ISO/IEC 27001 Jobs in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 27001
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 201 182
Rank change year-on-year +46 -19 +2
Permanent jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 649 997 1,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.77% 1.42% 1.85%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.38% 10.41% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 351 871 663
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £38,550
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,695
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £73,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.04% -0.83% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,252 9,573 13,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.09% 13.65% 21.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,039 6,369 4,751
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,000 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 27001
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 27001
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2025.

Salary histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Midlands +73 233 £55,000 - 74
West Midlands +62 173 £55,000 - 54
South East +73 169 £59,498 +11.73% 184
North of England -34 139 £58,500 +17.00% 156
North West -57 81 £60,000 +20.00% 88
East Midlands +53 60 £54,500 +28.24% 19
South West +19 46 £59,400 -4.96% 75
Yorkshire +28 39 £57,500 +4.55% 60
East of England +38 24 £50,000 -23.08% 47
Scotland +96 23 £73,500 +33.64% 50
North East +31 19 £57,500 +43.75% 10
Northern Ireland +39 5 - - 9
Wales +29 5 £71,500 +30.00% 7
Channel Islands 0 3 £78,750 -7.35%
Isle of Man - 2 £50,000 - 3
ISO/IEC 27001
UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.77%) IIS
4 3 (0.46%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.31%) TPMS
6 1 (0.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 28 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.39%) Acrobat
4 4 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.92%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.15%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 115 (17.72%) Azure
2 74 (11.40%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (5.70%) Entra ID
4 35 (5.39%) AWS
5 28 (4.31%) SaaS
6 20 (3.08%) PaaS
7 15 (2.31%) Google Workspace
8 14 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (1.69%) IaaS
10 8 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (1.08%) GCP
11 7 (1.08%) GitHub
12 6 (0.92%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (0.92%) Google Docs
12 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (0.92%) Power Platform
13 5 (0.77%) Serverless
14 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Copilot
15 3 (0.46%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 102 (15.72%) Firewall
2 44 (6.78%) Intrusion Detection
3 36 (5.55%) Network Security
4 27 (4.16%) VPN
5 23 (3.54%) TCP/IP
6 14 (2.16%) DNS
7 13 (2.00%) LAN
8 11 (1.69%) WAN
9 9 (1.39%) DHCP
9 9 (1.39%) Intranet
10 7 (1.08%) BGP
10 7 (1.08%) VLAN
10 7 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.77%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.77%) VoIP
12 4 (0.62%) Broadband
12 4 (0.62%) HTTP
12 4 (0.62%) Mobile Broadband
12 4 (0.62%) MPLS
12 4 (0.62%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.92%) Power BI
1 6 (0.92%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (0.77%) MongoDB
3 4 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.31%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.31%) Parquet
5 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.15%) Big Data
6 1 (0.15%) DB2
6 1 (0.15%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (1.39%) JIRA
2 3 (0.46%) Burp Suite
2 3 (0.46%) Git
2 3 (0.46%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.15%) Android Studio
3 1 (0.15%) Babel
3 1 (0.15%) ERwin
3 1 (0.15%) GitLab
3 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.15%) webpack
General
1 196 (30.20%) Social Skills
2 106 (16.33%) Finance
3 89 (13.71%) Legal
4 78 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (4.47%) Law
6 24 (3.70%) Retail
7 20 (3.08%) Telecoms
8 18 (2.77%) Manufacturing
9 17 (2.62%) Public Sector
10 16 (2.47%) Local Government
11 14 (2.16%) Aerospace
12 13 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.85%) Electronics
13 12 (1.85%) Marketing
14 9 (1.39%) Publishing
15 8 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.77%) Aviation
17 5 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 204 (31.43%) Security Engineer
2 156 (24.04%) Principal Engineer
3 147 (22.65%) Principal Security Engineer
4 143 (22.03%) Analyst
5 123 (18.95%) Security Analyst
6 87 (13.41%) Principal Security Analyst
6 87 (13.41%) Product Analyst
7 67 (10.32%) Lead
8 64 (9.86%) Security Manager
9 60 (9.24%) Product Engineer
10 54 (8.32%) Senior
11 41 (6.32%) Information Manager
12 37 (5.70%) Information Security Manager
13 31 (4.78%) Architect
13 31 (4.78%) Risk Manager
14 30 (4.62%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 28 (4.31%) IT Manager
16 26 (4.01%) Security Architect
17 20 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 16 (2.47%) Information Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.69%) YAML
