ISO/IEC 27001 Contracts with Work from Home Options

ISO/IEC 27001
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 179 204 273
Rank change year-on-year +25 +69 +35
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 177 310 423
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.20% 1.26% 0.96%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.31% 10.35% 7.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 239 326
10th Percentile £375 £449 £400
25th Percentile £500 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £756
UK median daily rate £575 £591 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% +7.38% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £41.36
25th Percentile - - £43.03
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £49.45
Median % change year-on-year - +41.55% -
75th Percentile - - £68.79
90th Percentile - - £87.51
UK median hourly rate £83.41 £67.07 £54.69
% change year-on-year +24.36% +22.64% -3.03%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,129 2,996 5,825
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.39% 12.16% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,475 2,179 4,143
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £420 £423 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £520 £504
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% +3.28% +6.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £600
90th Percentile £750 £730 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.31% +8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 66 125
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.60 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £23.67 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.50 £39.80 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.95% -10.56% +134.21%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.81 £56.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -39.84% +7.69% +54.76%

ISO/IEC 27001
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing ISO/IEC 27001 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ISO/IEC 27001 trend for jobs with a WFH option

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing ISO/IEC 27001.

ISO/IEC 27001 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

ISO/IEC 27001 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing ISO/IEC 27001.

ISO/IEC 27001 hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (3.39%) nginx
2 5 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.26%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.13%) IIS
5 1 (0.56%) Confluence
5 1 (0.56%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 35 (19.77%) Azure
2 34 (19.21%) AWS
3 11 (6.21%) Azure Sentinel
4 9 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.52%) GCP
6 6 (3.39%) AWS CloudTrail
7 5 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.82%) GitHub
8 4 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.69%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.69%) SaaS
10 2 (1.13%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.13%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.13%) IaaS
10 2 (1.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (20.34%) Network Security
2 19 (10.73%) Firewall
3 8 (4.52%) Intrusion Detection
3 8 (4.52%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.95%) DNS
5 5 (2.82%) HTTPS
5 5 (2.82%) IPsec
5 5 (2.82%) WAN
6 4 (2.26%) LAN
6 4 (2.26%) SCCP
6 4 (2.26%) VPN
7 2 (1.13%) HTTP
7 2 (1.13%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.56%) Broadband
8 1 (0.56%) DMZ
8 1 (0.56%) Internet
8 1 (0.56%) Intranet
8 1 (0.56%) SMTP
8 1 (0.56%) VLAN
8 1 (0.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.26%) Couchbase
1 4 (2.26%) MySQL
1 4 (2.26%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (0.56%) Big Data
3 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.82%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.69%) JIRA
3 2 (1.13%) Git
3 2 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.56%) RStudio
General
1 38 (21.47%) Social Skills
2 36 (20.34%) Public Sector
3 25 (14.12%) Finance
4 14 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.91%) Legal
5 7 (3.95%) Local Government
6 5 (2.82%) Banking
7 4 (2.26%) Law
8 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.69%) Police
8 3 (1.69%) Retail
9 2 (1.13%) Advertising
9 2 (1.13%) Automotive
9 2 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.13%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.13%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.13%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (25.42%) Architect
2 36 (20.34%) Security Architect
3 25 (14.12%) Consultant
4 23 (12.99%) Analyst
4 23 (12.99%) Senior
5 17 (9.60%) Security Analyst
6 15 (8.47%) Security Consultant
7 14 (7.91%) Security Manager
8 13 (7.34%) Security Engineer
9 10 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (5.08%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (4.52%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 7 (3.95%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 7 (3.95%) Information Analyst
12 7 (3.95%) Information Security Analyst
12 7 (3.95%) IT Manager
13 6 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (3.39%) Information Security Consultant
13 6 (3.39%) Security Specialist
13 6 (3.39%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.95%) YAML
2 6 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (2.82%) JSON
4 4 (2.26%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (1.13%) OAuth
5 2 (1.13%) SAML
5 2 (1.13%) Web Services
6 1 (0.56%) .NET
6 1 (0.56%) JWT
6 1 (0.56%) LDAP
6 1 (0.56%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.56%) OpenID
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.56%) REST
6 1 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.77%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.21%) Security Posture
3 8 (4.52%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.52%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (2.82%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.26%) PKI
6 3 (1.69%) Cyberattack
6 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.69%) Wiki
7 2 (1.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.13%) Insider Threat
7 2 (1.13%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.13%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.13%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) SCADA
8 1 (0.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.91%) Linux
2 8 (4.52%) Windows
3 7 (3.95%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.26%) CentOS
5 3 (1.69%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (52.54%) Cybersecurity
2 83 (46.89%) Information Security
3 38 (21.47%) Risk Management
4 30 (16.95%) Security Architecture
5 27 (15.25%) Risk Assessment
6 25 (14.12%) ISMS
7 23 (12.99%) Security Management
8 22 (12.43%) Incident Response
9 21 (11.86%) Information Security Management
10 20 (11.30%) DevOps
11 19 (10.73%) Penetration Testing
12 18 (10.17%) SIEM
13 17 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (9.60%) Vulnerability Management
14 16 (9.04%) Cloud Security
14 16 (9.04%) TOGAF
15 14 (7.91%) Cryptography
15 14 (7.91%) Data Protection
15 14 (7.91%) Threat Modelling
16 13 (7.34%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.52%) PowerShell
2 6 (3.39%) Python
3 4 (2.26%) PHP
4 3 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (1.69%) SQL
5 2 (1.13%) Bash
6 1 (0.56%) C++
6 1 (0.56%) Java
6 1 (0.56%) R
6 1 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 53 (29.94%) CISSP
2 42 (23.73%) CISM
3 41 (23.16%) Security Cleared
4 38 (21.47%) SC Cleared
5 27 (15.25%) CISA
6 12 (6.78%) DV Cleared
7 11 (6.21%) CREST Certified
7 11 (6.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 9 (5.08%) CRISC
8 9 (5.08%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (4.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 7 (3.95%) Degree
11 6 (3.39%) CLAS
12 4 (2.26%) CGEIT
12 4 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (1.69%) CEH
14 2 (1.13%) CSSLP
14 2 (1.13%) GIAC
14 2 (1.13%) ISSAP
14 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (52.54%) NIST
2 26 (14.69%) GDPR
3 22 (12.43%) NCSC
3 22 (12.43%) PCI DSS
4 15 (8.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (7.34%) COBIT
6 12 (6.78%) GRC
7 11 (6.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 8 (4.52%) ISO 22301
9 7 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 5 (2.82%) HIPAA
10 5 (2.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 5 (2.82%) ISO 9001
11 4 (2.26%) QA
11 4 (2.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (2.26%) SOC 2
12 3 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (1.69%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (1.69%) GPG13
12 3 (1.69%) JSP 440
System Software
1 8 (4.52%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.82%) Docker
3 2 (1.13%) Squid
4 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (8.47%) Terraform
2 11 (6.21%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.52%) Ansible
4 4 (2.26%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 2 (1.13%) HAProxy
5 2 (1.13%) Kibana
5 2 (1.13%) logstash
5 2 (1.13%) Nessus
5 2 (1.13%) Packer
6 1 (0.56%) CASB
6 1 (0.56%) Grafana
6 1 (0.56%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.39%) Cisco
2 6 (3.39%) Google
3 5 (2.82%) Sparx
4 4 (2.26%) Rapid7
4 4 (2.26%) Splunk
5 3 (1.69%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.13%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.13%) Darktrace
6 2 (1.13%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.13%) IBM
6 2 (1.13%) Oracle
6 2 (1.13%) Qualys
6 2 (1.13%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.13%) Sophos
6 2 (1.13%) VMware
7 1 (0.56%) Axway
7 1 (0.56%) Lotus
7 1 (0.56%) McAfee
7 1 (0.56%) Remedy