Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in Preston

Cybersecurity Engineer
Lancashire > Preston

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in Preston is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 36 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Preston 0.26% 0.46% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.52% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% - -
75th Percentile £53,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median annual salary £37,935 £47,000 -
% change year-on-year -19.29% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Preston

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Preston. 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 Preston with a recognized job title 372 191 230
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.15% 87.61% 85.82%
Number of salaries quoted 246 150 158
10th Percentile - £26,400 £25,004
25th Percentile £47,683 £32,000 £35,168
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £42,500 £42,098
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% +0.96% +5.24%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £60,000 £62,625 £61,353
Lancashire median annual salary £50,055 £45,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year +11.23% -4.26% +10.59%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Preston

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in Preston

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Preston

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 Preston region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto