Information Security Jobs in the South East

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Information Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 116 114
Rank change year-on-year -19 -2 -22
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 343 406 604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.04% 2.79% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 2.95% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 224 283 386
10th Percentile £36,250 £28,400 £33,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Information Security 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 East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,205 13,740 18,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.51% 94.52% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,899 8,015 11,869
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Information Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the South East

Information Security
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Information Security in the South East.

Salary trend for Information Security in the South East

Information Security
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Information Security in the South East

Information Security
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 Information Security within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Thames Valley +32 146 £50,000 -27.62% 35
Hampshire -25 86 £61,000 -6.15% 20
Berkshire +30 82 £60,000 -11.11% 24
Surrey -12 52 £71,250 +7.55% 6
Oxfordshire +39 41 £47,500 -36.67% 7
West Sussex +19 24 £57,500 +9.52% 4
Buckinghamshire -9 23 £50,000 -13.04% 4
Kent -55 18 £57,500 +36.09% 4
East Sussex +20 11 £55,000 +24.29% 1
Sussex -24 3 £68,750 -1.79%
Middlesex - 2 - -
Information Security
England

Information Security
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 18 (5.25%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.46%) Confluence
3 2 (0.58%) CMS
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.29%) Apache
4 1 (0.29%) nginx
4 1 (0.29%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (2.04%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.87%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.58%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.58%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 86 (25.07%) Azure
2 45 (13.12%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (9.91%) Power Platform
4 30 (8.75%) AWS
5 23 (6.71%) Snowflake
6 20 (5.83%) Matillion
7 19 (5.54%) Serverless
8 11 (3.21%) Entra ID
8 11 (3.21%) IaaS
9 10 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (2.62%) PaaS
10 9 (2.62%) SaaS
11 8 (2.33%) GCP
12 7 (2.04%) OneDrive
13 5 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (1.17%) Azure Storage
14 4 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (0.87%) Amazon S3
15 3 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.50%) Firewall
2 32 (9.33%) Network Security
3 20 (5.83%) WAN
4 19 (5.54%) DNS
4 19 (5.54%) LAN
5 14 (4.08%) Wireless
6 12 (3.50%) TCP/IP
7 11 (3.21%) Intrusion Detection
7 11 (3.21%) OSPF
7 11 (3.21%) VPN
8 10 (2.92%) DKIM
8 10 (2.92%) DMARC
9 9 (2.62%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (2.33%) BGP
10 8 (2.33%) Internet
10 8 (2.33%) SSL
11 7 (2.04%) SAN
12 6 (1.75%) SD-WAN
13 5 (1.46%) IPsec
13 5 (1.46%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.04%) Power BI
2 21 (6.12%) Data Lake
3 20 (5.83%) Metadata
4 8 (2.33%) SAP BW
5 6 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.46%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.46%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.17%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.87%) Big Data
9 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (0.58%) GDB
1 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.29%) Git
2 1 (0.29%) MSI
2 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
2 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 106 (30.90%) Social Skills
2 72 (20.99%) Finance
3 56 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (15.74%) Legal
5 18 (5.25%) Telecoms
6 14 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (3.79%) Retail
8 12 (3.50%) Law
9 9 (2.62%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.62%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.33%) Billing
11 7 (2.04%) Banking
11 7 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.75%) Marketing
13 4 (1.17%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.17%) Wearables
14 3 (0.87%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 71 (20.70%) Analyst
2 48 (13.99%) Security Analyst
3 43 (12.54%) Architect
4 40 (11.66%) Senior
5 35 (10.20%) Information Analyst
5 35 (10.20%) Information Security Analyst
6 29 (8.45%) Security Manager
7 28 (8.16%) Lead
8 22 (6.41%) Security Architect
9 20 (5.83%) Data Architect
10 19 (5.54%) Senior Analyst
11 15 (4.37%) Consultant
11 15 (4.37%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 15 (4.37%) Data Protection Officer
12 14 (4.08%) Security Consultant
