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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 50 50
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 +16
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 16 6 16
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.80% 1.15% 2.13%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.41% 8.11% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 12
10th Percentile £431 £531 £389
25th Percentile £463 £558 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £603 £506
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +19.11% +1.25%
75th Percentile £619 £620 £688
90th Percentile £624 £631 £748
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -2.13%

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 111 74 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.51% 14.18% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 47 71
10th Percentile £313 £293 £259
25th Percentile £365 £375 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £438
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% +10.40% -7.89%
75th Percentile £588 £540 £544
90th Percentile £688 £610 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +5.81% -7.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 10
10th Percentile - - £11.06
25th Percentile - £14.70 £12.30
Median hourly rate £16.00 £18.35 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% +35.93% +3.85%
75th Percentile - £27.25 £14.00
90th Percentile - £40.75 £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £14.60 £25.09 £14.00
% change year-on-year -41.81% +79.21% -11.11%

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 4 April 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 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) IIS
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Mimecast
4 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) LAN
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
2 1 (6.25%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Burp Suite
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) Metasploit
1 1 (6.25%) sqlmap
General
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.25%) Legal
2 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Retail
2 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) CyberArk Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Security Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Security Manager
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Information Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Security Officer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Officer
4 1 (6.25%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Middleware
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth
2 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
3 1 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) Risk Management
3 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 4 (25.00%) Information Security
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Privileged Access Management
4 3 (18.75%) Security Operations
4 3 (18.75%) Task Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Threat Detection
5 2 (12.50%) Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (12.50%) DevSecOps
5 2 (12.50%) Identity Management
5 2 (12.50%) Internal Audit
5 2 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (12.50%) Runbook
5 2 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) PowerShell
2 5 (31.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
3 1 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 2 (12.50%) CISSP
4 1 (6.25%) CISM
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) NIST
2 3 (18.75%) GDPR
3 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (12.50%) GRC
4 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (6.25%) ISO 22301
4 1 (6.25%) NCSC
4 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.25%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Proofpoint