IT Security Specialist Jobs in the UK excluding London

IT Security Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Security Specialist salary in the UK excluding London is £29,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 751 723 833
Rank change year-on-year -28 +110 -162
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Specialist 11 10 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.017% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.019% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 10 8 16
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £24,000 £27,750 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,500 £46,250 £34,875
Median % change year-on-year -36.22% +32.62% -35.12%
75th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £64,688
90th Percentile £55,875 - £73,750
UK median annual salary £29,500 £77,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -61.94% +34.78% -4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,926 52,593 68,736
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.19% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 47,990 30,014 42,465
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

IT Security Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured IT Security Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Specialist in the UK excluding London

IT Security Specialist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Security Specialist in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for IT Security Specialist in the UK excluding London

IT Security Specialist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Security Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Security Specialist in the UK excluding London

IT Security Specialist
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 IT Security Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
East of England - 6 £24,000 - 2
North of England - 2 £40,000 - 1
Scotland - 2 £62,500 - 1
South East -5 1 £52,500 +5.00% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £35,000 - 1
North West - 1 £45,000 -
IT Security Specialist
UK

IT Security Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, IT Security Specialist 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 UK excluding London region featuring IT Security Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Information Security
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Risk Register
3 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
3 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
3 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Security Operations
3 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (9.09%) Threat Detection
3 1 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (9.09%) ISO 31000
3 1 (9.09%) NIST 800
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (9.09%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (9.09%) NIST
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) Varonis
3 1 (9.09%) LogRhythm
3 1 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (9.09%) COBIT
3 1 (9.09%) Qualys
3 1 (9.09%) SIEM

IT Security Specialist Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Internet
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Law
2 1 (9.09%) Legal
2 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
1 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (18.18%) Information Security
2 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (9.09%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (9.09%) Data Security
3 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
3 1 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
3 1 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
3 1 (9.09%) Risk Register
3 1 (9.09%) Security Operations
3 1 (9.09%) SIEM
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.09%) Threat Detection
3 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) COBIT
2 1 (9.09%) ISO 31000
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Forcepoint
1 1 (9.09%) LogRhythm
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Qualys
1 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
1 1 (9.09%) Varonis