ISO/IEC 27001 Contracts

ISO/IEC 27001
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ISO/IEC 27001 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 236 290
Rank change year-on-year +14 +54 +20
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 468 686 848
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 1.15% 0.95%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.53% 8.58% 7.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 489 641
10th Percentile £363 £423 £363
25th Percentile £463 £495 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% +8.91%
75th Percentile £674 £700 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £600 £548
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.59% +21.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 11
10th Percentile - £45.00 £43.95
25th Percentile - £48.13 £45.68
Median hourly rate £83.41 £70.00 £54.96
Median % change year-on-year +19.16% +27.38% +45.38%
75th Percentile - £75.24 £68.42
90th Percentile - £78.85 £71.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.41 £71.49 £54.69
% change year-on-year +16.67% +30.71% +44.69%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,212 7,992 11,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.35% 13.36% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,921 5,491 8,030
10th Percentile £297 £275 £292
25th Percentile £405 £410 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £619
90th Percentile £750 £738 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 381 225 302
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.50 £17.06
Median hourly rate £20.61 £37.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.05% +31.58% +35.71%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.38 £77.50 £67.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £35.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -48.57% +66.27% +0.24%

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 27 April 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
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 27 April 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 +28 391 £575 -2.59% 370
UK excluding London +13 225 £575 -4.17% 256
London +23 200 £575 -4.17% 132
Work from Home +22 187 £600 - 192
North of England +47 55 £575 +21.05% 65
South West +23 48 £600 -4.00% 40
North West +38 46 £600 +32.38% 38
Scotland +38 45 £575 -4.17% 18
South East -30 39 £460 -26.40% 71
Midlands -14 22 £450 -23.40% 34
West Midlands -8 16 £506 -11.96% 22
East of England +22 13 £538 -2.71% 19
Yorkshire +10 7 £563 -4.26% 20
East Midlands +21 6 £450 -35.71% 12
Wales +11 3 £650 +13.04% 11
North East - 2 £525 - 7

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 11 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.28%) nginx
4 4 (0.85%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.85%) CMS
4 4 (0.85%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.43%) Confluence
5 2 (0.43%) IIS
5 2 (0.43%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.21%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.64%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 99 (21.15%) Azure
2 72 (15.38%) AWS
3 26 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
4 22 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (4.49%) GCP
6 14 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (2.14%) Entra ID
7 10 (2.14%) SaaS
8 9 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (1.50%) AWS CloudTrail
9 7 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.28%) GitHub
11 5 (1.07%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 5 (1.07%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.07%) IaaS
11 5 (1.07%) Serverless
12 4 (0.85%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (13.03%) Firewall
2 51 (10.90%) Network Security
3 18 (3.85%) WAN
4 13 (2.78%) DNS
4 13 (2.78%) SD-WAN
5 11 (2.35%) Intrusion Detection
5 11 (2.35%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.14%) VPN
7 5 (1.07%) LAN
8 4 (0.85%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.85%) Internet
8 4 (0.85%) Intranet
8 4 (0.85%) IPsec
8 4 (0.85%) SCCP
8 4 (0.85%) Skype
9 3 (0.64%) Broadband
9 3 (0.64%) SNMP
10 2 (0.43%) DHCP
10 2 (0.43%) DMZ
10 2 (0.43%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.50%) MySQL
1 7 (1.50%) NoSQL
2 4 (0.85%) Big Data
2 4 (0.85%) Couchbase
2 4 (0.85%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.64%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.43%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (0.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (1.92%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.07%) Git
2 5 (1.07%) JIRA
3 3 (0.64%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.43%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.43%) GitLab
4 2 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.43%) RStudio
5 1 (0.21%) Burp Suite
General
1 100 (21.37%) Social Skills
2 97 (20.73%) Public Sector
3 79 (16.88%) Finance
4 48 (10.26%) Legal
5 31 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.85%) Banking
6 18 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 14 (2.99%) Local Government
8 12 (2.56%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.50%) Retail
10 6 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.07%) Electronics
11 5 (1.07%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.07%) German Language
11 5 (1.07%) Law
11 5 (1.07%) Marketing
11 5 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.85%) French Language
13 3 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 99 (21.15%) Architect
2 75 (16.03%) Analyst
3 73 (15.60%) Security Architect
4 67 (14.32%) Consultant
5 54 (11.54%) Security Consultant
6 52 (11.11%) Senior
7 38 (8.12%) Security Analyst
8 34 (7.26%) Lead
9 29 (6.20%) Security Engineer
10 25 (5.34%) Security Manager
11 17 (3.63%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 16 (3.42%) Security Specialist
12 16 (3.42%) SOC Analyst
13 15 (3.21%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 15 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
14 14 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
14 14 (2.99%) Information Security Consultant
14 14 (2.99%) Security Advisor
15 12 (2.56%) Information Manager
15 12 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.92%) YAML
2 6 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (1.07%) JSON
4 4 (0.85%) LEMP Stack
5 3 (0.64%) OAuth
6 2 (0.43%) Kafka
6 2 (0.43%) ModSecurity
6 2 (0.43%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.43%) OpenID
6 2 (0.43%) SAML
7 1 (0.21%) FIDO
7 1 (0.21%) JWT
7 1 (0.21%) LDAP
7 1 (0.21%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.21%) REST
7 1 (0.21%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.21%) Web Services
7 1 (0.21%) XACML
7 1 (0.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (14.96%) Management Information System
2 29 (6.20%) Security Posture
3 25 (5.34%) Cyber Threat
4 16 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (3.21%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.78%) PKI
7 12 (2.56%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.92%) CCTV
9 8 (1.71%) CESG
9 8 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.28%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.28%) Freedom of Information
10 6 (1.28%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (1.07%) Cyberattack
11 5 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.07%) NHS
11 5 (1.07%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.85%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 47 (10.04%) Linux
2 37 (7.91%) Windows
3 12 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.14%) Mac OS X
5 7 (1.50%) Unix
6 5 (1.07%) CentOS
7 4 (0.85%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.43%) zOS
10 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (48.29%) Cybersecurity
2 196 (41.88%) Information Security
3 132 (28.21%) Risk Management
4 80 (17.09%) Security Architecture
5 74 (15.81%) SIEM
6 66 (14.10%) Cloud Security
7 55 (11.75%) Data Protection
8 53 (11.32%) Risk Assessment
9 51 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
10 50 (10.68%) Penetration Testing
11 47 (10.04%) Incident Response
12 46 (9.83%) Vulnerability Management
13 44 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
14 43 (9.19%) Identity Access Management
15 41 (8.76%) Agile
15 41 (8.76%) DevOps
16 40 (8.55%) ITIL
16 40 (8.55%) Security Management
17 39 (8.33%) ISMS
18 38 (8.12%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (4.49%) PowerShell
2 17 (3.63%) Python
3 12 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
4 9 (1.92%) Bash
4 9 (1.92%) C#
4 9 (1.92%) C++
5 6 (1.28%) SQL
6 4 (0.85%) Java
6 4 (0.85%) PHP
7 3 (0.64%) Go
8 2 (0.43%) R
9 1 (0.21%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 136 (29.06%) CISSP
2 125 (26.71%) Security Cleared
3 107 (22.86%) SC Cleared
4 99 (21.15%) CISM
5 58 (12.39%) CISA
6 45 (9.62%) Degree
7 32 (6.84%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (5.56%) DV Cleared
9 25 (5.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 25 (5.34%) CRISC
10 18 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
11 15 (3.21%) CCSK
11 15 (3.21%) CEH
11 15 (3.21%) CISMP
11 15 (3.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 12 (2.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 11 (2.35%) CREST Certified
14 10 (2.14%) CLAS
15 9 (1.92%) CESG Certified Professional
15 9 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (48.29%) NIST
2 73 (15.60%) GDPR
3 63 (13.46%) PCI DSS
4 48 (10.26%) GRC
5 43 (9.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 42 (8.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 36 (7.69%) NCSC
8 33 (7.05%) COBIT
9 30 (6.41%) HIPAA
10 22 (4.70%) ISO 9001
11 17 (3.63%) ISO 22301
12 15 (3.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 15 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 12 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (2.14%) JSP 440
14 10 (2.14%) QA
15 9 (1.92%) NIST 800
16 8 (1.71%) Disclosure Scotland
16 8 (1.71%) RMADS
17 7 (1.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (4.49%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.92%) Docker
3 4 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.43%) Squid
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (6.62%) Terraform
2 19 (4.06%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.78%) Ansible
4 4 (0.85%) Nessus
4 4 (0.85%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (0.64%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.43%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.43%) IBM BigFix
6 2 (0.43%) Kibana
6 2 (0.43%) logstash
6 2 (0.43%) Nmap
6 2 (0.43%) Packer
6 2 (0.43%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.21%) CASB
7 1 (0.21%) Grafana
7 1 (0.21%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 91 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.49%) Cisco
3 11 (2.35%) Google
3 11 (2.35%) ServiceNow
4 10 (2.14%) Splunk
5 9 (1.92%) Rapid7
5 9 (1.92%) Sparx
6 7 (1.50%) Darktrace
7 6 (1.28%) Palo Alto
7 6 (1.28%) Qualys
7 6 (1.28%) SAP
8 5 (1.07%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.07%) Sophos
9 4 (0.85%) Becrypt
9 4 (0.85%) Citrix
9 4 (0.85%) F5
9 4 (0.85%) Oracle
9 4 (0.85%) VMware
10 3 (0.64%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.64%) CyberArk