ISO/IEC 27001
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 178 165
Rank change year-on-year +24 -13 +4
Permanent jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 1,441 897 1,256
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.26% 1.82% 1.61%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.01% 11.64% 12.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,027 678 798
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,813 £49,566
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £104,250 £98,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11,995 7,704 10,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.51% 15.61% 13.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,504 4,234 5,370
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,063 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ISO/IEC 27001 job vacancy trend in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Salary Trend

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

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

ISO/IEC 27001
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 September 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
England +30 1,310 £67,500 +3.85% 1,489
UK excluding London +34 866 £57,500 +4.55% 788
Work from Home +42 575 £66,041 +1.60% 738
London +6 524 £80,000 +6.67% 805
South East +13 238 £60,000 -4.00% 232
North of England +13 183 £56,000 -2.61% 184
Midlands +48 148 £60,000 +39.19% 86
South West -33 141 £57,500 +15.00% 106
West Midlands +16 103 £60,000 +34.70% 58
North West +36 97 £60,000 +20.00% 124
East of England +18 77 £46,000 -0.54% 64
Yorkshire -10 55 £52,500 -19.23% 45
East Midlands -1 45 £60,000 +54.84% 28
Wales -43 42 £52,585 -24.88% 21
North East -52 31 £62,500 +8.70% 17
Scotland +7 28 £82,250 +18.78% 74
Northern Ireland -74 11 £40,000 -40.02% 24

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 83 (5.76%) SharePoint
2 73 (5.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (0.83%) Confluence
4 11 (0.76%) IIS
5 7 (0.49%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.35%) ColdFusion
7 3 (0.21%) CMS
8 2 (0.14%) WordPress
9 1 (0.069%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.069%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.069%) Site Server
9 1 (0.069%) WebLogic
Applications
1 43 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.14%) Weka
6 1 (0.069%) Elementor
6 1 (0.069%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.28%) SAP GRC
4 3 (0.21%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.21%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
5 2 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.069%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.069%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.069%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 431 (29.91%) Azure
2 278 (19.29%) Microsoft 365
3 260 (18.04%) AWS
4 184 (12.77%) Entra ID
5 127 (8.81%) SaaS
6 89 (6.18%) GCP
7 75 (5.20%) Mimecast
8 60 (4.16%) Microsoft Purview
9 37 (2.57%) Power Platform
10 36 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
11 33 (2.29%) IaaS
12 28 (1.94%) PaaS
13 22 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
14 21 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
14 21 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
15 19 (1.32%) GitHub
15 19 (1.32%) Google Workspace
16 18 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (1.18%) Serverless
18 16 (1.11%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 228 (15.82%) Firewall
2 164 (11.38%) Network Security
3 98 (6.80%) VPN
4 58 (4.02%) WAN
5 56 (3.89%) DNS
6 40 (2.78%) DHCP
7 39 (2.71%) LAN
8 33 (2.29%) VLAN
9 32 (2.22%) SD-WAN
10 29 (2.01%) TCP/IP
11 26 (1.80%) Wireless
12 22 (1.53%) BGP
13 20 (1.39%) SSL
14 19 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
15 17 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
16 16 (1.11%) MPLS
16 16 (1.11%) SSH
17 15 (1.04%) IPsec
18 13 (0.90%) Internet
18 13 (0.90%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (2.15%) SQL Server
2 23 (1.60%) Power BI
3 10 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (0.56%) MongoDB
5 7 (0.49%) Metadata
5 7 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.42%) MySQL
7 4 (0.28%) Data Mining
7 4 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.28%) Tableau
8 3 (0.21%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.14%) Big Data
10 1 (0.069%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.069%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.069%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.069%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.069%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.069%) Redis
10 1 (0.069%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 56 (3.89%) JIRA
2 14 (0.97%) Git
3 9 (0.62%) Burp Suite
3 9 (0.62%) Metasploit
3 9 (0.62%) TeamCity
4 8 (0.56%) GitLab
4 8 (0.56%) Yeoman
5 5 (0.35%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.28%) Claude Code
6 4 (0.28%) Storybook
7 2 (0.14%) Maven
7 2 (0.14%) Snyk
7 2 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.069%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.069%) JMeter
8 1 (0.069%) MSTest
8 1 (0.069%) Postman
8 1 (0.069%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.069%) Visual Studio
General
1 540 (37.47%) Social Skills
2 258 (17.90%) Finance
3 234 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (10.41%) Legal
5 145 (10.06%) Public Sector
6 114 (7.91%) Law
7 107 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 88 (6.11%) Retail
9 81 (5.62%) Influencing Skills
10 66 (4.58%) Banking
11 56 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
12 37 (2.57%) Manufacturing
13 36 (2.50%) Aerospace
14 30 (2.08%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
16 26 (1.80%) Local Government
17 14 (0.97%) Aviation
17 14 (0.97%) Financial Institution
18 13 (0.90%) Marketing
19 10 (0.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 205 (14.23%) Analyst
2 181 (12.56%) Senior
3 159 (11.03%) Security Analyst
4 144 (9.99%) Lead
5 139 (9.65%) Architect
6 123 (8.54%) Security Manager
7 122 (8.47%) Consultant
8 108 (7.49%) Security Architect
9 87 (6.04%) Security Engineer
10 85 (5.90%) Security Consultant
11 84 (5.83%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 61 (4.23%) IT Manager
13 57 (3.96%) Information Manager
13 57 (3.96%) Information Security Manager
14 55 (3.82%) Security Specialist
15 53 (3.68%) IT Engineer
16 52 (3.61%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 52 (3.61%) IT Support
17 48 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 45 (3.12%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.68%) Terraform
2 27 (1.87%) REST
3 23 (1.60%) SAML
4 19 (1.32%) ModSecurity
4 19 (1.32%) OAuth
5 17 (1.18%) React
6 16 (1.11%) SOAP
7 14 (0.97%) OpenID
8 13 (0.90%) RESTful
9 12 (0.83%) LDAP
9 12 (0.83%) Node.js
10 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
11 10 (0.69%) CSS
11 10 (0.69%) Next.js
12 9 (0.62%) eBPF
12 9 (0.62%) HTML
13 7 (0.49%) .NET
14 6 (0.42%) GraphQL
14 6 (0.42%) SailPoint
14 6 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 236 (16.38%) Security Posture
2 177 (12.28%) Management Information System
3 82 (5.69%) Cyber Threat
4 64 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 62 (4.30%) Cloud Native
6 58 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
7 57 (3.96%) Data Centre
8 42 (2.91%) Driving Licence
9 35 (2.43%) PKI
10 34 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 34 (2.36%) Operational Technology
11 29 (2.01%) Cyber Defence
12 27 (1.87%) Cyber Security Posture
12 27 (1.87%) Security Operations Centre
13 25 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
13 25 (1.73%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 24 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
15 23 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
16 16 (1.11%) Cloud Security Posture
16 16 (1.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 150 (10.41%) Windows
2 72 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 71 (4.93%) Linux
4 18 (1.25%) Windows 10
5 9 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.35%) Unix
9 4 (0.28%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.21%) Android
11 2 (0.14%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 728 (50.52%) Cybersecurity
2 525 (36.43%) Information Security
3 426 (29.56%) Risk Management
4 376 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 344 (23.87%) Incident Response
6 293 (20.33%) Vulnerability Management
7 261 (18.11%) Cloud Security
8 240 (16.66%) SIEM
9 220 (15.27%) Stakeholder Management
10 219 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
11 208 (14.43%) Security Operations
12 190 (13.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 189 (13.12%) AI
14 186 (12.91%) Data Protection
15 170 (11.80%) Security Architecture
16 167 (11.59%) ITIL
17 164 (11.38%) Roadmaps
18 148 (10.27%) Disaster Recovery
19 139 (9.65%) Agile
20 134 (9.30%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 103 (7.15%) PowerShell
2 65 (4.51%) Python
3 44 (3.05%) SQL
4 30 (2.08%) R
5 29 (2.01%) JavaScript
6 24 (1.67%) Bash
7 21 (1.46%) C#
8 17 (1.18%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.11%) Go
10 11 (0.76%) Java
10 11 (0.76%) T-SQL
11 9 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.49%) C
13 6 (0.42%) VBA
13 6 (0.42%) VBScript
14 4 (0.28%) ABAP
14 4 (0.28%) Bicep
15 3 (0.21%) Ruby
16 2 (0.14%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.069%) VB
Qualifications
1 418 (29.01%) CISSP
2 333 (23.11%) CISM
3 262 (18.18%) Security Cleared
4 205 (14.23%) Degree
5 198 (13.74%) SC Cleared
6 110 (7.63%) CRISC
7 108 (7.49%) Cisco Certification
8 87 (6.04%) CompTIA Security+
9 78 (5.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 75 (5.20%) CISA
11 73 (5.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 68 (4.72%) DV Cleared
13 62 (4.30%) CCSP
14 61 (4.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 49 (3.40%) AWS Certification
15 49 (3.40%) Azure Certification
16 39 (2.71%) CompTIA CySA+
17 38 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
18 36 (2.50%) GIAC
19 33 (2.29%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 609 (42.26%) NIST
2 390 (27.06%) GDPR
3 332 (23.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 271 (18.81%) GRC
5 171 (11.87%) PCI DSS
6 139 (9.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 126 (8.74%) NCSC
8 112 (7.77%) ISO 9001
9 109 (7.56%) SOC 2
10 43 (2.98%) COBIT
10 43 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 42 (2.91%) QA
12 36 (2.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 35 (2.43%) ISO 14001
14 34 (2.36%) NIST 800
15 31 (2.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 28 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 27 (1.87%) JSP 440
18 23 (1.60%) ISO 22301
18 23 (1.60%) SLA
System Software
1 159 (11.03%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (2.78%) Hyper-V
4 20 (1.39%) Docker
5 17 (1.18%) Firmware
6 12 (0.83%) IAG
7 8 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.49%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.42%) vSphere
10 3 (0.21%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.14%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.069%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 115 (7.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (2.91%) Kubernetes
3 38 (2.64%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (1.46%) CASB
5 20 (1.39%) Ansible
6 18 (1.25%) FortiGate
7 11 (0.76%) Nessus
8 9 (0.62%) Cilium
8 9 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (0.62%) Nmap
9 7 (0.49%) SCCM
10 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (0.28%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.21%) Cisco Prime
12 3 (0.21%) Nagios
12 3 (0.21%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
13 2 (0.14%) Grafana
13 2 (0.14%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 414 (28.73%) Microsoft
2 74 (5.14%) CrowdStrike
3 72 (5.00%) Cisco
4 52 (3.61%) Google
5 46 (3.19%) Palo Alto
6 43 (2.98%) VMware
7 32 (2.22%) Splunk
8 31 (2.15%) Tenable
9 29 (2.01%) Qualys
9 29 (2.01%) ServiceNow
10 22 (1.53%) Meraki
10 22 (1.53%) Oracle
11 21 (1.46%) Rapid7
12 20 (1.39%) Fortinet
12 20 (1.39%) iManage
13 19 (1.32%) SAP
14 18 (1.25%) CyberArk
15 16 (1.11%) Netskope
15 16 (1.11%) SolarWinds
16 13 (0.90%) Zscaler