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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 49 76
Rank change year-on-year +19 +27 -3
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 4,896 5,297 5,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.75% 5.75% 4.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.70% 6.01% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,672 2,860 3,165
10th Percentile £35,920 £36,975 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,688 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £76,063 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £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 73,083 88,114 126,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.76% 95.63% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,858 52,089 73,941
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,308 £33,500
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 £73,650 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +23 1,448 £72,500 +3.57% 374
South East +24 957 £50,500 -8.18% 187
North of England +10 907 £52,084 -13.19% 195
Midlands +13 690 £55,000 -8.33% 128
South West +9 632 £60,000 - 130
North West 0 564 £52,084 -15.99% 110
West Midlands +11 506 £55,000 -12.00% 79
Yorkshire +10 251 £50,000 -16.67% 72
East of England +22 220 £54,000 +2.86% 79
East Midlands +26 180 £42,500 -10.53% 49
North East +44 92 £42,500 -10.53% 13
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
1 223 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 215 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 38 (0.78%) IIS
4 16 (0.33%) Apache
5 14 (0.29%) Confluence
6 10 (0.20%) CMS
7 5 (0.10%) Site Server
8 4 (0.082%) CloudStack
8 4 (0.082%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (0.082%) nginx
8 4 (0.082%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.061%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.041%) MS Project Server
10 2 (0.041%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.041%) WordPress
11 1 (0.020%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.020%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.020%) Gunicorn
11 1 (0.020%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.020%) uWSGI
Applications
1 229 (4.68%) Microsoft Office
2 100 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 63 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.20%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.20%) Revit
7 9 (0.18%) Simulink
8 5 (0.10%) CANalyzer
9 4 (0.082%) Stateflow
9 4 (0.082%) Windchill
10 3 (0.061%) Trello
11 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 (0.061%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.061%) Primavera
5 2 (0.041%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.041%) SAP FI-GL
5 2 (0.041%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.020%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.020%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,242 (25.37%) Azure
2 769 (15.71%) Microsoft 365
3 432 (8.82%) AWS
4 398 (8.13%) Entra ID
5 187 (3.82%) SaaS
6 144 (2.94%) GCP
7 110 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
8 100 (2.04%) PaaS
9 93 (1.90%) Power Platform
10 89 (1.82%) IaaS
11 71 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
12 51 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
13 48 (0.98%) OneDrive
14 46 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
15 38 (0.78%) Serverless
16 32 (0.65%) Power Automate
17 31 (0.63%) GitHub
18 30 (0.61%) PowerApps
19 29 (0.59%) Amazon S3
20 26 (0.53%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 788 (16.09%) Firewall
2 338 (6.90%) Network Security
3 244 (4.98%) 5G
4 241 (4.92%) DNS
5 237 (4.84%) WAN
6 235 (4.80%) Broadband
7 204 (4.17%) TCP/IP
8 166 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
9 165 (3.37%) DHCP
10 159 (3.25%) LAN
11 132 (2.70%) VPN
12 129 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
13 100 (2.04%) SD-WAN
14 86 (1.76%) Internet
14 86 (1.76%) Wireless
15 84 (1.72%) SAN
16 59 (1.21%) VLAN
17 57 (1.16%) MPLS
18 52 (1.06%) Unified Communications
18 52 (1.06%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (2.12%) SQL Server
2 84 (1.72%) Power BI
3 44 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (0.86%) MySQL
5 36 (0.74%) NoSQL
6 29 (0.59%) MongoDB
7 25 (0.51%) Data Lake
8 23 (0.47%) Big Data
8 23 (0.47%) Relational Database
9 21 (0.43%) Oracle Database
10 16 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.25%) Hadoop
13 8 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (0.14%) Tableau
15 6 (0.12%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.12%) SAP HANA
16 5 (0.10%) CockroachDB
16 5 (0.10%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 78 (1.59%) Jenkins
2 67 (1.37%) JIRA
3 52 (1.06%) Git
4 37 (0.76%) Burp Suite
4 37 (0.76%) Metasploit
5 23 (0.47%) GitLab
6 19 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
6 19 (0.39%) SonarQube
7 17 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
8 13 (0.27%) Visual Studio
9 12 (0.25%) TeamCity
10 11 (0.22%) JUnit
11 10 (0.20%) Gradle
11 10 (0.20%) IntelliJ
12 9 (0.18%) Mockito
12 9 (0.18%) Subversion
13 8 (0.16%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.10%) CANoe
14 5 (0.10%) Jaeger
14 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,125 (22.98%) Social Skills
2 760 (15.52%) Finance
3 672 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 526 (10.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 268 (5.47%) Law
6 250 (5.11%) Legal
7 223 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 163 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 133 (2.72%) Retail
10 120 (2.45%) Banking
11 114 (2.33%) Marketing
12 113 (2.31%) Aerospace
12 113 (2.31%) Games
12 113 (2.31%) Manufacturing
13 102 (2.08%) Military
14 92 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
15 78 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
16 71 (1.45%) Automotive
17 66 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
18 53 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 793 (16.20%) Senior
2 630 (12.87%) Analyst
3 369 (7.54%) Architect
4 368 (7.52%) Lead
5 354 (7.23%) Consultant
6 337 (6.88%) Security Analyst
7 279 (5.70%) Security Engineer
8 264 (5.39%) Security Consultant
9 262 (5.35%) Security Manager
10 217 (4.43%) IT Manager
11 215 (4.39%) Technical Specialist
12 212 (4.33%) Linux Specialist
13 205 (4.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 186 (3.80%) Security Architect
15 179 (3.66%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 178 (3.64%) IT Engineer
17 157 (3.21%) Developer
17 157 (3.21%) IT Support
18 154 (3.15%) Software Engineer
19 151 (3.08%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (1.63%) .NET
2 70 (1.43%) HTML
3 56 (1.14%) REST
4 55 (1.12%) CSS
5 52 (1.06%) OpenID
6 47 (0.96%) Web Services
7 45 (0.92%) JSON
8 41 (0.84%) OAuth
9 37 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
10 30 (0.61%) Node.js
11 29 (0.59%) jQuery
12 25 (0.51%) Middleware
12 25 (0.51%) React
12 25 (0.51%) Spring Boot
13 24 (0.49%) 802.1X
13 24 (0.49%) Spring
14 21 (0.43%) ARM Templates
15 19 (0.39%) AngularJS
16 18 (0.37%) RESTful
17 17 (0.35%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 499 (10.19%) Management Information System
2 305 (6.23%) Data Centre
3 255 (5.21%) Cyber Threat
4 243 (4.96%) Social Media
5 210 (4.29%) Security Posture
6 191 (3.90%) Operational Technology
7 174 (3.55%) Security Operations Centre
8 169 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
9 150 (3.06%) Cyberattack
10 146 (2.98%) Algorithms
11 118 (2.41%) IoT
12 115 (2.35%) Driving Licence
13 97 (1.98%) PKI
14 94 (1.92%) Onboarding
15 84 (1.72%) Public Cloud
16 79 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
17 71 (1.45%) Product Ownership
18 63 (1.29%) Private Cloud
19 57 (1.16%) Cyber Kill Chain
20 54 (1.10%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 920 (18.79%) Windows
2 604 (12.34%) Linux
3 413 (8.44%) Windows Server
4 237 (4.84%) Ubuntu
5 142 (2.90%) Windows 10
6 96 (1.96%) Apple iOS
7 74 (1.51%) Android
8 71 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 63 (1.29%) Unix
10 57 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 53 (1.08%) Embedded Linux
12 48 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
13 47 (0.96%) Mac OS
14 42 (0.86%) Kali Linux
15 24 (0.49%) Windows 7
16 18 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
17 16 (0.33%) VMS
18 11 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 9 (0.18%) Mac OS X
20 8 (0.16%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 974 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
2 858 (17.52%) Information Security
3 596 (12.17%) Incident Response
4 573 (11.70%) SIEM
5 524 (10.70%) Mentoring
6 496 (10.13%) Risk Management
7 470 (9.60%) Security Operations
8 468 (9.56%) Computer Science
9 405 (8.27%) Agile
10 402 (8.21%) ITIL
11 358 (7.31%) IT Strategy
12 357 (7.29%) Artificial Intelligence
13 348 (7.11%) Penetration Testing
14 329 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 324 (6.62%) Coaching
16 323 (6.60%) Decision-Making
17 318 (6.50%) Project Management
18 316 (6.45%) Vulnerability Management
19 301 (6.15%) Technology Strategy
20 294 (6.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 409 (8.35%) Python
2 397 (8.11%) Bash
3 257 (5.25%) SQL
4 256 (5.23%) PowerShell
5 130 (2.66%) C
6 122 (2.49%) JavaScript
7 119 (2.43%) Java
8 79 (1.61%) C#
9 63 (1.29%) Rust
10 51 (1.04%) Embedded C
11 48 (0.98%) C++
12 22 (0.45%) PHP
12 22 (0.45%) TypeScript
13 21 (0.43%) Perl
14 17 (0.35%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.29%) MATLAB
15 14 (0.29%) R
16 11 (0.22%) Go
17 10 (0.20%) RPG
17 10 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,065 (21.75%) Degree
2 800 (16.34%) Security Cleared
3 610 (12.46%) CISSP
4 384 (7.84%) SC Cleared
5 353 (7.21%) CISM
6 222 (4.53%) Cisco Certification
7 204 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 187 (3.82%) DV Cleared
9 167 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 155 (3.17%) CRISC
11 139 (2.84%) CISA
12 133 (2.72%) CCNA
13 124 (2.53%) CompTIA Security+
14 113 (2.31%) CEH
15 111 (2.27%) Master's Degree
16 105 (2.14%) GIAC
17 97 (1.98%) CCNP
18 93 (1.90%) CREST Certified
19 89 (1.82%) Azure Certification
20 72 (1.47%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 707 (14.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 559 (11.42%) NIST
3 321 (6.56%) GDPR
4 288 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 206 (4.21%) GRC
6 190 (3.88%) NCSC
7 153 (3.13%) PCI DSS
8 100 (2.04%) SLA
9 96 (1.96%) QA
10 84 (1.72%) Def Stans
11 75 (1.53%) NIST 800
12 63 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 63 (1.29%) ISO 9001
13 58 (1.18%) Data Quality
13 58 (1.18%) SOC 2
14 52 (1.06%) COBIT
15 50 (1.02%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 45 (0.92%) JSP 440
17 42 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 17025
18 35 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 801 (16.36%) Active Directory
2 260 (5.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 146 (2.98%) Hyper-V
4 130 (2.66%) Docker
5 46 (0.94%) vSphere
6 36 (0.74%) Firmware
7 34 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
8 31 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
9 28 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
10 23 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
11 11 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
12 10 (0.20%) 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 3 (0.061%) NFS
17 3 (0.061%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 400 (8.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 213 (4.35%) Jamf Pro
3 85 (1.74%) Kubernetes
4 83 (1.70%) Ansible
5 78 (1.59%) Terraform
6 43 (0.88%) WSUS
7 39 (0.80%) CASB
7 39 (0.80%) SCCM
8 38 (0.78%) EnCase
9 35 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
10 34 (0.69%) Nessus
11 30 (0.61%) FortiGate
12 28 (0.57%) QRadar
13 27 (0.55%) Puppet
13 27 (0.55%) vCenter Server
14 25 (0.51%) Stealthwatch
15 19 (0.39%) Nmap
15 19 (0.39%) SCOM
16 18 (0.37%) Nagios
17 16 (0.33%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1,523 (31.11%) Microsoft
2 349 (7.13%) VMware
3 271 (5.54%) Cisco
4 236 (4.82%) Tanium
5 235 (4.80%) CyberArk
6 171 (3.49%) Apple
7 154 (3.15%) Adobe
8 127 (2.59%) Veeam
9 105 (2.14%) Splunk
10 102 (2.08%) Google
11 88 (1.80%) Meraki
12 87 (1.78%) HP
13 71 (1.45%) Dell
14 60 (1.23%) ServiceNow
15 58 (1.18%) Qualys
16 54 (1.10%) Juniper
17 50 (1.02%) Fortinet
18 44 (0.90%) SAP
19 41 (0.84%) Citrix
19 41 (0.84%) SolarWinds