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 £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 684 656
Rank change year-on-year +163 -28 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 67 80 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.12% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 57 55 83
10th Percentile £37,716 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £74,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -11.76%

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 36,224 67,834 52,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.86% 94.85% 89.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18,759 47,939 30,034
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

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 18 May 2025.

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 18 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 +85 22 £55,000 +10.00% 20
North of England +46 18 £55,000 +17.02% 13
Midlands +66 17 £53,688 -10.52% 6
West Midlands +49 16 £53,688 -10.52% 4
North West 0 13 £55,000 +2.33% 7
East of England +31 6 £42,085 -37.65% 5
Yorkshire +65 4 £37,935 -1.47% 4
South West - 2 £98,750 - 6
Scotland +109 1 £73,500 +54.74% 6
Wales +34 1 £55,000 -15.38% 4
East Midlands - 1 £49,000 - 2
North East - 1 £37,935 - 2
Cybersecurity Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, 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 67 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 26 (38.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (37.31%) Firewall
4 23 (34.33%) CISSP
4 23 (34.33%) Security Posture
5 21 (31.34%) Microsoft
6 20 (29.85%) Incident Response
6 20 (29.85%) GDPR
7 19 (28.36%) AWS
8 18 (26.87%) Security Cleared
8 18 (26.87%) Degree
8 18 (26.87%) Vulnerability Management
8 18 (26.87%) CISM
8 18 (26.87%) NIST
9 17 (25.37%) SIEM
10 16 (23.88%) GIAC
11 14 (20.90%) Social Skills
11 14 (20.90%) ITIL
11 14 (20.90%) Analytical Skills
12 13 (19.40%) Mentoring
12 13 (19.40%) SC Cleared
12 13 (19.40%) NCSC
12 13 (19.40%) SANS
13 12 (17.91%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (17.91%) Cloud Security
13 12 (17.91%) ISACA
13 12 (17.91%) Python
14 11 (16.42%) CEH
14 11 (16.42%) Vulnerability Assessment
14 11 (16.42%) Azure

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.48%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (28.36%) AWS
2 11 (16.42%) Azure
3 7 (10.45%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.48%) GCP
6 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (37.31%) Firewall
2 6 (8.96%) VPN
3 4 (5.97%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (4.48%) Internet
4 3 (4.48%) Network Security
4 3 (4.48%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.99%) DHCP
5 2 (2.99%) DNS
5 2 (2.99%) VLAN
6 1 (1.49%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.49%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.49%) DMARC
6 1 (1.49%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.49%) Modbus
6 1 (1.49%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Bitbucket
1 3 (4.48%) JIRA
General
1 14 (20.90%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (20.90%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.43%) Finance
3 8 (11.94%) Retail
4 7 (10.45%) Legal
5 4 (5.97%) Local Government
6 3 (4.48%) Police
7 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.96%) Node.js
1 6 (8.96%) REST
1 6 (8.96%) Web Services
2 2 (2.99%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (2.99%) Spring
2 2 (2.99%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (34.33%) Security Posture
2 7 (10.45%) Cyber Security Posture
3 6 (8.96%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.97%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (4.48%) PKI
5 3 (4.48%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (2.99%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.49%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.97%) Linux
2 3 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (29.85%) Incident Response
3 18 (26.87%) Vulnerability Management
4 17 (25.37%) SIEM
5 14 (20.90%) ITIL
6 13 (19.40%) Mentoring
7 12 (17.91%) Cloud Security
8 11 (16.42%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 10 (14.93%) Identity Access Management
9 10 (14.93%) Risk Management
10 9 (13.43%) DevOps
10 9 (13.43%) Incident Management
10 9 (13.43%) Security Architecture
10 9 (13.43%) Threat Intelligence
11 8 (11.94%) Agile
11 8 (11.94%) Compliance Management
11 8 (11.94%) GAP Analysis
11 8 (11.94%) Information Security
11 8 (11.94%) Problem Management
11 8 (11.94%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.91%) Python
2 8 (11.94%) TypeScript
3 6 (8.96%) PowerShell
4 5 (7.46%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (4.48%) Bash
6 2 (2.99%) Java
Qualifications
1 23 (34.33%) CISSP
2 18 (26.87%) CISM
2 18 (26.87%) Degree
2 18 (26.87%) Security Cleared
3 16 (23.88%) GIAC
4 13 (19.40%) SANS
4 13 (19.40%) SC Cleared
5 12 (17.91%) ISACA
6 11 (16.42%) CEH
7 10 (14.93%) CISA
8 7 (10.45%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (10.45%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (5.97%) CompTIA CySA+
9 4 (5.97%) CREST Certified
9 4 (5.97%) DV Cleared
9 4 (5.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (4.48%) A+ Certification
10 3 (4.48%) OSCP
11 2 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (2.99%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (38.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (29.85%) GDPR
3 18 (26.87%) NIST
4 13 (19.40%) NCSC
5 12 (17.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (13.43%) GRC
6 9 (13.43%) JSP 440
7 7 (10.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (5.97%) SLA
8 4 (5.97%) SOC 2
9 3 (4.48%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (5.97%) Active Directory
1 4 (5.97%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Firmware
2 1 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (14.93%) Nessus
2 7 (10.45%) FortiGate
3 4 (5.97%) Ansible
4 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.48%) QRadar
5 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (31.34%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.93%) Cisco
3 9 (13.43%) Tenable
4 7 (10.45%) Palo Alto
4 7 (10.45%) Splunk
5 6 (8.96%) Ping Identity
6 5 (7.46%) Fortinet
7 4 (5.97%) AlienVault
7 4 (5.97%) Qualys
8 3 (4.48%) Atlassian
8 3 (4.48%) Juniper
9 1 (1.49%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.49%) Okta
9 1 (1.49%) Rapid7
9 1 (1.49%) VMware