Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in the City of London is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 227 263
Rank change year-on-year +54 +36 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 7 8 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.21% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.17% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 5
10th Percentile £52,000 £64,250 £54,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £73,438 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +21.43% +21.74%
75th Percentile £87,500 £89,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £103,150 £87,500
Central London median annual salary £78,750 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.35% +21.43% +21.74%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,216 4,803 6,685
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.74% 96.45% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,586 4,069 5,661
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,164 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the City of London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the City of London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in the City of London

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Cybersecurity Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the City of London region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
3 5 (71.43%) Information Security
3 5 (71.43%) CEH
3 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (71.43%) CISSP
3 5 (71.43%) Azure
4 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (57.14%) Rapid7
4 4 (57.14%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (57.14%) Data Loss Prevention
4 4 (57.14%) NIST
5 3 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
5 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
5 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (42.86%) SANS
5 3 (42.86%) Security Architecture
5 3 (42.86%) SIEM
5 3 (42.86%) Network Security
5 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
5 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (28.57%) Wireshark
6 2 (28.57%) Nmap
6 2 (28.57%) Information Security Management
6 2 (28.57%) Security Management
6 2 (28.57%) Agile
6 2 (28.57%) Cryptography
6 2 (28.57%) Ethical Hacking
6 2 (28.57%) Finance

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (14.29%) AWS
5 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) Network Security
3 2 (28.57%) LAN
3 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) WAN
3 2 (28.57%) Wireshark
4 1 (14.29%) VPN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 2 (28.57%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Android
1 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (71.43%) Information Security
3 4 (57.14%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (57.14%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
4 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
4 3 (42.86%) Security Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) SIEM
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Key Management
5 2 (28.57%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Project Roadmap
5 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 2 (28.57%) Secrets Management
5 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
5 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) CEH
1 5 (71.43%) CISSP
2 3 (42.86%) SANS
3 2 (28.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (28.57%) CCSP
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (28.57%) SSCP
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 1 (14.29%) CISM
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) NIST
2 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
4 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (28.57%) Nmap
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) Rapid7
3 2 (28.57%) CyberArk
3 2 (28.57%) iManage
3 2 (28.57%) LogRhythm
3 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 2 (28.57%) Qualys
3 2 (28.57%) Splunk
3 2 (28.57%) Thycotic