Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Cybersecurity Engineer
England > North of England

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in the North of England is £47,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 424 420
Rank change year-on-year +51 -4 -91
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 15 20 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.088% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.13% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 15 19 31
10th Percentile £35,000 £49,950 £47,500
25th Percentile £36,375 £53,375 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £65,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% -23.53% +55.96%
75th Percentile £55,000 £68,250 -
90th Percentile £60,500 £78,500 £96,250
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
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 16,276 15,873 17,422
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.15% 89.53% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 12,610 8,359 11,247
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,438 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,720
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the North of England

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the North of England

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in the North of England

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 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
North West +8 12 £50,000 -23.08% 16
Yorkshire +101 3 £38,500 - 1
Cybersecurity Engineer
England

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 19 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 North of England region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (60.00%) Azure
3 7 (46.67%) Firewall
3 7 (46.67%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (33.33%) Cyberattack
5 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 5 (33.33%) CISSP
5 5 (33.33%) SIEM
5 5 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (26.67%) SaaS
6 4 (26.67%) Release Management
6 4 (26.67%) Security Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
6 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (26.67%) Project Management
6 4 (26.67%) SQL
6 4 (26.67%) ITIL
6 4 (26.67%) CISA
6 4 (26.67%) Nessus
6 4 (26.67%) Secure Coding
6 4 (26.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 4 (26.67%) SOC 2
6 4 (26.67%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
6 4 (26.67%) Threat Modelling
6 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
6 4 (26.67%) Security Posture

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (26.67%) SaaS
3 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Law
2 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.67%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) CSS
1 1 (6.67%) Django
1 1 (6.67%) Flask
1 1 (6.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 5 (33.33%) Cyberattack
2 4 (26.67%) Security Posture
3 3 (20.00%) NHS
4 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
4 2 (13.33%) Client/Server
4 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
5 1 (6.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (46.67%) Identity Access Management
3 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (33.33%) SIEM
4 5 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (26.67%) Incident Response
5 4 (26.67%) ITIL
5 4 (26.67%) Project Management
5 4 (26.67%) Release Management
5 4 (26.67%) Secure Coding
5 4 (26.67%) Security Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Threat Modelling
5 4 (26.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 3 (20.00%) DevSecOps
6 3 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (20.00%) Security Operations
7 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) C++
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) CISSP
2 4 (26.67%) CISA
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
4 1 (6.67%) GCFA
4 1 (6.67%) GCIA
4 1 (6.67%) GCIH
4 1 (6.67%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (26.67%) SOC 2
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Nessus
2 1 (6.67%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (13.33%) Darktrace
3 2 (13.33%) Splunk
3 2 (13.33%) Symantec
4 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike