ISO/IEC 27001 Contracts in the West Midlands

ISO/IEC 27001
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 102 78
Rank change year-on-year +12 -24 +79
Contract jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 18 14 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.12% 0.68% 2.28%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.21% 4.50% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 45
10th Percentile £300 £383 £403
25th Percentile £379 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £725 £600
90th Percentile £603 £825 £725
England median daily rate £550 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.41% +3.53%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 290 311 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.98% 15.20% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 201 220
10th Percentile £235 £250 £275
25th Percentile £350 £363 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £569 £611 £588
90th Percentile £686 £751 £675
England median daily rate £500 £523 £534
% change year-on-year -4.31% -2.15% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 31 14
10th Percentile £16.00 £11.92 £12.86
25th Percentile £22.16 £13.22 £19.49
Median hourly rate £31.76 £14.70 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.05% -46.55% +85.43%
75th Percentile £37.72 £52.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £40.46 £58.75 £30.00
England median hourly rate £31.76 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +27.04% -41.18% +63.46%

ISO/IEC 27001
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the West Midlands

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the West Midlands

ISO/IEC 27001
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISO/IEC 27001 in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISO/IEC 27001 in the West Midlands

ISO/IEC 27001
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for ISO/IEC 27001 in the West Midlands

ISO/IEC 27001
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 ISO/IEC 27001 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Warwickshire +2 7 £450 -10.00% 4
Birmingham 0 4 £564 +15.69% 20
Coventry - 4 £650 - 2
Shropshire - 1 - - 4
Solihull - 1 £371 -
ISO/IEC 27001
England

ISO/IEC 27001
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) GitHub
3 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) Collibra
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) LAN
2 2 (11.11%) Network Security
2 2 (11.11%) WAN
3 1 (5.56%) Ethernet
3 1 (5.56%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (11.11%) Delta Lake
1 2 (11.11%) GIS
1 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Legal
3 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Security Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Applications Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Security Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Head of Cybersecurity
4 1 (5.56%) Head of IT Security
4 1 (5.56%) Head of Security
4 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Security Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Advisor
4 1 (5.56%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Apache Axis
2 2 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.56%) OAuth
3 1 (5.56%) OpenID
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (5.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 3 (16.67%) Operational Technology
1 3 (16.67%) SCADA
1 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 2 (11.11%) CCTV
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) IoT
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
1 6 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (38.89%) ITIL
1 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
2 5 (27.78%) Project Management
3 4 (22.22%) Design Patterns
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 3 (16.67%) High Availability
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 3 (16.67%) Microservices
4 3 (16.67%) RBAC
4 3 (16.67%) Security Management
4 3 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) Java
3 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 3 (16.67%) C#
4 3 (16.67%) Ruby
5 2 (11.11%) Bicep
5 2 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) CISSP
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) CompTIA Security+
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) CEH
3 2 (11.11%) CISA
3 2 (11.11%) CISM
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (5.56%) MCP
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.56%) OCP
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) NIST
2 6 (33.33%) GDPR
3 3 (16.67%) NCSC
3 3 (16.67%) QA
4 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
4 2 (11.11%) GRC
4 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (11.11%) NIST 800
4 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
4 2 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) Databricks
3 2 (11.11%) Informatica
3 2 (11.11%) SAP