Information Security Management Jobs

Information Security Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Information Security Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 712 628 810
Rank change year-on-year -84 +182 -104
Permanent jobs citing Information Security Management 192 372 443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.37% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.38% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 169 199 307
10th Percentile £31,000 £43,477 £43,650
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,125 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.76% +5.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,750 £88,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.40% +13.64% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Information Security Management 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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Information Security Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Information Security Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security Management in the UK

Information Security Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Information Security Management.

Salary trend for Information Security Management in the UK

Information Security Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Information Security Management in the UK

Information Security Management
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security Management within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 -50 174 £62,500 - 37
UK excluding London -42 113 £53,500 -14.40% 24
London -25 67 £72,500 +11.54% 14
Work from Home -68 65 £62,500 -3.85% 23
North of England +77 43 £56,500 -19.29% 2
South East -11 35 £62,500 +11.11% 7
Yorkshire +96 22 £56,500 -19.29%
North West +31 20 £50,000 - 1
South West -20 17 £28,000 -56.08% 6
Midlands -32 8 £60,000 -4.00% 4
West Midlands -6 5 £54,000 +2.86% 1
Scotland -75 4 £22,000 -68.57%
Wales - 4 £32,500 - 1
East Midlands -19 3 £60,000 -20.00% 3
East of England -7 2 £65,000 +4.00% 3
North East -4 1 £37,500 - 1

Information Security Management
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 1 (0.52%) Apache
1 1 (0.52%) IIS
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
1 1 (0.52%) Skype for Business
1 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.56%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (5.73%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.04%) SAP GRC
2 2 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.63%) Azure
2 27 (14.06%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (12.50%) PaaS
3 24 (12.50%) SaaS
4 23 (11.98%) IaaS
5 18 (9.38%) AWS
6 17 (8.85%) Cloud Computing
7 14 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (7.29%) Azure Sentinel
7 14 (7.29%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (3.13%) Azure Service Fabric
8 6 (3.13%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.13%) GCP
9 4 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.08%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.56%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.56%) Serverless
11 2 (1.04%) GitHub
12 1 (0.52%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 32 (16.67%) Network Security
2 27 (14.06%) Firewall
3 17 (8.85%) Wireshark
4 16 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 15 (7.81%) LAN
5 15 (7.81%) WAN
6 5 (2.60%) HTTP
7 4 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.56%) Bluetooth
9 2 (1.04%) DHCP
9 2 (1.04%) DNS
9 2 (1.04%) IPv4
10 1 (0.52%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.52%) SAN
10 1 (0.52%) Skype
10 1 (0.52%) VLAN
10 1 (0.52%) VPN
10 1 (0.52%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.08%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (1.56%) Big Data
3 3 (1.56%) MS Access
4 2 (1.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.19%) Finance
3 20 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.90%) Legal
5 7 (3.65%) Retail
6 5 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.60%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.08%) Law
7 4 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.08%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.56%) Marketing
9 2 (1.04%) Advertising
9 2 (1.04%) Banking
9 2 (1.04%) Billing
9 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.04%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.52%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 41 (21.35%) Security Manager
2 36 (18.75%) Analyst
3 25 (13.02%) Information Manager
3 25 (13.02%) Security Analyst
4 24 (12.50%) Information Security Manager
4 24 (12.50%) Senior
5 18 (9.38%) Security Engineer
6 16 (8.33%) Consultant
7 13 (6.77%) Engineering Manager
7 13 (6.77%) Security Consultant
8 11 (5.73%) Information Security Engineer
9 10 (5.21%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 10 (5.21%) Lead
10 9 (4.69%) Architect
10 9 (4.69%) Information Analyst
10 9 (4.69%) Information Security Analyst
10 9 (4.69%) IT Analyst
10 9 (4.69%) IT Security Analyst
10 9 (4.69%) Senior Analyst
10 9 (4.69%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.25%) Web Services
2 8 (4.17%) REST
3 6 (3.13%) Middleware
3 6 (3.13%) SOAP
4 4 (2.08%) .NET
5 3 (1.56%) COM
5 3 (1.56%) HTML
5 3 (1.56%) HTML5
5 3 (1.56%) WinForms
6 2 (1.04%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.52%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.52%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.52%) CSS
7 1 (0.52%) jQuery
7 1 (0.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 100 (52.08%) Management Information System
2 30 (15.63%) Security Posture
3 20 (10.42%) Security Operations Centre
4 16 (8.33%) Data Centre
5 15 (7.81%) Cyber Threat
6 14 (7.29%) Cyberattack
7 9 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (4.17%) Cloud Native
9 6 (3.13%) Cloud Security Posture
9 6 (3.13%) Operational Technology
10 4 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.56%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.56%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.56%) Raspberry Pi
11 3 (1.56%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.04%) Digital Media
13 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
13 1 (0.52%) IoT
13 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (14.06%) Windows
2 14 (7.29%) Android
2 14 (7.29%) Apple iOS
3 13 (6.77%) Linux
4 3 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (100.00%) Information Security
2 189 (98.44%) Security Management
3 91 (47.40%) Cybersecurity
4 90 (46.88%) ISMS
5 60 (31.25%) Risk Management
6 40 (20.83%) Roadmaps
7 38 (19.79%) Vulnerability Management
8 35 (18.23%) Cloud Security
9 31 (16.15%) Regulatory Compliance
10 29 (15.10%) Security Operations
11 28 (14.58%) Security Architecture
12 27 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (14.06%) Identity Access Management
12 27 (14.06%) Project Management
13 26 (13.54%) Incident Response
14 25 (13.02%) Data Loss Prevention
14 25 (13.02%) Risk Assessment
15 24 (12.50%) Validation
16 23 (11.98%) SIEM
17 22 (11.46%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.38%) PowerShell
1 18 (9.38%) Python
2 10 (5.21%) SQL
3 4 (2.08%) C#
4 3 (1.56%) VB
5 2 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (40.63%) CISSP
2 47 (24.48%) CISM
3 39 (20.31%) Degree
4 24 (12.50%) CISA
4 24 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (11.98%) SANS
6 21 (10.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 21 (10.94%) CCSP
6 21 (10.94%) Master's Degree
7 15 (7.81%) CEH
7 15 (7.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 14 (7.29%) SSCP
9 13 (6.77%) CRISC
10 10 (5.21%) GIAC
10 10 (5.21%) Security Cleared
11 9 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (3.65%) CESG Certified Professional
13 7 (3.65%) PCI QSA
14 6 (3.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (57.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 87 (45.31%) NIST
3 37 (19.27%) PCI DSS
4 30 (15.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 22 (11.46%) GRC
6 19 (9.90%) COBIT
6 19 (9.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 19 (9.90%) GDPR
7 11 (5.73%) NCSC
8 10 (5.21%) ISO 9001
8 10 (5.21%) NIST 800
9 7 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 6 (3.13%) ISO 22301
10 6 (3.13%) RMADS
10 6 (3.13%) Web Application Security Consortium
11 5 (2.60%) ISO 14001
12 4 (2.08%) JSP 440
12 4 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (2.08%) TickIT
13 3 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (7.29%) Virtual Desktop
2 8 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (7.29%) Nmap
3 7 (3.65%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 6 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.08%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.08%) QRadar
6 3 (1.56%) Puppet
7 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.52%) DatAdvantage
7 1 (0.52%) SCCM
7 1 (0.52%) Stealthwatch
7 1 (0.52%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 43 (22.40%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.85%) Splunk
3 15 (7.81%) Qualys
4 14 (7.29%) Rapid7
4 14 (7.29%) Thycotic
5 12 (6.25%) Cisco
6 6 (3.13%) CA
7 5 (2.60%) Dell
8 4 (2.08%) Citrix
8 4 (2.08%) VMware
9 3 (1.56%) Google
9 3 (1.56%) LogRhythm
9 3 (1.56%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.56%) Quadient
9 3 (1.56%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.56%) Xero
10 2 (1.04%) AlienVault
10 2 (1.04%) SAP
11 1 (0.52%) Symantec