Cybersecurity Jobs in South Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 51 38
Rank change year-on-year +13 -13 +50
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 9 46 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.34% 3.40% 9.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 4.11% 9.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5 38 71
10th Percentile - £34,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,716 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -25.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £64,250 £57,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £67,700 - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.63% -16.67% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 349 1,119 1,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 90.65% 82.83% 98.60%
Number of salaries quoted 220 892 526
10th Percentile £27,850 £27,550 £25,875
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,375 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £70,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.63% -9.09% +7.84%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in South Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in South Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in South Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Sheffield +15 5 £37,935 -31.03% 18
Rotherham - 2 - - 2
Doncaster -6 1 £70,000 +75.00% 5
Cybersecurity
Yorkshire

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Broadband
1 2 (22.22%) VoIP
General
1 4 (44.44%) Legal
2 2 (22.22%) Local Government
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Head of Digital
1 2 (22.22%) Head of IT
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Junior
1 2 (22.22%) Junior Sales Executive
1 2 (22.22%) Sales Executive
1 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Bid Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Incident Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Incident Responder
2 1 (11.11%) Security Manager
2 1 (11.11%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 2 (22.22%) Cyber Security Posture
2 2 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Media
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Information Security
1 3 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (22.22%) B2B
2 2 (22.22%) B2B Sales
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Digital Strategy
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Generation
2 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
2 2 (22.22%) SIEM
2 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
2 2 (22.22%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) APMP
2 1 (11.11%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (22.22%) NIST
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (11.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) AlienVault