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

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 230 301
Rank change year-on-year +14 +71 +12
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 453 664 803
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 1.17% 0.92%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.51% 8.73% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 475 606
10th Percentile £363 £425 £363
25th Percentile £459 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £667 £700 £675
90th Percentile £759 £795 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 16 9
10th Percentile - £44.38 £43.21
25th Percentile - £45.94 £43.95
Median hourly rate £83.41 £67.07 £54.96
Median % change year-on-year +24.36% +22.05% -13.46%
75th Percentile - £74.11 £69.83
90th Percentile - £78.63 £76.86
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.41 £70.00 £54.69
% change year-on-year +19.16% +27.99% -13.87%

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 6,033 7,604 11,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.16% 13.37% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,834 5,199 7,955
10th Percentile £281 £281 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £743 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +0.73% +6.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 380 238 305
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.29 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.71 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.84% +12.90% +47.62%
75th Percentile £45.00 £61.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.27 £32.50 £22.29
% change year-on-year -43.78% +45.81% +6.14%

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 17 May 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 17 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +7 381 £575 -4.17% 367
UK excluding London +1 205 £550 -8.33% 254
London +9 204 £585 -7.41% 112
Work from Home +24 177 £575 -4.17% 178
North of England +41 52 £575 +21.05% 64
South West +3 47 £600 -4.00% 34
North West +39 43 £600 +33.33% 29
Scotland +45 40 £563 -3.68% 13
South East -46 32 £413 -34.00% 60
Midlands -2 22 £450 -21.74% 49
West Midlands -11 15 £525 -8.70% 31
East of England +16 11 £365 -33.94% 28
East Midlands +17 7 £363 -48.21% 18
Yorkshire +3 7 £550 -15.38% 26
North East - 2 £525 - 9
Wales +16 1 £638 +10.87% 4

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 10 (2.21%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.77%) nginx
4 4 (0.88%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.88%) CMS
4 4 (0.88%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.44%) Confluence
5 2 (0.44%) IIS
5 2 (0.44%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.22%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 85 (18.76%) Azure
2 65 (14.35%) AWS
3 26 (5.74%) Azure Sentinel
4 24 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (3.75%) GCP
6 11 (2.43%) Entra ID
7 9 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (1.99%) SaaS
8 8 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (1.55%) AWS CloudTrail
9 7 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.55%) Serverless
10 6 (1.32%) GitHub
11 5 (1.10%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 5 (1.10%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (0.88%) IaaS
12 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 58 (12.80%) Firewall
2 51 (11.26%) Network Security
3 20 (4.42%) WAN
4 13 (2.87%) DNS
4 13 (2.87%) Intrusion Detection
4 13 (2.87%) SD-WAN
5 12 (2.65%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.21%) VPN
7 7 (1.55%) Internet
8 6 (1.32%) LAN
9 5 (1.10%) HTTPS
9 5 (1.10%) IPsec
10 4 (0.88%) Intranet
10 4 (0.88%) SCCP
10 4 (0.88%) Skype
11 3 (0.66%) Broadband
11 3 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.66%) Wireless
12 2 (0.44%) DHCP
12 2 (0.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.55%) MySQL
1 7 (1.55%) NoSQL
2 4 (0.88%) Big Data
2 4 (0.88%) Couchbase
2 4 (0.88%) Data Lake
2 4 (0.88%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.66%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.44%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.44%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (2.21%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.10%) Git
2 5 (1.10%) JIRA
3 3 (0.66%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.44%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.44%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.44%) GitLab
4 2 (0.44%) Mocha
4 2 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.44%) RStudio
5 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
General
1 100 (22.08%) Social Skills
2 85 (18.76%) Finance
2 85 (18.76%) Public Sector
3 46 (10.15%) Legal
4 33 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.08%) Banking
6 18 (3.97%) Manufacturing
7 13 (2.87%) Telecoms
8 10 (2.21%) Local Government
9 8 (1.77%) Retail
10 7 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.10%) Electronics
11 5 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.10%) German Language
11 5 (1.10%) Law
11 5 (1.10%) Marketing
11 5 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.88%) French Language
12 4 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 87 (19.21%) Architect
2 72 (15.89%) Analyst
3 65 (14.35%) Consultant
4 61 (13.47%) Security Architect
5 50 (11.04%) Security Consultant
6 47 (10.38%) Senior
7 33 (7.28%) Security Analyst
7 33 (7.28%) Security Engineer
8 30 (6.62%) Lead
9 28 (6.18%) Security Manager
10 17 (3.75%) Security Specialist
10 17 (3.75%) SOC Analyst
11 16 (3.53%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 15 (3.31%) Information Security Consultant
12 15 (3.31%) Project Manager
13 14 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
14 13 (2.87%) Security Advisor
15 12 (2.65%) Cybersecurity Manager
15 12 (2.65%) Information Manager
15 12 (2.65%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.77%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (1.55%) YAML
3 5 (1.10%) JSON
3 5 (1.10%) Kafka
4 4 (0.88%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (0.88%) OAuth
5 3 (0.66%) .NET
5 3 (0.66%) JWT
5 3 (0.66%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.44%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.44%) Express.js
6 2 (0.44%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.44%) MEAN Stack
6 2 (0.44%) MERN Stack
6 2 (0.44%) NestJS
6 2 (0.44%) Node.js
6 2 (0.44%) OpenAPI
6 2 (0.44%) React
6 2 (0.44%) SAML
6 2 (0.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 69 (15.23%) Management Information System
2 31 (6.84%) Security Posture
3 26 (5.74%) Cyber Threat
4 16 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (3.09%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.87%) PKI
7 9 (1.99%) CCTV
7 9 (1.99%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.77%) CESG
8 8 (1.77%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.77%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.55%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.32%) Freedom of Information
10 6 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.10%) Cyberattack
11 5 (1.10%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
12 4 (0.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (10.82%) Linux
2 36 (7.95%) Windows
3 12 (2.65%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.21%) Mac OS X
5 6 (1.32%) Unix
6 4 (0.88%) CentOS
7 3 (0.66%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.66%) zOS
8 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (48.12%) Cybersecurity
2 188 (41.50%) Information Security
3 127 (28.04%) Risk Management
4 74 (16.34%) SIEM
5 71 (15.67%) Security Architecture
6 60 (13.25%) Cloud Security
7 52 (11.48%) Risk Assessment
8 51 (11.26%) Data Protection
8 51 (11.26%) Penetration Testing
8 51 (11.26%) Vulnerability Management
9 48 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
10 46 (10.15%) Incident Response
11 44 (9.71%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (9.49%) Identity Access Management
13 41 (9.05%) Incident Management
14 36 (7.95%) Security Management
15 35 (7.73%) Agile
15 35 (7.73%) DevOps
15 35 (7.73%) ISMS
16 33 (7.28%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 20 (4.42%) PowerShell
2 15 (3.31%) Python
3 12 (2.65%) Kusto Query Language
4 10 (2.21%) Bash
5 9 (1.99%) C#
5 9 (1.99%) C++
6 7 (1.55%) SQL
7 4 (0.88%) PHP
8 3 (0.66%) Go
8 3 (0.66%) Java
8 3 (0.66%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.44%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.44%) R
9 2 (0.44%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 128 (28.26%) CISSP
2 110 (24.28%) Security Cleared
3 93 (20.53%) SC Cleared
4 92 (20.31%) CISM
5 53 (11.70%) CISA
6 37 (8.17%) Degree
7 29 (6.40%) Cisco Certification
8 24 (5.30%) DV Cleared
9 21 (4.64%) CRISC
10 20 (4.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 18 (3.97%) CompTIA Security+
12 15 (3.31%) CEH
12 15 (3.31%) CISMP
13 14 (3.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 12 (2.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 11 (2.43%) CREST Certified
16 10 (2.21%) CCSK
16 10 (2.21%) CLAS
17 9 (1.99%) CESG Certified Professional
17 9 (1.99%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (48.57%) NIST
2 72 (15.89%) GDPR
3 64 (14.13%) PCI DSS
4 45 (9.93%) GRC
5 41 (9.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 40 (8.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 33 (7.28%) COBIT
8 30 (6.62%) HIPAA
8 30 (6.62%) NCSC
9 20 (4.42%) ISO 9001
10 14 (3.09%) ISO 22301
11 12 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 11 (2.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 10 (2.21%) JSP 440
13 10 (2.21%) QA
14 9 (1.99%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 9 (1.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (1.77%) RMADS
16 7 (1.55%) Disclosure Scotland
17 6 (1.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (4.64%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.43%) Docker
3 3 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.44%) Firmware
4 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.44%) Squid
Systems Management
1 26 (5.74%) Terraform
2 20 (4.42%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.87%) Ansible
4 4 (0.88%) Nessus
4 4 (0.88%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (0.66%) CASB
5 3 (0.66%) Grafana
5 3 (0.66%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.66%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.66%) SCCM
5 3 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.44%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.44%) Kibana
6 2 (0.44%) logstash
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.44%) Nmap
6 2 (0.44%) Packer
6 2 (0.44%) SCOrch
7 1 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.22%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 87 (19.21%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.86%) Cisco
3 11 (2.43%) ServiceNow
3 11 (2.43%) Splunk
4 9 (1.99%) Google
5 8 (1.77%) Sparx
6 7 (1.55%) Qualys
6 7 (1.55%) Rapid7
7 6 (1.32%) Darktrace
7 6 (1.32%) Palo Alto
7 6 (1.32%) SAP
8 5 (1.10%) Citrix
8 5 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (1.10%) VMware
9 4 (0.88%) Becrypt
9 4 (0.88%) Netskope
10 3 (0.66%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.66%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.66%) F5
10 3 (0.66%) Fortinet