Cybersecurity Jobs in Birmingham

Cybersecurity
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 20 36
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 +25
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 202 184 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.49% 9.08% 6.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.04% 9.48% 7.16%
Number of salaries quoted 155 102 95
10th Percentile £30,950 £45,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £53,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% +7.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £75,625 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £104,500 £82,400 £102,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,234 1,941 3,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 82.86% 95.76% 97.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,815 1,420 2,385
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,125 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £69,275 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £82,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Birmingham

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in Birmingham

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Birmingham over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in Birmingham

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 9 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.50%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.98%) CANalyzer
5 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Infor LN
Cloud Services
1 51 (25.25%) Azure
2 30 (14.85%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (10.89%) Entra ID
4 15 (7.43%) SaaS
5 13 (6.44%) AWS
6 11 (5.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 10 (4.95%) IaaS
8 9 (4.46%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (3.96%) GCP
10 6 (2.97%) PaaS
10 6 (2.97%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.98%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.98%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.99%) Serverless
14 1 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 34 (16.83%) Firewall
2 17 (8.42%) WAN
3 16 (7.92%) DHCP
3 16 (7.92%) DNS
4 13 (6.44%) SD-WAN
5 8 (3.96%) Unified Communications
6 6 (2.97%) Network Security
7 5 (2.48%) 5G
8 4 (1.98%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (1.98%) Ethernet
8 4 (1.98%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (1.98%) iSCSI
8 4 (1.98%) LAN
8 4 (1.98%) NGFW
8 4 (1.98%) SNMP
8 4 (1.98%) Wireless
9 3 (1.49%) 3GPP
9 3 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.99%) 4G
10 2 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.43%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.97%) Power BI
2 6 (2.97%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.99%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (1.98%) CANoe
2 3 (1.49%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.99%) Git
3 2 (0.99%) GitLab
General
1 41 (20.30%) Social Skills
2 38 (18.81%) Finance
3 29 (14.36%) Telecoms
4 19 (9.41%) Legal
5 18 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.97%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.97%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.48%) Retail
10 4 (1.98%) Automotive
10 4 (1.98%) Banking
10 4 (1.98%) Marketing
10 4 (1.98%) Multimedia
11 3 (1.49%) Turkish Language
12 2 (0.99%) Aviation
12 2 (0.99%) Games
13 1 (0.50%) Police
13 1 (0.50%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 28 (13.86%) Architect
2 24 (11.88%) Senior
3 18 (8.91%) IT Manager
4 17 (8.42%) Analyst
5 15 (7.43%) Consultant
6 14 (6.93%) Lead
6 14 (6.93%) Senior Architect
7 12 (5.94%) Data Manager
7 12 (5.94%) Project Manager
8 11 (5.45%) Head of IT
8 11 (5.45%) Network Engineer
8 11 (5.45%) Security Architect
9 10 (4.95%) Senior Security Architect
10 9 (4.46%) Security Manager
10 9 (4.46%) Senior Manager
11 8 (3.96%) Cisco Architect
11 8 (3.96%) Security Analyst
11 8 (3.96%) Senior Cisco Architect
11 8 (3.96%) Strategy Manager
11 8 (3.96%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.95%) 802.1X
2 6 (2.97%) Middleware
3 4 (1.98%) EDI
4 3 (1.49%) .NET
4 3 (1.49%) HTML
4 3 (1.49%) jQuery
4 3 (1.49%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 3 (1.49%) XML
5 2 (0.99%) OAuth
5 2 (0.99%) OpenID
5 2 (0.99%) REST
5 2 (0.99%) Web Services
6 1 (0.50%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.50%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.50%) Blazor
6 1 (0.50%) CSS
6 1 (0.50%) HTML5
6 1 (0.50%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 36 (17.82%) Management Information System
2 32 (15.84%) Data Centre
3 14 (6.93%) Freedom of Information
3 14 (6.93%) Taxonomies
4 13 (6.44%) Security Operations Centre
5 10 (4.95%) Private Cloud
5 10 (4.95%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.97%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.98%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.98%) Infotainment
9 4 (1.98%) IoT
9 4 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.98%) Smartphone
10 3 (1.49%) CMDB
10 3 (1.49%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.49%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 43 (21.29%) Windows
2 16 (7.92%) Windows 10
2 16 (7.92%) Windows Server
3 9 (4.46%) Linux
4 6 (2.97%) Solaris
4 6 (2.97%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.97%) Unix
5 4 (1.98%) VMS
5 4 (1.98%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.99%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (23.27%) Information Security
2 34 (16.83%) Presales
3 32 (15.84%) Software Licensing
4 30 (14.85%) Risk Management
5 27 (13.37%) Mentoring
6 24 (11.88%) Analytics
6 24 (11.88%) Security Operations
7 23 (11.39%) Disaster Recovery
8 22 (10.89%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (10.40%) Computer Science
9 21 (10.40%) Data Protection
9 21 (10.40%) ITIL
10 20 (9.90%) Decision-Making
11 19 (9.41%) Agile
11 19 (9.41%) Project Management
11 19 (9.41%) Time Management
12 17 (8.42%) IT Strategy
12 17 (8.42%) Technology Strategy
13 16 (7.92%) Configuration Management
14 15 (7.43%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.96%) SQL
2 7 (3.47%) Python
3 5 (2.48%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.98%) C
4 4 (1.98%) Java
5 3 (1.49%) C#
6 2 (0.99%) R
7 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 55 (27.23%) Degree
2 29 (14.36%) Security Cleared
3 24 (11.88%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.44%) Azure Certification
4 13 (6.44%) CISSP
5 11 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.95%) AWS Certification
6 10 (4.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (4.95%) CCNA
6 10 (4.95%) CCNP
6 10 (4.95%) CISM
6 10 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (4.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 8 (3.96%) MCP
9 6 (2.97%) CISA
9 6 (2.97%) PCI QSA
10 5 (2.48%) CREST Certified
11 3 (1.49%) CITP
11 3 (1.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (8.42%) NIST
3 9 (4.46%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (4.46%) GRC
4 8 (3.96%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.96%) PCI DSS
5 7 (3.47%) NCSC
5 7 (3.47%) QA
6 5 (2.48%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.98%) GDPR
7 4 (1.98%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.50%) RMADS
System Software
1 36 (17.82%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.46%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.98%) pfSense
3 4 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (7.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.48%) CASB
3 4 (1.98%) Stealthwatch
4 2 (0.99%) Terraform
5 1 (0.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 65 (32.18%) Microsoft
2 32 (15.84%) Adobe
2 32 (15.84%) Apple
3 19 (9.41%) Cisco
4 18 (8.91%) Aruba
5 14 (6.93%) Juniper
6 9 (4.46%) CheckPoint
6 9 (4.46%) Fortinet
6 9 (4.46%) Veeam
7 8 (3.96%) Meraki
7 8 (3.96%) VMware
8 5 (2.48%) Ubiquiti
9 4 (1.98%) Barracuda Networks
9 4 (1.98%) BroadSoft
9 4 (1.98%) Brocade
9 4 (1.98%) Dell
9 4 (1.98%) Dell Compellent
9 4 (1.98%) QNAP
9 4 (1.98%) Sophos
9 4 (1.98%) Zerto