Cybersecurity Jobs in England

Cybersecurity
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 39 77
Rank change year-on-year +1 +38 +13
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 3,985 4,470 6,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.09% 6.29% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.20% 6.60% 4.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,829 2,563 3,367
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,876 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% -1.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,625 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,050 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,750 £64,000
% change year-on-year -11.20% +1.17% +2.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,248 67,718 141,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.99% 95.27% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 43,335 45,004 76,070
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,185 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
London +8 1,126 £72,500 +3.57% 157
South East +7 820 £52,500 -4.55% 142
North of England 0 758 £52,084 -12.50% 124
Midlands -8 573 £50,000 -16.67% 98
South West +1 524 £62,500 -3.85% 72
North West -7 504 £54,793 -8.68% 75
West Midlands -5 418 £57,500 -6.50% 59
Yorkshire -7 193 £50,000 -16.00% 34
East Midlands -13 152 £42,500 -10.53% 38
East of England -8 151 £50,000 -9.09% 36
North East +20 61 £45,000 +12.50% 17
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 165 (4.14%) SharePoint
2 151 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (0.43%) Apache
4 14 (0.35%) IIS
5 12 (0.30%) CMS
6 9 (0.23%) Confluence
7 8 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.15%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.13%) Luigi
9 5 (0.13%) WordPress
10 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.10%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.075%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.050%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.050%) nginx
13 1 (0.025%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.025%) Joomla!
13 1 (0.025%) SharePoint 2013
13 1 (0.025%) SharePoint Server
13 1 (0.025%) Site Server
Applications
1 124 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
2 49 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.050%) CANalyzer
6 2 (0.050%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.025%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.025%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.025%) Revit
7 1 (0.025%) Simulink
7 1 (0.025%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 12 (0.30%) Primavera
2 5 (0.13%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.10%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.075%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.075%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.075%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.050%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.050%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.050%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.050%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.050%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.050%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.050%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.025%) Infor LN
6 1 (0.025%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.025%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.025%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.025%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.025%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,055 (26.47%) Azure
2 622 (15.61%) Microsoft 365
3 419 (10.51%) Entra ID
4 371 (9.31%) AWS
5 142 (3.56%) SaaS
6 116 (2.91%) GCP
7 107 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
8 85 (2.13%) IaaS
9 82 (2.06%) PaaS
10 68 (1.71%) Azure Sentinel
10 68 (1.71%) Power Platform
11 46 (1.15%) OneDrive
12 31 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
14 27 (0.68%) Serverless
15 26 (0.65%) GitHub
16 24 (0.60%) WhatsApp
17 22 (0.55%) Mimecast
18 21 (0.53%) PowerApps
19 20 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 596 (14.96%) Firewall
2 286 (7.18%) Network Security
3 264 (6.62%) 5G
4 229 (5.75%) Broadband
5 223 (5.60%) WAN
6 160 (4.02%) DNS
7 149 (3.74%) Wi-Fi
8 134 (3.36%) LAN
9 120 (3.01%) TCP/IP
10 113 (2.84%) DHCP
11 107 (2.69%) VPN
12 98 (2.46%) SD-WAN
13 97 (2.43%) Intrusion Detection
14 72 (1.81%) Wireless
15 59 (1.48%) Internet
16 57 (1.43%) SAN
17 46 (1.15%) MPLS
18 45 (1.13%) VLAN
19 42 (1.05%) Cisco Firepower
20 36 (0.90%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (2.48%) SQL Server
2 59 (1.48%) Power BI
3 54 (1.36%) MySQL
4 45 (1.13%) Big Data
5 32 (0.80%) Relational Database
6 26 (0.65%) MongoDB
7 25 (0.63%) NoSQL
8 24 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (0.50%) Oracle Database
11 18 (0.45%) Hadoop
12 13 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (0.20%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.18%) Redis
17 6 (0.15%) Bigtable
17 6 (0.15%) SAP HANA
18 5 (0.13%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 56 (1.41%) JIRA
2 53 (1.33%) Git
3 41 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 26 (0.65%) SonarQube
5 20 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
6 17 (0.43%) Burp Suite
7 14 (0.35%) Metasploit
8 13 (0.33%) Visual Studio
9 12 (0.30%) GitLab
9 12 (0.30%) Selenium
10 11 (0.28%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
11 7 (0.18%) PHPUnit
12 6 (0.15%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.15%) JUnit
12 6 (0.15%) Rational Team Concert
12 6 (0.15%) Subversion
13 4 (0.10%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.10%) Maven
13 4 (0.10%) Terragrunt
General
1 893 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 618 (15.51%) Finance
3 559 (14.03%) Analytical Skills
4 374 (9.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 218 (5.47%) Law
6 215 (5.40%) Legal
7 170 (4.27%) Telecoms
8 138 (3.46%) Banking
9 135 (3.39%) Public Sector
10 102 (2.56%) Retail
11 100 (2.51%) Marketing
12 79 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
13 78 (1.96%) Manufacturing
14 66 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
15 63 (1.58%) Aerospace
15 63 (1.58%) Military
16 61 (1.53%) Games
17 51 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
18 46 (1.15%) Automotive
19 36 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 726 (18.22%) Senior
2 560 (14.05%) Analyst
3 324 (8.13%) Lead
4 310 (7.78%) Consultant
5 289 (7.25%) Architect
6 270 (6.78%) Security Analyst
7 232 (5.82%) Security Manager
8 224 (5.62%) Security Consultant
9 218 (5.47%) Security Engineer
10 214 (5.37%) Technical Specialist
11 211 (5.29%) Linux Specialist
12 182 (4.57%) IT Manager
13 156 (3.91%) Security Architect
14 151 (3.79%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 151 (3.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 148 (3.71%) IT Support
16 144 (3.61%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 143 (3.59%) Cybersecurity Consultant
17 143 (3.59%) IT Engineer
18 139 (3.49%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (2.18%) HTML
2 55 (1.38%) CSS
3 45 (1.13%) .NET
4 39 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
5 38 (0.95%) Node.js
6 31 (0.78%) React
7 30 (0.75%) 802.1X
8 24 (0.60%) REST
9 22 (0.55%) jQuery
10 21 (0.53%) AngularJS
10 21 (0.53%) JSON
11 20 (0.50%) EDI
12 19 (0.48%) Web Services
13 17 (0.43%) ARM Templates
13 17 (0.43%) Kafka
13 17 (0.43%) Laravel
14 15 (0.38%) Azure Blueprints
15 14 (0.35%) Middleware
15 14 (0.35%) SailPoint
16 13 (0.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 427 (10.72%) Management Information System
2 308 (7.73%) Data Centre
3 238 (5.97%) Social Media
4 208 (5.22%) Cyber Threat
5 149 (3.74%) Cyberattack
6 146 (3.66%) Security Posture
7 140 (3.51%) Security Operations Centre
8 137 (3.44%) Operational Technology
9 113 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
10 87 (2.18%) IoT
11 85 (2.13%) Onboarding
12 73 (1.83%) Driving Licence
13 59 (1.48%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 50 (1.25%) PKI
15 49 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
16 45 (1.13%) Cyber Defence
17 44 (1.10%) SCADA
18 42 (1.05%) Public Cloud
19 40 (1.00%) Cyber Security Posture
20 39 (0.98%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 689 (17.29%) Windows
2 503 (12.62%) Linux
3 318 (7.98%) Windows Server
4 233 (5.85%) Ubuntu
5 108 (2.71%) Windows 10
6 54 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 49 (1.23%) Unix
8 48 (1.20%) Embedded Linux
9 39 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
10 34 (0.85%) Apple iOS
11 30 (0.75%) Android
12 29 (0.73%) Mac OS
13 20 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
14 18 (0.45%) Kali Linux
15 14 (0.35%) Windows 7
16 13 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 13 (0.33%) VMS
17 11 (0.28%) CentOS
17 11 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
18 9 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 731 (18.34%) Information Security
2 593 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
3 499 (12.52%) SIEM
4 487 (12.22%) Incident Response
5 456 (11.44%) Risk Management
6 410 (10.29%) Security Operations
7 340 (8.53%) ITIL
8 339 (8.51%) Artificial Intelligence
9 314 (7.88%) IT Strategy
10 312 (7.83%) Agile
11 290 (7.28%) Project Management
12 284 (7.13%) Vulnerability Management
13 282 (7.08%) CRM
14 277 (6.95%) Computer Science
15 260 (6.52%) Mentoring
16 259 (6.50%) Technology Strategy
17 252 (6.32%) Penetration Testing
18 244 (6.12%) Decision-Making
19 243 (6.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 225 (5.65%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 359 (9.01%) Bash
2 356 (8.93%) Python
3 283 (7.10%) SQL
4 267 (6.70%) PowerShell
5 101 (2.53%) C
6 93 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 82 (2.06%) Java
8 62 (1.56%) Rust
9 56 (1.41%) C++
10 51 (1.28%) C#
11 50 (1.25%) PHP
12 48 (1.20%) Embedded C
13 30 (0.75%) Perl
14 23 (0.58%) Go
15 20 (0.50%) TypeScript
16 19 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
17 15 (0.38%) Shell Script
18 12 (0.30%) R
19 11 (0.28%) PL/SQL
20 10 (0.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 759 (19.05%) Degree
2 711 (17.84%) Security Cleared
3 526 (13.20%) CISSP
4 375 (9.41%) SC Cleared
5 326 (8.18%) CISM
6 188 (4.72%) Cisco Certification
7 154 (3.86%) DV Cleared
8 140 (3.51%) CISA
9 139 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 127 (3.19%) CCNA
11 126 (3.16%) CRISC
12 125 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 109 (2.74%) CCNP
14 88 (2.21%) Master's Degree
15 86 (2.16%) CEH
16 84 (2.11%) GIAC
17 83 (2.08%) Azure Certification
18 77 (1.93%) CREST Certified
19 73 (1.83%) CompTIA Security+
20 70 (1.76%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 526 (13.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 462 (11.59%) NIST
3 240 (6.02%) GDPR
4 217 (5.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 193 (4.84%) NCSC
6 173 (4.34%) GRC
7 112 (2.81%) PCI DSS
8 92 (2.31%) SLA
9 69 (1.73%) Def Stans
10 61 (1.53%) NIST 800
11 58 (1.46%) COBIT
12 54 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 54 (1.36%) QA
13 43 (1.08%) SOC 2
14 36 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 30 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 28 (0.70%) JSP 440
17 27 (0.68%) Accessibility
17 27 (0.68%) HIPAA
18 21 (0.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 719 (18.04%) Active Directory
2 201 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 108 (2.71%) Hyper-V
4 88 (2.21%) Docker
5 48 (1.20%) vSphere
6 46 (1.15%) RACF
7 37 (0.93%) Firmware
8 16 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
9 13 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
12 7 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 7 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
13 6 (0.15%) Forefront TMG
14 5 (0.13%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.13%) XenApp
15 4 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.10%) pfSense
15 4 (0.10%) VMware Server
15 4 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 353 (8.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 213 (5.35%) Jamf Pro
3 88 (2.21%) Ansible
4 82 (2.06%) Kubernetes
5 58 (1.46%) Terraform
6 41 (1.03%) Nessus
7 40 (1.00%) CASB
8 36 (0.90%) Stealthwatch
9 31 (0.78%) FortiGate
10 30 (0.75%) WSUS
11 28 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
12 24 (0.60%) QRadar
13 20 (0.50%) SCCM
14 16 (0.40%) Nagios
15 14 (0.35%) CSIRT
15 14 (0.35%) Puppet
15 14 (0.35%) vCenter Server
16 11 (0.28%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
16 11 (0.28%) Grafana
17 10 (0.25%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1,255 (31.49%) Microsoft
2 307 (7.70%) VMware
3 295 (7.40%) CyberArk
4 250 (6.27%) Cisco
5 237 (5.95%) Tanium
6 153 (3.84%) Apple
7 142 (3.56%) Adobe
8 97 (2.43%) Veeam
9 91 (2.28%) Meraki
10 82 (2.06%) Splunk
11 78 (1.96%) Dell
12 72 (1.81%) HP
13 60 (1.51%) Juniper
14 59 (1.48%) Google
15 53 (1.33%) Palo Alto
16 50 (1.25%) Fortinet
17 41 (1.03%) Citrix
18 40 (1.00%) SolarWinds
19 38 (0.95%) Oracle
20 36 (0.90%) Qualys