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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 18 39
Rank change year-on-year +10 +21 -14
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 221 92 107
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 8.85% 8.19% 6.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.44% 9.12% 6.89%
Number of salaries quoted 125 44 39
10th Percentile £35,750 - £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £41,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.24% -8.89% -25.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,813 £59,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,750 £68,400
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -

All Process & 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 1,931 1,009 1,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 77.30% 89.77% 87.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,416 676 717
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,920 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend 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 10 October 2026.

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 10 October 2026. 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 -1 62 £57,500 +76.92% 25
Epsom +19 34 £67,500 +3.85% 3
Camberley +7 20 £50,000 +11.11% 7
Leatherhead - 14 £67,750 - 24
Redhill +16 13 £45,000 - 13
Reigate - 7 £40,000 - 4
Caterham -1 3 £32,500 -20.73%
Warlingham -1 3 £32,500 -20.73%
Tadworth -2 3 £105,000 -
Woking -22 3 - - 15
Horley - 2 £45,000 - 2
Weybridge - 1 - - 1
Egham - 1 £50,000 - 3
Farnham - 1 £47,271 -
Cybersecurity
South East

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) FactoryTalk
3 1 (0.45%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (11.76%) Azure
2 23 (10.41%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (7.24%) AWS
4 13 (5.88%) SaaS
5 7 (3.17%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.36%) GCP
6 3 (1.36%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.36%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.90%) Akamai
7 2 (0.90%) GitHub
7 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.45%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.45%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 55 (24.89%) Firewall
2 46 (20.81%) Wi-Fi
3 40 (18.10%) Cisco Nexus
4 34 (15.38%) LAN
4 34 (15.38%) WAN
5 25 (11.31%) Internet
6 14 (6.33%) DNS
7 11 (4.98%) DHCP
8 10 (4.52%) Network Security
9 5 (2.26%) Wireless
10 4 (1.81%) NGFW
10 4 (1.81%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.81%) VPN
11 2 (0.90%) Broadband
11 2 (0.90%) HTTP
12 1 (0.45%) LTE
12 1 (0.45%) SSH
12 1 (0.45%) SSL
12 1 (0.45%) VLAN
12 1 (0.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.36%) Big Data
2 2 (0.90%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.81%) JIRA
General
1 55 (24.89%) Social Skills
2 20 (9.05%) Finance
2 20 (9.05%) Public Sector
3 18 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.24%) Legal
5 13 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (4.52%) Police
7 7 (3.17%) Advertising
8 6 (2.71%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.81%) Electronics
10 4 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.81%) Retail
11 3 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.36%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.36%) Japanese Language
11 3 (1.36%) Marketing
12 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 66 (29.86%) Senior
2 52 (23.53%) Analyst
3 43 (19.46%) Security Analyst
4 40 (18.10%) Senior Analyst
5 35 (15.84%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 35 (15.84%) Security Engineer
6 34 (15.38%) Senior Security Analyst
7 33 (14.93%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 33 (14.93%) Network Analyst
7 33 (14.93%) Senior Network Analyst
8 29 (13.12%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
9 27 (12.22%) Consultant
9 27 (12.22%) Network Security Analyst
10 19 (8.60%) Senior Security Engineer
11 18 (8.14%) IT Support
12 17 (7.69%) Network Engineer
12 17 (7.69%) Network Security Engineer
12 17 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
12 17 (7.69%) Senior Network Security Engineer
13 16 (7.24%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.36%) Terraform
2 2 (0.90%) REST
3 1 (0.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.24%) Security Posture
2 12 (5.43%) Cyber Threat
2 12 (5.43%) Driving Licence
3 9 (4.07%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.71%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (1.81%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (1.81%) Cyberattack
7 4 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.36%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.36%) Device Driver
8 3 (1.36%) FPGA
8 3 (1.36%) PKI
8 3 (1.36%) VHDL
9 2 (0.90%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.90%) NHS
9 2 (0.90%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.50%) Linux
1 21 (9.50%) Windows
2 11 (4.98%) Windows 10
2 11 (4.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (30.77%) Vulnerability Management
2 51 (23.08%) SIEM
3 44 (19.91%) Business Continuity
3 44 (19.91%) Security Operations
4 41 (18.55%) Penetration Testing
5 40 (18.10%) Data Security
6 38 (17.19%) Incident Management
6 38 (17.19%) Network Load Balancing
7 37 (16.74%) Disaster Recovery
8 30 (13.57%) Threat Detection
9 28 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (10.86%) BCP
11 23 (10.41%) Business Continuity Planning
11 23 (10.41%) Information Security
12 22 (9.95%) Incident Response
13 21 (9.50%) AI
13 21 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (8.60%) Mentoring
14 19 (8.60%) Presales
15 18 (8.14%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (5.43%) Python
2 7 (3.17%) C++
3 5 (2.26%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.81%) Bash
4 4 (1.81%) Go
4 4 (1.81%) Java
5 3 (1.36%) C
5 3 (1.36%) Embedded C
6 2 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (9.50%) CISSP
2 18 (8.14%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.79%) CISM
3 15 (6.79%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.98%) CEH
4 11 (4.98%) CompTIA Security+
5 10 (4.52%) A+ Certification
6 9 (4.07%) Degree
7 8 (3.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.17%) DBS Check
9 6 (2.71%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.71%) CISA
9 6 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.71%) CRISC
10 5 (2.26%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.26%) CompTIA CySA+
10 5 (2.26%) GIAC
10 5 (2.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 3 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (8.14%) NIST
3 17 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (3.62%) GDPR
5 7 (3.17%) GRC
6 6 (2.71%) SLA
7 4 (1.81%) QA
8 3 (1.36%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.36%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.45%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.45%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 18 (8.14%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.17%) Docker
2 7 (3.17%) vSphere
3 6 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.81%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (4.52%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (1.36%) Ansible
3 3 (1.36%) SCCM
3 3 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (23.98%) Cisco
2 50 (22.62%) Qualys
3 43 (19.46%) Palo Alto
4 42 (19.00%) Microsoft
5 41 (18.55%) Aruba
6 16 (7.24%) VMware
7 10 (4.52%) Meraki
7 10 (4.52%) Sophos
8 8 (3.62%) Splunk
9 6 (2.71%) ForeScout
10 4 (1.81%) New Relic
10 4 (1.81%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.81%) Zerto
11 3 (1.36%) Google
12 2 (0.90%) Broadcom
12 2 (0.90%) OneTrust
12 2 (0.90%) SAP
13 1 (0.45%) Allen-Bradley
13 1 (0.45%) AVEVA
13 1 (0.45%) Thales