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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 73 163
Rank change year-on-year +18 +90 -52
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 235 95 35
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.61% 2.82% 0.62%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.94% 15.99% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 55 26
10th Percentile £401 £418 £165
25th Percentile £475 £492 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £470
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +17.02% -24.80%
75th Percentile £625 £637 £600
90th Percentile £725 £714 £663
England median daily rate £563 £550 £576
% change year-on-year +2.27% -4.56% -3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 4 2
10th Percentile £34.25 - -
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% +107.26% -
75th Percentile £82.63 £62.24 £28.75
90th Percentile £84.00 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +14.04% +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 1,122 594 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.24% 17.64% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 706 362 355
10th Percentile £331 £200 £255
25th Percentile £418 £357 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £725 £649 £685
England median daily rate £505 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.31% -2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 43 70
10th Percentile £17.50 £15.12 £10.82
25th Percentile £25.93 £15.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £48.13 £24.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +95.17% -10.33% -42.11%
75th Percentile £82.25 £61.12 £62.54
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.43 £70.00
England median hourly rate £36.07 £31.76 £25.00
% change year-on-year +13.57% +27.04% -41.18%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +25 189 £555 -3.48% 32
Berkshire +7 110 £575 -0.09% 15
Oxfordshire +14 64 £425 -21.84% 12
Hampshire -30 26 £600 - 14
Buckinghamshire -23 15 £600 +2.56% 5
Surrey -19 10 £513 +13.89% 14
West Sussex -16 6 - - 4
Sussex - 2 £236 - 1
Kent -1 1 £600 +17.07% 8
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 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.70%) Confluence
2 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.28%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.13%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.70%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 64 (27.23%) Azure
2 39 (16.60%) Entra ID
3 33 (14.04%) AWS
4 19 (8.09%) GCP
5 18 (7.66%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (4.68%) SaaS
7 9 (3.83%) OCI
7 9 (3.83%) Power Platform
8 7 (2.98%) IaaS
8 7 (2.98%) PaaS
9 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (1.28%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.43%) GitHub
12 1 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.43%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.38%) Network Security
2 13 (5.53%) Firewall
3 6 (2.55%) HTTP
3 6 (2.55%) SSH
4 5 (2.13%) LAN
4 5 (2.13%) VPN
4 5 (2.13%) WAN
4 5 (2.13%) Wireless
5 3 (1.28%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.85%) DHCP
6 2 (0.85%) DNS
6 2 (0.85%) NAS
6 2 (0.85%) NGFW
6 2 (0.85%) SAN
6 2 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.43%) BGP
7 1 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.43%) IPv6
7 1 (0.43%) MPLS
7 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.94%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.83%) Power BI
3 3 (1.28%) Metadata
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Burp Suite
1 2 (0.85%) Metasploit
2 1 (0.43%) JIRA
2 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 84 (35.74%) Social Skills
2 49 (20.85%) Public Sector
3 46 (19.57%) Documentation Skills
4 32 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.94%) Aerospace
6 19 (8.09%) Finance
7 14 (5.96%) Manufacturing
8 10 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.83%) Legal
10 8 (3.40%) Military
11 4 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.70%) Retail
12 3 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.85%) Law
14 1 (0.43%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 41 (17.45%) Analyst
2 22 (9.36%) Architect
3 21 (8.94%) Lead
4 20 (8.51%) Project Manager
5 19 (8.09%) Security Analyst
6 17 (7.23%) Consultant
7 16 (6.81%) Business Analyst
7 16 (6.81%) Security Architect
8 15 (6.38%) Security Manager
8 15 (6.38%) Security Project Manager
9 14 (5.96%) Security Specialist
10 13 (5.53%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 13 (5.53%) Security Consultant
11 11 (4.68%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 10 (4.26%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 9 (3.83%) IAM Specialist
14 8 (3.40%) Operations Analyst
14 8 (3.40%) Senior
15 7 (2.98%) Risk Analyst
15 7 (2.98%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.94%) LDAP
2 10 (4.26%) OAuth
2 10 (4.26%) OAuth2
2 10 (4.26%) OpenID
2 10 (4.26%) SAML
3 9 (3.83%) SailPoint
4 8 (3.40%) Web Services
5 7 (2.98%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (1.28%) FIDO
8 1 (0.43%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.43%) ADO
8 1 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 44 (18.72%) Operational Technology
2 34 (14.47%) Onboarding
3 19 (8.09%) Management Information System
4 14 (5.96%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (5.96%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.68%) SCADA
5 11 (4.68%) Virtual Team
6 9 (3.83%) Cyber Defence
6 9 (3.83%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.40%) CMDB
7 8 (3.40%) Security Operations Centre
8 6 (2.55%) BYOD
8 6 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.13%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.70%) NHS
10 4 (1.70%) PKI
11 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.28%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 46 (19.57%) Windows
2 33 (14.04%) Linux
3 31 (13.19%) Unix
4 19 (8.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (60.85%) Cybersecurity
2 76 (32.34%) SIEM
3 63 (26.81%) Information Security
4 59 (25.11%) ITSM
5 51 (21.70%) Risk Management
6 43 (18.30%) Runbook
6 43 (18.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 40 (17.02%) Change Control
7 40 (17.02%) Vulnerability Management
8 37 (15.74%) Change Management
9 35 (14.89%) Computer Science
10 33 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 32 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (13.19%) Security Operations
13 27 (11.49%) RBAC
13 27 (11.49%) Security Architecture
14 25 (10.64%) CI/CD
14 25 (10.64%) Remediation Plan
15 24 (10.21%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (24.26%) PowerShell
2 48 (20.43%) Python
3 3 (1.28%) SQL
4 1 (0.43%) Bash
4 1 (0.43%) Bicep
4 1 (0.43%) Perl
Qualifications
1 114 (48.51%) Security Cleared
2 85 (36.17%) SC Cleared
3 51 (21.70%) Degree
4 42 (17.87%) CISSP
5 41 (17.45%) CISM
6 18 (7.66%) DV Cleared
7 14 (5.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (5.53%) PMI Certification
9 11 (4.68%) PMP
10 9 (3.83%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (3.83%) GIAC
11 8 (3.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (2.98%) CRISC
12 7 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (2.55%) CESG Certified Professional
14 5 (2.13%) SANS
15 4 (1.70%) GSEC
15 4 (1.70%) SSCP
16 2 (0.85%) JNCIP
16 2 (0.85%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (68.09%) NIST
2 56 (23.83%) GDPR
3 22 (9.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 19 (8.09%) SOC 2
5 16 (6.81%) GRC
6 15 (6.38%) NCSC
7 13 (5.53%) ISO 31000
8 12 (5.11%) Data Quality
9 9 (3.83%) NIST 800
10 8 (3.40%) PCI DSS
11 7 (2.98%) COBIT
11 7 (2.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (2.13%) ISO 9001
13 5 (2.13%) QA
14 4 (1.70%) ISO 22301
14 4 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 4 (1.70%) JSP 440
14 4 (1.70%) PMO
15 3 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 70 (29.79%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.13%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (3.83%) Microsoft Intune
1 9 (3.83%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (1.70%) Nessus
3 3 (1.28%) Ansible
3 3 (1.28%) OpenVAS
3 3 (1.28%) Terraform
4 2 (0.85%) CSIRT
4 2 (0.85%) Nmap
5 1 (0.43%) CASB
5 1 (0.43%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (15.74%) BeyondTrust
2 36 (15.32%) CyberArk
3 30 (12.77%) Microsoft
4 26 (11.06%) Oracle
5 8 (3.40%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.13%) Qualys
7 4 (1.70%) Rapid7
8 3 (1.28%) Juniper
8 3 (1.28%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.28%) VMware
9 2 (0.85%) Google
9 2 (0.85%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.85%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.43%) Arista
10 1 (0.43%) Aruba
10 1 (0.43%) F5
10 1 (0.43%) Meraki
10 1 (0.43%) Tanium
10 1 (0.43%) Trend Micro
10 1 (0.43%) Tripwire