OSINT Job Trends in the Midlands

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring OSINT skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing OSINT 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.013% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £73,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - -
75th Percentile £81,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £59,000 £41,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +43.90% -34.40% -13.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

OSINT 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 6,399 6,010 4,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.52% 89.54% 88.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,536 2,661 3,680
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

OSINT
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OSINT relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

OSINT job vacancy trend in the Midlands

OSINT
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing OSINT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing OSINT

OSINT
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 OSINT within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 December 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 £77,500 -
OSINT
England

OSINT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Team
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST