ISO 9001
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring ISO 9001 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 534 505
Rank change year-on-year +42 -29 +160
Permanent jobs citing ISO 9001 229 113 393
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.27% 0.42%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.48% 1.68% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 113 71 296
10th Percentile £27,750 £36,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £48,750 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,000 £51,564 £45,000
% change year-on-year -26.31% +14.59% -10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

ISO 9001 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 9,233 6,742 13,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.62% 16.15% 13.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,414 3,896 9,227
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,375 £27,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +12.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £78,800 £76,849 £70,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.94% +11.58% -5.00%

ISO 9001
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ISO 9001 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

ISO 9001 job vacancy trend in the UK

ISO 9001
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO 9001.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISO 9001

ISO 9001
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISO 9001 over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for ISO 9001 in the UK

ISO 9001
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 9001 within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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
UK excluding London +56 206 £38,000 -26.31% 76
England +20 185 £38,500 -14.44% 82
Work from Home +12 60 £36,500 -39.17% 23
North of England -46 53 £36,500 -14.12% 15
South West -20 42 £47,500 -13.64% 11
South East -22 42 £42,500 -22.73% 22
North West -23 29 £36,500 -18.89% 7
Midlands -24 25 £38,000 -3.18% 18
West Midlands -11 21 £38,000 +5.56% 9
North East -23 12 - - 4
East of England -24 12 £50,000 - 6
Yorkshire -42 12 £27,500 -31.25% 4
Northern Ireland - 12 - - 3
London -13 11 £37,500 -16.67% 10
Scotland -23 11 £32,500 -61.19% 2
Wales -21 9 £25,400 -57.67%
East Midlands -54 4 £38,500 -42.96% 9

ISO 9001
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 10 (4.37%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.18%) Drupal
2 5 (2.18%) nginx
2 5 (2.18%) WordPress
3 3 (1.31%) IIS
4 2 (0.87%) Confluence
4 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (5.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.87%) InDesign
4 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Line 50
2 2 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (4.37%) AWS
2 6 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (2.62%) SaaS
3 4 (1.75%) Azure
4 3 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (1.31%) Amazon S3
4 3 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (1.31%) Serverless
5 2 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 2 (0.87%) Entra ID
5 2 (0.87%) GCP
6 1 (0.44%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.44%) IaaS
6 1 (0.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.75%) Network Security
2 3 (1.31%) LAN
2 3 (1.31%) VoIP
3 2 (0.87%) Firewall
3 2 (0.87%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.44%) BGP
4 1 (0.44%) IPv4
4 1 (0.44%) IPv6
4 1 (0.44%) MPLS
4 1 (0.44%) OSPF
4 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.44%) VPN
4 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.18%) MariaDB
2 3 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.31%) FileMaker
3 1 (0.44%) EDMS
3 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (3.06%) LabVIEW
2 3 (1.31%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.44%) JIRA
General
1 147 (64.19%) Social Skills
2 94 (41.05%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (34.50%) Finance
4 30 (13.10%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (5.68%) Electronics
6 11 (4.80%) Military
7 10 (4.37%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.93%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.93%) Legal
8 9 (3.93%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.18%) Environmental Health
9 5 (2.18%) Local Government
9 5 (2.18%) Police
9 5 (2.18%) Retail
9 5 (2.18%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.75%) Law
10 4 (1.75%) Marketing
10 4 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (31.44%) Head of QA
2 20 (8.73%) Technical Support
3 13 (5.68%) Technical Engineer
4 12 (5.24%) Support Engineer
4 12 (5.24%) Technical Support Engineer
5 11 (4.80%) Administrator
5 11 (4.80%) Senior
6 10 (4.37%) Quality Engineer
7 9 (3.93%) Document Controller
8 8 (3.49%) Support Supervisor
8 8 (3.49%) Technical Support Supervisor
9 7 (3.06%) Compliance Manager
9 7 (3.06%) Sales Manager
9 7 (3.06%) Software Validation Engineer
9 7 (3.06%) Validation Engineer
10 6 (2.62%) IT Support
11 5 (2.18%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 5 (2.18%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
11 5 (2.18%) Installations Engineer
11 5 (2.18%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.80%) .NET
2 3 (1.31%) CSS
2 3 (1.31%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 85 (37.12%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (8.30%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (7.86%) Driving Licence
4 11 (4.80%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.49%) GNSS
5 8 (3.49%) Satnav
6 6 (2.62%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.18%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.75%) Social Media
8 4 (1.75%) Web Conferencing
9 3 (1.31%) IoT
10 2 (0.87%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (0.87%) CCTV
10 2 (0.87%) Learning Management System
10 2 (0.87%) Life Science
10 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.87%) PMI
11 1 (0.44%) Fibre Optics
11 1 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.93%) Windows
2 5 (2.18%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.31%) Android
3 3 (1.31%) Linux
3 3 (1.31%) Unix
4 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (44.54%) Quality Management
2 95 (41.48%) Continuous Improvement
3 89 (38.86%) Service Delivery
4 78 (34.06%) PRINCE2
5 77 (33.62%) Actionable Insight
6 76 (33.19%) Analytics
6 76 (33.19%) Root Cause Analysis
7 74 (32.31%) Change Management
8 73 (31.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 72 (31.44%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 72 (31.44%) Customer Experience
10 39 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (17.03%) Project Management
11 28 (12.23%) Project Delivery
12 20 (8.73%) Logistics
13 18 (7.86%) Internal Audit
14 17 (7.42%) Agile
15 16 (6.99%) Process Improvement
16 13 (5.68%) Decision-Making
16 13 (5.68%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.80%) C
1 11 (4.80%) C#
1 11 (4.80%) C++
2 6 (2.62%) PHP
2 6 (2.62%) Python
3 3 (1.31%) SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (31.44%) IRCA
2 29 (12.66%) Degree
3 14 (6.11%) Security Cleared
4 13 (5.68%) DBS Check
5 11 (4.80%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.18%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.18%) HNC
6 5 (2.18%) HND
7 4 (1.75%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 3 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.31%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.87%) AAT
9 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.87%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.87%) HPE ATP
9 2 (0.87%) NVQ Level 3
9 2 (0.87%) PCI QSA
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (42.36%) QA
2 75 (32.75%) GDPR
3 69 (30.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 29 (12.66%) ISO 14001
5 18 (7.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 16 (6.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 10 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 5 (2.18%) Automotive SPICE
8 5 (2.18%) ISO 26262
9 3 (1.31%) GRC
9 3 (1.31%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.31%) PMO
10 2 (0.87%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.87%) GAMP
10 2 (0.87%) GMP
10 2 (0.87%) GxP
10 2 (0.87%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.87%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.87%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 12 (5.24%) Firmware
2 8 (3.49%) Docker
3 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.31%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (6.55%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.93%) Cisco
3 7 (3.06%) Adobe
4 6 (2.62%) SAP
5 3 (1.31%) Apple
5 3 (1.31%) Sage
6 2 (0.87%) HubSpot
6 2 (0.87%) IFS
6 2 (0.87%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.87%) Xero
6 2 (0.87%) Zoho
7 1 (0.44%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.44%) Huawei
7 1 (0.44%) Juniper
7 1 (0.44%) Meraki
7 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow