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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 60 55
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 18 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.96% 0.84% 0.85%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.95% 9.80% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 5
10th Percentile £415 £516 -
25th Percentile £450 £522 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £577 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.61% +9.81% +0.96%
75th Percentile £688 £652 £750
90th Percentile £718 £741 £975
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 139 51 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.11% 8.61% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 31 61
10th Percentile £313 £313 £208
25th Percentile £355 £374 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% +3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £545 £540 £600
90th Percentile £650 £713 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile £11.46 £14.83 £17.33
25th Percentile £11.96 £15.03 £20.50
Median hourly rate £13.45 £15.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% -69.30% +81.82%
75th Percentile £17.04 £15.68 £52.50
90th Percentile £18.23 £15.87 £54.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.62 £28.18 £16.19
% change year-on-year -26.85% +74.06% -41.13%

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 9 September 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 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) IIS
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (11.11%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.11%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) dbt
5 1 (5.56%) n8n
5 1 (5.56%) OCI
5 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.56%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Burp Suite
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) Metasploit
1 1 (5.56%) sqlmap
General
1 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Legal
3 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Military
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Security Manager
2 3 (16.67%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 3 (16.67%) Data Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Security Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Lead Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Lead Security Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Information Security Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) EDI
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
1 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Information Security
2 7 (38.89%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (38.89%) Data Protection
2 7 (38.89%) Security Operations
3 6 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 5 (27.78%) Agile
4 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
4 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
4 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (22.22%) Security Architecture
5 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 3 (16.67%) Data Security
6 3 (16.67%) DevOps
6 3 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
6 3 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (16.67%) SIEM
6 3 (16.67%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) Bicep
2 1 (5.56%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) CISM
1 7 (38.89%) CISSP
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (50.00%) NIST
2 7 (38.89%) GRC
3 6 (33.33%) GDPR
4 4 (22.22%) NCSC
5 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
6 1 (5.56%) ISO 22301
6 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Proofpoint
3 1 (5.56%) Qualys