Head of Cybersecurity Jobs in the UK excluding London

Head of Cybersecurity
UK > UK excluding London

The median Head of Cybersecurity salary in the UK excluding London is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 744 760 848
Rank change year-on-year +16 +88 -163
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Cybersecurity 7 8 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.013% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.015% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 6
10th Percentile - £62,606 £53,732
25th Percentile £60,639 £65,152 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £83,569 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% +33.71% -34.21%
75th Percentile £93,750 £109,688 £88,750
90th Percentile £104,500 £120,000 £148,125
UK median annual salary £95,000 £105,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +13.51% -24.49%

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 66,742 54,869 68,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.26% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 47,250 31,160 43,040
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 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Head of Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Head of Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Head of Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Head of Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Head of Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Head of Cybersecurity
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 Head of Cybersecurity within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
West Midlands +20 4 £63,466 -38.08%
Midlands +17 4 £63,466 -38.08%
Wales - 2 £87,500 - 2
South East +8 1 £95,000 +37.53%
Head of Cybersecurity
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Head of Cybersecurity 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 Head of Cybersecurity in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) SIEM
2 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity
2 3 (42.86%) Information Security
2 3 (42.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (42.86%) IT Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
2 3 (42.86%) Digital Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) Code Quality
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) CITP
2 3 (42.86%) QA
2 3 (42.86%) Problem Management
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 3 (42.86%) Change Management
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Legal
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) ISMS
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) NIST
4 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
4 1 (14.29%) Application Security

Head of Cybersecurity 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity
2 3 (42.86%) Change Management
2 3 (42.86%) Code Quality
2 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 3 (42.86%) Digital Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) Information Security
2 3 (42.86%) IT Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Problem Management
2 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) ISMS
4 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Social Engineering
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CITP
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) CISM
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
1 3 (42.86%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (28.57%) NIST
3 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes