Security Monitoring Jobs in the Midlands

Security Monitoring
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Security Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Monitoring over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 311 302
Rank change year-on-year +75 -9 +51
Permanent jobs citing Security Monitoring 19 5 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.27% 0.042% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.051% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 18 5 10
10th Percentile £32,125 - £38,350
25th Percentile £36,625 £25,243 £49,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £26,500 £53,101
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -50.09% -3.45%
75th Percentile £57,500 £27,250 £59,375
90th Percentile £58,100 £37,150 £60,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Security Monitoring 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 6,557 9,801 8,808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.69% 81.60% 96.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,634 7,163 4,442
10th Percentile £27,419 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,063 £35,000 £38,357
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 £62,374 £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%

Security Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Monitoring in the Midlands

Security Monitoring
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Security Monitoring in the Midlands

Security Monitoring
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Monitoring in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Monitoring in the Midlands

Security Monitoring
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 Security Monitoring within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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 +68 17 £55,000 +107.55% 7
East Midlands - 2 £48,500 - 2
Security Monitoring
England

Security Monitoring
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 1 (5.26%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.26%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) Firewall
2 10 (52.63%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (21.05%) DNS
3 4 (21.05%) SD-WAN
3 4 (21.05%) WAN
4 1 (5.26%) DHCP
4 1 (5.26%) Internet
4 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (57.89%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Advertising
3 1 (5.26%) Automotive
3 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Lead
2 4 (21.05%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (15.79%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) WAN Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) IT Support
4 1 (5.26%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Security Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) SOC Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 11 (57.89%) Management Information System
2 10 (52.63%) Private Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.26%) Clustering
4 1 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.26%) PKI
4 1 (5.26%) Replication
4 1 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (84.21%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Android
3 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Problem-Solving
1 12 (63.16%) Security Operations
1 12 (63.16%) SIEM
2 11 (57.89%) Change Control
2 11 (57.89%) Kalman Filter
3 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
3 10 (52.63%) Commercial Awareness
3 10 (52.63%) Information Security
3 10 (52.63%) IT Governance
3 10 (52.63%) ITIL
3 10 (52.63%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 6 (31.58%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
6 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
6 2 (10.53%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (10.53%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (10.53%) Risk Management
6 2 (10.53%) Threat Detection
6 2 (10.53%) Threat Intelligence
6 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) PowerShell
2 10 (52.63%) Bash
2 10 (52.63%) C#
2 10 (52.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) CISM
2 1 (5.26%) CISSP
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (52.63%) COBIT
1 10 (52.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.53%) ISO 9000
3 1 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.26%) QRadar
1 1 (5.26%) SCCM
1 1 (5.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Cisco
3 2 (10.53%) Fujitsu
4 1 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) Splunk