OPPORTUNITIES
Cyber security is the fastest growing sector in the Midlands, boosted by the region’s strong position related to advanced manufacturing, automotive, rail and other key industrial sectors. As businesses continue to digitise, their requirements for cyber products and services becomes critical. The Midlands have significant strengths in the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G innovation and Security by Design.
The region also has the largest concentration of business, professional and financial service companies outside of London Including an impressive range of company headquarters, such as; KPMG, HSBC, HS2, Falanx Cyber, JCB, Jaguar Land Rover, Rolls Royce, QinetiQ and IBM. Due to the strong market opportunities, the proximity of other major cities, comparable lower operational costs and the highly skilled talent base, the cyber security sector is growing rapidly.
FinTech
The Midlands is home to the UK’s largest financial service industry outside of London and this is expected to grow by 25% by 2025. With a range of global financial firms, including Deutsche Bank, KPMG, Capital One, Santander, Al -Rayan and PwC, Rapid growth in this sector has been widespread.
Quantum Tech
The UK National Quantum Technologies program promised investment of £270million into the research and development of Quantum Tech, with a vision to create a Government, industry and Quantum tech community. In the final few years of the program, this sparked an emerging industry hotspot in the West Midlands.
Artificial Intelligence
13 Universities in the UK are recognised as Alan Turing academic partner institutions for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Projects in partnership with the Turing Institute include; ‘Baskerville’, a state-of-the-art high performance computing resource for modelling and data analysis and ‘HDRUK-Turing welcome PhD programme’, a unique programme that is training skilled mathematical and computational scientists to work in health data science research.
Mobility and Transport
The opportunity within the transport sector is vast; and due to the Midlands Historic manufacturing and transport industry there is a focus on cyber ‘secure by design’. The National College for High Speed Rail and Coventry University’s centre for Mobility and Transport apply Cyber Security research to transport technologies, including automotive, rail and intelligent infrastructure.
Talent Pool
The heart of England is home to a plethora of centre’s for Higher Academic Achievement - 20 universities producing 100,000 graduates per year and 120 internationally recognised Centres of Excellence. With 15% of midlands universities ranked within the top 100 in the world, the Midlands provides a highly skilled workforce.
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