Security Operations Jobs in Birmingham

Security Operations (SecOps)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Security Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 119 119
Rank change year-on-year +25 0 +25
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 9 31 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.64% 1.12% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.37% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 6 29 15
10th Percentile - £29,000 £47,450
25th Percentile £44,000 £30,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £42,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -37.78% -
75th Percentile £57,000 £64,108 £73,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £72,250 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £44,488 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.63% -19.11% -18.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Security Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,330 2,263 1,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 95.00% 81.96% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 742 1,832 1,350
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,000 £31,725
25th Percentile £42,563 £40,988 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,875 £85,000 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Security Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Operations in Birmingham

Security Operations
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Security Operations in Birmingham

Security Operations
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Operations in Birmingham over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Operations in Birmingham

Security Operations
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 4 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Sentinel
1 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Purview
1 4 (44.44%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
1 4 (44.44%) HTTPS
1 4 (44.44%) SD-WAN
1 4 (44.44%) VLAN
1 4 (44.44%) VPN
1 4 (44.44%) WAN
2 3 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 4 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Head of Operations
2 3 (33.33%) Head of Security
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Risk Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Security Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Security Manager
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Consultant
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) Collaborative Culture
1 4 (44.44%) Cost Management
1 4 (44.44%) Cost Optimisation
1 4 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (44.44%) Identity Management
1 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Management
1 4 (44.44%) Load Balancing
1 4 (44.44%) Privileged Identity Management
1 4 (44.44%) Proactive Management
1 4 (44.44%) Problem Management
1 4 (44.44%) Threat Management
1 4 (44.44%) Zero Trust
2 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 3 (33.33%) Malware Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
1 4 (44.44%) CompTIA Security+
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (33.33%) CISM
2 3 (33.33%) CISSP
2 3 (33.33%) SANS
3 2 (22.22%) IISP
4 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (11.11%) GRC
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow