Intrusion Detection Job Trends in the West Midlands

Intrusion Detection
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Intrusion Detection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 188 156
Rank change year-on-year +20 -32 +130
Permanent jobs citing Intrusion Detection 6 18 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.11% 0.42% 0.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.49% 2.56% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 6 15 22
10th Percentile £55,625 £40,500 £29,927
25th Percentile £61,250 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £48,000 £46,625
Median % change year-on-year +30.21% +2.95% -1.84%
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £62,125
90th Percentile £72,500 £61,300 £64,950
England median annual salary £62,500 £56,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.61% -6.67% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

Intrusion Detection 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 1,230 703 720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.33% 16.36% 21.28%
Number of salaries quoted 247 304 647
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,460 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £58,250 £63,750 £59,375
90th Percentile £71,750 £74,026 £74,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

Intrusion Detection
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Intrusion Detection relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Intrusion Detection job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Intrusion Detection
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Intrusion Detection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Intrusion Detection

Intrusion Detection
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Intrusion Detection in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Intrusion Detection in the West Midlands

Intrusion Detection
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 Intrusion Detection within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Staffordshire -10 4 £62,500 -3.85% 2
Birmingham +16 2 £63,750 +32.81%
Intrusion Detection
England

Intrusion Detection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) NAS
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) GIS
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Digital Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Impact Assessments
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Blue Team
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (16.67%) OSINT
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) CTC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) DBS Check
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) HP
2 4 (66.67%) Juniper
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) Tanium
3 1 (16.67%) Tenable
3 1 (16.67%) Zscaler