Cyber Defence Job Trends in Surrey

Cyber Defence
South East > Surrey

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in permanent job vacancies in Surrey. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Defence 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.090% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.26% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £66,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £62,500 £72,000 £66,410
% change year-on-year -13.19% +8.42% -11.45%

All Generic Skills
Surrey

Cyber Defence falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 772 368 1,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 34.93% 39.07% 45.07%
Number of salaries quoted 292 227 648
10th Percentile £30,050 £31,400 £24,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.24% -18.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,625 £64,063
90th Percentile £77,375 £77,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -6.54% +9.18% -10.91%

Cyber Defence
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cyber Defence relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Cyber Defence job vacancy trend in Surrey

Cyber Defence
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Cyber Defence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Cyber Defence

Cyber Defence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker