ISO/IEC 27001 Jobs

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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 185 261
Rank change year-on-year -19 +76 -28
Permanent jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 1,493 1,896 2,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.40% 2.02% 1.62%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.78% 11.09% 9.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,289 1,143 1,738
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 - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £87,500
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 13,851 17,091 29,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.95% 18.21% 17.21%
Number of salaries quoted 9,243 8,393 13,532
10th Percentile £26,500 £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% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% +2.11%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -9 1,376 £60,000 - 323
UK excluding London -22 1,003 £55,000 - 204
Work from Home -56 569 £56,500 -5.83% 162
London -21 433 £72,500 +11.54% 115
North of England +15 308 £52,000 +7.22% 46
South East -33 207 £52,500 -10.26% 53
Midlands -1 201 £57,500 +4.55% 46
North West -1 189 £52,000 +9.47% 17
South West -2 153 £63,750 +2.00% 26
West Midlands -19 138 £60,000 +6.19% 33
Yorkshire +34 83 £55,000 +1.85% 21
East Midlands 0 61 £42,500 -10.53% 13
East of England -35 60 £67,500 +14.89% 19
Scotland -80 54 £55,000 -8.33% 12
North East +12 36 £40,000 -9.60% 8
Wales -17 13 £53,750 +37.82% 2
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
Northern Ireland +7 3 £34,628 -21.30% 1

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 39 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 33 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.54%) IIS
4 7 (0.47%) CMS
4 7 (0.47%) MS Project Server
5 6 (0.40%) nginx
6 4 (0.27%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.20%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.20%) NServiceBus
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.13%) Drupal
8 2 (0.13%) Moodle
8 2 (0.13%) WordPress
9 1 (0.067%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 49 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.27%) SAP WM
2 3 (0.20%) Maximo
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
1 408 (27.33%) Azure
2 250 (16.74%) Microsoft 365
3 214 (14.33%) AWS
4 81 (5.43%) Entra ID
5 75 (5.02%) Cloud Computing
6 62 (4.15%) SaaS
7 49 (3.28%) GCP
8 41 (2.75%) IaaS
9 38 (2.55%) PaaS
10 31 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
11 29 (1.94%) Power Platform
12 25 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (1.61%) Serverless
14 21 (1.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 21 (1.41%) Amazon S3
14 21 (1.41%) AWS CloudTrail
14 21 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
15 18 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (1.21%) Azure AKS
16 17 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 284 (19.02%) Firewall
2 90 (6.03%) Network Security
3 76 (5.09%) DNS
4 67 (4.49%) WAN
5 65 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
6 57 (3.82%) LAN
7 48 (3.22%) VPN
8 37 (2.48%) TCP/IP
9 34 (2.28%) Wi-Fi
10 23 (1.54%) DHCP
10 23 (1.54%) SD-WAN
11 22 (1.47%) Internet
11 22 (1.47%) Wireless
11 22 (1.47%) Wireshark
12 17 (1.14%) NAS
13 15 (1.00%) VLAN
14 13 (0.87%) Broadband
14 13 (0.87%) SSL
15 12 (0.80%) IPsec
15 12 (0.80%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (2.55%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.41%) Power BI
3 15 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (1.00%) Relational Database
4 14 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (0.67%) MongoDB
6 9 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (0.54%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.33%) PowerPivot
8 5 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.27%) Big Data
9 4 (0.27%) MySQL
9 4 (0.27%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.20%) DB2
10 3 (0.20%) Metadata
10 3 (0.20%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.13%) Redis
11 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.067%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
1 6 (0.40%) Jenkins
1 6 (0.40%) Mocha
2 5 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.27%) Git
4 3 (0.20%) Burp Suite
4 3 (0.20%) JIRA
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
6 1 (0.067%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.067%) Selenium
6 1 (0.067%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.067%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.067%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 469 (31.41%) Social Skills
2 249 (16.68%) Finance
3 213 (14.27%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (10.92%) Legal
5 110 (7.37%) Law
6 67 (4.49%) Public Sector
7 60 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
8 52 (3.48%) Retail
9 34 (2.28%) Banking
9 34 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 29 (1.94%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.74%) Games
13 25 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 24 (1.61%) Marketing
15 23 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
16 16 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (0.94%) Environmental Health
18 12 (0.80%) Aerospace
18 12 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 290 (19.42%) Analyst
2 189 (12.66%) Security Analyst
3 171 (11.45%) Security Manager
4 122 (8.17%) Information Manager
5 119 (7.97%) Lead
6 107 (7.17%) Consultant
6 107 (7.17%) Senior
7 99 (6.63%) Information Security Manager
8 94 (6.30%) IT Manager
9 93 (6.23%) Information Analyst
9 93 (6.23%) Information Security Analyst
10 90 (6.03%) Architect
11 84 (5.63%) Security Engineer
12 75 (5.02%) Security Consultant
13 63 (4.22%) Security Architect
14 61 (4.09%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 52 (3.48%) Information Assurance Manager
16 50 (3.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 41 (2.75%) Security Officer
18 38 (2.55%) Security Assurance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.61%) .NET
2 12 (0.80%) OAuth
3 10 (0.67%) AngularJS
3 10 (0.67%) Kafka
4 9 (0.60%) ModSecurity
4 9 (0.60%) Node.js
5 8 (0.54%) .NET Framework
5 8 (0.54%) React
6 7 (0.47%) Jest
6 7 (0.47%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (0.40%) GraphQL
7 6 (0.40%) JWT
7 6 (0.40%) MEAN Stack
7 6 (0.40%) MERN Stack
7 6 (0.40%) Middleware
7 6 (0.40%) Mongoose
7 6 (0.40%) NestJS
7 6 (0.40%) OpenAPI
7 6 (0.40%) OpenID
7 6 (0.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 277 (18.55%) Management Information System
2 144 (9.65%) Security Posture
3 93 (6.23%) Cyber Threat
4 75 (5.02%) Data Centre
5 72 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
6 56 (3.75%) Cyberattack
7 48 (3.22%) Onboarding
8 43 (2.88%) Security Operations Centre
9 30 (2.01%) Driving Licence
10 25 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
10 25 (1.67%) Operational Technology
11 23 (1.54%) Public Cloud
12 22 (1.47%) NHS
13 20 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.21%) IoT
15 17 (1.14%) Cloud Native
15 17 (1.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 16 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
17 15 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
18 14 (0.94%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 188 (12.59%) Windows
2 74 (4.96%) Linux
3 71 (4.76%) Windows Server
4 40 (2.68%) Apple iOS
5 28 (1.88%) Windows 10
6 26 (1.74%) Android
7 23 (1.54%) Mac OS
8 17 (1.14%) Unix
9 12 (0.80%) Solaris
9 12 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.60%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (0.54%) AIX
11 8 (0.54%) CentOS
11 8 (0.54%) Kali Linux
12 5 (0.33%) VMS
13 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.27%) zOS
14 1 (0.067%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 710 (47.56%) Cybersecurity
2 696 (46.62%) Information Security
3 273 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
4 270 (18.08%) Risk Management
5 246 (16.48%) Incident Response
6 211 (14.13%) ITIL
7 193 (12.93%) Security Management
8 189 (12.66%) SIEM
9 178 (11.92%) Data Protection
10 158 (10.58%) Project Management
11 157 (10.52%) Security Operations
12 151 (10.11%) Disaster Recovery
13 148 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
14 146 (9.78%) Business Continuity
15 142 (9.51%) Cloud Security
16 123 (8.24%) Vulnerability Management
17 116 (7.77%) ISMS
18 114 (7.64%) Incident Management
19 107 (7.17%) Computer Science
19 107 (7.17%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 75 (5.02%) Python
2 72 (4.82%) PowerShell
3 58 (3.88%) SQL
4 43 (2.88%) Bash
5 22 (1.47%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.00%) C#
7 13 (0.87%) Bicep
7 13 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (0.54%) Java
8 8 (0.54%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.47%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.20%) Ruby
12 2 (0.13%) Go
12 2 (0.13%) PHP
12 2 (0.13%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.13%) VBScript
13 1 (0.067%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 366 (24.51%) CISSP
2 258 (17.28%) CISM
3 238 (15.94%) Degree
4 211 (14.13%) Security Cleared
5 189 (12.66%) CISA
6 138 (9.24%) SC Cleared
7 99 (6.63%) Cisco Certification
8 75 (5.02%) CRISC
9 68 (4.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 56 (3.75%) Azure Certification
11 55 (3.68%) AWS Certification
12 51 (3.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 49 (3.28%) CompTIA Security+
14 45 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
14 45 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
15 44 (2.95%) CCNA
15 44 (2.95%) CESG Certified Professional
16 43 (2.88%) CCSP
17 40 (2.68%) SSCP
18 39 (2.61%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 416 (27.86%) NIST
2 371 (24.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 275 (18.42%) GDPR
4 170 (11.39%) PCI DSS
5 164 (10.98%) GRC
6 163 (10.92%) ISO 9001
7 122 (8.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 109 (7.30%) NCSC
9 73 (4.89%) SOC 2
10 56 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 50 (3.35%) SLA
12 38 (2.55%) NIST 800
13 37 (2.48%) ISO 22301
14 36 (2.41%) COBIT
14 36 (2.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 31 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 30 (2.01%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 27 (1.81%) ISO 14001
18 19 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 19 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 124 (8.31%) Active Directory
2 63 (4.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (2.08%) Docker
4 17 (1.14%) Hyper-V
5 16 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.74%) Firmware
8 7 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.33%) vSphere
10 4 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.13%) XenApp
12 2 (0.13%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.067%) LXC
13 1 (0.067%) Snort
Systems Management
1 57 (3.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 49 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 32 (2.14%) Terraform
4 30 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
5 28 (1.88%) EnCase
6 18 (1.21%) QRadar
7 14 (0.94%) WSUS
8 13 (0.87%) Ansible
9 12 (0.80%) SCCM
10 11 (0.74%) CSIRT
10 11 (0.74%) Nessus
10 11 (0.74%) Nmap
11 10 (0.67%) Prometheus
12 7 (0.47%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.40%) Grafana
13 6 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.33%) CASB
14 5 (0.33%) Packer
14 5 (0.33%) Suricata
15 4 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 397 (26.59%) Microsoft
2 96 (6.43%) Cisco
3 85 (5.69%) VMware
4 40 (2.68%) Fortinet
5 39 (2.61%) Splunk
6 37 (2.48%) Google
7 31 (2.08%) Apple
7 31 (2.08%) Meraki
8 26 (1.74%) IBM
8 26 (1.74%) Oracle
8 26 (1.74%) Qualys
9 22 (1.47%) Palo Alto
10 19 (1.27%) SAP
11 16 (1.07%) Citrix
12 15 (1.00%) Juniper
12 15 (1.00%) Red Hat
13 11 (0.74%) Rapid7
13 11 (0.74%) Thycotic
14 9 (0.60%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.60%) Veeam