Information Security Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Information Security (InfoSec)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Information Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Information Security over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 77 101
Rank change year-on-year +21 +24 -50
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 5 20 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.99% 1.28% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.61% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5 17 17
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,750 £33,050
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,936 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +26.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £77,500 £62,500 £56,000
90th Percentile £78,100 £74,500 £70,500
East of England median annual salary £37,500 £57,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year -34.78% -3.36% +19.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

Information Security 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 484 1,239 1,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 96.03% 79.07% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 313 932 577
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,540 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,373 £81,250 £86,750
East of England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in Cambridgeshire

Information Security
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Information Security in Cambridgeshire

Information Security
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Information Security in Cambridgeshire

Information Security
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 9 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 +37 3 £37,500 -31.82% 16
Peterborough +3 2 £74,500 +77.38% 4
Information Security
East of England

Information Security
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 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Data Privacy
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security Management
3 2 (40.00%) ISMS
3 2 (40.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (40.00%) CISM
2 2 (40.00%) CISSP
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) COBIT
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NCSC
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft