ISO/IEC 27005 Jobs

ISO/IEC 27005
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring ISO/IEC 27005 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited ISO/IEC 27005 over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 701 888 916
Rank change year-on-year +187 +28 +248
Permanent jobs citing ISO/IEC 27005 5 10 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.010% 0.064%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.053% 0.073% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 56
10th Percentile £55,300 £58,140 £41,250
25th Percentile £59,500 £62,850 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £76,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -8.50% +22.40%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £91,800 £86,900 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -3.45% +26.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

ISO/IEC 27005 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 9,363 13,636 19,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.11% 13.74% 18.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,802 9,277 8,866
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +5.26%

ISO/IEC 27005
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ISO/IEC 27005 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27005 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27005
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27005.

Salary trend for ISO/IEC 27005 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27005
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27005 over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for ISO/IEC 27005 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27005
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISO/IEC 27005 within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 2025. 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
UK excluding London +185 4 £63,000 -10.00% 22
Work from Home +155 4 £65,000 +1.40% 14
England +153 3 £65,000 -8.77% 27
North of England - 2 £65,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £65,000 - 1
South East +101 1 £61,000 -15.86% 3
Wales - 1 £55,000 -

ISO/IEC 27005
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Information Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Information Security Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (40.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (40.00%) Smart Energy
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Information Security
1 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Information Assurance
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CISA
2 1 (20.00%) CISM
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) CRISC
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) GDPR
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (40.00%) NIST
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (20.00%) NCSC
3 1 (20.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) VMware