ISO/IEC 27001 Jobs in the UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 27001
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for ISO/IEC 27001 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 205 185 190
Rank change year-on-year -20 +5 +7
Permanent jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 995 1,121 1,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.40% 1.86% 2.09%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.31% 9.09% 12.16%
Number of salaries quoted 867 642 931
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,148 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,000 £71,125
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.73%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

ISO/IEC 27001 is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,651 12,335 12,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.59% 20.50% 17.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6,353 4,620 6,913
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,900
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.39% +0.84%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,750 £75,222
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +2.80%

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 12 May 2024.

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 12 May 2024. 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
North of England +32 308 £51,500 +3.00% 58
South East -39 212 £52,500 -8.70% 52
Midlands +17 199 £55,000 -8.33% 41
North West +6 189 £52,000 +11.83% 28
South West -4 147 £62,500 +4.17% 41
West Midlands +21 139 £57,500 -4.17% 26
Yorkshire +43 82 £55,000 -8.33% 21
East Midlands +16 58 £42,500 -10.53% 15
East of England -7 57 £67,500 +12.50% 23
Scotland -58 53 £55,000 -17.29% 14
North East +19 37 £40,000 -17.95% 9
Wales -15 13 £53,750 +37.82% 6
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
Northern Ireland +9 2 £34,628 -19.94% 5
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 28 (2.81%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.70%) MS Project Server
4 6 (0.60%) IIS
5 4 (0.40%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.30%) MQSeries
6 3 (0.30%) NServiceBus
6 3 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.10%) Apache
8 1 (0.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 53 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (4.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.40%) SAP WM
2 3 (0.30%) Maximo
3 2 (0.20%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.10%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.10%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 251 (25.23%) Azure
2 157 (15.78%) Microsoft 365
3 120 (12.06%) AWS
4 61 (6.13%) Cloud Computing
5 56 (5.63%) Entra ID
6 47 (4.72%) SaaS
7 29 (2.91%) IaaS
8 26 (2.61%) PaaS
9 16 (1.61%) GCP
9 16 (1.61%) Power Platform
10 15 (1.51%) AWS CloudTrail
11 14 (1.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 13 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (1.21%) Amazon S3
13 12 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
14 11 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (1.11%) Serverless
15 10 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
15 10 (1.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 149 (14.97%) Firewall
2 73 (7.34%) Network Security
3 40 (4.02%) DNS
4 36 (3.62%) Intrusion Detection
5 30 (3.02%) VPN
6 27 (2.71%) WAN
7 25 (2.51%) LAN
8 22 (2.21%) TCP/IP
9 13 (1.31%) Internet
10 12 (1.21%) Wireshark
11 10 (1.01%) Wireless
12 9 (0.90%) DHCP
13 8 (0.80%) Cisco IPT
13 8 (0.80%) Intranet
13 8 (0.80%) SSL
14 7 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (0.60%) OSPF
15 6 (0.60%) VoIP
16 5 (0.50%) HTTP
16 5 (0.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.01%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (1.11%) Power BI
4 8 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.70%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (0.50%) PowerPivot
7 4 (0.40%) Big Data
7 4 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.30%) DB2
8 3 (0.30%) Metadata
8 3 (0.30%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.30%) MySQL
8 3 (0.30%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.20%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.10%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.10%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.10%) Lumira
Development Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Visual Studio
2 4 (0.40%) Burp Suite
2 4 (0.40%) Git
3 3 (0.30%) Metasploit
3 3 (0.30%) sqlmap
4 2 (0.20%) JIRA
4 2 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.10%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.10%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.10%) Selenium
5 1 (0.10%) TeamCity
General
1 331 (33.27%) Social Skills
2 144 (14.47%) Finance
3 126 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (6.63%) Legal
5 57 (5.73%) Public Sector
6 45 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
7 32 (3.22%) Retail
8 28 (2.81%) Law
9 26 (2.61%) Manufacturing
10 21 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (2.11%) Telecoms
11 19 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (1.41%) Banking
12 14 (1.41%) Environmental Health
12 14 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.11%) Automotive
14 10 (1.01%) Games
15 9 (0.90%) Marketing
16 8 (0.80%) Aerospace
17 7 (0.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 157 (15.78%) Analyst
2 108 (10.85%) Security Manager
3 104 (10.45%) Security Analyst
4 84 (8.44%) Information Manager
5 79 (7.94%) IT Manager
6 71 (7.14%) Lead
7 65 (6.53%) Consultant
8 63 (6.33%) Information Security Manager
9 52 (5.23%) Architect
10 51 (5.13%) Information Assurance Manager
10 51 (5.13%) Security Consultant
11 48 (4.82%) Information Analyst
11 48 (4.82%) Information Security Analyst
12 47 (4.72%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 46 (4.62%) Senior
14 44 (4.42%) Security Engineer
15 42 (4.22%) Security Architect
16 33 (3.32%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 31 (3.12%) Security Assurance Manager
18 29 (2.91%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.21%) Middleware
2 11 (1.11%) Web Services
3 9 (0.90%) .NET
4 8 (0.80%) ModSecurity
5 5 (0.50%) .NET Framework
5 5 (0.50%) 802.1X
5 5 (0.50%) EDI
6 4 (0.40%) .NET Core
6 4 (0.40%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.40%) ASP.NET
6 4 (0.40%) OAuth
6 4 (0.40%) OpenID
6 4 (0.40%) SAML
7 3 (0.30%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 3 (0.30%) CSS
7 3 (0.30%) HTML
7 3 (0.30%) HTML5
7 3 (0.30%) SOAP
7 3 (0.30%) Vue
7 3 (0.30%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 192 (19.30%) Management Information System
2 63 (6.33%) Security Posture
3 57 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
4 56 (5.63%) Cyber Threat
5 55 (5.53%) Data Centre
6 50 (5.03%) Cyberattack
7 41 (4.12%) Driving Licence
8 27 (2.71%) Operational Technology
9 25 (2.51%) Security Operations Centre
10 20 (2.01%) Onboarding
11 19 (1.91%) NHS
12 17 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.71%) IoT
13 14 (1.41%) Public Cloud
14 13 (1.31%) FMCG
15 12 (1.21%) PMI
16 11 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 10 (1.01%) Clustering
17 10 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 125 (12.56%) Windows
2 44 (4.42%) Linux
3 42 (4.22%) Windows Server
4 23 (2.31%) Apple iOS
5 22 (2.21%) Windows 10
6 16 (1.61%) Android
7 10 (1.01%) Unix
8 8 (0.80%) AIX
8 8 (0.80%) Kali Linux
8 8 (0.80%) Solaris
9 7 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.40%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.40%) VMS
11 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.10%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (47.44%) Cybersecurity
2 425 (42.71%) Information Security
3 176 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
4 168 (16.88%) Risk Management
5 165 (16.58%) Incident Response
6 130 (13.07%) ITIL
7 126 (12.66%) Security Management
8 124 (12.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 120 (12.06%) Data Protection
10 109 (10.95%) Project Management
11 98 (9.85%) Information Assurance
12 95 (9.55%) Cloud Security
12 95 (9.55%) SIEM
13 92 (9.25%) Customer Service
14 90 (9.05%) Security Operations
15 88 (8.84%) Disaster Recovery
16 86 (8.64%) Vulnerability Management
17 77 (7.74%) Business Continuity
17 77 (7.74%) ISMS
18 75 (7.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (5.03%) Python
2 46 (4.62%) PowerShell
3 45 (4.52%) SQL
4 22 (2.21%) Bash
5 13 (1.31%) Bicep
6 12 (1.21%) JavaScript
7 9 (0.90%) C#
8 7 (0.70%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.30%) Ruby
10 2 (0.20%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.10%) ABAP
11 1 (0.10%) Go
11 1 (0.10%) Java
11 1 (0.10%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.10%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.10%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 185 (18.59%) Security Cleared
2 181 (18.19%) CISSP
3 160 (16.08%) Degree
4 139 (13.97%) CISM
5 122 (12.26%) SC Cleared
6 98 (9.85%) CISA
7 57 (5.73%) Cisco Certification
8 51 (5.13%) CRISC
9 40 (4.02%) Azure Certification
10 35 (3.52%) CESG Certified Professional
11 34 (3.42%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 32 (3.22%) AWS Certification
13 30 (3.02%) CCNA
14 27 (2.71%) CCNP
14 27 (2.71%) CompTIA Security+
15 24 (2.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 22 (2.21%) CCSP
16 22 (2.21%) CEH
16 22 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
17 20 (2.01%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (27.04%) Cyber Essentials
2 266 (26.73%) NIST
3 177 (17.79%) GDPR
4 140 (14.07%) ISO 9001
5 119 (11.96%) PCI DSS
6 90 (9.05%) GRC
7 81 (8.14%) NCSC
8 79 (7.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 45 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 44 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 40 (4.02%) SOC 2
12 37 (3.72%) SLA
13 31 (3.12%) ISO 22301
14 30 (3.02%) NIST 800
15 26 (2.61%) COBIT
16 25 (2.51%) ISO 14001
17 19 (1.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 18 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 20000
19 15 (1.51%) RMADS
20 14 (1.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 82 (8.24%) Active Directory
2 35 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.91%) Docker
4 14 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (1.21%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.01%) Firmware
7 7 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.50%) vSphere
10 3 (0.30%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.20%) XenApp
11 2 (0.20%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.10%) Snort
Systems Management
1 41 (4.12%) EnCase
2 40 (4.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 22 (2.21%) Kubernetes
4 12 (1.21%) WSUS
5 11 (1.11%) Ansible
5 11 (1.11%) Terraform
6 10 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.80%) Nessus
8 6 (0.60%) Nmap
8 6 (0.60%) SCCM
9 5 (0.50%) CSIRT
9 5 (0.50%) Suricata
10 4 (0.40%) Istio
10 4 (0.40%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.30%) SELinux
12 2 (0.20%) CASB
12 2 (0.20%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.20%) QRadar
13 1 (0.10%) RSA Archer
13 1 (0.10%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 241 (24.22%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.83%) Cisco
3 57 (5.73%) VMware
4 20 (2.01%) Apple
5 19 (1.91%) SAP
6 17 (1.71%) Fortinet
6 17 (1.71%) Oracle
7 13 (1.31%) Meraki
8 12 (1.21%) Splunk
9 10 (1.01%) Citrix
10 9 (0.90%) Google
10 9 (0.90%) Qualys
11 8 (0.80%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.60%) Dell
12 6 (0.60%) Juniper
12 6 (0.60%) Rapid7
12 6 (0.60%) Thycotic
13 5 (0.50%) IBM
13 5 (0.50%) Intel
13 5 (0.50%) Palo Alto