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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 199 186 240
Rank change year-on-year -13 +54 -8
Permanent jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 1,495 2,070 2,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.52% 1.99% 1.71%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.05% 10.51% 10.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,320 1,230 1,735
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,125 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,324 £93,041 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

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 13,528 19,692 26,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.72% 18.97% 16.76%
Number of salaries quoted 9,247 9,122 13,236
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% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,438 £73,750
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 3 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 3 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 +9 1,377 £60,000 - 356
UK excluding London -16 995 £55,000 - 249
Work from Home -44 561 £55,000 -8.33% 185
London +13 443 £72,500 +11.54% 124
North of England +31 308 £50,000 +2.56% 59
South East -45 211 £52,500 -8.70% 56
Midlands +17 194 £55,000 -4.35% 38
North West +9 190 £50,000 +7.53% 31
South West -6 150 £62,500 +5.04% 45
West Midlands -4 135 £55,000 -8.33% 22
Yorkshire +44 81 £55,000 -4.35% 20
East Midlands +21 58 £42,500 -10.53% 15
Scotland -61 58 £55,000 -17.29% 18
East of England -7 55 £67,500 +12.50% 24
North East +21 37 £40,000 -13.98% 8
Wales -21 13 £53,750 +37.82% 11
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
Northern Ireland +16 2 £34,628 -18.52% 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 34 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (0.67%) IIS
4 9 (0.60%) CMS
5 7 (0.47%) MS Project Server
6 6 (0.40%) nginx
7 4 (0.27%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.20%) Drupal
8 3 (0.20%) MQSeries
8 3 (0.20%) NServiceBus
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 3 (0.20%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.20%) WordPress
9 2 (0.13%) Moodle
10 1 (0.067%) Apache
Applications
1 63 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.27%) 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%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 413 (27.63%) Azure
2 246 (16.45%) Microsoft 365
3 198 (13.24%) AWS
4 79 (5.28%) Entra ID
5 73 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
6 66 (4.41%) SaaS
7 49 (3.28%) GCP
7 49 (3.28%) IaaS
8 45 (3.01%) PaaS
9 35 (2.34%) Azure Sentinel
10 27 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (1.81%) Power Platform
11 26 (1.74%) Microsoft Purview
12 19 (1.27%) Azure AKS
13 17 (1.14%) Google Workspace
14 15 (1.00%) Serverless
15 13 (0.87%) Amazon S3
16 12 (0.80%) AWS CloudTrail
16 12 (0.80%) OneDrive
17 11 (0.74%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 283 (18.93%) Firewall
2 100 (6.69%) Network Security
3 71 (4.75%) DNS
4 69 (4.62%) WAN
5 66 (4.41%) Intrusion Detection
6 64 (4.28%) LAN
7 46 (3.08%) VPN
8 43 (2.88%) TCP/IP
9 30 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
10 28 (1.87%) Wireless
11 26 (1.74%) Wireshark
12 24 (1.61%) SD-WAN
13 22 (1.47%) Internet
14 21 (1.40%) DHCP
15 15 (1.00%) NAS
16 14 (0.94%) VLAN
17 13 (0.87%) Broadband
17 13 (0.87%) OSPF
17 13 (0.87%) SSL
18 10 (0.67%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (2.41%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.40%) Power BI
3 15 (1.00%) Relational Database
4 14 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.60%) MongoDB
6 7 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.27%) Big Data
8 4 (0.27%) MySQL
8 4 (0.27%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.27%) PowerPivot
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%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.20%) Redis
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.067%) Lumira
Development Applications
1 8 (0.54%) Jenkins
2 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
2 6 (0.40%) JIRA
2 6 (0.40%) Mocha
2 6 (0.40%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
3 4 (0.27%) Git
3 4 (0.27%) GitLab
4 3 (0.20%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.13%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.13%) Mercurial
5 2 (0.13%) sqlmap
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
1 482 (32.24%) Social Skills
2 244 (16.32%) Finance
3 205 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (10.57%) Legal
5 116 (7.76%) Law
6 90 (6.02%) Public Sector
7 55 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
8 49 (3.28%) Retail
9 34 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (2.07%) Manufacturing
11 27 (1.81%) Banking
11 27 (1.81%) Telecoms
12 25 (1.67%) Games
13 23 (1.54%) Marketing
14 22 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 22 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (0.94%) Environmental Health
17 13 (0.87%) Aerospace
18 12 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 276 (18.46%) Analyst
2 179 (11.97%) Security Analyst
3 171 (11.44%) Security Manager
4 122 (8.16%) Information Manager
5 115 (7.69%) Consultant
6 114 (7.63%) Lead
7 110 (7.36%) Senior
8 98 (6.56%) Information Security Manager
8 98 (6.56%) IT Manager
9 97 (6.49%) Architect
10 88 (5.89%) Information Analyst
10 88 (5.89%) Information Security Analyst
11 83 (5.55%) Security Consultant
12 81 (5.42%) Security Engineer
13 71 (4.75%) Security Architect
14 62 (4.15%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 53 (3.55%) Information Assurance Manager
16 50 (3.34%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 36 (2.41%) IT Engineer
17 36 (2.41%) Security Assurance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.67%) .NET
2 12 (0.80%) Middleware
2 12 (0.80%) Web Services
3 11 (0.74%) OAuth
4 10 (0.67%) AngularJS
4 10 (0.67%) Kafka
4 10 (0.67%) Node.js
5 9 (0.60%) .NET Framework
5 9 (0.60%) React
5 9 (0.60%) REST
6 8 (0.54%) ModSecurity
7 7 (0.47%) Jest
7 7 (0.47%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (0.40%) Express.js
8 6 (0.40%) GraphQL
8 6 (0.40%) JWT
8 6 (0.40%) MEAN Stack
8 6 (0.40%) Mongoose
8 6 (0.40%) NestJS
8 6 (0.40%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 287 (19.20%) Management Information System
2 144 (9.63%) Security Posture
3 92 (6.15%) Cyber Threat
4 75 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
5 72 (4.82%) Data Centre
6 57 (3.81%) Cyberattack
7 48 (3.21%) Onboarding
8 45 (3.01%) Driving Licence
8 45 (3.01%) Security Operations Centre
9 30 (2.01%) Operational Technology
10 24 (1.61%) Public Cloud
11 22 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
11 22 (1.47%) NHS
12 21 (1.40%) Cloud Native
12 21 (1.40%) IoT
13 18 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (1.00%) Cloud Security Posture
15 14 (0.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 14 (0.94%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 190 (12.71%) Windows
2 70 (4.68%) Windows Server
3 69 (4.62%) Linux
4 38 (2.54%) Apple iOS
5 27 (1.81%) Windows 10
6 26 (1.74%) Mac OS
7 24 (1.61%) Android
8 17 (1.14%) Unix
9 12 (0.80%) Solaris
10 11 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (0.54%) AIX
12 8 (0.54%) Kali Linux
13 7 (0.47%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.33%) CentOS
15 4 (0.27%) VMS
15 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.27%) zOS
16 1 (0.067%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (50.50%) Cybersecurity
2 703 (47.02%) Information Security
3 282 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
4 263 (17.59%) Risk Management
5 248 (16.59%) Incident Response
6 204 (13.65%) Security Management
7 203 (13.58%) ITIL
8 189 (12.64%) SIEM
9 170 (11.37%) Data Protection
10 153 (10.23%) Security Operations
11 151 (10.10%) Project Management
12 150 (10.03%) Disaster Recovery
13 144 (9.63%) Cloud Security
13 144 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
14 132 (8.83%) Business Continuity
15 126 (8.43%) Vulnerability Management
16 120 (8.03%) Security Architecture
17 112 (7.49%) Information Assurance
18 111 (7.42%) Information Security Management
19 107 (7.16%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 80 (5.35%) PowerShell
2 70 (4.68%) Python
3 53 (3.55%) SQL
4 45 (3.01%) Bash
5 25 (1.67%) JavaScript
6 18 (1.20%) C#
7 16 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
8 13 (0.87%) Bicep
9 8 (0.54%) Java
9 8 (0.54%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.47%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.20%) PHP
12 3 (0.20%) Ruby
13 2 (0.13%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.13%) VBScript
14 1 (0.067%) ABAP
14 1 (0.067%) C
14 1 (0.067%) C++
14 1 (0.067%) Go
Qualifications
1 364 (24.35%) CISSP
2 245 (16.39%) CISM
3 239 (15.99%) Security Cleared
4 234 (15.65%) Degree
5 179 (11.97%) CISA
6 149 (9.97%) SC Cleared
7 104 (6.96%) Cisco Certification
8 75 (5.02%) CRISC
9 70 (4.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 59 (3.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 54 (3.61%) Azure Certification
12 50 (3.34%) CCSP
12 50 (3.34%) CompTIA Security+
13 49 (3.28%) CESG Certified Professional
13 49 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
14 46 (3.08%) AWS Certification
15 43 (2.88%) CCNA
15 43 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
16 41 (2.74%) CEH
16 41 (2.74%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 426 (28.49%) NIST
2 374 (25.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 265 (17.73%) GDPR
4 181 (12.11%) PCI DSS
5 178 (11.91%) ISO 9001
6 166 (11.10%) GRC
7 118 (7.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 103 (6.89%) NCSC
9 75 (5.02%) SOC 2
10 54 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 46 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 44 (2.94%) COBIT
13 40 (2.68%) SLA
14 39 (2.61%) ISO 22301
15 38 (2.54%) NIST 800
16 35 (2.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 31 (2.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 26 (1.74%) ISO 14001
19 20 (1.34%) RMADS
20 19 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 127 (8.49%) Active Directory
2 55 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (2.14%) Docker
4 19 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 15 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.67%) Firmware
8 6 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.33%) vSphere
10 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.13%) 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%) Snort
Systems Management
1 56 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 55 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 44 (2.94%) EnCase
4 33 (2.21%) Terraform
5 29 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (1.07%) QRadar
7 15 (1.00%) Nmap
8 14 (0.94%) Ansible
8 14 (0.94%) CSIRT
8 14 (0.94%) WSUS
9 12 (0.80%) Nessus
10 10 (0.67%) Prometheus
11 9 (0.60%) SCCM
12 7 (0.47%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.47%) Grafana
12 7 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.40%) CASB
14 5 (0.33%) Packer
15 4 (0.27%) Istio
15 4 (0.27%) Suricata
Vendors
1 416 (27.83%) Microsoft
2 84 (5.62%) Cisco
3 82 (5.48%) VMware
4 40 (2.68%) Google
5 37 (2.47%) Splunk
6 34 (2.27%) Fortinet
7 31 (2.07%) Apple
8 29 (1.94%) Meraki
8 29 (1.94%) Qualys
9 26 (1.74%) IBM
10 19 (1.27%) Oracle
10 19 (1.27%) SAP
11 17 (1.14%) Citrix
11 17 (1.14%) Palo Alto
12 14 (0.94%) Rapid7
12 14 (0.94%) Thycotic
13 12 (0.80%) ServiceNow
14 11 (0.74%) Juniper
15 9 (0.60%) Red Hat
16 8 (0.54%) Veeam