Information Security Jobs in the Midlands

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Information Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 84 103
Rank change year-on-year -35 +19 -28
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 241 333 345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.03% 3.60% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 3.73% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 198 193 236
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,112 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,421 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,650 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% +4.35% +5.50%
75th Percentile £75,938 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Information Security 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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,743 8,920 10,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.99% 96.56% 94.36%
Number of salaries quoted 7,160 4,507 6,880
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £34,834 £38,563 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £62,270 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Information Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the Midlands

Information Security
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Information Security in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Information Security in the Midlands

Information Security
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Information Security in the Midlands

Information Security
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 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
West Midlands -35 171 £55,000 -4.35% 34
East Midlands +19 69 £52,500 -23.64% 29
Information Security
England

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 6 (2.49%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.07%) nginx
3 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.83%) IIS
4 2 (0.83%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.41%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 47 (19.50%) Azure
2 25 (10.37%) AWS
3 13 (5.39%) Entra ID
3 13 (5.39%) IaaS
3 13 (5.39%) PaaS
4 12 (4.98%) SaaS
5 11 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (3.73%) GCP
7 8 (3.32%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.07%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.07%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.07%) Azure Pipelines
8 5 (2.07%) npm
8 5 (2.07%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.07%) Serverless
9 4 (1.66%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.83%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 27 (11.20%) Firewall
2 9 (3.73%) VPN
2 9 (3.73%) WAN
3 8 (3.32%) DHCP
3 8 (3.32%) DNS
4 7 (2.90%) SAN
4 7 (2.90%) SD-WAN
5 5 (2.07%) NAS
6 4 (1.66%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (1.66%) IPsec
6 4 (1.66%) iSCSI
6 4 (1.66%) Kerberos
6 4 (1.66%) SNMP
6 4 (1.66%) SSL
7 2 (0.83%) LAN
7 2 (0.83%) Network Security
7 2 (0.83%) NX-OS
7 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.83%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.07%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.07%) MySQL
3 5 (2.07%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.66%) Power BI
5 1 (0.41%) Big Data
5 1 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.41%) GIS
5 1 (0.41%) Metadata
5 1 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.41%) QGIS
5 1 (0.41%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 10 (4.15%) Git
2 7 (2.90%) JIRA
3 5 (2.07%) MSTest
3 5 (2.07%) webpack
4 2 (0.83%) GitLab
General
1 73 (30.29%) Social Skills
2 71 (29.46%) Finance
3 40 (16.60%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (14.11%) Legal
5 19 (7.88%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (6.22%) Retail
7 14 (5.81%) Environmental Health
8 8 (3.32%) Automotive
8 8 (3.32%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.49%) Law
10 5 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.66%) Aviation
11 4 (1.66%) Avionics
11 4 (1.66%) Marketing
12 3 (1.24%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.83%) Electronics
13 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 47 (19.50%) Analyst
2 35 (14.52%) Security Analyst
3 34 (14.11%) Security Manager
4 25 (10.37%) Senior
5 23 (9.54%) Information Manager
6 22 (9.13%) Lead
7 21 (8.71%) Information Security Manager
8 19 (7.88%) Architect
9 17 (7.05%) Information Analyst
9 17 (7.05%) Information Security Analyst
10 13 (5.39%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (4.98%) Developer
11 12 (4.98%) IT Manager
11 12 (4.98%) Security Architect
12 11 (4.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.32%) Data Manager
13 8 (3.32%) Head of IT
13 8 (3.32%) Operations Analyst
13 8 (3.32%) Penetration Tester
13 8 (3.32%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.90%) .NET
2 6 (2.49%) Middleware
3 5 (2.07%) .NET Core
3 5 (2.07%) Blazor
3 5 (2.07%) CSS
3 5 (2.07%) HTML
3 5 (2.07%) HTML5
3 5 (2.07%) jQuery
3 5 (2.07%) JSON
3 5 (2.07%) LAMP
3 5 (2.07%) Laravel
3 5 (2.07%) LEMP Stack
3 5 (2.07%) LESS
3 5 (2.07%) React
3 5 (2.07%) Sass
3 5 (2.07%) Vue
3 5 (2.07%) XML
4 3 (1.24%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 75 (31.12%) Management Information System
2 22 (9.13%) Data Centre
3 20 (8.30%) Security Posture
4 14 (5.81%) NHS
5 11 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.56%) Security Operations Centre
6 10 (4.15%) Cyberattack
7 9 (3.73%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (3.32%) Freedom of Information
8 8 (3.32%) Taxonomies
9 6 (2.49%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.49%) PKI
10 5 (2.07%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.66%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.66%) PMI
11 4 (1.66%) Replication
11 4 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.66%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.24%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 38 (15.77%) Windows
2 20 (8.30%) Linux
3 7 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.49%) Solaris
4 6 (2.49%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.49%) Unix
5 5 (2.07%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.66%) VMS
6 4 (1.66%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.24%) zOS
8 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.41%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (46.89%) Cybersecurity
2 52 (21.58%) Risk Management
3 48 (19.92%) Project Management
4 45 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 45 (18.67%) Data Protection
5 34 (14.11%) Agile
6 31 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (12.03%) Incident Response
8 26 (10.79%) Security Operations
9 25 (10.37%) Penetration Testing
10 22 (9.13%) Customer Service
10 22 (9.13%) Security Management
11 21 (8.71%) Business Continuity
12 19 (7.88%) Analytics
12 19 (7.88%) IT Strategy
12 19 (7.88%) ITIL
12 19 (7.88%) Vulnerability Management
13 18 (7.47%) Coaching
13 18 (7.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 17 (7.05%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.73%) SQL
2 8 (3.32%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.07%) C#
3 5 (2.07%) JavaScript
3 5 (2.07%) PHP
3 5 (2.07%) Python
4 2 (0.83%) Java
4 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (22.82%) CISSP
2 45 (18.67%) CISM
3 27 (11.20%) Degree
4 18 (7.47%) Azure Certification
5 16 (6.64%) CISA
6 14 (5.81%) CRISC
6 14 (5.81%) OSCP
7 11 (4.56%) AWS Certification
8 9 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (3.73%) Security Cleared
9 8 (3.32%) CEH
9 8 (3.32%) CompTIA Security+
9 8 (3.32%) SANS
10 7 (2.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 6 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (2.49%) GIAC
11 6 (2.49%) SC Cleared
12 5 (2.07%) PCI QSA
13 4 (1.66%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (32.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (19.09%) GDPR
3 45 (18.67%) NIST
4 29 (12.03%) PCI DSS
5 25 (10.37%) GRC
6 13 (5.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (3.32%) QA
8 6 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (2.07%) COBIT
10 4 (1.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (1.24%) NCSC
11 3 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.83%) IASME
12 2 (0.83%) ISO 31000
12 2 (0.83%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.83%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.83%) PMO
13 1 (0.41%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.41%) ITGC
System Software
1 16 (6.64%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.39%) Hyper-V
3 11 (4.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.66%) pfSense
5 3 (1.24%) Docker
6 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (2.49%) WSUS
2 4 (1.66%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.83%) CSIRT
4 2 (0.83%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.83%) SCCM
4 2 (0.83%) Terraform
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.41%) Nessus
Vendors
1 33 (13.69%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.39%) Cisco
2 13 (5.39%) VMware
3 8 (3.32%) Dell
3 8 (3.32%) Rapid7
3 8 (3.32%) Veeam
4 7 (2.90%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (2.90%) Proofpoint
5 6 (2.49%) HP
6 5 (2.07%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.66%) BroadSoft
7 4 (1.66%) Brocade
7 4 (1.66%) Dell Compellent
7 4 (1.66%) QNAP
7 4 (1.66%) Ubiquiti
7 4 (1.66%) Zerto
8 3 (1.24%) IBM
8 3 (1.24%) Meraki
9 2 (0.83%) SAP
9 2 (0.83%) Sun