Cyber Threat Jobs in Birmingham

Cyber Threats
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Threat in permanent job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Threat over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 143 123
Rank change year-on-year +39 -20 +37
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Threat 3 6 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.22% 0.20% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.67% 0.64% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 8
10th Percentile £61,375 £62,875 £47,125
25th Percentile £61,563 £69,063 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £92,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -31.08% +45.10% -1.92%
75th Percentile £66,563 £116,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £67,125 £120,250 £75,875
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +27.27% -21.43%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

Cyber Threat falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 448 931 665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 33.53% 31.63% 35.77%
Number of salaries quoted 227 714 465
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,173 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% -8.05% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £84,800
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +15.79%

Cyber Threat
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyber Threat in Birmingham

Cyber Threat
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Cyber Threat in Birmingham

Cyber Threat
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) tcpdump
1 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GDB
1 1 (33.33%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (33.33%) WinDbg
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Information Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Security Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) libvirt
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) OWASP
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) People Management
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Register
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) CodeQL
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Postgraduate
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Xen