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

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 46 51
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 +16
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 3,814 3,738 3,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.32% 6.35% 5.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.37% 6.64% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,718 1,733 1,877
10th Percentile £34,801 £32,915 £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 £81,250 £85,000 £90,000
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 59,881 56,281 68,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.47% 95.60% 94.18%
Number of salaries quoted 41,267 29,021 41,386
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% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 21 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 21 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 +22 971 £50,500 -8.18% 241
North of England +9 916 £52,084 -13.19% 221
Midlands +15 698 £55,000 -8.33% 131
South West +12 622 £60,000 -4.00% 137
North West 0 572 £52,084 -15.99% 119
West Midlands +12 505 £55,000 -12.00% 84
Scotland -58 319 £53,750 -9.70% 47
Yorkshire +12 252 £50,000 -16.67% 93
East of England +16 206 £54,000 +2.86% 76
East Midlands +29 189 £42,500 -10.53% 47
North East +45 92 £42,500 -3.68% 9
Wales -44 51 £52,500 -25.00% 32
Northern Ireland -15 23 £42,500 -20.93% 22
Isle of Man -15 8 £37,500 -16.67% 1
Channel Islands -4 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 (4.59%) SharePoint
2 174 (4.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (0.79%) IIS
4 22 (0.58%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.37%) FileNet
6 12 (0.31%) Confluence
7 11 (0.29%) 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%) MS Project Server
11 2 (0.052%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.052%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.026%) nginx
12 1 (0.026%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 170 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.24%) Simulink
6 5 (0.13%) CANalyzer
7 4 (0.10%) Stateflow
7 4 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
2 5 (0.13%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.10%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.079%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.052%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.052%) Primavera
5 2 (0.052%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 841 (22.05%) Azure
2 602 (15.78%) Microsoft 365
3 377 (9.88%) AWS
4 253 (6.63%) Entra ID
5 190 (4.98%) SaaS
6 105 (2.75%) GCP
7 96 (2.52%) Cloud Computing
8 73 (1.91%) PaaS
9 64 (1.68%) IaaS
9 64 (1.68%) Power Platform
10 55 (1.44%) Amazon S3
11 50 (1.31%) Azure Sentinel
11 50 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
12 47 (1.23%) OneDrive
13 35 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
14 34 (0.89%) PowerApps
15 32 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 32 (0.84%) Datadog
16 29 (0.76%) Power Automate
17 26 (0.68%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 532 (13.95%) Firewall
2 225 (5.90%) Network Security
3 195 (5.11%) WAN
4 149 (3.91%) DNS
5 141 (3.70%) TCP/IP
6 120 (3.15%) DHCP
6 120 (3.15%) Wi-Fi
7 117 (3.07%) LAN
8 97 (2.54%) VPN
9 91 (2.39%) 5G
10 87 (2.28%) Intrusion Detection
11 81 (2.12%) SD-WAN
12 77 (2.02%) Broadband
13 59 (1.55%) SAN
14 53 (1.39%) Internet
15 47 (1.23%) Wireless
16 46 (1.21%) MPLS
16 46 (1.21%) VLAN
17 39 (1.02%) VoIP
18 33 (0.87%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (1.91%) SQL Server
2 57 (1.49%) NoSQL
3 52 (1.36%) Power BI
4 47 (1.23%) Big Data
5 44 (1.15%) MySQL
6 43 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
7 35 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (0.73%) Hadoop
8 28 (0.73%) Redis
9 23 (0.60%) Data Lake
10 22 (0.58%) Scylla
11 17 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (0.45%) Relational Database
12 14 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (0.31%) MongoDB
14 11 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (0.26%) Tableau
16 7 (0.18%) Oracle Database
17 5 (0.13%) Bigtable
17 5 (0.13%) RethinkDB
Development Applications
1 47 (1.23%) JIRA
2 44 (1.15%) Git
3 32 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 23 (0.60%) JUnit
5 21 (0.55%) GitLab
6 19 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
7 17 (0.45%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.34%) Visual Studio
9 10 (0.26%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.21%) Burp Suite
11 7 (0.18%) IntelliJ
11 7 (0.18%) Mockito
12 6 (0.16%) Gradle
12 6 (0.16%) Subversion
13 5 (0.13%) CANoe
13 5 (0.13%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.13%) Metasploit
14 4 (0.10%) IBM UrbanCode
14 4 (0.10%) Rational Team Concert
14 4 (0.10%) Selenium
General
1 901 (23.62%) Social Skills
2 590 (15.47%) Finance
3 457 (11.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 383 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 251 (6.58%) Law
6 157 (4.12%) Legal
7 145 (3.80%) Public Sector
8 128 (3.36%) Telecoms
9 119 (3.12%) Manufacturing
10 103 (2.70%) Banking
11 101 (2.65%) Military
12 98 (2.57%) Retail
13 97 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
14 90 (2.36%) Aerospace
15 83 (2.18%) Games
16 80 (2.10%) Marketing
17 62 (1.63%) Automotive
18 37 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
19 31 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
20 29 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 522 (13.69%) Senior
2 463 (12.14%) Analyst
3 330 (8.65%) Lead
4 268 (7.03%) Architect
5 263 (6.90%) Consultant
6 240 (6.29%) Software Engineer
7 210 (5.51%) Security Analyst
8 199 (5.22%) Security Consultant
8 199 (5.22%) Security Manager
9 194 (5.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 185 (4.85%) IT Manager
11 167 (4.38%) Security Engineer
12 153 (4.01%) IT Support
13 149 (3.91%) IT Engineer
14 135 (3.54%) Security Architect
15 134 (3.51%) Data Scientist
16 125 (3.28%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 120 (3.15%) Cybersecurity Manager
18 115 (3.02%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 114 (2.99%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (1.36%) Kafka
2 50 (1.31%) .NET
3 49 (1.28%) HTML
3 49 (1.28%) Web Services
4 47 (1.23%) Node.js
5 46 (1.21%) AngularJS
6 44 (1.15%) CSS
7 43 (1.13%) React
7 43 (1.13%) Spring
8 42 (1.10%) REST
9 36 (0.94%) GraphQL
9 36 (0.94%) OpenID
10 31 (0.81%) OpenTelemetry
11 27 (0.71%) OAuth
12 23 (0.60%) jQuery
12 23 (0.60%) JSON
13 21 (0.55%) 802.1X
13 21 (0.55%) Middleware
13 21 (0.55%) RESTful
14 18 (0.47%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 431 (11.30%) Management Information System
2 262 (6.87%) Data Centre
3 193 (5.06%) Algorithms
4 181 (4.75%) Cyber Threat
5 164 (4.30%) Operational Technology
6 148 (3.88%) Security Operations Centre
7 146 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
8 123 (3.22%) Public Cloud
9 122 (3.20%) Security Posture
10 120 (3.15%) Driving Licence
11 102 (2.67%) Cyberattack
12 101 (2.65%) Social Media
13 88 (2.31%) IoT
14 76 (1.99%) Cloud Native
14 76 (1.99%) Onboarding
15 59 (1.55%) Product Ownership
16 54 (1.42%) Private Cloud
17 51 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
18 40 (1.05%) Cyber Security Posture
19 37 (0.97%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 729 (19.11%) Windows
2 360 (9.44%) Linux
3 320 (8.39%) Windows Server
4 114 (2.99%) Windows 10
5 87 (2.28%) Ubuntu
6 78 (2.05%) Unix
7 65 (1.70%) Windows Server 2016
8 58 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 53 (1.39%) Embedded Linux
10 44 (1.15%) Apple iOS
11 42 (1.10%) Mac OS
12 40 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
13 30 (0.79%) Android
14 25 (0.66%) Windows 7
15 19 (0.50%) VMS
16 17 (0.45%) Mac OS X
17 14 (0.37%) Kali Linux
18 7 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 7 (0.18%) Solaris
19 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 809 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
2 554 (14.53%) Information Security
3 425 (11.14%) Incident Response
4 421 (11.04%) Mentoring
5 415 (10.88%) Agile
6 400 (10.49%) Risk Management
7 359 (9.41%) Computer Science
8 348 (9.12%) Security Operations
9 336 (8.81%) SIEM
10 334 (8.76%) Software Engineering
11 332 (8.70%) Coaching
12 313 (8.21%) ITIL
13 300 (7.87%) Decision-Making
14 294 (7.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 267 (7.00%) Project Management
16 262 (6.87%) Artificial Intelligence
17 246 (6.45%) Vulnerability Management
18 234 (6.14%) Analytics
19 233 (6.11%) Continuous Improvement
20 228 (5.98%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 300 (7.87%) Python
2 229 (6.00%) SQL
3 222 (5.82%) Bash
4 187 (4.90%) PowerShell
5 175 (4.59%) Java
6 103 (2.70%) C
7 90 (2.36%) JavaScript
8 61 (1.60%) Rust
9 51 (1.34%) Embedded C
10 47 (1.23%) C#
11 30 (0.79%) C++
12 29 (0.76%) Go
13 27 (0.71%) Scala
14 22 (0.58%) TypeScript
15 21 (0.55%) PHP
16 12 (0.31%) MATLAB
16 12 (0.31%) Perl
16 12 (0.31%) R
17 8 (0.21%) Ruby
18 5 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 854 (22.39%) Degree
2 661 (17.33%) Security Cleared
3 353 (9.26%) CISSP
4 306 (8.02%) SC Cleared
5 231 (6.06%) CISM
6 158 (4.14%) Cisco Certification
7 129 (3.38%) CCNA
8 123 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 112 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 111 (2.91%) DV Cleared
11 93 (2.44%) CRISC
12 88 (2.31%) CISA
13 86 (2.25%) CCNP
14 79 (2.07%) CompTIA Security+
15 75 (1.97%) Azure Certification
16 66 (1.73%) Master's Degree
17 55 (1.44%) CEH
17 55 (1.44%) CESG Certified Professional
18 48 (1.26%) GIAC
19 44 (1.15%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 459 (12.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 405 (10.62%) NIST
3 245 (6.42%) GDPR
4 230 (6.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 145 (3.80%) GRC
6 140 (3.67%) NCSC
7 99 (2.60%) PCI DSS
8 88 (2.31%) SLA
9 84 (2.20%) Def Stans
10 65 (1.70%) NIST 800
11 57 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 55 (1.44%) QA
13 47 (1.23%) Data Quality
14 46 (1.21%) ISO 9001
15 40 (1.05%) JSP 440
16 28 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 27 (0.71%) COBIT
17 27 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 25 (0.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
19 23 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 555 (14.55%) Active Directory
2 178 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 128 (3.36%) Hyper-V
4 78 (2.05%) Docker
5 31 (0.81%) RACF
5 31 (0.81%) vSphere
6 27 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (0.68%) Firmware
8 20 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
9 18 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
10 10 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 9 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
13 4 (0.10%) NFS
13 4 (0.10%) pfSense
13 4 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 4 (0.10%) Terminal Services
13 4 (0.10%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.10%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.10%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 233 (6.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 113 (2.96%) Kubernetes
3 98 (2.57%) Terraform
4 68 (1.78%) Jamf Pro
5 39 (1.02%) SCCM
6 38 (1.00%) WSUS
7 37 (0.97%) Ansible
8 35 (0.92%) Grafana
9 28 (0.73%) CASB
9 28 (0.73%) FortiGate
10 26 (0.68%) Nessus
11 24 (0.63%) EnCase
11 24 (0.63%) Stealthwatch
12 17 (0.45%) Puppet
12 17 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
12 17 (0.45%) vCenter Server
13 11 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 11 (0.29%) Nmap
14 10 (0.26%) Functional Safety
15 9 (0.24%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,076 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 261 (6.84%) VMware
3 226 (5.93%) Cisco
4 156 (4.09%) Apple
5 135 (3.54%) Adobe
6 106 (2.78%) CyberArk
7 91 (2.39%) Dell
8 90 (2.36%) Veeam
9 88 (2.31%) Splunk
10 81 (2.12%) Meraki
11 79 (2.07%) Tanium
12 76 (1.99%) Google
13 66 (1.73%) HP
14 52 (1.36%) Oracle
15 40 (1.05%) Citrix
16 36 (0.94%) Fortinet
16 36 (0.94%) ServiceNow
17 35 (0.92%) Sage
18 34 (0.89%) Juniper
18 34 (0.89%) SAP