Cybersecurity Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Cybersecurity
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 36 28
Rank change year-on-year -4 -8 +13
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 35 30 46
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.83% 4.35% 6.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.40% 5.00% 7.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 11 33
10th Percentile £468 £300 £390
25th Percentile £500 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.70% -2.13%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £675
90th Percentile £892 £750 £770
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £55.75 £62.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £56.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.90% -13.08% -
75th Percentile - £57.25 £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £56.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -46.90% -13.08% -

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 648 600 608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 89.38% 86.96% 83.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 406 398
10th Percentile £224 £198 £282
25th Percentile £366 £383 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £506 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +6.58% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 16 18
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.03
25th Percentile £14.59 £21.63 £14.78
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -49.63% +243.50%
75th Percentile £20.56 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £25.00 £56.25 £67.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.50 £23.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year -13.14% +2.61% +29.94%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Birmingham over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity in Birmingham

Cybersecurity
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cybersecurity.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (2.86%) Confluence
1 1 (2.86%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) GCP
2 10 (28.57%) AWS
2 10 (28.57%) Serverless
3 3 (8.57%) Azure
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Firewall
1 1 (2.86%) Network Security
1 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 5 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) GitLab
1 9 (25.71%) Jenkins
2 6 (17.14%) Liquibase
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.71%) Finance
3 7 (20.00%) Banking
3 7 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 6 (17.14%) Financial Institution
5 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 6 (17.14%) Security Specialist
3 6 (17.14%) Senior
3 6 (17.14%) Senior Software Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Software Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Analyst
4 5 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (11.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) SIEM Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Software Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (34.29%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (31.43%) REST
3 10 (28.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 9 (25.71%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (17.14%) Cloud Native
4 3 (8.57%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (31.43%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Mac OS X
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) DevOps
2 12 (34.29%) CI/CD
2 12 (34.29%) Computer Science
3 11 (31.43%) Agile
3 11 (31.43%) Containerisation
3 11 (31.43%) Cost Optimisation
3 11 (31.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (31.43%) Root Cause Analysis
4 10 (28.57%) Cryptography
5 9 (25.71%) Data Security
6 8 (22.86%) Microservices
6 8 (22.86%) Threat Modelling
7 7 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (17.14%) Continuous Delivery
8 6 (17.14%) Data Encryption
8 6 (17.14%) High Availability
8 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Automation
8 6 (17.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 6 (17.14%) Non-Functional Testing
8 6 (17.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) Python
2 11 (31.43%) Go
3 4 (11.43%) SQL
4 1 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.86%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 12 (34.29%) Degree
2 10 (28.57%) Master's Degree
3 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) CISSP
6 1 (2.86%) GIAC
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.86%) GRC
1 1 (2.86%) ISO 22301
1 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.86%) NCSC
1 1 (2.86%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Snort
Systems Management
1 12 (34.29%) Terraform
2 11 (31.43%) Ansible
2 11 (31.43%) Kubernetes
3 10 (28.57%) Grafana
3 10 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.71%) Kibana
4 2 (5.71%) logstash
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.86%) QRadar
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Splunk
2 8 (22.86%) Google
3 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco
4 1 (2.86%) IBM