Cybersecurity Jobs in England

Cybersecurity
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 47 79
Rank change year-on-year +16 +32 -5
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 4,920 5,011 6,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.50% 5.80% 4.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.54% 6.07% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,634 2,732 3,149
10th Percentile £35,920 £37,397 £37,301
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £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 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 75,196 82,567 133,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.05% 95.58% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 54,702 49,145 73,289
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,452 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
London +21 1,410 £72,500 +3.57% 336
South East +22 979 £50,500 -8.18% 152
North of England +10 948 £52,084 -13.19% 211
Midlands +14 705 £55,000 -8.33% 134
South West +6 620 £60,000 -4.00% 139
North West -4 583 £52,084 -15.99% 127
West Midlands +9 511 £55,087 -11.86% 79
Yorkshire +17 270 £50,000 -16.67% 76
East of England +22 211 £50,000 -4.76% 71
East Midlands +14 190 £42,500 -10.53% 55
North East +51 95 £42,500 -3.95% 8
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 221 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 205 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (0.67%) IIS
4 19 (0.39%) Apache
5 15 (0.30%) Confluence
6 10 (0.20%) CMS
7 5 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.10%) Luigi
7 5 (0.10%) Site Server
8 4 (0.081%) CloudStack
8 4 (0.081%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (0.081%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.081%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.041%) nginx
9 2 (0.041%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.041%) WordPress
10 1 (0.020%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.020%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.020%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 199 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
2 87 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.18%) Simulink
7 7 (0.14%) AutoCAD
7 7 (0.14%) Revit
8 4 (0.081%) CANalyzer
8 4 (0.081%) Stateflow
8 4 (0.081%) Windchill
9 3 (0.061%) Trello
10 2 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 16 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
2 5 (0.10%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.081%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.061%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.061%) Primavera
5 2 (0.041%) Infor LN
6 1 (0.020%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.020%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,239 (25.18%) Azure
2 760 (15.45%) Microsoft 365
3 440 (8.94%) Entra ID
4 418 (8.50%) AWS
5 165 (3.35%) SaaS
6 132 (2.68%) GCP
7 118 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
8 98 (1.99%) Power Platform
9 82 (1.67%) PaaS
10 77 (1.57%) IaaS
11 70 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
12 52 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
13 49 (1.00%) OneDrive
14 45 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
15 37 (0.75%) Serverless
16 34 (0.69%) PowerApps
17 33 (0.67%) Power Automate
18 31 (0.63%) GitHub
19 29 (0.59%) Amazon S3
20 28 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 774 (15.73%) Firewall
2 352 (7.15%) Network Security
3 253 (5.14%) WAN
4 244 (4.96%) 5G
5 235 (4.78%) Broadband
6 228 (4.63%) DNS
7 190 (3.86%) TCP/IP
8 173 (3.52%) Wi-Fi
9 166 (3.37%) LAN
10 151 (3.07%) DHCP
11 128 (2.60%) Intrusion Detection
12 123 (2.50%) VPN
13 102 (2.07%) SD-WAN
14 87 (1.77%) Internet
15 84 (1.71%) Wireless
16 78 (1.59%) SAN
17 65 (1.32%) MPLS
18 57 (1.16%) VLAN
19 53 (1.08%) Unified Communications
20 49 (1.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (2.15%) SQL Server
2 86 (1.75%) Power BI
3 46 (0.93%) MySQL
4 34 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (0.61%) Big Data
6 28 (0.57%) MongoDB
6 28 (0.57%) NoSQL
7 27 (0.55%) Relational Database
8 21 (0.43%) Oracle Database
9 19 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (0.30%) Data Lake
11 14 (0.28%) Hadoop
12 11 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (0.16%) Redis
14 6 (0.12%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.12%) SAP HANA
15 5 (0.10%) Bigtable
15 5 (0.10%) RethinkDB
Development Applications
1 72 (1.46%) Jenkins
2 69 (1.40%) JIRA
3 46 (0.93%) Git
4 36 (0.73%) Burp Suite
4 36 (0.73%) Metasploit
5 23 (0.47%) GitLab
6 21 (0.43%) SonarQube
7 19 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
8 17 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
9 13 (0.26%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.18%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.16%) JUnit
11 8 (0.16%) Subversion
12 7 (0.14%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.14%) IntelliJ
13 6 (0.12%) Mockito
13 6 (0.12%) Selenium
14 5 (0.10%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.10%) Gradle
14 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,095 (22.26%) Social Skills
2 800 (16.26%) Finance
3 685 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 533 (10.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 278 (5.65%) Legal
6 262 (5.33%) Law
7 209 (4.25%) Public Sector
8 168 (3.41%) Telecoms
9 150 (3.05%) Banking
10 133 (2.70%) Retail
11 123 (2.50%) Manufacturing
12 115 (2.34%) Marketing
13 105 (2.13%) Aerospace
14 102 (2.07%) Military
15 101 (2.05%) Games
16 97 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
17 74 (1.50%) Automotive
18 70 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
19 63 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
20 45 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 849 (17.26%) Senior
2 654 (13.29%) Analyst
3 396 (8.05%) Lead
4 367 (7.46%) Architect
5 347 (7.05%) Consultant
6 326 (6.63%) Security Analyst
7 293 (5.96%) Security Engineer
8 263 (5.35%) Security Manager
9 256 (5.20%) Security Consultant
10 214 (4.35%) Technical Specialist
11 212 (4.31%) IT Manager
11 212 (4.31%) Linux Specialist
12 208 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 194 (3.94%) Security Architect
14 175 (3.56%) IT Engineer
15 174 (3.54%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 171 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
17 165 (3.35%) IT Support
18 155 (3.15%) Software Engineer
19 152 (3.09%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (1.65%) .NET
2 68 (1.38%) HTML
3 55 (1.12%) CSS
3 55 (1.12%) REST
4 41 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
5 39 (0.79%) Web Services
6 38 (0.77%) OpenID
7 37 (0.75%) JSON
8 35 (0.71%) OAuth
9 33 (0.67%) Node.js
10 29 (0.59%) jQuery
11 24 (0.49%) 802.1X
12 22 (0.45%) React
13 21 (0.43%) AngularJS
13 21 (0.43%) ARM Templates
13 21 (0.43%) Spring Boot
14 20 (0.41%) Middleware
15 18 (0.37%) Kafka
15 18 (0.37%) Laravel
15 18 (0.37%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 548 (11.14%) Management Information System
2 318 (6.46%) Data Centre
3 245 (4.98%) Cyber Threat
4 244 (4.96%) Social Media
5 201 (4.09%) Security Posture
6 184 (3.74%) Operational Technology
7 181 (3.68%) Security Operations Centre
8 168 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
9 153 (3.11%) Cyberattack
10 147 (2.99%) Algorithms
11 118 (2.40%) IoT
12 102 (2.07%) Driving Licence
13 92 (1.87%) Onboarding
14 90 (1.83%) PKI
15 81 (1.65%) Cyber Defence
16 80 (1.63%) Public Cloud
17 67 (1.36%) Cyber Kill Chain
18 64 (1.30%) Private Cloud
18 64 (1.30%) Product Ownership
19 57 (1.16%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 903 (18.35%) Windows
2 601 (12.22%) Linux
3 397 (8.07%) Windows Server
4 238 (4.84%) Ubuntu
5 137 (2.78%) Windows 10
6 81 (1.65%) Apple iOS
7 69 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 65 (1.32%) Android
9 64 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 61 (1.24%) Unix
11 54 (1.10%) Embedded Linux
12 46 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
13 43 (0.87%) Mac OS
14 41 (0.83%) Kali Linux
15 25 (0.51%) Windows 7
16 19 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
17 17 (0.35%) VMS
18 9 (0.18%) Solaris
19 7 (0.14%) CentOS
19 7 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 969 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
2 887 (18.03%) Information Security
3 598 (12.15%) Incident Response
4 579 (11.77%) SIEM
5 523 (10.63%) Mentoring
5 523 (10.63%) Risk Management
6 498 (10.12%) Security Operations
7 475 (9.65%) Computer Science
8 437 (8.88%) Agile
9 415 (8.43%) ITIL
10 368 (7.48%) Coaching
11 349 (7.09%) IT Strategy
12 347 (7.05%) Artificial Intelligence
13 346 (7.03%) Decision-Making
14 340 (6.91%) Penetration Testing
15 334 (6.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 322 (6.54%) Project Management
17 311 (6.32%) Vulnerability Management
18 296 (6.02%) Technology Strategy
19 292 (5.93%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 417 (8.48%) Python
2 394 (8.01%) Bash
3 314 (6.38%) SQL
4 307 (6.24%) PowerShell
5 131 (2.66%) C
6 115 (2.34%) JavaScript
7 112 (2.28%) Java
8 71 (1.44%) C#
9 62 (1.26%) Rust
10 51 (1.04%) Embedded C
11 48 (0.98%) C++
12 27 (0.55%) PHP
13 25 (0.51%) Perl
14 21 (0.43%) TypeScript
15 17 (0.35%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.28%) R
17 13 (0.26%) Go
18 10 (0.20%) MATLAB
18 10 (0.20%) RPG
19 9 (0.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,068 (21.71%) Degree
2 777 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 605 (12.30%) CISSP
4 378 (7.68%) SC Cleared
5 355 (7.22%) CISM
6 222 (4.51%) Cisco Certification
7 207 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 187 (3.80%) DV Cleared
9 164 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 148 (3.01%) CISA
10 148 (3.01%) CRISC
11 144 (2.93%) CCNA
12 113 (2.30%) CEH
13 109 (2.22%) GIAC
14 108 (2.20%) CCNP
15 105 (2.13%) Master's Degree
16 98 (1.99%) Azure Certification
16 98 (1.99%) CompTIA Security+
17 89 (1.81%) CREST Certified
18 73 (1.48%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 675 (13.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 554 (11.26%) NIST
3 313 (6.36%) GDPR
4 274 (5.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 198 (4.02%) GRC
6 192 (3.90%) NCSC
7 150 (3.05%) PCI DSS
8 102 (2.07%) SLA
9 84 (1.71%) Def Stans
10 78 (1.59%) NIST 800
11 76 (1.54%) QA
12 66 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 64 (1.30%) Data Quality
14 56 (1.14%) COBIT
15 49 (1.00%) ISO 9001
16 47 (0.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 44 (0.89%) JSP 440
18 43 (0.87%) SOC 2
19 38 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
20 27 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 823 (16.73%) Active Directory
2 246 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 145 (2.95%) Hyper-V
4 119 (2.42%) Docker
5 54 (1.10%) vSphere
6 45 (0.91%) RACF
7 37 (0.75%) Firmware
8 31 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
9 29 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
10 27 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
11 17 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
12 11 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
13 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 9 (0.18%) Forefront TMG
15 7 (0.14%) Terminal Services
15 7 (0.14%) XenApp
16 5 (0.10%) VMware NSX
17 4 (0.081%) pfSense
17 4 (0.081%) VMware Server
17 4 (0.081%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 390 (7.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 213 (4.33%) Jamf Pro
3 93 (1.89%) Ansible
4 89 (1.81%) Kubernetes
5 74 (1.50%) Terraform
6 43 (0.87%) WSUS
7 42 (0.85%) SCCM
8 39 (0.79%) CASB
9 36 (0.73%) Nessus
10 35 (0.71%) FortiGate
11 32 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
12 31 (0.63%) Stealthwatch
13 30 (0.61%) QRadar
14 27 (0.55%) Puppet
15 26 (0.53%) vCenter Server
16 23 (0.47%) EnCase
17 20 (0.41%) Nagios
18 19 (0.39%) SCOM
19 18 (0.37%) Nmap
20 15 (0.30%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,548 (31.46%) Microsoft
2 348 (7.07%) VMware
3 283 (5.75%) Cisco
4 281 (5.71%) CyberArk
5 238 (4.84%) Tanium
6 174 (3.54%) Apple
7 154 (3.13%) Adobe
8 124 (2.52%) Veeam
9 109 (2.22%) Splunk
10 96 (1.95%) Meraki
11 95 (1.93%) Google
12 87 (1.77%) HP
13 71 (1.44%) Dell
14 58 (1.18%) Juniper
15 54 (1.10%) Qualys
16 52 (1.06%) ServiceNow
17 51 (1.04%) Fortinet
18 44 (0.89%) Citrix
19 42 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
19 42 (0.85%) SolarWinds