ISO/IEC 27001
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for ISO/IEC 27001 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 199 189 238
Rank change year-on-year -10 +49 -3
Permanent jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 1,499 2,020 2,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.51% 2.00% 1.70%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.01% 10.59% 10.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,322 1,199 1,725
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.82%
75th Percentile £77,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,916 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

ISO/IEC 27001 is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,619 19,077 26,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.73% 18.89% 16.94%
Number of salaries quoted 9,260 8,866 13,140
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,346
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001.

Salary trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +14 1,386 £60,000 - 340
UK excluding London -19 997 £55,000 - 218
Work from Home -50 563 £56,500 -5.83% 191
London +10 444 £72,500 +11.54% 113
North of England +36 308 £51,500 +5.64% 52
South East -40 212 £52,500 -8.70% 41
Midlands +5 201 £55,000 -8.33% 42
North West +6 189 £52,000 +11.83% 23
South West -3 147 £62,500 +4.17% 40
West Midlands +1 141 £57,500 -4.17% 25
Yorkshire +55 82 £55,000 -6.38% 20
East Midlands +10 58 £42,500 -10.53% 17
East of England -4 57 £67,500 +12.50% 23
Scotland -60 53 £55,000 -17.29% 11
North East +18 37 £40,000 -17.95% 9
Wales -22 13 £53,750 +37.82% 6
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
Northern Ireland +8 2 £34,628 -19.94% 4

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 37 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 33 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.73%) IIS
4 7 (0.47%) CMS
4 7 (0.47%) MS Project Server
5 6 (0.40%) nginx
6 4 (0.27%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.20%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.20%) NServiceBus
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 3 (0.20%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.13%) Drupal
8 2 (0.13%) Moodle
8 2 (0.13%) WordPress
9 1 (0.067%) Apache
Applications
1 65 (4.34%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (3.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.27%) SAP WM
2 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.20%) Maximo
3 2 (0.13%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.13%) Shopify
4 1 (0.067%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.067%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.067%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.067%) Magento
4 1 (0.067%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.067%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.067%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.067%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 416 (27.75%) Azure
2 251 (16.74%) Microsoft 365
3 202 (13.48%) AWS
4 84 (5.60%) Entra ID
5 77 (5.14%) Cloud Computing
6 66 (4.40%) SaaS
7 51 (3.40%) GCP
8 50 (3.34%) IaaS
9 46 (3.07%) PaaS
10 33 (2.20%) Azure Sentinel
11 28 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (1.87%) Power Platform
12 27 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
13 20 (1.33%) Azure AKS
14 18 (1.20%) Serverless
15 16 (1.07%) Amazon S3
16 15 (1.00%) AWS CloudTrail
17 14 (0.93%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 14 (0.93%) Google Workspace
18 13 (0.87%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 281 (18.75%) Firewall
2 100 (6.67%) Network Security
3 74 (4.94%) DNS
4 71 (4.74%) WAN
5 66 (4.40%) Intrusion Detection
6 63 (4.20%) LAN
7 45 (3.00%) VPN
8 43 (2.87%) TCP/IP
9 32 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
10 26 (1.73%) Wireshark
11 24 (1.60%) SD-WAN
11 24 (1.60%) Wireless
12 23 (1.53%) DHCP
13 22 (1.47%) Internet
14 15 (1.00%) NAS
15 14 (0.93%) VLAN
16 13 (0.87%) Broadband
16 13 (0.87%) OSPF
16 13 (0.87%) SSL
17 10 (0.67%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (2.33%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.40%) Power BI
3 15 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (1.00%) Relational Database
4 9 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (0.60%) MongoDB
5 8 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.33%) PowerPivot
8 4 (0.27%) Big Data
8 4 (0.27%) MySQL
8 4 (0.27%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.20%) DB2
9 3 (0.20%) Metadata
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.20%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.13%) Redis
11 1 (0.067%) Lumira
Development Applications
1 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
1 6 (0.40%) Jenkins
1 6 (0.40%) Mocha
1 6 (0.40%) Visual Studio
2 5 (0.33%) JIRA
3 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
3 4 (0.27%) Git
4 3 (0.20%) Metasploit
4 3 (0.20%) sqlmap
5 2 (0.13%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.13%) GitLab
5 2 (0.13%) Mercurial
5 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.067%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.067%) Selenium
6 1 (0.067%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.067%) Vagrant
General
1 486 (32.42%) Social Skills
2 245 (16.34%) Finance
3 207 (13.81%) Analytical Skills
4 162 (10.81%) Legal
5 111 (7.40%) Law
6 87 (5.80%) Public Sector
7 56 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
8 50 (3.34%) Retail
9 35 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
10 30 (2.00%) Manufacturing
11 28 (1.87%) Telecoms
12 27 (1.80%) Banking
13 25 (1.67%) Games
14 23 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
15 22 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 22 (1.47%) Marketing
16 17 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (0.93%) Environmental Health
18 13 (0.87%) Aerospace
19 12 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 281 (18.75%) Analyst
2 181 (12.07%) Security Analyst
3 174 (11.61%) Security Manager
4 123 (8.21%) Information Manager
5 116 (7.74%) Consultant
6 115 (7.67%) Lead
7 108 (7.20%) Senior
8 100 (6.67%) IT Manager
9 99 (6.60%) Information Security Manager
10 94 (6.27%) Architect
11 87 (5.80%) Information Analyst
11 87 (5.80%) Information Security Analyst
12 83 (5.54%) Security Consultant
13 81 (5.40%) Security Engineer
14 68 (4.54%) Security Architect
15 62 (4.14%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 53 (3.54%) Information Assurance Manager
17 51 (3.40%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 36 (2.40%) Security Assurance Manager
19 35 (2.33%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.67%) .NET
2 13 (0.87%) Web Services
3 12 (0.80%) Middleware
4 11 (0.73%) OAuth
5 10 (0.67%) AngularJS
5 10 (0.67%) Kafka
6 9 (0.60%) Node.js
7 8 (0.53%) .NET Framework
7 8 (0.53%) ModSecurity
7 8 (0.53%) React
7 8 (0.53%) REST
8 7 (0.47%) Jest
8 7 (0.47%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (0.40%) ASP.NET
9 6 (0.40%) Express.js
9 6 (0.40%) GraphQL
9 6 (0.40%) gRPC
9 6 (0.40%) MEAN Stack
9 6 (0.40%) Mongoose
9 6 (0.40%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 289 (19.28%) Management Information System
2 141 (9.41%) Security Posture
3 93 (6.20%) Cyber Threat
4 73 (4.87%) Data Centre
4 73 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
5 57 (3.80%) Cyberattack
6 48 (3.20%) Onboarding
7 44 (2.94%) Driving Licence
7 44 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
8 32 (2.13%) Operational Technology
9 25 (1.67%) Public Cloud
10 23 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
11 22 (1.47%) NHS
12 21 (1.40%) IoT
13 20 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
14 19 (1.27%) Cloud Native
15 18 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (1.00%) Cloud Security Posture
16 15 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 14 (0.93%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 186 (12.41%) Windows
2 71 (4.74%) Windows Server
3 66 (4.40%) Linux
4 38 (2.54%) Apple iOS
5 28 (1.87%) Windows 10
6 24 (1.60%) Android
7 23 (1.53%) Mac OS
8 17 (1.13%) Unix
9 13 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (0.80%) Solaris
11 10 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (0.53%) AIX
12 8 (0.53%) Kali Linux
12 8 (0.53%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.40%) CentOS
14 5 (0.33%) VMS
14 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.27%) zOS
16 1 (0.067%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 749 (49.97%) Cybersecurity
2 699 (46.63%) Information Security
3 285 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
4 268 (17.88%) Risk Management
5 254 (16.94%) Incident Response
6 209 (13.94%) ITIL
7 204 (13.61%) Security Management
8 193 (12.88%) SIEM
9 172 (11.47%) Data Protection
10 158 (10.54%) Project Management
11 157 (10.47%) Security Operations
12 150 (10.01%) Disaster Recovery
13 147 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
14 146 (9.74%) Cloud Security
15 135 (9.01%) Business Continuity
16 131 (8.74%) Vulnerability Management
17 119 (7.94%) Security Architecture
18 114 (7.61%) Information Assurance
19 112 (7.47%) Incident Management
20 111 (7.40%) Information Security Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (5.40%) PowerShell
2 71 (4.74%) Python
3 55 (3.67%) SQL
4 43 (2.87%) Bash
5 24 (1.60%) JavaScript
6 16 (1.07%) C#
7 15 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
8 13 (0.87%) Bicep
9 8 (0.53%) Java
9 8 (0.53%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.47%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.20%) Ruby
12 3 (0.20%) VBScript
13 2 (0.13%) PHP
13 2 (0.13%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.067%) ABAP
14 1 (0.067%) Go
Qualifications
1 362 (24.15%) CISSP
2 247 (16.48%) CISM
3 237 (15.81%) Security Cleared
4 236 (15.74%) Degree
5 180 (12.01%) CISA
6 148 (9.87%) SC Cleared
7 102 (6.80%) Cisco Certification
8 77 (5.14%) CRISC
9 69 (4.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 58 (3.87%) Azure Certification
11 56 (3.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 51 (3.40%) AWS Certification
13 49 (3.27%) CompTIA Security+
14 48 (3.20%) CCSP
14 48 (3.20%) CESG Certified Professional
15 47 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
16 45 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
17 44 (2.94%) CCNA
18 43 (2.87%) CEH
19 41 (2.74%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 428 (28.55%) NIST
2 376 (25.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 268 (17.88%) GDPR
4 182 (12.14%) PCI DSS
5 179 (11.94%) ISO 9001
6 167 (11.14%) GRC
7 117 (7.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 103 (6.87%) NCSC
9 73 (4.87%) SOC 2
10 54 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 46 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 43 (2.87%) COBIT
13 42 (2.80%) SLA
14 39 (2.60%) ISO 22301
15 37 (2.47%) NIST 800
16 35 (2.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 34 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 26 (1.73%) ISO 14001
19 21 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
20 19 (1.27%) RMADS
System Software
1 128 (8.54%) Active Directory
2 55 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (2.00%) Docker
4 19 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (1.13%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.73%) Firmware
8 7 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.40%) vSphere
10 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.13%) XenApp
11 2 (0.13%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.067%) LXC
12 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.067%) Snort
Systems Management
1 56 (3.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (3.47%) Kubernetes
3 43 (2.87%) EnCase
4 33 (2.20%) Terraform
5 30 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (1.20%) QRadar
7 14 (0.93%) Nmap
7 14 (0.93%) WSUS
8 13 (0.87%) Ansible
9 12 (0.80%) CSIRT
9 12 (0.80%) Nessus
10 10 (0.67%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.67%) SCCM
11 7 (0.47%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.40%) Grafana
12 6 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.33%) Packer
13 5 (0.33%) Suricata
14 4 (0.27%) CASB
14 4 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 416 (27.75%) Microsoft
2 86 (5.74%) Cisco
3 82 (5.47%) VMware
4 40 (2.67%) Splunk
5 38 (2.54%) Google
6 35 (2.33%) Fortinet
7 31 (2.07%) Apple
8 30 (2.00%) Meraki
9 29 (1.93%) Qualys
10 28 (1.87%) IBM
11 21 (1.40%) Oracle
12 19 (1.27%) SAP
13 17 (1.13%) Palo Alto
14 16 (1.07%) Citrix
15 14 (0.93%) Rapid7
15 14 (0.93%) Thycotic
16 13 (0.87%) Juniper
17 12 (0.80%) ServiceNow
18 9 (0.60%) Red Hat
19 8 (0.53%) Veeam