13 13 (3.79%) Information Architect
13 13 (3.79%) Information Security Architect
14 10 (2.92%) Administrator
14 10 (2.92%) Enterprise Architect
14 10 (2.92%) Enterprise Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.04%) ADO
2 6 (1.75%) Middleware
2 6 (1.75%) Web Services
3 2 (0.58%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.29%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.29%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (0.29%) CSS
4 1 (0.29%) HTML
4 1 (0.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 84 (24.49%) Management Information System
2 20 (5.83%) Operational Technology
3 19 (5.54%) Data Centre
3 19 (5.54%) Data Structures
4 18 (5.25%) PMI
5 17 (4.96%) Security Posture
6 15 (4.37%) Algorithms
7 14 (4.08%) Product Ownership
7 14 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (3.21%) Cyberattack
9 10 (2.92%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.33%) Security Operations Centre
11 7 (2.04%) Cloud Native
11 7 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
12 6 (1.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 6 (1.75%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.75%) PKI
13 5 (1.46%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.71%) Windows
2 16 (4.66%) Windows Server
3 15 (4.37%) Linux
4 7 (2.04%) Android
4 7 (2.04%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.29%) Solaris
6 1 (0.29%) Unix
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (27.99%) Cybersecurity
2 63 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 60 (17.49%) Risk Management
4 49 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (13.70%) Security Management
6 46 (13.41%) Mentoring
7 37 (10.79%) Agile
7 37 (10.79%) Data Protection
8 35 (10.20%) Data Management
8 35 (10.20%) Information Security Management
9 33 (9.62%) Analytics
9 33 (9.62%) Data Analysis
9 33 (9.62%) ETL
10 31 (9.04%) Computer Science
10 31 (9.04%) Incident Response
10 31 (9.04%) Visualisation
11 30 (8.75%) Data Strategy
11 30 (8.75%) ITIL
11 30 (8.75%) Project Management
11 30 (8.75%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 24 (7.00%) SQL
2 20 (5.83%) T-SQL
3 13 (3.79%) Python
4 9 (2.62%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.58%) AWK
5 2 (0.58%) C#
5 2 (0.58%) Korn
5 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.29%) Bash
6 1 (0.29%) Bourne shell
6 1 (0.29%) Java
6 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.29%) Perl
6 1 (0.29%) PHP
6 1 (0.29%) R
6 1 (0.29%) sed
Qualifications
1 79 (23.03%) Degree
2 39 (11.37%) CISSP
3 31 (9.04%) Security Cleared
4 28 (8.16%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (5.83%) CISM
6 19 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (5.54%) PMI Certification
7 16 (4.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 16 (4.66%) CCSP
8 13 (3.79%) Azure Certification
8 13 (3.79%) SC Cleared
9 12 (3.50%) CISA
10 9 (2.62%) Master's Degree
11 7 (2.04%) CCIE
11 7 (2.04%) CCNP
11 7 (2.04%) CCSK
12 6 (1.75%) AWS Certification
12 6 (1.75%) CRISC
12 6 (1.75%) ISEB
12 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (27.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (18.66%) GDPR
3 52 (15.16%) NIST
4 32 (9.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 24 (7.00%) NCSC
5 24 (7.00%) PCI DSS
6 19 (5.54%) GRC
7 17 (4.96%) ISO 9001
8 15 (4.37%) QA
9 12 (3.50%) COBIT
9 12 (3.50%) ISO 22301
9 12 (3.50%) NIST 800
10 9 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 9 (2.62%) SLA
11 7 (2.04%) ISO 14001
11 7 (2.04%) NEBOSH
12 6 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (1.46%) Data Quality
13 5 (1.46%) JSP 440
System Software
1 18 (5.25%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.87%) Firmware
4 3 (0.87%) vSphere
5 2 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.29%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (2.92%) Ansible
1 10 (2.92%) Nessus
2 8 (2.33%) CASB
3 4 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (1.17%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.17%) Terraform
4 3 (0.87%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 3 (0.87%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (0.87%) Puppet
5 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.29%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.29%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (0.29%) QRadar
6 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.29%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.29%) WMI
6 1 (0.29%) WSUS
6 1 (0.29%) yum
Vendors
1 83 (24.20%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.83%) Databricks
3 17 (4.96%) Cisco
4 16 (4.66%) VMware
5 8 (2.33%) SAP
6 6 (1.75%) Palo Alto
6 6 (1.75%) Qualys
6 6 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.46%) Google
8 4 (1.17%) EMC
8 4 (1.17%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.17%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.87%) 3PAR
9 3 (0.87%) Ariba
9 3 (0.87%) Commvault
9 3 (0.87%) Nimble Storage
9 3 (0.87%) Splunk
9 3 (0.87%) Workday
9 3 (0.87%) Zerto
10 2 (0.58%) Darktrace