Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in Surrey

Cybersecurity Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in Surrey is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 148 156
Rank change year-on-year +61 +8 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 10 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 0.96% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 0.26% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 10 6 3
10th Percentile £50,325 - £87,750
25th Percentile £51,563 £43,750 £93,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -55.81% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £72,813 £111,250
90th Percentile - £80,000 -
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -35.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Surrey. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Surrey with a recognized job title 818 2,314 2,280
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 78.81% 91.32% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 563 1,488 1,420
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,748 £38,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +8.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,250 £80,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Surrey

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in Surrey

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in Surrey

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in Surrey over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in Surrey

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 5 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
Weybridge - 4 £55,000 -
Guildford +27 3 £55,000 +15.79% 1
Epsom - 1 £42,000 -
Cybersecurity Engineer
South East

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Cybersecurity Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Surrey region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (70.00%) Ticket Management
2 7 (70.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (70.00%) Security Patching
2 7 (70.00%) Compliance Audit
2 7 (70.00%) GAP Analysis
2 7 (70.00%) Network+ Certification
2 7 (70.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (70.00%) GDPR
2 7 (70.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (70.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 7 (70.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (30.00%) Firewall
3 3 (30.00%) SIEM
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (20.00%) Confluence
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (20.00%) Juniper
4 2 (20.00%) Linux
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco
4 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (20.00%) JIRA
4 2 (20.00%) Atlassian
4 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Response

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (70.00%) Compliance Audit
2 7 (70.00%) GAP Analysis
2 7 (70.00%) Security Patching
2 7 (70.00%) Ticket Management
3 3 (30.00%) SIEM
4 2 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) Cryptography
5 1 (10.00%) Data Encryption
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (70.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 7 (70.00%) GDPR
1 7 (70.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco
1 2 (20.00%) Juniper
1 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft