ISMS Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Information Security Management System (ISMS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring ISMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISMS 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.55% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £571 - -
25th Percentile £577 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £585 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

ISMS 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 757 517 579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.28% 88.38% 82.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 341 388
10th Percentile £313 £200 £200
25th Percentile £400 £363 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £638
90th Percentile £680 £639 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £476 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -4.80% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 51 12
10th Percentile £13.45 - £20.58
25th Percentile £19.34 £12.62 £24.48
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -59.42% +69.09%
75th Percentile £55.00 £22.08 £55.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £26.51 £57.05
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.27 £24.34 £24.31
% change year-on-year +24.36% +0.11% -11.59%

ISMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

ISMS job vacancy trend in Birmingham

ISMS
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing ISMS

ISMS
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:

General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) Security Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Head of Information
2 2 (40.00%) Head of Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Head of Security
2 2 (40.00%) Management Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Security Incident Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Security Management Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) SIAM
2 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (40.00%) Information Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security Management
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Security Management
3 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (20.00%) ITSM
4 1 (20.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) NCSC
2 3 (60.00%) NIST
3 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (40.00%) GRC
3 2 (40.00%) SLA
4 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001