Information Security Specialist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Information Security Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Information Security Specialist salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 747 744 821
Rank change year-on-year -3 +77 -180
Permanent jobs requiring an Information Security Specialist 11 20 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.032% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.036% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 9 14 24
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,563 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,550 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% +22.95% -2.33%
75th Percentile £72,000 £65,000 £60,250
90th Percentile £75,750 £66,435 £68,100
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +10.17% -5.60%

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 66,438 55,416 67,544
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.30% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,143 31,373 42,828
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,368
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,725 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Information Security Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Information Security Specialist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Information Security Specialist in the UK excluding London

Information Security Specialist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Information Security Specialist in the UK excluding London

Information Security Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
North of England +44 7 £57,500 -11.54%
North West +18 7 £57,500 +4.55%
Midlands +8 2 - - 1
Scotland -59 2 £66,000 +25.71% 1
East Midlands - 2 - -
Information Security Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Information Security Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Information Security
2 5 (45.45%) OWASP
3 4 (36.36%) OSCP
3 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (36.36%) Static Application Security Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Application Security
4 3 (27.27%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 3 (27.27%) Risk Register
4 3 (27.27%) NIST
4 3 (27.27%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (27.27%) Legal
4 3 (27.27%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
5 2 (18.18%) Information Security Management
5 2 (18.18%) Data Security
5 2 (18.18%) Security Management
5 2 (18.18%) TickIT
5 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
5 2 (18.18%) Degree
5 2 (18.18%) Wireshark
5 2 (18.18%) ISMS
5 2 (18.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (18.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity Planning
5 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation

Information Security Specialist 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 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Wireshark
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Burp Suite
General
1 3 (27.27%) Legal
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Law
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
2 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Information Security
2 5 (45.45%) OWASP
3 4 (36.36%) Application Security
3 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (36.36%) Static Application Security Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (27.27%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Risk Register
5 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
5 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity Planning
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Data Security
5 2 (18.18%) Information Security Management
5 2 (18.18%) ISMS
5 2 (18.18%) Offensive Security
5 2 (18.18%) Security Management
5 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) OSCP
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (27.27%) NIST
3 2 (18.18%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (18.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (18.18%) TickIT
4 1 (9.09%) COBIT
4 1 (9.09%) ISO 31000
4 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (9.09%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) CASB
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) CA
1 1 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (9.09%) LogRhythm
1 1 (9.09%) Sun
1 1 (9.09%) Trustwave