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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 109 134
Rank change year-on-year +38 +25 +26
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 140 45 77
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.97% 1.44% 1.41%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.37% 8.95% 8.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 24 56
10th Percentile £382 £365 £500
25th Percentile £447 £441 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £598
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% -12.13% +1.70%
75th Percentile £587 £638 £667
90th Percentile £713 £664 £670
England median daily rate £529 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -11.90% +4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £24.10 £21.75 -
25th Percentile £27.34 £36.37 -
Median hourly rate £36.00 £61.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.46% - -
75th Percentile - £62.24 -
90th Percentile £49.50 - -
England median hourly rate £33.50 £67.55 £44.50
% change year-on-year -50.41% +51.79% -39.35%

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 806 503 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.10% 16.07% 16.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 261 528
10th Percentile £300 £249 £230
25th Percentile £409 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £678 £675 £667
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 21 61
10th Percentile £13.28 £18.50 £17.13
25th Percentile £18.41 £21.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -25.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £69.65 £62.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £90.80 £65.62 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.99 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% +23.94% -14.24%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +37 98 £492 -18.00% 25
Berkshire +36 79 £492 -18.00% 13
Hampshire 0 28 £563 +7.14% 15
Oxfordshire -7 13 £460 -14.42% 5
Surrey -3 11 £475 +14.46% 10
Buckinghamshire -6 6 £513 +0.29% 7
West Sussex -10 5 £635 +234.21% 6
Home Counties - 1 - -
Sussex - 1 £900 -
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 (3.57%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
2 4 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
1 12 (8.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 58 (41.43%) AWS
2 56 (40.00%) Azure
3 30 (21.43%) GCP
4 10 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 10 (7.14%) OCI
5 5 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (2.86%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.14%) GitHub
7 3 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.14%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.43%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.43%) IaaS
8 2 (1.43%) PaaS
8 2 (1.43%) SaaS
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 23 (16.43%) Firewall
2 13 (9.29%) Wireless
3 8 (5.71%) Network Security
4 6 (4.29%) VPN
5 4 (2.86%) S/MIME
5 4 (2.86%) SSH
6 3 (2.14%) HTTP
7 2 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.71%) BGP
8 1 (0.71%) DMZ
8 1 (0.71%) DNS
8 1 (0.71%) IPsec
8 1 (0.71%) IPv6
8 1 (0.71%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.71%) MPLS
8 1 (0.71%) OSPF
8 1 (0.71%) SNMP
8 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.71%) VoIP
8 1 (0.71%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.14%) Power BI
3 3 (2.14%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.43%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.43%) MySQL
4 2 (1.43%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.43%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 14 (10.00%) Burp Suite
1 14 (10.00%) Metasploit
2 4 (2.86%) JIRA
3 3 (2.14%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.71%) Git
4 1 (0.71%) GitLab
4 1 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 79 (56.43%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.71%) Documentation Skills
3 14 (10.00%) Finance
3 14 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.71%) Legal
6 3 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.43%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.71%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.71%) Military
8 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 24 (17.14%) Analyst
2 15 (10.71%) Penetration Tester
3 13 (9.29%) Tester
4 12 (8.57%) Consultant
5 9 (6.43%) Security Analyst
6 8 (5.71%) Architect
6 8 (5.71%) SOC Analyst
7 6 (4.29%) Information Officer
7 6 (4.29%) Information Security Officer
7 6 (4.29%) Lead
7 6 (4.29%) Security Officer
8 5 (3.57%) Functional Consultant
8 5 (3.57%) Information Analyst
8 5 (3.57%) Information Security Analyst
