ISO 9001 Job Trends in the UK excluding London

ISO 9001
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ISO 9001 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 388 425
Rank change year-on-year -44 +37 +163
Permanent jobs citing ISO 9001 77 181 150
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.50% 0.43%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.61% 3.20% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 60 64 120
10th Percentile £26,250 £37,200 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,532 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% -4.49% +10.00%
75th Percentile £51,563 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £63,000 £110,000 £90,125
UK median annual salary £45,390 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.22% -9.09% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

ISO 9001 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 4,774 5,654 4,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.26% 15.74% 14.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,514 2,359 3,409
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,229 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,543 £70,821 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £58,500 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -2.50% +3.51% +0.81%

ISO 9001
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ISO 9001 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

ISO 9001 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ISO 9001
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ISO 9001.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ISO 9001

ISO 9001
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISO 9001 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for ISO 9001 in the UK excluding London

ISO 9001
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 9001 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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 +36 22 £47,500 +2.70% 21
North of England -45 20 £33,750 -15.63% 12
South West +3 14 £47,500 -29.63% 12
Midlands +4 11 £50,000 +17.65% 10
Yorkshire -5 11 £30,500 -28.24% 4
West Midlands +1 7 £65,000 +52.94% 6
North West -41 7 £37,000 -7.50% 7
East of England +19 4 £47,500 -47.22% 5
East Midlands -5 4 £45,390 +10.04% 4
Scotland -10 4 £33,750 -66.25% 3
North East +12 2 - - 1
Wales +9 2 £25,400 -57.67% 4
ISO 9001
UK

ISO 9001
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 5 (6.49%) Drupal
1 5 (6.49%) nginx
1 5 (6.49%) WordPress
2 3 (3.90%) HCL Domino
2 3 (3.90%) HCL Notes
3 1 (1.30%) Confluence
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (11.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (11.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (7.79%) InDesign
4 4 (5.19%) Autodesk Inventor
4 4 (5.19%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.99%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (9.09%) Azure
3 6 (7.79%) SaaS
4 5 (6.49%) AWS
5 4 (5.19%) IaaS
5 4 (5.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (2.60%) Azure AI
6 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.30%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.79%) Unified Communications
2 5 (6.49%) VPN
3 4 (5.19%) DMZ
3 4 (5.19%) STUN
3 4 (5.19%) VLAN
3 4 (5.19%) VoIP
4 1 (1.30%) BGP
4 1 (1.30%) Bluetooth
4 1 (1.30%) IPv4
4 1 (1.30%) IPv6
4 1 (1.30%) LAN
4 1 (1.30%) MPLS
4 1 (1.30%) OSPF
4 1 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.30%) RS-232
4 1 (1.30%) RS-485
4 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.30%) WAN
4 1 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.30%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.49%) MariaDB
2 4 (5.19%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.60%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Git
1 2 (2.60%) JIRA
1 2 (2.60%) LabVIEW
1 2 (2.60%) Maven
2 1 (1.30%) GitLab
2 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 50 (64.94%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.88%) Manufacturing
3 9 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.39%) Electronics
4 8 (10.39%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (10.39%) Public Sector
5 7 (9.09%) Marketing
6 6 (7.79%) Legal
6 6 (7.79%) Local Government
6 6 (7.79%) Military
6 6 (7.79%) Police
7 5 (6.49%) Automotive
8 4 (5.19%) Advertising
8 4 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (5.19%) Finance
9 3 (3.90%) Billing
9 3 (3.90%) Environmental Health
9 3 (3.90%) Retail
10 2 (2.60%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (15.58%) Technical Support
2 10 (12.99%) Senior
3 9 (11.69%) Infrastructure Support
4 8 (10.39%) Support Engineer
4 8 (10.39%) Support Supervisor
4 8 (10.39%) Technical Support Supervisor
5 6 (7.79%) Marketing Executive
5 6 (7.79%) Product Manager
5 6 (7.79%) Senior Marketing Executive
6 5 (6.49%) Graduate
6 5 (6.49%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
6 5 (6.49%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 5 (6.49%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
6 5 (6.49%) Principal Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Quality Manager
6 5 (6.49%) Security Specialist
6 5 (6.49%) Support Specialist
7 4 (5.19%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.19%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (3.90%) .NET
2 3 (3.90%) EDI
3 2 (2.60%) JavaFX
4 1 (1.30%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.88%) Onboarding
2 9 (11.69%) Driving Licence
3 8 (10.39%) GNSS
3 8 (10.39%) Satnav
4 7 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (9.09%) Social Media
5 6 (7.79%) Web Conferencing
6 4 (5.19%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.60%) Life Science
7 2 (2.60%) PMI
8 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.30%) CCTV
8 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.30%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.30%) FPGA
8 1 (1.30%) IoT
8 1 (1.30%) NHS
8 1 (1.30%) Online Games
8 1 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.49%) Linux
2 4 (5.19%) Debian
2 4 (5.19%) Windows
2 4 (5.19%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.30%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (41.56%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (28.57%) Project Management
3 21 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (19.48%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (19.48%) Quality Management
5 14 (18.18%) Computer Science
6 10 (12.99%) Process Improvement
6 10 (12.99%) Roadmaps
7 9 (11.69%) CRM
7 9 (11.69%) Data Protection
7 9 (11.69%) Decision-Making
7 9 (11.69%) Test Automation
8 8 (10.39%) Analytics
8 8 (10.39%) B2B
8 8 (10.39%) Information Security
8 8 (10.39%) Resource Allocation
8 8 (10.39%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (9.09%) FMEA
9 7 (9.09%) Internal Audit
9 7 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.09%) C#
2 4 (5.19%) Delphi
2 4 (5.19%) SQL
3 3 (3.90%) C
3 3 (3.90%) C++
4 2 (2.60%) Java
5 1 (1.30%) Python
Qualifications
1 31 (40.26%) Degree
2 17 (22.08%) Security Cleared
3 10 (12.99%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.49%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.49%) DBS Check
4 5 (6.49%) Master's Degree
4 5 (6.49%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 5 (6.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 5 (6.49%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
5 3 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.60%) HND
6 2 (2.60%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.60%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.30%) CISA
7 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.30%) CRISC
7 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.30%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (38.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (22.08%) QA
3 15 (19.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (12.99%) ISO 14001
5 6 (7.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (6.49%) GDPR
6 5 (6.49%) ISO 13485
7 2 (2.60%) GMP
7 2 (2.60%) GxP
8 1 (1.30%) DO-254
8 1 (1.30%) ISO 22301
8 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 5 (6.49%) Docker
2 4 (5.19%) Kamailio
3 3 (3.90%) Firmware
4 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.30%) EnCase
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (25.97%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.09%) Cisco
3 6 (7.79%) Adobe
3 6 (7.79%) Salesforce
3 6 (7.79%) Zoho
4 4 (5.19%) Autodesk
4 4 (5.19%) Sage
5 3 (3.90%) IBM
5 3 (3.90%) Lotus
6 2 (2.60%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.30%) EMC
7 1 (1.30%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.30%) Huawei
7 1 (1.30%) Meraki