Information Security Officer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Information Security Officer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Information Security Officer salary in the UK excluding London is £53,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 583 747 729
Rank change year-on-year +164 -18 +63
Permanent jobs requiring an Information Security Officer 2 16 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.023% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.024% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 16
10th Percentile £41,725 £37,200 £38,678
25th Percentile £45,813 £40,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -20.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £61,813 £68,750 £73,438
90th Percentile £65,975 £87,250 £85,125
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% +30.23%

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 35,427 67,196 53,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.83% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 18,481 47,540 30,291
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £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 £76,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Information Security Officer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security Officer in the UK excluding London

Information Security Officer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Information Security Officer in the UK excluding London

Information Security Officer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security Officer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Information Security Officer in the UK excluding London

Information Security Officer
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 Information Security Officer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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 West +119 2 £53,750 -20.37%
Information Security Officer
UK

Information Security Officer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Information Security Officer 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 Information Security Officer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Internal Audit
2 1 (50.00%) Contingency Planning
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Law

Information Security Officer 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Contingency Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Internal Audit
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune