Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in Cheshire

Cybersecurity Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in Cheshire is £43,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 85 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 8 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.52% 0.64% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.72% -
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 0
10th Percentile - £55,625 -
25th Percentile £35,000 £62,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £65,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.21% - -
75th Percentile £55,000 £86,625 -
90th Percentile £62,125 £94,375 -
North West median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -19.23% -23.53% +73.47%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 1,484 836 987
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.87% 89.32% 93.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,116 489 536
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,420 £24,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,824 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £88,750 £71,875
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Cheshire

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Cheshire

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in Cheshire

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 6 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
Knutsford -4 6 £35,000 -60.56%
Warrington -31 1 £72,500 +22.36% 2
Winsford - 1 £52,500 - 1
Cybersecurity Engineer
North West

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Cybersecurity Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (62.50%) Azure
4 4 (50.00%) Release Management
4 4 (50.00%) Project Management
4 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (50.00%) SIEM
4 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (50.00%) ITIL
4 4 (50.00%) CISSP
4 4 (50.00%) CISA
4 4 (50.00%) Firewall
4 4 (50.00%) Nessus
4 4 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (50.00%) SOC 2
4 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (50.00%) Security Posture
4 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 4 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
4 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (50.00%) Cyberattack
4 4 (50.00%) Secure Coding
4 4 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
5 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
5 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (25.00%) Java
5 2 (25.00%) OOP
5 2 (25.00%) Client/Server

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (50.00%) Cyberattack
1 4 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (25.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
3 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (50.00%) ITIL
3 4 (50.00%) Project Management
3 4 (50.00%) Release Management
3 4 (50.00%) Secure Coding
3 4 (50.00%) SIEM
3 4 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (25.00%) OOP
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Protective Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) CISA
1 4 (50.00%) CISSP
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (50.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Nessus
2 1 (12.50%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Darktrace
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Symantec