Cybersecurity Job Trends in Leicester

Cybersecurity
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 30 32
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 10 6 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 3.06% 2.97% 4.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 3.16% 5.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile - - £60,984
25th Percentile £30,250 - £64,365
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -21.43% +115.38%
75th Percentile - - £76,336
90th Percentile £81,500 - £80,137
Leicestershire median annual salary £37,500 £42,500 £65,720
% change year-on-year -11.76% -35.33% +102.21%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicester

Cybersecurity 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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 265 190 244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 81.04% 94.06% 88.41%
Number of salaries quoted 196 105 199
10th Percentile £28,375 £28,850 £26,650
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £49,995
% change year-on-year - -9.99% +5.25%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in Leicester

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Cybersecurity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Leicester over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in Leicester

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Multimedia
4 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Junior
1 5 (50.00%) Junior Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Junior Security Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Trainee
3 1 (10.00%) Head of Procurement
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (30.00%) Line Management
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (20.00%) Due Diligence
3 2 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (20.00%) Information Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Information Security
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (10.00%) Budgeting
4 1 (10.00%) Co-Creation
4 1 (10.00%) Contract Management
4 1 (10.00%) Contract Negotiation
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 5 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 5 (50.00%) CompTIA CySA+
3 2 (20.00%) A+ Certification
3 2 (20.00%) CEH
3 2 (20.00%) CISM
3 2 (20.00%) CISMP
3 2 (20.00%) CISSP
3 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) ForeScout