Cybersecurity Jobs in the South East

Cybersecurity
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 56 46
Rank change year-on-year +25 -10 +43
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 955 780 1,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.72% 5.22% 5.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.75% 5.52% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 604 406 610
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% -8.33% +13.74%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £90,625 £92,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,155 14,128 18,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.77% 94.49% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,933 8,194 12,068
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,704
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the South East

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the South East.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the South East

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the South East over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the South East

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 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
Thames Valley +14 432 £50,000 -20.00% 59
Buckinghamshire +19 260 £50,000 -4.76% 11
Surrey +25 200 £50,500 -15.83% 22
Hampshire -13 156 £50,000 -16.67% 50
Berkshire -15 123 £52,550 -24.93% 39
Kent -5 66 £44,250 +10.63% 19
Oxfordshire +24 49 £42,500 -26.09% 9
West Sussex +38 40 £50,000 -4.76% 12
Middlesex - 32 £56,919 -
Sussex - 7 £75,000 -
East Sussex +10 6 £37,500 -27.88% 5
Home Counties +13 1 £48,000 -49.47%
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 55 (5.76%) SharePoint
2 37 (3.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.52%) Confluence
4 4 (0.42%) Apache
5 3 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.31%) IIS
6 1 (0.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 55 (5.76%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.63%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.63%) Simulink
4 4 (0.42%) Stateflow
5 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
2 4 (0.42%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 265 (27.75%) Azure
2 173 (18.12%) Microsoft 365
3 107 (11.20%) Entra ID
4 60 (6.28%) AWS
5 28 (2.93%) Cloud Computing
6 24 (2.51%) OneDrive
7 20 (2.09%) Azure Sentinel
8 17 (1.78%) SaaS
9 9 (0.94%) GCP
10 7 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (0.73%) IaaS
10 7 (0.73%) PaaS
11 6 (0.63%) Power Automate
11 6 (0.63%) Twilio
11 6 (0.63%) WhatsApp
12 5 (0.52%) Amazon S3
12 5 (0.52%) Power Platform
13 4 (0.42%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (0.42%) Serverless
14 3 (0.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 146 (15.29%) Firewall
2 80 (8.38%) 5G
3 70 (7.33%) Broadband
4 56 (5.86%) Network Security
5 45 (4.71%) DNS
5 45 (4.71%) WAN
6 34 (3.56%) Intrusion Detection
7 31 (3.25%) TCP/IP
8 30 (3.14%) VPN
8 30 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
9 27 (2.83%) DHCP
10 20 (2.09%) LAN
10 20 (2.09%) Wireless
11 19 (1.99%) MPLS
12 15 (1.57%) 4G
13 14 (1.47%) SD-WAN
13 14 (1.47%) VLAN
14 10 (1.05%) Internet
14 10 (1.05%) SAN
15 9 (0.94%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.20%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.73%) Big Data
3 6 (0.63%) MongoDB
3 6 (0.63%) NoSQL
3 6 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.63%) Relational Database
4 5 (0.52%) Hadoop
4 5 (0.52%) MySQL
4 5 (0.52%) SAP BW
5 3 (0.31%) Power BI
6 2 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.21%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.21%) Tableau
7 1 (0.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (0.84%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (0.73%) Git
2 7 (0.73%) GitLab
2 7 (0.73%) JIRA
2 7 (0.73%) Visual Studio
3 5 (0.52%) SonarQube
4 4 (0.42%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.21%) Apache Continuum
5 2 (0.21%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.21%) Gradle
5 2 (0.21%) JUnit
5 2 (0.21%) Subversion
General
1 208 (21.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 183 (19.16%) Social Skills
3 111 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (9.63%) Finance
5 36 (3.77%) Telecoms
6 31 (3.25%) Public Sector
7 28 (2.93%) Marketing
8 25 (2.62%) Law
9 24 (2.51%) Legal
10 21 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
10 21 (2.20%) Retail
11 17 (1.78%) Automotive
12 16 (1.68%) Games
13 11 (1.15%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.15%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.05%) Banking
15 9 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.73%) Aviation
16 7 (0.73%) Military
Job Titles
1 129 (13.51%) Analyst
2 128 (13.40%) Senior
3 102 (10.68%) Data Scientist
4 73 (7.64%) Security Specialist
5 72 (7.54%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 67 (7.02%) Linux Specialist
6 67 (7.02%) Technical Specialist
7 62 (6.49%) Lead
8 53 (5.55%) Security Manager
9 51 (5.34%) Architect
10 50 (5.24%) IT Support
11 47 (4.92%) Security Analyst
12 46 (4.82%) Security Engineer
13 44 (4.61%) IT Engineer
14 43 (4.50%) Systems Engineer
15 40 (4.19%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
16 39 (4.08%) Support Engineer
17 38 (3.98%) IT Manager
17 38 (3.98%) Senior Linux Specialist
17 38 (3.98%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.36%) Web Services
2 11 (1.15%) HTML
3 10 (1.05%) .NET
3 10 (1.05%) Node.js
4 9 (0.94%) CSS
5 6 (0.63%) Keycloak
5 6 (0.63%) Middleware
6 5 (0.52%) ASP.NET
6 5 (0.52%) JSON
6 5 (0.52%) Kafka
6 5 (0.52%) NETCONF
6 5 (0.52%) React
7 4 (0.42%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.42%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (0.42%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.42%) Django
7 4 (0.42%) Qt
7 4 (0.42%) RESTful
7 4 (0.42%) WebSockets
7 4 (0.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 106 (11.10%) Algorithms
2 97 (10.16%) Management Information System
3 78 (8.17%) Social Media
4 71 (7.43%) Self-Motivation
5 57 (5.97%) Data Centre
6 43 (4.50%) Cyber Threat
7 34 (3.56%) Security Operations Centre
8 31 (3.25%) Security Posture
9 28 (2.93%) Driving Licence
10 27 (2.83%) Operational Technology
11 26 (2.72%) IoT
12 21 (2.20%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.47%) Client/Server
14 12 (1.26%) Cyber Security Posture
14 12 (1.26%) Product Ownership
15 11 (1.15%) PKI
15 11 (1.15%) Public Cloud
16 10 (1.05%) Cyberattack
17 9 (0.94%) NHS
17 9 (0.94%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 217 (22.72%) Windows
2 101 (10.58%) Windows Server
3 100 (10.47%) Linux
4 67 (7.02%) Ubuntu
5 46 (4.82%) Windows 10
6 24 (2.51%) Windows Server 2016
7 23 (2.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (2.20%) Apple iOS
8 21 (2.20%) Windows 7
9 19 (1.99%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (1.05%) Android
11 8 (0.84%) Windows 8
12 5 (0.52%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.42%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.10%) Unix
15 1 (0.10%) VMS
15 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (29.74%) Problem-Solving
2 172 (18.01%) Computer Science
3 168 (17.59%) Decision-Making
3 168 (17.59%) Mentoring
4 149 (15.60%) Coaching
5 146 (15.29%) Red Team
6 134 (14.03%) Data Science
7 119 (12.46%) Mathematics
8 106 (11.10%) ITIL
9 103 (10.79%) Digital Forensics
10 102 (10.68%) CRM
10 102 (10.68%) Data Analysis
10 102 (10.68%) Statistical Modelling
11 96 (10.05%) Information Security
12 89 (9.32%) IT Strategy
13 83 (8.69%) SIEM
14 81 (8.48%) Incident Response
15 77 (8.06%) Artificial Intelligence
15 77 (8.06%) Security Operations
16 70 (7.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 74 (7.75%) Bash
2 50 (5.24%) SQL
3 36 (3.77%) PowerShell
4 29 (3.04%) Python
5 22 (2.30%) C
6 17 (1.78%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.68%) C#
8 12 (1.26%) C++
9 7 (0.73%) Java
10 6 (0.63%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.52%) Go
12 3 (0.31%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.31%) VBScript
13 2 (0.21%) R
14 1 (0.10%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.10%) PHP
Qualifications
1 316 (33.09%) Degree
2 121 (12.67%) Security Cleared
3 63 (6.60%) CISSP
4 47 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (4.82%) SC Cleared
6 40 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 30 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (2.83%) CompTIA Security+
9 26 (2.72%) MCP
10 23 (2.41%) CCNA
11 21 (2.20%) CISM
12 19 (1.99%) DBS Check
13 18 (1.88%) CCNP
14 17 (1.78%) Azure Certification
14 17 (1.78%) HNC
15 16 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
16 15 (1.57%) CESG Certified Professional
17 13 (1.36%) GIAC
18 12 (1.26%) CTC Cleared
19 11 (1.15%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (12.98%) NIST
2 100 (10.47%) GRC
3 99 (10.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 78 (8.17%) GDPR
5 69 (7.23%) Def Stans
6 58 (6.07%) Cyber Essentials
7 32 (3.35%) Data Quality
8 27 (2.83%) NCSC
8 27 (2.83%) PCI DSS
9 16 (1.68%) NIST 800
9 16 (1.68%) SLA
10 15 (1.57%) QA
11 13 (1.36%) COBIT
12 12 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (1.05%) COSHH
14 9 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 8 (0.84%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 7 (0.73%) ISO 13485
17 6 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.63%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 213 (22.30%) Active Directory
2 54 (5.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (3.14%) Hyper-V
4 10 (1.05%) Docker
5 5 (0.52%) Firmware
6 2 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.10%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 111 (11.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 67 (7.02%) Jamf Pro
3 18 (1.88%) FortiGate
3 18 (1.88%) SCCM
4 12 (1.26%) WSUS
5 11 (1.15%) Nessus
6 7 (0.73%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 7 (0.73%) Terraform
7 6 (0.63%) Stealthwatch
8 5 (0.52%) CASB
8 5 (0.52%) Kubernetes
8 5 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.42%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.42%) Suricata
10 3 (0.31%) Ansible
10 3 (0.31%) CSIRT
11 2 (0.21%) Podman
11 2 (0.21%) Puppet
12 1 (0.10%) Autotask
12 1 (0.10%) QRadar
Vendors
1 343 (35.92%) Microsoft
2 81 (8.48%) VMware
3 67 (7.02%) CyberArk
3 67 (7.02%) Tanium
4 53 (5.55%) Apple
5 48 (5.03%) Adobe
6 45 (4.71%) Cisco
7 25 (2.62%) Citrix
7 25 (2.62%) HP
8 23 (2.41%) Veeam
9 21 (2.20%) Darktrace
10 14 (1.47%) ServiceNow
11 13 (1.36%) Dell
11 13 (1.36%) Meraki
11 13 (1.36%) NEC
11 13 (1.36%) SAP
12 11 (1.15%) Samsung
13 10 (1.05%) Qualys
14 9 (0.94%) Ribbon
14 9 (0.94%) Splunk