Communications Security Jobs in the South East

Communications Security (COMSEC)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Communications Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Communications Security over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 - 393
Rank change year-on-year - - +88
Permanent jobs citing Communications Security 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.021% - 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% - 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
75th Percentile £65,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +15.04% -22.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Communications Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,617 14,216 13,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.72% 84.52% 94.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,300 9,913 7,957
10th Percentile £29,975 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Communications Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Communications Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Communications Security in the South East

Communications Security
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Communications Security in the South East.

Salary trend for Communications Security in the South East

Communications Security
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Communications Security within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Surrey - 2 £60,000 -
Communications Security
England

Communications Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (100.00%) TPMS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Information Assurance Specialist
1 2 (100.00%) Information Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CEH
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST