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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 136 108
Rank change year-on-year +60 -28 +88
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 111 45 110
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.87% 1.08% 2.04%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.32% 8.36% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 29 79
10th Percentile £410 £370 £453
25th Percentile £447 £450 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £608
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -5.35% +10.45%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £673
90th Percentile £740 £678 £688
England median daily rate £537 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.61% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £81.00 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +194.55% - -
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 680 538 853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.57% 12.90% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 279 492
10th Percentile £256 £234 £207
25th Percentile £410 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £624 £623
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £507 £540
% change year-on-year -1.38% -6.11% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 29 57
10th Percentile £13.82 £17.14 £15.95
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.68 £30.00
Median hourly rate £17.96 £54.36 £52.10
Median % change year-on-year -66.96% +4.34% +134.16%
75th Percentile £69.65 £63.43 £70.50
90th Percentile £82.60 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.06 £39.96
% change year-on-year -6.43% -19.77% +53.69%

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 7 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
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 7 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 +46 73 £504 -13.89% 171
Berkshire +48 58 £519 -13.54% 125
Hampshire +13 30 £539 -6.35% 38
Oxfordshire -2 12 £488 +8.33% 26
Surrey +3 6 £463 +13.50% 18
West Sussex -7 4 £660 +38.95% 8
Buckinghamshire +8 3 £450 -11.94% 22
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 1 (0.90%) 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 38 (34.23%) Azure
2 34 (30.63%) AWS
3 23 (20.72%) GCP
4 13 (11.71%) Entra ID
5 8 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.60%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (3.60%) Azure Storage
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%) OCI
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 16 (14.41%) Network Security
2 13 (11.71%) 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%) DNS
6 1 (0.90%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 7 (6.31%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.70%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.80%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.80%) MySQL
4 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.80%) RDBMS
4 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 63 (56.76%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (12.61%) Finance
4 13 (11.71%) Public Sector
5 11 (9.91%) 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%) Retail
6 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (18.92%) Architect
2 17 (15.32%) Analyst
3 13 (11.71%) Security Architect
4 12 (10.81%) Consultant
5 11 (9.91%) Security Specialist
6 10 (9.01%) Security Consultant
7 9 (8.11%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 9 (8.11%) SOC Analyst
8 7 (6.31%) Senior
9 6 (5.41%) Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Oracle Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Security Analyst
11 4 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 4 (3.60%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (3.60%) Lead
11 4 (3.60%) Report Developer
11 4 (3.60%) Technical Specialist
12 2 (1.80%) Information Security Specialist
12 2 (1.80%) IT Analyst
12 2 (1.80%) Migration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.11%) LDAP
1 9 (8.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (3.60%) Google JAX
2 4 (3.60%) JAX
2 4 (3.60%) PyTorch
2 4 (3.60%) scikit-learn
2 4 (3.60%) TensorFlow
3 3 (2.70%) OAuth
3 3 (2.70%) OpenID
4 2 (1.80%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.80%) SAML
5 1 (0.90%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (0.90%) Django
5 1 (0.90%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.90%) Flask
5 1 (0.90%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.90%) REST
5 1 (0.90%) RESTful
5 1 (0.90%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.51%) Security Posture
2 10 (9.01%) Management Information System
2 10 (9.01%) 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%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.90%) Cyberattack
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 50 (45.05%) Cybersecurity
2 36 (32.43%) SIEM
3 30 (27.03%) Risk Management
4 27 (24.32%) Incident Response
5 26 (23.42%) Information Security
6 25 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (22.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (19.82%) Security Architecture
8 20 (18.02%) CI/CD
9 19 (17.12%) Identity Access Management
10 17 (15.32%) DevOps
10 17 (15.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (14.41%) Agile
11 16 (14.41%) Data Protection
11 16 (14.41%) Roadmaps
11 16 (14.41%) Threat Intelligence
11 16 (14.41%) Threat Modelling
12 15 (13.51%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 15 (13.51%) DevSecOps
12 15 (13.51%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (25.23%) PowerShell
2 25 (22.52%) Python
3 7 (6.31%) Bash
3 7 (6.31%) SQL
4 4 (3.60%) C++
4 4 (3.60%) Java
4 4 (3.60%) R
5 3 (2.70%) C
6 1 (0.90%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 46 (41.44%) Security Cleared
2 38 (34.23%) CISSP
3 34 (30.63%) SC Cleared
4 30 (27.03%) CISM
5 15 (13.51%) Degree
6 12 (10.81%) AWS Certification
6 12 (10.81%) Azure Certification
7 10 (9.01%) GCIA
8 9 (8.11%) DV Cleared
8 9 (8.11%) GCFA
8 9 (8.11%) GCIH
8 9 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (7.21%) CFCE
10 7 (6.31%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (6.31%) GIAC
11 4 (3.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (3.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 4 (3.60%) Master's Degree
11 4 (3.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (65.77%) NIST
2 53 (47.75%) GDPR
3 11 (9.91%) PCI DSS
4 9 (8.11%) COBIT
5 7 (6.31%) HIPAA
5 7 (6.31%) ISO 9001
6 6 (5.41%) NIST 800
6 6 (5.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (4.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (4.50%) PSD2
7 5 (4.50%) RMADS
8 4 (3.60%) EU AI Act
8 4 (3.60%) GRC
8 4 (3.60%) PMO
9 3 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (2.70%) NCSC
10 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (1.80%) JSP 440
System Software
1 18 (16.22%) 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%) Splunk
3 11 (9.91%) CyberArk
3 11 (9.91%) Oracle
4 9 (8.11%) BeyondTrust
5 8 (7.21%) ArcSight
6 7 (6.31%) CrowdStrike
6 7 (6.31%) LogRhythm
7 5 (4.50%) Citrix
7 5 (4.50%) VMware
8 4 (3.60%) EMC
8 4 (3.60%) NetApp
8 4 (3.60%) Pure Storage
9 2 (1.80%) Cisco
9 2 (1.80%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.80%) Sophos
10 1 (0.90%) BMC
10 1 (0.90%) Intel
10 1 (0.90%) Qualys
10 1 (0.90%) Remedy