Information Security Jobs in the UK excluding London

Information Security (InfoSec)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Information Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Information Security over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 140 91
Rank change year-on-year +25 -49 +21
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 891 1,435 2,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.44% 2.07% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 2.45% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 374 1,125 1,085
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,670 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.79% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,775 £85,000 £86,700
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Information Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,691 58,649 59,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.25% 84.62% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 17,479 40,851 30,619
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,043 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -8.90% +4.54%
75th Percentile £66,219 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,530 £55,000 £61,750
% change year-on-year +4.60% -10.93% +2.92%

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 21 April 2025.

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 21 April 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
Midlands +66 274 £55,000 +0.64% 86
South East +42 255 £58,999 +2.09% 217
West Midlands +39 195 £55,000 - 53
North of England -50 171 £58,750 +12.80% 164
North West -73 108 £60,000 +15.20% 75
East Midlands +74 79 £54,000 +2.86% 32
South West +21 63 £64,627 +29.25% 76
Scotland +90 57 £62,500 +21.36% 46
East of England +19 54 £65,250 +13.48% 40
Yorkshire +6 50 £55,000 +4.76% 75
North East +30 13 £70,000 +68.53% 15
Wales +40 10 £55,000 -8.71% 11
Northern Ireland +43 9 - - 20
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 30 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (2.47%) IIS
3 10 (1.12%) IBM Domino
3 10 (1.12%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.01%) Apache
5 3 (0.34%) Confluence
5 3 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 34 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.01%) Acrobat
3 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (2.47%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 120 (13.47%) Azure
2 93 (10.44%) AWS
3 77 (8.64%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (4.94%) SaaS
5 24 (2.69%) Entra ID
6 21 (2.36%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 11 (1.23%) GitHub
8 10 (1.12%) GCP
8 10 (1.12%) IaaS
8 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (1.12%) Power Platform
9 9 (1.01%) Google Workspace
10 8 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (0.67%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (0.56%) Mimecast
12 5 (0.56%) PaaS
12 5 (0.56%) Serverless
13 4 (0.45%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 104 (11.67%) Firewall
2 72 (8.08%) Intrusion Detection
3 45 (5.05%) Network Security
4 32 (3.59%) TCP/IP
5 31 (3.48%) DNS
6 20 (2.24%) VPN
7 11 (1.23%) HTTP
8 10 (1.12%) DHCP
8 10 (1.12%) Intranet
9 8 (0.90%) Wireshark
10 7 (0.79%) Internet
11 6 (0.67%) VLAN
11 6 (0.67%) WAN
11 6 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.67%) Wireless
12 5 (0.56%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (0.56%) SMTP
13 4 (0.45%) Broadband
13 4 (0.45%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.58%) SQL Server
2 17 (1.91%) Relational Database
3 9 (1.01%) Power BI
4 6 (0.67%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.34%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.34%) MySQL
6 2 (0.22%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.22%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.11%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.11%) Looker
7 1 (0.11%) Metadata
7 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (2.02%) Jenkins
2 12 (1.35%) Git
3 9 (1.01%) JIRA
4 7 (0.79%) Artifactory
5 6 (0.67%) Cucumber
5 6 (0.67%) git-flow
5 6 (0.67%) GitLab
5 6 (0.67%) Gradle
6 3 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.34%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.34%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.11%) ERwin
7 1 (0.11%) Selenium
7 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
General
1 294 (33.00%) Social Skills
2 216 (24.24%) Finance
3 122 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (8.31%) Legal
5 69 (7.74%) Telecoms
6 60 (6.73%) Retail
7 49 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (4.94%) Law
9 29 (3.25%) Manufacturing
10 27 (3.03%) Marketing
11 23 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (2.47%) Games
12 22 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (2.36%) Public Sector
14 18 (2.02%) Banking
15 16 (1.80%) German Language
16 12 (1.35%) Local Government
17 9 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (1.01%) Publishing
18 7 (0.79%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 208 (23.34%) Security Engineer
2 191 (21.44%) Analyst
3 174 (19.53%) Principal Engineer
4 164 (18.41%) Principal Security Engineer
4 164 (18.41%) Security Analyst
5 155 (17.40%) Architect
6 147 (16.50%) Security Manager
7 139 (15.60%) Senior
8 122 (13.69%) Security Architect
9 104 (11.67%) Principal Security Analyst
9 104 (11.67%) Product Analyst
10 65 (7.30%) Senior Manager
11 62 (6.96%) Engineering Manager
12 60 (6.73%) Product Architect
12 60 (6.73%) Product Engineer
12 60 (6.73%) Senior Architect
12 60 (6.73%) Senior Security Architect
13 57 (6.40%) Lead
14 47 (5.27%) Information Manager
15 43 (4.83%) Information Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.60%) HTML
2 25 (2.81%) REST
3 24 (2.69%) SailPoint
4 22 (2.47%) Middleware
5 21 (2.36%) .NET
5 21 (2.36%) Lightning Web Components
5 21 (2.36%) SOAP
6 11 (1.23%) Node.js
7 10 (1.12%) Kafka
8 8 (0.90%) AngularJS
8 8 (0.90%) React
8 8 (0.90%) Spring Boot
9 7 (0.79%) CSS
10 6 (0.67%) Drools
10 6 (0.67%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (0.56%) HTML5
12 4 (0.45%) LDAP
12 4 (0.45%) RESTful
12 4 (0.45%) SAML
12 4 (0.45%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 342 (38.38%) Management Information System
2 68 (7.63%) Security Posture
3 44 (4.94%) Cyberattack
4 38 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
5 27 (3.03%) Robotics
6 26 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (2.69%) Private Cloud
8 22 (2.47%) Blockchain
8 22 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (2.36%) Data Centre
10 20 (2.24%) Cyber Threat
11 19 (2.13%) Client/Server
11 19 (2.13%) Virtual Team
12 17 (1.91%) Operational Technology
12 17 (1.91%) Security Operations Centre
13 15 (1.68%) Onboarding
14 14 (1.57%) Social Media
14 14 (1.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 12 (1.35%) Freedom of Information
16 11 (1.23%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.86%) Windows
2 29 (3.25%) Linux
3 15 (1.68%) Android
4 14 (1.57%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.57%) Windows Vista
5 11 (1.23%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.79%) CentOS
6 7 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.22%) VMS
9 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (48.60%) Cybersecurity
2 392 (44.00%) Risk Management
3 284 (31.87%) Project Management
4 206 (23.12%) Security Testing
5 191 (21.44%) Mentoring
6 169 (18.97%) Cyber Resilience
7 146 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
8 132 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 124 (13.92%) Incident Response
10 123 (13.80%) Agile
11 107 (12.01%) Computer Science
12 94 (10.55%) Stakeholder Management
13 85 (9.54%) SIEM
14 84 (9.43%) Data Protection
15 82 (9.20%) Artificial Intelligence
16 81 (9.09%) ITIL
17 79 (8.87%) Security Operations
18 77 (8.64%) Security Architecture
19 75 (8.42%) Risk Assessment
20 74 (8.31%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 52 (5.84%) PowerShell
2 45 (5.05%) Python
3 24 (2.69%) SQL
4 22 (2.47%) C#
5 21 (2.36%) Apex Code
6 18 (2.02%) Bash
7 13 (1.46%) Java
7 13 (1.46%) TypeScript
8 8 (0.90%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.79%) R
10 6 (0.67%) Go
11 5 (0.56%) C++
11 5 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.45%) Ruby
13 3 (0.34%) PHP
14 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.11%) C
15 1 (0.11%) Perl
15 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 401 (45.01%) Degree
2 383 (42.99%) CISSP
3 295 (33.11%) CISM
4 212 (23.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 169 (18.97%) CESG Certified Professional
6 94 (10.55%) Security Cleared
7 73 (8.19%) CISA
8 72 (8.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 47 (5.27%) CRISC
10 46 (5.16%) DV Cleared
11 45 (5.05%) Cisco Certification
12 44 (4.94%) Master's Degree
13 39 (4.38%) SC Cleared
14 28 (3.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 27 (3.03%) CEH
16 26 (2.92%) ISACA
17 24 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
18 23 (2.58%) CompTIA Security+
19 19 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
20 16 (1.80%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 422 (47.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 280 (31.43%) NIST
3 164 (18.41%) JSP 440
3 164 (18.41%) RMADS
4 100 (11.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 93 (10.44%) GDPR
6 55 (6.17%) PCI DSS
7 45 (5.05%) GRC
8 37 (4.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 34 (3.82%) COBIT
10 26 (2.92%) ITGC
11 24 (2.69%) Data Quality
11 24 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 20 (2.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 19 (2.13%) SLA
14 17 (1.91%) SOC 2
15 16 (1.80%) QA
16 14 (1.57%) NCSC
17 12 (1.35%) HIPAA
18 10 (1.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 49 (5.50%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.56%) Docker
5 3 (0.34%) DFS Replication
5 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.11%) NFS
6 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (2.69%) Ansible
2 21 (2.36%) Kubernetes
3 20 (2.24%) Terraform
4 16 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.79%) QRadar
7 5 (0.56%) ArcSight ESM
7 5 (0.56%) ZABBIX
8 4 (0.45%) Grafana
9 3 (0.34%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.34%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 2 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.22%) EnCase
10 2 (0.22%) FTK
10 2 (0.22%) Nessus
10 2 (0.22%) Nmap
10 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.22%) Puppet
10 2 (0.22%) RSA Security Analytics
10 2 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 132 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 43 (4.83%) Salesforce
3 42 (4.71%) Oracle
4 26 (2.92%) VMware
5 23 (2.58%) SAP
6 21 (2.36%) Okta
6 21 (2.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 20 (2.24%) Cisco
8 17 (1.91%) Google
9 10 (1.12%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.01%) Adobe
10 9 (1.01%) OneTrust
10 9 (1.01%) Palo Alto
10 9 (1.01%) Splunk
11 8 (0.90%) McAfee
12 7 (0.79%) Sophos
13 6 (0.67%) Tenable
14 5 (0.56%) ArcSight
14 5 (0.56%) LogLogic
14 5 (0.56%) Veracode