Cybersecurity Analyst Jobs

Cybersecurity Analyst
UK

The median Cybersecurity Analyst salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 639 725 761
Rank change year-on-year +86 +36 +319
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 68 193 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.18% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 57 167 143
10th Percentile £39,150 £38,450 £36,879
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,555
% change year-on-year - +5.14% +2.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 50,392 104,452 83,953
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.93% 94.78% 91.18%
Number of salaries quoted 26,539 73,677 54,805
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £38,603 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.37%

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 14 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK

Cybersecurity Analyst
Top 15 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 14 June 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 +65 60 £55,000 - 48
UK excluding London +98 42 £50,000 - 42
Work from Home +117 23 £54,500 -9.17% 28
London +76 17 £68,500 +1.48% 24
South East +76 12 £54,500 -19.26% 12
Scotland +107 7 £55,000 +10.00% 14
Midlands +79 6 £39,500 -24.76% 2
East of England +40 6 £47,500 +8.57% 3
North of England +35 6 £43,500 -13.00% 9
South West +90 5 £55,000 -15.38% 1
East Midlands +56 4 £37,500 -28.57% 2
Yorkshire +53 3 £38,500 -30.00% 6
West Midlands +62 2 £50,000 +27.39%
North West +15 2 - - 1
North East +44 1 £52,500 +23.53% 2

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

For the 6 months to 14 June 2025, 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 68 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 40 (58.82%) SIEM
3 38 (55.88%) Incident Response
4 29 (42.65%) Firewall
5 25 (36.76%) Windows
6 24 (35.29%) Information Security
6 24 (35.29%) Security Operations
7 22 (32.35%) Microsoft
8 21 (30.88%) Vulnerability Management
9 20 (29.41%) Social Skills
9 20 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (29.41%) NIST
10 18 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
11 16 (23.53%) Network Security
11 16 (23.53%) CISM
12 15 (22.06%) CISSP
12 15 (22.06%) Azure
13 14 (20.59%) Degree
14 13 (19.12%) Intrusion Detection
14 13 (19.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 13 (19.12%) Finance
15 12 (17.65%) VMware
15 12 (17.65%) Vulnerability Assessment
15 12 (17.65%) Linux
15 12 (17.65%) Regulatory Compliance
15 12 (17.65%) Security Posture
15 12 (17.65%) Azure Sentinel
16 11 (16.18%) CompTIA Security+
16 11 (16.18%) Security Operations Centre
16 11 (16.18%) Cyber Threat

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 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.06%) Azure
2 12 (17.65%) Azure Sentinel
3 11 (16.18%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (7.35%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.94%) AWS
5 2 (2.94%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.94%) Mimecast
5 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.47%) IaaS
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.47%) PaaS
6 1 (1.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (42.65%) Firewall
2 16 (23.53%) Network Security
3 13 (19.12%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (10.29%) DNS
4 7 (10.29%) TCP/IP
5 5 (7.35%) DHCP
5 5 (7.35%) NGFW
5 5 (7.35%) Wireshark
6 3 (4.41%) VPN
7 2 (2.94%) HTTP
7 2 (2.94%) SMTP
8 1 (1.47%) Internet
8 1 (1.47%) LAN
8 1 (1.47%) VLAN
8 1 (1.47%) WAN
8 1 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Burp Suite
General
1 20 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (19.12%) Finance
4 6 (8.82%) Banking
5 2 (2.94%) Law
5 2 (2.94%) Military
5 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.47%) Legal
6 1 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.65%) Security Posture
2 11 (16.18%) Cyber Threat
2 11 (16.18%) Security Operations Centre
3 9 (13.24%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.41%) Cyberattack
5 2 (2.94%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.94%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.47%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (1.47%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.47%) PMI
6 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (36.76%) Windows
2 12 (17.65%) Linux
3 1 (1.47%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 40 (58.82%) SIEM
3 38 (55.88%) Incident Response
4 24 (35.29%) Information Security
4 24 (35.29%) Security Operations
5 21 (30.88%) Vulnerability Management
6 20 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (17.65%) Regulatory Compliance
7 12 (17.65%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 11 (16.18%) Application Security
9 10 (14.71%) Risk Assessment
10 9 (13.24%) Data Loss Prevention
11 8 (11.76%) Incident Management
11 8 (11.76%) Project Delivery
12 7 (10.29%) Computer Science
12 7 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (10.29%) Malware Analysis
12 7 (10.29%) Risk Management
12 7 (10.29%) Task Automation
12 7 (10.29%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.29%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (4.41%) Bash
2 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.41%) Python
3 2 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (23.53%) CISM
2 15 (22.06%) CISSP
3 14 (20.59%) Degree
4 11 (16.18%) CompTIA Security+
5 9 (13.24%) GCIH
6 8 (11.76%) Security Cleared
7 7 (10.29%) SC Cleared
8 6 (8.82%) DV Cleared
8 6 (8.82%) GCIA
9 5 (7.35%) CEH
9 5 (7.35%) GCFA
10 4 (5.88%) CompTIA CySA+
10 4 (5.88%) SSCP
11 3 (4.41%) CCSP
11 3 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (2.94%) CISA
12 2 (2.94%) DBS Check
12 2 (2.94%) GIAC
12 2 (2.94%) GSEC
12 2 (2.94%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (29.41%) NIST
2 13 (19.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (16.18%) GDPR
4 7 (10.29%) Accessibility
4 7 (10.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (8.82%) NCSC
6 5 (7.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.47%) GRC
7 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (8.82%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.47%) Snort
Systems Management
1 8 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.94%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.47%) CASB
3 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.65%) VMware
3 7 (10.29%) Tenable
4 4 (5.88%) ArcSight
4 4 (5.88%) Splunk
5 1 (1.47%) LogRhythm