Information Security Jobs in the UK excluding London

Information Security (InfoSec)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Information Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 102 110
Rank change year-on-year -39 +8 +5
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 1,445 2,019 2,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.06% 3.29% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 3.44% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,125 1,072 1,349
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,125 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Information Security is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,192 58,753 66,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 95.62% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 41,002 30,145 41,524
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Information Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Information Security in the UK excluding London

Information Security
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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 -17 429 £52,084 +4.17% 92
South East -16 348 £57,500 -2.54% 85
North West -16 261 £52,084 +4.17% 55
Midlands -44 235 £54,650 -6.98% 62
South West -27 186 £50,000 -9.09% 42
West Midlands -39 170 £55,000 -4.35% 36
Yorkshire +4 138 £52,500 +5.00% 29
East of England -26 116 £57,500 -1.29% 29
Scotland -67 98 £51,500 -26.43% 23
East Midlands +18 64 £52,500 -23.64% 26
North East +1 30 £40,000 -15.79% 8
Wales +11 23 £62,500 +36.73% 8
Northern Ireland +6 5 £42,500 -3.41% 5
Isle of Man -15 4 £46,500 +3.33% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -
Information Security
UK

Information Security
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 56 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (1.31%) IIS
4 11 (0.76%) WordPress
5 7 (0.48%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.42%) CMS
6 6 (0.42%) Confluence
6 6 (0.42%) nginx
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.14%) Apache
8 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2003
8 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.069%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.069%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.069%) WebSphere
Applications
1 41 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.90%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
1 11 (0.76%) Endur
2 4 (0.28%) NEC Housing
2 4 (0.28%) SAP GRC
3 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.21%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.069%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.069%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 337 (23.32%) Azure
2 197 (13.63%) Microsoft 365
3 137 (9.48%) AWS
4 70 (4.84%) Power Platform
5 65 (4.50%) Entra ID
6 59 (4.08%) SaaS
7 44 (3.04%) IaaS
8 41 (2.84%) PaaS
9 39 (2.70%) Serverless
10 36 (2.49%) GCP
11 35 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
13 24 (1.66%) Snowflake
14 21 (1.45%) Matillion
15 18 (1.25%) Power Automate
16 17 (1.18%) OneDrive
16 17 (1.18%) PowerApps
17 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
18 12 (0.83%) Azure Functions
18 12 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 155 (10.73%) Firewall
2 101 (6.99%) Network Security
3 71 (4.91%) WAN
4 70 (4.84%) DNS
5 45 (3.11%) SD-WAN
6 34 (2.35%) TCP/IP
7 32 (2.21%) DKIM
7 32 (2.21%) DMARC
7 32 (2.21%) LAN
8 31 (2.15%) Internet
9 30 (2.08%) VPN
10 29 (2.01%) Intrusion Detection
11 25 (1.73%) Wireless
12 23 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
13 20 (1.38%) DHCP
14 17 (1.18%) SAN
15 14 (0.97%) Wireshark
16 13 (0.90%) Cisco IPT
16 13 (0.90%) OSPF
17 12 (0.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (4.43%) Power BI
2 46 (3.18%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (1.66%) Metadata
4 23 (1.59%) Data Lake
5 21 (1.45%) Relational Database
6 12 (0.83%) MySQL
7 10 (0.69%) Big Data
8 8 (0.55%) SAP BW
9 6 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.35%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.35%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (0.28%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.21%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.21%) Tableau
13 1 (0.069%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.069%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 13 (0.90%) Git
1 13 (0.90%) JIRA
2 7 (0.48%) Burp Suite
3 5 (0.35%) Metasploit
3 5 (0.35%) MSTest
3 5 (0.35%) webpack
4 4 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (0.28%) Toad
5 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.14%) GDB
6 2 (0.14%) GitLab
7 1 (0.069%) MSI
7 1 (0.069%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.069%) Selenium
7 1 (0.069%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.069%) Subversion
General
1 417 (28.86%) Social Skills
2 277 (19.17%) Finance
3 233 (16.12%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (10.03%) Legal
5 77 (5.33%) Public Sector
6 73 (5.05%) Retail
7 72 (4.98%) Military
8 71 (4.91%) Law
9 68 (4.71%) Organisational Skills
10 56 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (2.49%) Telecoms
12 33 (2.28%) Aerospace
13 23 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.52%) Marketing
15 20 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
16 18 (1.25%) Banking
16 18 (1.25%) Manufacturing
17 15 (1.04%) Automotive
18 14 (0.97%) Aviation
18 14 (0.97%) Environmental Health
Job Titles
1 296 (20.48%) Analyst
2 183 (12.66%) Security Analyst
3 150 (10.38%) Senior
4 142 (9.83%) Lead
5 127 (8.79%) Architect
6 119 (8.24%) Security Manager
7 113 (7.82%) Information Analyst
8 111 (7.68%) Information Security Analyst
9 101 (6.99%) Consultant
10 86 (5.95%) Security Consultant
11 79 (5.47%) IT Manager
12 77 (5.33%) Security Architect
13 67 (4.64%) Senior Analyst
14 60 (4.15%) Information Manager
14 60 (4.15%) Information Security Manager
15 47 (3.25%) Security Engineer
16 43 (2.98%) Developer
17 41 (2.84%) Security Specialist
18 39 (2.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 35 (2.42%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.91%) .NET
2 33 (2.28%) HTML
3 32 (2.21%) CSS
4 20 (1.38%) React
5 17 (1.18%) ASP.NET
6 15 (1.04%) .NET Framework
7 13 (0.90%) Entity Framework
7 13 (0.90%) HTML5 Canvas
7 13 (0.90%) Middleware
8 12 (0.83%) ASP.NET MVC
9 10 (0.69%) Web Services
10 7 (0.48%) .NET Core
10 7 (0.48%) ADO
10 7 (0.48%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.48%) ModSecurity
10 7 (0.48%) XML
11 6 (0.42%) HTML5
11 6 (0.42%) jQuery
11 6 (0.42%) Laravel
11 6 (0.42%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 390 (26.99%) Management Information System
2 76 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 66 (4.57%) Security Operations Centre
3 66 (4.57%) Security Posture
4 55 (3.81%) Cyberattack
5 51 (3.53%) Cyber Threat
6 47 (3.25%) Data Protection Act
7 46 (3.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 39 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
9 37 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
9 37 (2.56%) PMI
10 31 (2.15%) Operational Technology
11 27 (1.87%) Driving Licence
12 21 (1.45%) Data Structures
12 21 (1.45%) Onboarding
13 20 (1.38%) NHS
14 19 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
14 19 (1.31%) PKI
14 19 (1.31%) Product Ownership
15 18 (1.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 175 (12.11%) Windows
2 77 (5.33%) Linux
3 63 (4.36%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.87%) Unix
4 27 (1.87%) Windows 10
5 18 (1.25%) Android
6 16 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.11%) Mac OS X
7 9 (0.62%) zOS
8 7 (0.48%) Solaris
8 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.35%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.28%) VMS
12 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.069%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.069%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (37.02%) Cybersecurity
2 235 (16.26%) Risk Management
3 227 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
4 205 (14.19%) Data Protection
5 187 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 173 (11.97%) Project Management
7 168 (11.63%) Incident Response
8 157 (10.87%) Security Operations
9 153 (10.59%) Cloud Security
10 145 (10.03%) Agile
11 144 (9.97%) Security Management
12 142 (9.83%) Mentoring
13 137 (9.48%) ITIL
14 133 (9.20%) SIEM
14 133 (9.20%) Vulnerability Management
15 113 (7.82%) Coaching
16 109 (7.54%) Information Security Management
17 106 (7.34%) Security Architecture
18 105 (7.27%) Incident Management
19 104 (7.20%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 92 (6.37%) SQL
2 68 (4.71%) PowerShell
3 64 (4.43%) Python
4 30 (2.08%) T-SQL
5 29 (2.01%) JavaScript
6 28 (1.94%) C#
7 20 (1.38%) TypeScript
8 17 (1.18%) Bash
9 12 (0.83%) PHP
10 11 (0.76%) Java
11 3 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.21%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.21%) VB
12 2 (0.14%) AWK
12 2 (0.14%) Korn
12 2 (0.14%) Perl
13 1 (0.069%) Bourne shell
13 1 (0.069%) R
13 1 (0.069%) Ruby
13 1 (0.069%) sed
Qualifications
1 272 (18.82%) CISSP
2 251 (17.37%) Degree
3 216 (14.95%) CISM
4 170 (11.76%) Security Cleared
5 94 (6.51%) Cisco Certification
5 94 (6.51%) SC Cleared
6 83 (5.74%) CISA
7 75 (5.19%) Azure Certification
8 68 (4.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 64 (4.43%) CCSP
10 55 (3.81%) AWS Certification
11 47 (3.25%) CRISC
12 43 (2.98%) CCSK
13 42 (2.91%) DV Cleared
13 42 (2.91%) PMI Certification
14 33 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
15 32 (2.21%) Master's Degree
16 26 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
16 26 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
17 25 (1.73%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 428 (29.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 299 (20.69%) NIST
3 210 (14.53%) GDPR
4 171 (11.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 116 (8.03%) PCI DSS
6 105 (7.27%) GRC
7 59 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 58 (4.01%) NCSC
9 56 (3.88%) NIST 800
10 39 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 33 (2.28%) ISO 9001
12 32 (2.21%) SLA
13 29 (2.01%) COBIT
14 25 (1.73%) QA
15 23 (1.59%) RMADS
16 22 (1.52%) JSP 440
16 22 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 20 (1.38%) Data Quality
18 19 (1.31%) SOC 2
19 18 (1.25%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 120 (8.30%) Active Directory
2 49 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (2.63%) Docker
4 27 (1.87%) Hyper-V
5 16 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.35%) vSphere
7 4 (0.28%) pfSense
8 3 (0.21%) Firmware
8 3 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.14%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.069%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.069%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.069%) Lustre
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.069%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.069%) Snort
10 1 (0.069%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 42 (2.91%) CASB
1 42 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 40 (2.77%) Single Sign-On
3 23 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (1.45%) Nessus
5 13 (0.90%) Terraform
6 11 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 11 (0.76%) Ansible
6 11 (0.76%) Nmap
7 10 (0.69%) SCCM
7 10 (0.69%) WSUS
8 7 (0.48%) CSIRT
9 5 (0.35%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 4 (0.28%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 3 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
11 3 (0.21%) QRadar
12 2 (0.14%) DatAdvantage
12 2 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.14%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.14%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 364 (25.19%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.50%) VMware
3 59 (4.08%) Cisco
4 34 (2.35%) Dell
5 29 (2.01%) Databricks
6 23 (1.59%) Oracle
7 20 (1.38%) Veeam
8 19 (1.31%) Qualys
8 19 (1.31%) SAP
9 18 (1.25%) Rapid7
10 15 (1.04%) Google
10 15 (1.04%) Palo Alto
11 13 (0.90%) HP
11 13 (0.90%) Salesforce
12 12 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
13 11 (0.76%) Citrix
13 11 (0.76%) OpenLink
13 11 (0.76%) ServiceNow
13 11 (0.76%) Splunk
14 10 (0.69%) IBM