Cybersecurity Jobs in the South West

Cybersecurity
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 35 49
Rank change year-on-year +8 +14 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 620 507 491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.38% 7.55% 5.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.82% 7.98% 6.12%
Number of salaries quoted 476 262 250
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £34,075
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £77,188
90th Percentile £97,250 £84,875 £90,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,925 6,357 8,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 81.59% 94.63% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 5,692 3,502 5,073
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,294 £37,908
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% +8.00% +10.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the South West over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the South West region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Bristol +4 280 £68,500 +5.38% 53
Gloucestershire +20 169 £56,250 +2.27% 33
Wiltshire -14 68 £65,000 -10.96% 18
Dorset +8 44 £47,500 -10.38% 13
Devon -6 35 £55,173 +40.43% 5
Somerset -7 21 £48,750 -22.00% 11
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 15 (2.42%) IIS
2 14 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.13%) Apache
5 5 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.81%) Luigi
6 4 (0.65%) Confluence
6 4 (0.65%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.65%) Site Server
7 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 10 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.65%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 87 (14.03%) Azure
2 57 (9.19%) AWS
3 34 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (2.74%) Entra ID
5 16 (2.58%) SaaS
6 14 (2.26%) GCP
7 9 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (0.97%) OneDrive
9 5 (0.81%) PaaS
9 5 (0.81%) Snowflake
10 4 (0.65%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.65%) GitHub
10 4 (0.65%) IaaS
10 4 (0.65%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.48%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (0.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.48%) OCI
11 3 (0.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 66 (10.65%) Network Security
2 57 (9.19%) Firewall
3 21 (3.39%) WAN
4 19 (3.06%) LAN
4 19 (3.06%) VPN
5 18 (2.90%) Wi-Fi
6 15 (2.42%) SD-WAN
7 13 (2.10%) VSAN
8 11 (1.77%) Internet
9 10 (1.61%) TCP/IP
10 9 (1.45%) Cisco IPT
11 7 (1.13%) Wireless
12 6 (0.97%) BGP
12 6 (0.97%) MPLS
12 6 (0.97%) VLAN
12 6 (0.97%) VPLS
13 4 (0.65%) Ethernet
13 4 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.48%) SAN
15 2 (0.32%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.10%) Big Data
2 7 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (0.97%) MongoDB
3 6 (0.97%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.81%) Bigtable
4 5 (0.81%) CouchDB
4 5 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.81%) Redis
4 5 (0.81%) RethinkDB
5 4 (0.65%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.48%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.16%) Power BI
7 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (1.61%) Git
2 9 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.48%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.48%) Cucumber
3 3 (0.48%) Cypress.io
3 3 (0.48%) JIRA
3 3 (0.48%) Selenium
3 3 (0.48%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.32%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.32%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.16%) GCC
5 1 (0.16%) LabVIEW
General
1 119 (19.19%) Social Skills
2 102 (16.45%) Finance
3 67 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (7.74%) Military
5 44 (7.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (5.81%) Aerospace
6 36 (5.81%) Law
7 24 (3.87%) Public Sector
8 20 (3.23%) Banking
9 18 (2.90%) Retail
10 17 (2.74%) Aviation
11 11 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.77%) Legal
12 10 (1.61%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.29%) Games
13 8 (1.29%) Marketing
14 6 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.81%) Electronics
16 3 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 139 (22.42%) Consultant
2 132 (21.29%) Senior
3 126 (20.32%) Security Consultant
4 77 (12.42%) Software Engineer
5 70 (11.29%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 53 (8.55%) Lead
7 51 (8.23%) Analyst
8 50 (8.06%) Embedded Engineer
8 50 (8.06%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 47 (7.58%) Security Manager
10 45 (7.26%) Architect
11 40 (6.45%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 38 (6.13%) Senior Software Engineer
13 36 (5.81%) Security Analyst
13 36 (5.81%) Security Architect
14 32 (5.16%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 32 (5.16%) Information Manager
14 32 (5.16%) Information Security Manager
15 31 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
16 30 (4.84%) Security Assurance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.94%) CSS
1 12 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (1.45%) HTML
2 9 (1.45%) ModSecurity
2 9 (1.45%) Pandas
2 9 (1.45%) React
3 7 (1.13%) .NET
4 6 (0.97%) PySpark
5 5 (0.81%) REST
5 5 (0.81%) SQLAlchemy
6 4 (0.65%) .NET Core
6 4 (0.65%) .NET Framework
6 4 (0.65%) Flash
6 4 (0.65%) Keras
6 4 (0.65%) NumPy
6 4 (0.65%) OpenID
6 4 (0.65%) PyTorch
6 4 (0.65%) scikit-learn
6 4 (0.65%) SpaCy
6 4 (0.65%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.94%) Cyberattack
2 41 (6.61%) Security Operations Centre
3 37 (5.97%) Management Information System
4 29 (4.68%) Cyber Defence
5 21 (3.39%) Data Centre
6 19 (3.06%) Cyber Threat
6 19 (3.06%) Public Cloud
7 16 (2.58%) Operational Technology
8 15 (2.42%) CESG
8 15 (2.42%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 13 (2.10%) Product Ownership
10 11 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.77%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.13%) Reinsurance
13 5 (0.81%) Cloud Native
13 5 (0.81%) Clustering
13 5 (0.81%) Cyber Security Posture
13 5 (0.81%) Private Cloud
13 5 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 101 (16.29%) Linux
2 75 (12.10%) Windows
3 50 (8.06%) Embedded Linux
4 12 (1.94%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.29%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.29%) Unix
6 7 (1.13%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.65%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.32%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.32%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.16%) Android
10 1 (0.16%) VMS
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (19.52%) Risk Management
2 96 (15.48%) Information Assurance
3 90 (14.52%) Information Security
4 85 (13.71%) Software Engineering
5 79 (12.74%) Agile
5 79 (12.74%) Security Operations
6 66 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (10.16%) SIEM
8 60 (9.68%) Mentoring
9 59 (9.52%) Incident Response
10 53 (8.55%) Security Architecture
11 46 (7.42%) Computer Science
12 45 (7.26%) Incident Management
13 43 (6.94%) Penetration Testing
14 40 (6.45%) Project Delivery
14 40 (6.45%) Vulnerability Management
15 39 (6.29%) Coaching
16 38 (6.13%) Stakeholder Management
17 37 (5.97%) Machine Learning
18 35 (5.65%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 137 (22.10%) Python
2 96 (15.48%) Bash
3 69 (11.13%) C
4 53 (8.55%) Rust
5 50 (8.06%) Embedded C
6 35 (5.65%) SQL
7 21 (3.39%) Java
8 20 (3.23%) PowerShell
9 17 (2.74%) JavaScript
10 15 (2.42%) C#
11 14 (2.26%) C++
12 5 (0.81%) Perl
12 5 (0.81%) R
12 5 (0.81%) Scala
13 1 (0.16%) Go
13 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.16%) PHP
13 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 283 (45.65%) Security Cleared
2 120 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 96 (15.48%) CISSP
4 79 (12.74%) Degree
4 79 (12.74%) DV Cleared
5 75 (12.10%) CISM
6 53 (8.55%) CRISC
7 37 (5.97%) CESG Certified Professional
8 33 (5.32%) CISA
9 20 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (2.90%) Master's Degree
11 17 (2.74%) CISMP
12 15 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (1.94%) IISP
14 11 (1.77%) CHECK Team Member
14 11 (1.77%) CompTIA CySA+
14 11 (1.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 11 (1.77%) OSCP
15 10 (1.61%) CEH
15 10 (1.61%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (15.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 90 (14.52%) NIST
3 45 (7.26%) NCSC
4 37 (5.97%) JSP 440
5 30 (4.84%) NIST 800
6 27 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (3.55%) GDPR
8 17 (2.74%) PCI DSS
9 16 (2.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 14 (2.26%) RMADS
11 13 (2.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 10 (1.61%) Accessibility
13 8 (1.29%) GRC
14 7 (1.13%) DO-254
14 7 (1.13%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.81%) SOC 1
16 4 (0.65%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.65%) JTAG
17 3 (0.48%) Data Quality
System Software
1 33 (5.32%) Active Directory
2 30 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.03%) vSphere
4 17 (2.74%) Docker
5 8 (1.29%) Firmware
5 8 (1.29%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.81%) RACF
7 4 (0.65%) NFS
7 4 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 4 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.48%) Forefront TMG
8 3 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (3.71%) Ansible
2 20 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.90%) WSUS
4 15 (2.42%) Puppet
5 13 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (2.10%) vCenter Server
6 12 (1.94%) CASB
7 9 (1.45%) Terraform
8 5 (0.81%) Nagios
9 4 (0.65%) Grafana
10 3 (0.48%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.48%) SCOM
11 2 (0.32%) Nmap
11 2 (0.32%) SCCM
12 1 (0.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 81 (13.06%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.16%) VMware
3 25 (4.03%) Cisco
4 12 (1.94%) SolarWinds
4 12 (1.94%) Tanium
4 12 (1.94%) Tripwire
5 10 (1.61%) Google
6 8 (1.29%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.13%) Databricks
8 6 (0.97%) Apple
8 6 (0.97%) Juniper
8 6 (0.97%) PagerDuty
9 5 (0.81%) CyberArk
9 5 (0.81%) Splunk
10 4 (0.65%) Dataiku
10 4 (0.65%) Intel
10 4 (0.65%) Mentor Graphics
10 4 (0.65%) Siemens
10 4 (0.65%) Xilinx
11 3 (0.48%) Veracode