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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 201 183 250
Rank change year-on-year -18 +67 -17
Permanent jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 1,472 1,958 2,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.46% 1.99% 1.64%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.85% 10.57% 9.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,293 1,169 1,695
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,350 £88,750
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 13,561 18,525 27,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.44% 18.81% 17.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,147 8,607 13,266
10th Percentile £26,750 £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 £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,602
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.04% +0.22%

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 23 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 23 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 +1 1,358 £60,000 - 435
UK excluding London -12 982 £55,000 - 307
Work from Home -41 561 £56,500 -5.83% 191
London 0 435 £72,500 +11.54% 186
North of England +32 302 £52,500 +7.69% 64
South East -39 209 £52,500 -8.70% 120
Midlands +1 192 £55,000 -1.79% 39
North West +7 187 £52,250 +12.37% 26
South West +4 146 £62,500 +4.17% 29
West Midlands -1 131 £58,000 -3.33% 26
Yorkshire +40 80 £55,000 - 32
East Midlands +20 59 £42,500 -10.53% 13
East of England -11 59 £67,500 +14.89% 38
Scotland -58 55 £55,000 -13.04% 12
North East +20 35 £40,000 -13.98% 6
Wales -18 13 £53,750 +37.82% 4
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
Northern Ireland +14 2 £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 37 (2.51%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (0.68%) IIS
4 7 (0.48%) CMS
4 7 (0.48%) MS Project Server
5 6 (0.41%) 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 (0.14%) Drupal
8 2 (0.14%) Moodle
8 2 (0.14%) WordPress
9 1 (0.068%) Apache
Applications
1 52 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.34%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.27%) SAP WM
2 3 (0.20%) Maximo
3 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.14%) Shopify
4 1 (0.068%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.068%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.068%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.068%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.068%) Magento
4 1 (0.068%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.068%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.068%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.068%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.068%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 405 (27.51%) Azure
2 247 (16.78%) Microsoft 365
3 201 (13.65%) AWS
4 79 (5.37%) Entra ID
5 77 (5.23%) Cloud Computing
6 63 (4.28%) SaaS
7 49 (3.33%) GCP
8 46 (3.13%) IaaS
9 43 (2.92%) PaaS
10 32 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
11 28 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (1.90%) Power Platform
12 25 (1.70%) Microsoft Purview
13 21 (1.43%) Serverless
14 19 (1.29%) Amazon S3
14 19 (1.29%) Azure AKS
15 18 (1.22%) AWS CloudTrail
16 17 (1.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 16 (1.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 14 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 286 (19.43%) Firewall
2 97 (6.59%) Network Security
3 73 (4.96%) DNS
4 69 (4.69%) WAN
5 66 (4.48%) Intrusion Detection
6 59 (4.01%) LAN
7 46 (3.13%) VPN
8 39 (2.65%) TCP/IP
9 31 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
10 26 (1.77%) Wireshark
11 23 (1.56%) SD-WAN
12 22 (1.49%) Internet
13 21 (1.43%) DHCP
13 21 (1.43%) Wireless
14 15 (1.02%) NAS
15 14 (0.95%) VLAN
16 13 (0.88%) Broadband
16 13 (0.88%) SSL
17 11 (0.75%) IPsec
17 11 (0.75%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (2.24%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.43%) Power BI
3 15 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (1.02%) Relational Database
4 11 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.61%) MongoDB
6 6 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.34%) PowerPivot
8 4 (0.27%) Big Data
8 4 (0.27%) MySQL
8 4 (0.27%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.20%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.20%) DB2
9 3 (0.20%) Metadata
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.20%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.14%) Redis
11 1 (0.068%) Lumira
Development Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Cypress.io
1 6 (0.41%) Jenkins
1 6 (0.41%) Mocha
1 6 (0.41%) Visual Studio
2 4 (0.27%) Git
2 4 (0.27%) JIRA
3 3 (0.20%) Burp Suite
3 3 (0.20%) Metasploit
3 3 (0.20%) sqlmap
4 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.14%) GitLab
4 2 (0.14%) Mercurial
4 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.068%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.068%) Selenium
5 1 (0.068%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.068%) Vagrant
General
1 466 (31.66%) Social Skills
2 242 (16.44%) Finance
3 209 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (10.87%) Legal
5 107 (7.27%) Law
6 72 (4.89%) Public Sector
7 56 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
8 51 (3.46%) Retail
9 34 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (2.11%) Manufacturing
11 29 (1.97%) Banking
12 28 (1.90%) Telecoms
13 25 (1.70%) Games
14 24 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
15 22 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 22 (1.49%) Marketing
16 16 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (0.95%) Environmental Health
18 13 (0.88%) Aerospace
19 12 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 285 (19.36%) Analyst
2 184 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 168 (11.41%) Security Manager
4 122 (8.29%) Information Manager
5 117 (7.95%) Lead
6 111 (7.54%) Consultant
7 107 (7.27%) Senior
8 98 (6.66%) Information Security Manager
9 92 (6.25%) IT Manager
10 91 (6.18%) Architect
11 90 (6.11%) Information Analyst
11 90 (6.11%) Information Security Analyst
12 83 (5.64%) Security Engineer
13 79 (5.37%) Security Consultant
14 66 (4.48%) Security Architect
15 61 (4.14%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 53 (3.60%) Information Assurance Manager
17 52 (3.53%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 37 (2.51%) Security Assurance Manager
19 36 (2.45%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.70%) .NET
2 12 (0.82%) Middleware
2 12 (0.82%) Web Services
3 11 (0.75%) OAuth
4 10 (0.68%) AngularJS
4 10 (0.68%) Kafka
5 9 (0.61%) ModSecurity
5 9 (0.61%) Node.js
6 8 (0.54%) .NET Framework
6 8 (0.54%) React
7 7 (0.48%) Jest
7 7 (0.48%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (0.48%) REST
8 6 (0.41%) GraphQL
8 6 (0.41%) gRPC
8 6 (0.41%) JWT
8 6 (0.41%) MEAN Stack
8 6 (0.41%) MERN Stack
8 6 (0.41%) Mongoose
8 6 (0.41%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 284 (19.29%) Management Information System
2 140 (9.51%) Security Posture
3 93 (6.32%) Cyber Threat
4 71 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
5 69 (4.69%) Data Centre
6 57 (3.87%) Cyberattack
7 50 (3.40%) Onboarding
8 43 (2.92%) Security Operations Centre
9 31 (2.11%) Driving Licence
9 31 (2.11%) Operational Technology
10 24 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (1.56%) Public Cloud
12 22 (1.49%) NHS
13 20 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
14 19 (1.29%) IoT
15 18 (1.22%) Cloud Native
16 17 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
17 15 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 14 (0.95%) Cloud Security Posture
18 14 (0.95%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 183 (12.43%) Windows
2 67 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 64 (4.35%) Linux
4 40 (2.72%) Apple iOS
5 28 (1.90%) Windows 10
6 26 (1.77%) Android
7 23 (1.56%) Mac OS
8 17 (1.15%) Unix
9 12 (0.82%) Solaris
9 12 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (0.54%) AIX
11 8 (0.54%) Kali Linux
11 8 (0.54%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.41%) CentOS
13 5 (0.34%) VMS
14 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.27%) zOS
15 1 (0.068%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 721 (48.98%) Cybersecurity
2 692 (47.01%) Information Security
3 272 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
4 267 (18.14%) Risk Management
5 240 (16.30%) Incident Response
6 207 (14.06%) ITIL
7 200 (13.59%) Security Management
8 192 (13.04%) SIEM
9 177 (12.02%) Data Protection
10 157 (10.67%) Project Management
10 157 (10.67%) Security Operations
11 148 (10.05%) Disaster Recovery
12 145 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 144 (9.78%) Cloud Security
14 137 (9.31%) Business Continuity
15 129 (8.76%) Vulnerability Management
16 117 (7.95%) Security Architecture
17 112 (7.61%) Information Assurance
18 111 (7.54%) Incident Management
19 109 (7.40%) Information Security Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (5.16%) PowerShell
2 73 (4.96%) Python
3 53 (3.60%) SQL
4 43 (2.92%) Bash
5 23 (1.56%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.02%) C#
7 14 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
8 13 (0.88%) Bicep
9 8 (0.54%) Java
9 8 (0.54%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.48%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.41%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.20%) Ruby
13 2 (0.14%) PHP
13 2 (0.14%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.14%) VBScript
14 1 (0.068%) ABAP
14 1 (0.068%) Go
Qualifications
1 366 (24.86%) CISSP
2 255 (17.32%) CISM
3 229 (15.56%) Degree
4 220 (14.95%) Security Cleared
5 185 (12.57%) CISA
6 146 (9.92%) SC Cleared
7 101 (6.86%) Cisco Certification
8 76 (5.16%) CRISC
9 70 (4.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 55 (3.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 53 (3.60%) Azure Certification
12 51 (3.46%) AWS Certification
13 48 (3.26%) CCSP
13 48 (3.26%) CESG Certified Professional
13 48 (3.26%) CompTIA Security+
14 44 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
15 43 (2.92%) CCNA
15 43 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
15 43 (2.92%) SSCP
16 41 (2.79%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 427 (29.01%) NIST
2 356 (24.18%) Cyber Essentials
3 262 (17.80%) GDPR
4 177 (12.02%) PCI DSS
5 167 (11.35%) GRC
6 165 (11.21%) ISO 9001
7 115 (7.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 105 (7.13%) NCSC
9 70 (4.76%) SOC 2
10 54 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 43 (2.92%) COBIT
12 42 (2.85%) SLA
13 37 (2.51%) NIST 800
14 36 (2.45%) ISO 22301
14 36 (2.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 34 (2.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 33 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 26 (1.77%) ISO 14001
18 20 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
19 17 (1.15%) RMADS
System Software
1 121 (8.22%) Active Directory
2 54 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (2.11%) Docker
4 19 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.02%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.75%) Firmware
8 7 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.34%) vSphere
10 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.14%) XenApp
11 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.068%) LXC
12 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.068%) Snort
Systems Management
1 56 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (3.46%) Kubernetes
3 32 (2.17%) Terraform
4 30 (2.04%) EnCase
4 30 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (1.22%) QRadar
6 14 (0.95%) Nmap
7 13 (0.88%) Ansible
7 13 (0.88%) WSUS
8 12 (0.82%) CSIRT
9 11 (0.75%) Nessus
10 10 (0.68%) Prometheus
11 9 (0.61%) SCCM
12 7 (0.48%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.41%) Grafana
13 6 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.34%) CASB
14 5 (0.34%) Packer
14 5 (0.34%) Suricata
15 4 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 393 (26.70%) Microsoft
2 86 (5.84%) Cisco
3 79 (5.37%) VMware
4 41 (2.79%) Splunk
5 37 (2.51%) Google
6 36 (2.45%) Fortinet
7 31 (2.11%) Apple
8 30 (2.04%) Qualys
9 29 (1.97%) Meraki
10 27 (1.83%) IBM
11 21 (1.43%) Oracle
12 19 (1.29%) Palo Alto
12 19 (1.29%) SAP
13 16 (1.09%) Citrix
14 14 (0.95%) Rapid7
14 14 (0.95%) Thycotic
15 13 (0.88%) Juniper
16 10 (0.68%) ServiceNow
17 9 (0.61%) Red Hat
18 7 (0.48%) CA