Cybersecurity Jobs in the Midlands

Cybersecurity
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the 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 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 34 40 53
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 -1
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 724 564 604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.24% 6.64% 5.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.59% 6.88% 5.55%
Number of salaries quoted 538 248 318
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £30,477
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,625 £41,134
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,825 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £74,688
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £83,204
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,990 8,193 10,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 79.56% 96.43% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 7,582 4,353 7,005
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,800 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,357 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £78,002
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 Midlands

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the Midlands

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the Midlands

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the Midlands

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the 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
West Midlands +5 531 £56,282 -6.20% 81
East Midlands +12 191 £42,500 -10.53% 48
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 44 (6.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (4.01%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.55%) IIS
4 1 (0.14%) Confluence
4 1 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 51 (7.04%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (6.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.55%) CANalyzer
4 4 (0.55%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.28%) Simulink
6 1 (0.14%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Infor LN
Cloud Services
1 160 (22.10%) Azure
2 155 (21.41%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (7.18%) Entra ID
4 46 (6.35%) SaaS
5 41 (5.66%) AWS
6 35 (4.83%) Power Platform
7 26 (3.59%) IaaS
8 24 (3.31%) PowerApps
9 23 (3.18%) Power Automate
10 21 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (2.90%) PaaS
11 18 (2.49%) GCP
12 13 (1.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 13 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (1.38%) GitHub
14 10 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (1.24%) Azure Sentinel
16 8 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
16 8 (1.10%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 115 (15.88%) Firewall
2 55 (7.60%) DNS
3 46 (6.35%) WAN
4 45 (6.22%) DHCP
5 28 (3.87%) SAN
6 27 (3.73%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (3.45%) LAN
7 25 (3.45%) TCP/IP
8 20 (2.76%) SD-WAN
9 19 (2.62%) Network Security
9 19 (2.62%) VLAN
10 16 (2.21%) VPN
11 12 (1.66%) Cisco Firepower
12 10 (1.38%) Unified Communications
13 9 (1.24%) 802.11
14 8 (1.10%) Fibre Channel
14 8 (1.10%) Wireshark
15 6 (0.83%) Ethernet
15 6 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
15 6 (0.83%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.83%) Power BI
2 20 (2.76%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (1.24%) MySQL
5 2 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.28%) Metadata
5 2 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.14%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (1.38%) SonarQube
2 4 (0.55%) CANoe
2 4 (0.55%) JIRA
2 4 (0.55%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.28%) Git
3 2 (0.28%) GitLab
General
1 161 (22.24%) Social Skills
2 92 (12.71%) Finance
3 60 (8.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 59 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (7.73%) Legal
6 48 (6.63%) Telecoms
7 33 (4.56%) Organisational Skills
7 33 (4.56%) Public Sector
8 28 (3.87%) Automotive
8 28 (3.87%) Manufacturing
9 18 (2.49%) Retail
10 17 (2.35%) Games
11 15 (2.07%) Banking
12 12 (1.66%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.97%) Law
16 5 (0.69%) Marketing
17 4 (0.55%) Multimedia
17 4 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 98 (13.54%) Senior
2 85 (11.74%) Analyst
3 67 (9.25%) Architect
4 55 (7.60%) Lead
5 52 (7.18%) IT Engineer
6 48 (6.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 46 (6.35%) Senior Architect
8 42 (5.80%) Developer
8 42 (5.80%) IT Support
9 36 (4.97%) Security Analyst
10 34 (4.70%) Security Manager
11 31 (4.28%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 30 (4.14%) IT Manager
13 27 (3.73%) Consultant
13 27 (3.73%) Network Engineer
13 27 (3.73%) Security Architect
13 27 (3.73%) Security Engineer
14 26 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
14 26 (3.59%) Support Engineer
15 25 (3.45%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.90%) 802.1X
2 10 (1.38%) ARM Templates
2 10 (1.38%) Azure Blueprints
3 9 (1.24%) HTML
4 8 (1.10%) EDI
4 8 (1.10%) Laravel
4 8 (1.10%) Middleware
5 6 (0.83%) .NET
5 6 (0.83%) XML
6 4 (0.55%) JSON
6 4 (0.55%) OAuth
6 4 (0.55%) OpenID
6 4 (0.55%) REST
6 4 (0.55%) Web Services
7 3 (0.41%) jQuery
7 3 (0.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 2 (0.28%) CSS
8 2 (0.28%) LDAP
8 2 (0.28%) SAML
8 2 (0.28%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 94 (12.98%) Data Centre
2 87 (12.02%) Management Information System
3 47 (6.49%) Driving Licence
4 31 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (4.01%) Security Operations Centre
6 25 (3.45%) Operational Technology
7 23 (3.18%) Security Posture
8 22 (3.04%) Onboarding
9 21 (2.90%) Algorithms
10 20 (2.76%) SCADA
11 17 (2.35%) Cyber Threat
12 14 (1.93%) Freedom of Information
12 14 (1.93%) Taxonomies
13 13 (1.80%) Cyberattack
13 13 (1.80%) Public Cloud
14 11 (1.52%) Cloud Native
15 10 (1.38%) Enterprise Storage
15 10 (1.38%) Private Cloud
16 9 (1.24%) Clustering
16 9 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 174 (24.03%) Windows
2 97 (13.40%) Windows Server
3 49 (6.77%) Linux
4 20 (2.76%) Windows 10
5 15 (2.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (1.66%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.38%) Unix
7 10 (1.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (1.10%) Solaris
9 5 (0.69%) VMS
10 4 (0.55%) CentOS
10 4 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.28%) Android
12 1 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
2 126 (17.40%) Information Security
3 81 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 78 (10.77%) Mentoring
5 71 (9.81%) Project Management
6 69 (9.53%) Risk Management
7 64 (8.84%) Decision-Making
8 61 (8.43%) Analytics
8 61 (8.43%) Incident Response
8 61 (8.43%) ITIL
9 60 (8.29%) Disaster Recovery
10 58 (8.01%) Security Operations
11 57 (7.87%) Agile
11 57 (7.87%) Business Intelligence
12 55 (7.60%) Coaching
13 54 (7.46%) Computer Science
14 46 (6.35%) Continuous Improvement
14 46 (6.35%) Data Protection
15 45 (6.22%) Presales
16 44 (6.08%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (5.94%) SQL
2 41 (5.66%) PowerShell
3 16 (2.21%) Rust
4 13 (1.80%) PHP
4 13 (1.80%) Python
5 10 (1.38%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.10%) C#
6 8 (1.10%) Go
7 6 (0.83%) Bash
7 6 (0.83%) C
7 6 (0.83%) C++
8 4 (0.55%) Java
8 4 (0.55%) R
9 3 (0.41%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.28%) Ladder Logic
10 2 (0.28%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 153 (21.13%) Degree
2 112 (15.47%) Security Cleared
3 57 (7.87%) SC Cleared
4 40 (5.52%) CISSP
5 34 (4.70%) CISM
6 32 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
7 31 (4.28%) CCNA
8 27 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (3.59%) CCNP
10 23 (3.18%) Azure Certification
11 18 (2.49%) CISA
12 17 (2.35%) OSCP
13 14 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
14 13 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (1.80%) DV Cleared
15 12 (1.66%) AWS Certification
15 12 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 12 (1.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 11 (1.52%) CRISC
17 9 (1.24%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (12.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 69 (9.53%) GDPR
3 46 (6.35%) NIST
4 39 (5.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 25 (3.45%) ISO 9001
6 24 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 22 (3.04%) NCSC
8 17 (2.35%) GRC
9 14 (1.93%) QA
10 13 (1.80%) Def Stans
11 12 (1.66%) PCI DSS
12 10 (1.38%) Data Quality
13 9 (1.24%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.97%) ISO 26262
14 7 (0.97%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.69%) SLA
15 5 (0.69%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 3 (0.41%) Automotive SPICE
System Software
1 138 (19.06%) Active Directory
2 57 (7.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (6.35%) Hyper-V
4 13 (1.80%) Virtual Servers
5 10 (1.38%) Docker
5 10 (1.38%) RACF
6 7 (0.97%) vSphere
7 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.55%) pfSense
8 4 (0.55%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.55%) VMware Server
9 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.41%) XenApp
9 3 (0.41%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (4.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (2.76%) EnCase
3 15 (2.07%) Terraform
4 11 (1.52%) Kubernetes
4 11 (1.52%) Stealthwatch
5 10 (1.38%) Ansible
5 10 (1.38%) SCCM
6 8 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.83%) CASB
8 5 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (0.69%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.55%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.55%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.55%) WSUS
10 3 (0.41%) Backup Exec
10 3 (0.41%) Nagios
Vendors
1 254 (35.08%) Microsoft
2 96 (13.26%) VMware
3 49 (6.77%) Cisco
4 48 (6.63%) Veeam
5 38 (5.25%) Apple
6 36 (4.97%) Adobe
7 25 (3.45%) Aruba
8 23 (3.18%) Meraki
9 20 (2.76%) Dell
10 17 (2.35%) Juniper
11 15 (2.07%) CrowdStrike
11 15 (2.07%) HP
11 15 (2.07%) Nimble Storage
12 14 (1.93%) CyberArk
13 13 (1.80%) Sage
14 11 (1.52%) Fortinet
15 10 (1.38%) Acronis
16 9 (1.24%) CheckPoint
16 9 (1.24%) EqualLogic
16 9 (1.24%) Rapid7