ISO/IEC 27001 Job Trends in Central London

ISO/IEC 27001
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 93 106
Rank change year-on-year +40 +13 +55
Permanent jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 94 94 71
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 4.18% 2.91% 2.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 26.18% 18.32% 13.81%
Number of salaries quoted 60 55 67
10th Percentile £36,750 £47,000 £57,000
25th Percentile £41,063 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,400 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.22% -0.14% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £73,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +2.74% +0.69% +7.41%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

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 permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 359 513 514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 15.98% 15.86% 16.38%
Number of salaries quoted 273 260 452
10th Percentile £36,750 £44,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -4.83% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £96,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £106,375 £110,000
London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% +3.70%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

ISO/IEC 27001 job vacancy trend in Central London

ISO/IEC 27001
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing ISO/IEC 27001.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing ISO/IEC 27001

ISO/IEC 27001
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in Central London over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Salary histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in Central London

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. 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
City of London +44 85 £65,000 -3.70% 22
City of Westminster +31 2 - - 5
West End of London +6 1 £57,500 -23.33% 3
ISO/IEC 27001
London

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (13.83%) Skype for Business
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (14.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (14.89%) Microsoft Office
1 14 (14.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.06%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 34 (36.17%) Azure
2 19 (20.21%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (12.77%) Entra ID
4 11 (11.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (6.38%) SaaS
6 5 (5.32%) AWS
6 5 (5.32%) PaaS
7 4 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.19%) Nutanix
9 2 (2.13%) Google Workspace
9 2 (2.13%) Mimecast
9 2 (2.13%) Tessian
10 1 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.06%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.06%) GCP
10 1 (1.06%) Serverless
10 1 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.83%) Skype
1 13 (13.83%) Unified Communications
1 13 (13.83%) WebEx
2 10 (10.64%) Firewall
3 7 (7.45%) Network Security
4 5 (5.32%) VPN
5 4 (4.26%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (3.19%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.13%) DHCP
7 2 (2.13%) DKIM
7 2 (2.13%) DMARC
7 2 (2.13%) DNS
7 2 (2.13%) WAN
8 1 (1.06%) LAN
8 1 (1.06%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.06%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.06%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.32%) Tableau
2 1 (1.06%) Metadata
2 1 (1.06%) MS Access
2 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.13%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) MLflow
General
1 36 (38.30%) Finance
1 36 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 25 (26.60%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (20.21%) Law
4 11 (11.70%) Legal
4 11 (11.70%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (10.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.13%) Back Office
6 2 (2.13%) Banking
6 2 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Retail
7 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.06%) Games
7 1 (1.06%) Local Government
7 1 (1.06%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (22.34%) Analyst
2 14 (14.89%) Senior
3 13 (13.83%) Security Engineer
3 13 (13.83%) Support Analyst
3 13 (13.83%) Support Assistant
4 12 (12.77%) Lead
5 6 (6.38%) IT Manager
5 6 (6.38%) Senior Manager
6 5 (5.32%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 5 (5.32%) Risk Manager
6 5 (5.32%) Senior Risk Manager
7 4 (4.26%) CISSP Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Consultant
7 4 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Infrastructure Manager
7 4 (4.26%) IT Infrastructure Manager
7 4 (4.26%) Junior
7 4 (4.26%) PowerShell Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Python Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Technology Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.32%) YAML
2 1 (1.06%) Kafka
2 1 (1.06%) LangChain
2 1 (1.06%) pydantic
2 1 (1.06%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.06%) RESTful
2 1 (1.06%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.06%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.06%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.96%) Management Information System
1 15 (15.96%) Security Posture
1 15 (15.96%) Video Conferencing
2 9 (9.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (8.51%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (7.45%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (5.32%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (4.26%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.26%) Hedge funds
6 4 (4.26%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (3.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (3.19%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.19%) Operational Technology
7 3 (3.19%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.13%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.13%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.13%) PKI
9 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.57%) Windows
2 6 (6.38%) Mac OS
3 5 (5.32%) Linux
4 2 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (37.23%) Information Security
1 35 (37.23%) Risk Management
2 33 (35.11%) Cybersecurity
3 30 (31.91%) ITIL
4 18 (19.15%) SIEM
5 17 (18.09%) ISMS
5 17 (18.09%) Vulnerability Management
6 15 (15.96%) Coaching
6 15 (15.96%) Mentoring
6 15 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (13.83%) Agile
7 13 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (13.83%) Creative Thinking
7 13 (13.83%) Preventative Maintenance
7 13 (13.83%) Regulatory Compliance
8 12 (12.77%) Data Protection
8 12 (12.77%) Incident Response
8 12 (12.77%) Migration
9 11 (11.70%) Roadmaps
10 10 (10.64%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 21 (22.34%) PowerShell
2 16 (17.02%) Python
3 7 (7.45%) SQL
4 3 (3.19%) Bash
5 1 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 34 (36.17%) CISSP
2 22 (23.40%) CISM
3 15 (15.96%) CISA
4 14 (14.89%) CRISC
5 13 (13.83%) Degree
6 8 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (6.38%) CompTIA CySA+
8 5 (5.32%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (4.26%) Master's Degree
10 3 (3.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (3.19%) CCNA
10 3 (3.19%) CEH
10 3 (3.19%) GIAC
10 3 (3.19%) SC Cleared
10 3 (3.19%) Security Cleared
11 2 (2.13%) CCSP
11 2 (2.13%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (2.13%) GCIH
11 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (2.13%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (48.94%) NIST
2 21 (22.34%) GDPR
3 13 (13.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (8.51%) GRC
5 7 (7.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (6.38%) Data Quality
7 5 (5.32%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (5.32%) NCSC
7 5 (5.32%) SOC 2
8 4 (4.26%) ISO 9001
9 3 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 3 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 3 (3.19%) ITGC
10 2 (2.13%) COBIT
10 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
10 2 (2.13%) QA
10 2 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (1.06%) HIPAA
11 1 (1.06%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 9 (9.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.06%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.13%) ArcSight ESM
3 2 (2.13%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.13%) QRadar
4 1 (1.06%) Nessus
4 1 (1.06%) Terraform
4 1 (1.06%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.06%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 41 (43.62%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.83%) Polycom
3 8 (8.51%) Google
4 5 (5.32%) VMware
5 4 (4.26%) CyberArk
6 3 (3.19%) Commvault
6 3 (3.19%) Tenable
7 2 (2.13%) ArcSight
7 2 (2.13%) Cisco
7 2 (2.13%) LogLogic
7 2 (2.13%) McAfee
7 2 (2.13%) Meraki
7 2 (2.13%) Splunk
8 1 (1.06%) Aruba
8 1 (1.06%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.06%) Juniper
8 1 (1.06%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.06%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.06%) Stonesoft