Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in Hampshire

Cybersecurity Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in Hampshire is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 - 158
Rank change year-on-year - - +84
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 5 0 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.25% - 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% - 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £66,000 - -
25th Percentile £69,375 - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile - - £65,000
90th Percentile - - £67,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -35.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 1,924 3,732 2,742
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.11% 94.43% 94.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,245 2,915 2,037
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £66,250 £64,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Hampshire

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in Hampshire.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Hampshire

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 6 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
Portsmouth - 2 £71,250 -
Farnborough - 2 - - 3
Cybersecurity Engineer
South East

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Cybersecurity Engineer 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 Hampshire region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (60.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (60.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (60.00%) Presales
3 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (60.00%) Degree
3 3 (60.00%) QRadar
3 3 (60.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (60.00%) Threat Detection
3 3 (60.00%) GDPR
3 3 (60.00%) Forensic Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) NIST
3 3 (60.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (60.00%) CEH
3 3 (60.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) VPN
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) CISSP
3 3 (60.00%) CISM
3 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (60.00%) HIPAA

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (60.00%) Forensic Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Presales
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) SIEM
3 3 (60.00%) Threat Detection
4 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 1 (20.00%) Change Management
5 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CEH
1 3 (60.00%) CISM
1 3 (60.00%) CISSP
1 3 (60.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) OSCP
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
1 3 (60.00%) HIPAA
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk