Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in the South East

Cybersecurity Engineer
England > South East

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in the South East is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 370 372
Rank change year-on-year +84 +2 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 21 27 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.22% 0.16% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.17% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 19 9 24
10th Percentile £48,400 - £27,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £43,750 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -35.29%
75th Percentile £71,875 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £87,125
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 8,226 16,296 12,776
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.93% 94.07% 90.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,393 11,638 8,088
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the South East

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the South East

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in the South East

Cybersecurity Engineer
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 Cybersecurity Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 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 +56 10 £55,000 +15.79%
Hampshire - 7 £75,000 - 4
Thames Valley +48 2 £55,000 -8.33% 2
Buckinghamshire +18 2 £55,000 - 1
West Sussex +39 1 £42,500 -15.00% 2
Cybersecurity Engineer
England

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 28 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 South East region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (52.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (52.38%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (52.38%) GDPR
2 11 (52.38%) Security Posture
3 9 (42.86%) SIEM
4 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
4 8 (38.10%) Incident Response
5 7 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 7 (33.33%) Compliance Audit
5 7 (33.33%) Ticket Management
5 7 (33.33%) Security Patching
5 7 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
5 7 (33.33%) Firewall
5 7 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
5 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 6 (28.57%) Cisco
6 6 (28.57%) Degree
6 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
6 6 (28.57%) Palo Alto
6 6 (28.57%) AWS
6 6 (28.57%) Splunk
6 6 (28.57%) NIST
7 5 (23.81%) Cloud Security
8 4 (19.05%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (19.05%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
8 4 (19.05%) Threat Detection
8 4 (19.05%) QRadar

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
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 (9.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (19.05%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) Firewall
2 4 (19.05%) VPN
3 1 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (4.76%) Modbus
3 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 11 (52.38%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (4.76%) Spring
1 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (52.38%) Security Posture
2 2 (9.52%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.76%) Cyberattack
3 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (42.86%) SIEM
3 8 (38.10%) Incident Response
4 7 (33.33%) Compliance Audit
4 7 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
4 7 (33.33%) Security Patching
4 7 (33.33%) Ticket Management
5 5 (23.81%) Cloud Security
6 4 (19.05%) Forensic Analysis
6 4 (19.05%) Incident Management
6 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
6 4 (19.05%) Presales
6 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (19.05%) Threat Detection
7 3 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 2 (9.52%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
8 2 (9.52%) Security Architecture
8 2 (9.52%) Threat Intelligence
8 2 (9.52%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Bash
1 4 (19.05%) Kusto Query Language
1 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
1 4 (19.05%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
2 6 (28.57%) Degree
2 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) CEH
3 4 (19.05%) CISM
3 4 (19.05%) CISSP
3 4 (19.05%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (19.05%) OSCP
4 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 2 (9.52%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (52.38%) GDPR
1 11 (52.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 6 (28.57%) NIST
4 4 (19.05%) HIPAA
5 2 (9.52%) SLA
6 1 (4.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) QRadar
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) Cisco
2 6 (28.57%) Palo Alto
2 6 (28.57%) Splunk
3 2 (9.52%) AlienVault
3 2 (9.52%) Atlassian
3 2 (9.52%) Juniper
4 1 (4.76%) Fortinet