2 10 (1.54%) XML
3 9 (1.39%) Node.js
4 8 (1.23%) Laravel
5 7 (1.08%) AngularJS
6 6 (0.92%) .NET
6 6 (0.92%) JSON
7 5 (0.77%) CodeIgniter
8 4 (0.62%) CSS
8 4 (0.62%) HTML
9 3 (0.46%) REST
9 3 (0.46%) RESTful
9 3 (0.46%) SailPoint
9 3 (0.46%) SOAP
9 3 (0.46%) Vue
10 2 (0.31%) AWS CDK
10 2 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.31%) HTML5
10 2 (0.31%) React
11 1 (0.15%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 123 (18.95%) Management Information System
2 76 (11.71%) Security Posture
3 38 (5.86%) Data Protection Act
4 32 (4.93%) Cyber Threat
5 27 (4.16%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (2.47%) Cyberattack
7 15 (2.31%) Social Media
8 14 (2.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 12 (1.85%) Cyber Security Posture
9 12 (1.85%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.85%) Operational Technology
10 11 (1.69%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.69%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.54%) e-Learning
11 10 (1.54%) Freedom of Information
11 10 (1.54%) Freedom of Information Act
12 8 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
13 7 (1.08%) CCTV
14 6 (0.92%) Robotics
15 5 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 79 (12.17%) Windows
2 23 (3.54%) Apple iOS
3 22 (3.39%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.62%) Android
5 16 (2.47%) Linux
6 14 (2.16%) Windows Vista
7 12 (1.85%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.08%) Unix
9 5 (0.77%) Mac OS X
10 4 (0.62%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (61.79%) Information Security
2 386 (59.48%) Cybersecurity
3 301 (46.38%) Risk Management
4 193 (29.74%) Project Management
5 167 (25.73%) Security Testing
6 155 (23.88%) Cyber Resilience
7 110 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (14.33%) Incident Response
9 90 (13.87%) SIEM
10 88 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 77 (11.86%) Mentoring
12 73 (11.25%) Agile
13 72 (11.09%) Vulnerability Management
14 71 (10.94%) Data Protection
15 69 (10.63%) ITIL
16 62 (9.55%) Stakeholder Management
17 60 (9.24%) Computer Science
18 59 (9.09%) Roadmaps
19 58 (8.94%) Coaching
20 57 (8.78%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 51 (7.86%) PowerShell
2 41 (6.32%) Python
3 27 (4.16%) SQL
4 26 (4.01%) Bash
5 19 (2.93%) C#
6 15 (2.31%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.23%) PHP
7 8 (1.23%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.08%) R
9 5 (0.77%) C++
9 5 (0.77%) Java
10 3 (0.46%) Go
10 3 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.46%) VBA
11 2 (0.31%) Perl
11 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.15%) Bicep
12 1 (0.15%) C
12 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 291 (44.84%) CISSP
2 281 (43.30%) CISM
3 247 (38.06%) Degree
4 155 (23.88%) CESG Certified Professional
5 153 (23.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 68 (10.48%) CISA
7 52 (8.01%) Security Cleared
8 48 (7.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 38 (5.86%) CEH
9 38 (5.86%) Cisco Certification
10 34 (5.24%) CRISC
11 32 (4.93%) Master's Degree
12 29 (4.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 29 (4.47%) SC Cleared
13 26 (4.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 25 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
15 20 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
16 16 (2.47%) DBS Check
17 14 (2.16%) Azure Certification
18 12 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 337 (51.93%) NIST
2 151 (23.27%) RMADS
3 147 (22.65%) JSP 440
4 144 (22.19%) Cyber Essentials
5 127 (19.57%) GDPR
6 60 (9.24%) PCI DSS
7 57 (8.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 38 (5.86%) COBIT
9 37 (5.70%) GRC
10 34 (5.24%) NCSC
11 33 (5.08%) SOC 2
12 28 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 25 (3.85%) ISO 9001
14 18 (2.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 15 (2.31%) Def Stans
16 13 (2.00%) HIPAA
17 12 (1.85%) SLA
18 9 (1.39%) PERC
19 8 (1.23%) ISO 14001
20 6 (0.92%) QA
System Software
1 45 (6.93%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (1.39%) vSphere
3 8 (1.23%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.31%) Docker
7 1 (0.15%) NFS
Systems Management
1 16 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (2.16%) Terraform
3 10 (1.54%) QRadar
4 8 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.08%) Ansible
5 7 (1.08%) Kubernetes
5 7 (1.08%) SCCM
6 6 (0.92%) Nessus
7 5 (0.77%) ArcSight ESM
8 4 (0.62%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.31%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (0.31%) Nmap
9 2 (0.31%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.31%) Puppet
9 2 (0.31%) SCOM
10 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.15%) cPanel
10 1 (0.15%) Grafana
10 1 (0.15%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 134 (20.65%) Microsoft
2 18 (2.77%) Cisco
3 17 (2.62%) Apple
4 16 (2.47%) Google
4 16 (2.47%) Splunk
5 12 (1.85%) VMware
6 9 (1.39%) Adobe
6 9 (1.39%) Citrix
6 9 (1.39%) OneTrust
7 8 (1.23%) Fortinet
7 8 (1.23%) Veeam
8 7 (1.08%) ArcSight
8 7 (1.08%) Palo Alto
9 6 (0.92%) McAfee
9 6 (0.92%) Qualys
9 6 (0.92%) SolarWinds
9 6 (0.92%) Tenable
10 5 (0.77%) HP
10 5 (0.77%) LogLogic
10 5 (0.77%) Oracle