Cyber Defence Job Trends in Guildford

Cyber Defence
Surrey > Guildford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in permanent job vacancies in Guildford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Defence 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Guildford 0.20% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.96% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - -
75th Percentile £73,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median annual salary £67,500 - -

All Generic Skills
Guildford

Cyber Defence falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Guildford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 104 64 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Guildford 20.88% 42.11% 35.13%
Number of salaries quoted 78 39 56
10th Percentile £32,125 £31,360 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +8.11% -19.57%
75th Percentile £79,688 £67,500 £56,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,000 £68,750
Surrey median annual salary £55,000 £49,500 £47,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.32% -21.67%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cyber Defence relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Guildford.

Cyber Defence job vacancy trend in Guildford

Cyber Defence
Salary Trend in Guildford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Cyber Defence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Cyber Defence

Cyber Defence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Information Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk