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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 205 182 261
Rank change year-on-year -23 +79 -24
Permanent jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 1,485 1,914 2,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.41% 2.02% 1.63%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.80% 11.02% 9.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,291 1,150 1,733
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 - - +5.25%
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 13,751 17,364 29,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.07% 18.32% 17.24%
Number of salaries quoted 9,220 8,453 13,464
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 £90,100 £93,650 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% +1.05%

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 2 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 2 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 +1 1,369 £60,000 - 363
UK excluding London -22 992 £55,000 - 232
Work from Home -57 567 £56,500 -5.83% 171
London -8 436 £72,500 +11.54% 126
North of England +24 308 £52,000 +7.22% 57
South East -50 205 £52,500 -10.26% 62
Midlands -3 195 £57,500 +2.68% 45
North West -3 189 £51,500 +9.57% 24
South West -1 149 £63,750 +2.00% 28
West Midlands -13 134 £60,000 +2.56% 32
Yorkshire +27 84 £55,000 +0.92% 25
East of England -23 61 £67,500 +14.89% 23
East Midlands +8 59 £42,500 -10.53% 13
Scotland -72 54 £55,000 -8.33% 12
North East +17 35 £40,000 -9.60% 8
Wales -24 13 £53,750 +37.82% 4
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 38 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 34 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.61%) 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
9 1 (0.067%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 51 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.34%) 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
1 411 (27.68%) Azure
2 253 (17.04%) Microsoft 365
3 209 (14.07%) AWS
4 81 (5.45%) Entra ID
5 77 (5.19%) Cloud Computing
6 59 (3.97%) SaaS
7 49 (3.30%) GCP
8 41 (2.76%) IaaS
9 38 (2.56%) PaaS
10 33 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
11 29 (1.95%) Power Platform
12 28 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
13 24 (1.62%) Serverless
14 22 (1.48%) Amazon S3
15 21 (1.41%) AWS CloudTrail
16 20 (1.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 19 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 19 (1.28%) Azure AKS
18 17 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 289 (19.46%) Firewall
2 92 (6.20%) Network Security
3 76 (5.12%) DNS
4 69 (4.65%) WAN
5 66 (4.44%) Intrusion Detection
6 59 (3.97%) LAN
7 47 (3.16%) VPN
8 41 (2.76%) TCP/IP
9 34 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
10 26 (1.75%) Wireshark
11 23 (1.55%) DHCP
11 23 (1.55%) SD-WAN
12 22 (1.48%) Internet
13 21 (1.41%) Wireless
14 16 (1.08%) NAS
15 14 (0.94%) VLAN
16 13 (0.88%) Broadband
16 13 (0.88%) SSL
17 11 (0.74%) IPsec
17 11 (0.74%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (2.36%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.41%) Power BI
3 15 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (1.01%) Relational Database
4 14 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.61%) MongoDB
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle Database
6 5 (0.34%) PowerPivot
6 5 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.27%) Big Data
7 4 (0.27%) MySQL
7 4 (0.27%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.20%) DB2
8 3 (0.20%) Metadata
8 3 (0.20%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.13%) Redis
9 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 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 (0.34%) 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
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
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
1 468 (31.52%) Social Skills
2 245 (16.50%) Finance
3 213 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (10.64%) Legal
5 105 (7.07%) Law
6 70 (4.71%) Public Sector
7 60 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
8 52 (3.50%) Retail
9 34 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (2.09%) Banking
11 30 (2.02%) Manufacturing
11 30 (2.02%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.75%) Games
13 24 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 24 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.55%) Marketing
15 16 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (0.94%) Environmental Health
17 13 (0.88%) Aerospace
18 12 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 290 (19.53%) Analyst
2 189 (12.73%) Security Analyst
3 166 (11.18%) Security Manager
4 121 (8.15%) Lead
5 119 (8.01%) Information Manager
6 110 (7.41%) Consultant
7 108 (7.27%) Senior
8 95 (6.40%) Information Security Manager
9 94 (6.33%) IT Manager
10 92 (6.20%) Information Analyst
10 92 (6.20%) Information Security Analyst
11 90 (6.06%) Architect
12 88 (5.93%) Security Engineer
13 78 (5.25%) Security Consultant
14 63 (4.24%) Security Architect
15 59 (3.97%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 53 (3.57%) Information Assurance Manager
17 52 (3.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 38 (2.56%) Security Officer
19 37 (2.49%) Security Assurance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.62%) .NET
2 11 (0.74%) OAuth
3 10 (0.67%) AngularJS
