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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 230 301
Rank change year-on-year +16 +71 +23
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 459 664 816
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 1.16% 0.93%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.57% 8.70% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 474 614
10th Percentile £363 £425 £363
25th Percentile £463 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £592 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.84% +7.60% +7.32%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £675
90th Percentile £765 £796 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 16 10
10th Percentile - £44.38 £43.58
25th Percentile - £45.94 £44.81
Median hourly rate £83.41 £67.07 £54.69
Median % change year-on-year +24.36% +22.64% +44.69%
75th Percentile - £74.11 £69.12
90th Percentile - £78.63 £73.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.41 £70.00 £54.43
% change year-on-year +19.16% +28.61% +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 6,062 7,631 11,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.25% 13.36% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,850 5,224 7,927
10th Percentile £282 £280 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £742 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +0.83% +6.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 380 234 311
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.71 £17.00
Median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.84% +12.90% +47.62%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.27 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -47.80% +55.56% +7.14%

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 15 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 15 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 0 386 £575 -4.17% 371
UK excluding London -5 210 £550 -8.33% 244
London +33 205 £585 -6.79% 118
Work from Home +26 181 £581 -3.13% 192
North of England +36 53 £575 +21.05% 64
South West +20 47 £600 -4.00% 37
North West +42 44 £600 +33.33% 30
Scotland +48 41 £563 -3.68% 11
South East -44 34 £413 -34.00% 54
Midlands +1 23 £450 -21.74% 46
West Midlands -15 16 £550 -4.35% 29
East of England +18 11 £365 -33.94% 24
East Midlands +19 7 £363 -48.21% 17
Yorkshire +10 7 £550 -12.00% 25
North East - 2 £525 - 9
Wales +18 1 £638 +10.87% 6

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 10 (2.18%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.74%) nginx
3 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.87%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.87%) CMS
4 4 (0.87%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.44%) Confluence
5 2 (0.44%) IIS
5 2 (0.44%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.22%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 87 (18.95%) Azure
2 67 (14.60%) AWS
3 27 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
4 25 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (3.92%) GCP
6 9 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (1.96%) Entra ID
6 9 (1.96%) SaaS
7 8 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.53%) AWS CloudTrail
8 7 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (1.53%) Serverless
9 6 (1.31%) GitHub
10 5 (1.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 5 (1.09%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (0.87%) IaaS
11 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 61 (13.29%) Firewall
2 52 (11.33%) Network Security
3 19 (4.14%) WAN
4 13 (2.83%) DNS
4 13 (2.83%) Intrusion Detection
4 13 (2.83%) SD-WAN
5 12 (2.61%) TCP/IP
6 11 (2.40%) VPN
7 7 (1.53%) LAN
8 5 (1.09%) HTTPS
8 5 (1.09%) Internet
8 5 (1.09%) IPsec
9 4 (0.87%) Intranet
9 4 (0.87%) SCCP
9 4 (0.87%) Skype
9 4 (0.87%) Wireless
10 3 (0.65%) Broadband
11 2 (0.44%) DHCP
11 2 (0.44%) HTTP
11 2 (0.44%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.53%) MySQL
1 7 (1.53%) NoSQL
2 4 (0.87%) Big Data
2 4 (0.87%) Couchbase
2 4 (0.87%) Data Lake
2 4 (0.87%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.65%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.44%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.44%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (2.18%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.09%) Git
2 5 (1.09%) JIRA
3 3 (0.65%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.44%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.44%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.44%) GitLab
4 2 (0.44%) Mocha
4 2 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.44%) RStudio
5 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
General
1 103 (22.44%) Social Skills
2 88 (19.17%) Public Sector
3 86 (18.74%) Finance
4 47 (10.24%) Legal
5 34 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (5.01%) Banking
7 18 (3.92%) Manufacturing
8 13 (2.83%) Local Government
8 13 (2.83%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.74%) Retail
10 7 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.09%) Electronics
11 5 (1.09%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.09%) German Language
11 5 (1.09%) Law
11 5 (1.09%) Marketing
11 5 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.87%) French Language
12 4 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.87%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (19.39%) Architect
2 74 (16.12%) Analyst
3 64 (13.94%) Consultant
4 63 (13.73%) Security Architect
5 50 (10.89%) Senior
6 49 (10.68%) Security Consultant
7 35 (7.63%) Security Analyst
8 32 (6.97%) Lead
8 32 (6.97%) Security Engineer
9 28 (6.10%) Security Manager
10 17 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 17 (3.70%) Security Specialist
11 16 (3.49%) SOC Analyst
12 15 (3.27%) Project Manager
12 15 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
13 14 (3.05%) Information Security Consultant
13 14 (3.05%) Security Advisor
14 12 (2.61%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 12 (2.61%) Information Manager
14 12 (2.61%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
1 8 (1.74%) YAML
2 5 (1.09%) JSON
2 5 (1.09%) Kafka
3 4 (0.87%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (0.87%) OAuth
4 3 (0.65%) .NET
4 3 (0.65%) JWT
4 3 (0.65%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.44%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.44%) Express.js
5 2 (0.44%) GraphQL
5 2 (0.44%) MEAN Stack
5 2 (0.44%) MERN Stack
5 2 (0.44%) NestJS
5 2 (0.44%) Node.js
5 2 (0.44%) OpenAPI
5 2 (0.44%) React
5 2 (0.44%) SAML
5 2 (0.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 69 (15.03%) Management Information System
2 30 (6.54%) Security Posture
3 27 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
4 16 (3.49%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (3.05%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.83%) PKI
7 11 (2.40%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.96%) CCTV
8 9 (1.96%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.74%) CESG
9 8 (1.74%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.53%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.31%) Freedom of Information
12 5 (1.09%) Cyberattack
12 5 (1.09%) Operational Technology
12 5 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
13 4 (0.87%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 4 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (10.24%) Linux
2 36 (7.84%) Windows
3 11 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.18%) Mac OS X
5 7 (1.53%) Unix
6 4 (0.87%) CentOS
7 3 (0.65%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.65%) zOS
8 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (47.93%) Cybersecurity
2 188 (40.96%) Information Security
3 128 (27.89%) Risk Management
4 74 (16.12%) SIEM
5 73 (15.90%) Security Architecture
6 60 (13.07%) Cloud Security
7 52 (11.33%) Risk Assessment
8 51 (11.11%) Data Protection
8 51 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
9 49 (10.68%) Incident Response
9 49 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
9 49 (10.68%) Vulnerability Management
10 44 (9.59%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (9.37%) Identity Access Management
12 39 (8.50%) Incident Management
13 36 (7.84%) DevOps
14 35 (7.63%) Agile
15 34 (7.41%) ITIL
15 34 (7.41%) Security Management
16 33 (7.19%) ISMS
Programming Languages
1 21 (4.58%) PowerShell
2 16 (3.49%) Python
3 12 (2.61%) Kusto Query Language
4 10 (2.18%) Bash
5 9 (1.96%) C#
5 9 (1.96%) C++
6 7 (1.53%) SQL
7 4 (0.87%) PHP
8 3 (0.65%) Go
8 3 (0.65%) Java
8 3 (0.65%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.44%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.44%) R
9 2 (0.44%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 130 (28.32%) CISSP
2 111 (24.18%) Security Cleared
3 94 (20.48%) SC Cleared
4 92 (20.04%) CISM
5 53 (11.55%) CISA
6 39 (8.50%) Degree
7 32 (6.97%) Cisco Certification
8 24 (5.23%) DV Cleared
9 22 (4.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 21 (4.58%) CRISC
11 18 (3.92%) CompTIA Security+
12 15 (3.27%) CEH
12 15 (3.27%) CISMP
13 14 (3.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 12 (2.61%) CCSK
14 12 (2.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 11 (2.40%) CREST Certified
16 10 (2.18%) CLAS
17 9 (1.96%) CESG Certified Professional
17 9 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (49.02%) NIST
2 71 (15.47%) GDPR
3 64 (13.94%) PCI DSS
4 45 (9.80%) GRC
5 42 (9.15%) Cyber Essentials
6 41 (8.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 32 (6.97%) NCSC
8 31 (6.75%) COBIT
9 30 (6.54%) HIPAA
10 21 (4.58%) ISO 9001
11 16 (3.49%) ISO 22301
12 15 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 11 (2.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (2.18%) JSP 440
14 10 (2.18%) QA
15 9 (1.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 9 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (1.74%) RMADS
17 7 (1.53%) Disclosure Scotland
18 6 (1.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (4.36%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.40%) Docker
3 4 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.44%) Firmware
4 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.44%) Squid
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (5.66%) Terraform
2 21 (4.58%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.83%) Ansible
4 4 (0.87%) Nessus
4 4 (0.87%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (0.65%) Grafana
5 3 (0.65%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.44%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.44%) IBM BigFix
6 2 (0.44%) Kibana
6 2 (0.44%) logstash
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.44%) Nmap
6 2 (0.44%) Packer
6 2 (0.44%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.22%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.22%) SCCM
7 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (18.95%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.01%) Cisco
3 11 (2.40%) ServiceNow
3 11 (2.40%) Splunk
4 9 (1.96%) Google
4 9 (1.96%) Rapid7
5 8 (1.74%) Sparx
6 7 (1.53%) Qualys
7 6 (1.31%) Darktrace
7 6 (1.31%) SAP
7 6 (1.31%) VMware
8 5 (1.09%) Citrix
8 5 (1.09%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.09%) Sophos
9 4 (0.87%) Becrypt
9 4 (0.87%) F5
9 4 (0.87%) Oracle
10 3 (0.65%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.65%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.65%) Red Hat