ISO/IEC 27001 Contracts in the North West

ISO/IEC 27001
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 125 144
Rank change year-on-year +32 +19 -26
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 42 25 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.50% 0.83% 0.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.46% 5.56% 6.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 18 38
10th Percentile - £395 £371
25th Percentile £425 £406 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -20.45% +15.79%
75th Percentile £666 £455 £638
90th Percentile £691 £653 £675
England median daily rate £575 £583 £550
% change year-on-year -1.29% +5.91% +3.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North 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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 444 450 576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.90% 14.94% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 288 426
10th Percentile £325 £302 £208
25th Percentile £425 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.70% +3.93%
75th Percentile £598 £575 £588
90th Percentile £694 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 35 35
10th Percentile - £19.00 £10.50
25th Percentile £10.95 £29.65 £12.02
Median hourly rate £12.00 £37.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.00% -25.74% +220.63%
75th Percentile £30.44 £47.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £74.80 £77.50
England median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

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

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

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

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

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

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

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

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

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

ISO/IEC 27001
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +24 26 £450 - 19
Cumbria -5 10 £669 -
Cheshire -1 4 £593 - 1
Merseyside +10 1 £650 +57.58% 1
Lancashire +4 1 £975 +153.25%
ISO/IEC 27001
England

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (28.57%) Azure
2 10 (23.81%) Azure Sentinel
3 7 (16.67%) AWS
4 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (7.14%) Serverless
5 3 (7.14%) Snowflake
6 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.38%) Cloudflare
7 1 (2.38%) GCP
7 1 (2.38%) IaaS
7 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.38%) PaaS
7 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (28.57%) Network Security
2 3 (7.14%) Intranet
3 1 (2.38%) Firewall
3 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) Data Lake
1 3 (7.14%) DynamoDB
1 3 (7.14%) MySQL
1 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.38%) Big Data
2 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Git
1 3 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Finance
4 3 (7.14%) Retail
5 2 (4.76%) Automotive
5 2 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Architect
1 12 (28.57%) Security Architect
2 10 (23.81%) Analyst
3 8 (19.05%) Consultant
4 4 (9.52%) Security Consultant
4 4 (9.52%) Security Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Senior
5 3 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Security Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Site Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Lead
6 2 (4.76%) Risk Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 1 (2.38%) IAM Consultant
7 1 (2.38%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.38%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 6 (14.29%) Security Posture
3 3 (7.14%) Cyberattack
3 3 (7.14%) Insider Threat
4 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.76%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (2.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) Information Security
2 19 (45.24%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (40.48%) Risk Management
4 15 (35.71%) Penetration Testing
5 13 (30.95%) Business Strategy
5 13 (30.95%) IT Strategy
5 13 (30.95%) Technology Strategy
6 12 (28.57%) Security Architecture
7 11 (26.19%) Cryptography
7 11 (26.19%) Project Delivery
8 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (23.81%) Service Delivery
9 7 (16.67%) Incident Response
10 6 (14.29%) SIEM
11 5 (11.90%) Data Protection
11 5 (11.90%) OWASP
12 4 (9.52%) Analytics
12 4 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
12 4 (9.52%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 4 (9.52%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (9.52%) Bash
2 4 (9.52%) Python
3 3 (7.14%) Go
3 3 (7.14%) SQL
4 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (23.81%) CISSP
2 8 (19.05%) CompTIA Security+
3 7 (16.67%) CISM
3 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 4 (9.52%) Degree
5 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (2.38%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (50.00%) NIST
2 8 (19.05%) PCI DSS
3 5 (11.90%) GRC
4 4 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (7.14%) GDPR
5 3 (7.14%) IASME
5 3 (7.14%) ISO 22301
6 2 (4.76%) QA
7 1 (2.38%) HIPAA
7 1 (2.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Ansible
1 3 (7.14%) HP Fortify
1 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 3 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (2.38%) Nessus
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) Splunk
3 3 (7.14%) Rapid7
3 3 (7.14%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.76%) Darktrace
5 1 (2.38%) Cisco
5 1 (2.38%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.38%) Databricks
5 1 (2.38%) F5
5 1 (2.38%) ForeScout
5 1 (2.38%) Proofpoint
5 1 (2.38%) Qualys
5 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.38%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.38%) Sophos
5 1 (2.38%) Symantec
5 1 (2.38%) Teradata
5 1 (2.38%) VMware
5 1 (2.38%) Zscaler