Cybersecurity Practitioner Jobs in Birmingham

Cybersecurity Practitioner
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Cybersecurity Practitioner salary in Birmingham is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
9 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Practitioner 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.14% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,360 2,608 1,813
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.51% 94.29% 93.41%
Number of salaries quoted 790 2,124 1,387
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Cybersecurity Practitioner Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Cybersecurity Practitioner job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Cybersecurity Practitioner in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security Management
1 2 (100.00%) Security Management
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) CASP
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture

Cybersecurity Practitioner Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security Management
1 2 (100.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (100.00%) Security Management
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CASP
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft