Cybersecurity
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 46 77
Rank change year-on-year +9 +31 -7
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,470 6,360 7,088
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.55% 6.12% 4.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.46% 6.40% 4.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,980 3,349 3,660
10th Percentile £35,738 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +5.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,508 £59,526 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.79% +3.52% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,682 99,385 149,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.98% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,837 58,365 83,204
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +18 4,894 £57,500 -11.54% 1,350
UK excluding London +6 3,802 £52,508 -11.79% 984
Work from Home +8 1,902 £57,500 -13.40% 546
London +24 1,460 £72,500 +3.57% 387
South East +24 950 £50,500 -8.18% 215
North of England +8 902 £52,084 -15.99% 312
Midlands +10 684 £55,000 -8.33% 166
South West +10 636 £60,000 -4.00% 137
North West -3 559 £52,084 -15.99% 199
West Midlands +8 502 £55,000 -12.00% 111
Scotland -56 325 £55,000 -7.60% 47
Yorkshire +13 252 £50,000 -16.67% 92
East of England +21 221 £54,000 +2.86% 82
East Midlands +23 179 £42,500 -10.53% 54
North East +44 91 £42,500 -12.60% 21
Wales -44 54 £52,504 -24.99% 32
Northern Ireland -12 22 £42,500 -22.73% 7
Isle of Man -15 8 £37,500 -16.67%
Channel Islands -3 1 £100,000 -13.04%

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 251 (4.59%) SharePoint
2 226 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 42 (0.77%) IIS
4 26 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.33%) Apache
6 17 (0.31%) Confluence
7 14 (0.26%) FileNet
8 10 (0.18%) CMS
9 5 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2010
9 5 (0.091%) Site Server
10 4 (0.073%) CloudStack
10 4 (0.073%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.073%) nginx
10 4 (0.073%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.037%) MS Project Server
11 2 (0.037%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.037%) WordPress
12 1 (0.018%) Gunicorn
12 1 (0.018%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.018%) uWSGI
Applications
1 257 (4.70%) Microsoft Office
2 107 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 67 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.18%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.18%) Revit
7 9 (0.16%) Simulink
8 6 (0.11%) Trello
9 5 (0.091%) CANalyzer
10 4 (0.073%) Stateflow
10 4 (0.073%) Windchill
11 2 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 17 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.091%) Dynamics GP
3 5 (0.091%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.073%) SAP WM
5 3 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.055%) Primavera
6 2 (0.037%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.037%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.037%) SAP FI-GL
6 2 (0.037%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.018%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,390 (25.41%) Azure
2 846 (15.47%) Microsoft 365
3 584 (10.68%) AWS
4 429 (7.84%) Entra ID
5 275 (5.03%) SaaS
6 189 (3.46%) GCP
7 131 (2.39%) PaaS
8 124 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
9 118 (2.16%) IaaS
10 99 (1.81%) Power Platform
11 86 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
12 67 (1.22%) Amazon S3
13 56 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
14 53 (0.97%) OneDrive
15 50 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
16 37 (0.68%) GitHub
17 36 (0.66%) PowerApps
17 36 (0.66%) Serverless
18 35 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
19 34 (0.62%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 856 (15.65%) Firewall
2 367 (6.71%) Network Security
3 261 (4.77%) WAN
4 253 (4.63%) DNS
5 249 (4.55%) 5G
6 234 (4.28%) Broadband
7 228 (4.17%) TCP/IP
8 193 (3.53%) LAN
9 173 (3.16%) DHCP
10 168 (3.07%) Wi-Fi
11 149 (2.72%) VPN
12 139 (2.54%) Intrusion Detection
13 110 (2.01%) SD-WAN
14 98 (1.79%) Wireless
15 95 (1.74%) Internet
16 85 (1.55%) SAN
17 64 (1.17%) VLAN
18 57 (1.04%) MPLS
19 54 (0.99%) Unified Communications
20 53 (0.97%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (2.03%) SQL Server
2 85 (1.55%) Power BI
3 62 (1.13%) NoSQL
4 55 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
4 55 (1.01%) MySQL
5 52 (0.95%) Big Data
6 49 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (0.64%) Hadoop
8 31 (0.57%) Data Lake
9 29 (0.53%) MongoDB
9 29 (0.53%) Redis
10 23 (0.42%) Scylla
11 22 (0.40%) Oracle Database
11 22 (0.40%) Relational Database
12 17 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
15 10 (0.18%) Tableau
16 6 (0.11%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 85 (1.55%) Jenkins
2 76 (1.39%) JIRA
3 57 (1.04%) Git
4 39 (0.71%) Burp Suite
4 39 (0.71%) Metasploit
5 26 (0.48%) JUnit
6 24 (0.44%) GitLab
7 18 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
7 18 (0.33%) SonarQube
8 17 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
9 16 (0.29%) Visual Studio
10 14 (0.26%) TeamCity
11 11 (0.20%) Gradle
11 11 (0.20%) IntelliJ
12 10 (0.18%) Mockito
13 9 (0.16%) Subversion
14 8 (0.15%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.091%) CANoe
15 5 (0.091%) LabVIEW
15 5 (0.091%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,366 (24.97%) Social Skills
2 940 (17.18%) Finance
3 717 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 678 (12.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 374 (6.84%) Law
6 280 (5.12%) Legal
7 256 (4.68%) Public Sector
8 175 (3.20%) Telecoms
9 156 (2.85%) Retail
10 151 (2.76%) Marketing
11 143 (2.61%) Banking
12 138 (2.52%) Games
13 131 (2.39%) Manufacturing
14 120 (2.19%) Aerospace
15 116 (2.12%) Military
16 113 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
17 100 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
18 71 (1.30%) Automotive
19 66 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
20 60 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 871 (15.92%) Senior
2 688 (12.58%) Analyst
3 440 (8.04%) Architect
4 419 (7.66%) Lead
5 385 (7.04%) Consultant
6 358 (6.54%) Security Analyst
7 317 (5.80%) Security Engineer
8 283 (5.17%) Security Consultant
8 283 (5.17%) Security Manager
9 282 (5.16%) Software Engineer
10 237 (4.33%) IT Manager
11 226 (4.13%) Security Architect
12 216 (3.95%) Technical Specialist
13 215 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 212 (3.88%) Linux Specialist
15 194 (3.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 192 (3.51%) IT Engineer
17 169 (3.09%) IT Support
18 165 (3.02%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 159 (2.91%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (1.65%) HTML
2 81 (1.48%) .NET
3 77 (1.41%) REST
4 75 (1.37%) CSS
5 62 (1.13%) Kafka
6 61 (1.12%) Web Services
7 59 (1.08%) JSON
8 57 (1.04%) OpenID
9 56 (1.02%) React
10 55 (1.01%) Spring
11 54 (0.99%) AngularJS
12 50 (0.91%) OAuth
13 49 (0.90%) Node.js
14 42 (0.77%) jQuery
15 38 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
16 37 (0.68%) GraphQL
17 36 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
18 29 (0.53%) Middleware
18 29 (0.53%) SAML
18 29 (0.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 578 (10.57%) Management Information System
2 334 (6.11%) Data Centre
3 293 (5.36%) Cyber Threat
4 251 (4.59%) Social Media
5 235 (4.30%) Security Posture
6 220 (4.02%) Operational Technology
7 198 (3.62%) Algorithms
8 188 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
9 186 (3.40%) Cyberattack
10 185 (3.38%) Security Operations Centre
11 144 (2.63%) Public Cloud
12 143 (2.61%) Driving Licence
13 129 (2.36%) IoT
14 123 (2.25%) Onboarding
15 105 (1.92%) Cloud Native
16 100 (1.83%) PKI
17 86 (1.57%) Cyber Defence
18 81 (1.48%) Product Ownership
19 63 (1.15%) Private Cloud
20 58 (1.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 1,011 (18.48%) Windows
2 669 (12.23%) Linux
3 435 (7.95%) Windows Server
4 240 (4.39%) Ubuntu
5 149 (2.72%) Windows 10
6 111 (2.03%) Apple iOS
7 96 (1.76%) Unix
8 89 (1.63%) Android
9 71 (1.30%) Mac OS
10 70 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
11 60 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
12 53 (0.97%) Embedded Linux
13 47 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
14 43 (0.79%) Kali Linux
15 25 (0.46%) Mac OS X
16 24 (0.44%) Windows 7
17 21 (0.38%) VMS
18 19 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
19 11 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
20 10 (0.18%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,070 (19.56%) Problem-Solving
2 947 (17.31%) Information Security
3 663 (12.12%) Incident Response
4 617 (11.28%) SIEM
5 559 (10.22%) Mentoring
6 543 (9.93%) Risk Management
7 525 (9.60%) Agile
8 519 (9.49%) Security Operations
9 509 (9.31%) Computer Science
10 453 (8.28%) Artificial Intelligence
11 442 (8.08%) ITIL
12 408 (7.46%) Software Engineering
13 394 (7.20%) IT Strategy
14 383 (7.00%) Penetration Testing
15 368 (6.73%) Vulnerability Management
16 364 (6.65%) Project Management
17 359 (6.56%) Coaching
18 347 (6.34%) Decision-Making
19 346 (6.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 339 (6.20%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 459 (8.39%) Python
2 425 (7.77%) Bash
3 291 (5.32%) SQL
4 273 (4.99%) PowerShell
5 238 (4.35%) Java
6 149 (2.72%) JavaScript
7 132 (2.41%) C
8 87 (1.59%) C#
9 65 (1.19%) Rust
10 57 (1.04%) C++
11 51 (0.93%) Embedded C
12 46 (0.84%) Go
13 35 (0.64%) TypeScript
14 29 (0.53%) Scala
15 25 (0.46%) Perl
16 23 (0.42%) PHP
17 18 (0.33%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.27%) MATLAB
19 14 (0.26%) R
20 12 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,174 (21.46%) Degree
2 879 (16.07%) Security Cleared
3 693 (12.67%) CISSP
4 443 (8.10%) SC Cleared
5 425 (7.77%) CISM
6 250 (4.57%) Cisco Certification
7 222 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 191 (3.49%) DV Cleared
9 168 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 165 (3.02%) CRISC
11 147 (2.69%) CCNA
12 145 (2.65%) CISA
13 137 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
14 129 (2.36%) Master's Degree
15 119 (2.18%) CEH
16 113 (2.07%) Azure Certification
16 113 (2.07%) GIAC
17 107 (1.96%) CREST Certified
18 102 (1.86%) CCNP
19 88 (1.61%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 752 (13.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 610 (11.15%) NIST
3 344 (6.29%) GDPR
4 319 (5.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 211 (3.86%) GRC
6 206 (3.77%) NCSC
7 160 (2.93%) PCI DSS
8 112 (2.05%) QA
9 105 (1.92%) SLA
10 84 (1.54%) Def Stans
11 80 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 76 (1.39%) NIST 800
13 72 (1.32%) ISO 9001
14 66 (1.21%) SOC 2
15 61 (1.12%) COBIT
16 58 (1.06%) Data Quality
17 50 (0.91%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 45 (0.82%) JSP 440
19 42 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 17025
20 38 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 862 (15.76%) Active Directory
2 270 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 152 (2.78%) Hyper-V
4 138 (2.52%) Docker
5 46 (0.84%) vSphere
6 35 (0.64%) Firmware
6 35 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 35 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
7 33 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
8 27 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 11 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
10 9 (0.16%) Forefront TMG
11 6 (0.11%) Terminal Services
12 5 (0.091%) XenApp
13 4 (0.073%) pfSense
13 4 (0.073%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.073%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.037%) NFS
14 2 (0.037%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 425 (7.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 214 (3.91%) Jamf Pro
3 152 (2.78%) Kubernetes
4 130 (2.38%) Terraform
5 87 (1.59%) Ansible
6 51 (0.93%) SCCM
7 48 (0.88%) WSUS
8 46 (0.84%) Grafana
9 43 (0.79%) Nessus
10 42 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
11 41 (0.75%) CASB
12 38 (0.69%) EnCase
13 33 (0.60%) FortiGate
14 28 (0.51%) QRadar
15 27 (0.49%) Puppet
15 27 (0.49%) vCenter Server
16 22 (0.40%) Stealthwatch
17 20 (0.37%) Nmap
18 19 (0.35%) CSIRT
18 19 (0.35%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,636 (29.91%) Microsoft
2 360 (6.58%) VMware
3 300 (5.48%) Cisco
4 238 (4.35%) CyberArk
5 236 (4.31%) Tanium
6 172 (3.14%) Apple
7 151 (2.76%) Adobe
8 142 (2.60%) Google
9 140 (2.56%) Splunk
10 134 (2.45%) Dell
11 130 (2.38%) Veeam
12 94 (1.72%) Meraki
13 90 (1.65%) HP
14 82 (1.50%) Oracle
15 70 (1.28%) ServiceNow
16 60 (1.10%) Qualys
17 56 (1.02%) Fortinet
18 55 (1.01%) Juniper
18 55 (1.01%) SAP
19 52 (0.95%) CrowdStrike