Cybersecurity Jobs in the Midlands

Cybersecurity
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity 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 25 28 46
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 +6
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 540 693 578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.64% 5.82% 6.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.34% 7.11% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 226 536 238
10th Percentile £26,125 £30,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £34,474 £37,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £67,250 £66,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,836 £86,250
England median annual salary £54,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.22% -11.54% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Cybersecurity 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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,477 9,753 8,825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.63% 81.88% 96.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,617 7,144 4,454
10th Percentile £27,331 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £34,959 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the Midlands

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the Midlands

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the Midlands

Cybersecurity
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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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 +1 342 £57,500 +4.55% 172
East Midlands +16 195 £47,683 +12.20% 75
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.37%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 16 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.74%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.11%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 81 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 76 (14.07%) Azure
3 21 (3.89%) SaaS
4 20 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
5 15 (2.78%) AWS
6 10 (1.85%) Google Workspace
7 9 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (1.48%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.30%) GitHub
9 7 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (1.30%) IaaS
9 7 (1.30%) PaaS
10 6 (1.11%) Google Docs
10 6 (1.11%) Power Platform
11 5 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.93%) GCP
12 3 (0.56%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.56%) PowerApps
13 2 (0.37%) Asana
13 2 (0.37%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.22%) WAN
2 34 (6.30%) LAN
3 31 (5.74%) Firewall
3 31 (5.74%) VoIP
4 23 (4.26%) 5G
5 22 (4.07%) 3GPP
6 16 (2.96%) DNS
7 15 (2.78%) Network Security
8 13 (2.41%) DHCP
9 7 (1.30%) Internet
9 7 (1.30%) VPN
10 6 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.93%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.74%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (0.74%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.74%) Wireless
13 2 (0.37%) Bluetooth
13 2 (0.37%) SAN
13 2 (0.37%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.30%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.74%) Power BI
3 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (0.56%) MS Access
4 2 (0.37%) Big Data
4 2 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.19%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.19%) MySQL
5 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (4.63%) JIRA
2 18 (3.33%) Selenium
3 7 (1.30%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.37%) Git
5 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.19%) Subversion
5 1 (0.19%) TestComplete
General
1 113 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 52 (9.63%) Presentation Skills
3 39 (7.22%) Retail
4 30 (5.56%) Law
5 28 (5.19%) Legal
6 26 (4.81%) Telecoms
7 20 (3.70%) Finance
7 20 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (2.96%) Public Sector
10 10 (1.85%) Automotive
11 9 (1.67%) Marketing
12 8 (1.48%) Games
13 6 (1.11%) Billing
13 6 (1.11%) Electronics
13 6 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.93%) Police
15 4 (0.74%) Banking
15 4 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 211 (39.07%) Security Engineer
2 147 (27.22%) Principal Engineer
2 147 (27.22%) Principal Security Engineer
3 99 (18.33%) Analyst
4 95 (17.59%) Security Analyst
5 87 (16.11%) Principal Security Analyst
5 87 (16.11%) Product Analyst
6 74 (13.70%) IT Support
7 71 (13.15%) Senior
8 60 (11.11%) Product Engineer
9 52 (9.63%) Systems Engineer
10 45 (8.33%) Senior Security Engineer
11 36 (6.67%) IT Support Specialist
11 36 (6.67%) Lead
11 36 (6.67%) Support Specialist
12 18 (3.33%) 2nd Line Support
12 18 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
12 18 (3.33%) Validation Engineer
13 17 (3.15%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 12 (2.22%) Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.30%) ARM Templates
1 7 (1.30%) Azure Blueprints
2 3 (0.56%) .NET
2 3 (0.56%) Middleware
2 3 (0.56%) Node.js
2 3 (0.56%) React
2 3 (0.56%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.37%) HTML
3 2 (0.37%) Laravel
3 2 (0.37%) LDAP
3 2 (0.37%) RESTful
3 2 (0.37%) YAML
4 1 (0.19%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.19%) CSS
4 1 (0.19%) SOAP
4 1 (0.19%) Vue
4 1 (0.19%) Web Services
4 1 (0.19%) WPF
4 1 (0.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.56%) CCTV
2 25 (4.63%) Operational Technology
3 24 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 19 (3.52%) SCADA
5 18 (3.33%) Cyberattack
6 13 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
7 12 (2.22%) EPoS
8 10 (1.85%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.30%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.11%) PKI
12 4 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.56%) FMCG
13 3 (0.56%) Housing Association
13 3 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.56%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.56%) Security Operations Centre
14 2 (0.37%) Embedded Systems
14 2 (0.37%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (15.19%) Windows
2 39 (7.22%) Windows 10
3 17 (3.15%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.78%) Mac OS
5 11 (2.04%) Linux
6 7 (1.30%) Android
6 7 (1.30%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.30%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.19%) Unix
8 1 (0.19%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (39.44%) Risk Management
2 176 (32.59%) Information Security
2 176 (32.59%) Project Management
3 148 (27.41%) Cyber Resilience
4 147 (27.22%) Security Testing
5 75 (13.89%) Computer Science
6 70 (12.96%) Agile
7 62 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (10.56%) Systems Engineering
9 51 (9.44%) MODAF
9 51 (9.44%) SysML
9 51 (9.44%) UML
10 49 (9.07%) Customer Service
11 47 (8.70%) Mentoring
12 30 (5.56%) Test Automation
13 27 (5.00%) Penetration Testing
14 25 (4.63%) ITIL
14 25 (4.63%) Validation
15 20 (3.70%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (3.70%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 51 (9.44%) MATLAB
2 14 (2.59%) PowerShell
3 13 (2.41%) SQL
4 12 (2.22%) Python
5 6 (1.11%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.93%) C#
7 4 (0.74%) Bash
7 4 (0.74%) C++
7 4 (0.74%) Perl
7 4 (0.74%) Ruby
8 3 (0.56%) Java
8 3 (0.56%) PHP
8 3 (0.56%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.37%) C
10 1 (0.19%) Ada
10 1 (0.19%) Dart
10 1 (0.19%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.19%) Embedded C++
10 1 (0.19%) Groovy
10 1 (0.19%) XAML
Qualifications
1 318 (58.89%) Degree
2 249 (46.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 174 (32.22%) CISSP
4 172 (31.85%) CISM
5 148 (27.41%) CESG Certified Professional
6 34 (6.30%) Security Cleared
7 18 (3.33%) ISTQB
8 17 (3.15%) SC Cleared
9 15 (2.78%) CISA
10 14 (2.59%) SANS
11 11 (2.04%) GIAC
11 11 (2.04%) ISACA
12 8 (1.48%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (1.30%) DV Cleared
14 6 (1.11%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.93%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
16 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
17 3 (0.56%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (33.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 164 (30.37%) NIST
3 155 (28.70%) JSP 440
4 147 (27.22%) RMADS
5 59 (10.93%) NCSC
6 25 (4.63%) GDPR
7 13 (2.41%) GRC
8 9 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.93%) Automotive SPICE
9 5 (0.93%) ISO 26262
9 5 (0.93%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.56%) SLA
11 2 (0.37%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.37%) ISO 9000
11 2 (0.37%) JTAG
11 2 (0.37%) QA
11 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.19%) MISRA
12 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 71 (13.15%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.85%) Docker
2 10 (1.85%) Hyper-V
3 7 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.74%) Firmware
5 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (1.67%) Ansible
2 8 (1.48%) Terraform
3 7 (1.30%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.11%) Nessus
5 5 (0.93%) Functional Safety
6 4 (0.74%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.74%) SCCM
6 4 (0.74%) SCOM
7 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.37%) Puppet
7 2 (0.37%) SCOrch
7 2 (0.37%) SCSM
8 1 (0.19%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 110 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.00%) Cisco
3 14 (2.59%) Google
4 10 (1.85%) Apple
5 7 (1.30%) VMware
6 6 (1.11%) Commvault
6 6 (1.11%) Tenable
7 5 (0.93%) Fortinet
8 4 (0.74%) Adobe
8 4 (0.74%) Splunk
9 3 (0.56%) dotdigital
9 3 (0.56%) MobileIron
9 3 (0.56%) Zoho
10 2 (0.37%) ArcSight
10 2 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.37%) IBM
10 2 (0.37%) Juniper
10 2 (0.37%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.37%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.37%) ServiceNow