Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 683 652 683
Rank change year-on-year -31 +31 -84
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 78 99 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.16% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.18% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 54 84 89
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,975 £39,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -20.00% +30.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,781 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,253 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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 +21 28 £55,000 - 5
North of England +40 15 £42,750 -34.23% 7
East of England +22 14 £67,500 +12.50%
West Midlands +13 14 £62,500 +4.17% 4
Midlands -11 14 £62,500 +31.58% 5
North West +7 11 £52,500 -19.23% 6
Yorkshire +84 4 £38,500 -
Scotland -66 4 £47,500 -20.50%
Wales +12 3 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Cybersecurity Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 78 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 39 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (42.31%) Degree
4 25 (32.05%) Analytics
5 22 (28.21%) Data Quality
5 22 (28.21%) Mentoring
5 22 (28.21%) Coaching
5 22 (28.21%) Data Modelling
5 22 (28.21%) Data Science
5 22 (28.21%) Red Team
5 22 (28.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (28.21%) Data Engineering
6 21 (26.92%) Azure
7 18 (23.08%) SIEM
8 16 (20.51%) Security Operations
9 15 (19.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (19.23%) Firewall
10 14 (17.95%) Microsoft
10 14 (17.95%) Vulnerability Management
11 12 (15.38%) Security Cleared
12 11 (14.10%) SC Cleared
12 11 (14.10%) Python
12 11 (14.10%) Social Skills
12 11 (14.10%) Incident Response
12 11 (14.10%) Operational Technology
13 10 (12.82%) NIST
13 10 (12.82%) Information Security
13 10 (12.82%) Penetration Testing
13 10 (12.82%) Computer Science
14 9 (11.54%) SCADA

Cybersecurity Engineer 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (26.92%) Azure
2 7 (8.97%) AWS
3 5 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (6.41%) SaaS
4 4 (5.13%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.85%) GCP
6 2 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 15 (19.23%) Firewall
2 6 (7.69%) Network Security
2 6 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 5 (6.41%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Burp Suite
General
1 22 (28.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (14.10%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.13%) Finance
3 4 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.85%) Aerospace
4 3 (3.85%) Electronics
5 2 (2.56%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.56%) Retail
6 1 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Law
6 1 (1.28%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.85%) Fluent Bit
2 1 (1.28%) CSS
2 1 (1.28%) Django
2 1 (1.28%) Flask
2 1 (1.28%) HTML
2 1 (1.28%) Jinja
2 1 (1.28%) Pyramid
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.10%) Operational Technology
2 9 (11.54%) SCADA
3 7 (8.97%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (8.97%) Cyberattack
4 4 (5.13%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.85%) NHS
6 2 (2.56%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.56%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.56%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.56%) IoT
6 2 (2.56%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.54%) Linux
1 9 (11.54%) Windows
2 6 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 39 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (32.05%) Analytics
4 22 (28.21%) Coaching
4 22 (28.21%) Data Engineering
4 22 (28.21%) Data Modelling
4 22 (28.21%) Data Science
4 22 (28.21%) Mentoring
4 22 (28.21%) Red Team
5 18 (23.08%) SIEM
6 16 (20.51%) Security Operations
7 14 (17.95%) Vulnerability Management
8 11 (14.10%) Incident Response
9 10 (12.82%) Computer Science
9 10 (12.82%) Information Security
9 10 (12.82%) Penetration Testing
10 9 (11.54%) Identity Access Management
10 9 (11.54%) Software Engineering
11 8 (10.26%) Application Security
12 7 (8.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.10%) Python
2 7 (8.97%) Bash
3 5 (6.41%) C
3 5 (6.41%) SQL
4 3 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.56%) C++
5 2 (2.56%) Java
6 1 (1.28%) Embedded C
6 1 (1.28%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 33 (42.31%) Degree
2 12 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 11 (14.10%) SC Cleared
4 8 (10.26%) CISSP
5 7 (8.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (6.41%) CISA
7 3 (3.85%) GCIA
8 2 (2.56%) CCNA
8 2 (2.56%) CCNP
8 2 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.56%) SANS
9 1 (1.28%) CISM
9 1 (1.28%) GCFA
9 1 (1.28%) GCIH
9 1 (1.28%) GIAC
9 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (28.21%) Data Quality
2 15 (19.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (12.82%) NIST
4 8 (10.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (7.69%) SOC 2
6 5 (6.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (5.13%) NIST 800
8 2 (2.56%) GRC
9 1 (1.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.13%) Nessus
2 3 (3.85%) Fluentd
2 3 (3.85%) logstash
3 2 (2.56%) CSIRT
3 2 (2.56%) Terraform
4 1 (1.28%) CASB
4 1 (1.28%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 14 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.41%) Splunk
3 3 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.56%) Darktrace
4 2 (2.56%) Symantec
5 1 (1.28%) Citrix
5 1 (1.28%) CrowdStrike