Cybersecurity Jobs in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 33 42
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 +5
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 511 443 451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.54% 7.29% 5.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.04% 7.54% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 361 201 236
10th Percentile £35,250 £37,500 £29,256
25th Percentile £41,250 £49,250 £40,964
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,483
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.73% +3.80%
75th Percentile £66,294 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Cybersecurity is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,359 5,879 7,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.37% 96.79% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 4,664 3,160 4,800
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,592 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +4 221 £55,000 -18.52% 31
Warwickshire +11 79 £60,000 +9.09% 12
Solihull +5 41 £62,500 -13.79% 3
Staffordshire -10 32 £44,000 +1.73% 12
Shropshire - 24 £75,000 - 1
Worcestershire -10 21 £55,000 +18.92% 4
Coventry +4 7 £65,000 - 6
Halesowen - 6 £40,000 -
Herefordshire +5 4 £60,000 -4.00% 7
Walsall +3 2 £42,500 - 4
Brierley Hill - 2 £33,750 -
Wolverhampton -12 1 £50,000 -25.93% 2
Smethwick - 1 £42,500 -
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 29 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.59%) IIS
4 1 (0.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 45 (8.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (7.63%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (5.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.98%) CANalyzer
5 4 (0.78%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.59%) Simulink
7 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Infor LN
Cloud Services
1 104 (20.35%) Azure
2 70 (13.70%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (6.26%) SaaS
4 30 (5.87%) Power Platform
5 27 (5.28%) AWS
5 27 (5.28%) Entra ID
6 25 (4.89%) IaaS
7 23 (4.50%) Power Automate
8 21 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (3.91%) PaaS
9 20 (3.91%) PowerApps
10 13 (2.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 13 (2.54%) GCP
11 10 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (1.76%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (1.76%) GitHub
12 9 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (0.78%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 75 (14.68%) Firewall
2 39 (7.63%) WAN
3 29 (5.68%) DHCP
3 29 (5.68%) DNS
4 20 (3.91%) LAN
5 18 (3.52%) SD-WAN
6 14 (2.74%) SAN
7 13 (2.54%) Network Security
8 12 (2.35%) VPN
9 10 (1.96%) Cisco Firepower
9 10 (1.96%) Unified Communications
10 8 (1.57%) Ethernet
10 8 (1.57%) Fibre Channel
11 7 (1.37%) TCP/IP
12 6 (1.17%) 5G
13 5 (0.98%) NGFW
13 5 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
13 5 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.87%) Power BI
2 15 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (2.74%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.98%) MySQL
6 3 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.39%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.39%) Metadata
8 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (1.76%) SonarQube
2 5 (0.98%) CANoe
3 3 (0.59%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.39%) Git
4 2 (0.39%) GitLab
4 2 (0.39%) JIRA
General
1 119 (23.29%) Social Skills
2 69 (13.50%) Finance
3 60 (11.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (8.02%) Legal
5 41 (8.02%) Telecoms
6 33 (6.46%) Public Sector
7 26 (5.09%) Manufacturing
7 26 (5.09%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (3.91%) Automotive
9 14 (2.74%) Retail
10 9 (1.76%) Banking
10 9 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.37%) Games
12 7 (1.37%) Law
12 7 (1.37%) Marketing
13 5 (0.98%) Multimedia
14 4 (0.78%) Electronics
15 3 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 65 (12.72%) Architect
1 65 (12.72%) Senior
2 60 (11.74%) Analyst
3 41 (8.02%) Senior Architect
4 28 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
5 26 (5.09%) Developer
6 25 (4.89%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 24 (4.70%) IT Manager
8 21 (4.11%) Security Analyst
8 21 (4.11%) Security Architect
8 21 (4.11%) Security Manager
9 20 (3.91%) Data Scientist
9 20 (3.91%) Network Engineer
9 20 (3.91%) Platform Architect
9 20 (3.91%) Power Platform Architect
9 20 (3.91%) Power Platform Developer
9 20 (3.91%) Security Engineer
9 20 (3.91%) Senior Developer
10 19 (3.72%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 19 (3.72%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.54%) 802.1X
2 9 (1.76%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.76%) Azure Blueprints
3 8 (1.57%) EDI
3 8 (1.57%) Middleware
4 7 (1.37%) HTML
5 4 (0.78%) .NET
6 3 (0.59%) jQuery
6 3 (0.59%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (0.59%) XML
7 2 (0.39%) CSS
7 2 (0.39%) OAuth
7 2 (0.39%) OpenID
7 2 (0.39%) REST
7 2 (0.39%) Web Services
8 1 (0.20%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.20%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (0.20%) Blazor
8 1 (0.20%) HTML5
8 1 (0.20%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 73 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 48 (9.39%) Data Centre
3 32 (6.26%) Driving Licence
4 21 (4.11%) Algorithms
4 21 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 21 (4.11%) Security Operations Centre
5 18 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (3.13%) Operational Technology
6 16 (3.13%) Security Posture
7 14 (2.74%) Freedom of Information
7 14 (2.74%) Taxonomies
8 13 (2.54%) Public Cloud
9 11 (2.15%) Cloud Native
9 11 (2.15%) SCADA
10 10 (1.96%) Private Cloud
11 9 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.37%) Clustering
13 6 (1.17%) CMDB
14 5 (0.98%) IoT
14 5 (0.98%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 93 (18.20%) Windows
2 45 (8.81%) Windows Server
3 36 (7.05%) Linux
4 17 (3.33%) Windows 10
5 12 (2.35%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.57%) Solaris
6 8 (1.57%) Unix
6 8 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.78%) CentOS
7 4 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.78%) VMS
7 4 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.39%) Android
9 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (19.18%) Information Security
3 65 (12.72%) Mentoring
4 63 (12.33%) Decision-Making
5 59 (11.55%) Analytics
5 59 (11.55%) Project Management
6 55 (10.76%) Risk Management
7 52 (10.18%) Business Intelligence
8 47 (9.20%) Computer Science
9 44 (8.61%) Coaching
9 44 (8.61%) Presales
10 43 (8.41%) Data Protection
10 43 (8.41%) Incident Response
11 41 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (8.02%) Data Modelling
11 41 (8.02%) Disaster Recovery
11 41 (8.02%) Security Operations
12 40 (7.83%) Data Science
13 39 (7.63%) ITIL
14 36 (7.05%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 22 (4.31%) PowerShell
2 19 (3.72%) SQL
3 9 (1.76%) C
3 9 (1.76%) Python
4 6 (1.17%) JavaScript
5 5 (0.98%) Java
5 5 (0.98%) R
6 4 (0.78%) Bash
7 3 (0.59%) C#
7 3 (0.59%) MATLAB
7 3 (0.59%) PHP
8 2 (0.39%) C++
8 2 (0.39%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 131 (25.64%) Degree
2 99 (19.37%) Security Cleared
3 50 (9.78%) SC Cleared
4 27 (5.28%) CISSP
5 24 (4.70%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (4.50%) CISM
7 22 (4.31%) CCNA
8 18 (3.52%) Azure Certification
8 18 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (3.33%) CCNP
10 15 (2.94%) CISA
11 14 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (2.35%) AWS Certification
12 12 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (1.96%) CRISC
14 9 (1.76%) OSCP
14 9 (1.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 8 (1.57%) MCP
16 6 (1.17%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (14.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 53 (10.37%) GDPR
3 40 (7.83%) NIST
4 35 (6.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 27 (5.28%) ISO 9001
5 27 (5.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 18 (3.52%) GRC
7 16 (3.13%) NCSC
8 13 (2.54%) Def Stans
9 12 (2.35%) QA
10 11 (2.15%) Data Quality
11 10 (1.96%) PCI DSS
12 9 (1.76%) ISO 26262
13 8 (1.57%) Accessibility
14 6 (1.17%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 3 (0.59%) Automotive SPICE
16 3 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.59%) JSP 440
17 2 (0.39%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 80 (15.66%) Active Directory
2 29 (5.68%) Hyper-V
3 24 (4.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.15%) Virtual Servers
5 9 (1.76%) Docker
6 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.98%) RACF
7 5 (0.98%) vSphere
8 4 (0.78%) pfSense
8 4 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.78%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.78%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.20%) XenApp
9 1 (0.20%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 23 (4.50%) EnCase
2 20 (3.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (2.74%) Terraform
4 10 (1.96%) Kubernetes
5 9 (1.76%) Ansible
5 9 (1.76%) Stealthwatch
6 6 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (1.17%) CASB
7 5 (0.98%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (0.78%) Functional Safety
8 4 (0.78%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.59%) Backup Exec
9 3 (0.59%) Nagios
10 2 (0.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 204 (39.92%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.83%) VMware
3 37 (7.24%) Apple
4 36 (7.05%) Adobe
5 32 (6.26%) Cisco
6 24 (4.70%) Aruba
7 19 (3.72%) Dell
8 17 (3.33%) Juniper
8 17 (3.33%) Meraki
9 16 (3.13%) Veeam
10 13 (2.54%) Sage
11 11 (2.15%) Fortinet
12 9 (1.76%) CheckPoint
12 9 (1.76%) EqualLogic
13 6 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (1.17%) Sophos
14 5 (0.98%) CyberArk
14 5 (0.98%) NetApp
14 5 (0.98%) Nimble Storage
14 5 (0.98%) Ubiquiti