Cybersecurity Jobs in England

Cybersecurity
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 47 76
Rank change year-on-year +17 +29 -2
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 4,867 5,508 5,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.74% 5.91% 4.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.68% 6.18% 4.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,654 2,895 3,148
10th Percentile £35,920 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,800 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +5.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Cybersecurity is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,814 89,178 125,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.85% 95.66% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 53,731 52,642 73,765
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,327
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +21 1,454 £72,500 +3.57% 364
South East +23 946 £50,500 -8.18% 218
North of England +7 897 £52,084 -14.62% 305
Midlands +9 679 £55,000 -8.33% 155
South West +11 630 £60,000 - 141
North West -6 556 £52,084 -15.99% 197
West Midlands +8 498 £55,000 -12.00% 105
Yorkshire +10 251 £51,250 -14.58% 86
East of England +15 220 £54,000 +2.86% 84
East Midlands +21 178 £42,500 -10.53% 49
North East +43 90 £42,500 -12.60% 22
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
1 218 (4.48%) SharePoint
2 211 (4.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 39 (0.80%) IIS
4 15 (0.31%) Apache
5 12 (0.25%) Confluence
6 10 (0.21%) CMS
7 5 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2010
7 5 (0.10%) Site Server
8 4 (0.082%) CloudStack
8 4 (0.082%) nginx
8 4 (0.082%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.041%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.041%) MS Project Server
9 2 (0.041%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.041%) WordPress
10 1 (0.021%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.021%) Gunicorn
10 1 (0.021%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.021%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.021%) uWSGI
Applications
1 231 (4.75%) Microsoft Office
2 97 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 63 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.21%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.21%) Revit
6 9 (0.18%) Simulink
7 5 (0.10%) CANalyzer
8 4 (0.082%) Stateflow
8 4 (0.082%) Windchill
9 3 (0.062%) Trello
10 2 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 16 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
2 5 (0.10%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.082%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.062%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.062%) Primavera
5 2 (0.041%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.041%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.041%) SAP FI-GL
5 2 (0.041%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.021%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,235 (25.37%) Azure
2 763 (15.68%) Microsoft 365
3 431 (8.86%) AWS
4 395 (8.12%) Entra ID
5 187 (3.84%) SaaS
6 139 (2.86%) GCP
7 109 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
8 99 (2.03%) PaaS
9 89 (1.83%) IaaS
10 87 (1.79%) Power Platform
11 74 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
12 50 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
13 49 (1.01%) OneDrive
14 45 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
15 36 (0.74%) Serverless
16 30 (0.62%) GitHub
16 30 (0.62%) PowerApps
17 29 (0.60%) Power Automate
18 28 (0.58%) Amazon S3
19 26 (0.53%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 791 (16.25%) Firewall
2 337 (6.92%) Network Security
3 243 (4.99%) 5G
4 239 (4.91%) DNS
5 234 (4.81%) Broadband
6 233 (4.79%) WAN
7 207 (4.25%) TCP/IP
8 166 (3.41%) Wi-Fi
9 165 (3.39%) DHCP
10 157 (3.23%) LAN
11 135 (2.77%) VPN
12 130 (2.67%) Intrusion Detection
13 98 (2.01%) SD-WAN
14 87 (1.79%) Wireless
15 86 (1.77%) Internet
16 84 (1.73%) SAN
17 63 (1.29%) VLAN
18 56 (1.15%) MPLS
19 52 (1.07%) Unified Communications
19 52 (1.07%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (2.10%) SQL Server
2 78 (1.60%) Power BI
3 44 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (0.86%) MySQL
5 35 (0.72%) NoSQL
6 27 (0.55%) MongoDB
7 25 (0.51%) Data Lake
8 22 (0.45%) Relational Database
9 21 (0.43%) Big Data
9 21 (0.43%) Oracle Database
10 14 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (0.23%) Hadoop
11 11 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.12%) SAP HANA
13 6 (0.12%) Tableau
14 5 (0.10%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.10%) CockroachDB
14 5 (0.10%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 75 (1.54%) Jenkins
2 64 (1.31%) JIRA
3 50 (1.03%) Git
4 38 (0.78%) Burp Suite
4 38 (0.78%) Metasploit
5 22 (0.45%) GitLab
6 18 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
7 17 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
8 16 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.27%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.25%) Visual Studio
11 11 (0.23%) Gradle
11 11 (0.23%) IntelliJ
11 11 (0.23%) JUnit
12 10 (0.21%) Mockito
13 9 (0.18%) Subversion
14 6 (0.12%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.10%) CANoe
15 5 (0.10%) Jaeger
15 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,120 (23.01%) Social Skills
2 752 (15.45%) Finance
3 671 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 520 (10.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 263 (5.40%) Law
6 250 (5.14%) Legal
7 225 (4.62%) Public Sector
8 158 (3.25%) Telecoms
9 135 (2.77%) Retail
10 114 (2.34%) Aerospace
10 114 (2.34%) Banking
11 113 (2.32%) Games
12 112 (2.30%) Manufacturing
13 111 (2.28%) Marketing
14 99 (2.03%) Military
15 93 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
16 79 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
17 71 (1.46%) Automotive
18 66 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
19 50 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 777 (15.96%) Senior
2 623 (12.80%) Analyst
3 362 (7.44%) Lead
4 361 (7.42%) Architect
4 361 (7.42%) Consultant
5 334 (6.86%) Security Analyst
6 277 (5.69%) Security Engineer
7 271 (5.57%) Security Consultant
8 262 (5.38%) Security Manager
9 216 (4.44%) IT Manager
9 216 (4.44%) Technical Specialist
10 212 (4.36%) Linux Specialist
11 199 (4.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 182 (3.74%) Security Architect
13 177 (3.64%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 177 (3.64%) IT Engineer
14 156 (3.21%) IT Support
15 155 (3.18%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 154 (3.16%) Software Engineer
17 153 (3.14%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (1.58%) .NET
2 68 (1.40%) HTML
3 57 (1.17%) REST
4 53 (1.09%) CSS
5 52 (1.07%) OpenID
6 45 (0.92%) JSON
6 45 (0.92%) Web Services
7 41 (0.84%) OAuth
8 37 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
9 30 (0.62%) Node.js
10 28 (0.58%) jQuery
11 26 (0.53%) Spring Boot
12 25 (0.51%) Middleware
12 25 (0.51%) Spring
13 23 (0.47%) 802.1X
14 22 (0.45%) React
15 21 (0.43%) ARM Templates
16 18 (0.37%) AngularJS
16 18 (0.37%) Django
17 17 (0.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 494 (10.15%) Management Information System
2 300 (6.16%) Data Centre
3 259 (5.32%) Cyber Threat
4 241 (4.95%) Social Media
5 213 (4.38%) Security Posture
6 186 (3.82%) Operational Technology
7 174 (3.58%) Security Operations Centre
8 167 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
9 151 (3.10%) Cyberattack
10 146 (3.00%) Algorithms
11 117 (2.40%) Driving Licence
12 116 (2.38%) IoT
13 96 (1.97%) PKI
14 91 (1.87%) Onboarding
15 82 (1.68%) Public Cloud
16 79 (1.62%) Cyber Defence
17 70 (1.44%) Product Ownership
18 63 (1.29%) Private Cloud
19 57 (1.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
20 53 (1.09%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 915 (18.80%) Windows
2 610 (12.53%) Linux
3 402 (8.26%) Windows Server
4 236 (4.85%) Ubuntu
5 142 (2.92%) Windows 10
6 96 (1.97%) Apple iOS
7 75 (1.54%) Android
8 68 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 65 (1.34%) Unix
10 57 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 53 (1.09%) Embedded Linux
12 50 (1.03%) Mac OS
13 47 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
14 42 (0.86%) Kali Linux
15 24 (0.49%) Windows 7
16 20 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
17 16 (0.33%) VMS
18 11 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 9 (0.18%) Mac OS X
20 8 (0.16%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 969 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
2 863 (17.73%) Information Security
3 590 (12.12%) Incident Response
4 570 (11.71%) SIEM
5 521 (10.70%) Mentoring
6 500 (10.27%) Risk Management
7 474 (9.74%) Security Operations
8 464 (9.53%) Computer Science
9 402 (8.26%) Agile
10 399 (8.20%) ITIL
11 358 (7.36%) IT Strategy
12 352 (7.23%) Penetration Testing
13 346 (7.11%) Artificial Intelligence
14 324 (6.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 321 (6.60%) Coaching
16 314 (6.45%) Decision-Making
17 313 (6.43%) Vulnerability Management
18 312 (6.41%) Project Management
19 300 (6.16%) Technology Strategy
20 294 (6.04%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 399 (8.20%) Python
2 396 (8.14%) Bash
3 250 (5.14%) PowerShell
3 250 (5.14%) SQL
4 127 (2.61%) C
5 120 (2.47%) JavaScript
6 115 (2.36%) Java
7 78 (1.60%) C#
8 61 (1.25%) Rust
9 51 (1.05%) Embedded C
10 47 (0.97%) C++
11 22 (0.45%) PHP
12 21 (0.43%) Perl
13 20 (0.41%) TypeScript
14 17 (0.35%) PL/SQL
15 15 (0.31%) MATLAB
16 11 (0.23%) Go
16 11 (0.23%) R
17 10 (0.21%) RPG
17 10 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,060 (21.78%) Degree
2 790 (16.23%) Security Cleared
3 616 (12.66%) CISSP
4 383 (7.87%) SC Cleared
5 358 (7.36%) CISM
6 222 (4.56%) Cisco Certification
7 202 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 183 (3.76%) DV Cleared
9 166 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 159 (3.27%) CRISC
11 138 (2.84%) CISA
12 130 (2.67%) CCNA
12 130 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
13 112 (2.30%) CEH
14 111 (2.28%) Master's Degree
15 103 (2.12%) GIAC
16 95 (1.95%) CREST Certified
17 94 (1.93%) CCNP
18 87 (1.79%) Azure Certification
19 75 (1.54%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 708 (14.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 559 (11.49%) NIST
3 323 (6.64%) GDPR
4 287 (5.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 207 (4.25%) GRC
6 190 (3.90%) NCSC
7 156 (3.21%) PCI DSS
8 98 (2.01%) SLA
9 96 (1.97%) QA
10 84 (1.73%) Def Stans
11 72 (1.48%) NIST 800
12 65 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 64 (1.31%) ISO 9001
14 59 (1.21%) SOC 2
15 58 (1.19%) Data Quality
16 52 (1.07%) COBIT
17 51 (1.05%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 43 (0.88%) JSP 440
19 41 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 17025
20 34 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 790 (16.23%) Active Directory
2 257 (5.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 143 (2.94%) Hyper-V
4 127 (2.61%) Docker
5 46 (0.95%) vSphere
6 35 (0.72%) Firmware
7 34 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
8 31 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
9 27 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
10 21 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
11 11 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
12 10 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 9 (0.18%) Forefront TMG
14 6 (0.12%) Terminal Services
15 5 (0.10%) XenApp
16 4 (0.082%) pfSense
16 4 (0.082%) VMware NSX
16 4 (0.082%) VMware Server
17 2 (0.041%) NFS
17 2 (0.041%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 399 (8.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 213 (4.38%) Jamf Pro
3 81 (1.66%) Kubernetes
4 79 (1.62%) Ansible
5 73 (1.50%) Terraform
6 43 (0.88%) WSUS
7 40 (0.82%) CASB
8 38 (0.78%) SCCM
9 37 (0.76%) EnCase
10 34 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
11 33 (0.68%) Nessus
12 29 (0.60%) FortiGate
13 28 (0.58%) QRadar
14 27 (0.55%) vCenter Server
15 26 (0.53%) Puppet
16 22 (0.45%) Stealthwatch
17 20 (0.41%) Nmap
18 19 (0.39%) SCOM
19 17 (0.35%) Nagios
20 16 (0.33%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1,510 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 346 (7.11%) VMware
3 272 (5.59%) Cisco
4 236 (4.85%) Tanium
5 234 (4.81%) CyberArk
6 165 (3.39%) Apple
7 149 (3.06%) Adobe
8 128 (2.63%) Veeam
9 102 (2.10%) Splunk
10 100 (2.05%) Google
11 87 (1.79%) Meraki
12 84 (1.73%) HP
13 68 (1.40%) Dell
14 65 (1.34%) ServiceNow
15 56 (1.15%) Qualys
16 50 (1.03%) Juniper
17 48 (0.99%) Fortinet
18 45 (0.92%) SAP
19 42 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
20 41 (0.84%) Oracle