8 5 (3.57%) Oracle Consultant
8 5 (3.57%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 5 (3.57%) Security Consultant
8 5 (3.57%) Technical Specialist
9 4 (2.86%) Senior
10 3 (2.14%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.86%) LDAP
2 11 (7.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (2.14%) OAuth
3 3 (2.14%) OpenID
4 2 (1.43%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.43%) SAML
5 1 (0.71%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.71%) Django
5 1 (0.71%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.71%) Flask
5 1 (0.71%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.71%) REST
5 1 (0.71%) RESTful
5 1 (0.71%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.71%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.43%) Security Posture
2 10 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 10 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.71%) Operational Technology
4 7 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (2.86%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.86%) PKI
5 4 (2.86%) Smartcard
6 3 (2.14%) BYOD
6 3 (2.14%) CMDB
6 3 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.14%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.14%) Replication
7 2 (1.43%) Clustering
7 2 (1.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.43%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.29%) Windows
2 12 (8.57%) Linux
3 5 (3.57%) Unix
3 5 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.43%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.43%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (52.14%) Cybersecurity
2 50 (35.71%) Information Security
3 43 (30.71%) SIEM
4 36 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (21.43%) DevOps
5 30 (21.43%) Risk Management
6 29 (20.71%) Cloud Security
7 27 (19.29%) CI/CD
7 27 (19.29%) Incident Response
8 26 (18.57%) Penetration Testing
9 25 (17.86%) DevSecOps
10 24 (17.14%) Security Management
11 23 (16.43%) Regulatory Compliance
12 21 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (12.14%) Security Operations
14 16 (11.43%) Privileged Access Management
15 15 (10.71%) Information Security Management
16 14 (10.00%) Migration
16 14 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 13 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 43 (30.71%) PowerShell
2 41 (29.29%) Python
3 5 (3.57%) Bash
4 3 (2.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (48.57%) Security Cleared
2 51 (36.43%) SC Cleared
3 48 (34.29%) CISSP
4 41 (29.29%) CISM
5 24 (17.14%) Degree
6 14 (10.00%) CHECK Team Member
7 13 (9.29%) DV Cleared
8 12 (8.57%) CREST Certified
8 12 (8.57%) Cyber Scheme
9 10 (7.14%) Postgraduate
10 8 (5.71%) GIAC
11 6 (4.29%) AWS Certification
12 5 (3.57%) GCFA
12 5 (3.57%) GCIA
12 5 (3.57%) GCIH
12 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (3.57%) PMI Certification
13 4 (2.86%) CFCE
13 4 (2.86%) CISA
13 4 (2.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (72.86%) NIST
2 67 (47.86%) GDPR
3 24 (17.14%) PCI DSS
4 15 (10.71%) QA
5 14 (10.00%) PMO
6 12 (8.57%) COBIT
6 12 (8.57%) GRC
7 10 (7.14%) NCSC
7 10 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (4.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (4.29%) JSP 440
9 4 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 3 (2.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (2.14%) Data Quality
10 3 (2.14%) HIPAA
10 3 (2.14%) NIST 800
11 2 (1.43%) SLA
12 1 (0.71%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.71%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 35 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.43%) Docker
2 2 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (10.00%) Nmap
2 5 (3.57%) Terraform
3 4 (2.86%) Nessus
4 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.14%) OpenVAS
5 2 (1.43%) Ansible
5 2 (1.43%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 2 (1.43%) CSIRT
5 2 (1.43%) RSA Archer
5 2 (1.43%) SCCM
6 1 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.71%) Argo
6 1 (0.71%) CASB
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.71%) Grafana
6 1 (0.71%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (21.43%) BeyondTrust
1 30 (21.43%) CyberArk
2 19 (13.57%) Microsoft
3 16 (11.43%) Oracle
4 7 (5.00%) Splunk
5 4 (2.86%) ArcSight
5 4 (2.86%) Qualys
5 4 (2.86%) Rapid7
5 4 (2.86%) Thales
6 3 (2.14%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (2.14%) LogRhythm
6 3 (2.14%) VMware
7 2 (1.43%) Citrix
7 2 (1.43%) Google
8 1 (0.71%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.71%) Cisco
8 1 (0.71%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.71%) HP
8 1 (0.71%) Intel
8 1 (0.71%) Juniper