Senior Information Security Specialist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Information Security Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Information Security Specialist salary in the UK excluding London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 570 - 746
Rank change year-on-year - - +103
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Information Security Specialist 5 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.013% - 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% - 0.002%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £72,000 - -
25th Percentile £73,125 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £55,000
75th Percentile £76,875 - £57,500
90th Percentile £78,000 - -
UK median annual salary £75,000 - £55,000

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 36,103 67,726 52,846
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.94% 94.86% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,704 47,866 30,035
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% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Senior Information Security Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior Information Security Specialist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Information Security Specialist in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Information Security Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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 East - 5 £75,000 - 4
Senior Information Security Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Information Security Specialist in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Information Security
2 4 (80.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 4 (80.00%) CESG Certified Professional
2 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Security Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (80.00%) CESG
2 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 4 (80.00%) CISSP
2 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) SCCP
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Information Assurance
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
4 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Scorecard
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity

Senior 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 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SCCP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) CESG
1 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Information Security
2 4 (80.00%) Security Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Information Assurance
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Scorecard
4 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
4 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CESG Certified Professional
1 4 (80.00%) CISSP
1 4 (80.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft