Cybersecurity Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 38 43 52
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 +14
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 3,868 3,727 3,890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.19% 6.42% 5.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.30% 6.72% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,759 1,761 1,877
10th Percentile £34,823 £33,090 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,526 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% +3.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £89,424
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,416 55,447 69,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.37% 95.57% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 42,187 28,710 41,237
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the UK excluding London 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
South East +22 979 £50,500 -8.18% 149
North of England +10 948 £52,084 -13.19% 216
Midlands +14 705 £55,000 -8.33% 131
South West +6 620 £60,000 -4.00% 139
North West -4 583 £52,084 -15.99% 133
West Midlands +9 511 £55,087 -11.86% 76
Scotland -56 318 £51,750 -13.06% 52
Yorkshire +17 270 £50,000 -16.67% 75
East of England +22 211 £50,000 -4.76% 70
East Midlands +14 190 £42,500 -10.53% 55
North East +51 95 £42,500 -3.95% 8
Wales -44 52 £52,500 -25.00% 24
Northern Ireland -13 27 £42,500 -22.73% 12
Isle of Man -13 8 £37,500 -16.67% 1
Channel Islands -3 1 £100,000 -13.04% 1
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 175 (4.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 174 (4.50%) SharePoint
3 28 (0.72%) IIS
4 16 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.36%) FileNet
6 12 (0.31%) Confluence
7 11 (0.28%) Apache
8 8 (0.21%) CMS
9 5 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.13%) Luigi
9 5 (0.13%) Site Server
10 4 (0.10%) CloudStack
10 4 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2010
10 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.052%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.052%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.026%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 165 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 66 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.26%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.23%) Simulink
6 4 (0.10%) CANalyzer
6 4 (0.10%) Stateflow
6 4 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
3 5 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.10%) SAP WM
5 3 (0.078%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.052%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.052%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 852 (22.03%) Azure
2 605 (15.64%) Microsoft 365
3 365 (9.44%) AWS
4 266 (6.88%) Entra ID
5 153 (3.96%) SaaS
6 98 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
7 85 (2.20%) GCP
8 67 (1.73%) Power Platform
9 56 (1.45%) PaaS
10 51 (1.32%) IaaS
11 50 (1.29%) Azure Sentinel
12 49 (1.27%) Amazon S3
12 49 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
13 48 (1.24%) OneDrive
14 36 (0.93%) PowerApps
15 35 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
16 32 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 32 (0.83%) Datadog
17 30 (0.78%) Power Automate
18 25 (0.65%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 537 (13.88%) Firewall
2 231 (5.97%) Network Security
3 200 (5.17%) WAN
4 150 (3.88%) DNS
5 144 (3.72%) TCP/IP
6 121 (3.13%) DHCP
6 121 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
7 120 (3.10%) LAN
8 95 (2.46%) VPN
9 90 (2.33%) 5G
10 86 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
11 83 (2.15%) SD-WAN
12 77 (1.99%) Broadband
13 59 (1.53%) SAN
14 53 (1.37%) Internet
15 48 (1.24%) MPLS
15 48 (1.24%) Wireless
16 45 (1.16%) VLAN
17 38 (0.98%) VoIP
18 33 (0.85%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (1.89%) SQL Server
2 54 (1.40%) Power BI
3 52 (1.34%) NoSQL
4 46 (1.19%) MySQL
5 44 (1.14%) Big Data
6 37 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (0.59%) Hadoop
9 22 (0.57%) Redis
10 20 (0.52%) Relational Database
11 18 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
12 16 (0.41%) Scylla
13 14 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (0.36%) Data Lake
14 13 (0.34%) MongoDB
15 11 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (0.21%) Tableau
17 5 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
17 5 (0.13%) Bigtable
17 5 (0.13%) RethinkDB
Development Applications
1 48 (1.24%) JIRA
2 40 (1.03%) Git
3 25 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 22 (0.57%) JUnit
5 21 (0.54%) GitLab
6 19 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
7 18 (0.47%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.34%) Visual Studio
9 9 (0.23%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.21%) Burp Suite
11 6 (0.16%) IntelliJ
11 6 (0.16%) Mockito
11 6 (0.16%) Subversion
12 5 (0.13%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.13%) Gradle
12 5 (0.13%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.10%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.10%) CANoe
13 4 (0.10%) Rational Team Concert
13 4 (0.10%) Selenium
General
1 891 (23.04%) Social Skills
2 590 (15.25%) Finance
3 451 (11.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 388 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
5 250 (6.46%) Law
6 171 (4.42%) Legal
7 149 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 131 (3.39%) Telecoms
9 123 (3.18%) Manufacturing
10 101 (2.61%) Military
11 99 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
12 98 (2.53%) Retail
13 95 (2.46%) Banking
14 88 (2.28%) Aerospace
15 78 (2.02%) Marketing
16 76 (1.96%) Games
17 62 (1.60%) Automotive
18 36 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
19 30 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
20 29 (0.75%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 552 (14.27%) Senior
2 469 (12.13%) Analyst
3 350 (9.05%) Lead
4 279 (7.21%) Architect
5 268 (6.93%) Consultant
6 230 (5.95%) Software Engineer
7 210 (5.43%) Security Analyst
8 202 (5.22%) Security Consultant
8 202 (5.22%) Security Manager
9 197 (5.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 188 (4.86%) IT Manager
11 172 (4.45%) Security Engineer
12 154 (3.98%) IT Support
13 148 (3.83%) IT Engineer
14 142 (3.67%) Security Architect
15 136 (3.52%) Data Scientist
16 127 (3.28%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 124 (3.21%) Cybersecurity Manager
18 122 (3.15%) Senior Analyst
19 120 (3.10%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (1.37%) HTML
1 53 (1.37%) Node.js
2 52 (1.34%) .NET
3 50 (1.29%) AngularJS
4 49 (1.27%) Kafka
5 47 (1.22%) CSS
6 45 (1.16%) Web Services
7 43 (1.11%) React
8 42 (1.09%) Spring
9 41 (1.06%) REST
10 31 (0.80%) OpenTelemetry
11 30 (0.78%) GraphQL
12 27 (0.70%) OAuth
12 27 (0.70%) OpenID
13 23 (0.59%) jQuery
13 23 (0.59%) JSON
13 23 (0.59%) RESTful
14 21 (0.54%) 802.1X
15 18 (0.47%) Laravel
15 18 (0.47%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 441 (11.40%) Management Information System
2 267 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 187 (4.83%) Algorithms
4 183 (4.73%) Cyber Threat
5 162 (4.19%) Operational Technology
6 149 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
7 145 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
8 129 (3.34%) Security Posture
9 120 (3.10%) Public Cloud
10 118 (3.05%) Driving Licence
11 101 (2.61%) Cyberattack
11 101 (2.61%) Social Media
12 91 (2.35%) IoT
13 76 (1.96%) Onboarding
14 72 (1.86%) Cloud Native
15 58 (1.50%) Product Ownership
16 54 (1.40%) Private Cloud
17 52 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
18 42 (1.09%) Cyber Security Posture
19 37 (0.96%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 722 (18.67%) Windows
2 355 (9.18%) Linux
3 322 (8.32%) Windows Server
4 115 (2.97%) Windows 10
5 87 (2.25%) Ubuntu
6 69 (1.78%) Unix
7 65 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 61 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
9 54 (1.40%) Embedded Linux
10 43 (1.11%) Apple iOS
11 41 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
12 34 (0.88%) Mac OS
13 30 (0.78%) Android
14 25 (0.65%) Windows 7
15 20 (0.52%) VMS
16 17 (0.44%) Mac OS X
17 13 (0.34%) Kali Linux
18 8 (0.21%) Solaris
19 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
20 5 (0.13%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 801 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
2 557 (14.40%) Information Security
3 432 (11.17%) Incident Response
4 422 (10.91%) Mentoring
5 417 (10.78%) Risk Management
6 413 (10.68%) Agile
7 365 (9.44%) Computer Science
8 361 (9.33%) Security Operations
9 343 (8.87%) Coaching
10 331 (8.56%) SIEM
11 324 (8.38%) Software Engineering
12 309 (7.99%) Decision-Making
12 309 (7.99%) ITIL
13 294 (7.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 269 (6.95%) Project Management
15 257 (6.64%) Artificial Intelligence
16 236 (6.10%) Analytics
17 235 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
17 235 (6.08%) Vulnerability Management
18 231 (5.97%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 297 (7.68%) Python
2 254 (6.57%) SQL
3 218 (5.64%) Bash
4 201 (5.20%) PowerShell
5 169 (4.37%) Java
6 103 (2.66%) C
7 90 (2.33%) JavaScript
8 62 (1.60%) Rust
9 51 (1.32%) Embedded C
10 49 (1.27%) C#
11 32 (0.83%) C++
12 24 (0.62%) Go
12 24 (0.62%) PHP
13 22 (0.57%) TypeScript
14 21 (0.54%) Scala
15 16 (0.41%) Perl
16 12 (0.31%) R
17 10 (0.26%) MATLAB
18 9 (0.23%) Ruby
19 5 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 867 (22.41%) Degree
2 656 (16.96%) Security Cleared
3 360 (9.31%) CISSP
4 306 (7.91%) SC Cleared
5 235 (6.08%) CISM
6 160 (4.14%) Cisco Certification
7 132 (3.41%) CCNA
8 125 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 113 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 109 (2.82%) DV Cleared
11 95 (2.46%) CRISC
12 90 (2.33%) CISA
13 88 (2.28%) CCNP
14 81 (2.09%) CompTIA Security+
15 78 (2.02%) Azure Certification
16 68 (1.76%) Master's Degree
17 57 (1.47%) CEH
17 57 (1.47%) CESG Certified Professional
18 49 (1.27%) GIAC
19 45 (1.16%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 452 (11.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 402 (10.39%) NIST
3 245 (6.33%) GDPR
4 231 (5.97%) Cyber Essentials
5 142 (3.67%) GRC
6 141 (3.65%) NCSC
7 90 (2.33%) PCI DSS
7 90 (2.33%) SLA
8 84 (2.17%) Def Stans
9 67 (1.73%) NIST 800
10 58 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 55 (1.42%) QA
12 48 (1.24%) Data Quality
13 43 (1.11%) ISO 9001
14 40 (1.03%) JSP 440
15 28 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 27 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 25 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 23 (0.59%) Accessibility
18 23 (0.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 568 (14.68%) Active Directory
2 179 (4.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 131 (3.39%) Hyper-V
4 72 (1.86%) Docker
5 44 (1.14%) RACF
6 35 (0.90%) vSphere
7 27 (0.70%) Firmware
8 22 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
9 20 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
10 18 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 9 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
13 6 (0.16%) XenApp
14 5 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
15 4 (0.10%) NFS
15 4 (0.10%) pfSense
15 4 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 4 (0.10%) VMware NSX
15 4 (0.10%) VMware Server
15 4 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 231 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 105 (2.71%) Kubernetes
3 95 (2.46%) Terraform
4 68 (1.76%) Jamf Pro
5 40 (1.03%) SCCM
6 39 (1.01%) WSUS
7 38 (0.98%) Ansible
8 35 (0.90%) Grafana
9 29 (0.75%) FortiGate
10 28 (0.72%) CASB
11 27 (0.70%) Stealthwatch
12 26 (0.67%) Nessus
13 23 (0.59%) EnCase
14 17 (0.44%) Puppet
14 17 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
14 17 (0.44%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.28%) Nmap
17 10 (0.26%) Functional Safety
17 10 (0.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,093 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 266 (6.88%) VMware
3 230 (5.95%) Cisco
4 153 (3.96%) Apple
5 132 (3.41%) Adobe
6 119 (3.08%) CyberArk
7 92 (2.38%) Veeam
8 89 (2.30%) Splunk
9 84 (2.17%) Meraki
10 80 (2.07%) Dell
10 80 (2.07%) Tanium
11 67 (1.73%) Google
12 66 (1.71%) HP
13 46 (1.19%) Oracle
14 41 (1.06%) Citrix
15 37 (0.96%) Fortinet
16 35 (0.90%) Sage
17 34 (0.88%) Juniper
17 34 (0.88%) ServiceNow
18 31 (0.80%) Dynatrace