Cybersecurity Jobs

Cybersecurity
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 42 79
Rank change year-on-year +5 +37 -7
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,498 5,820 7,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.22% 6.14% 4.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.25% 6.43% 4.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,949 3,128 3,718
10th Percentile £35,450 £37,500 £37,200
25th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,813 £82,970
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £59,526 £57,750
% change year-on-year -11.80% +3.08% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +14 4,932 £57,500 -11.54% 1,169
UK excluding London +3 3,885 £52,500 -11.80% 802
Work from Home +7 1,907 £57,500 -11.54% 527
London +18 1,408 £72,500 +3.57% 390
South East +21 981 £50,500 -8.27% 166
North of England +7 955 £52,084 -13.19% 226
Midlands +11 708 £55,000 -6.38% 139
South West +3 623 £60,000 -4.00% 136
North West -8 586 £52,084 -15.99% 150
West Midlands +7 516 £55,087 -11.86% 86
Scotland -56 317 £51,000 -14.32% 52
Yorkshire +20 274 £50,000 -16.67% 69
East of England +12 210 £50,000 -4.76% 61
East Midlands +20 189 £42,500 -10.53% 52
North East +43 95 £42,500 -3.95% 7
Wales -39 54 £52,500 -25.00% 21
Northern Ireland -12 28 £42,500 -22.73% 16
Isle of Man -14 8 £37,500 -16.67% 1
Channel Islands -3 1 £100,000 -13.04% 1

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 252 (4.58%) SharePoint
2 219 (3.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 36 (0.65%) IIS
4 21 (0.38%) Apache
5 16 (0.29%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.29%) Confluence
6 14 (0.25%) FileNet
7 10 (0.18%) CMS
8 6 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.091%) Luigi
9 5 (0.091%) Site Server
10 4 (0.073%) CloudStack
10 4 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2010
10 4 (0.073%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.055%) WordPress
12 2 (0.036%) nginx
12 2 (0.036%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.036%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.036%) WebSphere
Applications
1 223 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
2 95 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.15%) Simulink
7 7 (0.13%) AutoCAD
7 7 (0.13%) Revit
8 6 (0.11%) Trello
9 4 (0.073%) CANalyzer
9 4 (0.073%) Stateflow
9 4 (0.073%) Windchill
10 2 (0.036%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 17 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.091%) Dynamics GP
3 5 (0.091%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.073%) SAP WM
5 3 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.055%) Primavera
6 2 (0.036%) Infor LN
7 1 (0.018%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,385 (25.19%) Azure
2 838 (15.24%) Microsoft 365
3 548 (9.97%) AWS
4 473 (8.60%) Entra ID
5 223 (4.06%) SaaS
6 165 (3.00%) GCP
7 137 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
8 108 (1.96%) PaaS
9 106 (1.93%) Power Platform
10 101 (1.84%) IaaS
11 84 (1.53%) Azure Sentinel
12 58 (1.05%) Amazon S3
13 57 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
14 53 (0.96%) OneDrive
15 50 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
16 40 (0.73%) PowerApps
17 37 (0.67%) Serverless
18 36 (0.65%) GitHub
19 35 (0.64%) Datadog
20 34 (0.62%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 831 (15.11%) Firewall
2 379 (6.89%) Network Security
3 273 (4.97%) WAN
4 244 (4.44%) 5G
5 237 (4.31%) DNS
6 235 (4.27%) Broadband
7 208 (3.78%) TCP/IP
8 196 (3.56%) LAN
9 171 (3.11%) Wi-Fi
10 157 (2.86%) DHCP
11 135 (2.46%) VPN
12 133 (2.42%) Intrusion Detection
13 111 (2.02%) SD-WAN
14 92 (1.67%) Internet
14 92 (1.67%) Wireless
15 77 (1.40%) SAN
16 65 (1.18%) MPLS
17 60 (1.09%) VLAN
18 55 (1.00%) Unified Communications
19 50 (0.91%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (2.04%) SQL Server
2 89 (1.62%) Power BI
3 61 (1.11%) MySQL
4 55 (1.00%) NoSQL
5 50 (0.91%) Big Data
6 47 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
7 35 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (0.51%) Hadoop
8 28 (0.51%) Relational Database
9 27 (0.49%) MongoDB
10 23 (0.42%) Oracle Database
10 23 (0.42%) Redis
11 19 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (0.33%) Data Lake
13 16 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
14 14 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (0.25%) Scylla
15 11 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.11%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.11%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 78 (1.42%) Jenkins
2 76 (1.38%) JIRA
3 53 (0.96%) Git
4 35 (0.64%) Burp Suite
4 35 (0.64%) Metasploit
5 24 (0.44%) GitLab
6 22 (0.40%) JUnit
7 21 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 19 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
9 17 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
10 13 (0.24%) Visual Studio
11 10 (0.18%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.15%) Selenium
12 8 (0.15%) Subversion
13 7 (0.13%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.13%) IntelliJ
14 6 (0.11%) Mockito
15 5 (0.091%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.091%) Gradle
15 5 (0.091%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,316 (23.94%) Social Skills
2 972 (17.68%) Finance
3 724 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
4 673 (12.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 357 (6.49%) Law
6 305 (5.55%) Legal
7 240 (4.37%) Public Sector
8 180 (3.27%) Telecoms
9 176 (3.20%) Banking
10 150 (2.73%) Retail
11 145 (2.64%) Marketing
12 142 (2.58%) Manufacturing
13 121 (2.20%) Games
14 114 (2.07%) Military
15 113 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
16 103 (1.87%) Aerospace
17 84 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
18 74 (1.35%) Automotive
19 63 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
20 51 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 936 (17.02%) Senior
2 722 (13.13%) Analyst
3 451 (8.20%) Lead
4 447 (8.13%) Architect
5 378 (6.88%) Consultant
6 352 (6.40%) Security Analyst
7 331 (6.02%) Security Engineer
8 283 (5.15%) Security Manager
9 274 (4.98%) Security Consultant
10 258 (4.69%) Software Engineer
11 239 (4.35%) IT Manager
12 237 (4.31%) Security Architect
13 219 (3.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 214 (3.89%) Technical Specialist
15 211 (3.84%) Linux Specialist
16 193 (3.51%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 191 (3.47%) IT Engineer
18 182 (3.31%) IT Support
19 181 (3.29%) Senior Analyst
20 166 (3.02%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (1.62%) HTML
2 84 (1.53%) .NET
3 76 (1.38%) CSS
4 75 (1.36%) REST
5 62 (1.13%) AngularJS
6 60 (1.09%) Kafka
7 59 (1.07%) Web Services
8 58 (1.05%) Node.js
9 54 (0.98%) React
10 51 (0.93%) JSON
11 48 (0.87%) Spring
12 44 (0.80%) jQuery
13 43 (0.78%) OAuth
14 42 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
15 40 (0.73%) OpenID
16 36 (0.65%) OpenTelemetry
17 28 (0.51%) GraphQL
18 27 (0.49%) RESTful
19 25 (0.45%) Middleware
19 25 (0.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 627 (11.40%) Management Information System
2 345 (6.28%) Data Centre
3 277 (5.04%) Cyber Threat
4 254 (4.62%) Social Media
5 222 (4.04%) Security Posture
6 218 (3.97%) Operational Technology
7 191 (3.47%) Algorithms
7 191 (3.47%) Security Operations Centre
8 188 (3.42%) Cyberattack
9 186 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
10 137 (2.49%) Public Cloud
11 132 (2.40%) IoT
12 123 (2.24%) Driving Licence
13 120 (2.18%) Onboarding
14 89 (1.62%) Cloud Native
14 89 (1.62%) Cyber Defence
14 89 (1.62%) PKI
15 72 (1.31%) Product Ownership
16 71 (1.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
17 64 (1.16%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 971 (17.66%) Windows
2 638 (11.60%) Linux
3 418 (7.60%) Windows Server
4 242 (4.40%) Ubuntu
5 143 (2.60%) Windows 10
6 95 (1.73%) Apple iOS
7 89 (1.62%) Unix
8 78 (1.42%) Android
9 70 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 67 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
11 54 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
12 48 (0.87%) Mac OS
13 45 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
14 40 (0.73%) Kali Linux
15 25 (0.45%) Windows 7
16 22 (0.40%) VMS
17 19 (0.35%) Mac OS X
17 19 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
18 10 (0.18%) Debian
19 9 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,054 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
2 974 (17.72%) Information Security
3 665 (12.10%) Incident Response
4 617 (11.22%) SIEM
5 576 (10.48%) Risk Management
6 552 (10.04%) Mentoring
7 547 (9.95%) Agile
8 545 (9.91%) Security Operations
9 511 (9.29%) Computer Science
10 458 (8.33%) ITIL
11 447 (8.13%) Artificial Intelligence
12 407 (7.40%) Coaching
13 391 (7.11%) Software Engineering
14 387 (7.04%) IT Strategy
15 370 (6.73%) Decision-Making
16 368 (6.69%) Project Management
17 364 (6.62%) Roadmaps
18 362 (6.58%) Penetration Testing
19 361 (6.57%) Vulnerability Management
20 354 (6.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 462 (8.40%) Python
2 408 (7.42%) Bash
3 362 (6.58%) SQL
4 327 (5.95%) PowerShell
5 218 (3.97%) Java
6 143 (2.60%) JavaScript
7 132 (2.40%) C
8 77 (1.40%) C#
9 65 (1.18%) Rust
10 54 (0.98%) C++
11 51 (0.93%) Embedded C
12 40 (0.73%) Go
13 35 (0.64%) TypeScript
14 32 (0.58%) PHP
15 25 (0.45%) Perl
16 19 (0.35%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.35%) Scala
17 14 (0.25%) R
18 10 (0.18%) RPG
18 10 (0.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,171 (21.30%) Degree
2 851 (15.48%) Security Cleared
3 670 (12.19%) CISSP
4 431 (7.84%) SC Cleared
5 410 (7.46%) CISM
6 245 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
7 220 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 191 (3.47%) DV Cleared
9 167 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 162 (2.95%) CCNA
11 151 (2.75%) CRISC
12 150 (2.73%) CISA
13 122 (2.22%) Master's Degree
14 120 (2.18%) GIAC
15 119 (2.16%) CEH
16 118 (2.15%) Azure Certification
17 114 (2.07%) CCNP
18 107 (1.95%) CompTIA Security+
19 101 (1.84%) CREST Certified
20 86 (1.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 714 (12.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 600 (10.91%) NIST
3 334 (6.07%) GDPR
4 310 (5.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 210 (3.82%) NCSC
6 202 (3.67%) GRC
7 153 (2.78%) PCI DSS
8 108 (1.96%) SLA
9 99 (1.80%) QA
10 84 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 84 (1.53%) Def Stans
11 80 (1.46%) NIST 800
12 65 (1.18%) COBIT
13 61 (1.11%) Data Quality
14 54 (0.98%) ISO 9001
15 47 (0.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 47 (0.85%) SOC 2
16 44 (0.80%) JSP 440
17 41 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 29 (0.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 882 (16.04%) Active Directory
2 253 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 148 (2.69%) Hyper-V
4 127 (2.31%) Docker
5 55 (1.00%) vSphere
6 50 (0.91%) RACF
7 37 (0.67%) Firmware
8 32 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
9 29 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
10 27 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
11 26 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
12 11 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 11 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
13 9 (0.16%) Forefront TMG
14 7 (0.13%) Terminal Services
14 7 (0.13%) XenApp
15 5 (0.091%) VMware NSX
16 4 (0.073%) pfSense
16 4 (0.073%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 4 (0.073%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 412 (7.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 214 (3.89%) Jamf Pro
3 146 (2.66%) Kubernetes
4 125 (2.27%) Terraform
5 99 (1.80%) Ansible
6 54 (0.98%) SCCM
7 49 (0.89%) WSUS
8 47 (0.85%) Grafana
9 45 (0.82%) Nessus
10 39 (0.71%) CASB
10 39 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
11 36 (0.65%) FortiGate
12 33 (0.60%) Stealthwatch
13 30 (0.55%) QRadar
14 26 (0.47%) Puppet
15 25 (0.45%) vCenter Server
16 23 (0.42%) EnCase
17 19 (0.35%) SCOM
18 18 (0.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
18 18 (0.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1,669 (30.36%) Microsoft
2 358 (6.51%) VMware
3 306 (5.57%) Cisco
4 291 (5.29%) CyberArk
5 239 (4.35%) Tanium
6 179 (3.26%) Apple
7 154 (2.80%) Adobe
8 140 (2.55%) Splunk
9 128 (2.33%) Google
10 123 (2.24%) Veeam
11 112 (2.04%) Dell
12 104 (1.89%) Meraki
13 88 (1.60%) HP
14 77 (1.40%) Oracle
15 60 (1.09%) Juniper
16 59 (1.07%) Qualys
17 57 (1.04%) ServiceNow
18 55 (1.00%) Fortinet
19 53 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
20 46 (0.84%) Citrix