Cybersecurity Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cybersecurity Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £54,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 639 679
Rank change year-on-year +104 +40 +77
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 36 126 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.093% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.18% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 27 112 64
10th Percentile - £36,250 £34,825
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,188 £37,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% +17.65% -1.16%
75th Percentile £56,938 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £62,950 £74,750 £67,500
UK median annual salary £55,750 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.36% - +20.95%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Cybersecurity Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Analyst
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 Cybersecurity Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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 +67 9 £51,750 -23.33% 48
East of England +41 8 £47,500 -5.00% 33
Scotland +117 7 £55,000 +10.00% 15
South West +91 5 £55,000 -15.38% 36
Midlands +57 4 £50,000 +0.50% 39
West Midlands +63 3 £50,000 +19.05% 21
North of England +15 3 - - 41
North West -7 3 - - 16
East Midlands +37 1 £37,500 -28.57% 16
Cybersecurity Analyst
UK

Cybersecurity Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Cybersecurity Analyst 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cybersecurity Analyst in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (52.78%) Incident Response
3 18 (50.00%) SIEM
4 16 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 16 (44.44%) NIST
5 15 (41.67%) Firewall
6 13 (36.11%) Windows
6 13 (36.11%) Vulnerability Management
7 12 (33.33%) Security Operations
7 12 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
7 12 (33.33%) Network Security
8 10 (27.78%) Management Information System
8 10 (27.78%) GDPR
8 10 (27.78%) Security Posture
9 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
9 9 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
9 9 (25.00%) Azure
9 9 (25.00%) Incident Management
9 9 (25.00%) Finance
10 8 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
10 8 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (22.22%) TCP/IP
10 8 (22.22%) DNS
10 8 (22.22%) Active Directory
10 8 (22.22%) Malware Analysis
11 7 (19.44%) Task Automation
11 7 (19.44%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (19.44%) Degree
11 7 (19.44%) Accessibility
11 7 (19.44%) RBAC

Cybersecurity Analyst Skill Set
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 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) Azure
2 7 (19.44%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.78%) AWS
6 1 (2.78%) IaaS
6 1 (2.78%) PaaS
6 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (41.67%) Firewall
2 12 (33.33%) Network Security
3 8 (22.22%) DNS
3 8 (22.22%) TCP/IP
4 6 (16.67%) DHCP
4 6 (16.67%) NGFW
5 4 (11.11%) VPN
6 3 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (5.56%) HTTP
7 2 (5.56%) LAN
7 2 (5.56%) SMTP
7 2 (5.56%) VLAN
7 2 (5.56%) WAN
7 2 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (2.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Power BI
General
1 9 (25.00%) Finance
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Legal
4 2 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.78%) Aviation
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Management Information System
1 10 (27.78%) Security Posture
2 9 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (8.33%) Cyberattack
5 2 (5.56%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.78%) CSOC
6 1 (2.78%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 13 (36.11%) Windows
2 5 (13.89%) Linux
3 2 (5.56%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (52.78%) Incident Response
3 18 (50.00%) SIEM
4 13 (36.11%) Vulnerability Management
5 12 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
5 12 (33.33%) Security Operations
6 9 (25.00%) Incident Management
7 8 (22.22%) Malware Analysis
7 8 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
8 7 (19.44%) Application Security
8 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (19.44%) RBAC
8 7 (19.44%) Task Automation
8 7 (19.44%) Technology Transformation
9 6 (16.67%) Computer Forensics
9 6 (16.67%) Identity Management
10 5 (13.89%) Computer Science
10 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (13.89%) Information Security
10 5 (13.89%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (5.56%) Bash
2 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.56%) Python
2 2 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Degree
2 5 (13.89%) CISM
2 5 (13.89%) DV Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) CEH
3 4 (11.11%) CISSP
3 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (8.33%) GCIH
5 2 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (5.56%) CCSP
5 2 (5.56%) CISA
5 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.56%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.56%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.78%) A+ Certification
6 1 (2.78%) GCIA
6 1 (2.78%) GIAC
6 1 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (44.44%) NIST
2 10 (27.78%) GDPR
3 8 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (19.44%) Accessibility
5 2 (5.56%) NCSC
5 2 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (2.78%) GRC
6 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
6 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.78%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 16 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) ArcSight
3 1 (2.78%) LogRhythm
3 1 (2.78%) Splunk