ISO/IEC 27001 Job Trends in Edinburgh

ISO/IEC 27001
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 83 83
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 +56
Permanent jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 4 9 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.34% 0.92% 1.72%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.67% 6.00% 11.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 22
10th Percentile £41,701 £48,100 £22,275
25th Percentile £54,002 £49,000 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,210 £54,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.58% +14.21% -32.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £62,411 £61,250
90th Percentile £98,500 £69,451 £76,375
Scotland median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +36.36% -21.43%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 150 150 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.61% 15.27% 15.16%
Number of salaries quoted 73 36 144
10th Percentile £29,000 £42,500 £34,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £79,648 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +11.65% -6.36%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

ISO/IEC 27001 job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

ISO/IEC 27001
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing ISO/IEC 27001

ISO/IEC 27001
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in Edinburgh

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 1 (25.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Operations Team Leader
1 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Business Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) ISMS
3 1 (25.00%) Line Management
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) CBAP
2 1 (25.00%) CEH
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) NCSC
2 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft