ISO/IEC 27001 Job Trends in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 27001
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 161 195
Rank change year-on-year +4 +34 +1
Permanent jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 709 503 993
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.13% 1.89% 1.48%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.22% 11.95% 10.76%
Number of salaries quoted 523 347 871
10th Percentile £35,750 £37,630 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £74,375 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,250
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.49% -1.25%

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 5,801 4,208 9,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.21% 15.85% 13.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,300 2,360 6,295
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £25,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,411 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +11.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,114 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.69% +12.38% -8.70%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

ISO/IEC 27001 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 27001
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ISO/IEC 27001.

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

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 19 April 2026.

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 19 April 2026. 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
South East -12 202 £59,000 -1.25% 88
North of England -37 162 £57,239 -0.45% 64
Midlands -9 136 £56,250 +2.27% 43
South West +14 121 £55,000 -7.41% 38
Yorkshire -2 92 £57,239 -0.45% 24
West Midlands -17 90 £58,750 +6.82% 32
North West -41 61 £60,000 - 36
East Midlands -26 46 £55,000 +0.92% 10
East of England -9 44 £51,250 -0.33% 20
Wales -4 27 £74,600 +4.34% 6
Scotland -34 17 £64,210 -13.52% 8
North East -41 9 £70,000 +21.74% 6
Northern Ireland -41 1 £32,500 - 2
ISO/IEC 27001
UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 61 (8.60%) SharePoint
2 51 (7.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.27%) IIS
4 6 (0.85%) CMS
4 6 (0.85%) Confluence
5 5 (0.71%) Drupal
5 5 (0.71%) nginx
5 5 (0.71%) WordPress
6 1 (0.14%) Apache
Applications
1 16 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.28%) InDesign
3 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.28%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 179 (25.25%) Azure
2 122 (17.21%) Microsoft 365
3 109 (15.37%) Entra ID
4 90 (12.69%) AWS
5 52 (7.33%) SaaS
6 34 (4.80%) Microsoft Purview
7 20 (2.82%) Power Platform
8 19 (2.68%) GCP
9 18 (2.54%) Mimecast
10 13 (1.83%) OneDrive
10 13 (1.83%) PaaS
11 12 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (1.69%) IaaS
12 11 (1.55%) Google Workspace
12 11 (1.55%) Serverless
13 10 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (1.13%) Twilio
15 7 (0.99%) Amazon S3
15 7 (0.99%) GitHub
16 6 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 112 (15.80%) Firewall
2 45 (6.35%) VPN
3 44 (6.21%) DNS
4 38 (5.36%) LAN
4 38 (5.36%) Network Security
5 34 (4.80%) DHCP
5 34 (4.80%) WAN
6 29 (4.09%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (3.10%) TCP/IP
8 21 (2.96%) VoIP
9 13 (1.83%) VLAN
10 12 (1.69%) PBX
11 8 (1.13%) DMZ
11 8 (1.13%) WebEx
12 7 (0.99%) Broadband
12 7 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (0.99%) MPLS
12 7 (0.99%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.99%) SSL
13 6 (0.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.67%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.97%) MySQL
3 12 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.55%) Power BI
5 9 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.85%) Star Schema
7 5 (0.71%) MariaDB
7 5 (0.71%) Pentaho
7 5 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.42%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.14%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.14%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.14%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.14%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.14%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.14%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (3.67%) JIRA
2 8 (1.13%) Git
3 4 (0.56%) Burp Suite
3 4 (0.56%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.28%) GitLab
5 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.14%) JMeter
5 1 (0.14%) MSTest
5 1 (0.14%) Selenium
5 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.14%) Yeoman
General
1 285 (40.20%) Social Skills
2 136 (19.18%) Analytical Skills
3 101 (14.25%) Finance
4 65 (9.17%) Organisational Skills
5 57 (8.04%) Public Sector
6 51 (7.19%) Legal
7 39 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 31 (4.37%) Retail
9 28 (3.95%) Manufacturing
9 28 (3.95%) Telecoms
10 27 (3.81%) Marketing
11 17 (2.40%) Law
12 16 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.97%) Electronics
15 9 (1.27%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.13%) Banking
17 7 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
19 5 (0.71%) Police
Job Titles
1 122 (17.21%) Lead
2 93 (13.12%) Security Manager
3 79 (11.14%) Analyst
4 71 (10.01%) Senior
5 48 (6.77%) Security Analyst
6 47 (6.63%) Consultant
6 47 (6.63%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 45 (6.35%) Support Engineer
8 44 (6.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 44 (6.21%) IT Engineer
9 41 (5.78%) IT Manager
9 41 (5.78%) Security Consultant
10 40 (5.64%) IT Support
11 37 (5.22%) Information Security Manager
12 34 (4.80%) Information Manager
13 32 (4.51%) IT Support Engineer
14 31 (4.37%) Architect
14 31 (4.37%) Information Analyst
14 31 (4.37%) Information Security Analyst
15 29 (4.09%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.97%) SAP CAF
2 10 (1.41%) OAuth
2 10 (1.41%) REST
3 8 (1.13%) JSON
3 8 (1.13%) XML
4 7 (0.99%) GraphQL
4 7 (0.99%) LDAP
4 7 (0.99%) OpenID
4 7 (0.99%) SAML
4 7 (0.99%) SOAP
5 5 (0.71%) ModSecurity
5 5 (0.71%) PySpark
6 4 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (0.56%) SailPoint
7 3 (0.42%) Django
7 3 (0.42%) FreeSWITCH
7 3 (0.42%) RFC 2833
7 3 (0.42%) SQLAlchemy
7 3 (0.42%) WebRTC
7 3 (0.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (13.96%) Cyber Threat
2 83 (11.71%) Security Posture
3 78 (11.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 75 (10.58%) Operational Technology
5 72 (10.16%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 48 (6.77%) Management Information System
7 38 (5.36%) Onboarding
8 37 (5.22%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (2.96%) Cyber Security Posture
10 19 (2.68%) Cloud Native
10 19 (2.68%) Driving Licence
11 17 (2.40%) Data Centre
12 14 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.83%) Data Structures
14 11 (1.55%) Cloud Security Posture
14 11 (1.55%) PKI
14 11 (1.55%) Replication
15 10 (1.41%) Blog
15 10 (1.41%) Cyberattack
16 9 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 75 (10.58%) Windows
2 42 (5.92%) Windows Server
3 30 (4.23%) Linux
4 12 (1.69%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.71%) Android
5 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.56%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (43.16%) Cybersecurity
2 208 (29.34%) Risk Management
3 183 (25.81%) Information Security
4 150 (21.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 126 (17.77%) ITIL
6 123 (17.35%) Mentoring
6 123 (17.35%) Vulnerability Management
7 121 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
8 116 (16.36%) Security Operations
9 115 (16.22%) Incident Response
10 114 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
11 100 (14.10%) Roadmaps
12 98 (13.82%) SIEM
13 84 (11.85%) Coaching
13 84 (11.85%) Data Protection
14 81 (11.42%) Threat Intelligence
15 80 (11.28%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
16 79 (11.14%) SABSA
17 77 (10.86%) Security Architecture
18 75 (10.58%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 59 (8.32%) PowerShell
2 46 (6.49%) Python
3 43 (6.06%) SQL
4 24 (3.39%) Bash
5 17 (2.40%) T-SQL
6 16 (2.26%) R
7 6 (0.85%) C#
8 5 (0.71%) C
9 3 (0.42%) C++
9 3 (0.42%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.42%) PHP
10 2 (0.28%) Bicep
10 2 (0.28%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 157 (22.14%) CISSP
2 123 (17.35%) Security Cleared
3 121 (17.07%) CISM
4 89 (12.55%) SC Cleared
5 82 (11.57%) Degree
6 43 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
7 38 (5.36%) DV Cleared
8 34 (4.80%) CompTIA Security+
9 31 (4.37%) CREST Certified
10 29 (4.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 24 (3.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 21 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
13 20 (2.82%) CISA
14 19 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
14 19 (2.68%) CRISC
15 18 (2.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 16 (2.26%) CCSP
17 15 (2.12%) CEH
18 14 (1.97%) AWS Certification
18 14 (1.97%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 358 (50.49%) NIST
2 210 (29.62%) Cyber Essentials
3 192 (27.08%) GDPR
4 104 (14.67%) GRC
5 99 (13.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 89 (12.55%) PCI DSS
7 67 (9.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 60 (8.46%) NCSC
9 59 (8.32%) ISO 9001
10 52 (7.33%) SOC 2
11 21 (2.96%) Data Quality
12 19 (2.68%) QA
13 17 (2.40%) SOC 3
14 15 (2.12%) COBIT
14 15 (2.12%) HIPAA
15 13 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 12 (1.69%) ISO 14001
16 12 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 10 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 10 (1.41%) NIST 800
System Software
1 104 (14.67%) Active Directory
2 25 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.96%) Docker
4 20 (2.82%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.56%) Firmware
6 4 (0.56%) Terminal Services
6 4 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.42%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (7.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (2.26%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.12%) Terraform
4 8 (1.13%) Ansible
5 7 (0.99%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.85%) Argo
7 5 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.56%) Nessus
8 4 (0.56%) Nmap
9 2 (0.28%) CASB
9 2 (0.28%) Grafana
9 2 (0.28%) WSUS
10 1 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.14%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.14%) SCCM
10 1 (0.14%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 190 (26.80%) Microsoft
2 33 (4.65%) Cisco
2 33 (4.65%) VMware
3 26 (3.67%) SAP
4 23 (3.24%) CrowdStrike
5 13 (1.83%) Meraki
6 11 (1.55%) Google
7 9 (1.27%) Genesys
7 9 (1.27%) Qualys
8 8 (1.13%) Tenable
8 8 (1.13%) Verint
9 7 (0.99%) Fortinet
9 7 (0.99%) Veeam
10 6 (0.85%) Splunk
11 5 (0.71%) Informatica
11 5 (0.71%) Mitel
11 5 (0.71%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.71%) Talend
12 4 (0.56%) HP
12 4 (0.56%) Palo Alto