Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Cybersecurity Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in the Midlands is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 296 324
Rank change year-on-year -7 +28 -57
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 12 32 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.11% 0.33% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.36% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 8 16 9
10th Percentile £53,750 £39,375 £50,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -17.39% +12.20%
75th Percentile £67,500 £53,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £70,125 £65,625 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -22.58% +40.91%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 10,740 8,795 10,331
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 89.51% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 8,179 4,839 7,217
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% +0.42% +9.09%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the Midlands

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the Midlands

Cybersecurity Engineer
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 Cybersecurity Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 April 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 +32 12 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Cybersecurity Engineer
England

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Cybersecurity Engineer 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 Midlands region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 5 (41.67%) SCADA
2 5 (41.67%) Operational Technology
3 4 (33.33%) Red Team
3 4 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (33.33%) Data Science
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Data Quality
3 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 4 (33.33%) Coaching
3 4 (33.33%) Analytics
3 4 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Firewall
3 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (25.00%) NIST
5 2 (16.67%) NIST 800
5 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
5 2 (16.67%) Business Development
5 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) Azure
5 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (8.33%) SaaS
6 1 (8.33%) SIEM
6 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
6 1 (8.33%) Threat Modelling

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Internet
General
1 4 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Operational Technology
1 5 (41.67%) SCADA
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (33.33%) Analytics
2 4 (33.33%) Coaching
2 4 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 4 (33.33%) Data Science
2 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Red Team
3 2 (16.67%) Business Development
3 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
4 1 (8.33%) Cryptography
4 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
4 1 (8.33%) Information Security
4 1 (8.33%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (8.33%) SIEM
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) CISA
3 1 (8.33%) CISM
3 1 (8.33%) CISSP
3 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (25.00%) NIST
3 2 (16.67%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) CASB