Information Security Contracts in Birmingham

Information Security (InfoSec)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Information Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Information Security over the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 56 52
Rank change year-on-year +10 -4 +18
Contract jobs citing Information Security 6 3 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.19% 0.41% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.50% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 14
10th Percentile £400 £416 £375
25th Percentile £438 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -27.08% +11.63%
75th Percentile £519 £447 £647
90th Percentile £530 £449 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £634 £588
% change year-on-year -36.88% +7.87% +10.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Information Security 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 443 602 773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.55% 82.24% 87.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 400 511
10th Percentile £163 £235 £300
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -7.32% +5.13%
75th Percentile £588 £581 £634
90th Percentile £692 £700 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.31% +6.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 43 31
10th Percentile - £13.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £18.50 £12.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 £26.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +25.57% +23.61%
75th Percentile £23.75 £47.13 £29.38
90th Percentile £37.00 £56.25 £53.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £21.69
% change year-on-year -15.56% +3.73% +28.25%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in Birmingham

Information Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Information Security in Birmingham

Information Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Security in Birmingham

Information Security
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 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Advisor
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Advisor
2 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) CCTV
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (33.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Security Management
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
3 1 (16.67%) Due Diligence
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) ISMS
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Register
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CEH
1 2 (33.33%) CISA
1 2 (33.33%) CISM
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (50.00%) NIST
3 2 (33.33%) GDPR
3 2 (33.33%) GRC
3 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
4 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
4 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley