Information Security Jobs in the West Midlands

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 68 82
Rank change year-on-year -32 +14 -17
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 177 288 264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.36% 4.60% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 4.75% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 148 167 169
10th Percentile £38,987 £39,112 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,875 £74,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £99,675 £86,750 £88,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Information Security 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 6,170 6,062 7,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.43% 96.79% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,565 3,157 4,725
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £64,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the West Midlands

Information Security
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Information Security in the West Midlands

Information Security
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Information Security in the West Midlands

Information Security
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 Information Security within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 May 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 -21 77 £75,000 +17.65% 21
Warwickshire +29 17 £45,000 -18.18% 6
Staffordshire -20 17 £37,500 -42.31% 5
Wolverhampton +4 14 £53,500 +7.00% 1
Coventry +6 6 £67,500 -3.57% 5
Walsall +8 3 £39,649 -20.70% 4
Solihull -4 3 £52,500 -6.67% 3
Smethwick - 2 £28,000 -
Shropshire -9 1 £43,072 -25.09% 1
Worcestershire -15 1 £50,000 -33.33% 4
Information Security
England

Information Security
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 6 (3.39%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.82%) nginx
3 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.13%) CMS
5 1 (0.56%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.56%) Drupal
Applications
1 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 28 (15.82%) Azure
2 18 (10.17%) AWS
3 12 (6.78%) SaaS
4 11 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.08%) IaaS
5 9 (5.08%) PaaS
6 8 (4.52%) GCP
7 7 (3.95%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.82%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.82%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.82%) Azure Pipelines
8 5 (2.82%) npm
8 5 (2.82%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.82%) Serverless
9 4 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.26%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.13%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.86%) Firewall
2 8 (4.52%) VPN
2 8 (4.52%) WAN
3 7 (3.95%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.26%) DHCP
4 4 (2.26%) DNS
4 4 (2.26%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (2.26%) iSCSI
4 4 (2.26%) SNMP
5 2 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.13%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.56%) HTTP
6 1 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.56%) LAN
6 1 (0.56%) Network Security
6 1 (0.56%) SAN
6 1 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (3.39%) MySQL
3 5 (2.82%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.82%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.82%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.26%) Power BI
5 1 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.56%) GIS
5 1 (0.56%) Metadata
5 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.56%) QGIS
5 1 (0.56%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (6.21%) Git
2 5 (2.82%) JIRA
2 5 (2.82%) MSTest
2 5 (2.82%) webpack
General
1 61 (34.46%) Finance
2 59 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 30 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (15.25%) Legal
5 20 (11.30%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (7.91%) Environmental Health
7 12 (6.78%) Retail
8 7 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.95%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.39%) Law
10 5 (2.82%) Automotive
11 4 (2.26%) Marketing
12 3 (1.69%) Banking
13 2 (1.13%) Electronics
13 2 (1.13%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.13%) Publishing
14 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (15.82%) Analyst
2 20 (11.30%) Security Manager
3 18 (10.17%) Lead
4 17 (9.60%) Senior
5 14 (7.91%) Architect
5 14 (7.91%) Security Analyst
6 10 (5.65%) Developer
6 10 (5.65%) Information Manager
7 9 (5.08%) IT Manager
8 8 (4.52%) Data Manager
8 8 (4.52%) Head of IT
8 8 (4.52%) Information Security Manager
8 8 (4.52%) Operations Analyst
8 8 (4.52%) Penetration Tester
8 8 (4.52%) Security Operations Analyst
8 8 (4.52%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (4.52%) Tester
9 7 (3.95%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (3.95%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 6 (3.39%) Data Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.95%) Middleware
2 5 (2.82%) .NET
2 5 (2.82%) .NET Core
2 5 (2.82%) Blazor
2 5 (2.82%) CSS
2 5 (2.82%) HTML
2 5 (2.82%) HTML5
2 5 (2.82%) jQuery
2 5 (2.82%) JSON
2 5 (2.82%) LAMP
2 5 (2.82%) Laravel
2 5 (2.82%) LEMP Stack
2 5 (2.82%) LESS
2 5 (2.82%) React
2 5 (2.82%) Sass
2 5 (2.82%) Vue
2 5 (2.82%) XML
3 3 (1.69%) EDI
4 1 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 68 (38.42%) Management Information System
2 14 (7.91%) Data Centre
2 14 (7.91%) NHS
3 13 (7.34%) Security Posture
4 11 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.21%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (4.52%) Freedom of Information
5 8 (4.52%) Taxonomies
6 7 (3.95%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.82%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.26%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.26%) PMI
9 3 (1.69%) Cyberattack
9 3 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.13%) Cyber Security Posture
10 2 (1.13%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.69%) Windows
2 20 (11.30%) Linux
3 7 (3.95%) Solaris
3 7 (3.95%) Ubuntu
3 7 (3.95%) Unix
4 5 (2.82%) Windows 10
5 4 (2.26%) VMS
6 2 (1.13%) zOS
7 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (53.67%) Cybersecurity
2 45 (25.42%) Risk Management
3 40 (22.60%) Project Management
4 36 (20.34%) Data Protection
5 35 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (18.64%) Agile
7 24 (13.56%) Customer Service
8 22 (12.43%) Security Operations
9 19 (10.73%) Incident Response
9 19 (10.73%) IT Strategy
9 19 (10.73%) Security Management
10 17 (9.60%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (9.04%) Business Continuity
11 16 (9.04%) Decision-Making
11 16 (9.04%) Penetration Testing
12 15 (8.47%) Analytics
12 15 (8.47%) Budgeting
12 15 (8.47%) Change Management
12 15 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (8.47%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (6.21%) SQL
2 6 (3.39%) PHP
3 5 (2.82%) C#
3 5 (2.82%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.69%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 35 (19.77%) CISSP
2 29 (16.38%) CISM
3 21 (11.86%) Degree
4 15 (8.47%) Azure Certification
5 14 (7.91%) CISA
6 12 (6.78%) CRISC
7 10 (5.65%) AWS Certification
7 10 (5.65%) OSCP
8 7 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.95%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (3.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 6 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.39%) GIAC
9 6 (3.39%) SANS
9 6 (3.39%) Security Cleared
10 5 (2.82%) PCI QSA
11 4 (2.26%) CEH
11 4 (2.26%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.69%) CCSP
12 3 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (36.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 36 (20.34%) GDPR
3 34 (19.21%) NIST
4 22 (12.43%) GRC
5 14 (7.91%) PCI DSS
6 8 (4.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (3.39%) QA
8 4 (2.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (1.69%) COBIT
9 3 (1.69%) NCSC
10 2 (1.13%) IASME
10 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.56%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.56%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.56%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (4.52%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.95%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.26%) pfSense
5 3 (1.69%) Docker
6 2 (1.13%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (2.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.13%) CSIRT
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.56%) Nessus
4 1 (0.56%) SCCM
4 1 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.95%) Cisco
3 5 (2.82%) Fortinet
3 5 (2.82%) VMware
4 4 (2.26%) BroadSoft
4 4 (2.26%) Brocade
4 4 (2.26%) Dell
4 4 (2.26%) Dell Compellent
4 4 (2.26%) QNAP
4 4 (2.26%) Ubiquiti
4 4 (2.26%) Veeam
4 4 (2.26%) Zerto
5 3 (1.69%) Meraki
6 2 (1.13%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.13%) IBM
6 2 (1.13%) Oracle
6 2 (1.13%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.13%) SAP
6 2 (1.13%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.13%) Sun