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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 66 87
Rank change year-on-year -32 +21 -21
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 195 267 269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.31% 4.62% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 4.77% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 154 167 168
10th Percentile £39,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,188 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,575 £86,750 £90,914
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%

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 6,802 5,593 7,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 80.54% 96.68% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,753 3,137 4,863
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £39,935 £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 £80,000
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 9 June 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 9 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 -28 85 £72,500 +15.08% 25
Staffordshire -26 22 £43,500 -33.08% 6
Warwickshire +15 18 £45,000 -18.18% 5
Wolverhampton 0 14 £53,500 +7.00% 2
Coventry +3 5 £68,750 +14.58% 4
Solihull -4 5 £52,500 +23.53% 1
Walsall +5 4 £52,825 +5.65% 2
Worcestershire -26 2 £50,000 -33.33% 6
Smethwick - 2 £28,000 -
Shropshire -8 1 £43,072 -25.09%
Wednesbury - 1 - - 1
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 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.56%) nginx
3 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.54%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.51%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.38%) Azure
2 19 (9.74%) AWS
3 14 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (6.67%) SaaS
5 10 (5.13%) Entra ID
5 10 (5.13%) IaaS
5 10 (5.13%) PaaS
6 9 (4.62%) GCP
7 5 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.56%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.56%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.56%) Azure Pipelines
7 5 (2.56%) npm
7 5 (2.56%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.56%) Serverless
8 4 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.05%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.03%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.74%) Firewall
2 9 (4.62%) WAN
3 8 (4.10%) VPN
4 7 (3.59%) SD-WAN
5 4 (2.05%) DHCP
5 4 (2.05%) DNS
5 4 (2.05%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (2.05%) iSCSI
5 4 (2.05%) SNMP
6 2 (1.03%) LAN
6 2 (1.03%) NGFW
6 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.03%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.51%) HTTP
7 1 (0.51%) Network Security
7 1 (0.51%) SAN
7 1 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.51%) VLAN
7 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (3.08%) MySQL
3 5 (2.56%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.56%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.05%) Power BI
5 1 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.51%) GIS
5 1 (0.51%) Metadata
5 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.51%) QGIS
5 1 (0.51%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (5.64%) Git
2 5 (2.56%) JIRA
2 5 (2.56%) MSTest
2 5 (2.56%) webpack
General
1 65 (33.33%) Finance
2 63 (32.31%) Social Skills
3 33 (16.92%) Legal
4 31 (15.90%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (10.77%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (7.18%) Environmental Health
7 13 (6.67%) Retail
8 9 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.59%) Law
9 7 (3.59%) Public Sector
10 6 (3.08%) Banking
11 5 (2.56%) Automotive
12 4 (2.05%) Marketing
13 3 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (1.03%) Electronics
14 2 (1.03%) Financial Institution
14 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (1.03%) Publishing
15 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 33 (16.92%) Analyst
2 24 (12.31%) Security Manager
3 20 (10.26%) Senior
4 19 (9.74%) Lead
5 16 (8.21%) Architect
5 16 (8.21%) Security Analyst
6 14 (7.18%) Information Manager
7 12 (6.15%) Information Security Manager
8 10 (5.13%) Developer
8 10 (5.13%) IT Manager
8 10 (5.13%) Senior Analyst
9 8 (4.10%) Cloud Architect
9 8 (4.10%) Data Manager
9 8 (4.10%) Head of IT
9 8 (4.10%) Operations Analyst
9 8 (4.10%) Penetration Tester
9 8 (4.10%) Security Operations Analyst
9 8 (4.10%) Tester
10 7 (3.59%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 7 (3.59%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.10%) Middleware
2 5 (2.56%) .NET
2 5 (2.56%) .NET Core
2 5 (2.56%) Blazor
2 5 (2.56%) CSS
2 5 (2.56%) HTML
2 5 (2.56%) HTML5
2 5 (2.56%) jQuery
2 5 (2.56%) JSON
2 5 (2.56%) LAMP
2 5 (2.56%) Laravel
2 5 (2.56%) LEMP Stack
2 5 (2.56%) LESS
2 5 (2.56%) React
2 5 (2.56%) Sass
2 5 (2.56%) Vue
2 5 (2.56%) XML
3 3 (1.54%) EDI
4 1 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 74 (37.95%) Management Information System
2 14 (7.18%) NHS
3 13 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 13 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 11 (5.64%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (5.13%) Security Operations Centre
6 8 (4.10%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.10%) Freedom of Information
6 8 (4.10%) Taxonomies
7 5 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.56%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.05%) Cyberattack
8 4 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.05%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.05%) PMI
9 3 (1.54%) CMDB
9 3 (1.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.54%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.54%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.38%) Windows
2 21 (10.77%) Linux
3 8 (4.10%) Solaris
3 8 (4.10%) Ubuntu
3 8 (4.10%) Unix
4 5 (2.56%) Windows 10
5 4 (2.05%) VMS
6 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.03%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (51.79%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (23.59%) Risk Management
3 42 (21.54%) Project Management
4 40 (20.51%) Data Protection
5 39 (20.00%) Agile
6 35 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (13.33%) Security Operations
8 25 (12.82%) Customer Service
9 21 (10.77%) Security Management
10 20 (10.26%) Incident Response
10 20 (10.26%) IT Strategy
11 19 (9.74%) Business Continuity
11 19 (9.74%) Penetration Testing
12 18 (9.23%) Decision-Making
12 18 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (8.72%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (8.72%) ITIL
14 16 (8.21%) Disaster Recovery
14 16 (8.21%) Scrum
15 15 (7.69%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.18%) SQL
2 6 (3.08%) PHP
2 6 (3.08%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.56%) C#
3 5 (2.56%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.54%) Python
Qualifications
1 40 (20.51%) CISSP
2 33 (16.92%) CISM
3 24 (12.31%) Degree
4 16 (8.21%) Azure Certification
4 16 (8.21%) CISA
5 13 (6.67%) OSCP
6 12 (6.15%) CRISC
7 11 (5.64%) AWS Certification
8 9 (4.62%) Security Cleared
9 8 (4.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 7 (3.59%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (3.08%) GIAC
11 6 (3.08%) SANS
12 5 (2.56%) PCI QSA
12 5 (2.56%) PMI Certification
12 5 (2.56%) SC Cleared
13 4 (2.05%) CEH
14 3 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (35.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 40 (20.51%) GDPR
3 37 (18.97%) NIST
4 23 (11.79%) GRC
5 16 (8.21%) PCI DSS
6 15 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (3.59%) QA
8 6 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (2.05%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (1.54%) COBIT
10 3 (1.54%) NCSC
11 2 (1.03%) IASME
11 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.51%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.51%) ISO 31000
12 1 (0.51%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.51%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (7.18%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.59%) Hyper-V
3 6 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.56%) RACF
5 4 (2.05%) pfSense
6 3 (1.54%) Docker
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (2.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.03%) CSIRT
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.51%) Nessus
4 1 (0.51%) SCCM
4 1 (0.51%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.59%) Cisco
3 6 (3.08%) VMware
4 5 (2.56%) CyberArk
4 5 (2.56%) Fortinet
4 5 (2.56%) Veeam
5 4 (2.05%) BroadSoft
5 4 (2.05%) Brocade
5 4 (2.05%) Dell
5 4 (2.05%) Dell Compellent
5 4 (2.05%) Meraki
5 4 (2.05%) QNAP
5 4 (2.05%) Ubiquiti
5 4 (2.05%) Zerto
6 2 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.03%) IBM
6 2 (1.03%) Oracle
6 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.03%) SAP
6 2 (1.03%) Zscaler