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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 221 166
Rank change year-on-year +83 -55 -41
Permanent jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 23 54 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.78% 0.81% 1.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.27% 6.68% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 18 45 21
10th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,419 £46,250 £49,537
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -17.29% +47.78%
75th Percentile £79,688 £65,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,533 £76,500 -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

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 539 808 706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.37% 12.09% 15.24%
Number of salaries quoted 115 339 208
10th Percentile £39,500 £22,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £52,000 £33,769 £39,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £53,691
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.87% +19.31%
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £72,596 £88,750
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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +162 11 £68,000 +29.52% 17
Edinburgh +16 11 £60,950 +10.82% 10
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 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.35%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.35%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) GitHub
3 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.35%) SaaS
3 1 (4.35%) Sentry
3 1 (4.35%) Serverless
3 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%) Network Security
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 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Finance
3 5 (21.74%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Lead
1 4 (17.39%) Operations Manager
1 4 (17.39%) Risk Manager
2 3 (13.04%) IT Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) IT Security Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Information Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Information Security Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Security Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Security Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Team Leader
4 1 (4.35%) Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Disaster Recovery Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Information Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Information Security Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) OAuth
1 2 (8.70%) OpenID
1 2 (8.70%) SailPoint
1 2 (8.70%) SAML
2 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (8.70%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) SCADA
3 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 12 (52.17%) Risk Management
3 7 (30.43%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (30.43%) Risk Assessment
4 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (17.39%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (17.39%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (17.39%) Project Management
5 4 (17.39%) Regulatory Change
5 4 (17.39%) Regulatory Compliance
5 4 (17.39%) Security Management
5 4 (17.39%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (13.04%) Business Continuity
6 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (13.04%) Fintech
6 3 (13.04%) Information Security Management
6 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (13.04%) SIEM
7 2 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (8.70%) Vulnerability Scanning
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 7 (30.43%) CISSP
2 5 (21.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 4 (17.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (17.39%) CISA
3 4 (17.39%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (17.39%) CISM
3 4 (17.39%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) CRISC
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (39.13%) NIST
2 5 (21.74%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (21.74%) SOC 2
3 4 (17.39%) NCSC
3 4 (17.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (13.04%) ISO 22301
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
5 1 (4.35%) QA
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%) ForgeRock
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft