Information Security Job Trends in Leicester

Information Security (InfoSec)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Information Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 39 44
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 -30
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 5 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 2.07% 1.03% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 1.26% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £46,500
25th Percentile - - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £15,704 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.83%
75th Percentile £31,778 - £72,500
90th Percentile £60,711 - £75,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £15,704 - £72,500
% change year-on-year - - +41.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicester

Information Security 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 208 238 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 86.31% 81.79% 91.81%
Number of salaries quoted 148 127 203
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,150 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,625 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% -0.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £60,313 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £86,000 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -10.00% +11.11%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Information Security job vacancy trend in Leicester

Information Security
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Information Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Information Security

Information Security
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Leicester over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Information Security in Leicester

Information Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
1 1 (20.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 3 (60.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 1st Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Keras
1 1 (20.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (20.00%) Metaflow
1 1 (20.00%) NumPy
1 1 (20.00%) Pandas
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Engagement
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Experience
2 3 (60.00%) Data Management
2 3 (60.00%) Digital Marketing
2 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (60.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) MLOps
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (20.00%) CISM
3 1 (20.00%) CISMP
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft