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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 66 144
Rank change year-on-year +8 +78 -35
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 238 99 42
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.56% 2.80% 0.86%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.26% 15.28% 6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 61 34
10th Percentile £404 £450 £313
25th Percentile £475 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £490
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +22.45% -24.62%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £600
90th Percentile £734 £773 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 3 2
10th Percentile £43.81 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £52.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +90.91% -
75th Percentile £83.00 £58.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £86.90 £60.54 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £52.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +42.86% +90.91% -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 1,175 648 618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.58% 18.35% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 721 397 317
10th Percentile £350 £200 £244
25th Percentile £425 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £590
90th Percentile £725 £650 £689
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 51 55
10th Percentile £16.33 £15.12 £10.82
25th Percentile £28.64 £15.40 £18.06
Median hourly rate £52.50 £24.66 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +112.90% -31.81% -26.19%
75th Percentile £78.69 £67.50 £62.96
90th Percentile £84.00 £87.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £38.72 £31.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +22.92% +14.55% -35.29%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +19 183 £565 -5.83% 43
Berkshire +2 96 £575 -4.17% 20
Oxfordshire +19 71 £425 -21.84% 11
Hampshire -31 30 £600 - 39
Buckinghamshire -26 16 £598 +2.14% 12
Surrey -25 10 £513 +7.89% 22
West Sussex -19 6 - - 11
Kent +4 4 £525 -30.00% 6
Sussex - 2 £236 - 2
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 (2.10%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.68%) Confluence
2 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.68%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 73 (30.67%) Azure
2 48 (20.17%) Entra ID
3 31 (13.03%) AWS
4 18 (7.56%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (7.56%) SaaS
5 13 (5.46%) GCP
6 7 (2.94%) IaaS
6 7 (2.94%) PaaS
7 6 (2.52%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (2.10%) OCI
9 4 (1.68%) GitHub
9 4 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.26%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.30%) Network Security
2 14 (5.88%) Firewall
3 6 (2.52%) HTTP
3 6 (2.52%) VPN
4 5 (2.10%) LAN
4 5 (2.10%) WAN
4 5 (2.10%) Wireless
5 4 (1.68%) SSH
6 3 (1.26%) DNS
6 3 (1.26%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.84%) DHCP
7 2 (0.84%) NAS
7 2 (0.84%) NGFW
7 2 (0.84%) SAN
7 2 (0.84%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.42%) BGP
8 1 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.42%) MPLS
8 1 (0.42%) OSPF
8 1 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.98%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.52%) Power BI
3 3 (1.26%) Metadata
4 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Burp Suite
1 2 (0.84%) GitLab
1 2 (0.84%) Jenkins
1 2 (0.84%) Metasploit
2 1 (0.42%) JIRA
2 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 84 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 50 (21.01%) Public Sector
3 49 (20.59%) Documentation Skills
4 31 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (10.08%) Aerospace
6 17 (7.14%) Finance
7 14 (5.88%) Manufacturing
8 12 (5.04%) Military
9 11 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (3.78%) Legal
11 8 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.68%) Retail
12 4 (1.68%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.84%) Law
15 1 (0.42%) Digital Health
15 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 43 (18.07%) Analyst
2 25 (10.50%) Architect
3 22 (9.24%) Security Analyst
4 20 (8.40%) Project Manager
5 19 (7.98%) Lead
5 19 (7.98%) Security Architect
6 18 (7.56%) Consultant
7 16 (6.72%) Business Analyst
7 16 (6.72%) Security Consultant
8 15 (6.30%) Security Manager
8 15 (6.30%) Security Project Manager
9 14 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 14 (5.88%) IAM Specialist
9 14 (5.88%) Security Specialist
10 13 (5.46%) Cybersecurity Specialist
