ISO/IEC 27001 Contracts

ISO/IEC 27001
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 234 193 290
Rank change year-on-year -41 +97 +51
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 419 752 835
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 1.38% 0.93%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.60% 9.99% 7.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 544 616
10th Percentile £400 £425 £400
25th Percentile £500 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +4.35% +13.30%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £557 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -3.22% +4.55% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 6
10th Percentile - £43.75 £18.75
25th Percentile £26.25 £48.13 £32.19
Median hourly rate £27.50 £64.15 £65.79
Median % change year-on-year -57.13% -2.50% +9.33%
75th Percentile £36.40 £75.21 £70.77
90th Percentile £40.98 £86.66 £85.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £64.15 £65.79
% change year-on-year -57.13% -2.50% +9.01%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,515 7,527 11,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.73% 13.85% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,409 5,117 7,942
10th Percentile £296 £305 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £474
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.54% +11.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 250 278
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.00 £12.72
25th Percentile £14.41 £18.71 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £38.71 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.42% +48.88% +23.81%
75th Percentile £53.75 £62.38 £53.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -28.57% +56.28% +17.87%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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
England -49 353 £585 -2.50% 201
UK excluding London -43 198 £557 -3.22% 160
London -10 184 £600 -4.76% 71
Work from Home -27 148 £600 - 117
South East -29 45 £500 -20.00% 30
North of England +20 44 £575 +12.75% 39
Scotland +40 39 £564 +2.55% 6
North West +49 37 £600 +33.33% 16
South West -19 33 £600 -7.69% 27
Midlands -14 28 £500 - 26
West Midlands -18 15 £475 -8.65% 25
East Midlands +11 10 £500 +2.56% 1
East of England +9 6 £261 -52.64% 16
Yorkshire -4 5 £550 -4.35% 15
Wales +7 3 £669 +16.30% 8
North East - 2 £525 - 8

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 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (1.19%) nginx
1 5 (1.19%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.48%) Confluence
2 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.24%) Apache
3 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.24%) IIS
3 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.24%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.24%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.24%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 88 (21.00%) Azure
2 55 (13.13%) AWS
3 25 (5.97%) Azure Sentinel
4 21 (5.01%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (3.58%) GCP
6 14 (3.34%) Entra ID
7 9 (2.15%) IaaS
7 9 (2.15%) SaaS
8 7 (1.67%) PaaS
9 6 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.19%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (0.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.72%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (0.72%) npm
12 3 (0.72%) Nutanix
12 3 (0.72%) OCI
12 3 (0.72%) Serverless
12 3 (0.72%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 58 (13.84%) Firewall
2 44 (10.50%) Network Security
3 21 (5.01%) WAN
4 17 (4.06%) SD-WAN
5 9 (2.15%) VPN
6 8 (1.91%) DNS
7 7 (1.67%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
8 6 (1.43%) LAN
9 5 (1.19%) Internet
10 4 (0.95%) SCCP
11 3 (0.72%) 5G
11 3 (0.72%) AMQP
11 3 (0.72%) DHCP
11 3 (0.72%) VLAN
11 3 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.72%) Wireless
12 2 (0.48%) 4G
12 2 (0.48%) IPsec
12 2 (0.48%) MVNO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.72%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.48%) MySQL
5 1 (0.24%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (1.67%) Burp Suite
2 5 (1.19%) Git
2 5 (1.19%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.72%) Cypress.io
3 3 (0.72%) JIRA
3 3 (0.72%) Mocha
4 1 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 109 (26.01%) Social Skills
2 100 (23.87%) Finance
3 63 (15.04%) Public Sector
4 52 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (7.16%) Legal
6 29 (6.92%) Banking
7 21 (5.01%) Telecoms
8 18 (4.30%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.43%) Retail
13 5 (1.19%) Automotive
13 5 (1.19%) Electronics
13 5 (1.19%) Marketing
14 4 (0.95%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.95%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.95%) Local Government
15 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.72%) Law
Job Titles
1 68 (16.23%) Architect
2 67 (15.99%) Consultant
3 61 (14.56%) Analyst
4 50 (11.93%) Security Consultant
5 49 (11.69%) Security Architect
6 41 (9.79%) Security Engineer
7 29 (6.92%) Senior
8 27 (6.44%) Lead
9 25 (5.97%) Security Manager
10 23 (5.49%) Security Analyst
11 16 (3.82%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 15 (3.58%) Information Analyst
12 15 (3.58%) Information Security Analyst
12 15 (3.58%) Project Manager
12 15 (3.58%) Security Officer
13 14 (3.34%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 13 (3.10%) Information Security Consultant
14 13 (3.10%) SOC Analyst
15 11 (2.63%) Security Specialist
16 10 (2.39%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.91%) Kafka
2 6 (1.43%) OAuth
3 5 (1.19%) .NET
3 5 (1.19%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (0.95%) OAuth2
4 4 (0.95%) SailPoint
5 3 (0.72%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.72%) Express.js
5 3 (0.72%) Google JAX
5 3 (0.72%) GraphQL
5 3 (0.72%) gRPC
5 3 (0.72%) Jest
5 3 (0.72%) JWT
5 3 (0.72%) MERN Stack
5 3 (0.72%) Mongoose
5 3 (0.72%) NestJS
5 3 (0.72%) Node.js
5 3 (0.72%) OpenAPI
5 3 (0.72%) PyTorch
5 3 (0.72%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (15.99%) Management Information System
2 42 (10.02%) Security Posture
3 27 (6.44%) Cyber Threat
4 15 (3.58%) PKI
5 14 (3.34%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.15%) CCTV
6 9 (2.15%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.91%) Cyber Security Posture
7 8 (1.91%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.91%) Operational Technology
7 8 (1.91%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.67%) CESG
8 7 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
9 6 (1.43%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 6 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.43%) NHS
10 5 (1.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.95%) IoT
11 4 (0.95%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 46 (10.98%) Linux
2 34 (8.11%) Windows
3 11 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.91%) Mac OS X
5 5 (1.19%) Unix
5 5 (1.19%) zOS
6 3 (0.72%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.48%) CentOS
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (41.29%) Cybersecurity
1 173 (41.29%) Information Security
2 105 (25.06%) Risk Management
3 71 (16.95%) SIEM
4 66 (15.75%) Security Architecture
5 60 (14.32%) Cloud Security
6 56 (13.37%) Penetration Testing
7 54 (12.89%) Risk Assessment
8 53 (12.65%) Vulnerability Management
9 49 (11.69%) Incident Response
10 45 (10.74%) Identity Access Management
11 44 (10.50%) Data Protection
12 43 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (9.07%) Security Management
13 38 (9.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 36 (8.59%) ISMS
15 34 (8.11%) Information Security Management
15 34 (8.11%) Threat Modelling
16 32 (7.64%) ITIL
17 31 (7.40%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 18 (4.30%) PowerShell
2 17 (4.06%) Kusto Query Language
3 12 (2.86%) Python
4 11 (2.63%) C++
5 8 (1.91%) C#
5 8 (1.91%) SQL
6 7 (1.67%) Bash
7 6 (1.43%) Java
8 4 (0.95%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.72%) C
9 3 (0.72%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.72%) R
9 3 (0.72%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.48%) Bicep
11 1 (0.24%) PHP
Qualifications
1 127 (30.31%) CISSP
2 88 (21.00%) Security Cleared
3 86 (20.53%) CISM
4 72 (17.18%) SC Cleared
5 50 (11.93%) CISA
6 39 (9.31%) Degree
7 23 (5.49%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (4.77%) CRISC
8 20 (4.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 19 (4.53%) CompTIA Security+
9 19 (4.53%) DV Cleared
10 16 (3.82%) CEH
11 14 (3.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 14 (3.34%) CISMP
12 11 (2.63%) CESG Certified Professional
12 11 (2.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 10 (2.39%) Azure Certification
13 10 (2.39%) CCNP
13 10 (2.39%) CCSP
14 9 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (48.93%) NIST
2 95 (22.67%) GDPR
3 55 (13.13%) PCI DSS
4 48 (11.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 35 (8.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 30 (7.16%) GRC
7 26 (6.21%) HIPAA
8 23 (5.49%) NCSC
9 21 (5.01%) COBIT
10 19 (4.53%) ISO 9001
11 15 (3.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (2.63%) NIST 800
13 10 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 10 (2.39%) SOC 2
14 9 (2.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 7 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
15 7 (1.67%) JSP 440
16 6 (1.43%) RMADS
17 5 (1.19%) QA
18 3 (0.72%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 20 (4.77%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.67%) Docker
2 7 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.48%) Firmware
4 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.48%) IAG
4 2 (0.48%) Snort
5 1 (0.24%) KVM
5 1 (0.24%) Squid
5 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (3.34%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.10%) Terraform
3 7 (1.67%) Nessus
4 6 (1.43%) SCCM
5 5 (1.19%) Ansible
5 5 (1.19%) logstash
5 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.95%) Grafana
6 4 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.95%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 2 (0.48%) CASB
7 2 (0.48%) IBM BigFix
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle Identity Management
7 2 (0.48%) SCOrch
7 2 (0.48%) Tivoli
7 2 (0.48%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.24%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.24%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.24%) Kibana
Vendors
1 85 (20.29%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.01%) Cisco
3 17 (4.06%) Qualys
4 14 (3.34%) Splunk
5 12 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.86%) VMware
6 11 (2.63%) Google
7 7 (1.67%) Checkmarx
7 7 (1.67%) Remedy
7 7 (1.67%) Veracode
8 6 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (1.43%) Okta
8 6 (1.43%) Rapid7
8 6 (1.43%) SAP
9 5 (1.19%) F5
9 5 (1.19%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.95%) Oracle
11 3 (0.72%) FireEye
11 3 (0.72%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.72%) Tripwire
237 ISO/IEC 27001 jobs Nationwide