Senior Cybersecurity Analyst Jobs in England

Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
UK > England

The median Senior Cybersecurity Analyst salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 685 797 899
Rank change year-on-year +112 +102 +229
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst 6 46 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.012% 0.054% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.057% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 6 45 13
10th Percentile £60,625 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,125 £62,500 £43,477
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £46,499
Median % change year-on-year - +50.54% +3.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £86,100
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +40.00% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 44,665 81,175 81,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.55% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,293 60,496 51,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,519 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Cybersecurity Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cybersecurity Analyst in England

Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Cybersecurity Analyst in England

Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Cybersecurity Analyst in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Cybersecurity Analyst in England

Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Cybersecurity Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London +100 4 £75,000 - 4
South East +94 2 £63,750 -5.56% 2
Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
UK

Senior Cybersecurity Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Senior Cybersecurity Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior Cybersecurity Analyst in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) SIEM
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (83.33%) CISSP
3 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (66.67%) Finance
3 4 (66.67%) Degree
3 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (66.67%) Information Security
3 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 4 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 3 (50.00%) Tenable
4 3 (50.00%) CheckPoint
4 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
4 3 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (50.00%) LogRhythm
4 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (50.00%) DDoS Mitigation
4 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 3 (50.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (50.00%) Banking
4 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing

Senior Cybersecurity Analyst Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Insider Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows 10
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (100.00%) SIEM
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 4 (66.67%) Information Security
3 3 (50.00%) DDoS Mitigation
3 3 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (50.00%) Use Case
3 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) CISSP
2 4 (66.67%) Degree
3 3 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (16.67%) CCSP
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (16.67%) CISM
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (50.00%) LogRhythm
2 3 (50.00%) Qualys
2 3 (50.00%) Tenable
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk