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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 72 143
Rank change year-on-year +15 +71 -30
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 241 101 45
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.65% 2.92% 0.87%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.76% 15.49% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 60 36
10th Percentile £405 £439 £338
25th Percentile £475 £492 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +17.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £600
90th Percentile £731 £752 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 4 2
10th Percentile £39.03 - -
25th Percentile £47.19 £51.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% +107.26% -
75th Percentile £83.00 £62.24 £28.75
90th Percentile £84.30 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £57.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +31.58% +107.26% -60.71%

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 1,161 652 690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.58% 18.84% 13.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 722 407 340
10th Percentile £340 £200 £255
25th Percentile £425 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £584
90th Percentile £725 £650 £688
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 49 66
10th Percentile £17.50 £15.12 £10.82
25th Percentile £25.93 £15.29 £18.00
Median hourly rate £49.36 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +96.26% -8.55% -40.54%
75th Percentile £82.25 £67.50 £62.66
90th Percentile £84.90 £87.93 £70.00
England median hourly rate £38.11 £31.64 £26.56
% change year-on-year +20.45% +19.13% -37.51%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +15 192 £555 -7.50% 24
Berkshire +5 108 £574 -4.33% 12
Oxfordshire +20 69 £425 -21.84% 6
Hampshire -34 27 £603 +0.42% 21
Buckinghamshire -29 15 £600 +2.56% 6
Surrey -21 10 £513 +7.89% 11
West Sussex -21 6 - - 4
Kent +2 2 £563 +9.76% 9
Sussex - 2 £236 - 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 5 (2.07%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.66%) Confluence
2 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.83%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.66%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 68 (28.22%) Azure
2 44 (18.26%) Entra ID
3 31 (12.86%) AWS
4 18 (7.47%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (6.22%) GCP
6 14 (5.81%) SaaS
7 9 (3.73%) Power Platform
8 7 (2.90%) IaaS
8 7 (2.90%) OCI
8 7 (2.90%) PaaS
9 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.24%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (1.24%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.41%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.41%) GitHub
12 1 (0.41%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.22%) Network Security
2 13 (5.39%) Firewall
3 6 (2.49%) HTTP
3 6 (2.49%) SSH
4 5 (2.07%) LAN
4 5 (2.07%) VPN
4 5 (2.07%) WAN
4 5 (2.07%) Wireless
5 3 (1.24%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.83%) DHCP
6 2 (0.83%) DNS
6 2 (0.83%) NAS
6 2 (0.83%) NGFW
6 2 (0.83%) SAN
6 2 (0.83%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.41%) IPv6
7 1 (0.41%) MPLS
7 1 (0.41%) SMS
7 1 (0.41%) SNMP
7 1 (0.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.71%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.73%) Power BI
3 3 (1.24%) Metadata
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Burp Suite
1 2 (0.83%) Metasploit
2 1 (0.41%) JIRA
2 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 85 (35.27%) Social Skills
2 51 (21.16%) Public Sector
3 48 (19.92%) Documentation Skills
4 31 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.54%) Aerospace
6 19 (7.88%) Finance
7 14 (5.81%) Manufacturing
8 10 (4.15%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.73%) Legal
9 9 (3.73%) Military
10 7 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.66%) Retail
11 4 (1.66%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.83%) Law
14 1 (0.41%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 41 (17.01%) Analyst
2 24 (9.96%) Architect
3 20 (8.30%) Lead
3 20 (8.30%) Project Manager
4 19 (7.88%) Security Analyst
5 18 (7.47%) Consultant
5 18 (7.47%) Security Architect
6 16 (6.64%) Business Analyst
7 15 (6.22%) Security Consultant
7 15 (6.22%) Security Manager
7 15 (6.22%) Security Project Manager
8 14 (5.81%) Security Specialist
9 13 (5.39%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 12 (4.98%) IAM Specialist
11 11 (4.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 11 (4.56%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 8 (3.32%) Operations Analyst
13 7 (2.90%) Operations Business Analyst
13 7 (2.90%) Risk Analyst
13 7 (2.90%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.13%) LDAP
2 13 (5.39%) OAuth
2 13 (5.39%) OAuth2
2 13 (5.39%) OpenID
2 13 (5.39%) SAML
3 12 (4.98%) SailPoint
4 10 (4.15%) Web Services
5 6 (2.49%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (2.07%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.24%) FIDO
8 1 (0.41%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.41%) ADO
8 1 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 44 (18.26%) Operational Technology
2 36 (14.94%) Onboarding
3 20 (8.30%) Management Information System
4 17 (7.05%) Data Centre
5 14 (5.81%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (4.56%) SCADA
6 11 (4.56%) Virtual Team
7 10 (4.15%) Security Posture
8 9 (3.73%) Cyber Defence
9 8 (3.32%) CMDB
9 8 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (3.32%) Security Operations Centre
10 6 (2.49%) BYOD
11 5 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (2.07%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.66%) NHS
12 4 (1.66%) PKI
13 3 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (1.24%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 48 (19.92%) Windows
2 35 (14.52%) Linux
3 32 (13.28%) Unix
4 20 (8.30%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.41%) VMS
5 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (61.00%) Cybersecurity
2 76 (31.54%) SIEM
3 63 (26.14%) Information Security
4 61 (25.31%) ITSM
5 55 (22.82%) Risk Management
6 47 (19.50%) Runbook
7 43 (17.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 42 (17.43%) Change Control
8 42 (17.43%) Vulnerability Management
9 37 (15.35%) Change Management
9 37 (15.35%) Computer Science
10 32 (13.28%) Security Operations
10 32 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (12.45%) RBAC
12 30 (12.45%) Security Architecture
13 29 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (10.79%) Zero Trust
15 25 (10.37%) Incident Response
15 25 (10.37%) Remediation Plan
Programming Languages
1 56 (23.24%) PowerShell
2 47 (19.50%) Python
3 3 (1.24%) SQL
4 1 (0.41%) Bash
4 1 (0.41%) Bicep
4 1 (0.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 118 (48.96%) Security Cleared
2 90 (37.34%) SC Cleared
3 54 (22.41%) Degree
4 43 (17.84%) CISSP
5 42 (17.43%) CISM
6 17 (7.05%) DV Cleared
7 14 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (5.39%) PMI Certification
9 12 (4.98%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (4.56%) PMP
11 10 (4.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 9 (3.73%) GIAC
12 9 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (2.90%) CRISC
14 6 (2.49%) CESG Certified Professional
15 5 (2.07%) SANS
16 4 (1.66%) GSEC
16 4 (1.66%) SSCP
17 3 (1.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 3 (1.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (68.05%) NIST
2 56 (23.24%) GDPR
3 24 (9.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 20 (8.30%) GRC
5 19 (7.88%) SOC 2
6 15 (6.22%) NCSC
7 14 (5.81%) Data Quality
8 13 (5.39%) ISO 31000
9 11 (4.56%) NIST 800
10 9 (3.73%) PCI DSS
11 7 (2.90%) JSP 440
11 7 (2.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (2.07%) COBIT
13 5 (2.07%) ISO 9001
14 4 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (1.66%) Def Stans
14 4 (1.66%) ISO 22301
14 4 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 4 (1.66%) QA
System Software
1 72 (29.88%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.07%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (4.56%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (3.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.24%) Ansible
3 3 (1.24%) Terraform
4 2 (0.83%) CSIRT
4 2 (0.83%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.83%) Nessus
4 2 (0.83%) Nmap
5 1 (0.41%) CASB
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.41%) OpenVAS
5 1 (0.41%) QRadar
Vendors
1 36 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 35 (14.52%) BeyondTrust
3 34 (14.11%) CyberArk
4 24 (9.96%) Oracle
5 8 (3.32%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.24%) Juniper
6 3 (1.24%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.24%) Qualys
6 3 (1.24%) VMware
7 2 (0.83%) Rapid7
7 2 (0.83%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.83%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.41%) Arista
8 1 (0.41%) Aruba
8 1 (0.41%) F5
8 1 (0.41%) Meraki
8 1 (0.41%) Splunk
8 1 (0.41%) Tanium
8 1 (0.41%) Tenable
8 1 (0.41%) Trend Micro