.01%) EMC
9 4 (3.01%) NetApp
9 4 (3.01%) Pure Storage
10 2 (1.50%) Cisco
10 2 (1.50%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.50%) Sophos
11 1 (0.75%) BMC
11 1 (0.75%) Intel
11 1 (0.75%) OneTrust
11 1 (0.75%) Remedy