Cybersecurity Jobs in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 30 43
Rank change year-on-year +8 +13 +4
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 500 570 432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.07% 8.28% 5.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.50% 8.55% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 370 210 224
10th Percentile £31,925 £38,700 £32,279
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,750 £87,500 £83,516
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Cybersecurity is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,883 6,670 6,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.15% 96.93% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,509 3,312 4,807
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the West Midlands

Cybersecurity
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 Cybersecurity within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
Birmingham -1 202 £55,000 -14.73% 35
Warwickshire +15 89 £60,000 +9.09% 11
Solihull +13 40 £62,500 -16.67% 8
Staffordshire +4 35 £44,500 -14.83% 7
Shropshire - 25 £75,000 - 10
Worcestershire -8 23 £55,000 -6.38% 3
Coventry +2 8 £58,750 -24.19% 6
Halesowen - 6 £40,000 -
Brierley Hill - 2 £33,750 -
Walsall +8 1 £90,000 -
Herefordshire +4 1 - - 6
Dudley -5 1 £100,000 - 1
Wolverhampton -14 1 £32,500 -51.85% 3
Smethwick - 1 £42,500 -
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
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 31 (6.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.60%) IIS
4 1 (0.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 58 (11.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 58 (11.60%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (9.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.00%) CANalyzer
4 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.60%) Simulink
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Infor LN
Cloud Services
1 93 (18.60%) Azure
2 64 (12.80%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (6.00%) SaaS
4 24 (4.80%) AWS
4 24 (4.80%) Power Platform
5 22 (4.40%) Entra ID
6 20 (4.00%) IaaS
7 19 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
8 18 (3.60%) Power Automate
8 18 (3.60%) PowerApps
9 17 (3.40%) PaaS
10 12 (2.40%) Azure Sentinel
11 11 (2.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 10 (2.00%) GCP
13 9 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.60%) GitHub
15 7 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
16 4 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
16 4 (0.80%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 73 (14.60%) Firewall
2 28 (5.60%) WAN
3 26 (5.20%) DHCP
3 26 (5.20%) DNS
4 16 (3.20%) SAN
5 14 (2.80%) LAN
6 13 (2.60%) SD-WAN
7 12 (2.40%) VPN
8 10 (2.00%) Network Security
8 10 (2.00%) Unified Communications
9 9 (1.80%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (1.60%) Ethernet
10 8 (1.60%) Fibre Channel
11 6 (1.20%) 5G
11 6 (1.20%) TCP/IP
12 5 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (1.00%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (0.80%) iSCSI
13 4 (0.80%) VLAN
13 4 (0.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.80%) Power BI
2 16 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.60%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.40%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.40%) Metadata
5 2 (0.40%) MySQL
5 2 (0.40%) Tableau
6 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.40%) SonarQube
2 5 (1.00%) CANoe
3 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.40%) Git
4 2 (0.40%) GitLab
4 2 (0.40%) JIRA
General
1 136 (27.20%) Social Skills
2 66 (13.20%) Finance
3 59 (11.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (9.60%) Public Sector
6 36 (7.20%) Legal
7 35 (7.00%) Telecoms
8 26 (5.20%) Manufacturing
8 26 (5.20%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (3.20%) Automotive
10 14 (2.80%) Retail
11 9 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.60%) Games
12 8 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.60%) Law
13 7 (1.40%) Marketing
14 5 (1.00%) Banking
14 5 (1.00%) Multimedia
15 3 (0.60%) Local Government
15 3 (0.60%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 58 (11.60%) Analyst
2 55 (11.00%) Architect
3 46 (9.20%) Senior
4 32 (6.40%) Senior Architect
5 27 (5.40%) IT Manager
6 25 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
7 24 (4.80%) Developer
8 22 (4.40%) Security Analyst
8 22 (4.40%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 21 (4.20%) Network Engineer
10 20 (4.00%) Data Scientist
10 20 (4.00%) Security Manager
11 18 (3.60%) Consultant
11 18 (3.60%) Platform Architect
11 18 (3.60%) Power Platform Architect
11 18 (3.60%) Power Platform Developer
11 18 (3.60%) Senior Developer
12 17 (3.40%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 17 (3.40%) Head of IT
12 17 (3.40%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.20%) 802.1X
2 7 (1.40%) ARM Templates
2 7 (1.40%) Azure Blueprints
2 7 (1.40%) EDI
3 6 (1.20%) Middleware
4 4 (0.80%) .NET
5 3 (0.60%) HTML
5 3 (0.60%) jQuery
5 3 (0.60%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 3 (0.60%) XML
6 2 (0.40%) OAuth
6 2 (0.40%) OpenID
6 2 (0.40%) REST
6 2 (0.40%) Web Services
7 1 (0.20%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.20%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.20%) Blazor
7 1 (0.20%) CSS
7 1 (0.20%) HTML5
7 1 (0.20%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 61 (12.20%) Management Information System
2 52 (10.40%) Driving Licence
3 40 (8.00%) Data Centre
4 21 (4.20%) Algorithms
4 21 (4.20%) Security Operations Centre
5 18 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.80%) Freedom of Information
6 14 (2.80%) Taxonomies
7 13 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.60%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.60%) Security Posture
8 10 (2.00%) Operational Technology
8 10 (2.00%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.80%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.40%) Clustering
11 6 (1.20%) SCADA
12 5 (1.00%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (1.00%) Infotainment
Operating Systems
1 78 (15.60%) Windows
2 34 (6.80%) Windows Server
3 27 (5.40%) Linux
4 17 (3.40%) Windows 10
5 10 (2.00%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.20%) Solaris
6 6 (1.20%) Unix
7 4 (0.80%) CentOS
7 4 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.80%) VMS
7 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.40%) Android
8 2 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (22.80%) Problem-Solving
2 94 (18.80%) Information Security
3 60 (12.00%) Mentoring
3 60 (12.00%) Project Management
4 59 (11.80%) Decision-Making
4 59 (11.80%) Incident Response
5 53 (10.60%) Risk Management
6 50 (10.00%) Analytics
7 48 (9.60%) Computer Science
8 46 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
8 46 (9.20%) Data Protection
9 40 (8.00%) Data Science
9 40 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 39 (7.80%) Coaching
10 39 (7.80%) Data Collection
10 39 (7.80%) Data Modelling
11 38 (7.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 35 (7.00%) Presales
12 35 (7.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 14 (2.80%) PowerShell
2 13 (2.60%) SQL
3 10 (2.00%) Python
4 7 (1.40%) C
5 6 (1.20%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.00%) Bash
6 5 (1.00%) Java
7 3 (0.60%) C#
7 3 (0.60%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.40%) C++
8 2 (0.40%) Ladder Logic
8 2 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 119 (23.80%) Degree
2 101 (20.20%) Security Cleared
3 44 (8.80%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.00%) CISSP
5 20 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (3.80%) CISM
7 16 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (3.00%) Azure Certification
8 15 (3.00%) CCNP
9 14 (2.80%) CCNA
10 10 (2.00%) AWS Certification
10 10 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (2.00%) CISA
11 9 (1.80%) OSCP
11 9 (1.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 8 (1.60%) MCP
13 7 (1.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 6 (1.20%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (17.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 54 (10.80%) GDPR
3 53 (10.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 44 (8.80%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 43 (8.60%) ISO 9001
6 37 (7.40%) NIST
7 19 (3.80%) GRC
8 15 (3.00%) NCSC
9 13 (2.60%) Def Stans
9 13 (2.60%) QA
10 11 (2.20%) Data Quality
11 10 (2.00%) PCI DSS
12 8 (1.60%) Accessibility
12 8 (1.60%) ISO 26262
13 4 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.80%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.60%) Automotive SPICE
15 2 (0.40%) IEC 61131
15 2 (0.40%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.40%) NIST 800
System Software
1 67 (13.40%) Active Directory
2 25 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 17 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.20%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (1.60%) Docker
6 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.80%) pfSense
7 4 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.80%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.80%) VMware Server
7 4 (0.80%) vSphere
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (7.80%) EnCase
2 16 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (2.00%) Terraform
4 9 (1.80%) Kubernetes
5 7 (1.40%) Ansible
6 6 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (1.00%) CASB
7 5 (1.00%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (0.80%) Stealthwatch
8 4 (0.80%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.60%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.40%) SCCM
11 1 (0.20%) Nagios
Vendors
1 204 (40.80%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.60%) Apple
3 32 (6.40%) Adobe
4 29 (5.80%) VMware
5 27 (5.40%) Cisco
6 22 (4.40%) Aruba
7 19 (3.80%) Dell
8 15 (3.00%) Juniper
9 13 (2.60%) Sage
9 13 (2.60%) Veeam
10 10 (2.00%) Meraki
11 9 (1.80%) CheckPoint
11 9 (1.80%) EqualLogic
11 9 (1.80%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (1.20%) Sophos
13 5 (1.00%) NetApp
13 5 (1.00%) Nimble Storage
13 5 (1.00%) Ubiquiti
14 4 (0.80%) HP