Cybersecurity Analyst
UK

The median Cybersecurity Analyst salary in the UK is £58,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 583 822 772
Rank change year-on-year +239 -50 -81
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 147 253 314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.22% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 123 160 159
10th Percentile £38,850 £36,250 £31,245
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,375 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £65,520 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,200 £70,000 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +28.89% -5.26% +14.46%

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 50,561 117,203 121,950
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.41% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 36,942 73,752 84,378
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,798 £32,125
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%

Cybersecurity Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +248 132 £60,000 +20.00% 40
UK excluding London +184 93 £58,000 +28.89% 27
Work from Home +241 66 £60,000 +20.00% 16
London +244 48 £55,000 -8.33% 12
South East +135 29 £60,000 +26.32% 3
North of England +128 28 £58,000 +28.89% 9
Yorkshire +121 19 £62,500 +38.89% 3
Midlands +112 12 £48,750 +4.91% 3
South West +78 11 £65,000 +30.00% 8
West Midlands +108 8 £42,250 -9.08% 3
North West +84 8 £46,000 +2.22% 5
Scotland +31 6 £45,000 -6.64% 4
East Midlands +52 4 £65,000 +73.33%
East of England +110 3 £50,000 +17.65% 2
Northern Ireland +40 3 £42,500 -
Wales +11 1 £40,500 -
North East - 1 £40,000 - 1

Cybersecurity Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 December 2023, Cybersecurity Analyst 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 Cybersecurity Analyst in the job title.

1 147 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 70 (47.62%) Firewall
3 68 (46.26%) SIEM
4 63 (42.86%) Security Operations
5 52 (35.37%) Information Security
6 46 (31.29%) Incident Response
7 40 (27.21%) Penetration Testing
8 39 (26.53%) CISSP
9 38 (25.85%) NIST
10 35 (23.81%) Vulnerability Management
11 33 (22.45%) Security Monitoring
12 29 (19.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 28 (19.05%) Azure
13 28 (19.05%) Social Skills
13 28 (19.05%) Application Security
14 27 (18.37%) CompTIA Security+
15 25 (17.01%) Cyber Threat
15 25 (17.01%) Network Security
16 24 (16.33%) Use Case
16 24 (16.33%) Palo Alto
17 23 (15.65%) Microsoft
18 22 (14.97%) Cisco
18 22 (14.97%) Degree
18 22 (14.97%) Incident Management
18 22 (14.97%) Cloud Security
19 20 (13.61%) Cisco Nexus
19 20 (13.61%) Finance
20 19 (12.93%) Wi-Fi
20 19 (12.93%) CISM
20 19 (12.93%) Intrusion Detection

Cybersecurity Analyst 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.04%) IIS
3 2 (1.36%) MS Exchange
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (19.05%) Azure
2 18 (12.24%) AWS
3 13 (8.84%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (8.16%) SaaS
5 9 (6.12%) IaaS
6 4 (2.72%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (2.04%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.36%) PaaS
8 2 (1.36%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.68%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.68%) GCP
9 1 (0.68%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 70 (47.62%) Firewall
2 25 (17.01%) Network Security
3 20 (13.61%) Cisco Nexus
4 19 (12.93%) Intrusion Detection
4 19 (12.93%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (8.84%) LAN
5 13 (8.84%) NGFW
5 13 (8.84%) WAN
6 12 (8.16%) Internet
7 3 (2.04%) DNS
8 2 (1.36%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.36%) VoIP
8 2 (1.36%) VPN
8 2 (1.36%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.68%) DKIM
9 1 (0.68%) DMARC
9 1 (0.68%) tcpdump
9 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.72%) MongoDB
1 4 (2.72%) MySQL
2 3 (2.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.68%) JIRA
1 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.61%) Finance
3 9 (6.12%) Law
4 6 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.08%) Automotive
5 5 (3.40%) Legal
5 5 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.04%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.36%) Banking
8 2 (1.36%) Local Government
8 2 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Police
9 1 (0.68%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.72%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.01%) Cyber Threat
2 14 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 9 (6.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 9 (6.12%) Security Operations Centre
4 7 (4.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (3.40%) Cyberattack
5 5 (3.40%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.72%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (2.72%) Cybercrime
7 3 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.36%) Derivative
8 2 (1.36%) Housing Association
8 2 (1.36%) IoT
8 2 (1.36%) NHS
8 2 (1.36%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.36%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.36%) Social Media
9 1 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.68%) Insider Threat
9 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.16%) Windows
2 6 (4.08%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.40%) Linux
4 2 (1.36%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 68 (46.26%) SIEM
3 63 (42.86%) Security Operations
4 52 (35.37%) Information Security
5 46 (31.29%) Incident Response
6 40 (27.21%) Penetration Testing
7 35 (23.81%) Vulnerability Management
8 33 (22.45%) Security Monitoring
9 28 (19.05%) Application Security
10 24 (16.33%) Use Case
11 22 (14.97%) Cloud Security
11 22 (14.97%) Incident Management
12 19 (12.93%) Network Load Balancing
12 19 (12.93%) Threat Intelligence
13 18 (12.24%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 17 (11.56%) Runbook
15 16 (10.88%) Kalman Filter
16 15 (10.20%) Web Filtering
17 14 (9.52%) Computer Science
17 14 (9.52%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.08%) SQL
2 5 (3.40%) Python
3 4 (2.72%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (2.72%) PHP
4 3 (2.04%) Bash
5 2 (1.36%) Java
5 2 (1.36%) Ruby
6 1 (0.68%) Go
Qualifications
1 39 (26.53%) CISSP
2 27 (18.37%) CompTIA Security+
3 22 (14.97%) Degree
4 19 (12.93%) CISM
5 18 (12.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 18 (12.24%) CCSP
5 18 (12.24%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (10.88%) CEH
6 16 (10.88%) CompTIA CySA+
7 15 (10.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 15 (10.20%) CISA
7 15 (10.20%) Network+ Certification
8 11 (7.48%) GIAC
9 8 (5.44%) GSEC
10 6 (4.08%) OSCP
11 5 (3.40%) CREST Certified
11 5 (3.40%) Security Cleared
12 4 (2.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 3 (2.04%) DBS Check
13 3 (2.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (25.85%) NIST
2 29 (19.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (11.56%) SOC 2
4 12 (8.16%) GDPR
5 7 (4.76%) COBIT
5 7 (4.76%) GRC
6 6 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (4.08%) NCSC
7 5 (3.40%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.68%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 18 (12.24%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.68%) Snort
Systems Management
1 9 (6.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.36%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.68%) Ansible
3 1 (0.68%) CASB
3 1 (0.68%) Nessus
3 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (16.33%) Palo Alto
2 23 (15.65%) Microsoft
3 22 (14.97%) Cisco
4 10 (6.80%) Qualys
4 10 (6.80%) Splunk
5 9 (6.12%) Aruba
6 8 (5.44%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.04%) Intel
7 3 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.36%) Mitel
8 2 (1.36%) Sun
9 1 (0.68%) Google
9 1 (0.68%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.68%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.68%) Sonatype