ISO/IEC 27001 Contracts in the South West

ISO/IEC 27001
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 109 92
Rank change year-on-year +43 -17 +35
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 45 28 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.36% 1.01% 1.84%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.43% 7.16% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 18 34
10th Percentile £235 £544 £562
25th Percentile £350 £600 £602
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £738 £688 £773
England median daily rate £550 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £59.73
25th Percentile £57.50 - £61.86
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £71.49
75th Percentile £72.50 - £77.02
90th Percentile - - £82.51
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £67.07
% change year-on-year +90.91% -59.00% +6.46%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 362 391 429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 19.00% 14.11% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 225 289
10th Percentile £235 £263 £350
25th Percentile £363 £430 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +7.84%
75th Percentile £640 £600 £666
90th Percentile £709 £690 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 71 46
10th Percentile £15.48 £12.24 £24.00
25th Percentile £26.61 £28.00 £39.44
Median hourly rate £63.75 £67.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.20% +3.46% +19.27%
75th Percentile £69.06 £70.00 £83.40
90th Percentile £76.23 £74.00 -
England median hourly rate £31.64 £27.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year +15.05% -21.99% +53.26%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the South West

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the South West.

Daily rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the South West

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the South West over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the South West

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the South West

ISO/IEC 27001
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Wiltshire +29 20 £675 +8.00% 1
Bristol +10 12 £235 -65.19% 24
Gloucestershire +29 7 £500 -25.37% 21
Devon - 4 £525 - 1
Somerset -2 2 £625 +4.17% 5
ISO/IEC 27001
England

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (17.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.89%) Azure
2 10 (22.22%) AWS
3 9 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (17.78%) GCP
5 3 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.22%) IaaS
7 1 (2.22%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.67%) VPN
2 3 (6.67%) Firewall
3 2 (4.44%) Network Security
4 1 (2.22%) 5G
4 1 (2.22%) BGP
4 1 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.22%) MPLS
4 1 (2.22%) OSPF
4 1 (2.22%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.22%) VLAN
4 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) GitLab
1 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.44%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (42.22%) Social Skills
2 15 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 14 (31.11%) Finance
4 13 (28.89%) Telecoms
5 10 (22.22%) Electronics
5 10 (22.22%) Manufacturing
5 10 (22.22%) Marketing
6 9 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (4.44%) Aerospace
9 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Consultant
1 10 (22.22%) Security Consultant
2 7 (15.56%) Desktop Engineer
2 7 (15.56%) Desktop Support
2 7 (15.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 7 (15.56%) Support Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Architect
4 5 (11.11%) Coordinator
5 4 (8.89%) Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Security Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Security Assurance Coordinator
6 3 (6.67%) Security Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Security Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Contracts Manager
7 2 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Head of Information Security
7 2 (4.44%) Head of Security
7 2 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.44%) LDAP
3 1 (2.22%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.22%) OAuth
3 1 (2.22%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.22%) OpenID
3 1 (2.22%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 5 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.89%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (6.67%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.44%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.44%) PKI
5 2 (4.44%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.89%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (26.67%) Collaborative Working
2 12 (26.67%) Risk Management
3 10 (22.22%) Cloud Security
3 10 (22.22%) Digital Marketing
3 10 (22.22%) Programme Management
4 8 (17.78%) Information Security
4 8 (17.78%) Threat Modelling
5 7 (15.56%) Case Management
5 7 (15.56%) Customer Service
5 7 (15.56%) ITIL
5 7 (15.56%) ITSM
5 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (15.56%) Service Delivery
6 6 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 6 (13.33%) DevOps
7 5 (11.11%) DevSecOps
7 5 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) PowerShell
1 7 (15.56%) Python
2 5 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (2.22%) Bicep
3 1 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 22 (48.89%) CISSP
3 16 (35.56%) DV Cleared
3 16 (35.56%) SC Cleared
4 14 (31.11%) CESG Certified Professional
5 12 (26.67%) CISM
5 12 (26.67%) Degree
6 8 (17.78%) CISA
7 7 (15.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (11.11%) CLAS
8 5 (11.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
10 2 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (4.44%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (2.22%) CCIE
11 1 (2.22%) CCNP
11 1 (2.22%) CCSP
11 1 (2.22%) HNC
11 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (2.22%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (42.22%) NIST
2 14 (31.11%) RMADS
3 9 (20.00%) GDPR
3 9 (20.00%) JSP 440
4 7 (15.56%) NCSC
5 4 (8.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (8.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (4.44%) COBIT
6 2 (4.44%) GRC
7 1 (2.22%) HIPAA
7 1 (2.22%) ISO 9001
7 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (2.22%) NIST 800
7 1 (2.22%) QA
7 1 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.67%) Docker
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (8.89%) Grafana
3 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.67%) Terraform
4 2 (4.44%) Ansible
4 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.22%) OPNET
Vendors
1 15 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (22.22%) SAP
3 7 (15.56%) Citrix
3 7 (15.56%) ServiceNow
4 4 (8.89%) SolarWinds
4 4 (8.89%) Splunk
5 1 (2.22%) Cisco
5 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.22%) Google
5 1 (2.22%) Juniper
5 1 (2.22%) Okta
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle
5 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.22%) Salesforce