ISO/IEC 27001 Jobs in Scotland

ISO/IEC 27001
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 225 167
Rank change year-on-year +96 -58 -40
Permanent jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 23 57 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.65% 0.86% 1.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.79% 7.08% 7.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18 49 19
10th Percentile £47,500 £36,200 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,000 £42,500 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,250 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -21.43% +55.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £75,500 £78,653
UK median annual salary £62,500 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.76% -3.33% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 397 805 755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.15% 12.16% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 119 343 207
10th Percentile £41,500 £22,350 £32,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £76,840 £61,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £72,433 £93,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in Scotland

ISO/IEC 27001
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in Scotland.

Salary trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in Scotland

ISO/IEC 27001
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in Scotland over the 6 months to 21 April 2025.

Salary histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in Scotland

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
Glasgow +169 15 £75,000 +42.86% 13
Edinburgh +9 6 £52,000 +4.00% 8
North Lanarkshire - 1 - -
ISO/IEC 27001
UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
1 2 (8.70%) SaaS
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (4.35%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (4.35%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) GitHub
2 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (4.35%) Sentry
2 1 (4.35%) Serverless
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) DHCP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) LAN
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
2 1 (4.35%) WAN
2 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Android Studio
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (26.09%) Legal
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Lead
1 4 (17.39%) Senior
2 3 (13.04%) Head of Development
2 3 (13.04%) Operations Manager
2 3 (13.04%) Risk Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Information Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Information Security Manager
3 2 (8.70%) IT Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) IT Security Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Security Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Security Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) IT Manager
4 1 (4.35%) IT Security Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
1 1 (4.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Management Information System
2 4 (17.39%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) SCADA
4 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Android
1 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Information Security
2 11 (47.83%) Risk Management
3 8 (34.78%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (34.78%) Vulnerability Management
4 6 (26.09%) Security Management
5 5 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (21.74%) Information Security Management
5 5 (21.74%) ISMS
5 5 (21.74%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
6 4 (17.39%) Risk Assessment
6 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
6 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
7 3 (13.04%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (13.04%) Innovative Thinking
7 3 (13.04%) Project Delivery
7 3 (13.04%) Regulatory Change
7 3 (13.04%) Software Testing
7 3 (13.04%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (13.04%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) Bash
1 1 (4.35%) C
1 1 (4.35%) C++
1 1 (4.35%) Kotlin
1 1 (4.35%) Objective-C
1 1 (4.35%) Python
1 1 (4.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) CISSP
2 5 (21.74%) CISM
3 4 (17.39%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (17.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 3 (13.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (13.04%) CISA
4 3 (13.04%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.35%) CCENT
5 1 (4.35%) CCNA
5 1 (4.35%) CRISC
5 1 (4.35%) DBS Check
5 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) SOC 2
2 5 (21.74%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (21.74%) NIST
3 3 (13.04%) ISO 14001
3 3 (13.04%) ISO 9001
3 3 (13.04%) PCI DSS
3 3 (13.04%) QA
3 3 (13.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (8.70%) ISO 22301
4 2 (8.70%) NCSC
5 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (4.35%) GDPR
5 1 (4.35%) GRC
5 1 (4.35%) ITGC
5 1 (4.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Grafana
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco