Cybersecurity Engineer Job Trends in Brighton

Cybersecurity Engineer
East Sussex > Brighton

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in Brighton is £58,875 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Brighton 0.79% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £57,088 - -
25th Percentile £57,406 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,875 - -
75th Percentile £60,219 - -
90th Percentile £60,463 - -
East Sussex median annual salary £59,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Brighton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Brighton. 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 Brighton with a recognized job title 246 360 359
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.23% 98.36% 97.82%
Number of salaries quoted 185 269 331
10th Percentile £38,750 £27,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £77,500
East Sussex median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -4.35%

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brighton

For the 6 months to 6 December 2025, Cybersecurity Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Brighton region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) CASB
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Forcepoint
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) ISSEP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Mimecast
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Qualys
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SSCP
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) VMS
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brighton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Mimecast
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (50.00%) ISSEP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SSCP
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Forcepoint
2 1 (50.00%) Qualys