3 10 (0.67%) Kafka
4 9 (0.61%) ModSecurity
4 9 (0.61%) 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%) ASP.NET
7 6 (0.40%) Express.js
7 6 (0.40%) GraphQL
7 6 (0.40%) gRPC
7 6 (0.40%) JWT
7 6 (0.40%) MEAN Stack
7 6 (0.40%) Middleware
7 6 (0.40%) Mongoose
7 6 (0.40%) OAuth2
7 6 (0.40%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 279 (18.79%) Management Information System
2 142 (9.56%) Security Posture
3 93 (6.26%) Cyber Threat
4 72 (4.85%) Data Centre
4 72 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
5 56 (3.77%) Cyberattack
6 48 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 45 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
8 30 (2.02%) Driving Licence
9 24 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (1.62%) Operational Technology
10 23 (1.55%) Public Cloud
11 22 (1.48%) NHS
12 20 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (1.21%) IoT
14 17 (1.14%) Cloud Native
14 17 (1.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 17 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.94%) Cloud Security Posture
15 14 (0.94%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 188 (12.66%) Windows
2 70 (4.71%) Linux
3 68 (4.58%) Windows Server
4 43 (2.90%) Apple iOS
5 29 (1.95%) Android
6 28 (1.89%) Windows 10
7 23 (1.55%) Mac OS
8 17 (1.14%) Unix
9 12 (0.81%) Solaris
9 12 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.61%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (0.54%) AIX
11 8 (0.54%) CentOS
11 8 (0.54%) Kali Linux
12 5 (0.34%) VMS
13 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.27%) zOS
14 1 (0.067%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (48.08%) Cybersecurity
2 694 (46.73%) Information Security
3 276 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
4 266 (17.91%) Risk Management
5 249 (16.77%) Incident Response
6 208 (14.01%) ITIL
7 192 (12.93%) Security Management
8 191 (12.86%) SIEM
9 178 (11.99%) Data Protection
10 159 (10.71%) Project Management
10 159 (10.71%) Security Operations
11 151 (10.17%) Disaster Recovery
12 148 (9.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 146 (9.83%) Cloud Security
14 144 (9.70%) Business Continuity
15 126 (8.48%) Vulnerability Management
16 114 (7.68%) Incident Management
17 110 (7.41%) ISMS
18 109 (7.34%) Information Assurance
19 107 (7.21%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 77 (5.19%) Python
2 75 (5.05%) PowerShell
3 54 (3.64%) SQL
4 43 (2.90%) Bash
5 21 (1.41%) JavaScript
6 14 (0.94%) C#
6 14 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
7 13 (0.88%) Bicep
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
1 365 (24.58%) CISSP
2 255 (17.17%) CISM
3 230 (15.49%) Degree
4 213 (14.34%) Security Cleared
5 187 (12.59%) CISA
6 140 (9.43%) SC Cleared
7 100 (6.73%) Cisco Certification
8 76 (5.12%) CRISC
9 70 (4.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 54 (3.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 54 (3.64%) AWS Certification
10 54 (3.64%) Azure Certification
11 49 (3.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 46 (3.10%) CCSP
13 45 (3.03%) CESG Certified Professional
14 44 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
14 44 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
15 43 (2.90%) CCNA
15 43 (2.90%) SSCP
16 42 (2.83%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 421 (28.35%) NIST
2 370 (24.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 272 (18.32%) GDPR
4 173 (11.65%) PCI DSS
5 166 (11.18%) GRC
5 166 (11.18%) ISO 9001
6 122 (8.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 109 (7.34%) NCSC
8 72 (4.85%) SOC 2
9 55 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 46 (3.10%) SLA
11 37 (2.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 36 (2.42%) COBIT
12 36 (2.42%) ISO 22301
12 36 (2.42%) NIST 800
13 32 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 30 (2.02%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 27 (1.82%) ISO 14001
16 20 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 19 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 124 (8.35%) Active Directory
2 59 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (2.09%) Docker
4 19 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (1.08%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.74%) Firmware
8 7 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.27%) vSphere
10 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
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 59 (3.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (3.43%) Kubernetes
3 32 (2.15%) Terraform
4 30 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
5 29 (1.95%) EnCase
6 18 (1.21%) QRadar
7 14 (0.94%) Nmap
7 14 (0.94%) WSUS
8 13 (0.88%) Ansible
9 12 (0.81%) CSIRT
9 12 (0.81%) SCCM
10 11 (0.74%) Nessus
11 10 (0.67%) Prometheus
12 7 (0.47%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.40%) Grafana
13 6 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.34%) CASB
14 5 (0.34%) Packer
14 5 (0.34%) Suricata
15 4 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 399 (26.87%) Microsoft
2 91 (6.13%) Cisco
3 82 (5.52%) VMware
4 41 (2.76%) Splunk
5 37 (2.49%) Fortinet
5 37 (2.49%) Google
6 31 (2.09%) Apple
7 30 (2.02%) Meraki
7 30 (2.02%) Qualys
8 26 (1.75%) IBM
9 23 (1.55%) Oracle
10 20 (1.35%) Palo Alto
11 19 (1.28%) SAP
12 16 (1.08%) Citrix
13 14 (0.94%) Juniper
13 14 (0.94%) Rapid7
13 14 (0.94%) Thycotic
14 12 (0.81%) Red Hat
15 9 (0.61%) ServiceNow
16 8 (0.54%) Veeam