11 11 (4.62%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 8 (3.36%) Operations Analyst
12 8 (3.36%) Senior
13 7 (2.94%) Security Engineer
13 7 (2.94%) Security Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.82%) LDAP
2 15 (6.30%) OAuth
2 15 (6.30%) OAuth2
2 15 (6.30%) OpenID
2 15 (6.30%) SAML
3 14 (5.88%) SailPoint
4 11 (4.62%) Web Services
5 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (1.26%) FIDO
7 2 (0.84%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.42%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.42%) ADO
8 1 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 44 (18.49%) Operational Technology
2 36 (15.13%) Onboarding
3 21 (8.82%) Management Information System
4 19 (7.98%) Data Centre
5 15 (6.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (5.04%) Security Posture
7 11 (4.62%) SCADA
7 11 (4.62%) Virtual Team
8 10 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (3.78%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (3.36%) Security Operations Centre
11 6 (2.52%) BYOD
12 5 (2.10%) CMDB
12 5 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (2.10%) NHS
12 5 (2.10%) Product Ownership
13 4 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (1.68%) PKI
14 3 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (1.26%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 46 (19.33%) Windows
2 33 (13.87%) Linux
3 30 (12.61%) Unix
4 17 (7.14%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.42%) VMS
5 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (62.18%) Cybersecurity
2 75 (31.51%) SIEM
3 61 (25.63%) ITSM
4 53 (22.27%) Information Security
4 53 (22.27%) Risk Management
5 47 (19.75%) Runbook
6 44 (18.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 44 (18.49%) Vulnerability Management
7 42 (17.65%) Change Control
8 37 (15.55%) Change Management
9 36 (15.13%) Computer Science
9 36 (15.13%) RBAC
10 32 (13.45%) Security Architecture
11 31 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (13.03%) Security Operations
11 31 (13.03%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (13.03%) Zero Trust
12 27 (11.34%) Remediation Plan
13 26 (10.92%) Incident Response
14 25 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 54 (22.69%) PowerShell
2 45 (18.91%) Python
3 4 (1.68%) Bicep
4 3 (1.26%) Bash
5 2 (0.84%) SQL
6 1 (0.42%) Perl
Qualifications
1 114 (47.90%) Security Cleared
2 89 (37.39%) SC Cleared
3 53 (22.27%) Degree
4 43 (18.07%) CISSP
5 40 (16.81%) CISM
6 17 (7.14%) DV Cleared
7 15 (6.30%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (5.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 13 (5.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (5.46%) PMI Certification
9 11 (4.62%) PMP
10 10 (4.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (3.78%) GIAC
12 7 (2.94%) CRISC
13 6 (2.52%) CESG Certified Professional
14 5 (2.10%) SANS
15 4 (1.68%) GSEC
15 4 (1.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 4 (1.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 4 (1.68%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (66.39%) NIST
2 52 (21.85%) GDPR
3 25 (10.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 22 (9.24%) GRC
5 19 (7.98%) SOC 2
6 14 (5.88%) NCSC
7 13 (5.46%) ISO 31000
8 12 (5.04%) Data Quality
9 11 (4.62%) NIST 800
10 9 (3.78%) PCI DSS
11 7 (2.94%) JSP 440
11 7 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (2.52%) ISO 9001
12 6 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (2.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (2.10%) Def Stans
14 4 (1.68%) ISO 22301
14 4 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 4 (1.68%) PMO
15 3 (1.26%) QA
System Software
1 70 (29.41%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.10%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (5.04%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (3.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.52%) Terraform
4 5 (2.10%) Ansible
4 5 (2.10%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.84%) CSIRT
5 2 (0.84%) Nmap
6 1 (0.42%) CASB
6 1 (0.42%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.42%) QRadar
Vendors
1 43 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.61%) BeyondTrust
3 29 (12.18%) CyberArk
4 19 (7.98%) Oracle
5 9 (3.78%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.26%) Juniper
6 3 (1.26%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.26%) VMware
7 2 (0.84%) Qualys
7 2 (0.84%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.84%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.42%) Arista
8 1 (0.42%) Aruba
8 1 (0.42%) F5
8 1 (0.42%) Meraki
8 1 (0.42%) Splunk
8 1 (0.42%) Tanium
8 1 (0.42%) Tenable
8 1 (0.42%) Trend Micro
8 1 (0.42%) Tripwire