Information Security Job Trends in Staffordshire

Information Security (InfoSec)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Information Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 56 41
Rank change year-on-year -12 -15 +7
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 3 9 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 0.31% 1.69% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 1.87% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 9
10th Percentile £61,850 £54,213 £46,787
25th Percentile £62,375 £55,000 £50,359
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £64,875 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £64,950 £88,500 £76,250
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £53,688 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.10% -10.52% +4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

Information Security 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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 810 482 387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 84.29% 90.26% 85.62%
Number of salaries quoted 338 304 330
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,822 £24,450
25th Percentile £30,580 £32,500 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.74%
75th Percentile £59,688 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,967 £62,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Information Security relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Information Security job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Information Security
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Information Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Information Security

Information Security
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
Stoke-on-Trent +15 2 £64,000 +2.40% 3
Information Security
West Midlands

Information Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Information Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Sales Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Information Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Information Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Sales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Service Design
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (33.33%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft