ISO/IEC 27001 Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

ISO/IEC 27001
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 195 150
Rank change year-on-year +18 -45 +116
Permanent jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 357 564 909
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.87% 1.63% 2.34%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.11% 13.12% 15.96%
Number of salaries quoted 235 492 580
10th Percentile £43,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,813 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £79,813 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £105,500 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,212 4,298 5,696
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.84% 12.45% 14.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,772 3,229 3,853
10th Percentile £37,017 £34,874 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,938 £42,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

ISO/IEC 27001
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing ISO/IEC 27001 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ISO/IEC 27001 trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

ISO/IEC 27001
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing ISO/IEC 27001.

ISO/IEC 27001 salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

ISO/IEC 27001
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

ISO/IEC 27001 salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (2.80%) IIS
1 10 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.52%) Tomcat
3 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.56%) WordPress
5 1 (0.28%) Apache
5 1 (0.28%) Confluence
5 1 (0.28%) Drupal
5 1 (0.28%) nginx
Applications
1 28 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.96%) Acrobat
3 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.56%) InDesign
4 2 (0.56%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.68%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 120 (33.61%) AWS
2 93 (26.05%) Serverless
3 90 (25.21%) AWS Lambda
4 68 (19.05%) Azure
5 42 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (7.84%) Entra ID
7 21 (5.88%) SaaS
8 15 (4.20%) Power Automate
9 14 (3.92%) Google Workspace
10 12 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (3.36%) Power Platform
11 10 (2.80%) GCP
11 10 (2.80%) GitHub
11 10 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (2.52%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (2.52%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (1.68%) Google Docs
13 6 (1.68%) PaaS
13 6 (1.68%) PowerApps
14 5 (1.40%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 91 (25.49%) SSL
2 83 (23.25%) SSH
3 82 (22.97%) Broadband
4 37 (10.36%) Firewall
5 25 (7.00%) Network Security
6 9 (2.52%) DMARC
6 9 (2.52%) VPN
7 8 (2.24%) DNS
8 7 (1.96%) Intranet
9 6 (1.68%) DHCP
10 5 (1.40%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.84%) TCP/IP
12 2 (0.56%) LAN
12 2 (0.56%) WAN
13 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
13 1 (0.28%) IPv4
13 1 (0.28%) IPv6
13 1 (0.28%) Unified Communications
13 1 (0.28%) Wireless
13 1 (0.28%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.04%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (3.08%) Power BI
3 8 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (1.12%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.84%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.84%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.84%) Parquet
8 2 (0.56%) MySQL
9 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.28%) Big Data
9 1 (0.28%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (3.36%) JIRA
2 5 (1.40%) Git
3 3 (0.84%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.84%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.56%) ERwin
5 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.28%) GitLab
5 1 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 206 (57.70%) Social Skills
2 59 (16.53%) Finance
3 57 (15.97%) Legal
4 38 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (8.12%) Organisational Skills
6 24 (6.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (6.16%) Law
8 18 (5.04%) Retail
9 11 (3.08%) Public Sector
10 10 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.52%) Czech Language
11 9 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.24%) Electronics
13 6 (1.68%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.40%) Marketing
15 4 (1.12%) Banking
16 3 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.84%) Local Government
16 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (24.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 87 (24.37%) Cloud Engineer
3 38 (10.64%) Analyst
4 36 (10.08%) Lead
5 32 (8.96%) Architect
6 31 (8.68%) Security Manager
7 22 (6.16%) Information Manager
8 20 (5.60%) Security Architect
9 18 (5.04%) Security Analyst
10 17 (4.76%) Information Security Manager
10 17 (4.76%) IT Support
11 16 (4.48%) Lead Architect
11 16 (4.48%) Security Engineer
11 16 (4.48%) Senior
12 14 (3.92%) IT Manager
13 12 (3.36%) IT Analyst
14 11 (3.08%) Administrator
14 11 (3.08%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 11 (3.08%) IT Administrator
15 10 (2.80%) Information Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (24.37%) RESTful
1 87 (24.37%) Web Services
2 16 (4.48%) JSON
3 15 (4.20%) REST
4 14 (3.92%) SOAP
5 12 (3.36%) Node.js
6 9 (2.52%) XML
7 8 (2.24%) Laravel
8 6 (1.68%) .NET
8 6 (1.68%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.40%) CodeIgniter
9 5 (1.40%) Spring
10 4 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.12%) HTML
10 4 (1.12%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.84%) CSS
11 3 (0.84%) Kafka
11 3 (0.84%) Middleware
12 2 (0.56%) Vue
12 2 (0.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 122 (34.17%) Management Information System
2 97 (27.17%) Cyber Threat
3 94 (26.33%) Onboarding
4 84 (23.53%) Cyberattack
5 83 (23.25%) PKI
6 23 (6.44%) Security Posture
7 16 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (3.08%) Cloud Native
10 10 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (2.24%) Operational Technology
12 7 (1.96%) e-Learning
13 6 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.68%) Taxonomies
14 5 (1.40%) Data Centre
14 5 (1.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 5 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
14 5 (1.40%) Freedom of Information
14 5 (1.40%) Freedom of Information Act
15 4 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.12%) Windows
2 18 (5.04%) Linux
3 12 (3.36%) Android
3 12 (3.36%) Apple iOS
4 9 (2.52%) Unix
5 6 (1.68%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.28%) Debian
7 1 (0.28%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (57.70%) Cybersecurity
2 128 (35.85%) Information Security
3 118 (33.05%) Roadmaps
4 113 (31.65%) DevOps
5 88 (24.65%) Risk Management
5 88 (24.65%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 87 (24.37%) Deployment Automation
7 84 (23.53%) Use Case
8 83 (23.25%) Key Management
9 82 (22.97%) Programme Delivery
10 57 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (11.76%) SIEM
12 38 (10.64%) Incident Response
13 35 (9.80%) Agile
13 35 (9.80%) Mentoring
14 33 (9.24%) Security Management
15 31 (8.68%) Risk Assessment
15 31 (8.68%) Security Architecture
16 29 (8.12%) Cloud Security
16 29 (8.12%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 99 (27.73%) Python
2 29 (8.12%) PowerShell
2 29 (8.12%) SQL
3 23 (6.44%) JavaScript
4 15 (4.20%) Java
5 11 (3.08%) C#
6 9 (2.52%) TypeScript
6 9 (2.52%) VBA
7 8 (2.24%) Bash
7 8 (2.24%) PHP
8 3 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.56%) C++
9 2 (0.56%) Perl
9 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.28%) Bicep
10 1 (0.28%) Groovy
10 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 50 (14.01%) Security Cleared
2 48 (13.45%) CISM
3 43 (12.04%) CISSP
4 39 (10.92%) Degree
5 27 (7.56%) SC Cleared
6 19 (5.32%) CISA
7 14 (3.92%) CRISC
8 8 (2.24%) CEH
8 8 (2.24%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.68%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.12%) ISEB
11 4 (1.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 4 (1.12%) SANS
11 4 (1.12%) SSCP
12 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.84%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 3 (0.84%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (54.06%) NIST
2 79 (22.13%) GDPR
3 57 (15.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 45 (12.61%) PCI DSS
5 31 (8.68%) SOC 2
6 27 (7.56%) NCSC
7 26 (7.28%) GRC
8 20 (5.60%) COBIT
9 17 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 13 (3.64%) ISO 9001
10 13 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 13 (3.64%) QA
11 9 (2.52%) HIPAA
12 7 (1.96%) PERC
13 5 (1.40%) NIST 800
14 4 (1.12%) SOC 1
15 3 (0.84%) ISO 14001
15 3 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 2 (0.56%) ISO 22301
16 2 (0.56%) RMADS
System Software
1 110 (30.81%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.84%) Docker
4 3 (0.84%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.84%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 96 (26.89%) Terraform
2 21 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (3.64%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (2.24%) Grafana
5 5 (1.40%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.12%) Nessus
6 4 (1.12%) RSA Archer
7 3 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.84%) Ansible
8 2 (0.56%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.56%) Puppet
8 2 (0.56%) SCOM
9 1 (0.28%) CASB
9 1 (0.28%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 82 (22.97%) Thales
2 73 (20.45%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.20%) Google
4 10 (2.80%) VMware
5 9 (2.52%) Adobe
5 9 (2.52%) OneTrust
5 9 (2.52%) Oracle
5 9 (2.52%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.68%) Apple
6 6 (1.68%) Splunk
7 5 (1.40%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.12%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.84%) Cisco
9 3 (0.84%) IBM
10 2 (0.56%) ArcSight
10 2 (0.56%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.56%) ESRI
10 2 (0.56%) Juniper
10 2 (0.56%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.56%) SAP