Cybersecurity Jobs in Southampton

Cybersecurity
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 52 34
Rank change year-on-year +25 -18 +24
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 13 24 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 3.96% 2.77% 5.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 3.38% 5.79%
Number of salaries quoted 13 20 28
10th Percentile £24,750 £31,000 £47,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,188 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £40,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -42.86% +19.66%
75th Percentile £72,500 £46,142 -
90th Percentile - £54,500 £76,750
Hampshire median annual salary £47,683 £52,500 £59,750
% change year-on-year -9.18% -12.13% +8.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 297 710 725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 90.55% 81.89% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 221 610 532
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -7.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
Hampshire median annual salary £54,375 £50,000 £54,313
% change year-on-year +8.75% -7.94% +3.45%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Southampton

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in Southampton

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in Southampton

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Southampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Southampton over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in Southampton

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (23.08%) IaaS
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (23.08%) PaaS
2 3 (23.08%) SaaS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) Network Security
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) DHCP
3 1 (7.69%) DNS
3 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.69%) VLAN
3 1 (7.69%) VoIP
3 1 (7.69%) Wireless
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Law
2 1 (7.69%) Legal
2 1 (7.69%) Local Government
2 1 (7.69%) Marketing
2 1 (7.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Azure Security Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Graduate
1 3 (23.08%) Graduate Sales Executive
1 3 (23.08%) Sales Executive
1 3 (23.08%) Security Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Security Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Business Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Head of IT
3 1 (7.69%) Information Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Operational Security Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Operations Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Technology Director
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Security
2 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (23.08%) Customer Experience
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
3 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
3 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
3 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
3 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (15.38%) High Availability
3 2 (15.38%) Information Security
3 2 (15.38%) IT Strategy
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (7.69%) Business Strategy
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Strategy
4 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) CEH
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
3 2 (15.38%) CISSP
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.69%) CCNA
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.69%) CISMP
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) GDPR
2 3 (23.08%) HIPAA
3 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Aderant
3 1 (7.69%) Citrix
3 1 (7.69%) NetApp