Cybersecurity Jobs in Bedfordshire

Cybersecurity
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 33 45
Rank change year-on-year -10 +12 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 12 18 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 2.10% 3.85% 5.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 5.14% 6.02%
Number of salaries quoted 11 5 15
10th Percentile - £40,450 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% -39.64% +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £48,750 £75,000
90th Percentile - £52,500 £75,750
East of England median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.63% -4.76% -19.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Cybersecurity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 545 350 598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 95.28% 74.79% 98.68%
Number of salaries quoted 93 243 281
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,050 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,400 £33,451 £46,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -13.04% +12.20%
75th Percentile £66,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,500 £93,500 £83,750
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Bedfordshire

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in Bedfordshire

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Bedfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in Bedfordshire

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
Luton +2 7 £47,500 - 9
Bedford +12 5 £90,000 +89.47% 1
Cybersecurity
East of England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
2 6 (50.00%) DHCP
2 6 (50.00%) DNS
2 6 (50.00%) Network Security
2 6 (50.00%) NGFW
2 6 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (8.33%) LAN
3 1 (8.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (16.67%) Aviation
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Law
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Analyst
1 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 6 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 4 (33.33%) Security Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) PHP Developer
3 1 (8.33%) PHP Symfony Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Symfony Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (41.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (8.33%) CSOC
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Incident Management
2 6 (50.00%) Computer Forensics
2 6 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 6 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 6 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
2 6 (50.00%) SIEM
3 5 (41.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
3 5 (41.67%) Security Operations
4 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (33.33%) Security Management
5 2 (16.67%) Coaching
6 1 (8.33%) Client Onboarding
6 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
6 1 (8.33%) Computer Security
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 1 (8.33%) Mathematics
6 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
6 1 (8.33%) Patch Management
6 1 (8.33%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PHP
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) CISM
1 4 (33.33%) CISSP
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) A+ Certification
3 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (8.33%) MCSA
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) CSIRT
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (8.33%) VMware