Communications Security Jobs in the UK excluding London

Communications Security (COMSEC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Communications Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Communications Security over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 764 751
Rank change year-on-year +187 -13 +103
Permanent jobs citing Communications Security 3 11 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.015% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.018% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 2
10th Percentile £51,000 - £49,225
25th Percentile £52,500 £37,500 £51,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £40,000 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -29.52% -9.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £50,000 £62,938
90th Percentile - - £65,675
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,750 £56,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +12.83% -29.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Communications Security 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,163 61,036 55,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.74% 82.48% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17,188 42,006 28,807
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,336 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Communications Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Communications Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Communications Security in the UK excluding London

Communications Security
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Communications Security in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Communications Security in the UK excluding London

Communications Security
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Communications Security within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
South East - 2 £60,000 - 3
Scotland - 1 £50,000 - 1
Communications Security
UK

Communications Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (66.67%) TPMS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Aerospace
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Information Assurance Specialist
1 2 (66.67%) Information Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Communications Officer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Officer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Communications Officer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cryptography
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Information Assurance
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CEH
1 2 (66.67%) CISM
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST