ISMS Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Information Security Management System (ISMS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring ISMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 - 105
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing ISMS 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.15% - 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £571 - -
25th Percentile £577 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £565 £688 £500
% change year-on-year -17.82% +37.50% -20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

ISMS 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 2,916 1,551 1,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.89% 88.43% 81.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,792 989 1,009
10th Percentile £313 £250 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 102 48
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.74 £15.34 £15.10
Median hourly rate £30.27 £24.34 £24.31
Median % change year-on-year +24.36% +0.11% -11.59%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.45 £35.63
90th Percentile £70.09 £50.00 £55.08
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

ISMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

ISMS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

ISMS
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing ISMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing ISMS

ISMS
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 ISMS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Birmingham - 5 £585 - 1
ISMS
England

ISMS
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:

General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) Security Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Head of Information
2 2 (40.00%) Head of Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Head of Security
2 2 (40.00%) Management Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Security Incident Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Security Management Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) SIAM
2 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (40.00%) Information Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security Management
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Security Management
3 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (20.00%) ITSM
4 1 (20.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) NCSC
2 3 (60.00%) NIST
3 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (40.00%) GRC
3 2 (40.00%) SLA
4 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001