Cyber Threat Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Cyber Threats
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing Cyber Threat 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.44% - 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.63% - 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £625 - £785
% change year-on-year - - +4.67%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

Cyber Threat falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 245 242 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.83% 40.00% 25.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 159 105
10th Percentile £281 £201 £194
25th Percentile £409 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £675
90th Percentile £721 £600 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 6
10th Percentile £16.01 - £19.50
25th Percentile £43.75 - £27.88
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -63.54% +23.89%
75th Percentile £51.25 - £56.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £33.79 £58.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.73 £30.00 £30.88
% change year-on-year +2.43% -2.83% +12.27%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Cyber Threat job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Cyber Threat
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cyber Threat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cyber Threat

Cyber Threat
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 3 (75.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Information Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (100.00%) Information Security
1 4 (100.00%) Patch Management
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) ITSM
2 3 (75.00%) Offensive Security
2 3 (75.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) SOAR
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (25.00%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
1 4 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) LogRhythm
3 1 (25.00%) Qualys
3 1 (25.00%) Rapid7
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Sophos
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk