SANS Jobs in London

SANS Institute
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SANS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 487 562
Rank change year-on-year +111 +75 +202
Permanent jobs citing SANS 19 22 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.093% 0.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.43% 0.33% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 8 15 51
10th Percentile £71,125 £39,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £56,875 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £72,500 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.76% -25.64% +14.71%
75th Percentile £117,188 £73,750 £111,250
90th Percentile £141,000 £76,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £58,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +20.69% -22.67% -9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

SANS falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,459 6,753 8,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.45% 28.55% 26.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,943 4,235 5,536
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £103,750 £112,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,700 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.55% -8.83% +9.09%

SANS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing SANS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SANS in London

SANS
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for SANS in London

SANS
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SANS in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SANS in London

SANS
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 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) SaaS
2 5 (26.32%) IaaS
3 4 (21.05%) AWS
4 2 (10.53%) Azure
4 2 (10.53%) PaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (63.16%) Firewall
2 9 (47.37%) SAN
3 1 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.26%) Network Security
3 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.26%) Power BI
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Bugzilla
1 1 (5.26%) Burp Suite
1 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
1 1 (5.26%) ESLint
1 1 (5.26%) Gatling
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
1 1 (5.26%) JMeter
General
1 16 (84.21%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Banking
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Law
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Analyst
2 9 (47.37%) CISSP Analyst
2 9 (47.37%) Incident Analyst
2 9 (47.37%) Junior
2 9 (47.37%) Junior Analyst
2 9 (47.37%) Junior Operations Analyst
2 9 (47.37%) Junior Security Analyst
2 9 (47.37%) Operations Analyst
2 9 (47.37%) Security Analyst
2 9 (47.37%) Security Incident Analyst
2 9 (47.37%) Security Operations Analyst
2 9 (47.37%) SIEM Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Security Architect
4 2 (10.53%) SABSA Security Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Security Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.26%) Jest
1 1 (5.26%) Node.js
1 1 (5.26%) Prisma
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Hedge funds
1 9 (47.37%) Podcast
2 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.53%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (68.42%) Incident Response
3 12 (63.16%) SIEM
4 8 (42.11%) Computer Science
5 6 (31.58%) Cloud Security
5 6 (31.58%) Information Security
6 5 (26.32%) Security Architecture
7 4 (21.05%) Information Management
7 4 (21.05%) Internal Audit
7 4 (21.05%) Risk Management
8 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (15.79%) Cyber Resilience
8 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (15.79%) Project Management
8 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
8 3 (15.79%) SABSA
8 3 (15.79%) Security Monitoring
8 3 (15.79%) Strategic Roadmap
8 3 (15.79%) Threat Intelligence
8 3 (15.79%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) PowerShell
1 10 (52.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (94.74%) CISSP
2 14 (73.68%) Degree
2 14 (73.68%) GCIH
3 12 (63.16%) GCIA
4 11 (57.89%) CEH
4 11 (57.89%) OSCP
5 10 (52.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (47.37%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (31.58%) CISA
8 4 (21.05%) CISM
8 4 (21.05%) CRISC
9 3 (15.79%) FFIEC
9 3 (15.79%) GCED
9 3 (15.79%) GIAC
9 3 (15.79%) GREM
9 3 (15.79%) GSEC
9 3 (15.79%) Master's Degree
10 2 (10.53%) CCSK
10 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (10.53%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (47.37%) NIST
2 6 (31.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (26.32%) NIST 800
4 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (10.53%) GDPR
6 1 (5.26%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
2 1 (5.26%) Puppet
2 1 (5.26%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco
3 2 (10.53%) Splunk
4 1 (5.26%) VMware