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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 73 149
Rank change year-on-year +7 +76 -45
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 224 97 38
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.37% 2.75% 0.80%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.23% 15.20% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 61 30
10th Percentile £400 £444 £388
25th Percentile £481 £492 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £490
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +17.35% -20.97%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £628
90th Percentile £769 £750 £676
England median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 3 2
10th Percentile £43.81 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £52.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.24% +90.91% -
75th Percentile £83.00 £58.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £90.70 £60.54 -
England median hourly rate £73.00 £52.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.05% +90.91% -59.00%

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 1,165 638 583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.50% 18.09% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 703 393 293
10th Percentile £350 £200 £250
25th Percentile £425 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £586 £600
90th Percentile £750 £650 £688
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 50 51
10th Percentile £16.23 £15.12 £10.82
25th Percentile £23.44 £15.34 £15.11
Median hourly rate £48.59 £25.83 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +88.14% -28.59% -26.94%
75th Percentile £71.00 £69.65 £62.83
90th Percentile £84.00 £87.71 £70.00
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £26.68
% change year-on-year +14.00% +18.59% -24.85%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +16 172 £575 -4.17% 12
Berkshire +2 86 £575 -4.17% 2
Oxfordshire +23 68 £425 -21.84% 8
Hampshire -28 29 £601 +4.57% 14
Buckinghamshire -23 18 £598 +2.14% 2
Surrey -21 7 £514 +14.17% 11
West Sussex -17 6 - - 5
Kent +4 5 £525 -30.00% 1
Sussex - 2 £236 -
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 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 72 (32.14%) Azure
2 47 (20.98%) Entra ID
3 29 (12.95%) AWS
4 18 (8.04%) SaaS
5 16 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (5.36%) GCP
7 8 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.68%) GitHub
8 6 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.68%) IaaS
8 6 (2.68%) PaaS
8 6 (2.68%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.79%) OCI
10 3 (1.34%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (1.34%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.80%) Network Security
2 12 (5.36%) Firewall
3 5 (2.23%) LAN
3 5 (2.23%) VPN
4 4 (1.79%) HTTP
4 4 (1.79%) WAN
5 3 (1.34%) DNS
5 3 (1.34%) SSH
5 3 (1.34%) Wireless
6 2 (0.89%) DHCP
6 2 (0.89%) NAS
6 2 (0.89%) NGFW
6 2 (0.89%) SAN
6 2 (0.89%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.89%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.45%) Modbus
7 1 (0.45%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.04%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.68%) Power BI
3 2 (0.89%) Metadata
4 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (2.23%) GitLab
1 5 (2.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.45%) Burp Suite
2 1 (0.45%) JIRA
2 1 (0.45%) Metasploit
General
1 78 (34.82%) Social Skills
2 51 (22.77%) Public Sector
3 48 (21.43%) Documentation Skills
4 28 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (9.82%) Aerospace
6 16 (7.14%) Finance
7 13 (5.80%) Military
8 11 (4.91%) Manufacturing
9 10 (4.46%) Legal
10 9 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.79%) Retail
11 4 (1.79%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.89%) Law
14 1 (0.45%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 40 (17.86%) Analyst
2 26 (11.61%) Architect
3 20 (8.93%) Security Architect
4 19 (8.48%) Security Analyst
5 18 (8.04%) Lead
6 16 (7.14%) Project Manager
7 15 (6.70%) Consultant
8 14 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 14 (6.25%) IAM Specialist
8 14 (6.25%) Security Specialist
9 13 (5.80%) Business Analyst
9 13 (5.80%) Cybersecurity Specialist
9 13 (5.80%) Security Consultant
9 13 (5.80%) Security Manager
9 13 (5.80%) Security Project Manager
10 11 (4.91%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 9 (4.02%) Senior
12 8 (3.57%) Compliance Analyst
13 6 (2.68%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 6 (2.68%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.38%) LDAP
2 15 (6.70%) OAuth
2 15 (6.70%) OAuth2
2 15 (6.70%) OpenID
2 15 (6.70%) SAML
3 14 (6.25%) SailPoint
4 11 (4.91%) Web Services
5 8 (3.57%) Terraform
6 6 (2.68%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (1.79%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.34%) FIDO
9 1 (0.45%) ADO
9 1 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.45%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 40 (17.86%) Operational Technology
2 35 (15.63%) Onboarding
3 18 (8.04%) Management Information System
4 16 (7.14%) Data Centre
5 12 (5.36%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (5.36%) Security Posture
6 11 (4.91%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (4.46%) Virtual Team
8 9 (4.02%) Cyber Defence
8 9 (4.02%) SCADA
9 8 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (2.23%) CMDB
10 5 (2.23%) NHS
11 4 (1.79%) BYOD
11 4 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.79%) PKI
12 3 (1.34%) Cloud Native
12 3 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 42 (18.75%) Windows
2 31 (13.84%) Linux
3 29 (12.95%) Unix
4 15 (6.70%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (61.16%) Cybersecurity
2 74 (33.04%) SIEM
3 59 (26.34%) ITSM
4 49 (21.88%) Risk Management
5 48 (21.43%) Information Security
6 46 (20.54%) Runbook
7 43 (19.20%) Vulnerability Management
8 39 (17.41%) RBAC
8 39 (17.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 36 (16.07%) Change Control
10 34 (15.18%) Computer Science
10 34 (15.18%) Security Architecture
11 33 (14.73%) Change Management
12 32 (14.29%) Zero Trust
13 31 (13.84%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
15 25 (11.16%) Incident Response
15 25 (11.16%) Privileged Access Management
15 25 (11.16%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (11.16%) Remediation Plan
Programming Languages
1 54 (24.11%) PowerShell
2 45 (20.09%) Python
3 6 (2.68%) Bicep
4 5 (2.23%) Bash
5 1 (0.45%) Perl
5 1 (0.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 109 (48.66%) Security Cleared
2 86 (38.39%) SC Cleared
3 48 (21.43%) Degree
4 43 (19.20%) CISSP
5 38 (16.96%) CISM
6 16 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (7.14%) DV Cleared
7 15 (6.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 13 (5.80%) PMI Certification
9 12 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (4.91%) PMP
11 9 (4.02%) GIAC
11 9 (4.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (3.13%) CRISC
13 6 (2.68%) CESG Certified Professional
14 5 (2.23%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (2.23%) SANS
15 4 (1.79%) CEH
15 4 (1.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 4 (1.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (65.18%) NIST
2 46 (20.54%) GDPR
3 23 (10.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 23 (10.27%) GRC
4 17 (7.59%) SOC 2
5 15 (6.70%) NCSC
6 12 (5.36%) Data Quality
6 12 (5.36%) ISO 31000
7 10 (4.46%) NIST 800
8 7 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (3.13%) JSP 440
9 6 (2.68%) ISO 22301
9 6 (2.68%) ISO 9001
9 6 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 6 (2.68%) PCI DSS
10 5 (2.23%) Def Stans
10 5 (2.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 2 (0.89%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 68 (30.36%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.79%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.89%) Docker
3 2 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (4.91%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (3.13%) Ansible
4 2 (0.89%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.45%) Nmap
5 1 (0.45%) QRadar
Vendors
1 43 (19.20%) Microsoft
2 29 (12.95%) BeyondTrust
3 28 (12.50%) CyberArk
4 17 (7.59%) Oracle
5 7 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.89%) Juniper
6 2 (0.89%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.89%) VMware
7 1 (0.45%) Clearswift
7 1 (0.45%) F5
7 1 (0.45%) Google
7 1 (0.45%) Qualys
7 1 (0.45%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.45%) Splunk
7 1 (0.45%) Tanium
7 1 (0.45%) Trend Micro
7 1 (0.45%) Tripwire