Cybersecurity Jobs in Leicestershire

Cybersecurity
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 64 27
Rank change year-on-year +39 -37 +55
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 47 47 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 6.77% 4.11% 9.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.34% 4.71% 9.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3 43 3
10th Percentile £40,495 £24,500 -
25th Percentile £42,934 £30,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £47,500 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +15.85% -13.68%
75th Percentile £60,500 £64,148 £42,083
90th Percentile £66,200 £71,600 £42,133
East Midlands median annual salary £47,683 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +12.20% -10.53% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 640 997 787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 92.22% 87.15% 98.13%
Number of salaries quoted 164 561 248
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,813 £31,250 £35,164
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -5.26% +9.64%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £59,063
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,250 £70,600
East Midlands median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £52,375
% change year-on-year -3.33% -14.08% +10.26%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Leicestershire

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in Leicestershire

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in Leicestershire

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Lutterworth -8 22 - -
Hinckley - 19 - - 1
Leicester +8 1 £49,000 +0.51% 84
Coalville +5 1 £39,919 +53.53% 3
Cybersecurity
East Midlands

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 (2.13%) Azure
1 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
1 1 (2.13%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) Big Data
1 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.13%) Power BI
1 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (2.13%) Law
1 1 (2.13%) Legal
1 1 (2.13%) Social Housing
1 1 (2.13%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (95.74%) Security Engineer
2 33 (70.21%) Principal Engineer
2 33 (70.21%) Principal Security Engineer
3 20 (42.55%) Analyst
4 19 (40.43%) Principal Security Analyst
4 19 (40.43%) Product Analyst
4 19 (40.43%) Security Analyst
5 14 (29.79%) Product Engineer
6 11 (23.40%) Senior
6 11 (23.40%) Senior Security Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Architect
7 1 (2.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Data Architect
7 1 (2.13%) Technology Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (93.62%) Risk Management
2 33 (70.21%) Cyber Resilience
2 33 (70.21%) Information Security
2 33 (70.21%) Project Management
2 33 (70.21%) Security Testing
3 11 (23.40%) Computer Science
4 2 (4.26%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (2.13%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (2.13%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (2.13%) Data Architecture
5 1 (2.13%) Data Governance
5 1 (2.13%) Data Integration
5 1 (2.13%) Data Modelling
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection
5 1 (2.13%) ETL
5 1 (2.13%) Information Architecture
5 1 (2.13%) Service Delivery
5 1 (2.13%) SIEM
5 1 (2.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (2.13%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 44 (93.62%) BPSS Clearance
1 44 (93.62%) Degree
2 33 (70.21%) CESG Certified Professional
2 33 (70.21%) CISM
2 33 (70.21%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (70.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 33 (70.21%) JSP 440
1 33 (70.21%) NIST
1 33 (70.21%) RMADS
2 1 (2.13%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (2.13%) Databricks
1 1 (2.13%) IBM
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.13%) Rapid7