Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in Kent

Cybersecurity Engineer
South East > Kent

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in Kent is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 June 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - 88
Rank change year-on-year - - +35
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 1 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.13% - 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% - 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £92,500 - £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 - £43,750
Median % change year-on-year - - +53.51%
75th Percentile £97,500 - £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £55,000 £53,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -35.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Kent. 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 Kent with a recognized job title 560 1,620 810
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 71.43% 95.18% 83.94%
Number of salaries quoted 352 1,187 486
10th Percentile £26,025 £26,250 £27,125
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,478 £44,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -5.38% +3.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,625 £70,000 £68,750
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 Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Kent

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Kent

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the Kent region over the 6 months to 21 June 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
Chatham - 1 £95,000 -
Cybersecurity Engineer
South East

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent

For the 6 months to 21 June 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 Kent region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7