Chief Security Officer
UK

The median Chief Security Officer salary in the UK is £165,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 731 1067 1091
Rank change year-on-year +336 +24 -343
Permanent jobs requiring a Chief Security Officer 10 9 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.007% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.008% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 5
10th Percentile £93,750 £103,500 £87,500
25th Percentile £122,813 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £165,000 £120,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +26.32% -13.64%
75th Percentile £184,375 £160,000 -
90th Percentile £220,000 £161,000 £122,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £165,000 £120,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +37.50% +26.32% +2.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 50,797 118,142 122,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.42% 95.32% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 37,144 73,821 84,079
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Chief Security Officer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Chief Security Officer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Chief Security Officer in the UK

Chief Security Officer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Chief Security Officer.

Salary trend for Chief Security Officer in the UK

Chief Security Officer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Chief Security Officer over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Chief Security Officer in the UK

Chief Security Officer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Chief Security Officer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 December 2023. 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
England +337 10 £165,000 +8.20% 14
London +267 6 £135,000 -11.48% 8
UK excluding London +244 4 £165,000 +37.50% 6
South East - 3 £165,000 - 2
Work from Home +248 1 - - 7
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -

Chief Security Officer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 December 2023, Chief Security Officer 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 featuring Chief Security Officer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Information Security
2 9 (90.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (70.00%) Risk Management
3 7 (70.00%) Finance
3 7 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (60.00%) NIST
4 6 (60.00%) Management Information System
4 6 (60.00%) Data Protection
5 5 (50.00%) Degree
5 5 (50.00%) CISSP
5 5 (50.00%) Banking
5 5 (50.00%) Incident Response
6 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
6 4 (40.00%) CISM
7 3 (30.00%) ISO 14001
7 3 (30.00%) ISO 9001
7 3 (30.00%) Legal
7 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
7 3 (30.00%) COBIT
7 3 (30.00%) PCI DSS
7 3 (30.00%) GDPR
7 3 (30.00%) Virtual Team Management
7 3 (30.00%) Virtual Team
7 3 (30.00%) Line Management
7 3 (30.00%) Azure
7 3 (30.00%) SaaS
7 3 (30.00%) Security Operations
8 2 (20.00%) Information Assurance
8 2 (20.00%) Internal Audit
8 2 (20.00%) Data Centre

Chief Security Officer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) SaaS
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Banking
3 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (30.00%) Legal
4 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (10.00%) Advertising
5 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Team
3 2 (20.00%) Cyberattack
3 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (20.00%) Derivative
4 1 (10.00%) BYOD
4 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Information Security
2 7 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (70.00%) Risk Management
3 6 (60.00%) Data Protection
4 5 (50.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (30.00%) Line Management
5 3 (30.00%) Security Operations
5 3 (30.00%) Virtual Team Management
6 2 (20.00%) Application Security
6 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (20.00%) Information Assurance
6 2 (20.00%) Information Security Management
6 2 (20.00%) Internal Audit
6 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (20.00%) SDLC
6 2 (20.00%) Security Management
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (10.00%) SIEM
7 1 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
7 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) CISSP
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) CISM
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (20.00%) ISACA
3 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (10.00%) CISA
4 1 (10.00%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (90.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (60.00%) NIST
3 3 (30.00%) COBIT
3 3 (30.00%) GDPR
3 3 (30.00%) ISO 14001
3 3 (30.00%) ISO 9001
3 3 (30.00%) PCI DSS
4 2 (20.00%) NCSC
5 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS