Information Security Jobs in the West Midlands

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 66 82
Rank change year-on-year -33 +16 -21
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 169 301 269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.33% 4.71% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 4.87% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 144 178 170
10th Percentile £38,987 £39,112 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +5.96%
75th Percentile £77,875 £75,000 £71,875
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,375 £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
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,024 6,187 6,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.91% 96.76% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,530 3,195 4,738
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,713 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £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%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the West Midlands

Information Security
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Information Security in the West Midlands

Information Security
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Information Security in the West Midlands

Information Security
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 Information Security within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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 -23 74 £72,500 +15.08% 12
Warwickshire +30 17 £45,000 -18.18% 1
Staffordshire -21 15 £37,500 -42.31% 1
Wolverhampton +3 14 £53,500 +7.00%
Coventry +11 7 £66,250 +3.92% 3
Walsall +12 2 £39,649 - 1
Smethwick - 2 £28,000 -
Shropshire -6 1 £43,072 -25.09% 1
Solihull -9 1 - - 1
Worcestershire -19 1 £55,000 -26.67% 3
Information Security
England

Information Security
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 6 (3.55%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.96%) nginx
3 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.59%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 27 (15.98%) Azure
2 17 (10.06%) AWS
3 11 (6.51%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (6.51%) SaaS
4 8 (4.73%) IaaS
4 8 (4.73%) PaaS
5 7 (4.14%) GCP
6 5 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (2.96%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.96%) AWS Fargate
6 5 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.96%) Azure Pipelines
6 5 (2.96%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.96%) npm
6 5 (2.96%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.96%) Serverless
7 4 (2.37%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.59%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.24%) Firewall
2 8 (4.73%) VPN
2 8 (4.73%) WAN
3 7 (4.14%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.37%) DHCP
4 4 (2.37%) DNS
4 4 (2.37%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (2.37%) iSCSI
4 4 (2.37%) SNMP
5 2 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.18%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.59%) LAN
6 1 (0.59%) Network Security
6 1 (0.59%) SAN
6 1 (0.59%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.96%) DynamoDB
2 5 (2.96%) MySQL
2 5 (2.96%) Relational Database
2 5 (2.96%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.37%) Power BI
4 1 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.59%) GIS
4 1 (0.59%) Metadata
4 1 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.59%) QGIS
4 1 (0.59%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 10 (5.92%) Git
2 5 (2.96%) JIRA
2 5 (2.96%) MSTest
2 5 (2.96%) webpack
General
1 57 (33.73%) Finance
1 57 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.75%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (15.38%) Legal
4 19 (11.24%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (8.28%) Environmental Health
6 10 (5.92%) Retail
7 7 (4.14%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.55%) Law
9 5 (2.96%) Automotive
9 5 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.37%) Marketing
11 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Publishing
12 1 (0.59%) Banking
12 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (14.20%) Analyst
2 21 (12.43%) Security Manager
3 18 (10.65%) Lead
4 14 (8.28%) Senior
5 13 (7.69%) Architect
6 12 (7.10%) Security Analyst
7 11 (6.51%) Information Manager
8 10 (5.92%) Developer
9 9 (5.33%) Information Security Manager
10 8 (4.73%) Data Manager
10 8 (4.73%) Head of IT
10 8 (4.73%) Operations Analyst
10 8 (4.73%) Penetration Tester
10 8 (4.73%) Security Operations Analyst
10 8 (4.73%) Tester
11 7 (4.14%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 7 (4.14%) IT Manager
12 6 (3.55%) Cloud Architect
12 6 (3.55%) Data Governance Analyst
12 6 (3.55%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.55%) Middleware
2 5 (2.96%) .NET
2 5 (2.96%) .NET Core
2 5 (2.96%) Blazor
2 5 (2.96%) CSS
2 5 (2.96%) HTML
2 5 (2.96%) HTML5
2 5 (2.96%) jQuery
2 5 (2.96%) JSON
2 5 (2.96%) LAMP
2 5 (2.96%) Laravel
2 5 (2.96%) LEMP Stack
2 5 (2.96%) LESS
2 5 (2.96%) React
2 5 (2.96%) Sass
2 5 (2.96%) Vue
2 5 (2.96%) XML
3 3 (1.78%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 62 (36.69%) Management Information System
2 14 (8.28%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.28%) NHS
3 11 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.51%) Security Operations Centre
3 11 (6.51%) Security Posture
4 8 (4.73%) Freedom of Information
4 8 (4.73%) Taxonomies
5 6 (3.55%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.96%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.96%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.37%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.37%) PMI
8 3 (1.78%) Cyberattack
8 3 (1.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.78%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.18%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.18%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.79%) Windows
2 19 (11.24%) Linux
3 6 (3.55%) Solaris
3 6 (3.55%) Ubuntu
3 6 (3.55%) Unix
4 5 (2.96%) Windows 10
5 4 (2.37%) VMS
6 2 (1.18%) zOS
7 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
2 43 (25.44%) Risk Management
3 38 (22.49%) Project Management
4 36 (21.30%) Data Protection
5 33 (19.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (17.16%) Agile
7 22 (13.02%) Customer Service
8 19 (11.24%) Incident Response
9 18 (10.65%) Security Operations
10 17 (10.06%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (10.06%) IT Strategy
10 17 (10.06%) Security Management
11 16 (9.47%) Decision-Making
12 15 (8.88%) Budgeting
12 15 (8.88%) Change Management
12 15 (8.88%) Penetration Testing
12 15 (8.88%) Quality Management
13 14 (8.28%) Business Continuity
13 14 (8.28%) Cost Control
14 13 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.33%) SQL
2 5 (2.96%) C#
2 5 (2.96%) JavaScript
2 5 (2.96%) PHP
3 3 (1.78%) Python
4 1 (0.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (20.12%) CISSP
2 28 (16.57%) CISM
3 19 (11.24%) Degree
4 14 (8.28%) Azure Certification
5 13 (7.69%) CISA
6 10 (5.92%) CRISC
6 10 (5.92%) OSCP
7 9 (5.33%) AWS Certification
8 8 (4.73%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (4.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 6 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.55%) SANS
10 6 (3.55%) Security Cleared
11 5 (2.96%) PCI QSA
12 4 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (2.37%) GIAC
12 4 (2.37%) PMI Certification
13 3 (1.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.78%) CCSK
13 3 (1.78%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (37.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (21.89%) GDPR
3 35 (20.71%) NIST
4 22 (13.02%) GRC
5 13 (7.69%) PCI DSS
6 9 (5.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (3.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (3.55%) QA
8 4 (2.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (1.78%) COBIT
9 3 (1.78%) NCSC
10 2 (1.18%) IASME
10 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.59%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.59%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.59%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.59%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.14%) Hyper-V
2 6 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.37%) pfSense
5 3 (1.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.37%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.18%) CSIRT
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.59%) Nessus
4 1 (0.59%) SCCM
4 1 (0.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (14.79%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.14%) Cisco
3 5 (2.96%) Fortinet
3 5 (2.96%) VMware
4 4 (2.37%) BroadSoft
4 4 (2.37%) Brocade
4 4 (2.37%) Dell
4 4 (2.37%) Dell Compellent
4 4 (2.37%) QNAP
4 4 (2.37%) Ubiquiti
4 4 (2.37%) Veeam
4 4 (2.37%) Zerto
5 3 (1.78%) Meraki
6 2 (1.18%) IBM
6 2 (1.18%) Oracle
6 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.18%) SAP
6 2 (1.18%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.18%) Sun
7 1 (0.59%) Forcepoint