Cyberattack Jobs in the West Midlands

Cyberattack
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyberattack in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyberattack 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 182 240 260
Rank change year-on-year +58 +20 +4
Permanent jobs citing Cyberattack 10 9 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.23% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.73% 0.36% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 8
10th Percentile £47,550 - £66,375
25th Percentile £55,875 £31,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £32,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +121.88% -55.86% +141.67%
75th Percentile £87,375 £33,000 £79,063
90th Percentile £96,450 £45,800 £84,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +22.73% -0.99%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

Cyberattack falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,372 2,500 2,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.77% 33.87% 46.45%
Number of salaries quoted 679 1,693 952
10th Percentile £27,400 £26,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% -3.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,625
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Cyberattack
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cyberattack in the West Midlands

Cyberattack
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Cyberattack in the West Midlands

Cyberattack
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Cyberattack in the West Midlands

Cyberattack
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cyberattack within the West 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
Warwickshire - 4 - - 2
Worcestershire - 2 - -
Herefordshire - 2 - -
Staffordshire - 1 £100,000 - 4
Birmingham - 1 £42,000 - 4
Cyberattack
England

Cyberattack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 2 (20.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 8 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Legal
4 2 (20.00%) Law
5 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
3 1 (10.00%) IT Security Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Security Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
1 1 (10.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (50.00%) Statistics
2 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 4 (40.00%) Data Science
2 4 (40.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
2 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (40.00%) OpenUP
2 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) Line Management
3 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Information Security
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
1 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) C++
2 1 (10.00%) Go
2 1 (10.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (20.00%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (10.00%) CIPFA
4 1 (10.00%) CISM
4 1 (10.00%) ISEB
4 1 (10.00%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) NCSC
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) PMBOK
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform