Cybersecurity Jobs in the South West

Cybersecurity
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 36 48
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 631 496 474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.89% 7.18% 5.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.19% 7.61% 6.27%
Number of salaries quoted 488 261 236
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £33,375
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,675 £85,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Cybersecurity is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,707 6,522 7,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 84.15% 94.44% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,535 3,657 4,995
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,200 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 28 April 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 28 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
Bristol +4 286 £68,500 +5.38% 39
Gloucestershire +21 173 £57,250 +4.09% 43
Wiltshire -12 66 £62,500 -13.79% 19
Dorset +2 38 £45,000 -15.09% 11
Devon 0 38 £55,173 +90.25% 9
Somerset +5 27 £43,750 -27.08% 16
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 17 (2.69%) IIS
1 17 (2.69%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.63%) Site Server
4 2 (0.32%) Apache
4 2 (0.32%) Confluence
4 2 (0.32%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.32%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 14 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.63%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Primavera
1 2 (0.32%) SAP ERP
1 2 (0.32%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 93 (14.74%) Azure
2 60 (9.51%) AWS
3 42 (6.66%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (3.80%) SaaS
5 15 (2.38%) GCP
6 13 (2.06%) Entra ID
7 11 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (1.43%) PaaS
9 8 (1.27%) IaaS
10 6 (0.95%) OneDrive
11 4 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (0.63%) GitHub
12 3 (0.48%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (0.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.48%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.48%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.48%) WhatsApp
13 2 (0.32%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 66 (10.46%) Firewall
2 63 (9.98%) Network Security
3 26 (4.12%) WAN
4 21 (3.33%) VPN
5 20 (3.17%) LAN
6 19 (3.01%) SD-WAN
7 18 (2.85%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (2.06%) Internet
8 13 (2.06%) VSAN
9 12 (1.90%) TCP/IP
10 9 (1.43%) Wireless
11 8 (1.27%) VLAN
12 7 (1.11%) Cisco IPT
13 6 (0.95%) BGP
13 6 (0.95%) Intrusion Detection
13 6 (0.95%) MPLS
13 6 (0.95%) VPLS
14 5 (0.79%) 5G
14 5 (0.79%) VoIP
15 4 (0.63%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.43%) NoSQL
2 8 (1.27%) Big Data
3 7 (1.11%) Data Lake
3 7 (1.11%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.95%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.63%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.32%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 11 (1.74%) Jenkins
2 9 (1.43%) Git
3 5 (0.79%) LabVIEW
4 4 (0.63%) Burp Suite
4 4 (0.63%) IBM UrbanCode
4 4 (0.63%) Metasploit
4 4 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.48%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.48%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.48%) Selenium
6 2 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.16%) GCC
7 1 (0.16%) JIRA
7 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
General
1 118 (18.70%) Social Skills
2 103 (16.32%) Finance
3 65 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (7.45%) Military
5 44 (6.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (6.34%) Aerospace
7 37 (5.86%) Law
8 24 (3.80%) Public Sector
9 23 (3.65%) Retail
10 20 (3.17%) Banking
11 17 (2.69%) Aviation
12 15 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.90%) Legal
14 11 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.58%) Games
15 10 (1.58%) Marketing
16 8 (1.27%) Investment Banking
17 5 (0.79%) Electronics
17 5 (0.79%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 140 (22.19%) Consultant
2 137 (21.71%) Senior
3 126 (19.97%) Security Consultant
4 79 (12.52%) Software Engineer
5 69 (10.94%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 58 (9.19%) Analyst
7 50 (7.92%) Embedded Engineer
7 50 (7.92%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 49 (7.77%) Security Manager
9 48 (7.61%) Lead
10 47 (7.45%) Architect
11 42 (6.66%) Security Analyst
12 41 (6.50%) Senior Software Engineer
13 37 (5.86%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 37 (5.86%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 36 (5.71%) Security Architect
15 33 (5.23%) Information Manager
15 33 (5.23%) Information Security Manager
16 32 (5.07%) Senior Analyst
17 30 (4.75%) Security Assurance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.74%) CSS
2 9 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (1.27%) HTML
4 7 (1.11%) .NET
4 7 (1.11%) ModSecurity
4 7 (1.11%) OpenID
4 7 (1.11%) React
5 5 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (0.79%) REST
6 4 (0.63%) .NET Core
6 4 (0.63%) .NET Framework
6 4 (0.63%) Flash
6 4 (0.63%) Keras
6 4 (0.63%) NumPy
6 4 (0.63%) Pandas
6 4 (0.63%) PyTorch
6 4 (0.63%) scikit-learn
6 4 (0.63%) SpaCy
6 4 (0.63%) Statsmodels
6 4 (0.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.81%) Security Operations Centre
2 42 (6.66%) Cyberattack
3 33 (5.23%) Management Information System
4 29 (4.60%) Cyber Defence
5 22 (3.49%) Cyber Threat
6 21 (3.33%) Data Centre
7 19 (3.01%) Public Cloud
8 17 (2.69%) Operational Technology
9 15 (2.38%) CESG
10 13 (2.06%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 11 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.74%) Product Ownership
13 10 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (0.95%) Cyber Security Posture
15 6 (0.95%) Mainframe
16 5 (0.79%) Clustering
16 5 (0.79%) Private Cloud
16 5 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 103 (16.32%) Linux
2 92 (14.58%) Windows
3 50 (7.92%) Embedded Linux
4 18 (2.85%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.54%) Unix
6 8 (1.27%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.11%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.63%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.63%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.32%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.16%) Android
11 1 (0.16%) VMS
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (18.70%) Risk Management
2 100 (15.85%) Information Assurance
3 89 (14.10%) Information Security
4 85 (13.47%) Software Engineering
5 83 (13.15%) Security Operations
6 76 (12.04%) Agile
7 67 (10.62%) SIEM
8 65 (10.30%) Mentoring
9 64 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (9.83%) Incident Response
11 55 (8.72%) Security Architecture
12 48 (7.61%) Penetration Testing
13 47 (7.45%) Project Delivery
14 43 (6.81%) Incident Management
14 43 (6.81%) Vulnerability Management
15 39 (6.18%) Computer Science
15 39 (6.18%) Stakeholder Management
16 37 (5.86%) Coaching
17 34 (5.39%) Security Management
18 32 (5.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 133 (21.08%) Python
2 93 (14.74%) Bash
3 67 (10.62%) C
4 51 (8.08%) Rust
5 50 (7.92%) Embedded C
6 27 (4.28%) SQL
7 19 (3.01%) Java
8 17 (2.69%) C#
8 17 (2.69%) PowerShell
9 15 (2.38%) JavaScript
10 13 (2.06%) C++
11 5 (0.79%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.79%) R
11 5 (0.79%) Scala
12 2 (0.32%) Perl
13 1 (0.16%) Go
13 1 (0.16%) PHP
13 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 276 (43.74%) Security Cleared
2 116 (18.38%) SC Cleared
3 100 (15.85%) CISSP
4 77 (12.20%) CISM
4 77 (12.20%) Degree
5 76 (12.04%) DV Cleared
6 57 (9.03%) CRISC
7 39 (6.18%) CESG Certified Professional
8 31 (4.91%) CISA
9 17 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (2.69%) CISMP
10 16 (2.54%) Master's Degree
11 15 (2.38%) CompTIA CySA+
11 15 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
13 12 (1.90%) IISP
14 11 (1.74%) CHECK Team Member
14 11 (1.74%) GIAC
14 11 (1.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 11 (1.74%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (15.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 94 (14.90%) NIST
3 44 (6.97%) NCSC
4 37 (5.86%) JSP 440
5 30 (4.75%) NIST 800
6 29 (4.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 23 (3.65%) GDPR
8 18 (2.85%) PCI DSS
9 15 (2.38%) RMADS
10 14 (2.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 13 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (1.43%) Accessibility
12 9 (1.43%) SOC 2
13 8 (1.27%) GRC
14 7 (1.11%) DO-254
15 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.79%) QA
15 5 (0.79%) SOC 1
16 4 (0.63%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.63%) JTAG
System Software
1 31 (4.91%) Active Directory
2 30 (4.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.49%) vSphere
4 18 (2.85%) Docker
5 8 (1.27%) Firmware
5 8 (1.27%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.48%) Forefront TMG
6 3 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (0.32%) NFS
7 2 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (3.17%) Ansible
2 18 (2.85%) WSUS
3 17 (2.69%) Kubernetes
4 15 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (2.38%) Puppet
5 13 (2.06%) vCenter Server
6 12 (1.90%) CASB
7 8 (1.27%) Terraform
8 4 (0.63%) Nmap
9 3 (0.48%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.48%) Nagios
9 3 (0.48%) SCOM
10 2 (0.32%) Grafana
10 2 (0.32%) SCCM
11 1 (0.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 86 (13.63%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.23%) VMware
3 27 (4.28%) Cisco
4 11 (1.74%) Tanium
5 9 (1.43%) Google
5 9 (1.43%) SolarWinds
5 9 (1.43%) Tripwire
6 8 (1.27%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.11%) Oracle
8 6 (0.95%) Apple
8 6 (0.95%) Juniper
8 6 (0.95%) PagerDuty
9 5 (0.79%) SAP
10 4 (0.63%) Dataiku
10 4 (0.63%) Intel
10 4 (0.63%) Mentor Graphics
10 4 (0.63%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.63%) Siemens
10 4 (0.63%) Splunk
10 4 (0.63%) Xilinx