ISO/IEC 27001 Contracts

ISO/IEC 27001
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ISO/IEC 27001 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 241 293
Rank change year-on-year +26 +52 +34
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 468 689 829
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 1.16% 0.93%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.58% 8.70% 7.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 495 630
10th Percentile £363 £425 £363
25th Percentile £463 £495 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £591 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +7.38% +7.32%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £659
90th Percentile £767 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £600 £548
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.59% +20.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 10
10th Percentile - £45.00 £43.58
25th Percentile - £48.13 £44.81
Median hourly rate £83.41 £70.00 £54.69
Median % change year-on-year +19.16% +27.99% +44.69%
75th Percentile - £75.24 £69.12
90th Percentile - £78.85 £73.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.41 £71.49 £54.43
% change year-on-year +16.67% +31.34% +43.99%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,171 7,924 11,796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.30% 13.40% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,916 5,449 8,078
10th Percentile £297 £280 £299
25th Percentile £403 £411 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £623
90th Percentile £750 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £479 £450
% change year-on-year +1.77% +6.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 384 235 300
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.29 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.60 £16.50
Median hourly rate £20.80 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.56% +27.27% +30.95%
75th Percentile £45.00 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.50 £77.50 £67.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £33.39 £21.05
% change year-on-year -46.08% +58.60% +0.12%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the UK

ISO/IEC 27001
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +8 394 £575 -2.64% 365
UK excluding London +5 223 £575 -4.17% 252
London +20 202 £585 -3.31% 122
Work from Home +28 189 £600 - 193
North of England +39 54 £575 +21.05% 65
South West +24 48 £600 -4.00% 43
North West +41 45 £600 +31.43% 34
Scotland +39 42 £563 -5.70% 16
South East -35 39 £460 -26.40% 55
Midlands -3 24 £488 -18.75% 40
West Midlands -9 18 £550 -6.38% 23
East of England +17 14 £475 -14.03% 25
Yorkshire +11 7 £563 -4.26% 22
East Midlands +26 6 £450 -35.71% 16
Wales +10 2 £650 +18.18% 10
North East - 2 £525 - 9

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 11 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.50%) nginx
3 4 (0.85%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.85%) CMS
3 4 (0.85%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.43%) Confluence
4 2 (0.43%) IIS
4 2 (0.43%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.21%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.64%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 91 (19.44%) Azure
2 67 (14.32%) AWS
3 26 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
4 23 (4.91%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (3.42%) GCP
6 11 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (2.14%) Entra ID
8 9 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (1.92%) SaaS
9 7 (1.50%) AWS CloudTrail
9 7 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.28%) GitHub
10 6 (1.28%) Serverless
11 5 (1.07%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 5 (1.07%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.85%) Azure AKS
12 4 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (0.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (13.03%) Firewall
2 51 (10.90%) Network Security
3 19 (4.06%) WAN
4 14 (2.99%) DNS
5 13 (2.78%) SD-WAN
6 11 (2.35%) Intrusion Detection
6 11 (2.35%) TCP/IP
7 10 (2.14%) VPN
8 6 (1.28%) LAN
9 5 (1.07%) Internet
10 4 (0.85%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.85%) Intranet
10 4 (0.85%) IPsec
10 4 (0.85%) SCCP
10 4 (0.85%) Skype
11 3 (0.64%) Broadband
11 3 (0.64%) DHCP
11 3 (0.64%) SNMP
12 2 (0.43%) DMZ
12 2 (0.43%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.50%) MySQL
1 7 (1.50%) NoSQL
2 4 (0.85%) Big Data
2 4 (0.85%) Couchbase
2 4 (0.85%) Data Lake
2 4 (0.85%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.64%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.43%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (1.92%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.07%) Git
2 5 (1.07%) JIRA
3 3 (0.64%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.43%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.43%) GitLab
4 2 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.43%) RStudio
5 1 (0.21%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.21%) Mocha
General
1 101 (21.58%) Social Skills
2 94 (20.09%) Public Sector
3 82 (17.52%) Finance
4 48 (10.26%) Legal
5 31 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.49%) Banking
7 18 (3.85%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.99%) Local Government
9 13 (2.78%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.71%) Retail
11 7 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.07%) Electronics
12 5 (1.07%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.07%) German Language
12 5 (1.07%) Law
12 5 (1.07%) Marketing
12 5 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.85%) French Language
14 3 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.64%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (19.44%) Architect
2 77 (16.45%) Analyst
3 67 (14.32%) Consultant
4 66 (14.10%) Security Architect
5 53 (11.32%) Security Consultant
6 49 (10.47%) Senior
7 38 (8.12%) Security Analyst
8 34 (7.26%) Lead
9 31 (6.62%) Security Engineer
10 28 (5.98%) Security Manager
11 17 (3.63%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 17 (3.63%) Security Specialist
11 17 (3.63%) SOC Analyst
12 15 (3.21%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 15 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
13 14 (2.99%) Information Security Consultant
13 14 (2.99%) Security Advisor
14 13 (2.78%) Project Manager
15 12 (2.56%) Information Manager
15 12 (2.56%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.92%) YAML
2 7 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (1.07%) JSON
4 4 (0.85%) Kafka
4 4 (0.85%) LEMP Stack
5 3 (0.64%) OAuth
6 2 (0.43%) .NET
6 2 (0.43%) JWT
6 2 (0.43%) ModSecurity
6 2 (0.43%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.43%) SAML
7 1 (0.21%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.21%) gRPC
7 1 (0.21%) Jest
7 1 (0.21%) MEAN Stack
7 1 (0.21%) MERN Stack
7 1 (0.21%) Mongoose
7 1 (0.21%) NestJS
7 1 (0.21%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 69 (14.74%) Management Information System
2 29 (6.20%) Security Posture
3 25 (5.34%) Cyber Threat
4 16 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (3.21%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.78%) PKI
7 11 (2.35%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.92%) CCTV
9 8 (1.71%) CESG
9 8 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.28%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.28%) Freedom of Information
10 6 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.28%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (1.07%) Cyberattack
11 5 (1.07%) NHS
11 5 (1.07%) Operational Technology
12 4 (0.85%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 49 (10.47%) Linux
2 38 (8.12%) Windows
3 12 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.35%) Mac OS X
5 7 (1.50%) Unix
6 5 (1.07%) CentOS
7 4 (0.85%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.64%) zOS
9 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (48.29%) Cybersecurity
2 195 (41.67%) Information Security
3 129 (27.56%) Risk Management
4 77 (16.45%) SIEM
5 76 (16.24%) Security Architecture
6 64 (13.68%) Cloud Security
7 55 (11.75%) Data Protection
8 53 (11.32%) Risk Assessment
9 52 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 50 (10.68%) Penetration Testing
11 49 (10.47%) Vulnerability Management
12 48 (10.26%) Incident Response
13 44 (9.40%) Identity Access Management
13 44 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (8.55%) Incident Management
14 40 (8.55%) Security Management
15 39 (8.33%) ISMS
16 38 (8.12%) DevOps
16 38 (8.12%) ITIL
17 35 (7.48%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 21 (4.49%) PowerShell
2 17 (3.63%) Python
3 12 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
4 9 (1.92%) Bash
4 9 (1.92%) C#
4 9 (1.92%) C++
5 7 (1.50%) SQL
6 4 (0.85%) PHP
7 3 (0.64%) Go
8 2 (0.43%) Java
8 2 (0.43%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.43%) R
9 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.21%) Ruby
9 1 (0.21%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 134 (28.63%) CISSP
2 126 (26.92%) Security Cleared
3 108 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 99 (21.15%) CISM
5 55 (11.75%) CISA
6 44 (9.40%) Degree
7 31 (6.62%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (5.56%) DV Cleared
9 22 (4.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 22 (4.70%) CRISC
10 18 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
11 15 (3.21%) CEH
11 15 (3.21%) CISMP
11 15 (3.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 12 (2.56%) CCSK
12 12 (2.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 11 (2.35%) CREST Certified
14 10 (2.14%) CLAS
15 9 (1.92%) CESG Certified Professional
15 9 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (48.29%) NIST
2 74 (15.81%) GDPR
3 63 (13.46%) PCI DSS
4 48 (10.26%) GRC
5 43 (9.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 41 (8.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 36 (7.69%) NCSC
8 33 (7.05%) COBIT
9 31 (6.62%) HIPAA
10 23 (4.91%) ISO 9001
11 16 (3.42%) ISO 22301
12 15 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 13 (2.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 11 (2.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 10 (2.14%) JSP 440
15 10 (2.14%) QA
16 8 (1.71%) RMADS
16 8 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 7 (1.50%) Disclosure Scotland
17 7 (1.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (4.70%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.14%) Docker
3 4 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.43%) Squid
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (5.77%) Terraform
2 20 (4.27%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.78%) Ansible
4 4 (0.85%) Nessus
4 4 (0.85%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (0.64%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.43%) Grafana
6 2 (0.43%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.43%) IBM BigFix
6 2 (0.43%) Kibana
6 2 (0.43%) logstash
6 2 (0.43%) Nmap
6 2 (0.43%) Packer
6 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.43%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.21%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.21%) SCCM
7 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.70%) Cisco
3 11 (2.35%) ServiceNow
3 11 (2.35%) Splunk
4 9 (1.92%) Rapid7
4 9 (1.92%) Sparx
5 8 (1.71%) Google
6 7 (1.50%) Darktrace
6 7 (1.50%) Qualys
7 6 (1.28%) Palo Alto
7 6 (1.28%) SAP
8 5 (1.07%) F5
8 5 (1.07%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.07%) Sophos
9 4 (0.85%) Becrypt
9 4 (0.85%) Citrix
9 4 (0.85%) Oracle
9 4 (0.85%) VMware
10 3 (0.64%) Remedy
10 3 (0.64%) Salesforce