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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 40 48
Rank change year-on-year +12 +8 +10
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 632 492 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.85% 7.11% 5.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.15% 7.53% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 488 257 237
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £33,550
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.68%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,853 £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 7,751 6,533 7,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 84.01% 94.46% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 5,549 3,637 5,023
10th Percentile £28,833 £30,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,271 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,952 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +6 284 £68,500 +5.38% 45
Gloucestershire +21 176 £56,500 +2.73% 35
Wiltshire -12 66 £60,000 -17.24% 14
Dorset +8 40 £45,000 -15.09% 9
Devon -1 38 £56,337 +84.71% 7
Somerset +7 25 £46,199 -23.00% 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 16 (2.53%) IIS
1 16 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.63%) Confluence
3 4 (0.63%) Site Server
4 3 (0.47%) Apache
4 3 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.32%) MS Project Server
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.16%) Luigi
Applications
1 13 (2.06%) 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 FI-GL
2 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 93 (14.72%) Azure
2 61 (9.65%) AWS
3 40 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (3.64%) SaaS
5 16 (2.53%) GCP
6 13 (2.06%) Entra ID
7 11 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (1.27%) PaaS
9 7 (1.11%) IaaS
10 6 (0.95%) OneDrive
11 4 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (0.63%) GitHub
11 4 (0.63%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.47%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.47%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (0.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.47%) PowerApps
13 2 (0.32%) Serverless
13 2 (0.32%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 64 (10.13%) Firewall
2 62 (9.81%) Network Security
3 25 (3.96%) WAN
4 20 (3.16%) LAN
4 20 (3.16%) VPN
5 18 (2.85%) SD-WAN
5 18 (2.85%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (2.06%) VSAN
7 12 (1.90%) Internet
8 11 (1.74%) TCP/IP
9 8 (1.27%) Cisco IPT
9 8 (1.27%) Wireless
10 7 (1.11%) VLAN
11 6 (0.95%) BGP
11 6 (0.95%) Intrusion Detection
11 6 (0.95%) MPLS
11 6 (0.95%) VPLS
12 4 (0.63%) 5G
12 4 (0.63%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.63%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.42%) 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 3 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.16%) Bigtable
7 1 (0.16%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.16%) Power BI
7 1 (0.16%) Redis
7 1 (0.16%) RethinkDB
7 1 (0.16%) SQLPlus
7 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (2.06%) Jenkins
2 11 (1.74%) Git
3 4 (0.63%) IBM UrbanCode
3 4 (0.63%) LabVIEW
3 4 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.47%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.47%) Burp Suite
4 3 (0.47%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.47%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.47%) JIRA
4 3 (0.47%) Metasploit
4 3 (0.47%) Selenium
4 3 (0.47%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.16%) GCC
General
1 118 (18.67%) Social Skills
2 106 (16.77%) Finance
3 63 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (7.59%) Military
5 46 (7.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (6.17%) Aerospace
7 38 (6.01%) Law
8 24 (3.80%) Public Sector
9 22 (3.48%) Banking
9 22 (3.48%) Retail
10 17 (2.69%) Aviation
11 13 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.74%) Legal
13 10 (1.58%) Games
13 10 (1.58%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.42%) Marketing
15 5 (0.79%) Electronics
15 5 (0.79%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 139 (21.99%) Consultant
2 137 (21.68%) Senior
3 126 (19.94%) Security Consultant
4 78 (12.34%) Software Engineer
5 69 (10.92%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 59 (9.34%) Analyst
7 50 (7.91%) Embedded Engineer
7 50 (7.91%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 49 (7.75%) Lead
9 47 (7.44%) Architect
9 47 (7.44%) Security Manager
10 42 (6.65%) Security Analyst
11 41 (6.49%) Senior Software Engineer
12 37 (5.85%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 37 (5.85%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 36 (5.70%) Security Architect
14 32 (5.06%) Information Manager
14 32 (5.06%) Information Security Manager
14 32 (5.06%) Senior Analyst
15 30 (4.75%) Security Assurance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.90%) CSS
2 9 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (1.42%) HTML
2 9 (1.42%) React
3 8 (1.27%) ModSecurity
4 7 (1.11%) .NET
4 7 (1.11%) OpenID
5 5 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (0.79%) Pandas
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%) PyTorch
6 4 (0.63%) scikit-learn
6 4 (0.63%) SpaCy
6 4 (0.63%) Statsmodels
6 4 (0.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 42 (6.65%) Cyberattack
1 42 (6.65%) Security Operations Centre
2 34 (5.38%) Management Information System
3 29 (4.59%) Cyber Defence
4 21 (3.32%) Cyber Threat
4 21 (3.32%) Data Centre
5 19 (3.01%) Public Cloud
6 17 (2.69%) Operational Technology
7 15 (2.37%) CESG
8 13 (2.06%) Product Ownership
8 13 (2.06%) Security Posture
9 12 (1.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 11 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.95%) Cyber Security Posture
14 5 (0.79%) Cloud Native
14 5 (0.79%) Clustering
14 5 (0.79%) Private Cloud
14 5 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 101 (15.98%) Linux
2 86 (13.61%) Windows
3 50 (7.91%) Embedded Linux
4 16 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.22%) Unix
6 8 (1.27%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.11%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.63%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.47%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
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
1 117 (18.51%) Risk Management
2 99 (15.66%) Information Assurance
3 87 (13.77%) Information Security
3 87 (13.77%) Software Engineering
4 82 (12.97%) Security Operations
5 77 (12.18%) Agile
6 66 (10.44%) SIEM
7 64 (10.13%) Problem-Solving
8 63 (9.97%) Mentoring
9 62 (9.81%) Incident Response
10 55 (8.70%) Security Architecture
11 46 (7.28%) Penetration Testing
11 46 (7.28%) Project Delivery
12 43 (6.80%) Incident Management
12 43 (6.80%) Vulnerability Management
13 41 (6.49%) Computer Science
14 38 (6.01%) Stakeholder Management
15 36 (5.70%) Coaching
16 35 (5.54%) Machine Learning
17 34 (5.38%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 134 (21.20%) Python
2 93 (14.72%) Bash
3 69 (10.92%) C
4 53 (8.39%) Rust
5 50 (7.91%) Embedded C
6 27 (4.27%) SQL
7 21 (3.32%) Java
8 17 (2.69%) JavaScript
9 16 (2.53%) C#
9 16 (2.53%) PowerShell
10 14 (2.22%) C++
11 5 (0.79%) R
11 5 (0.79%) Scala
12 4 (0.63%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.32%) Perl
14 1 (0.16%) Go
14 1 (0.16%) PHP
14 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 280 (44.30%) Security Cleared
2 118 (18.67%) SC Cleared
3 99 (15.66%) CISSP
4 78 (12.34%) Degree
4 78 (12.34%) DV Cleared
5 76 (12.03%) CISM
6 56 (8.86%) CRISC
7 38 (6.01%) CESG Certified Professional
8 31 (4.91%) CISA
9 17 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (2.69%) CISMP
9 17 (2.69%) Master's Degree
10 15 (2.37%) CompTIA CySA+
10 15 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
12 12 (1.90%) IISP
13 11 (1.74%) CEH
13 11 (1.74%) CHECK Team Member
13 11 (1.74%) GIAC
13 11 (1.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (15.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 94 (14.87%) NIST
3 45 (7.12%) NCSC
4 37 (5.85%) JSP 440
5 30 (4.75%) NIST 800
6 29 (4.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 23 (3.64%) GDPR
8 17 (2.69%) PCI DSS
9 15 (2.37%) RMADS
10 14 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 13 (2.06%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 11 (1.74%) Accessibility
13 9 (1.42%) SOC 2
14 8 (1.27%) GRC
15 7 (1.11%) DO-254
16 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.79%) QA
16 5 (0.79%) SOC 1
17 4 (0.63%) ISO 9001
17 4 (0.63%) JTAG
System Software
1 31 (4.91%) Active Directory
2 30 (4.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.48%) vSphere
4 19 (3.01%) Docker
5 8 (1.27%) Firmware
5 8 (1.27%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.47%) Forefront TMG
6 3 (0.47%) NFS
6 3 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (3.32%) Ansible
2 18 (2.85%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.85%) WSUS
3 16 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (2.37%) Puppet
5 13 (2.06%) vCenter Server
6 12 (1.90%) CASB
7 8 (1.27%) Terraform
8 4 (0.63%) Nagios
9 3 (0.47%) Grafana
9 3 (0.47%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.47%) Nmap
9 3 (0.47%) SCOM
10 2 (0.32%) SCCM
11 1 (0.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 84 (13.29%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.22%) VMware
3 26 (4.11%) Cisco
4 11 (1.74%) Tanium
5 10 (1.58%) Google
6 9 (1.42%) SolarWinds
6 9 (1.42%) Tripwire
7 8 (1.27%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.11%) Oracle
9 6 (0.95%) Apple
9 6 (0.95%) Juniper
9 6 (0.95%) PagerDuty
10 4 (0.63%) Dataiku
10 4 (0.63%) Intel
10 4 (0.63%) Mentor Graphics
10 4 (0.63%) SAP
10 4 (0.63%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.63%) Siemens
10 4 (0.63%) Splunk
10 4 (0.63%) Xilinx