Security Testing Jobs in the West Midlands

Security Testing
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Security Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Testing over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 245 232
Rank change year-on-year +23 -13 -40
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 28 32 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.39% 0.48% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.49% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 26 17 21
10th Percentile £39,500 £45,000 £34,950
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% -30.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £86,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £55,625 £94,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £61,206 £70,000 £69,078
% change year-on-year -12.56% +1.34% +10.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Security Testing 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 6,010 6,522 6,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.11% 96.84% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4,530 3,294 4,727
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,531 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,637
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 £79,175 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Security Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Testing in the West Midlands

Security Testing
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Security Testing in the West Midlands

Security Testing
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Testing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Testing in the West Midlands

Security Testing
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 Security Testing within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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 -2 11 £50,000 -44.44%
Warwickshire +59 10 £44,000 -32.31% 1
Solihull - 7 £50,000 - 3
Security Testing
England

Security Testing
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:

Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) AWS
1 10 (35.71%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (17.86%) Amazon S3
2 5 (17.86%) AWS Fargate
2 5 (17.86%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (17.86%) Azure Pipelines
2 5 (17.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) 5G
2 1 (3.57%) 3GPP
2 1 (3.57%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (3.57%) HTTP
2 1 (3.57%) Network Security
2 1 (3.57%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (35.71%) DynamoDB
1 10 (35.71%) Relational Database
1 10 (35.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (35.71%) MSTest
2 5 (17.86%) Git
2 5 (17.86%) Postman
2 5 (17.86%) SoapUI
General
1 16 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 15 (53.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Developer
1 5 (17.86%) Senior
1 5 (17.86%) Senior Test Engineer
1 5 (17.86%) Software Developer
1 5 (17.86%) Test Engineer
2 1 (3.57%) Analyst
2 1 (3.57%) Information Manager
2 1 (3.57%) Information Security Manager
2 1 (3.57%) Security Analyst
2 1 (3.57%) Security Manager
2 1 (3.57%) Security Tester
2 1 (3.57%) Telecoms Tester
2 1 (3.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) JSON
1 10 (35.71%) XML
2 5 (17.86%) .NET
2 5 (17.86%) .NET Core
2 5 (17.86%) Blazor
2 5 (17.86%) REST
2 5 (17.86%) SOAP
3 1 (3.57%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 14 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 14 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (35.71%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.57%) Cybercrime
3 1 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (92.86%) Test Automation
2 24 (85.71%) Agile
3 19 (67.86%) Functional Testing
3 19 (67.86%) Software Testing
3 19 (67.86%) Test Scripting
4 15 (53.57%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (50.00%) Computer Science
5 14 (50.00%) Data Management
5 14 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 14 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
5 14 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 14 (50.00%) Performance Testing
5 14 (50.00%) Regression Testing
5 14 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
5 14 (50.00%) SDLC
5 14 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (50.00%) Test Management
5 14 (50.00%) Test Planning
5 14 (50.00%) Test Strategy
6 10 (35.71%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) C#
1 10 (35.71%) SQL
2 5 (17.86%) T-SQL
3 4 (14.29%) C
Qualifications
1 14 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 14 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) CISMP
3 1 (3.57%) CISSP
3 1 (3.57%) CREST Certified
3 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) OSCP
3 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) NCSC
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Google