Cybersecurity Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Cybersecurity
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 66 77
Rank change year-on-year +31 +11 +10
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 27 34 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 5.66% 2.10% 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.92% 2.70% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 24 28 34
10th Percentile £25,725 £25,750 £18,729
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,711 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.56% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £98,000 £82,025 -
East of England median annual salary £47,683 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.30% -0.95% -19.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 456 1,260 1,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 95.60% 77.97% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 283 942 543
10th Percentile £26,550 £29,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,125 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,979 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £50,967 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.93% -9.09% +10.00%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Cambridgeshire

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in Cambridgeshire

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in Cambridgeshire

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Cambridge +31 12 £50,000 -33.33% 116
Huntingdon +5 3 £26,000 -55.17% 2
Peterborough +9 2 £58,211 -4.96% 74
Cybersecurity
East of England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Solr
2 1 (3.70%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (14.81%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.41%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.70%) Cloudflare
6 1 (3.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (40.74%) Firewall
2 9 (33.33%) VLAN
3 5 (18.52%) TCP/IP
4 4 (14.81%) DHCP
4 4 (14.81%) DNS
5 3 (11.11%) HTTP
5 3 (11.11%) VPN
6 2 (7.41%) LAN
6 2 (7.41%) WAN
6 2 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Legal
3 2 (7.41%) Marketing
3 2 (7.41%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Consultant
2 5 (18.52%) Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Security Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) 1st Line Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) IT Director
4 3 (11.11%) Security Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Business Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) IT Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) IT Support
5 2 (7.41%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) IT Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) IT Governance Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) IT Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 6 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 4 (14.81%) Cloud Security Posture
2 4 (14.81%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (11.11%) Driving Licence
3 3 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (7.41%) Biopharmaceutical
4 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.70%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (3.70%) PMI
5 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Windows
1 8 (29.63%) Windows Server
2 4 (14.81%) Linux
3 2 (7.41%) Windows 10
3 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (18.52%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Cloud Security
1 5 (18.52%) Threat Intelligence
2 4 (14.81%) Containerisation
2 4 (14.81%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 4 (14.81%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
2 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
2 4 (14.81%) Threat Detection
2 4 (14.81%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (11.11%) Budget Management
3 3 (11.11%) CAD
3 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 3 (11.11%) Hardware Maintenance
3 3 (11.11%) Incident Response
3 3 (11.11%) Performance Management
3 3 (11.11%) Roadmaps
3 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) Python
2 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
2 4 (14.81%) TypeScript
3 3 (11.11%) Bash
3 3 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) CISA
1 1 (3.70%) CISM
1 1 (3.70%) CRISC
1 1 (3.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) NIST
2 2 (7.41%) GDPR
2 2 (7.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Active Directory
2 5 (18.52%) Docker
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.41%) Ansible
2 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) HubSpot
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk
3 1 (3.70%) VMware