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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 45 80
Rank change year-on-year +8 +35 -9
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,430 5,976 7,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.38% 6.07% 4.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.35% 6.35% 4.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,916 3,173 3,671
10th Percentile £35,566 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £44,250 £48,825 £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 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £59,526 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.80% +3.52% +4.55%

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 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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% +10.53%

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 23 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 23 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 +17 4,874 £57,500 -11.54% 1,218
UK excluding London +7 3,822 £52,500 -11.80% 923
Work from Home +10 1,897 £57,500 -12.88% 548
London +22 1,410 £72,500 +3.57% 453
South East +24 971 £50,500 -8.18% 286
North of England +11 924 £52,084 -13.19% 213
Midlands +17 698 £55,000 -8.33% 130
South West +9 621 £60,000 -4.00% 142
North West -2 572 £52,084 -15.99% 126
West Midlands +13 505 £55,000 -12.00% 74
Scotland -54 316 £52,500 -11.80% 51
Yorkshire +15 257 £51,000 -15.00% 78
East of England +20 207 £52,000 -0.95% 84
East Midlands +29 189 £42,500 -10.53% 55
North East +51 95 £42,500 -3.68% 9
Wales -40 52 £52,500 -25.00% 23
Northern Ireland -13 25 £42,500 -19.05% 15
Isle of Man -12 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
1 250 (4.60%) SharePoint
2 219 (4.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 37 (0.68%) IIS
4 22 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 21 (0.39%) 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%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.092%) Luigi
10 5 (0.092%) Site Server
11 4 (0.074%) CloudStack
11 4 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2010
11 4 (0.074%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.055%) nginx
13 2 (0.037%) SharePoint 2013
13 2 (0.037%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.037%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.037%) WordPress
Applications
1 225 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
2 92 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 49 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.17%) Simulink
7 8 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.15%) Revit
8 6 (0.11%) Trello
9 5 (0.092%) CANalyzer
10 4 (0.074%) Stateflow
10 4 (0.074%) Windchill
11 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 (0.074%) SAP WM
5 3 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.055%) Primavera
6 2 (0.037%) Infor LN
7 1 (0.018%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.018%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.018%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 1,369 (25.21%) Azure
2 827 (15.23%) Microsoft 365
3 557 (10.26%) AWS
4 470 (8.66%) Entra ID
5 252 (4.64%) SaaS
6 187 (3.44%) GCP
7 135 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
8 125 (2.30%) PaaS
9 111 (2.04%) IaaS
10 105 (1.93%) Power Platform
11 82 (1.51%) Azure Sentinel
12 65 (1.20%) Amazon S3
13 57 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
14 52 (0.96%) OneDrive
15 49 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
16 38 (0.70%) GitHub
16 38 (0.70%) PowerApps
17 37 (0.68%) Serverless
18 35 (0.64%) Datadog
18 35 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 823 (15.16%) Firewall
2 376 (6.92%) Network Security
3 263 (4.84%) WAN
4 245 (4.51%) 5G
5 236 (4.35%) DNS
6 235 (4.33%) Broadband
7 207 (3.81%) TCP/IP
8 188 (3.46%) LAN
9 170 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
10 155 (2.85%) DHCP
11 133 (2.45%) VPN
12 132 (2.43%) Intrusion Detection
13 108 (1.99%) SD-WAN
14 93 (1.71%) Internet
15 92 (1.69%) Wireless
16 79 (1.45%) SAN
17 63 (1.16%) MPLS
18 58 (1.07%) VLAN
19 55 (1.01%) Unified Communications
20 48 (0.88%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (2.03%) SQL Server
2 89 (1.64%) Power BI
3 58 (1.07%) MySQL
4 56 (1.03%) NoSQL
5 54 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
6 53 (0.98%) Big Data
7 40 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
8 33 (0.61%) Hadoop
9 29 (0.53%) Redis
10 27 (0.50%) MongoDB
11 24 (0.44%) Oracle Database
11 24 (0.44%) Relational Database
12 23 (0.42%) Data Lake
13 20 (0.37%) Scylla
14 18 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
15 16 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
16 14 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
17 11 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
18 8 (0.15%) Tableau
19 6 (0.11%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 85 (1.57%) Jenkins
2 74 (1.36%) JIRA
3 52 (0.96%) Git
4 36 (0.66%) Burp Suite
4 36 (0.66%) Metasploit
5 24 (0.44%) GitLab
6 22 (0.41%) JUnit
7 20 (0.37%) SonarQube
8 19 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
9 17 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
10 14 (0.26%) Visual Studio
11 10 (0.18%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.15%) Subversion
13 7 (0.13%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.13%) IntelliJ
14 6 (0.11%) Mockito
15 5 (0.092%) CANoe
15 5 (0.092%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.092%) Gradle
15 5 (0.092%) Selenium
General
1 1,318 (24.27%) Social Skills
2 974 (17.94%) Finance
3 721 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
4 680 (12.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 364 (6.70%) Law
6 309 (5.69%) Legal
7 237 (4.36%) Public Sector
8 183 (3.37%) Banking
9 178 (3.28%) Telecoms
10 151 (2.78%) Retail
11 148 (2.73%) Marketing
12 142 (2.62%) Manufacturing
13 125 (2.30%) Games
14 117 (2.15%) Military
15 112 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
16 109 (2.01%) Aerospace
17 89 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
18 75 (1.38%) Automotive
19 63 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
20 54 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 919 (16.92%) Senior
2 718 (13.22%) Analyst
3 437 (8.05%) Architect
4 431 (7.94%) Lead
5 368 (6.78%) Consultant
6 353 (6.50%) Security Analyst
7 328 (6.04%) Security Engineer
8 280 (5.16%) Security Manager
9 267 (4.92%) Security Consultant
10 265 (4.88%) Software Engineer
11 234 (4.31%) IT Manager
12 229 (4.22%) Security Architect
13 214 (3.94%) Technical Specialist
14 213 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 212 (3.90%) Linux Specialist
16 193 (3.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 188 (3.46%) IT Engineer
18 182 (3.35%) Senior Analyst
19 177 (3.26%) IT Support
20 158 (2.91%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (1.58%) HTML
2 83 (1.53%) .NET
3 73 (1.34%) CSS
3 73 (1.34%) REST
4 64 (1.18%) Web Services
5 63 (1.16%) Kafka
6 58 (1.07%) AngularJS
7 54 (0.99%) JSON
8 53 (0.98%) React
9 52 (0.96%) Node.js
10 48 (0.88%) Spring
11 47 (0.87%) OAuth
12 46 (0.85%) OpenID
13 43 (0.79%) jQuery
14 40 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
15 36 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
16 34 (0.63%) GraphQL
17 32 (0.59%) Middleware
18 27 (0.50%) RESTful
19 26 (0.48%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 623 (11.47%) Management Information System
2 341 (6.28%) Data Centre
3 276 (5.08%) Cyber Threat
4 255 (4.70%) Social Media
5 222 (4.09%) Operational Technology
5 222 (4.09%) Security Posture
6 195 (3.59%) Algorithms
7 188 (3.46%) Security Operations Centre
8 187 (3.44%) Cyberattack
9 184 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
10 145 (2.67%) Public Cloud
11 132 (2.43%) IoT
12 123 (2.27%) Driving Licence
13 121 (2.23%) Onboarding
14 95 (1.75%) PKI
15 94 (1.73%) Cloud Native
16 87 (1.60%) Cyber Defence
17 76 (1.40%) Product Ownership
18 65 (1.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
19 64 (1.18%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 976 (17.97%) Windows
2 645 (11.88%) Linux
3 417 (7.68%) Windows Server
4 242 (4.46%) Ubuntu
5 143 (2.63%) Windows 10
6 98 (1.80%) Apple iOS
7 92 (1.69%) Unix
8 80 (1.47%) Android
9 71 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 65 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 57 (1.05%) Mac OS
12 53 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
13 45 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
14 41 (0.76%) Kali Linux
15 25 (0.46%) Windows 7
16 21 (0.39%) VMS
17 20 (0.37%) Mac OS X
18 19 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
19 10 (0.18%) Debian
20 9 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,060 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
2 969 (17.85%) Information Security
3 657 (12.10%) Incident Response
4 612 (11.27%) SIEM
5 559 (10.29%) Risk Management
6 554 (10.20%) Agile
7 548 (10.09%) Mentoring
7 548 (10.09%) Security Operations
8 512 (9.43%) Computer Science
9 456 (8.40%) ITIL
10 447 (8.23%) Artificial Intelligence
11 406 (7.48%) Coaching
12 392 (7.22%) Software Engineering
13 383 (7.05%) IT Strategy
14 372 (6.85%) Roadmaps
15 367 (6.76%) Penetration Testing
16 363 (6.69%) Project Management
17 362 (6.67%) Decision-Making
17 362 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management
18 348 (6.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 462 (8.51%) Python
2 415 (7.64%) Bash
3 347 (6.39%) SQL
4 320 (5.89%) PowerShell
5 227 (4.18%) Java
6 144 (2.65%) JavaScript
7 132 (2.43%) C
8 80 (1.47%) C#
9 65 (1.20%) Rust
10 51 (0.94%) Embedded C
11 49 (0.90%) C++
12 43 (0.79%) Go
13 35 (0.64%) TypeScript
14 27 (0.50%) PHP
15 25 (0.46%) Scala
16 23 (0.42%) Perl
17 19 (0.35%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.26%) R
19 12 (0.22%) Ruby
20 11 (0.20%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,161 (21.38%) Degree
2 844 (15.54%) Security Cleared
3 667 (12.28%) CISSP
4 432 (7.96%) SC Cleared
5 410 (7.55%) CISM
6 241 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
7 219 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 187 (3.44%) DV Cleared
9 165 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 155 (2.85%) CCNA
11 150 (2.76%) CRISC
12 148 (2.73%) CISA
13 124 (2.28%) Master's Degree
14 119 (2.19%) CEH
15 118 (2.17%) GIAC
16 115 (2.12%) Azure Certification
17 108 (1.99%) CCNP
17 108 (1.99%) CompTIA Security+
18 101 (1.86%) CREST Certified
19 86 (1.58%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 721 (13.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 601 (11.07%) NIST
3 332 (6.11%) GDPR
4 302 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 206 (3.79%) NCSC
6 205 (3.78%) GRC
7 161 (2.97%) PCI DSS
8 105 (1.93%) SLA
9 96 (1.77%) QA
10 84 (1.55%) Def Stans
11 82 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 78 (1.44%) NIST 800
13 70 (1.29%) COBIT
14 62 (1.14%) Data Quality
15 56 (1.03%) ISO 9001
16 49 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 48 (0.88%) SOC 2
18 44 (0.81%) JSP 440
19 40 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
20 29 (0.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 878 (16.17%) Active Directory
2 254 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 146 (2.69%) Hyper-V
4 131 (2.41%) Docker
5 51 (0.94%) vSphere
6 48 (0.88%) RACF
7 36 (0.66%) Firmware
8 33 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
9 30 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
9 30 (0.55%) 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 6 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 6 (0.11%) XenApp
14 5 (0.092%) VMware NSX
15 4 (0.074%) NFS
15 4 (0.074%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 4 (0.074%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 413 (7.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 214 (3.94%) Jamf Pro
3 153 (2.82%) Kubernetes
4 130 (2.39%) Terraform
5 95 (1.75%) Ansible
6 52 (0.96%) SCCM
7 47 (0.87%) Grafana
7 47 (0.87%) WSUS
8 45 (0.83%) Nessus
9 42 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
10 39 (0.72%) CASB
11 35 (0.64%) FortiGate
12 30 (0.55%) QRadar
13 28 (0.52%) Stealthwatch
14 26 (0.48%) Puppet
14 26 (0.48%) vCenter Server
15 24 (0.44%) EnCase
16 20 (0.37%) Nagios
17 19 (0.35%) SCOM
18 18 (0.33%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1,656 (30.50%) Microsoft
2 353 (6.50%) VMware
3 297 (5.47%) Cisco
4 287 (5.29%) CyberArk
5 237 (4.36%) Tanium
6 176 (3.24%) Apple
7 152 (2.80%) Adobe
8 139 (2.56%) Google
8 139 (2.56%) Splunk
9 126 (2.32%) Veeam
10 122 (2.25%) Dell
11 96 (1.77%) Meraki
12 89 (1.64%) HP
13 80 (1.47%) Oracle
14 60 (1.10%) Juniper
15 58 (1.07%) Qualys
16 56 (1.03%) ServiceNow
17 55 (1.01%) Fortinet
18 51 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
19 49 (0.90%) SAP