CompTIA Security+ Jobs

CompTIA Security+
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CompTIA Security+ qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 706 738
Rank change year-on-year +147 +32 +284
Permanent jobs citing CompTIA Security+ 133 190 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.52% 0.69% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 64 154 201
10th Percentile £44,000 £32,400 £27,750
25th Percentile £46,188 £38,987 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,875 £88,750 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,250 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +0.50% +11.11% -18.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CompTIA Security+ falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 25,404 27,420 33,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.81% 27.84% 32.71%
Number of salaries quoted 11,182 17,336 15,221
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.99% +1.00%

CompTIA Security+
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CompTIA Security+ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CompTIA Security+ in the UK

CompTIA Security+
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CompTIA Security+.

Salary trend for CompTIA Security+ in the UK

CompTIA Security+
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CompTIA Security+ over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for CompTIA Security+ in the UK

CompTIA Security+
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CompTIA Security+ within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +117 124 £55,000 - 57
UK excluding London +167 65 £50,250 +0.50% 44
London +85 51 £52,500 -19.23% 22
Work from Home +175 37 £55,000 -8.33% 232
South East +100 24 £60,000 +37.14% 10
North of England +72 13 £55,000 -8.33% 10
Midlands +81 12 £46,000 +16.02% 11
West Midlands +46 9 £46,000 +16.02% 8
North West +32 8 £55,021 +46.72% 3
Yorkshire +70 5 £50,500 -15.83% 7
East of England +46 5 £33,250 +23.15% 5
Scotland +133 4 - - 2
Northern Ireland +38 4 - - 4
South West +95 3 £51,058 -7.17% 2
East Midlands - 3 £35,000 - 3

CompTIA Security+
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.50%) IIS
1 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 45 (33.83%) Azure
2 28 (21.05%) Azure Sentinel
3 25 (18.80%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (18.05%) AWS
5 10 (7.52%) Entra ID
6 9 (6.77%) GCP
7 4 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (3.01%) Route 53
8 3 (2.26%) Cloudflare
9 2 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.50%) SaaS
10 1 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.75%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 59 (44.36%) Firewall
2 21 (15.79%) TCP/IP
3 16 (12.03%) DNS
3 16 (12.03%) Intrusion Detection
4 13 (9.77%) Network Security
4 13 (9.77%) VLAN
5 12 (9.02%) VPN
5 12 (9.02%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (8.27%) 5G
6 11 (8.27%) Bluetooth
6 11 (8.27%) LTE
6 11 (8.27%) SSL
7 9 (6.77%) SAN
8 7 (5.26%) Link 16
8 7 (5.26%) RS-232
8 7 (5.26%) RS-485
8 7 (5.26%) Tactical Data Link
9 6 (4.51%) WAN
10 5 (3.76%) IPsec
10 5 (3.76%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.50%) NoSQL
1 2 (1.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Git
1 2 (1.50%) JIRA
General
1 64 (48.12%) Social Skills
2 41 (30.83%) Finance
3 32 (24.06%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.53%) Legal
5 15 (11.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (8.27%) Electronics
7 10 (7.52%) Military
7 10 (7.52%) Telecoms
8 7 (5.26%) Retail
9 5 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.01%) Banking
11 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.50%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.50%) Local Government
13 1 (0.75%) Aviation
13 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 68 (51.13%) Analyst
2 52 (39.10%) Security Analyst
3 18 (13.53%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 15 (11.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (10.53%) Operations Manager
5 14 (10.53%) Risk Manager
5 14 (10.53%) SIEM Analyst
6 13 (9.77%) Security Engineer
7 12 (9.02%) Lead
7 12 (9.02%) Senior
8 11 (8.27%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 11 (8.27%) Incident Analyst
8 11 (8.27%) Junior
8 11 (8.27%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (8.27%) Security Incident Analyst
9 10 (7.52%) CISSP Analyst
9 10 (7.52%) Junior Analyst
9 10 (7.52%) Operations Analyst
9 10 (7.52%) Security Operations Analyst
10 9 (6.77%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (1.50%) JSON
1 2 (1.50%) OAuth
1 2 (1.50%) REST
1 2 (1.50%) SOAP
1 2 (1.50%) XML
2 1 (0.75%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.75%) EJB
2 1 (0.75%) HTML
2 1 (0.75%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.29%) Security Posture
2 19 (14.29%) Hedge funds
3 13 (9.77%) Management Information System
4 11 (8.27%) IoT
4 11 (8.27%) NB-IoT
5 10 (7.52%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (7.52%) Security Operations Centre
6 9 (6.77%) Podcast
7 6 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (3.76%) Client/Server
9 4 (3.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (3.01%) PKI
10 2 (1.50%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.50%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.75%) CSOC
11 1 (0.75%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (0.75%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.75%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 58 (43.61%) Windows
2 33 (24.81%) Linux
3 24 (18.05%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.01%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.26%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.50%) Android
6 2 (1.50%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.50%) VMS
7 1 (0.75%) Unix
7 1 (0.75%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (60.15%) Cybersecurity
2 64 (48.12%) SIEM
3 58 (43.61%) Information Security
4 53 (39.85%) Security Operations
5 50 (37.59%) Incident Response
6 29 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (18.80%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 24 (18.05%) Penetration Testing
9 21 (15.79%) Collaborative Culture
10 20 (15.04%) ITIL
11 18 (13.53%) Project Management
11 18 (13.53%) Risk Management
12 16 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (12.03%) Risk Assessment
12 16 (12.03%) Vulnerability Management
13 15 (11.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 14 (10.53%) Computer Science
14 14 (10.53%) Regulatory Change
14 14 (10.53%) Regulatory Compliance
15 11 (8.27%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 56 (42.11%) PowerShell
2 48 (36.09%) Python
3 17 (12.78%) Bash
4 13 (9.77%) Kusto Query Language
5 10 (7.52%) R
6 7 (5.26%) C
7 5 (3.76%) C#
8 4 (3.01%) SQL
9 3 (2.26%) Go
10 2 (1.50%) C++
10 2 (1.50%) Java
10 2 (1.50%) Perl
10 2 (1.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (62.41%) CISSP
2 72 (54.14%) Degree
3 38 (28.57%) CEH
4 30 (22.56%) Cisco Certification
5 29 (21.80%) OSCP
6 27 (20.30%) GCIA
6 27 (20.30%) GCIH
7 26 (19.55%) CISM
8 22 (16.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (13.53%) Security Cleared
10 17 (12.78%) CISA
11 16 (12.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 16 (12.03%) Network+ Certification
12 15 (11.28%) SANS
13 14 (10.53%) CCNA
13 14 (10.53%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 13 (9.77%) CCNP
14 13 (9.77%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (7.52%) SC Cleared
16 9 (6.77%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (30.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (12.78%) NIST
3 14 (10.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 9 (6.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (5.26%) MIL-STD-1553
5 7 (5.26%) NCSC
5 7 (5.26%) PCI DSS
6 5 (3.76%) GDPR
7 3 (2.26%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.50%) SLA
9 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 21 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 16 (12.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (8.27%) vSphere
4 7 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.50%) Docker
6 1 (0.75%) Firmware
6 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (11.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (8.27%) Ansible
2 11 (8.27%) Puppet
2 11 (8.27%) Terraform
3 6 (4.51%) Graylog
4 3 (2.26%) QRadar
5 2 (1.50%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.75%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 30 (22.56%) VMware
3 15 (11.28%) CrowdStrike
3 15 (11.28%) Tenable
4 7 (5.26%) Splunk
5 6 (4.51%) Cisco
6 4 (3.01%) CheckPoint
6 4 (3.01%) LogRhythm
6 4 (3.01%) Qualys
7 3 (2.26%) Apple
7 3 (2.26%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.26%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.26%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.50%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.50%) Google
8 2 (1.50%) HP
8 2 (1.50%) Sophos
9 1 (0.75%) Citrix
9 1 (0.75%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.75%) McAfee