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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 142 109
Rank change year-on-year +2 -33 +2
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 857 1,438 1,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.20% 2.03% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.41% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 367 1,118 1,033
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,107
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -2.73% -0.25%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £73,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £86,250
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 36,168 59,553 57,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.86% 83.98% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 18,219 41,216 29,549
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,938 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,200 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 10 May 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 10 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
Midlands +51 255 £54,000 -1.19% 84
South East +28 248 £57,670 -2.25% 279
West Midlands +42 180 £55,000 - 57
North of England -74 175 £60,000 +15.20% 160
North West -87 106 £60,000 +15.20% 90
East Midlands +47 75 £50,000 -4.76% 23
Scotland +101 60 £62,500 +25.00% 41
South West +8 59 £61,250 +22.50% 75
Yorkshire -8 54 £55,000 +10.00% 51
East of England -20 43 £37,500 -34.78% 68
North East +36 15 £72,500 +81.25% 21
Wales +28 11 £59,625 -4.60% 14
Northern Ireland +41 9 £82,801 +94.83% 13
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 33 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (2.45%) IIS
3 12 (1.40%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.93%) IBM Domino
5 6 (0.70%) Apache
6 4 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 33 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.05%) Acrobat
3 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (2.57%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 108 (12.60%) Azure
2 86 (10.04%) AWS
3 78 (9.10%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (4.43%) SaaS
5 25 (2.92%) Entra ID
6 21 (2.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 14 (1.63%) Salsify
8 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (1.17%) Power Platform
9 9 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
9 9 (1.05%) GCP
9 9 (1.05%) Google Workspace
10 8 (0.93%) GitHub
10 8 (0.93%) IaaS
11 5 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.58%) OneDrive
11 5 (0.58%) Serverless
12 4 (0.47%) Mimecast
12 4 (0.47%) Nutanix
12 4 (0.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 96 (11.20%) Firewall
2 48 (5.60%) Network Security
3 37 (4.32%) Intrusion Detection
4 28 (3.27%) TCP/IP
5 27 (3.15%) DNS
6 21 (2.45%) VPN
7 11 (1.28%) HTTP
8 10 (1.17%) Intranet
9 9 (1.05%) DHCP
9 9 (1.05%) VLAN
9 9 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.93%) WAN
10 8 (0.93%) Wireshark
11 7 (0.82%) Internet
12 6 (0.70%) LAN
13 5 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (0.58%) SMTP
13 5 (0.58%) VoIP
13 5 (0.58%) Wireless
14 4 (0.47%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (2.80%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.75%) Metadata
3 14 (1.63%) Relational Database
4 9 (1.05%) Power BI
5 6 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.35%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.35%) MySQL
7 2 (0.23%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.23%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.23%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.12%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.12%) Looker
8 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (1.87%) Jenkins
2 8 (0.93%) Git
3 7 (0.82%) GitLab
4 6 (0.70%) JIRA
5 3 (0.35%) Artifactory
5 3 (0.35%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.35%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.35%) git-flow
5 3 (0.35%) Gradle
5 3 (0.35%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.12%) ERwin
General
1 277 (32.32%) Social Skills
2 195 (22.75%) Finance
3 103 (12.02%) Legal
4 96 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (8.63%) Law
6 67 (7.82%) Retail
7 41 (4.78%) Marketing
8 35 (4.08%) Telecoms
9 30 (3.50%) Manufacturing
10 24 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
12 22 (2.57%) Games
12 22 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
13 19 (2.22%) Public Sector
14 16 (1.87%) Banking
14 16 (1.87%) German Language
15 12 (1.40%) Local Government
16 8 (0.93%) Publishing
17 7 (0.82%) Advertising
17 7 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 188 (21.94%) Security Engineer
2 174 (20.30%) Analyst
3 151 (17.62%) Principal Engineer
4 148 (17.27%) Security Analyst
4 148 (17.27%) Senior
5 147 (17.15%) Principal Security Engineer
6 139 (16.22%) Security Manager
7 129 (15.05%) Architect
8 96 (11.20%) Security Architect
9 87 (10.15%) Principal Security Analyst
9 87 (10.15%) Product Analyst
10 77 (8.98%) Senior Manager
11 62 (7.23%) Engineering Manager
12 60 (7.00%) Product Architect
12 60 (7.00%) Product Engineer
12 60 (7.00%) Senior Architect
12 60 (7.00%) Senior Security Architect
13 56 (6.53%) Lead
14 42 (4.90%) Information Manager
15 40 (4.67%) Information Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (3.03%) REST
2 24 (2.80%) SailPoint
3 21 (2.45%) .NET
3 21 (2.45%) Lightning Web Components
3 21 (2.45%) Middleware
3 21 (2.45%) SOAP
4 8 (0.93%) Node.js
4 8 (0.93%) React
5 7 (0.82%) CSS
6 5 (0.58%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.58%) HTML
6 5 (0.58%) Kafka
6 5 (0.58%) Spring Boot
7 4 (0.47%) .NET Core
7 4 (0.47%) Express.js
7 4 (0.47%) LDAP
7 4 (0.47%) Leaflet
7 4 (0.47%) Next.js
7 4 (0.47%) RESTful
7 4 (0.47%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 319 (37.22%) Management Information System
2 69 (8.05%) Security Posture
3 36 (4.20%) Data Protection Act
4 28 (3.27%) Robotics
5 24 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (2.68%) Private Cloud
7 22 (2.57%) Blockchain
7 22 (2.57%) Cyber Threat
7 22 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (2.10%) Client/Server
8 18 (2.10%) Operational Technology
9 17 (1.98%) Data Centre
9 17 (1.98%) Virtual Team
10 15 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
11 14 (1.63%) Social Media
11 14 (1.63%) Taxonomies
11 14 (1.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 13 (1.52%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.28%) Cyberattack
14 10 (1.17%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 74 (8.63%) Windows
2 25 (2.92%) Linux
3 16 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.63%) Windows Vista
5 12 (1.40%) Android
6 8 (0.93%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.82%) CentOS
7 7 (0.82%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.23%) VMS
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (44.11%) Cybersecurity
2 346 (40.37%) Risk Management
3 265 (30.92%) Project Management
4 166 (19.37%) Mentoring
5 158 (18.44%) Security Testing
6 156 (18.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 150 (17.50%) Cyber Resilience
8 133 (15.52%) Agile
9 127 (14.82%) Problem-Solving
10 104 (12.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 98 (11.44%) Computer Science
12 92 (10.74%) Incident Response
13 86 (10.04%) Coaching
13 86 (10.04%) Risk Assessment
14 83 (9.68%) Data Protection
15 78 (9.10%) SIEM
16 76 (8.87%) ITIL
16 76 (8.87%) Security Operations
17 70 (8.17%) Security Management
18 69 (8.05%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 52 (6.07%) PowerShell
2 38 (4.43%) Python
3 26 (3.03%) SQL
4 22 (2.57%) C#
5 21 (2.45%) Apex Code
6 14 (1.63%) Bash
7 10 (1.17%) Java
7 10 (1.17%) TypeScript
8 8 (0.93%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.82%) R
10 5 (0.58%) C++
10 5 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.35%) PHP
12 2 (0.23%) Go
12 2 (0.23%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.12%) Bicep
13 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.12%) Perl
13 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 385 (44.92%) Degree
2 363 (42.36%) CISSP
3 269 (31.39%) CISM
4 212 (24.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 153 (17.85%) CESG Certified Professional
6 75 (8.75%) CISA
7 68 (7.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 62 (7.23%) Security Cleared
9 53 (6.18%) Master's Degree
10 49 (5.72%) CRISC
11 46 (5.37%) Cisco Certification
12 43 (5.02%) SC Cleared
13 32 (3.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 26 (3.03%) CEH
14 26 (3.03%) ISACA
15 25 (2.92%) CompTIA Security+
16 24 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
17 18 (2.10%) ITIL Certification
18 17 (1.98%) DBS Check
19 16 (1.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 404 (47.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 267 (31.16%) NIST
3 147 (17.15%) JSP 440
3 147 (17.15%) RMADS
4 94 (10.97%) Cyber Essentials
5 89 (10.39%) GDPR
6 50 (5.83%) PCI DSS
7 45 (5.25%) GRC
8 38 (4.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 38 (4.43%) Data Quality
9 36 (4.20%) COBIT
10 29 (3.38%) ITGC
11 28 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 26 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 22 (2.57%) SLA
14 21 (2.45%) NCSC
15 19 (2.22%) SOC 2
16 14 (1.63%) QA
17 10 (1.17%) HIPAA
18 9 (1.05%) PERC
System Software
1 48 (5.60%) Active Directory
2 26 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.93%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.70%) Docker
5 2 (0.23%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.12%) Firmware
6 1 (0.12%) NFS
Systems Management
1 21 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (2.10%) Ansible
3 16 (1.87%) Terraform
4 12 (1.40%) Kubernetes
5 10 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.93%) QRadar
7 6 (0.70%) ArcSight ESM
8 5 (0.58%) ZABBIX
9 4 (0.47%) Grafana
9 4 (0.47%) SCCM
10 3 (0.35%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 2 (0.23%) EnCase
11 2 (0.23%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.23%) FTK
11 2 (0.23%) Nessus
11 2 (0.23%) Nmap
11 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.23%) Puppet
11 2 (0.23%) RSA Security Analytics
12 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 140 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.02%) Salesforce
3 41 (4.78%) Oracle
4 27 (3.15%) VMware
5 23 (2.68%) SAP
6 21 (2.45%) Okta
6 21 (2.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 20 (2.33%) Cisco
8 17 (1.98%) Google
9 10 (1.17%) Splunk
10 9 (1.05%) Adobe
10 9 (1.05%) OneTrust
11 8 (0.93%) Palo Alto
12 7 (0.82%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.70%) ArcSight
13 6 (0.70%) LogLogic
13 6 (0.70%) McAfee
14 5 (0.58%) Meraki
14 5 (0.58%) Sage
14 5 (0.58%) Veeam