Cybersecurity Engineer
UK

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 764 767 965
Rank change year-on-year +3 +198 -208
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 140 226 266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.24% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 108 181 147
10th Percentile £40,725 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -20.00% +30.43%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,125 £93,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +19.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK

Cybersecurity Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the UK 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
England +11 127 £65,000 +8.33% 50
UK excluding London -8 77 £57,500 +4.55% 35
London +68 55 £75,000 +20.00% 18
Work from Home +28 46 £65,000 +8.33% 27
South East +10 28 £55,000 - 4
North of England +45 14 £42,750 -34.23% 9
East of England +22 14 £67,500 +12.50% 1
West Midlands +11 14 £62,500 +4.17% 7
Midlands -1 14 £62,500 +31.58% 9
North West -1 11 £52,500 -19.23% 7
Scotland -67 4 £47,500 -20.50%
Yorkshire +81 3 £38,500 -
Wales +7 3 £65,000 +18.18% 4

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 140 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 47 (33.57%) SIEM
3 45 (32.14%) Azure
4 44 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (30.00%) Degree
6 40 (28.57%) Firewall
7 37 (26.43%) CISSP
8 36 (25.71%) Information Security
9 34 (24.29%) Analytics
10 33 (23.57%) Python
11 30 (21.43%) Data Modelling
12 28 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
12 28 (20.00%) Security Operations
12 28 (20.00%) Incident Response
13 27 (19.29%) Data Science
13 27 (19.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 27 (19.29%) Data Engineering
13 27 (19.29%) Data Quality
13 27 (19.29%) Microsoft
14 26 (18.57%) Finance
14 26 (18.57%) Coaching
15 25 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
16 24 (17.14%) Mentoring
17 23 (16.43%) Identity Access Management
17 23 (16.43%) Windows
17 23 (16.43%) Cloud Security
18 22 (15.71%) NIST
18 22 (15.71%) Red Team
19 20 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
19 20 (14.29%) Management Information System

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 45 (32.14%) Azure
2 25 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (8.57%) AWS
4 11 (7.86%) GCP
5 8 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (5.00%) SaaS
7 3 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.14%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.14%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 40 (28.57%) Firewall
2 15 (10.71%) Network Security
3 8 (5.71%) LAN
3 8 (5.71%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.29%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (3.57%) VPN
6 4 (2.86%) WAN
7 3 (2.14%) DNS
7 3 (2.14%) Internet
8 2 (1.43%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.43%) VSAN
8 2 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.43%) Wireless
8 2 (1.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.57%) BigQuery
1 5 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (3.57%) Hadoop
1 5 (3.57%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (6.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.14%) Burp Suite
General
1 27 (19.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 26 (18.57%) Finance
3 17 (12.14%) Social Skills
4 10 (7.14%) Banking
5 7 (5.00%) Law
5 7 (5.00%) Retail
6 5 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.86%) Electronics
7 4 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.14%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.14%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.43%) French Language
9 2 (1.43%) German Language
9 2 (1.43%) Italian Language
9 2 (1.43%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.43%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.71%) Legal
10 1 (0.71%) Marketing
10 1 (0.71%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.57%) web3js
2 3 (2.14%) CSS
2 3 (2.14%) Fluent Bit
3 1 (0.71%) Django
3 1 (0.71%) Flask
3 1 (0.71%) HTML
3 1 (0.71%) Jinja
3 1 (0.71%) Pyramid
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 15 (10.71%) Cyber Threat
3 14 (10.00%) Operational Technology
4 11 (7.86%) Cyberattack
5 10 (7.14%) SCADA
6 9 (6.43%) PKI
7 7 (5.00%) Blog
8 6 (4.29%) Security Posture
9 5 (3.57%) Blockchain
9 5 (3.57%) Web3
10 4 (2.86%) IoT
10 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
11 3 (2.14%) NHS
12 2 (1.43%) Algorithms
12 2 (1.43%) Data Structures
12 2 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (1.43%) Mobile App
12 2 (1.43%) Public Cloud
12 2 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.43%) Windows
2 12 (8.57%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.71%) Linux
4 4 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.43%) Android
5 2 (1.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 47 (33.57%) SIEM
3 44 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (25.71%) Information Security
5 34 (24.29%) Analytics
6 30 (21.43%) Data Modelling
7 28 (20.00%) Incident Response
7 28 (20.00%) Security Operations
7 28 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
8 27 (19.29%) Data Engineering
8 27 (19.29%) Data Science
9 26 (18.57%) Coaching
10 24 (17.14%) Mentoring
11 23 (16.43%) Cloud Security
11 23 (16.43%) Identity Access Management
12 22 (15.71%) Red Team
13 16 (11.43%) Application Security
13 16 (11.43%) Computer Science
13 16 (11.43%) Penetration Testing
14 15 (10.71%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 33 (23.57%) Python
2 20 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 16 (11.43%) Bash
4 10 (7.14%) SQL
5 9 (6.43%) Java
6 7 (5.00%) C
7 4 (2.86%) C++
8 3 (2.14%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.71%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.71%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 42 (30.00%) Degree
2 37 (26.43%) CISSP
3 14 (10.00%) CISM
3 14 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 13 (9.29%) SC Cleared
5 11 (7.86%) CEH
6 8 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (4.29%) CISA
8 5 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.57%) SANS
9 4 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (2.86%) GIAC
10 3 (2.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.14%) CCSP
10 3 (2.14%) CRISC
10 3 (2.14%) GCIA
10 3 (2.14%) ISSMP
10 3 (2.14%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.43%) CCNA
11 2 (1.43%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (19.29%) Data Quality
2 22 (15.71%) NIST
3 20 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (7.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (5.00%) SOC 2
6 5 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (2.86%) NIST 800
8 3 (2.14%) COBIT
8 3 (2.14%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.43%) GDPR
9 2 (1.43%) GRC
9 2 (1.43%) NCSC
10 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 7 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (9.29%) Ansible
2 8 (5.71%) logstash
3 4 (2.86%) Nessus
3 4 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.14%) CASB
4 3 (2.14%) Fluentd
4 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.43%) CSIRT
5 2 (1.43%) Nmap
5 2 (1.43%) Terraform
6 1 (0.71%) QRadar
6 1 (0.71%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 27 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.57%) CyberArk
3 10 (7.14%) ArcSight
3 10 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 10 (7.14%) Carbon Black
3 10 (7.14%) McAfee
4 9 (6.43%) Splunk
5 8 (5.71%) Google
5 8 (5.71%) Rapid7
6 6 (4.29%) Fortinet
6 6 (4.29%) Qualys
7 5 (3.57%) Cisco
8 4 (2.86%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.14%) Alibaba
9 3 (2.14%) iManage
9 3 (2.14%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.43%) CheckPoint
10 2 (1.43%) HP
10 2 (1.43%) Symantec
10 2 (1.43%) VMware