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 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 561 709 734
Rank change year-on-year +148 +25 +274
Permanent jobs citing CompTIA Security+ 126 189 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.51% 0.70% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 62 153 203
10th Percentile £44,000 £28,150 £27,750
25th Percentile £46,063 £38,987 £35,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,813 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,125 £88,750 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,250 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +0.50% +11.11% -19.99%

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 24,664 27,041 34,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.29% 27.85% 32.74%
Number of salaries quoted 10,996 17,182 15,447
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,510
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.59% +5.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,125 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

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 21 April 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 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
England +109 119 £55,000 - 82
UK excluding London +159 58 £50,250 +0.50% 54
London +70 51 £60,000 -7.69% 38
Work from Home +143 38 £55,000 -8.33% 212
South East +106 24 £60,000 +41.18% 19
North of England +68 11 £55,000 -8.33% 9
Midlands +66 11 £46,000 +29.31% 12
West Midlands +32 8 £46,000 +29.31% 7
North West +18 7 £55,021 +46.72% 2
East of England +51 5 £33,250 +23.15% 3
Yorkshire +77 4 £50,500 -15.83% 7
Scotland +130 3 - - 2
Northern Ireland +42 3 - - 5
East Midlands - 3 £35,000 - 5
South West +106 1 £51,058 -14.90% 2

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 (1.59%) IIS
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 44 (34.92%) Azure
2 28 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
3 25 (19.84%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (18.25%) AWS
5 11 (8.73%) Entra ID
6 9 (7.14%) GCP
7 4 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.17%) Cloudflare
7 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (3.17%) Route 53
8 2 (1.59%) SaaS
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.79%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.79%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 57 (45.24%) Firewall
2 22 (17.46%) TCP/IP
3 17 (13.49%) DNS
4 16 (12.70%) Intrusion Detection
5 15 (11.90%) Network Security
6 12 (9.52%) SSL
6 12 (9.52%) VLAN
7 11 (8.73%) 5G
7 11 (8.73%) Bluetooth
7 11 (8.73%) LTE
7 11 (8.73%) VPN
7 11 (8.73%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (7.14%) SAN
9 7 (5.56%) Link 16
9 7 (5.56%) RS-232
9 7 (5.56%) RS-485
9 7 (5.56%) Tactical Data Link
10 5 (3.97%) Internet
10 5 (3.97%) SD-WAN
10 5 (3.97%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.59%) NoSQL
1 2 (1.59%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Git
1 2 (1.59%) JIRA
General
1 57 (45.24%) Social Skills
2 37 (29.37%) Finance
3 32 (25.40%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (11.11%) Legal
6 11 (8.73%) Electronics
7 10 (7.94%) Military
7 10 (7.94%) Telecoms
8 7 (5.56%) Retail
9 5 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.17%) Banking
11 2 (1.59%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.59%) Local Government
11 2 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.79%) Aviation
12 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 67 (53.17%) Analyst
2 50 (39.68%) Security Analyst
3 16 (12.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 15 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (11.11%) SIEM Analyst
6 13 (10.32%) Security Engineer
6 13 (10.32%) Senior
7 12 (9.52%) Lead
8 11 (8.73%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 11 (8.73%) Incident Analyst
8 11 (8.73%) Junior
8 11 (8.73%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (8.73%) Security Incident Analyst
9 10 (7.94%) CISSP Analyst
9 10 (7.94%) Junior Analyst
9 10 (7.94%) Operations Analyst
9 10 (7.94%) Operations Manager
9 10 (7.94%) Risk Manager
9 10 (7.94%) Security Operations Analyst
10 9 (7.14%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (1.59%) JSON
1 2 (1.59%) OAuth
1 2 (1.59%) REST
1 2 (1.59%) SOAP
1 2 (1.59%) XML
2 1 (0.79%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.79%) EJB
2 1 (0.79%) HTML
2 1 (0.79%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.87%) Security Posture
2 19 (15.08%) Hedge funds
3 16 (12.70%) Management Information System
4 11 (8.73%) IoT
4 11 (8.73%) NB-IoT
5 9 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (7.14%) Podcast
6 8 (6.35%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (4.76%) Client/Server
9 4 (3.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (3.17%) PKI
10 2 (1.59%) CSOC
10 2 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.59%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.79%) Cloud Security Posture
11 1 (0.79%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (0.79%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (46.03%) Windows
2 34 (26.98%) Linux
3 24 (19.05%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.17%) Mac OS
4 4 (3.17%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.59%) Android
6 2 (1.59%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.59%) VMS
7 1 (0.79%) Unix
7 1 (0.79%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (63.49%) Cybersecurity
2 65 (51.59%) SIEM
3 54 (42.86%) Information Security
4 52 (41.27%) Security Operations
5 48 (38.10%) Incident Response
6 26 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (19.84%) Penetration Testing
8 24 (19.05%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 22 (17.46%) ITIL
10 15 (11.90%) Collaborative Culture
10 15 (11.90%) Computer Science
10 15 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (11.11%) Risk Management
11 14 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
12 13 (10.32%) Project Management
13 12 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (9.52%) Risk Assessment
14 11 (8.73%) Asset Management
14 11 (8.73%) Project Planning
14 11 (8.73%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 54 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 47 (37.30%) Python
3 15 (11.90%) Bash
4 14 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
5 10 (7.94%) R
6 7 (5.56%) C
7 6 (4.76%) C#
8 4 (3.17%) Go
8 4 (3.17%) SQL
9 2 (1.59%) C++
9 2 (1.59%) Java
9 2 (1.59%) Perl
9 2 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 81 (64.29%) CISSP
2 68 (53.97%) Degree
3 36 (28.57%) CEH
4 29 (23.02%) OSCP
5 28 (22.22%) GCIA
6 26 (20.63%) Cisco Certification
7 25 (19.84%) CISM
7 25 (19.84%) GCIH
8 23 (18.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (15.08%) Security Cleared
10 16 (12.70%) Network+ Certification
10 16 (12.70%) SANS
11 14 (11.11%) CCNA
11 14 (11.11%) CCNP
12 13 (10.32%) CISA
12 13 (10.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (9.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (8.73%) SC Cleared
15 10 (7.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 9 (7.14%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (11.90%) NIST
3 10 (7.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (7.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (5.56%) MIL-STD-1553
4 7 (5.56%) NCSC
4 7 (5.56%) PCI DSS
5 6 (4.76%) GDPR
6 3 (2.38%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.59%) SLA
8 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 22 (17.46%) Active Directory
2 15 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (8.73%) vSphere
4 6 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (8.73%) Ansible
2 11 (8.73%) Puppet
2 11 (8.73%) Terraform
3 7 (5.56%) Graylog
4 4 (3.17%) QRadar
5 1 (0.79%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.79%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 29 (23.02%) VMware
3 15 (11.90%) CrowdStrike
3 15 (11.90%) Tenable
4 7 (5.56%) Splunk
5 6 (4.76%) Cisco
6 5 (3.97%) LogRhythm
7 4 (3.17%) Apple
7 4 (3.17%) CheckPoint
7 4 (3.17%) Qualys
8 3 (2.38%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.38%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.59%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.59%) Google
9 2 (1.59%) HP
9 2 (1.59%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.59%) Sophos
10 1 (0.79%) Citrix
10 1 (0.79%) IBM
10 1 (0.79%) McAfee