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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 61 55
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 +30
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 5 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.84% 0.84% 2.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.26% 6.90% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 12
10th Percentile £516 - £417
25th Percentile £522 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +9.81% +0.96% +9.47%
75th Percentile £652 £750 £651
90th Percentile £741 £975 £673
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -6.38%

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 54 87 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.06% 12.18% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 59 54
10th Percentile £313 £207 £276
25th Percentile £390 £311 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £450 £458
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -1.64% +1.67%
75th Percentile £540 £538 £584
90th Percentile £698 £751 £646
West Midlands median daily rate £496 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -0.80% -4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 9
10th Percentile £14.83 £17.33 £13.46
25th Percentile £15.03 £20.50 £14.54
Median hourly rate £15.35 £50.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.30% +81.82% +48.65%
75th Percentile £15.68 £52.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £15.87 £54.00 £30.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £16.19 £27.50
% change year-on-year +74.06% -41.13% +37.50%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing ISO/IEC 27001 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 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 17 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) TestDirector
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Development Director
1 1 (20.00%) Information Security Advisor
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Security Advisor
1 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (40.00%) Information Security
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Application Security
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Key Management
2 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CEH
1 2 (40.00%) CISM
1 2 (40.00%) CISSP
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CISA
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) CSSLP
2 1 (20.00%) ISACA
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) OCP
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) NIST
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (40.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (20.00%) ISO 22301
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (20.00%) NCSC
3 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (20.00%) QA
3 1 (20.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle