Cybersecurity Job Trends in Surrey

Cybersecurity
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 44 31
Rank change year-on-year +30 -13 +20
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 109 112 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 9.36% 6.00% 7.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.49% 6.90% 7.79%
Number of salaries quoted 65 43 46
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,900 £41,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -25.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,200 £67,900 £74,375
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -5.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,039 1,623 1,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 89.26% 86.88% 91.95%
Number of salaries quoted 693 826 681
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £31,248
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £84,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Surrey

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Cybersecurity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in Surrey over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in Surrey

Cybersecurity
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 within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Guildford +33 35 £32,500 - 16
Warlingham - 9 £41,000 -
Caterham - 7 £41,000 -
Woking +28 6 £100,000 +70.94% 5
Redhill -12 6 £60,000 +114.29% 2
Epsom +4 5 £65,000 +13.04% 3
Camberley -7 3 £45,000 +12.50% 1
Sunbury-on-Thames +11 2 - -
Staines -1 2 £68,750 +52.78% 1
Whyteleafe - 2 - -
Banstead - 2 - -
Esher - 2 - -
East Molesey +4 1 - -
Thames Ditton +2 1 - -
Tadworth - 1 - -
Shepperton - 1 - -
Cybersecurity
South East

Cybersecurity
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 14 (12.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (9.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.83%) TPMS
Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 32 (29.36%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (16.51%) Azure
3 8 (7.34%) AWS
4 4 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (3.67%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.67%) PowerApps
5 3 (2.75%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.83%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.42%) Wireless
2 6 (5.50%) LAN
2 6 (5.50%) SD-WAN
2 6 (5.50%) Unified Communications
2 6 (5.50%) VoIP
2 6 (5.50%) VPN
2 6 (5.50%) WAN
2 6 (5.50%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.83%) Firewall
3 2 (1.83%) GPRS
3 2 (1.83%) Internet
3 2 (1.83%) LTE
3 2 (1.83%) Modbus
3 2 (1.83%) NAS
3 2 (1.83%) SAN
4 1 (0.92%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 2 (1.83%) JIRA
2 1 (0.92%) CMake
2 1 (0.92%) Git
General
1 44 (40.37%) Social Skills
2 27 (24.77%) Legal
3 25 (22.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (22.94%) Law
4 10 (9.17%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.59%) Finance
6 4 (3.67%) Electronics
6 4 (3.67%) Health Technology
6 4 (3.67%) Marketing
7 3 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.75%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.83%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Military
9 1 (0.92%) Police
Job Titles
1 25 (22.94%) IT Support
2 21 (19.27%) IT Technician
3 18 (16.51%) Vulnerability Manager
4 14 (12.84%) IT Support Technician
4 14 (12.84%) Support Technician
5 11 (10.09%) Senior
6 9 (8.26%) Administrator
6 9 (8.26%) IT Administrator
7 7 (6.42%) Senior IT Technician
7 7 (6.42%) Senior Technician
8 6 (5.50%) Head of IT
8 6 (5.50%) Head of IT Operations
8 6 (5.50%) Head of Operations
9 5 (4.59%) IT Systems Administrator
9 5 (4.59%) Systems Administrator
9 5 (4.59%) Systems Support
10 4 (3.67%) Account Manager
10 4 (3.67%) Analyst
10 4 (3.67%) CRM Developer
10 4 (3.67%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.92%) Bazel
Miscellaneous
1 25 (22.94%) Cyberattack
2 17 (15.60%) Data Centre
3 9 (8.26%) Driving Licence
4 6 (5.50%) Operational Technology
5 5 (4.59%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.83%) Clustering
6 2 (1.83%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.83%) FPGA
6 2 (1.83%) IoT
6 2 (1.83%) NB-IoT
6 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.92%) Acoustics
7 1 (0.92%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 35 (32.11%) Windows
2 22 (20.18%) Windows 10
3 11 (10.09%) Linux
4 9 (8.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (8.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.94%) Line Management
2 24 (22.02%) Creative Thinking
3 21 (19.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (18.35%) Incident Response
5 18 (16.51%) Vulnerability Management
6 15 (13.76%) Mentoring
7 14 (12.84%) Data Protection
8 12 (11.01%) Computer Science
9 10 (9.17%) Customer Service
9 10 (9.17%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (8.26%) Inventory Management
11 8 (7.34%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (7.34%) High Availability
12 7 (6.42%) ITIL
12 7 (6.42%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (5.50%) Budget Management
13 6 (5.50%) Budgeting
13 6 (5.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 6 (5.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 6 (5.50%) Infrastructure Transformation
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.67%) C#
1 4 (3.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.92%) C
2 1 (0.92%) C++
2 1 (0.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (15.60%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (13.76%) Degree
3 10 (9.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (8.26%) CCNA
4 9 (8.26%) MCSE
4 9 (8.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 7 (6.42%) Master's Degree
6 6 (5.50%) AWS Certification
6 6 (5.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (5.50%) Azure Certification
6 6 (5.50%) CCNP
6 6 (5.50%) PMI Certification
6 6 (5.50%) PMP
6 6 (5.50%) Security Cleared
7 5 (4.59%) CISM
7 5 (4.59%) CISSP
8 4 (3.67%) HND
9 3 (2.75%) CEH
9 3 (2.75%) CRISC
10 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (22.94%) NCSC
2 14 (12.84%) NIST
3 6 (5.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.75%) GRC
5 2 (1.83%) COBIT
5 2 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.92%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (15.60%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (11.01%) Active Directory
3 9 (8.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (8.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (6.42%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (43.12%) Microsoft
2 18 (16.51%) VMware
3 17 (15.60%) Qualys
3 17 (15.60%) Tenable
4 15 (13.76%) Cisco
5 13 (11.93%) Progress
6 2 (1.83%) SAP
7 1 (0.92%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.92%) Sparx