ISO/IEC 27001 Contracts in the Midlands

ISO/IEC 27001
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring ISO/IEC 27001 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISO/IEC 27001 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 110 109
Rank change year-on-year +24 -1 +68
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 25 23 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.31% 0.83% 1.69%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.62% 5.99% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 50
10th Percentile £300 £395 £411
25th Percentile £425 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £588
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -23.40% +6.82%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £619
90th Percentile £624 £765 £680
England median daily rate £575 £575 £590
% change year-on-year - -2.54% +7.27%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 328 384 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.14% 13.93% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 263 341
10th Percentile £196 £254 £250
25th Percentile £318 £354 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £539 £613 £588
90th Percentile £600 £756 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 44 13
10th Percentile - £11.34 £11.30
25th Percentile £14.70 £13.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £14.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.40% -28.75% +17.28%
75th Percentile £30.38 £27.92 £27.13
90th Percentile £44.20 £58.75 £51.02
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the Midlands

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the Midlands

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the Midlands

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the Midlands

ISO/IEC 27001
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +18 21 £575 - 39
East Midlands +8 4 £400 -11.11% 15
ISO/IEC 27001
England

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.00%) OCI
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) LAN
1 2 (8.00%) Network Security
1 2 (8.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) GitLab
1 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Law
3 1 (4.00%) Legal
3 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Security Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Security Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Applications Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Auditor
4 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
4 2 (8.00%) IT Auditor
4 2 (8.00%) IT Security Auditor
4 2 (8.00%) Security Auditor
4 2 (8.00%) Security Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Head of Digital
5 1 (4.00%) Head of IT Security
5 1 (4.00%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Apache Axis
2 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.00%) OAuth
2 1 (4.00%) OpenID
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Operational Technology
2 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (12.00%) CCTV
3 3 (12.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (8.00%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Replication
5 1 (4.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Windows
1 6 (24.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (28.00%) Risk Management
3 6 (24.00%) ITIL
4 5 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 5 (20.00%) Information Security
5 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (16.00%) Design Patterns
5 4 (16.00%) Project Management
5 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (16.00%) Security Management
6 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
6 3 (12.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (12.00%) Incident Response
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (12.00%) Microservices
6 3 (12.00%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (12.00%) SOA
6 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) Java
2 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (12.00%) C#
3 3 (12.00%) Ruby
3 3 (12.00%) SQL
4 1 (4.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) CISSP
2 6 (24.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 6 (24.00%) Degree
2 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) CISM
3 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (16.00%) CISA
5 3 (12.00%) CEH
6 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (8.00%) CRISC
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 1 (4.00%) GIAC
7 1 (4.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (4.00%) MCP
7 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (4.00%) OCP
7 1 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
7 1 (4.00%) PMP
7 1 (4.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (52.00%) NIST
2 7 (28.00%) GDPR
3 6 (24.00%) GRC
4 4 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (12.00%) NCSC
5 3 (12.00%) PCI DSS
5 3 (12.00%) QA
6 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (8.00%) NIST 800
6 2 (8.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (4.00%) HIPAA
7 1 (4.00%) ISO 14001
7 1 (4.00%) ISO 31000
7 1 (4.00%) ISO 9001
7 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (4.00%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Grafana
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle