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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 46 78
Rank change year-on-year +9 +32 -7
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,449 6,084 7,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.50% 6.06% 4.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.43% 6.34% 4.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,957 3,209 3,663
10th Percentile £35,500 £37,449 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,942 £49,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +5.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,508 £59,526 £58,000
% change year-on-year -11.79% +2.63% +6.13%

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 84,701 95,929 153,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.52% 95.60% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,701 56,502 82,944
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 14 May 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 14 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
England +18 4,889 £57,500 -11.54% 1,122
UK excluding London +7 3,815 £52,508 -11.79% 783
Work from Home +10 1,882 £57,500 -11.54% 564
London +24 1,433 £72,500 +3.57% 352
South East +24 971 £50,500 -8.18% 173
North of England +8 906 £52,084 -13.19% 208
Midlands +16 692 £55,000 -8.33% 138
South West +10 625 £60,000 - 123
North West -1 567 £52,084 -15.99% 115
West Midlands +10 504 £55,000 -12.00% 88
Scotland -54 319 £55,000 -7.60% 50
Yorkshire +14 249 £51,000 -15.00% 76
East of England +20 220 £55,000 +10.00% 69
East Midlands +23 184 £42,500 -10.53% 50
North East +44 90 £42,500 -7.36% 17
Wales -42 51 £52,504 -24.99% 36
Northern Ireland -13 23 £42,500 -20.93% 8
Isle of Man -15 8 £37,500 -16.67% 1
Channel Islands -4 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 (4.62%) SharePoint
2 224 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 40 (0.73%) IIS
4 26 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 19 (0.35%) Apache
6 16 (0.29%) Confluence
7 14 (0.26%) FileNet
8 10 (0.18%) CMS
9 6 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.092%) Site Server
11 4 (0.073%) CloudStack
11 4 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2010
11 4 (0.073%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.055%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.055%) Luigi
12 3 (0.055%) nginx
13 2 (0.037%) MS Project Server
13 2 (0.037%) SharePoint 2013
13 2 (0.037%) WordPress
14 1 (0.018%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 245 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
2 99 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 59 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.17%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.17%) Revit
6 9 (0.17%) Simulink
7 6 (0.11%) Trello
8 5 (0.092%) CANalyzer
9 4 (0.073%) Stateflow
9 4 (0.073%) Windchill
10 2 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 17 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.092%) Dynamics GP
3 5 (0.092%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.073%) SAP WM
5 3 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.055%) Primavera
6 2 (0.037%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.037%) SAP FI-GL
6 2 (0.037%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.018%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.018%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,390 (25.51%) Azure
2 845 (15.51%) Microsoft 365
3 574 (10.53%) AWS
4 430 (7.89%) Entra ID
5 275 (5.05%) SaaS
6 197 (3.62%) GCP
7 133 (2.44%) PaaS
8 131 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
9 118 (2.17%) IaaS
10 103 (1.89%) Power Platform
11 84 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
12 69 (1.27%) Amazon S3
13 56 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
14 52 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
14 52 (0.95%) OneDrive
15 38 (0.70%) Serverless
16 37 (0.68%) GitHub
16 37 (0.68%) Microsoft Purview
16 37 (0.68%) PowerApps
17 35 (0.64%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 832 (15.27%) Firewall
2 368 (6.75%) Network Security
3 262 (4.81%) WAN
4 247 (4.53%) 5G
4 247 (4.53%) DNS
5 235 (4.31%) Broadband
6 218 (4.00%) TCP/IP
7 192 (3.52%) LAN
8 170 (3.12%) Wi-Fi
9 166 (3.05%) DHCP
10 141 (2.59%) VPN
11 135 (2.48%) Intrusion Detection
12 110 (2.02%) SD-WAN
13 93 (1.71%) Wireless
14 92 (1.69%) Internet
15 80 (1.47%) SAN
16 60 (1.10%) MPLS
17 58 (1.06%) VLAN
18 54 (0.99%) Unified Communications
19 51 (0.94%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (2.06%) SQL Server
2 88 (1.61%) Power BI
3 65 (1.19%) NoSQL
4 58 (1.06%) MySQL
5 57 (1.05%) Big Data
5 57 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
6 49 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
7 37 (0.68%) Hadoop
8 31 (0.57%) Data Lake
8 31 (0.57%) Redis
9 30 (0.55%) MongoDB
10 24 (0.44%) Oracle Database
10 24 (0.44%) Relational Database
11 23 (0.42%) Scylla
12 17 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
12 17 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
13 14 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (0.18%) Tableau
16 6 (0.11%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 88 (1.61%) Jenkins
2 74 (1.36%) JIRA
3 59 (1.08%) Git
4 37 (0.68%) Burp Suite
4 37 (0.68%) Metasploit
5 25 (0.46%) JUnit
6 24 (0.44%) GitLab
7 19 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
7 19 (0.35%) SonarQube
8 17 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
9 15 (0.28%) Visual Studio
10 12 (0.22%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.17%) IntelliJ
11 9 (0.17%) Subversion
12 8 (0.15%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.15%) Gradle
12 8 (0.15%) Mockito
13 5 (0.092%) CANoe
13 5 (0.092%) Jaeger
13 5 (0.092%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,356 (24.89%) Social Skills
2 945 (17.34%) Finance
3 719 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
4 680 (12.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 367 (6.74%) Law
6 271 (4.97%) Legal
7 248 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 178 (3.27%) Telecoms
9 154 (2.83%) Marketing
9 154 (2.83%) Retail
10 144 (2.64%) Banking
11 136 (2.50%) Manufacturing
12 131 (2.40%) Games
13 117 (2.15%) Military
14 115 (2.11%) Aerospace
15 112 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
16 95 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
17 73 (1.34%) Automotive
18 65 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
19 63 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 875 (16.06%) Senior
2 693 (12.72%) Analyst
3 443 (8.13%) Architect
4 422 (7.74%) Lead
5 374 (6.86%) Consultant
6 358 (6.57%) Security Analyst
7 319 (5.85%) Security Engineer
8 283 (5.19%) Security Manager
9 277 (5.08%) Software Engineer
10 274 (5.03%) Security Consultant
11 237 (4.35%) IT Manager
12 227 (4.17%) Security Architect
13 214 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 214 (3.93%) Technical Specialist
14 212 (3.89%) Linux Specialist
15 197 (3.62%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 191 (3.51%) IT Engineer
17 174 (3.19%) IT Support
18 160 (2.94%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 158 (2.90%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (1.63%) HTML
2 83 (1.52%) .NET
3 75 (1.38%) CSS
3 75 (1.38%) REST
4 66 (1.21%) Kafka
5 65 (1.19%) Web Services
6 58 (1.06%) JSON
7 56 (1.03%) AngularJS
7 56 (1.03%) OpenID
8 55 (1.01%) React
9 52 (0.95%) Spring
10 51 (0.94%) Node.js
11 49 (0.90%) OAuth
12 43 (0.79%) jQuery
13 40 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
14 37 (0.68%) GraphQL
15 36 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
16 30 (0.55%) Middleware
17 28 (0.51%) RESTful
17 28 (0.51%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 580 (10.64%) Management Information System
2 338 (6.20%) Data Centre
3 283 (5.19%) Cyber Threat
4 255 (4.68%) Social Media
5 228 (4.18%) Security Posture
6 221 (4.06%) Operational Technology
7 198 (3.63%) Algorithms
8 188 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
9 185 (3.40%) Cyberattack
9 185 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
10 147 (2.70%) Public Cloud
11 133 (2.44%) Driving Licence
12 132 (2.42%) IoT
13 124 (2.28%) Onboarding
14 101 (1.85%) Cloud Native
15 98 (1.80%) PKI
16 86 (1.58%) Cyber Defence
17 79 (1.45%) Product Ownership
18 64 (1.17%) Private Cloud
19 61 (1.12%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 1,000 (18.35%) Windows
2 656 (12.04%) Linux
3 430 (7.89%) Windows Server
4 242 (4.44%) Ubuntu
5 147 (2.70%) Windows 10
6 104 (1.91%) Apple iOS
7 97 (1.78%) Unix
8 82 (1.50%) Android
9 72 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
10 64 (1.17%) Mac OS
11 60 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
12 53 (0.97%) Embedded Linux
13 48 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
14 43 (0.79%) Kali Linux
15 25 (0.46%) Windows 7
16 21 (0.39%) Mac OS X
16 21 (0.39%) VMS
17 18 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
18 10 (0.18%) Debian
19 9 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,075 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
2 936 (17.18%) Information Security
3 671 (12.31%) Incident Response
4 616 (11.30%) SIEM
5 555 (10.19%) Mentoring
6 543 (9.97%) Risk Management
7 523 (9.60%) Agile
8 515 (9.45%) Security Operations
9 511 (9.38%) Computer Science
10 461 (8.46%) ITIL
11 457 (8.39%) Artificial Intelligence
12 404 (7.41%) Software Engineering
13 391 (7.18%) IT Strategy
14 371 (6.81%) Penetration Testing
15 367 (6.74%) Vulnerability Management
16 365 (6.70%) Project Management
17 360 (6.61%) Coaching
18 358 (6.57%) Decision-Making
19 349 (6.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 337 (6.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 468 (8.59%) Python
2 423 (7.76%) Bash
3 301 (5.52%) SQL
4 279 (5.12%) PowerShell
5 236 (4.33%) Java
6 149 (2.73%) JavaScript
7 132 (2.42%) C
8 84 (1.54%) C#
9 65 (1.19%) Rust
10 53 (0.97%) C++
11 51 (0.94%) Embedded C
12 47 (0.86%) Go
13 35 (0.64%) TypeScript
14 29 (0.53%) Scala
15 26 (0.48%) PHP
16 23 (0.42%) Perl
17 18 (0.33%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.26%) R
19 13 (0.24%) MATLAB
20 12 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,172 (21.51%) Degree
2 863 (15.84%) Security Cleared
3 675 (12.39%) CISSP
4 436 (8.00%) SC Cleared
5 413 (7.58%) CISM
6 246 (4.51%) Cisco Certification
7 219 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 188 (3.45%) DV Cleared
9 171 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 157 (2.88%) CRISC
11 153 (2.81%) CCNA
12 146 (2.68%) CISA
13 127 (2.33%) Master's Degree
14 121 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
15 120 (2.20%) CEH
16 119 (2.18%) GIAC
17 118 (2.17%) Azure Certification
18 106 (1.95%) CCNP
19 100 (1.84%) CREST Certified
20 86 (1.58%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 740 (13.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 605 (11.10%) NIST
3 342 (6.28%) GDPR
4 311 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 206 (3.78%) GRC
5 206 (3.78%) NCSC
6 160 (2.94%) PCI DSS
7 110 (2.02%) QA
8 106 (1.95%) SLA
9 84 (1.54%) Def Stans
10 80 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 77 (1.41%) NIST 800
12 66 (1.21%) COBIT
13 65 (1.19%) ISO 9001
14 59 (1.08%) Data Quality
15 55 (1.01%) SOC 2
16 50 (0.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 45 (0.83%) JSP 440
18 39 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 36 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 860 (15.78%) Active Directory
2 268 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 151 (2.77%) Hyper-V
4 140 (2.57%) Docker
5 49 (0.90%) vSphere
6 36 (0.66%) Firmware
7 35 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
8 34 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
9 33 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
10 27 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
11 11 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 11 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
12 9 (0.17%) Forefront TMG
13 7 (0.13%) Terminal Services
13 7 (0.13%) XenApp
14 5 (0.092%) VMware NSX
15 4 (0.073%) NFS
15 4 (0.073%) pfSense
15 4 (0.073%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 4 (0.073%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 424 (7.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 214 (3.93%) Jamf Pro
3 155 (2.84%) Kubernetes
4 131 (2.40%) Terraform
5 94 (1.73%) Ansible
6 52 (0.95%) SCCM
7 48 (0.88%) Grafana
7 48 (0.88%) WSUS
8 46 (0.84%) Nessus
9 43 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
10 38 (0.70%) CASB
11 33 (0.61%) FortiGate
12 31 (0.57%) EnCase
13 30 (0.55%) QRadar
14 28 (0.51%) Puppet
15 27 (0.50%) Stealthwatch
15 27 (0.50%) vCenter Server
16 20 (0.37%) Nagios
17 19 (0.35%) SCOM
18 18 (0.33%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1,642 (30.13%) Microsoft
2 363 (6.66%) VMware
3 301 (5.52%) Cisco
4 239 (4.39%) CyberArk
5 237 (4.35%) Tanium
6 179 (3.29%) Apple
7 156 (2.86%) Adobe
8 142 (2.61%) Google
9 140 (2.57%) Splunk
10 132 (2.42%) Dell
11 129 (2.37%) Veeam
12 98 (1.80%) Meraki
13 92 (1.69%) HP
14 83 (1.52%) Oracle
15 62 (1.14%) Qualys
15 62 (1.14%) ServiceNow
16 58 (1.06%) Juniper
17 56 (1.03%) Fortinet
18 55 (1.01%) SAP
19 50 (0.92%) CrowdStrike