Cyber Assurance Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Cyber Assurance
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Cyber Assurance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cyber Assurance 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £540 - -
England median daily rate £500 £625 £475
% change year-on-year -20.00% +31.58% -19.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Cyber Assurance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,923 1,556 1,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.85% 88.06% 81.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,794 990 1,003
10th Percentile £313 £250 £251
25th Percentile £413 £400 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £579 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £653 £725
England median daily rate £525 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +3.05% -2.96% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 103 43
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £12.83
25th Percentile £17.64 £15.56 £15.07
Median hourly rate £30.22 £24.34 £21.59
Median % change year-on-year +24.16% +12.74% -21.49%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.30 £36.25
90th Percentile £70.07 £50.00 £54.50
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

Cyber Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cyber Assurance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Cyber Assurance job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Cyber Assurance
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cyber Assurance within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 September 2026. 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
Shropshire - 2 £500 -
Birmingham - 1 - - 2
Cyber Assurance
England

Cyber Assurance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Legal
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Chief Information Security Officer
2 1 (25.00%) Chief Security Officer
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security Officer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Security Officer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
1 1 (25.00%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Information Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Register
4 1 (25.00%) Security Management
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Planon
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow