Information Security Jobs in the Midlands

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Information Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Information Security over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 90 101
Rank change year-on-year -30 +11 -16
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 281 309 361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.00% 3.64% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 3.77% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 215 186 234
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,961 £47,500 £42,936
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +6.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,938 £76,135
90th Percentile £96,250 £85,625 £91,106
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Information Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,125 8,190 10,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 79.22% 96.43% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 7,655 4,352 6,986
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,656 £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 £78,001
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the Midlands

Information Security
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Information Security in the Midlands

Information Security
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Information Security in the Midlands

Information Security
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 Information Security within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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 -27 199 £57,500 +4.55% 56
East Midlands +12 81 £52,500 -20.75% 25
Information Security
England

Information Security
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 6 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.78%) nginx
3 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.07%) CMS
5 2 (0.71%) IIS
5 2 (0.71%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.36%) Drupal
Applications
1 8 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 52 (18.51%) Azure
2 28 (9.96%) AWS
3 25 (8.90%) Entra ID
4 16 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (5.34%) IaaS
5 15 (5.34%) PaaS
6 14 (4.98%) SaaS
7 12 (4.27%) GCP
8 7 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (1.78%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.78%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.78%) Azure Pipelines
9 5 (1.78%) npm
9 5 (1.78%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.78%) Serverless
10 4 (1.42%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.71%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.54%) Firewall
2 11 (3.91%) WAN
3 9 (3.20%) VPN
4 8 (2.85%) DHCP
4 8 (2.85%) DNS
5 7 (2.49%) SAN
5 7 (2.49%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.78%) NAS
7 4 (1.42%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (1.42%) IPsec
7 4 (1.42%) iSCSI
7 4 (1.42%) Kerberos
7 4 (1.42%) LAN
7 4 (1.42%) SNMP
7 4 (1.42%) SSL
8 2 (0.71%) Network Security
8 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.71%) VLAN
8 2 (0.71%) Wireless
8 2 (0.71%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (2.49%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.14%) MySQL
4 5 (1.78%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.78%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.42%) Power BI
6 1 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.36%) GIS
6 1 (0.36%) Metadata
6 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.36%) QGIS
6 1 (0.36%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (3.91%) Git
2 7 (2.49%) JIRA
3 5 (1.78%) MSTest
3 5 (1.78%) webpack
4 2 (0.71%) GitLab
General
1 83 (29.54%) Finance
2 79 (28.11%) Social Skills
3 46 (16.37%) Legal
4 40 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.47%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (6.41%) Retail
7 14 (4.98%) Environmental Health
8 12 (4.27%) Banking
9 9 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.85%) Automotive
10 8 (2.85%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.49%) Law
12 5 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.42%) Aviation
13 4 (1.42%) Avionics
13 4 (1.42%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.42%) Marketing
14 3 (1.07%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.71%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 63 (22.42%) Analyst
2 39 (13.88%) Security Analyst
3 38 (13.52%) Security Manager
4 36 (12.81%) Senior
5 26 (9.25%) Information Manager
6 25 (8.90%) Information Security Manager
7 23 (8.19%) Lead
8 22 (7.83%) Architect
8 22 (7.83%) Senior Analyst
9 19 (6.76%) Information Analyst
9 19 (6.76%) Information Security Analyst
10 16 (5.69%) Developer
11 14 (4.98%) IT Manager
12 13 (4.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (4.63%) Security Architect
13 10 (3.56%) Governance Analyst
14 8 (2.85%) Cloud Architect
14 8 (2.85%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 8 (2.85%) Penetration Tester
14 8 (2.85%) Security Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.85%) Middleware
2 7 (2.49%) .NET
3 5 (1.78%) .NET Core
3 5 (1.78%) Blazor
3 5 (1.78%) CSS
3 5 (1.78%) HTML
3 5 (1.78%) HTML5
3 5 (1.78%) jQuery
3 5 (1.78%) JSON
3 5 (1.78%) LAMP
3 5 (1.78%) Laravel
3 5 (1.78%) LEMP Stack
3 5 (1.78%) LESS
3 5 (1.78%) React
3 5 (1.78%) Sass
3 5 (1.78%) Vue
3 5 (1.78%) XML
4 3 (1.07%) EDI
5 1 (0.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 87 (30.96%) Management Information System
2 21 (7.47%) Data Centre
3 20 (7.12%) Security Posture
4 14 (4.98%) NHS
5 12 (4.27%) Cyberattack
6 10 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.56%) Security Operations Centre
7 8 (2.85%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.85%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.49%) Freedom of Information
8 7 (2.49%) Taxonomies
9 6 (2.14%) PKI
10 5 (1.78%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.42%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.42%) PMI
11 4 (1.42%) Replication
11 4 (1.42%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.07%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 46 (16.37%) Windows
2 22 (7.83%) Linux
3 9 (3.20%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.85%) Solaris
4 8 (2.85%) Ubuntu
4 8 (2.85%) Unix
5 7 (2.49%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.42%) VMS
6 4 (1.42%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.07%) zOS
8 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.36%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (44.84%) Cybersecurity
2 52 (18.51%) Risk Management
3 51 (18.15%) Project Management
4 50 (17.79%) Data Protection
5 49 (17.44%) Agile
6 46 (16.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (13.52%) Security Operations
8 36 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (10.68%) Coaching
10 28 (9.96%) Incident Response
11 27 (9.61%) Penetration Testing
12 26 (9.25%) ITIL
13 25 (8.90%) Customer Service
13 25 (8.90%) Security Management
14 24 (8.54%) Business Continuity
15 23 (8.19%) Vulnerability Management
16 22 (7.83%) IT Strategy
16 22 (7.83%) Roadmaps
17 20 (7.12%) Identity Access Management
17 20 (7.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (6.76%) SQL
2 18 (6.41%) PowerShell
3 6 (2.14%) PHP
4 5 (1.78%) C#
4 5 (1.78%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.78%) Python
5 2 (0.71%) Java
5 2 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (21.00%) CISSP
2 48 (17.08%) CISM
3 31 (11.03%) Degree
4 20 (7.12%) Azure Certification
5 18 (6.41%) OSCP
6 17 (6.05%) CISA
7 14 (4.98%) CRISC
7 14 (4.98%) Security Cleared
8 13 (4.63%) AWS Certification
9 9 (3.20%) CEH
9 9 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (3.20%) SC Cleared
10 8 (2.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 8 (2.85%) SANS
11 7 (2.49%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.14%) GIAC
13 5 (1.78%) PCI QSA
13 5 (1.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (29.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 51 (18.15%) GDPR
3 47 (16.73%) NIST
4 31 (11.03%) PCI DSS
5 28 (9.96%) GRC
6 22 (7.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (3.56%) QA
8 6 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.78%) COBIT
10 4 (1.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (1.07%) NCSC
11 3 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (1.07%) SLA
12 2 (0.71%) IASME
12 2 (0.71%) ISO 31000
12 2 (0.71%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.71%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.71%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (11.39%) Active Directory
2 13 (4.63%) Hyper-V
2 13 (4.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.56%) RACF
4 4 (1.42%) pfSense
5 3 (1.07%) Docker
6 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (2.14%) WSUS
2 4 (1.42%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.71%) CSIRT
4 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.71%) SCCM
4 2 (0.71%) Terraform
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.36%) Nessus
Vendors
1 50 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.34%) VMware
3 13 (4.63%) Cisco
4 10 (3.56%) CyberArk
4 10 (3.56%) Veeam
5 9 (3.20%) CrowdStrike
6 8 (2.85%) Dell
6 8 (2.85%) Rapid7
7 7 (2.49%) Proofpoint
8 6 (2.14%) HP
9 5 (1.78%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.78%) Meraki
10 4 (1.42%) BroadSoft
10 4 (1.42%) Brocade
10 4 (1.42%) Dell Compellent
10 4 (1.42%) QNAP
10 4 (1.42%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.42%) Ubiquiti
10 4 (1.42%) Zerto
11 3 (1.07%) IBM