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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 51 50
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 +16
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 16 4 17
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.85% 0.77% 2.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.16% 5.63% 15.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 13
10th Percentile £415 - £378
25th Percentile £456 £613 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +38.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £675
90th Percentile £624 - £745
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% -14.58%

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 113 71 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.06% 13.73% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 46 80
10th Percentile £313 £291 £259
25th Percentile £365 £375 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £439
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% +10.09% -7.63%
75th Percentile £600 £540 £553
90th Percentile £688 £629 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £464 £500
% change year-on-year +6.09% -7.25% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 10
10th Percentile £16.43 - £11.06
25th Percentile £17.06 £14.70 £12.30
Median hourly rate £18.25 £18.35 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +35.93% +3.85%
75th Percentile £19.56 £27.25 £14.00
90th Percentile £20.28 £40.75 £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £14.60 £18.35 £14.00
% change year-on-year -20.44% +31.07% -20.93%

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 28 March 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 6 (37.50%) 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 EC2
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Mimecast
4 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.25%) PaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) 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
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%) Public Sector
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.25%) Legal
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%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Information Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Information Security Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Information Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Information Security Manager
4 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Security Officer
4 1 (6.25%) Programme Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Security Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Security Officer
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 Operations Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.25%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) Incident Response
2 5 (31.25%) Risk Management
3 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) Information Security
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 4 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Privileged Access Management
4 3 (18.75%) SIEM
4 3 (18.75%) Task Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 2 (12.50%) DevSecOps
5 2 (12.50%) Internal Audit
5 2 (12.50%) RBAC
5 2 (12.50%) Runbook
5 2 (12.50%) SOAR
5 2 (12.50%) Zero Trust
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
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 2 (12.50%) CISSP
5 1 (6.25%) CISM
5 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (62.50%) NIST
2 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) GRC
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (6.25%) NCSC
3 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%) Proofpoint
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk