Cybersecurity Contracts in Birmingham

Cybersecurity
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 33 35
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 14 34 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.68% 4.40% 4.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 5.28% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 27
10th Percentile £431 £374 £370
25th Percentile £513 £406 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £650
90th Percentile £638 £750 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £618 £600
% change year-on-year -10.93% +2.92% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Cybersecurity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Birmingham

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Birmingham

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Birmingham

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in Birmingham

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Akamai
3 1 (7.14%) Cloudflare
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Big Data
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Legal
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Incident Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Incident Responder
3 2 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Security Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Security Incident Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Security Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Operational Technology
2 2 (14.29%) CCTV
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Incident Response
1 4 (28.57%) Information Security
1 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
2 3 (21.43%) Security Management
2 3 (21.43%) Security Operations
2 3 (21.43%) SIEM
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 2 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (14.29%) Observability
3 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
3 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 2 (14.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) CISSP
2 3 (21.43%) CISM
3 2 (14.29%) CEH
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) GIAC
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.14%) CISA
4 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
4 1 (7.14%) PMP
4 1 (7.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (21.43%) GDPR
2 3 (21.43%) NIST
2 3 (21.43%) PCI DSS
3 2 (14.29%) GRC
3 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
4 1 (7.14%) HIPAA
4 1 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Alibaba
2 1 (7.14%) Ariba
2 1 (7.14%) F5
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Imperva
2 1 (7.14%) Qualys
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk