Cybersecurity Jobs in the South West

Cybersecurity
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 28 45
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 +12
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 524 539 620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.96% 8.66% 6.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.71% 9.15% 7.08%
Number of salaries quoted 415 302 265
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £31,422
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,063 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% +6.48%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £85,977 £90,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £64,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.16% -1.54% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Cybersecurity 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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,800 5,890 8,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 77.33% 94.65% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,670 3,616 5,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,188 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +4.35%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the South West over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Bristol +5 238 £68,500 +5.38% 22
Gloucestershire +13 116 £55,000 -8.33% 18
Wiltshire -10 73 £75,000 +7.14% 7
Dorset +18 47 £53,750 -10.42% 4
Devon -16 25 £57,500 -10.85% 3
Somerset -9 22 £48,750 -22.00% 13
Cornwall -24 1 £43,500 -3.33% 2
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 9 (1.72%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.53%) Apache
2 8 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.95%) Luigi
5 4 (0.76%) IIS
5 4 (0.76%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.57%) Confluence
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 63 (12.02%) Azure
2 44 (8.40%) AWS
3 29 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (3.05%) SaaS
5 15 (2.86%) Entra ID
6 10 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (1.72%) GCP
8 6 (1.15%) Snowflake
9 4 (0.76%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.76%) IaaS
9 4 (0.76%) PaaS
9 4 (0.76%) Serverless
10 3 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.57%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.57%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.57%) WhatsApp
11 2 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.38%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 59 (11.26%) Network Security
2 43 (8.21%) Firewall
3 17 (3.24%) VPN
4 13 (2.48%) LAN
4 13 (2.48%) SD-WAN
4 13 (2.48%) WAN
4 13 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (1.72%) Cisco IPT
5 9 (1.72%) VSAN
6 8 (1.53%) Internet
7 7 (1.34%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
8 6 (1.15%) VLAN
9 4 (0.76%) Wireless
10 3 (0.57%) SAN
11 2 (0.38%) DNS
11 2 (0.38%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (0.38%) VoIP
12 1 (0.19%) DHCP
12 1 (0.19%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.24%) Big Data
2 7 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.15%) Bigtable
3 6 (1.15%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.15%) Redis
4 5 (0.95%) CouchDB
4 5 (0.95%) RethinkDB
5 3 (0.57%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.38%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.19%) Power BI
7 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (2.67%) Git
2 6 (1.15%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.76%) Bitbucket
3 4 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.57%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.57%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.57%) JIRA
4 3 (0.57%) Selenium
4 3 (0.57%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.38%) Rational Team Concert
6 1 (0.19%) GCC
General
1 97 (18.51%) Social Skills
2 76 (14.50%) Finance
3 46 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (6.30%) Law
5 31 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (3.82%) Military
6 20 (3.82%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.05%) Banking
8 13 (2.48%) Retail
9 11 (2.10%) Legal
10 10 (1.91%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.72%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.34%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.34%) Marketing
13 5 (0.95%) Electronics
14 3 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.57%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.38%) Aviation
15 2 (0.38%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (23.09%) Consultant
2 108 (20.61%) Security Consultant
3 80 (15.27%) Senior
4 75 (14.31%) Software Engineer
5 69 (13.17%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 59 (11.26%) Lead
7 50 (9.54%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 50 (9.54%) Security Manager
8 46 (8.78%) Embedded Engineer
8 46 (8.78%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 40 (7.63%) Analyst
10 33 (6.30%) Information Manager
10 33 (6.30%) Information Security Manager
11 32 (6.11%) Security Assurance Manager
12 31 (5.92%) Senior Software Engineer
13 30 (5.73%) Information Assurance Manager
14 29 (5.53%) Architect
15 28 (5.34%) Security Analyst
16 24 (4.58%) Senior Embedded Engineer
16 24 (4.58%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.01%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (2.48%) CSS
3 10 (1.91%) PySpark
4 9 (1.72%) HTML
4 9 (1.72%) ModSecurity
4 9 (1.72%) React
5 8 (1.53%) Pandas
6 6 (1.15%) SQLAlchemy
7 4 (0.76%) .NET
7 4 (0.76%) .NET Core
7 4 (0.76%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.76%) Spring
8 3 (0.57%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.57%) Tailwind CSS
9 2 (0.38%) Kafka
9 2 (0.38%) REST
10 1 (0.19%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.19%) Laravel
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Fusion
10 1 (0.19%) RESTEasy
Miscellaneous
1 45 (8.59%) Cyberattack
2 31 (5.92%) Security Operations Centre
3 24 (4.58%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 24 (4.58%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.44%) Data Centre
5 13 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
6 12 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (2.29%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.10%) Reinsurance
8 10 (1.91%) Cyber Defence
8 10 (1.91%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.53%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.15%) Operational Technology
12 5 (0.95%) Cloud Native
12 5 (0.95%) Clustering
12 5 (0.95%) Private Cloud
12 5 (0.95%) Replication
12 5 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 3 (0.57%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 74 (14.12%) Linux
2 46 (8.78%) Embedded Linux
3 44 (8.40%) Windows
4 9 (1.72%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.76%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.38%) Unix
7 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.19%) Android
8 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (22.52%) Risk Management
2 88 (16.79%) Software Engineering
3 81 (15.46%) Information Assurance
4 75 (14.31%) Security Operations
5 70 (13.36%) Information Security
6 60 (11.45%) SIEM
7 59 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
8 58 (11.07%) Agile
9 53 (10.11%) Incident Response
10 50 (9.54%) Incident Management
11 47 (8.97%) Computer Science
11 47 (8.97%) Mentoring
12 45 (8.59%) Vulnerability Management
13 44 (8.40%) Analytics
14 40 (7.63%) Security Architecture
15 39 (7.44%) Stakeholder Management
16 38 (7.25%) Security Management
17 37 (7.06%) Project Delivery
18 36 (6.87%) Machine Learning
19 31 (5.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 105 (20.04%) Python
2 75 (14.31%) Bash
3 68 (12.98%) C
4 49 (9.35%) Rust
5 46 (8.78%) Embedded C
6 33 (6.30%) SQL
7 18 (3.44%) C++
7 18 (3.44%) Java
8 14 (2.67%) JavaScript
8 14 (2.67%) Perl
9 13 (2.48%) C#
9 13 (2.48%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.95%) R
10 5 (0.95%) Scala
11 1 (0.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 236 (45.04%) Security Cleared
2 108 (20.61%) SC Cleared
3 94 (17.94%) CISSP
4 84 (16.03%) Degree
5 74 (14.12%) CISM
6 66 (12.60%) DV Cleared
7 54 (10.31%) CRISC
8 35 (6.68%) CESG Certified Professional
8 35 (6.68%) CISA
9 26 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (4.20%) Master's Degree
11 12 (2.29%) CHECK Team Member
11 12 (2.29%) OSCP
12 11 (2.10%) CompTIA CySA+
13 10 (1.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 10 (1.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 8 (1.53%) CREST Certified
15 7 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (1.34%) GIAC
16 6 (1.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (17.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 71 (13.55%) NIST
3 44 (8.40%) NCSC
4 29 (5.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 22 (4.20%) GDPR
6 21 (4.01%) JSP 440
7 18 (3.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 14 (2.67%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.91%) Accessibility
10 8 (1.53%) NIST 800
10 8 (1.53%) SOC 2
11 6 (1.15%) Data Quality
11 6 (1.15%) GRC
12 5 (0.95%) SOC 1
13 4 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.57%) RMADS
15 2 (0.38%) FedRAMP
15 2 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (5.92%) Active Directory
2 30 (5.73%) vSphere
3 24 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.29%) Docker
5 8 (1.53%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.95%) Firmware
6 5 (0.95%) RACF
6 5 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.76%) NFS
7 4 (0.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.57%) Forefront TMG
8 3 (0.57%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (3.24%) Ansible
2 16 (3.05%) WSUS
3 14 (2.67%) Kubernetes
4 12 (2.29%) CASB
5 10 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.72%) Puppet
6 9 (1.72%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.15%) Terraform
8 5 (0.95%) Nagios
9 4 (0.76%) Grafana
10 3 (0.57%) SCOM
11 2 (0.38%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.38%) SCCM
12 1 (0.19%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.19%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 66 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.96%) VMware
3 24 (4.58%) Cisco
4 21 (4.01%) SolarWinds
4 21 (4.01%) Tanium
4 21 (4.01%) Tripwire
5 12 (2.29%) Databricks
6 8 (1.53%) Google
7 5 (0.95%) CyberArk
7 5 (0.95%) Salesforce
7 5 (0.95%) Splunk
8 3 (0.57%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.57%) Coverity
9 2 (0.38%) Aruba
9 2 (0.38%) Sage
9 2 (0.38%) SonicWALL
9 2 (0.38%) Veracode
9 2 (0.38%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.19%) BT
10 1 (0.19%) IBM Sterling