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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 63 58
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 13 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.66% 0.32% 1.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.05% 2.30% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 9
10th Percentile £413 - £385
25th Percentile £466 £613 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +38.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £588
90th Percentile £688 - £695
West Midlands median daily rate £556 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +11.25% -9.09% -8.33%

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 81 87 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 10.32% 13.96% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 50 65
10th Percentile £303 £192 £260
25th Percentile £365 £284 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £405 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.01% -14.74% -0.52%
75th Percentile £600 £543 £588
90th Percentile £625 £648 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +8.32% -5.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £16.43 £14.70 £11.44
25th Percentile £17.06 £17.60 £12.00
Median hourly rate £18.25 £22.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +62.96% +22.73%
75th Percentile £19.56 £40.75 £14.54
90th Percentile £20.28 £52.50 £38.82
West Midlands median hourly rate £13.20 £14.70 £16.80
% change year-on-year -10.20% -12.51% -15.99%

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 20 January 2026.

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 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) IIS
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (7.69%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.69%) IaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Mimecast
5 1 (7.69%) n8n
5 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.69%) PaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.69%) SaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) LAN
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) TestDirector
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.69%) Legal
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) CyberArk Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Development Director
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps Architect
4 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Security Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (23.08%) Onboarding
2 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.69%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Mac OS X
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
3 3 (23.08%) Incident Response
3 3 (23.08%) Information Security
3 3 (23.08%) Privileged Access Management
3 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
3 3 (23.08%) Threat Detection
3 3 (23.08%) Zero Trust
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Identity Management
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Bicep
3 1 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
4 2 (15.38%) CISM
4 2 (15.38%) CISSP
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (7.69%) CEH
5 1 (7.69%) CSSLP
5 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) NIST
2 3 (23.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (15.38%) NCSC
4 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (7.69%) GDPR
4 1 (7.69%) ISO 22301
4 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
4 1 (7.69%) QA
4 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) CyberArk
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.69%) Proofpoint
4 1 (7.69%) Splunk