Internet Jobs in the West Midlands

Internet
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Internet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Internet over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 212 237
Rank change year-on-year +44 +25 -84
Permanent jobs citing Internet 29 41 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.67% 0.56% 0.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.03% 4.16% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 6 34 22
10th Percentile £39,469 £25,750 £23,499
25th Percentile - £31,563 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £35,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.39% -22.22% -
75th Percentile £77,735 £62,500 £58,438
90th Percentile £90,375 £67,125 £73,751
England median annual salary £42,500 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% -2.86% -4.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

Internet falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 481 986 1,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.17% 13.38% 17.59%
Number of salaries quoted 303 809 517
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,750 £25,950
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £43,227 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.41% -3.94% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,000 £67,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Internet in the West Midlands

Internet
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Internet in the West Midlands

Internet
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Internet in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Internet in the West Midlands

Internet
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 Internet within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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 0 10 - - 22
Worcestershire +24 3 £25,500 -23.88% 4
Staffordshire +15 3 £53,688 +102.60% 16
Birmingham +38 2 £90,000 +89.67% 11
Coventry - 2 £81,500 - 2
Wolverhampton +11 1 - - 1
Bilston - 1 - -
Kingswinford - 1 - -
Rowley Regis - 1 - -
Smethwick - 1 - -
Sutton Coldfield - 1 - -
Tipton - 1 - -
Willenhall - 1 - -
Internet
England

Internet
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 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.34%) AWS
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.90%) Azure
2 2 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 22 (75.86%) Network Security
1 22 (75.86%) WLAN
2 4 (13.79%) Firewall
3 1 (3.45%) 5G
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (3.45%) DHCP
3 1 (3.45%) DNS
3 1 (3.45%) IOS XR
3 1 (3.45%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (3.45%) Modbus
3 1 (3.45%) MPLS
3 1 (3.45%) MQTT
3 1 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.45%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) GitLab
1 1 (3.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 3 (10.34%) Police
2 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (79.31%) IT Support
2 22 (75.86%) IT Engineer
2 22 (75.86%) IT Support Engineer
2 22 (75.86%) Support Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (3.45%) 1st Line Support Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) IT Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) Network Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Support Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) Jinja
1 1 (3.45%) OpenConfig
1 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (75.86%) Driving Licence
2 4 (13.79%) PKI
3 2 (6.90%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (3.45%) IoT
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) NB-IoT
4 1 (3.45%) NHS
4 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.45%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 23 (79.31%) Windows
2 22 (75.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (79.31%) Network Management
2 22 (75.86%) Asset Management
2 22 (75.86%) Computer Science
2 22 (75.86%) IT Asset Management
2 22 (75.86%) ITIL
2 22 (75.86%) Mentoring
2 22 (75.86%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (13.79%) Security Operations
4 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (10.34%) Identity Management
4 3 (10.34%) Information Security
4 3 (10.34%) Security Management
5 2 (6.90%) Digital Forensics
5 2 (6.90%) Ethical Hacking
5 2 (6.90%) Information Security Management
5 2 (6.90%) IT Governance
6 1 (3.45%) High Availability
6 1 (3.45%) Predictive Analytics
6 1 (3.45%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 25 (86.21%) Degree
2 22 (75.86%) CCNA
2 22 (75.86%) CCNP
2 22 (75.86%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (75.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 22 (75.86%) LPIC
2 22 (75.86%) MCP
2 22 (75.86%) MCSE
2 22 (75.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.90%) A+ Certification
3 2 (6.90%) APMG
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (6.90%) Cyber Scheme
3 2 (6.90%) GIAC
3 2 (6.90%) ISACA
3 2 (6.90%) SANS
4 1 (3.45%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) NCSC
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.45%) Nessus
2 1 (3.45%) QRadar
Vendors
1 26 (89.66%) Microsoft
2 23 (79.31%) Cisco
3 1 (3.45%) Google
3 1 (3.45%) Juniper
3 1 (3.45%) Splunk