Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 21 September 2017

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 21 September 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

ISO/IEC 27001
UK
6 months to
21 Sep 2017		 Same period 2016 Same period 2015
Rank 226 196 280
Rank change year-on-year -30 +84 +29
Permanent jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 2739 3359 2533
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 1.55% 1.73% 1.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.58% 13.16% 9.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2294 2697 2128
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median salary % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,750 £32,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £50,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -1.00% +8.70% +2.22%

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 with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 21779 25521 27972
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.34% 13.12% 12.75%
Number of salaries quoted 16165 20251 22167
UK median annual salary £50,000 £49,375 £45,000
Median salary % change year-on-year +1.27% +9.72% -
10th Percentile £27,261 £27,250 £26,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001.

Salary trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 21 September 2017.

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 21 September 2017. 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
Job
Vacancies
England -36 2558 £55,000 - 145
UK excluding London -31 1507 £49,500 -1.00% 96
London +13 1163 £62,500 -3.85% 52
South East -15 510 £52,500 - 23
North of England -28 417 £47,500 - 42
North West -1 216 £50,000 - 21
Midlands -83 187 £50,000 - 11
Yorkshire -43 166 £45,000 -6.25% 20
West Midlands -88 148 £51,250 +2.50% 6
East of England -47 138 £57,500 +27.78% 7
South West -7 136 £50,000 -16.67% 9
Wales +45 84 £45,000 -
East Midlands -8 39 £47,500 -13.64% 4
Scotland -31 38 £42,500 -19.05% 3
North East +34 35 £47,500 +23.38% 1
Channel Islands +2 1 £67,500 +35.00%
Isle of Man - 1 £25,000 - 1

For the 6 months to 21 September 2017, IT jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads with a requirement for ISO/IEC 27001.

1 1764 (64.40%) Information Security
2 1137 (41.51%) CISSP
3 914 (33.37%) PCI DSS
4 816 (29.79%) CISM
5 678 (24.75%) Finance
6 677 (24.72%) Cybersecurity
7 670 (24.46%) ITIL
8 655 (23.91%) Risk Management
9 650 (23.73%) Windows
10 607 (22.16%) Firewall
11 557 (20.34%) Data Protection
12 470 (17.16%) SIEM
13 428 (15.63%) Penetration Testing
14 405 (14.79%) CISA
15 404 (14.75%) Management Information System
16 396 (14.46%) Degree
17 367 (13.40%) GDPR
18 361 (13.18%) Microsoft
19 344 (12.56%) Security Architecture
20 335 (12.23%) Active Directory
21 330 (12.05%) Cisco
22 328 (11.98%) Linux
23 324 (11.83%) Windows Server
24 310 (11.32%) Security Management
25 285 (10.41%) Agile Software Development
26 279 (10.19%) Network Security
27 277 (10.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
28 274 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
29 271 (9.89%) Risk Assessment
30 269 (9.82%) ISO 9001

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 108 (3.94%) MS Exchange
2 76 (2.77%) IIS
3 48 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 46 (1.68%) Exchange Server 2010
5 34 (1.24%) Exchange Server 2013
6 27 (0.99%) WebSphere
7 21 (0.77%) CMS
8 18 (0.66%) Skype for Business
9 17 (0.62%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.29%) Apache
11 6 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.18%) Oracle Service Bus
13 4 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
13 4 (0.15%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.11%) nginx
14 3 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
14 3 (0.11%) Umbraco
15 2 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2003
15 2 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2007
15 2 (0.073%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 62 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.91%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.11%) Maya
7 2 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.33%) Sentinel
2 8 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
3 7 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.15%) Cognos TM1
6 3 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.073%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.073%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.037%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.037%) Magento
8 1 (0.037%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.037%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.037%) Sage CRM
8 1 (0.037%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.037%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 135 (4.93%) SaaS
2 133 (4.86%) Amazon AWS
3 118 (4.31%) Microsoft Azure
4 91 (3.32%) Office 365
5 48 (1.75%) IaaS
6 29 (1.06%) PaaS
7 22 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
7 22 (0.80%) Mimecast
8 8 (0.29%) IBM Cloud
9 6 (0.22%) Cloudflare
10 5 (0.18%) Bluemix
10 5 (0.18%) SoftLayer
11 4 (0.15%) GitHub
12 3 (0.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (0.11%) G Suite
13 2 (0.073%) Force.com
13 2 (0.073%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.073%) SuccessFactors
13 2 (0.073%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (0.073%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 607 (22.16%) Firewall
2 279 (10.19%) Network Security
3 198 (7.23%) TCP/IP
4 182 (6.64%) VPN
5 152 (5.55%) LAN
6 139 (5.07%) WAN
7 132 (4.82%) DNS
8 125 (4.56%) Internet
9 101 (3.69%) SAN
10 95 (3.47%) DHCP
11 81 (2.96%) Cisco ASA
12 78 (2.85%) VoIP
13 61 (2.23%) Wireless
14 53 (1.94%) VLAN
15 50 (1.83%) SSL
16 44 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
16 44 (1.61%) IPsec
17 35 (1.28%) SNMP
18 31 (1.13%) HTTP
19 30 (1.10%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (7.19%) SQL Server
2 41 (1.50%) MySQL
3 33 (1.20%) SQL Server 2008
4 29 (1.06%) Big Data
5 27 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 24 (0.88%) SQL Server 2012
7 20 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 15 (0.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 13 (0.47%) Relational Database
10 11 (0.40%) Hadoop
11 10 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (0.33%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.33%) Power BI
13 8 (0.29%) RDBMS
14 7 (0.26%) SQL Server 2005
15 6 (0.22%) PerformancePoint
15 6 (0.22%) PowerPivot
15 6 (0.22%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 27 (0.99%) Metasploit
2 18 (0.66%) Subversion
3 16 (0.58%) Visual Studio
4 14 (0.51%) Eclipse
4 14 (0.51%) Maven
5 12 (0.44%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.26%) Git (software)
7 6 (0.22%) Fiddler
8 5 (0.18%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.18%) JIRA
8 5 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.18%) WinDbg
9 4 (0.15%) MSI
9 4 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (0.11%) PHPUnit
10 3 (0.11%) Selenium
11 2 (0.073%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.073%) Mocha
11 2 (0.073%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.073%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 678 (24.75%) Finance
2 191 (6.97%) Legal
3 121 (4.42%) Telecoms
4 117 (4.27%) Banking
5 116 (4.24%) Law
6 96 (3.50%) Retail
7 82 (2.99%) Marketing
8 44 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 32 (1.17%) Electronics
10 29 (1.06%) Back Office
11 19 (0.69%) Military
12 18 (0.66%) Advertising
12 18 (0.66%) Financial Institution
13 17 (0.62%) Games
13 17 (0.62%) Publishing
14 16 (0.58%) Automotive
15 9 (0.33%) Digital Economy
16 8 (0.29%) French Language
16 8 (0.29%) Investment Banking
17 7 (0.26%) German Language
Job Titles
1 589 (21.50%) Analyst
2 488 (17.82%) Security Analyst
3 410 (14.97%) Consultant
4 394 (14.38%) Security Manager
5 313 (11.43%) Security Consultant
6 236 (8.62%) Information Analyst
7 232 (8.47%) Information Security Analyst
8 219 (8.00%) Information Manager
9 210 (7.67%) Information Security Manager
10 188 (6.86%) IT Analyst
11 179 (6.54%) Architect
12 154 (5.62%) IT Manager
13 150 (5.48%) IT Security Analyst
14 147 (5.37%) Security Officer
15 135 (4.93%) Security Engineer
16 128 (4.67%) Information Security Consultant
17 124 (4.53%) Security Architect
18 115 (4.20%) Information Security Officer
19 112 (4.09%) Security Specialist
20 108 (3.94%) Information Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (2.99%) Web Services
2 78 (2.85%) .NET
3 26 (0.95%) ASP.NET
4 21 (0.77%) LAMP
5 20 (0.73%) Middleware
6 19 (0.69%) .NET Framework
7 18 (0.66%) Hibernate
7 18 (0.66%) REST
7 18 (0.66%) SOAP
8 17 (0.62%) Java SE
9 16 (0.58%) ASP.NET Web API
9 16 (0.58%) RESTful
9 16 (0.58%) Spring
10 15 (0.55%) 802.1X
11 14 (0.51%) Ajax
11 14 (0.51%) ASP.NET MVC
11 14 (0.51%) CSS
11 14 (0.51%) EJB
12 12 (0.44%) jQuery
13 10 (0.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 404 (14.75%) Management Information System
2 274 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 195 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (4.78%) Computer Science
5 125 (4.56%) Data Centre
6 88 (3.21%) Cyberthreat
7 79 (2.88%) CESG
8 67 (2.45%) PKI
9 64 (2.34%) Driving Licence
10 43 (1.57%) Cyber Attack
11 40 (1.46%) Security Operations Centre
11 40 (1.46%) User Experience
12 36 (1.31%) Clustering
12 36 (1.31%) Smart Meter
13 34 (1.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 34 (1.24%) Mobile App
14 32 (1.17%) Cyber Defence
15 28 (1.02%) Virtual Team
16 24 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
16 24 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 650 (23.73%) Windows
2 328 (11.98%) Linux
3 324 (11.83%) Windows Server
4 123 (4.49%) Unix
5 81 (2.96%) Windows Server 2008
6 78 (2.85%) Windows Server 2012
7 56 (2.04%) Apple iOS
8 44 (1.61%) CentOS
9 43 (1.57%) Windows 10
10 42 (1.53%) Mac OS X
11 34 (1.24%) Windows 7
12 32 (1.17%) Ubuntu
13 30 (1.10%) Debian
13 30 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 28 (1.02%) Windows Server 2003
15 27 (0.99%) Kali Linux
16 18 (0.66%) Android
17 9 (0.33%) Windows 8
18 8 (0.29%) Mac OS
18 8 (0.29%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1764 (64.40%) Information Security
2 677 (24.72%) Cybersecurity
3 670 (24.46%) ITIL
4 655 (23.91%) Risk Management
5 557 (20.34%) Data Protection
6 470 (17.16%) SIEM
7 428 (15.63%) Penetration Testing
8 344 (12.56%) Security Architecture
9 310 (11.32%) Security Management
10 285 (10.41%) Agile Software Development
11 271 (9.89%) Risk Assessment
12 257 (9.38%) ISMS
13 249 (9.09%) Project Management
14 247 (9.02%) Security Operations
15 236 (8.62%) Information Security Management
16 214 (7.81%) Vulnerability Management
17 201 (7.34%) Stakeholder Management
18 195 (7.12%) Service Management
19 185 (6.75%) PRINCE2
20 175 (6.39%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 149 (5.44%) SQL
2 77 (2.81%) Java
2 77 (2.81%) PowerShell
3 66 (2.41%) Python
4 65 (2.37%) C
5 47 (1.72%) C#
6 32 (1.17%) JavaScript
7 31 (1.13%) Bash Shell
8 30 (1.10%) Perl
9 24 (0.88%) PHP
9 24 (0.88%) Ruby
10 14 (0.51%) VBScript
11 11 (0.40%) C++
12 10 (0.37%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.37%) VB.NET
13 6 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
13 6 (0.22%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.18%) C-shell
14 5 (0.18%) Korn
15 3 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 1137 (41.51%) CISSP
2 816 (29.79%) CISM
3 405 (14.79%) CISA
4 396 (14.46%) Degree
5 188 (6.86%) Cisco Certification
6 177 (6.46%) CEH
7 155 (5.66%) Security Cleared
8 149 (5.44%) CRISC
9 120 (4.38%) SC Cleared
10 114 (4.16%) CCNA
11 93 (3.40%) CCNP
12 92 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
13 89 (3.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 86 (3.14%) SANS
15 82 (2.99%) CESG Certified Professional
16 78 (2.85%) SSCP
17 70 (2.56%) MCSE
18 67 (2.45%) GIAC
19 63 (2.30%) CREST Certified
20 59 (2.15%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 914 (33.37%) PCI DSS
2 367 (13.40%) GDPR
3 277 (10.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 269 (9.82%) ISO 9001
5 238 (8.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 150 (5.48%) COBIT
7 145 (5.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 101 (3.69%) SLA
9 97 (3.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 95 (3.47%) ISO 22301
11 83 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 81 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 72 (2.63%) NIST 800
14 66 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 57 (2.08%) ISO 14001
16 35 (1.28%) QA
17 32 (1.17%) BS25999
18 30 (1.10%) Data Quality
19 20 (0.73%) PMO
20 18 (0.66%) HIPAA
System Software
1 335 (12.23%) Active Directory
2 197 (7.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 116 (4.24%) Hyper-V
4 43 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
4 43 (1.57%) vSphere
5 22 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.58%) XenApp
7 15 (0.55%) Snort
8 14 (0.51%) pfSense
9 13 (0.47%) Docker
9 13 (0.47%) XenDesktop
10 9 (0.33%) Xen
11 8 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.22%) Terminal Services
13 5 (0.18%) ISA Server
13 5 (0.18%) KVM
14 4 (0.15%) Citrix Presentation Server
14 4 (0.15%) MetaFrame
14 4 (0.15%) XenServer
15 3 (0.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 68 (2.48%) Nessus
2 55 (2.01%) SCCM
3 25 (0.91%) Puppet
4 20 (0.73%) Opscode Chef
5 17 (0.62%) Ansible
5 17 (0.62%) Host Intrusion Detection System
5 17 (0.62%) McAfee ePO
5 17 (0.62%) SCOM
6 16 (0.58%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 16 (0.58%) QRadar
7 14 (0.51%) WSUS
8 13 (0.47%) FortiGate
9 12 (0.44%) Nmap
9 12 (0.44%) OSSEC
10 10 (0.37%) Kubernetes
10 10 (0.37%) WMI
11 9 (0.33%) Backup Exec
11 9 (0.33%) FTK
12 8 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
12 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 361 (13.18%) Microsoft
2 330 (12.05%) Cisco
3 267 (9.75%) VMware
4 132 (4.82%) CheckPoint
5 88 (3.21%) HP
6 84 (3.07%) Oracle
7 83 (3.03%) Citrix
8 66 (2.41%) Juniper
9 60 (2.19%) McAfee
9 60 (2.19%) NetApp
10 52 (1.90%) IBM
11 49 (1.79%) Splunk
12 46 (1.68%) Apple
13 45 (1.64%) Dell
14 44 (1.61%) Palo Alto
15 42 (1.53%) SAP
16 41 (1.50%) Red Hat
17 40 (1.46%) LogRhythm
18 38 (1.39%) FireEye
19 29 (1.06%) Qualys
151 ISO/IEC 27001 job vacancies Nationwide