Information Security Jobs in England

Information Security (InfoSec)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Information Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Information Security 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 116 89 115
Rank change year-on-year -27 +26 +15
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 1,819 2,591 4,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.32% 3.65% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 3.83% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,309 1,692 2,664
10th Percentile £39,700 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,202 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.38% - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Information Security 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%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in England

Information Security
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Information Security in England

Information Security
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Information Security in England

Information Security
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security 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 -40 671 £75,000 +3.79% 102
North of England -17 360 £52,084 +2.63% 72
South East -34 274 £60,000 - 49
Midlands -30 251 £55,000 -8.33% 44
North West -25 223 £52,084 +5.22% 37
West Midlands -22 174 £57,500 - 32
South West -5 171 £55,000 - 32
Yorkshire +1 104 £50,000 -9.09% 22
East of England -27 77 £55,000 -10.20% 20
East Midlands +12 74 £52,500 -19.23% 12
North East +5 33 £51,250 +2.50% 14
Information Security
UK

Information Security
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 56 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 39 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.44%) CMS
3 8 (0.44%) Skype for Business
4 7 (0.38%) nginx
4 7 (0.38%) SAS
5 6 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.22%) Apache
6 4 (0.22%) Confluence
7 3 (0.16%) IIS
7 3 (0.16%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.16%) WordPress
8 1 (0.055%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.055%) Camunda
8 1 (0.055%) Drupal
8 1 (0.055%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.055%) Umbraco
Applications
1 57 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.99%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.38%) SPSS
7 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.11%) Windchill
8 1 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.82%) Ripple
3 7 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.33%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.22%) SAP GRC
6 3 (0.16%) Relativity
7 2 (0.11%) Farmplan
7 2 (0.11%) KEYPrime
7 2 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.11%) Shopify
7 2 (0.11%) Veritas eDiscovery
8 1 (0.055%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.055%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 387 (21.28%) Azure
2 238 (13.08%) AWS
3 207 (11.38%) Microsoft 365
4 113 (6.21%) Entra ID
5 84 (4.62%) SaaS
6 74 (4.07%) GCP
7 73 (4.01%) Power Platform
8 58 (3.19%) IaaS
9 57 (3.13%) PaaS
10 42 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
11 24 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
13 19 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
13 19 (1.04%) Serverless
13 19 (1.04%) WhatsApp
14 14 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
15 13 (0.71%) OneDrive
16 11 (0.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 10 (0.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 255 (14.02%) Firewall
2 143 (7.86%) Network Security
3 84 (4.62%) WAN
4 60 (3.30%) DNS
5 52 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
6 49 (2.69%) SD-WAN
7 45 (2.47%) LAN
8 42 (2.31%) VPN
9 39 (2.14%) TCP/IP
10 29 (1.59%) SSL
10 29 (1.59%) Wireless
11 24 (1.32%) VoIP
12 23 (1.26%) SAN
12 23 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
13 22 (1.21%) DHCP
14 21 (1.15%) OSPF
15 18 (0.99%) BGP
15 18 (0.99%) MPLS
16 14 (0.77%) Internet
17 13 (0.71%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (3.52%) SQL Server
2 57 (3.13%) Power BI
3 24 (1.32%) Relational Database
4 21 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (0.88%) Oracle Database
6 15 (0.82%) Big Data
6 15 (0.82%) MySQL
7 14 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (0.66%) Metadata
8 12 (0.66%) NoSQL
9 11 (0.60%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.44%) SAP HANA
11 7 (0.38%) EDRMS
12 6 (0.33%) Data Mining
13 5 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.27%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.27%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.27%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.16%) Amazon Athena
15 2 (0.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 37 (2.03%) Git
2 26 (1.43%) JIRA
3 20 (1.10%) Artifactory
4 17 (0.93%) Burp Suite
5 13 (0.71%) Metasploit
5 13 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
6 10 (0.55%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.38%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.38%) Selenium
8 6 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 6 (0.33%) Toad
9 5 (0.27%) GitLab
9 5 (0.27%) MSTest
9 5 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.27%) SpecFlow
9 5 (0.27%) webpack
10 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.11%) JUnit
11 2 (0.11%) Mockito
General
1 505 (27.76%) Social Skills
2 396 (21.77%) Finance
3 280 (15.39%) Analytical Skills
4 255 (14.02%) Legal
5 153 (8.41%) Law
6 112 (6.16%) Banking
7 101 (5.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 92 (5.06%) Retail
9 70 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
10 50 (2.75%) Military
11 49 (2.69%) Public Sector
12 43 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
13 40 (2.20%) Telecoms
14 36 (1.98%) Marketing
15 31 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
16 26 (1.43%) Aerospace
17 25 (1.37%) Advertising
17 25 (1.37%) Financial Institution
17 25 (1.37%) Manufacturing
18 19 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 421 (23.14%) Analyst
2 268 (14.73%) Senior
3 265 (14.57%) Security Analyst
4 212 (11.65%) Security Manager
5 166 (9.13%) Lead
6 136 (7.48%) Senior Analyst
7 127 (6.98%) Information Analyst
7 127 (6.98%) Information Security Analyst
8 126 (6.93%) Information Security Manager
9 125 (6.87%) Information Manager
10 111 (6.10%) Architect
11 101 (5.55%) Security Engineer
12 95 (5.22%) IT Manager
13 87 (4.78%) Consultant
14 82 (4.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 74 (4.07%) Security Consultant
16 71 (3.90%) Security Architect
17 68 (3.74%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 55 (3.02%) Senior Security Analyst
19 51 (2.80%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.48%) .NET
2 19 (1.04%) React
3 16 (0.88%) REST
4 15 (0.82%) Middleware
5 14 (0.77%) SAML
6 12 (0.66%) 802.1X
6 12 (0.66%) RESTful
6 12 (0.66%) Web Services
7 11 (0.60%) CSS
7 11 (0.60%) ModSecurity
8 10 (0.55%) HTML
8 10 (0.55%) JSON
8 10 (0.55%) Laravel
9 9 (0.49%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (0.49%) SailPoint
10 8 (0.44%) Sass
11 7 (0.38%) .NET Core
11 7 (0.38%) jQuery
11 7 (0.38%) Vue
11 7 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 490 (26.94%) Management Information System
2 130 (7.15%) Security Posture
3 102 (5.61%) Data Centre
4 82 (4.51%) Cyber Threat
5 69 (3.79%) Security Operations Centre
6 66 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
7 51 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
8 49 (2.69%) Cyber Defence
9 44 (2.42%) Cyberattack
10 42 (2.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 31 (1.70%) Operational Technology
12 29 (1.59%) Cloud Native
12 29 (1.59%) Product Ownership
12 29 (1.59%) Public Cloud
13 28 (1.54%) Onboarding
14 24 (1.32%) PKI
15 23 (1.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 23 (1.26%) Driving Licence
16 22 (1.21%) PMI
17 18 (0.99%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 228 (12.53%) Windows
2 126 (6.93%) Linux
3 104 (5.72%) Windows Server
4 36 (1.98%) Windows 10
5 24 (1.32%) Unix
6 17 (0.93%) Android
7 15 (0.82%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.55%) Solaris
10 9 (0.49%) zOS
11 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.22%) Rocky
14 4 (0.22%) VMS
14 4 (0.22%) Windows XP
15 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.11%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 731 (40.19%) Cybersecurity
2 361 (19.85%) Risk Management
3 299 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
4 269 (14.79%) Incident Response
5 256 (14.07%) Data Protection
6 248 (13.63%) Security Operations
7 225 (12.37%) Vulnerability Management
8 217 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 202 (11.11%) SIEM
10 201 (11.05%) Agile
11 200 (11.00%) Security Management
12 190 (10.45%) ITIL
13 180 (9.90%) Incident Management
14 176 (9.68%) Project Management
15 171 (9.40%) Information Security Management
16 170 (9.35%) Cloud Security
17 164 (9.02%) Roadmaps
18 157 (8.63%) Security Architecture
19 149 (8.19%) Computer Science
20 148 (8.14%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 155 (8.52%) PowerShell
2 136 (7.48%) SQL
3 135 (7.42%) Python
4 47 (2.58%) Bash
5 32 (1.76%) Java
6 21 (1.15%) JavaScript
7 15 (0.82%) C#
8 13 (0.71%) PHP
9 11 (0.60%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.49%) Perl
11 7 (0.38%) Go
12 6 (0.33%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.22%) Ruby
14 3 (0.16%) C++
14 3 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.11%) Korn
15 2 (0.11%) R
15 2 (0.11%) Rust
16 1 (0.055%) ActionScript
16 1 (0.055%) Scala
Qualifications
1 468 (25.73%) CISSP
2 359 (19.74%) CISM
3 348 (19.13%) Degree
4 199 (10.94%) CISA
5 176 (9.68%) Security Cleared
6 109 (5.99%) SC Cleared
7 104 (5.72%) Cisco Certification
8 92 (5.06%) CRISC
9 78 (4.29%) Azure Certification
10 68 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 64 (3.52%) CEH
12 61 (3.35%) AWS Certification
13 56 (3.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 53 (2.91%) CCSP
14 53 (2.91%) Master's Degree
15 46 (2.53%) CompTIA Security+
16 43 (2.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 42 (2.31%) DV Cleared
18 38 (2.09%) GIAC
19 36 (1.98%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 565 (31.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 342 (18.80%) NIST
3 246 (13.52%) GDPR
4 203 (11.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 187 (10.28%) GRC
6 136 (7.48%) PCI DSS
7 69 (3.79%) NCSC
8 68 (3.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 57 (3.13%) COBIT
10 45 (2.47%) NIST 800
11 40 (2.20%) SLA
12 31 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 31 (1.70%) QA
13 28 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 25 (1.37%) SOC 2
15 24 (1.32%) Data Quality
16 22 (1.21%) ISO 9001
17 21 (1.15%) ISO 22301
18 19 (1.04%) HIPAA
19 18 (0.99%) JSP 440
System Software
1 196 (10.78%) Active Directory
2 58 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (2.47%) RACF
4 32 (1.76%) Docker
5 24 (1.32%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.71%) vSphere
8 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.22%) pfSense
11 3 (0.16%) Firmware
11 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.055%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.055%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.055%) NFS
13 1 (0.055%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.055%) Snort
13 1 (0.055%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 64 (3.52%) Single Sign-On
2 58 (3.19%) Kubernetes
3 38 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (1.48%) Terraform
5 22 (1.21%) Ansible
6 21 (1.15%) CASB
7 16 (0.88%) vCenter Server
8 15 (0.82%) CSIRT
9 13 (0.71%) Microsoft Clustering
9 13 (0.71%) Nmap
10 12 (0.66%) Nessus
11 10 (0.55%) QRadar
11 10 (0.55%) WSUS
12 9 (0.49%) Puppet
12 9 (0.49%) SCCM
13 6 (0.33%) logstash
14 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
15 3 (0.16%) McAfee ePO
15 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 467 (25.67%) Microsoft
2 103 (5.66%) VMware
3 84 (4.62%) Cisco
4 59 (3.24%) CyberArk
5 40 (2.20%) Oracle
6 35 (1.92%) Google
7 34 (1.87%) ServiceNow
8 28 (1.54%) Palo Alto
9 25 (1.37%) HP
10 24 (1.32%) Red Hat
11 23 (1.26%) CheckPoint
12 22 (1.21%) SAP
13 19 (1.04%) Citrix
14 17 (0.93%) Databricks
14 17 (0.93%) Qualys
14 17 (0.93%) Rapid7
14 17 (0.93%) Splunk
15 15 (0.82%) Commvault
15 15 (0.82%) IBM
15 15 (0.82%) SolarWinds