ISO/IEC 27001
UK

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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 194 240
Rank change year-on-year -4 +46 -17
Permanent jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 1,501 2,097 2,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.54% 1.96% 1.72%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.16% 10.11% 10.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,325 1,237 1,728
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,459 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £92,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,453 20,741 25,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.83% 19.40% 16.60%
Number of salaries quoted 9,285 9,417 13,235
10th Percentile £27,050 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +2.42%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001.

Salary trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Top 18 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 18 April 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
England +19 1,382 £60,000 - 384
UK excluding London -12 1,000 £55,000 - 262
Work from Home -37 569 £55,000 -8.33% 196
London +19 445 £72,500 +11.54% 134
North of England +40 303 £50,000 +1.27% 71
South East -25 219 £54,000 -6.49% 77
Midlands +13 193 £55,000 -4.35% 33
North West +12 187 £50,000 +7.17% 45
South West +3 153 £65,000 +8.79% 36
West Midlands +15 134 £55,000 -4.35% 22
Yorkshire +48 78 £55,000 -9.84% 19
East Midlands +15 58 £42,500 -10.53% 11
Scotland -55 57 £55,000 -21.43% 18
East of England +3 53 £65,000 +13.04% 22
North East +23 38 £40,000 -17.95% 7
Wales -19 14 £55,000 +41.03% 8
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 -
Northern Ireland +9 3 £34,628 -18.52% 3

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 32 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (0.67%) CMS
3 10 (0.67%) IIS
4 7 (0.47%) MS Project Server
5 6 (0.40%) nginx
6 4 (0.27%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.20%) Drupal
7 3 (0.20%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.20%) NServiceBus
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 3 (0.20%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.20%) WordPress
8 1 (0.067%) Apache
8 1 (0.067%) Moodle
Applications
1 66 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.067%) 1Password
6 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.27%) SAP WM
2 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.20%) Maximo
3 2 (0.13%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.13%) Shopify
4 1 (0.067%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.067%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.067%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.067%) Magento
4 1 (0.067%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.067%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.067%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.067%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 411 (27.38%) Azure
2 247 (16.46%) Microsoft 365
3 195 (12.99%) AWS
4 81 (5.40%) Entra ID
5 67 (4.46%) Cloud Computing
6 65 (4.33%) SaaS
7 47 (3.13%) GCP
8 46 (3.06%) IaaS
9 42 (2.80%) PaaS
10 38 (2.53%) Azure Sentinel
11 25 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
12 24 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (1.60%) Power Platform
13 16 (1.07%) Azure AKS
13 16 (1.07%) Google Workspace
14 14 (0.93%) Serverless
15 11 (0.73%) Amazon S3
15 11 (0.73%) OneDrive
16 10 (0.67%) AWS CloudTrail
17 9 (0.60%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 280 (18.65%) Firewall
2 96 (6.40%) Network Security
3 70 (4.66%) DNS
3 70 (4.66%) WAN
4 66 (4.40%) LAN
5 61 (4.06%) Intrusion Detection
6 50 (3.33%) VPN
7 47 (3.13%) TCP/IP
8 31 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
9 30 (2.00%) Wireless
10 26 (1.73%) Wireshark
11 24 (1.60%) SD-WAN
12 22 (1.47%) DHCP
13 21 (1.40%) Internet
14 15 (1.00%) VLAN
15 14 (0.93%) NAS
16 13 (0.87%) OSPF
16 13 (0.87%) SSL
17 12 (0.80%) Broadband
18 11 (0.73%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (2.40%) SQL Server
2 20 (1.33%) Power BI
3 15 (1.00%) Relational Database
4 14 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (0.60%) MongoDB
6 8 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.27%) MySQL
9 4 (0.27%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.27%) PowerPivot
9 4 (0.27%) Redis
9 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.20%) Big Data
10 3 (0.20%) DB2
10 3 (0.20%) Metadata
10 3 (0.20%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.13%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.067%) Lumira
Development Applications
1 8 (0.53%) Jenkins
2 7 (0.47%) Visual Studio
3 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
3 6 (0.40%) JIRA
3 6 (0.40%) Mocha
4 5 (0.33%) Burp Suite
4 5 (0.33%) Git
4 5 (0.33%) GitLab
5 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
6 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.13%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.13%) Mercurial
7 2 (0.13%) sqlmap
8 1 (0.067%) git-flow
8 1 (0.067%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.067%) Selenium
8 1 (0.067%) Subversion
8 1 (0.067%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.067%) Vagrant
General
1 504 (33.58%) Social Skills
2 245 (16.32%) Finance
3 200 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (10.46%) Legal
5 118 (7.86%) Law
6 92 (6.13%) Public Sector
7 59 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
8 47 (3.13%) Retail
9 32 (2.13%) Manufacturing
10 31 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (1.87%) Banking
11 28 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (1.87%) Marketing
11 28 (1.87%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.60%) Games
13 21 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (0.93%) Environmental Health
16 13 (0.87%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.80%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 273 (18.19%) Analyst
2 178 (11.86%) Security Analyst
3 173 (11.53%) Security Manager
4 123 (8.19%) Information Manager
5 119 (7.93%) Consultant
6 113 (7.53%) Lead
7 109 (7.26%) Senior
8 101 (6.73%) IT Manager
9 99 (6.60%) Information Security Manager
10 97 (6.46%) Architect
11 87 (5.80%) Security Consultant
12 84 (5.60%) Information Analyst
12 84 (5.60%) Information Security Analyst
13 77 (5.13%) Security Engineer
14 71 (4.73%) Security Architect
15 63 (4.20%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 53 (3.53%) Information Assurance Manager
17 49 (3.26%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 38 (2.53%) IT Analyst
19 36 (2.40%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.60%) .NET
2 12 (0.80%) Middleware
2 12 (0.80%) OAuth
3 11 (0.73%) Node.js
4 10 (0.67%) .NET Framework
4 10 (0.67%) AngularJS
4 10 (0.67%) React
4 10 (0.67%) Web Services
5 9 (0.60%) Kafka
6 8 (0.53%) REST
7 7 (0.47%) Jest
7 7 (0.47%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (0.40%) Express.js
8 6 (0.40%) GraphQL
8 6 (0.40%) gRPC
8 6 (0.40%) JWT
8 6 (0.40%) MEAN Stack
8 6 (0.40%) NestJS
8 6 (0.40%) OAuth2
8 6 (0.40%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 281 (18.72%) Management Information System
2 138 (9.19%) Security Posture
3 92 (6.13%) Cyber Threat
4 78 (5.20%) Self-Motivation
5 71 (4.73%) Data Centre
6 58 (3.86%) Cyberattack
7 48 (3.20%) Driving Licence
8 45 (3.00%) Onboarding
8 45 (3.00%) Security Operations Centre
9 27 (1.80%) Operational Technology
10 23 (1.53%) Public Cloud
11 22 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (1.40%) IoT
12 21 (1.40%) NHS
13 20 (1.33%) Cloud Native
14 18 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.00%) Cloud Security Posture
16 14 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 14 (0.93%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 195 (12.99%) Windows
2 72 (4.80%) Linux
3 69 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 37 (2.47%) Apple iOS
5 30 (2.00%) Windows 10
6 25 (1.67%) Mac OS
7 22 (1.47%) Android
8 17 (1.13%) Unix
9 11 (0.73%) Solaris
9 11 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.53%) AIX
10 8 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.47%) Kali Linux
12 6 (0.40%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.27%) CentOS
13 4 (0.27%) VMS
14 3 (0.20%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 763 (50.83%) Cybersecurity
2 706 (47.04%) Information Security
3 295 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
4 260 (17.32%) Risk Management
5 240 (15.99%) Incident Response
6 210 (13.99%) Security Management
7 208 (13.86%) ITIL
8 180 (11.99%) SIEM
9 167 (11.13%) Data Protection
10 148 (9.86%) Security Operations
11 147 (9.79%) Disaster Recovery
12 146 (9.73%) Project Management
13 139 (9.26%) Cloud Security
14 137 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
15 134 (8.93%) Business Continuity
16 120 (7.99%) Information Security Management
17 119 (7.93%) Vulnerability Management
18 118 (7.86%) Security Architecture
19 116 (7.73%) Information Assurance
20 112 (7.46%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 72 (4.80%) PowerShell
2 63 (4.20%) Python
3 55 (3.66%) SQL
4 44 (2.93%) Bash
5 26 (1.73%) JavaScript
6 19 (1.27%) C#
7 16 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (0.67%) Bicep
9 8 (0.53%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.47%) Java
10 7 (0.47%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.27%) Ruby
13 3 (0.20%) PHP
14 2 (0.13%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.067%) ABAP
15 1 (0.067%) C
15 1 (0.067%) C++
15 1 (0.067%) Go
15 1 (0.067%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 360 (23.98%) CISSP
2 240 (15.99%) CISM
3 239 (15.92%) Degree
3 239 (15.92%) Security Cleared
4 189 (12.59%) CISA
5 148 (9.86%) SC Cleared
6 103 (6.86%) Cisco Certification
7 86 (5.73%) CRISC
8 70 (4.66%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 59 (3.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 53 (3.53%) Azure Certification
11 51 (3.40%) CompTIA Security+
12 50 (3.33%) CCSP
13 49 (3.26%) CESG Certified Professional
13 49 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
14 43 (2.86%) AWS Certification
15 42 (2.80%) CCNA
15 42 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
16 41 (2.73%) CEH
16 41 (2.73%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 431 (28.71%) NIST
2 378 (25.18%) Cyber Essentials
3 269 (17.92%) GDPR
4 180 (11.99%) ISO 9001
5 179 (11.93%) PCI DSS
6 168 (11.19%) GRC
7 120 (7.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 104 (6.93%) NCSC
9 68 (4.53%) SOC 2
10 53 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 47 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 44 (2.93%) COBIT
13 42 (2.80%) ISO 22301
14 41 (2.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 38 (2.53%) SLA
16 36 (2.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 34 (2.27%) NIST 800
18 26 (1.73%) ISO 14001
19 23 (1.53%) RMADS
20 22 (1.47%) HIPAA
System Software
1 134 (8.93%) Active Directory
2 52 (3.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (2.00%) Docker
4 21 (1.40%) Hyper-V
5 19 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.67%) Firmware
8 8 (0.53%) vSphere
9 6 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.20%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.13%) XenApp
11 2 (0.13%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.067%) LXC
12 1 (0.067%) Snort
Systems Management
1 57 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (3.40%) Kubernetes
3 45 (3.00%) EnCase
4 32 (2.13%) Terraform
5 29 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (1.07%) Nmap
7 14 (0.93%) Ansible
7 14 (0.93%) CSIRT
7 14 (0.93%) QRadar
8 13 (0.87%) Nessus
8 13 (0.87%) WSUS
9 10 (0.67%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.53%) CASB
11 7 (0.47%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.47%) Grafana
11 7 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.47%) SCCM
12 5 (0.33%) Packer
13 4 (0.27%) Istio
14 3 (0.20%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 423 (28.18%) Microsoft
2 84 (5.60%) VMware
3 82 (5.46%) Cisco
4 38 (2.53%) Google
5 33 (2.20%) Splunk
6 32 (2.13%) Apple
7 31 (2.07%) Fortinet
8 29 (1.93%) Meraki
9 27 (1.80%) Qualys
10 25 (1.67%) IBM
11 19 (1.27%) Oracle
11 19 (1.27%) SAP
12 16 (1.07%) Citrix
12 16 (1.07%) Palo Alto
13 14 (0.93%) Rapid7
13 14 (0.93%) Thycotic
14 13 (0.87%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.60%) Cadence
15 9 (0.60%) Juniper
15 9 (0.60%) Red Hat