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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 63 61
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 15 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.85% 0.48% 1.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.30% 3.26% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 9
10th Percentile £417 - £385
25th Percentile £470 £613 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% +38.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £588
90th Percentile £681 - £695
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 92 92 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.34% 14.63% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 54 75
10th Percentile £306 £196 £259
25th Percentile £365 £296 £268
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £414 £438
Median % change year-on-year +13.22% -5.31% -7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £567 £538
90th Percentile £625 £708 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £504 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.11% -5.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 6
10th Percentile £16.43 £14.70 £11.06
25th Percentile £17.06 £17.60 £11.30
Median hourly rate £18.25 £22.00 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +72.55% +6.25%
75th Percentile £19.56 £40.75 £14.34
90th Percentile £20.28 £52.50 £34.77
West Midlands median hourly rate £13.20 £17.85 £14.54
% change year-on-year -26.05% +22.76% -11.88%

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 3 February 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 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) IIS
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (6.67%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.67%) IaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Mimecast
5 1 (6.67%) n8n
5 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.67%) PaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
5 1 (6.67%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) Network Security
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.67%) VPN
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
1 1 (6.67%) TestDirector
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) CyberArk Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Information Security Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Information Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Security Officer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Security Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Security Officer
4 1 (6.67%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (6.67%) OAuth
2 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (13.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Mac OS X
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) DevOps
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Information Security
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (20.00%) SIEM
4 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (20.00%) Threat Detection
4 3 (20.00%) Zero Trust
5 2 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (13.33%) Secure Coding
5 2 (13.33%) SOAR
5 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) Bicep
3 1 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (13.33%) CISM
4 2 (13.33%) CISSP
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (6.67%) CEH
5 1 (6.67%) CSSLP
5 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (53.33%) NIST
2 4 (26.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (13.33%) GDPR
3 2 (13.33%) NCSC
4 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (6.67%) ISO 22301
4 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
4 1 (6.67%) QA
4 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
2 3 (20.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.67%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.67%) Proofpoint
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk