ISO/IEC 27001 Contracts with Work from Home Options

ISO/IEC 27001
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 183 193 272
Rank change year-on-year +10 +79 +29
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 169 299 426
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.15% 1.25% 0.97%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.30% 10.03% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 227 329
10th Percentile £363 £452 £400
25th Percentile £494 £513 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £610 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +10.91% +7.84%
75th Percentile £666 £725 £675
90th Percentile £738 £825 £763
UK median daily rate £575 £583 £550
% change year-on-year -1.29% +5.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £56.37
25th Percentile - - £63.65
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £77.48
Median % change year-on-year - -9.65% +25.12%
75th Percentile - - £89.60
90th Percentile - - £95.84
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £70.00 £65.79
% change year-on-year -60.71% +6.40% +9.01%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,036 2,982 5,763
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 13.80% 12.49% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 2,167 4,130
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £521 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +1.56% +7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £613
90th Percentile £750 £743 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 71 128
10th Percentile £12.23 £17.50 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.00 £20.94 £19.44
Median hourly rate £24.50 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -21.35% +134.21%
75th Percentile £48.75 £58.38 £56.60
90th Percentile £66.75 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £37.75 £27.73
% change year-on-year -36.95% +36.13% +32.05%

ISO/IEC 27001
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing ISO/IEC 27001 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ISO/IEC 27001 trend for jobs with a WFH option

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing ISO/IEC 27001.

ISO/IEC 27001 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

ISO/IEC 27001 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing ISO/IEC 27001.

ISO/IEC 27001 hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (3.55%) nginx
2 5 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.37%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.18%) IIS
4 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.59%) Confluence
5 1 (0.59%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.59%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 35 (20.71%) Azure
2 33 (19.53%) AWS
3 12 (7.10%) Azure Sentinel
4 11 (6.51%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.14%) GCP
6 6 (3.55%) AWS CloudTrail
7 5 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.96%) GitHub
8 4 (2.37%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (2.37%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.78%) SaaS
10 2 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.18%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.18%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.18%) IaaS
10 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 39 (23.08%) Network Security
2 18 (10.65%) Firewall
3 8 (4.73%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.14%) DNS
5 6 (3.55%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (2.96%) HTTPS
6 5 (2.96%) IPsec
6 5 (2.96%) VPN
7 4 (2.37%) SCCP
7 4 (2.37%) WAN
8 3 (1.78%) LAN
9 2 (1.18%) HTTP
9 2 (1.18%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.59%) 4G
10 1 (0.59%) 5G
10 1 (0.59%) Internet
10 1 (0.59%) Intranet
10 1 (0.59%) SMTP
10 1 (0.59%) VLAN
10 1 (0.59%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.37%) Couchbase
1 4 (2.37%) MySQL
1 4 (2.37%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.59%) Big Data
3 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.78%) JIRA
3 2 (1.18%) Git
3 2 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.59%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.59%) RStudio
General
1 39 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.34%) Public Sector
3 28 (16.57%) Finance
4 17 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.10%) Legal
6 6 (3.55%) Local Government
7 5 (2.96%) Banking
7 5 (2.96%) Law
7 5 (2.96%) Retail
8 4 (2.37%) Automotive
9 3 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.78%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.18%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.59%) Billing
11 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (22.49%) Architect
2 31 (18.34%) Security Architect
3 25 (14.79%) Consultant
4 23 (13.61%) Analyst
5 22 (13.02%) Senior
6 15 (8.88%) Security Analyst
6 15 (8.88%) Security Engineer
6 15 (8.88%) Security Manager
7 14 (8.28%) Security Consultant
8 9 (5.33%) Senior Analyst
9 8 (4.73%) Information Security Consultant
9 8 (4.73%) Lead
9 8 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.14%) IT Manager
11 6 (3.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 6 (3.55%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 6 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.55%) Information Analyst
11 6 (3.55%) Information Security Analyst
11 6 (3.55%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (2.96%) JSON
2 5 (2.96%) YAML
3 4 (2.37%) LEMP Stack
4 2 (1.18%) OAuth
4 2 (1.18%) SAML
4 2 (1.18%) Web Services
5 1 (0.59%) .NET
5 1 (0.59%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.59%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (0.59%) JWT
5 1 (0.59%) LDAP
5 1 (0.59%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.59%) OpenID
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.59%) REST
5 1 (0.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (18.93%) Management Information System
2 13 (7.69%) Security Posture
3 10 (5.92%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.73%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 5 (2.96%) PKI
5 5 (2.96%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.78%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.78%) IoT
7 3 (1.78%) Wiki
8 2 (1.18%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.18%) Insider Threat
8 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.18%) NHS
8 2 (1.18%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.59%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (0.59%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.47%) Linux
2 7 (4.14%) Windows
3 5 (2.96%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.37%) CentOS
5 3 (1.78%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (51.48%) Cybersecurity
1 87 (51.48%) Information Security
2 33 (19.53%) Risk Management
3 30 (17.75%) Security Architecture
4 24 (14.20%) Risk Assessment
5 22 (13.02%) ISMS
5 22 (13.02%) SIEM
6 21 (12.43%) Incident Response
6 21 (12.43%) Penetration Testing
6 21 (12.43%) Security Management
7 20 (11.83%) Cloud Security
8 19 (11.24%) Information Security Management
8 19 (11.24%) Vulnerability Management
9 18 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (9.47%) DevOps
11 14 (8.28%) TOGAF
12 13 (7.69%) Business Strategy
12 13 (7.69%) Cryptography
12 13 (7.69%) Security Monitoring
13 12 (7.10%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.33%) PowerShell
2 7 (4.14%) Python
3 6 (3.55%) SQL
4 4 (2.37%) PHP
5 3 (1.78%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.18%) Bash
6 2 (1.18%) Bicep
7 1 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (26.63%) CISSP
2 35 (20.71%) CISM
3 32 (18.93%) Security Cleared
4 29 (17.16%) SC Cleared
5 26 (15.38%) CISA
6 11 (6.51%) DV Cleared
6 11 (6.51%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 10 (5.92%) CREST Certified
8 9 (5.33%) CRISC
9 8 (4.73%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 8 (4.73%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (3.55%) Degree
11 5 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (2.96%) CLAS
12 4 (2.37%) CEH
12 4 (2.37%) CGEIT
12 4 (2.37%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (1.78%) GCIH
13 3 (1.78%) GIAC
13 3 (1.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (53.25%) NIST
2 35 (20.71%) GDPR
3 21 (12.43%) PCI DSS
4 18 (10.65%) NCSC
5 14 (8.28%) COBIT
6 13 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (7.10%) GRC
8 11 (6.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 8 (4.73%) ISO 22301
10 7 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 6 (3.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (2.96%) HIPAA
12 5 (2.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (2.37%) Disclosure Scotland
13 4 (2.37%) ISO 9001
13 4 (2.37%) NIST 800
13 4 (2.37%) QA
13 4 (2.37%) SOC 2
14 3 (1.78%) GPG13
15 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (4.73%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.55%) Docker
3 2 (1.18%) Snort
3 2 (1.18%) Squid
3 2 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.59%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (10.65%) Terraform
2 10 (5.92%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.14%) Ansible
4 4 (2.37%) logstash
4 4 (2.37%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (1.78%) Nessus
6 2 (1.18%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.18%) Kibana
6 2 (1.18%) Packer
7 1 (0.59%) CASB
7 1 (0.59%) Grafana
7 1 (0.59%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.14%) Google
2 7 (4.14%) Splunk
3 5 (2.96%) Cisco
3 5 (2.96%) Sparx
4 3 (1.78%) Palo Alto
4 3 (1.78%) VMware
5 2 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.18%) Cybereason
5 2 (1.18%) Darktrace
5 2 (1.18%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.18%) IBM
5 2 (1.18%) Oracle
5 2 (1.18%) Qualys
5 2 (1.18%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.59%) Lotus
6 1 (0.59%) McAfee
6 1 (0.59%) Remedy
6 1 (0.59%) SAP
6 1 (0.59%) Trend Micro