ISO/IEC 27001 Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

ISO/IEC 27001
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 62 58
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +26
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 7 5 16
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.09% 0.70% 1.96%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.29% 4.90% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 12
10th Percentile £405 - £408
25th Percentile £413 £450 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -4.41% -0.49%
75th Percentile £575 £684 £651
90th Percentile £710 £949 £673
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -15.38%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Birmingham

ISO/IEC 27001 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 62 102 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.64% 14.31% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 67 66
10th Percentile £315 £204 £300
25th Percentile £397 £310 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £420 £470
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -10.64% +4.44%
75th Percentile £591 £538 £575
90th Percentile £714 £745 £681
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £16.43 £17.33 £14.20
25th Percentile £17.06 £20.50 £20.40
Median hourly rate £18.25 £22.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% -20.00% +61.76%
75th Percentile £19.56 £50.00 £29.38
90th Percentile £20.28 £51.50 £30.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £21.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +19.05% -23.64% +48.65%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

ISO/IEC 27001 job vacancy trend in Birmingham

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing ISO/IEC 27001.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing ISO/IEC 27001

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in Birmingham over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in Birmingham

ISO/IEC 27001
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing ISO/IEC 27001.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing ISO/IEC 27001

ISO/IEC 27001
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 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) n8n
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) TestDirector
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Development Director
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Architect
2 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Mac OS X
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
3 1 (14.29%) Business Development
3 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security
3 1 (14.29%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) SIEM
3 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) CEH
3 1 (14.29%) CISM
3 1 (14.29%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) CSSLP
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
2 2 (28.57%) NCSC
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (14.29%) ISO 22301
3 1 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Proofpoint
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk