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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 133 96
Rank change year-on-year +62 -37 +100
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 104 46 121
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.87% 1.08% 2.17%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.48% 8.50% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 31 90
10th Percentile £413 £375 £446
25th Percentile £447 £433 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £635
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -13.39% +15.45%
75th Percentile £650 £644 £674
90th Percentile £750 £675 £838
England median daily rate £545 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
England median hourly rate £33.50 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -4.29% -21.35% +81.63%

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 631 541 809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.40% 12.68% 14.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 274 511
10th Percentile £250 £250 £206
25th Percentile £406 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £638
90th Percentile £650 £688 £743
England median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 31 61
10th Percentile £14.51 £17.63 £15.21
25th Percentile £15.13 £31.13 £24.34
Median hourly rate £17.22 £55.00 £51.06
Median % change year-on-year -68.70% +7.73% +143.12%
75th Percentile £69.65 £64.08 £64.50
90th Percentile £87.28 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% -6.67% +56.25%

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 October 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 18 October 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 63 £525 -6.87% 41
Berkshire +57 53 £575 -4.17% 29
Hampshire +28 31 £539 -6.35% 14
Oxfordshire -8 7 £544 +20.83% 5
Surrey +8 6 £463 +13.50% 10
West Sussex -5 4 £660 +38.95% 8
Buckinghamshire +4 3 £450 -6.25% 7
Kent 0 1 £750 +15.38% 4
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 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (5.77%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.96%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 35 (33.65%) Azure
2 30 (28.85%) AWS
3 20 (19.23%) GCP
4 12 (11.54%) Entra ID
5 8 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.85%) Azure Storage
7 3 (2.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (2.88%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.92%) GitHub
8 2 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.96%) IaaS
9 1 (0.96%) OCI
9 1 (0.96%) PaaS
9 1 (0.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.35%) Network Security
2 13 (12.50%) Firewall
3 4 (3.85%) NAS
3 4 (3.85%) SAN
3 4 (3.85%) VPN
4 3 (2.88%) HTTP
5 2 (1.92%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.96%) DHCP
6 1 (0.96%) DNS
6 1 (0.96%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 7 (6.73%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.88%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.92%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.92%) MySQL
3 2 (1.92%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.92%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (4.81%) Git
1 5 (4.81%) JIRA
2 1 (0.96%) GitLab
2 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (54.81%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (13.46%) Finance
4 12 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 10 (9.62%) Legal
6 7 (6.73%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.96%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.96%) Military
7 1 (0.96%) Retail
7 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (20.19%) Architect
2 14 (13.46%) Analyst
3 13 (12.50%) Security Architect
4 11 (10.58%) Consultant
4 11 (10.58%) Security Specialist
5 9 (8.65%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 9 (8.65%) Security Consultant
6 7 (6.73%) Senior
6 7 (6.73%) SOC Analyst
7 6 (5.77%) Developer
8 5 (4.81%) Oracle Developer
8 5 (4.81%) Security Analyst
9 4 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 4 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (3.85%) Report Developer
10 3 (2.88%) Lead
10 3 (2.88%) Technical Specialist
11 2 (1.92%) Change Manager
11 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Architect
11 2 (1.92%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.73%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (5.77%) LDAP
3 4 (3.85%) Google JAX
3 4 (3.85%) JAX
3 4 (3.85%) PyTorch
3 4 (3.85%) scikit-learn
3 4 (3.85%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.92%) OAuth
4 2 (1.92%) OpenID
5 1 (0.96%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (0.96%) Django
5 1 (0.96%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.96%) FHIR
5 1 (0.96%) Flask
5 1 (0.96%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.96%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.96%) REST
5 1 (0.96%) RESTful
5 1 (0.96%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.96%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.42%) Security Posture
2 9 (8.65%) Management Information System
3 8 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (5.77%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.77%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.85%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.88%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.88%) BYOD
6 3 (2.88%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (2.88%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.88%) Replication
7 2 (1.92%) Clustering
7 2 (1.92%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.92%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.54%) Windows
2 7 (6.73%) Linux
3 5 (4.81%) Mac OS
3 5 (4.81%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (42.31%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (27.88%) Risk Management
2 29 (27.88%) SIEM
3 25 (24.04%) Information Security
4 24 (23.08%) Incident Response
4 24 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (21.15%) Security Architecture
6 21 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (16.35%) Agile
7 17 (16.35%) Identity Access Management
7 17 (16.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 16 (15.38%) Roadmaps
8 16 (15.38%) Threat Modelling
9 15 (14.42%) Data Protection
9 15 (14.42%) Threat Intelligence
10 14 (13.46%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 14 (13.46%) DevOps
10 14 (13.46%) Vulnerability Management
11 13 (12.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (22.12%) PowerShell
2 21 (20.19%) Python
3 7 (6.73%) Bash
3 7 (6.73%) SQL
4 4 (3.85%) C++
4 4 (3.85%) Java
4 4 (3.85%) R
5 3 (2.88%) C
6 1 (0.96%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 41 (39.42%) Security Cleared
2 33 (31.73%) CISSP
3 29 (27.88%) SC Cleared
4 28 (26.92%) CISM
5 14 (13.46%) Degree
6 12 (11.54%) Azure Certification
7 11 (10.58%) AWS Certification
8 10 (9.62%) DV Cleared
9 9 (8.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (7.69%) GCIA
11 7 (6.73%) CFCE
11 7 (6.73%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (6.73%) GCFA
11 7 (6.73%) GCIH
12 6 (5.77%) GIAC
13 4 (3.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (3.85%) CCSP
13 4 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (59.62%) NIST
2 49 (47.12%) GDPR
3 11 (10.58%) PCI DSS
4 7 (6.73%) COBIT
4 7 (6.73%) ISO 9001
5 6 (5.77%) HIPAA
5 6 (5.77%) NIST 800
5 6 (5.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (4.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (4.81%) PSD2
6 5 (4.81%) RMADS
7 4 (3.85%) EU AI Act
7 4 (3.85%) NCSC
7 4 (3.85%) PMO
8 3 (2.88%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (2.88%) GRC
9 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (1.92%) JSP 440
System Software
1 14 (13.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.81%) Docker
3 4 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (8.65%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (4.81%) SCCM
4 4 (3.85%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 3 (2.88%) Terraform
6 2 (1.92%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.96%) Ansible
7 1 (0.96%) Argo
7 1 (0.96%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.96%) Grafana
7 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.96%) QRadar
Vendors
1 24 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.62%) Splunk
3 9 (8.65%) Oracle
4 7 (6.73%) CyberArk
5 6 (5.77%) ArcSight
5 6 (5.77%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (5.77%) LogRhythm
6 5 (4.81%) BeyondTrust
6 5 (4.81%) Citrix
6 5 (4.81%) VMware
7 4 (3.85%) EMC
7 4 (3.85%) NetApp
7 4 (3.85%) Pure Storage
8 2 (1.92%) Cisco
8 2 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.92%) Sophos
9 1 (0.96%) BMC
9 1 (0.96%) Intel
9 1 (0.96%) Remedy
9 1 (0.96%) Virgin Media