Cybersecurity Jobs in the East of England

Cybersecurity
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 58 62 77
Rank change year-on-year +4 +15 +25
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 173 205 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.27% 3.24% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.60% 4.10% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 123 158 93
10th Percentile £29,450 £25,675 £25,850
25th Percentile £41,640 £36,563 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% -0.95% -19.23%
75th Percentile £56,250 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,200 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -11.54% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,090 4,994 4,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 94.18% 78.92% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,382 3,753 2,097
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,063 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,200 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the East of England.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the East of England

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

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the East of England 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
Norfolk +47 57 £47,683 +5.96% 19
Hertfordshire -23 33 £42,085 -23.48% 38
Cambridgeshire +31 27 £50,711 -27.56% 52
Suffolk -15 26 £47,500 +29.70% 6
Essex +16 18 £35,000 +32.72% 23
Bedfordshire -13 12 £47,500 +12.43% 17
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 10 (5.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.47%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.58%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.73%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 30 (17.34%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (12.72%) AWS
3 20 (11.56%) Azure
4 14 (8.09%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (8.09%) Serverless
5 8 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (3.47%) SaaS
7 5 (2.89%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.31%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.73%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.16%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.16%) GCP
10 2 (1.16%) Twilio
11 1 (0.58%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.58%) Boomi
11 1 (0.58%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (17.34%) Firewall
2 18 (10.40%) TCP/IP
3 12 (6.94%) Broadband
3 12 (6.94%) SSH
3 12 (6.94%) SSL
3 12 (6.94%) VLAN
4 11 (6.36%) WAN
5 10 (5.78%) DHCP
5 10 (5.78%) DNS
6 9 (5.20%) LAN
7 8 (4.62%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (4.05%) Network Security
9 6 (3.47%) Intranet
9 6 (3.47%) NGFW
10 4 (2.31%) HTTP
10 4 (2.31%) VPN
11 3 (1.73%) BGP
11 3 (1.73%) EIGRP
11 3 (1.73%) OSPF
11 3 (1.73%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.89%) Big Data
2 4 (2.31%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.73%) MySQL
4 1 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.16%) JIRA
2 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.58%) Git
General
1 54 (31.21%) Presentation Skills
2 48 (27.75%) Social Skills
3 12 (6.94%) Legal
4 10 (5.78%) Marketing
5 9 (5.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.20%) Law
6 8 (4.62%) Finance
7 7 (4.05%) Local Government
8 6 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.89%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.16%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.16%) Automotive
10 2 (1.16%) Aviation
10 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (30.64%) Systems Engineer
2 21 (12.14%) IT Support
3 15 (8.67%) Analyst
3 15 (8.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (6.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (6.36%) IT Support Specialist
5 11 (6.36%) Support Specialist
6 9 (5.20%) Business Manager
6 9 (5.20%) Security Analyst
7 8 (4.62%) Consultant
7 8 (4.62%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 8 (4.62%) Security Engineer
7 8 (4.62%) Senior
8 7 (4.05%) 2nd Line Support
8 7 (4.05%) Business Development Manager
8 7 (4.05%) Development Manager
8 7 (4.05%) Lead
9 6 (3.47%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 6 (3.47%) IT Engineer
9 6 (3.47%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.51%) RESTful
1 13 (7.51%) Web Services
2 5 (2.89%) Akka
3 3 (1.73%) SAML
4 1 (0.58%) JWT
4 1 (0.58%) Kafka
4 1 (0.58%) Middleware
4 1 (0.58%) Node.js
4 1 (0.58%) OAuth
4 1 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.58%) REST
4 1 (0.58%) SOAP
4 1 (0.58%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.56%) Management Information System
2 19 (10.98%) Cyber Threat
2 19 (10.98%) Cyberattack
3 17 (9.83%) Onboarding
4 12 (6.94%) Data Centre
4 12 (6.94%) PKI
5 9 (5.20%) Driving Licence
5 9 (5.20%) Security Operations Centre
6 8 (4.62%) Robotics
7 7 (4.05%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.31%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (2.31%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.73%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.16%) Biopharmaceutical
10 2 (1.16%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.58%) CSOC
11 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 39 (22.54%) Windows
2 17 (9.83%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.62%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.31%) Linux
5 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (31.79%) Agile
2 52 (30.06%) MODAF
2 52 (30.06%) SysML
2 52 (30.06%) Systems Engineering
2 52 (30.06%) UML
3 30 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (12.14%) Roadmaps
5 17 (9.83%) Incident Response
6 14 (8.09%) Computer Science
6 14 (8.09%) Customer Service
6 14 (8.09%) DevOps
7 13 (7.51%) Artificial Intelligence
7 13 (7.51%) Use Case
8 12 (6.94%) Deployment Automation
8 12 (6.94%) ITIL
8 12 (6.94%) Key Management
8 12 (6.94%) Programme Delivery
8 12 (6.94%) Risk Management
8 12 (6.94%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 11 (6.36%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 52 (30.06%) MATLAB
2 21 (12.14%) Python
3 6 (3.47%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.31%) Bash
4 4 (2.31%) SQL
4 4 (2.31%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.16%) Java
6 1 (0.58%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 72 (41.62%) Degree
2 52 (30.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (5.20%) CISM
3 9 (5.20%) CISSP
4 7 (4.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.89%) CREST Certified
6 5 (2.89%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.31%) A+ Certification
7 4 (2.31%) CEH
7 4 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.31%) GIAC
8 3 (1.73%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.16%) GCIA
9 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.16%) PMP
9 2 (1.16%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.58%) CRISC
10 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 19 (10.98%) NIST
2 11 (6.36%) NCSC
3 6 (3.47%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.16%) GDPR
4 2 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 36 (20.81%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.62%) Docker
4 3 (1.73%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (7.51%) Terraform
2 5 (2.89%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.31%) FortiGate
3 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.31%) Nessus
4 2 (1.16%) Ansible
4 2 (1.16%) QRadar
4 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.58%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.58%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 53 (30.64%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.94%) Thales
3 10 (5.78%) VMware
4 8 (4.62%) Sophos
4 8 (4.62%) YouTube
5 4 (2.31%) Qualys
5 4 (2.31%) Tenable
6 3 (1.73%) Adobe
6 3 (1.73%) Cisco
6 3 (1.73%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.73%) HP
6 3 (1.73%) SolarWinds
6 3 (1.73%) Splunk
7 2 (1.16%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.16%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.58%) Google
8 1 (0.58%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.58%) Mitel
8 1 (0.58%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.58%) Talend