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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 46 49
Rank change year-on-year -19 +3 +20
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 15 6 14
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.65% 1.21% 1.88%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.40% 11.54% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 9
10th Percentile - £531 £383
25th Percentile £450 £558 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £603 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +37.83% +2.94%
75th Percentile £619 £620 £725
90th Percentile £675 £631 £825
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £575 £469
% change year-on-year -13.04% +22.67% -10.71%

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 121 52 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.30% 10.48% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 35 70
10th Percentile £313 £319 £258
25th Percentile £358 £416 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +14.12% -
75th Percentile £575 £581 £523
90th Percentile £706 £658 £728
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £14.83 £11.06
25th Percentile - £15.03 £12.65
Median hourly rate £16.00 £15.35 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% +13.70% -50.24%
75th Percentile - £15.68 £14.00
90th Percentile - £15.87 £26.30
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.30 £29.97 £14.60
% change year-on-year -8.91% +105.27% -46.55%

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 June 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (6.67%) dbt
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) Mimecast
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
3 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Burp Suite
1 1 (6.67%) Metasploit
1 1 (6.67%) sqlmap
General
1 3 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (20.00%) Legal
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Security Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Data Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Security Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) CyberArk Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DBA
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Programme Manager
4 1 (6.67%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Information Security
2 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 5 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 5 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 5 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
3 4 (26.67%) SIEM
4 3 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (20.00%) Data Security
4 3 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (20.00%) Threat Detection
5 2 (13.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (13.33%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) CISSP
1 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) CISM
3 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (80.00%) NIST
2 6 (40.00%) GDPR
3 5 (33.33%) GRC
4 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (6.67%) ISO 22301
4 1 (6.67%) NCSC
4 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.67%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle