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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 214 199
Rank change year-on-year +20 -15 -4
Permanent jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 635 982 1,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.61% 1.32% 1.85%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.73% 10.09% 9.24%
Number of salaries quoted 326 846 611
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,400 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,258 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,875 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

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 6,527 9,734 11,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.57% 13.05% 20.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,072 6,357 4,480
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,169 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,625 £32,500 £38,129
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +4.90%
75th Percentile £70,600 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £79,750
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 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 30 May 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 30 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
Midlands +72 208 £55,000 -4.35% 403
South East +65 186 £60,000 +14.29% 684
West Midlands +60 149 £55,000 -8.33% 211
North of England -80 118 £60,000 +14.29% 521
East Midlands +45 59 £54,500 +28.24% 167
North West -107 58 £60,000 +15.38% 244
South West +17 45 £59,400 -6.82% 277
Yorkshire +17 37 £60,000 +9.09% 215
East of England +21 36 £42,292 -37.34% 335
Scotland +87 24 £62,500 +13.64% 119
North East +35 23 £58,750 +46.88% 62
Northern Ireland +47 7 £76,092 +119.75% 36
Wales +40 6 £70,442 +31.05% 67
Channel Islands -1 4 £70,000 -17.65% 2
Isle of Man - 1 - -
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 12 (1.89%) IIS
2 11 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.42%) Tomcat
4 6 (0.94%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.79%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.31%) TPMS
Applications
1 33 (5.20%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.10%) Acrobat
4 4 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.94%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.16%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 119 (18.74%) Azure
2 73 (11.50%) Microsoft 365
3 63 (9.92%) AWS
4 50 (7.87%) Entra ID
5 33 (5.20%) Serverless
6 31 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (3.31%) PaaS
8 19 (2.99%) SaaS
9 18 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (2.05%) Google Workspace
11 10 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (1.57%) Power Automate
12 9 (1.42%) GCP
13 8 (1.26%) IaaS
13 8 (1.26%) Power Platform
14 7 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (1.10%) GitHub
15 6 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (0.94%) Google Docs
16 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 94 (14.80%) Firewall
2 42 (6.61%) Network Security
3 35 (5.51%) SSL
4 28 (4.41%) Intrusion Detection
5 27 (4.25%) Broadband
6 26 (4.09%) SSH
7 24 (3.78%) VPN
8 18 (2.83%) TCP/IP
9 13 (2.05%) LAN
10 12 (1.89%) DNS
11 11 (1.73%) VLAN
11 11 (1.73%) WAN
12 9 (1.42%) DMARC
13 7 (1.10%) DHCP
13 7 (1.10%) Intranet
13 7 (1.10%) SAN
14 6 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (0.79%) VoIP
16 4 (0.63%) BGP
16 4 (0.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.05%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.26%) Power BI
4 5 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.79%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.31%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.31%) Parquet
6 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.16%) Big Data
7 1 (0.16%) DB2
7 1 (0.16%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.16%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (1.26%) JIRA
2 3 (0.47%) Burp Suite
2 3 (0.47%) Git
2 3 (0.47%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.16%) Android Studio
3 1 (0.16%) Babel
3 1 (0.16%) ERwin
3 1 (0.16%) GitLab
3 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.16%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.16%) webpack
General
1 224 (35.28%) Social Skills
2 108 (17.01%) Finance
3 85 (13.39%) Legal
4 62 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (4.57%) Law
6 20 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
7 19 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (2.83%) Local Government
8 18 (2.83%) Manufacturing
8 18 (2.83%) Public Sector
9 16 (2.52%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.36%) Retail
11 12 (1.89%) Marketing
12 11 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.57%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.42%) Czech Language
15 8 (1.26%) Electronics
16 7 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (0.94%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 198 (31.18%) Security Engineer
2 153 (24.09%) Principal Engineer
3 147 (23.15%) Principal Security Engineer
4 146 (22.99%) Analyst
5 126 (19.84%) Security Analyst
6 87 (13.70%) Principal Security Analyst
6 87 (13.70%) Product Analyst
7 78 (12.28%) Lead
8 60 (9.45%) Product Engineer
9 42 (6.61%) Security Manager
10 41 (6.46%) Senior
11 40 (6.30%) Architect
12 32 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
13 31 (4.88%) Security Architect
14 30 (4.72%) Risk Manager
15 29 (4.57%) DevOps Engineer
16 23 (3.62%) Information Manager
17 22 (3.46%) Information Security Manager
17 22 (3.46%) IT Manager
18 21 (3.31%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.57%) RESTful
2 26 (4.09%) Web Services
3 18 (2.83%) XML
4 15 (2.36%) YAML
5 12 (1.89%) JSON
6 10 (1.57%) SailPoint
7 9 (1.42%) Node.js
7 9 (1.42%) REST
7 9 (1.42%) SOAP
8 8 (1.26%) Laravel
9 7 (1.10%) .NET
9 7 (1.10%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.79%) CodeIgniter
10 5 (0.79%) SAML
11 4 (0.63%) CSS
11 4 (0.63%) HTML
11 4 (0.63%) OAuth
11 4 (0.63%) OpenID
12 3 (0.47%) Kafka
12 3 (0.47%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 134 (21.10%) Management Information System
2 57 (8.98%) Security Posture
3 54 (8.50%) Cyber Threat
4 37 (5.83%) Cyberattack
5 35 (5.51%) Data Protection Act
5 35 (5.51%) Onboarding
6 28 (4.41%) PKI
7 25 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.73%) Operational Technology
9 10 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.57%) Private Cloud
9 10 (1.57%) Security Operations Centre
10 8 (1.26%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (1.26%) e-Learning
10 8 (1.26%) Social Media
11 7 (1.10%) CCTV
11 7 (1.10%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.10%) Freedom of Information Act
11 7 (1.10%) Replication
11 7 (1.10%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 83 (13.07%) Windows
2 26 (4.09%) Apple iOS
3 22 (3.46%) Linux
3 22 (3.46%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.83%) Android
5 11 (1.73%) Unix
6 10 (1.57%) Windows 10
7 7 (1.10%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.10%) Windows Vista
8 3 (0.47%) Mac OS X
8 3 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.16%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (60.47%) Cybersecurity
2 373 (58.74%) Information Security
3 287 (45.20%) Risk Management
4 194 (30.55%) Project Management
5 173 (27.24%) Security Testing
6 149 (23.46%) Cyber Resilience
7 103 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
8 91 (14.33%) Agile
9 83 (13.07%) Mentoring
10 80 (12.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 80 (12.60%) Incident Response
11 74 (11.65%) Roadmaps
12 70 (11.02%) SIEM
13 66 (10.39%) Vulnerability Assessment
14 64 (10.08%) DevOps
15 62 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
15 62 (9.76%) Vulnerability Management
16 61 (9.61%) Risk Assessment
17 60 (9.45%) ITIL
18 58 (9.13%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 65 (10.24%) Python
2 62 (9.76%) PowerShell
3 36 (5.67%) SQL
4 27 (4.25%) Bash
5 19 (2.99%) JavaScript
6 18 (2.83%) C#
7 11 (1.73%) Java
8 9 (1.42%) VBA
9 8 (1.26%) PHP
10 7 (1.10%) R
10 7 (1.10%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.47%) C++
12 3 (0.47%) Perl
13 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.16%) C
14 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.16%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.16%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 268 (42.20%) CISSP
2 253 (39.84%) CISM
3 231 (36.38%) Degree
4 156 (24.57%) CESG Certified Professional
5 152 (23.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 61 (9.61%) Security Cleared
7 53 (8.35%) CISA
8 38 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (5.98%) SC Cleared
9 36 (5.67%) CRISC
10 32 (5.04%) CEH
11 29 (4.57%) Master's Degree
12 24 (3.78%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (3.62%) CompTIA Security+
14 21 (3.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 20 (3.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 18 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (2.05%) GIAC
18 12 (1.89%) Azure Certification
19 10 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 352 (55.43%) NIST
2 151 (23.78%) RMADS
3 147 (23.15%) JSP 440
4 104 (16.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 102 (16.06%) GDPR
6 50 (7.87%) NCSC
7 46 (7.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 44 (6.93%) PCI DSS
9 41 (6.46%) SOC 2
10 30 (4.72%) COBIT
10 30 (4.72%) GRC
11 27 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 23 (3.62%) ISO 9001
13 18 (2.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (2.20%) HIPAA
15 10 (1.57%) QA
16 8 (1.26%) ISO 14001
16 8 (1.26%) SLA
17 7 (1.10%) PERC
18 6 (0.94%) Def Stans
System Software
1 74 (11.65%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.42%) Hyper-V
2 9 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.63%) vSphere
6 3 (0.47%) Docker
7 1 (0.16%) NFS
Systems Management
1 38 (5.98%) Terraform
2 27 (4.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (1.89%) QRadar
3 12 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (1.57%) SCCM
5 9 (1.42%) Kubernetes
6 6 (0.94%) Ansible
6 6 (0.94%) ArcSight ESM
6 6 (0.94%) Nessus
7 4 (0.63%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.31%) Grafana
8 2 (0.31%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.31%) Nmap
8 2 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.31%) Puppet
8 2 (0.31%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.31%) SCOM
9 1 (0.16%) Backup Exec
9 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.16%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 151 (23.78%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.09%) Thales
3 17 (2.68%) Apple
3 17 (2.68%) Splunk
4 15 (2.36%) Google
5 13 (2.05%) Cisco
5 13 (2.05%) VMware
6 10 (1.57%) Oracle
7 9 (1.42%) Citrix
8 8 (1.26%) ArcSight
8 8 (1.26%) OneTrust
9 7 (1.10%) Adobe
9 7 (1.10%) Qualys
10 6 (0.94%) arcserve
10 6 (0.94%) LogLogic
10 6 (0.94%) McAfee
10 6 (0.94%) Tenable
11 5 (0.79%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.79%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.79%) ServiceNow