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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 30 39
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 515 438 452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.43% 7.52% 5.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.97% 7.77% 6.22%
Number of salaries quoted 362 204 237
10th Percentile £35,250 £37,512 £29,256
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,063 £41,134
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,087 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £66,294 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,250 £87,500 £83,750
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 6,464 5,634 7,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 80.70% 96.74% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,699 3,147 4,804
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £39,842 £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 £65,000 £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%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 0 220 £55,000 -18.82% 30
Warwickshire +7 76 £60,000 +9.09% 17
Solihull +7 41 £62,500 -10.71% 4
Staffordshire -12 34 £44,000 +1.73% 14
Worcestershire -9 24 £55,000 +18.92% 4
Shropshire - 24 £75,000 - 1
Coventry +3 6 £65,000 - 4
Halesowen - 6 £40,000 -
Herefordshire +2 4 £60,000 -4.00% 3
Walsall +2 2 £42,500 - 2
Wolverhampton -7 2 £50,000 -25.93% 2
Brierley Hill - 2 £33,750 -
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 29 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.58%) IIS
4 1 (0.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 44 (8.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (7.38%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (5.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.78%) CANalyzer
4 4 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.39%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Infor LN
Cloud Services
1 106 (20.58%) Azure
2 74 (14.37%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (6.21%) SaaS
4 30 (5.83%) Power Platform
5 28 (5.44%) AWS
6 27 (5.24%) Entra ID
7 26 (5.05%) IaaS
8 23 (4.47%) Power Automate
9 21 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (4.08%) PaaS
10 20 (3.88%) PowerApps
11 14 (2.72%) GCP
12 13 (2.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 11 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (1.94%) GitHub
14 10 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
16 6 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
17 4 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
17 4 (0.78%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 75 (14.56%) Firewall
2 40 (7.77%) WAN
3 29 (5.63%) DHCP
3 29 (5.63%) DNS
4 21 (4.08%) LAN
5 18 (3.50%) SD-WAN
6 15 (2.91%) Network Security
7 14 (2.72%) SAN
8 12 (2.33%) VPN
9 10 (1.94%) Cisco Firepower
9 10 (1.94%) Unified Communications
10 8 (1.55%) Fibre Channel
11 7 (1.36%) TCP/IP
12 6 (1.17%) 5G
12 6 (1.17%) Ethernet
13 5 (0.97%) NGFW
13 5 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
13 5 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.83%) Power BI
2 15 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (2.91%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.17%) MySQL
5 3 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.39%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.39%) Metadata
7 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (1.94%) SonarQube
2 4 (0.78%) CANoe
3 3 (0.58%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.39%) Git
4 2 (0.39%) GitLab
4 2 (0.39%) JIRA
General
1 115 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 69 (13.40%) Finance
3 60 (11.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 54 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (7.96%) Legal
5 41 (7.96%) Telecoms
6 34 (6.60%) Public Sector
7 27 (5.24%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (4.66%) Manufacturing
9 19 (3.69%) Automotive
10 14 (2.72%) Retail
11 9 (1.75%) Banking
11 9 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.36%) Games
14 6 (1.17%) Law
14 6 (1.17%) Marketing
15 4 (0.78%) Multimedia
16 3 (0.58%) Electronics
16 3 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 67 (13.01%) Senior
2 64 (12.43%) Architect
3 59 (11.46%) Analyst
4 43 (8.35%) Senior Architect
5 29 (5.63%) Developer
6 27 (5.24%) Solutions Architect
7 25 (4.85%) IT Manager
7 25 (4.85%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 23 (4.47%) Security Architect
9 22 (4.27%) Security Manager
10 21 (4.08%) Security Engineer
10 21 (4.08%) Senior Developer
11 20 (3.88%) Data Scientist
11 20 (3.88%) Platform Architect
11 20 (3.88%) Power Platform Architect
11 20 (3.88%) Power Platform Developer
11 20 (3.88%) Security Analyst
12 19 (3.69%) Dynamics 365 Architect
12 19 (3.69%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 19 (3.69%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.52%) 802.1X
2 10 (1.94%) ARM Templates
2 10 (1.94%) Azure Blueprints
3 8 (1.55%) EDI
3 8 (1.55%) HTML
3 8 (1.55%) Middleware
4 4 (0.78%) .NET
5 3 (0.58%) jQuery
5 3 (0.58%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 3 (0.58%) XML
6 2 (0.39%) CSS
6 2 (0.39%) OAuth
6 2 (0.39%) OpenID
6 2 (0.39%) REST
6 2 (0.39%) Web Services
7 1 (0.19%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.19%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.19%) Blazor
7 1 (0.19%) HTML5
7 1 (0.19%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 74 (14.37%) Management Information System
2 48 (9.32%) Data Centre
3 31 (6.02%) Driving Licence
4 22 (4.27%) Onboarding
5 21 (4.08%) Algorithms
6 20 (3.88%) Security Operations Centre
7 19 (3.69%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (3.30%) Operational Technology
9 16 (3.11%) Security Posture
10 14 (2.72%) Freedom of Information
10 14 (2.72%) Taxonomies
11 13 (2.52%) Public Cloud
12 12 (2.33%) SCADA
13 11 (2.14%) Cloud Native
14 10 (1.94%) Private Cloud
15 9 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
16 7 (1.36%) Clustering
17 5 (0.97%) Client/Server
17 5 (0.97%) CMDB
17 5 (0.97%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 94 (18.25%) Windows
2 47 (9.13%) Windows Server
3 36 (6.99%) Linux
4 18 (3.50%) Windows 10
5 12 (2.33%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (1.55%) Solaris
7 8 (1.55%) Unix
8 4 (0.78%) CentOS
8 4 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.78%) VMS
8 4 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.39%) Android
10 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (18.83%) Information Security
2 96 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (12.62%) Mentoring
4 63 (12.23%) Decision-Making
5 60 (11.65%) Project Management
6 59 (11.46%) Analytics
7 54 (10.49%) Risk Management
8 52 (10.10%) Business Intelligence
9 45 (8.74%) Computer Science
10 44 (8.54%) Coaching
10 44 (8.54%) Presales
11 42 (8.16%) Data Protection
12 41 (7.96%) Data Modelling
12 41 (7.96%) Disaster Recovery
12 41 (7.96%) Incident Response
13 40 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (7.77%) Data Science
13 40 (7.77%) Security Operations
14 39 (7.57%) ITIL
15 35 (6.80%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 22 (4.27%) PowerShell
2 20 (3.88%) SQL
3 8 (1.55%) Python
4 6 (1.17%) C
4 6 (1.17%) JavaScript
5 5 (0.97%) R
6 4 (0.78%) Bash
6 4 (0.78%) Java
6 4 (0.78%) PHP
7 3 (0.58%) C#
7 3 (0.58%) C++
7 3 (0.58%) Go
7 3 (0.58%) Rust
8 2 (0.39%) Ladder Logic
8 2 (0.39%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 130 (25.24%) Degree
2 99 (19.22%) Security Cleared
3 49 (9.51%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.05%) CISSP
5 23 (4.47%) Cisco Certification
6 22 (4.27%) CISM
7 21 (4.08%) CCNA
8 19 (3.69%) Azure Certification
8 19 (3.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (3.30%) CCNP
10 15 (2.91%) CISA
11 13 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (2.33%) AWS Certification
12 12 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (1.94%) CRISC
14 9 (1.75%) OSCP
14 9 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 8 (1.55%) MCP
16 6 (1.17%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (13.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 53 (10.29%) GDPR
3 40 (7.77%) NIST
4 35 (6.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 26 (5.05%) ISO 9001
5 26 (5.05%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 17 (3.30%) GRC
6 17 (3.30%) NCSC
7 13 (2.52%) Def Stans
8 12 (2.33%) QA
9 11 (2.14%) PCI DSS
10 10 (1.94%) Data Quality
11 8 (1.55%) Accessibility
12 7 (1.36%) ISO 26262
13 6 (1.17%) NIST 800
14 4 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.58%) Automotive SPICE
15 3 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.58%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.39%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 82 (15.92%) Active Directory
2 30 (5.83%) Hyper-V
3 26 (5.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.14%) Virtual Servers
5 10 (1.94%) Docker
6 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (1.17%) vSphere
7 5 (0.97%) RACF
7 5 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.78%) pfSense
8 4 (0.78%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.78%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.39%) XenApp
9 2 (0.39%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 22 (4.27%) EnCase
2 20 (3.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (2.91%) Terraform
4 11 (2.14%) Kubernetes
5 10 (1.94%) Ansible
6 9 (1.75%) Stealthwatch
7 6 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (1.17%) CASB
8 5 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.78%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.78%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.58%) Backup Exec
11 2 (0.39%) Nagios
11 2 (0.39%) SCCM
12 1 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 203 (39.42%) Microsoft
2 43 (8.35%) VMware
3 36 (6.99%) Apple
4 35 (6.80%) Adobe
5 31 (6.02%) Cisco
6 24 (4.66%) Aruba
7 19 (3.69%) Dell
8 17 (3.30%) Juniper
8 17 (3.30%) Meraki
9 16 (3.11%) Veeam
10 13 (2.52%) Sage
11 11 (2.14%) Fortinet
12 9 (1.75%) CheckPoint
12 9 (1.75%) EqualLogic
13 7 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
14 6 (1.17%) Sophos
15 5 (0.97%) CyberArk
15 5 (0.97%) Google
15 5 (0.97%) NetApp
15 5 (0.97%) Nimble Storage