Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
England > London

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in London is £73,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 443 550 791
Rank change year-on-year +107 +241 -247
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 53 106 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.29% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.31% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 46 81 51
10th Percentile £48,438 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,813 £55,000 £59,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £62,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.00% -21.88% +28.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,625 £93,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -22.58% +40.91%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,145 34,385 62,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 95.08% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,692 25,122 34,959
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Central London +54 8 £78,750 -3.08% 5
South London +10 4 £44,000 -26.67%
Cybersecurity Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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 London region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 53 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (50.94%) CISSP
3 26 (49.06%) SIEM
4 25 (47.17%) Information Security
5 23 (43.40%) Firewall
6 21 (39.62%) Finance
6 21 (39.62%) Python
7 18 (33.96%) Cloud Security
8 17 (32.08%) Management Information System
8 17 (32.08%) Azure
9 15 (28.30%) PowerShell
9 15 (28.30%) Incident Response
10 14 (26.42%) Identity Access Management
10 14 (26.42%) Vulnerability Management
10 14 (26.42%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (24.53%) Cryptography
12 12 (22.64%) CISM
12 12 (22.64%) Windows
13 11 (20.75%) CEH
13 11 (20.75%) Security Monitoring
13 11 (20.75%) Ansible
13 11 (20.75%) NIST
14 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
14 10 (18.87%) CyberArk
14 10 (18.87%) Degree
14 10 (18.87%) Network Security
15 9 (16.98%) Bash
15 9 (16.98%) PKI
15 9 (16.98%) Microsoft
15 9 (16.98%) DevOps

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.08%) Azure
2 14 (26.42%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (15.09%) GCP
4 6 (11.32%) AWS
5 3 (5.66%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (5.66%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (5.66%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (43.40%) Firewall
2 10 (18.87%) Network Security
3 8 (15.09%) LAN
4 5 (9.43%) VPN
5 4 (7.55%) WAN
6 3 (5.66%) DNS
7 2 (3.77%) Internet
7 2 (3.77%) SD-WAN
7 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.77%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (3.77%) Wireshark
8 1 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) BigQuery
1 5 (9.43%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (9.43%) Hadoop
1 5 (9.43%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.66%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (39.62%) Finance
2 8 (15.09%) Banking
3 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
4 6 (11.32%) Law
5 5 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (9.43%) Retail
6 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.77%) French Language
8 2 (3.77%) German Language
8 2 (3.77%) Italian Language
8 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.77%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.89%) Electronics
9 1 (1.89%) Legal
9 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.89%) Marketing
9 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) web3js
2 2 (3.77%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (32.08%) Management Information System
2 9 (16.98%) PKI
3 7 (13.21%) Blog
4 6 (11.32%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (9.43%) Blockchain
5 5 (9.43%) Web3
6 3 (5.66%) Operational Technology
6 3 (5.66%) Security Posture
7 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (3.77%) IoT
7 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.77%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.89%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.64%) Windows
2 6 (11.32%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.55%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (3.77%) Android
4 2 (3.77%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 26 (49.06%) SIEM
3 25 (47.17%) Information Security
4 18 (33.96%) Cloud Security
5 15 (28.30%) Incident Response
6 14 (26.42%) Identity Access Management
6 14 (26.42%) Vulnerability Management
7 13 (24.53%) Cryptography
8 11 (20.75%) Security Monitoring
9 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
10 9 (16.98%) Application Security
10 9 (16.98%) DevOps
10 9 (16.98%) Patch Management
11 8 (15.09%) Data Modelling
12 7 (13.21%) Analytics
12 7 (13.21%) Computer Science
12 7 (13.21%) Data Protection
12 7 (13.21%) Process Improvement
12 7 (13.21%) Security Operations
12 7 (13.21%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (39.62%) Python
2 15 (28.30%) PowerShell
3 9 (16.98%) Bash
4 7 (13.21%) Java
5 5 (9.43%) SQL
6 2 (3.77%) C
6 2 (3.77%) C++
7 1 (1.89%) Perl
7 1 (1.89%) Ruby
7 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (50.94%) CISSP
2 12 (22.64%) CISM
3 11 (20.75%) CEH
4 10 (18.87%) Degree
5 3 (5.66%) CRISC
5 3 (5.66%) GIAC
5 3 (5.66%) ISSMP
5 3 (5.66%) SANS
6 2 (3.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (3.77%) CCSP
6 2 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.77%) SSCP
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.89%) CISA
7 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.89%) GSEC
7 1 (1.89%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.75%) NIST
2 5 (9.43%) Data Quality
3 4 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.66%) COBIT
4 3 (5.66%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (5.66%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.89%) GDPR
5 1 (1.89%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.89%) NCSC
5 1 (1.89%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (5.66%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (20.75%) Ansible
2 5 (9.43%) logstash
3 4 (7.55%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.77%) Nmap
6 1 (1.89%) CASB
6 1 (1.89%) Core Impact
6 1 (1.89%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (18.87%) CyberArk
2 9 (16.98%) Microsoft
3 8 (15.09%) ArcSight
3 8 (15.09%) Atlassian
3 8 (15.09%) Carbon Black
3 8 (15.09%) Google
3 8 (15.09%) McAfee
3 8 (15.09%) Rapid7
4 6 (11.32%) Fortinet
5 5 (9.43%) Cisco
6 4 (7.55%) Qualys
6 4 (7.55%) Splunk
7 3 (5.66%) Alibaba
7 3 (5.66%) iManage
8 2 (3.77%) LogRhythm
8 2 (3.77%) Meraki
8 2 (3.77%) Palo Alto
8 2 (3.77%) Thycotic
9 1 (1.89%) IBM
9 1 (1.89%) SAP