Cybersecurity Specialist Jobs in London

Cybersecurity Specialist
England > London

The median Cybersecurity Specialist salary in London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2025.

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

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 483 598
Rank change year-on-year +100 +115 +286
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Specialist 7 18 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.054% 0.076% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.081% 0.075%
Number of salaries quoted 7 14 23
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £65,313 £55,277
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +25.00% -18.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,875 £72,250
90th Percentile £95,500 £92,375 £84,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £50,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.81% -15.83% -31.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 11,667 22,294 32,059
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.21% 94.24% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7,272 16,651 23,653
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,470
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%

Cybersecurity Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Specialist in London

Cybersecurity Specialist
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Specialist in London

Cybersecurity Specialist
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Specialist in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Specialist in London

Cybersecurity Specialist
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 Specialist within the London region over the 6 months to 17 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
East London - 2 £95,000 -
Cybersecurity Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Cybersecurity Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (71.43%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (71.43%) NIST
2 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) Banking
3 4 (57.14%) CISM
3 4 (57.14%) Risk Management
4 3 (42.86%) CISSP
4 3 (42.86%) GCIA
4 3 (42.86%) GCIH
4 3 (42.86%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (42.86%) NIST 800
4 3 (42.86%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (42.86%) SIEM
4 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
5 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
5 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) CRISC
5 2 (28.57%) RSA Archer
5 2 (28.57%) Data Encryption
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
5 2 (28.57%) SOC 2
5 2 (28.57%) SOC 1
5 2 (28.57%) GRC
5 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
5 2 (28.57%) Application Security
5 2 (28.57%) Risk Register

Cybersecurity Specialist 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (71.43%) Banking
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
1 2 (28.57%) Taxonomies
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (71.43%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (57.14%) Risk Management
4 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
4 3 (42.86%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (42.86%) SIEM
4 3 (42.86%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) Application Security
5 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Data Encryption
5 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
5 2 (28.57%) Information Security
5 2 (28.57%) ITIL
5 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (28.57%) Risk Register
5 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) CISM
2 3 (42.86%) CISSP
2 3 (42.86%) GCIA
2 3 (42.86%) GCIH
3 2 (28.57%) CRISC
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 2 (28.57%) GCFA
3 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
4 1 (14.29%) GCED
4 1 (14.29%) GIAC
4 1 (14.29%) GREM
4 1 (14.29%) GSEC
4 1 (14.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) NIST
2 3 (42.86%) NIST 800
3 2 (28.57%) GRC
3 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (28.57%) SOC 1
3 2 (28.57%) SOC 2
4 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) RSA Archer
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) VMware