Cybersecurity
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 42 54 70
Rank change year-on-year +12 +16 +17
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 3,192 7,337 5,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.11% 6.00% 4.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.49% 6.27% 4.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,274 3,728 3,169
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,858 £37,079
25th Percentile £47,668 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +1.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cybersecurity is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49,175 117,045 121,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.07% 95.76% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 35,535 71,782 82,169
10th Percentile £32,250 £34,575 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,519 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +7.04% +4.17%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 +12 2,678 £62,500 -3.85% 1,469
UK excluding London +10 2,052 £57,500 - 926
Work from Home +5 1,263 £62,500 -3.85% 671
London +16 930 £75,000 +3.45% 556
North of England +5 512 £57,500 - 233
South East +22 424 £55,050 -8.25% 243
South West 0 342 £62,500 +8.70% 157
Midlands +4 318 £55,000 +6.80% 164
North West -5 253 £59,526 +2.97% 130
Yorkshire +18 233 £59,526 +19.05% 80
West Midlands +9 229 £55,000 +4.76% 119
Scotland -15 212 £59,526 -0.79% 49
East of England +15 115 £65,000 +18.18% 81
Wales -14 88 £47,500 +5.56% 11
East Midlands +5 84 £60,000 +25.00% 45
Northern Ireland +27 52 £42,500 -15.00% 8
North East +31 26 £39,897 -44.97% 23
Channel Islands - 1 £45,000 -

Cybersecurity
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 86 (2.69%) SharePoint
2 28 (0.88%) Confluence
3 26 (0.81%) MS Exchange
4 22 (0.69%) IIS
5 12 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.31%) nginx
7 5 (0.16%) Apache
8 4 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.13%) ArcSDE
8 4 (0.13%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.094%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.094%) Luigi
9 3 (0.094%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.094%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.063%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.063%) CMS
10 2 (0.063%) JBoss
10 2 (0.063%) MS Project Server
11 1 (0.031%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.031%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 105 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.19%) AutoCAD
5 6 (0.19%) Revit
6 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.094%) 1Password
9 2 (0.063%) Simulink
10 1 (0.031%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 6 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.16%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.094%) Primavera
4 2 (0.063%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.063%) SAP FI-GL
4 2 (0.063%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.063%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.031%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.031%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.031%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.031%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.031%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.031%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.031%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.031%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 911 (28.54%) Azure
2 538 (16.85%) AWS
3 373 (11.69%) Microsoft 365
4 331 (10.37%) GCP
5 254 (7.96%) SaaS
6 248 (7.77%) PaaS
7 188 (5.89%) IaaS
8 122 (3.82%) Entra ID
9 84 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
10 83 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
11 71 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
12 59 (1.85%) GitHub
13 50 (1.57%) Power Platform
14 32 (1.00%) WhatsApp
15 19 (0.60%) Amazon S3
15 19 (0.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 18 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
17 17 (0.53%) OneDrive
18 16 (0.50%) Serverless
19 15 (0.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 605 (18.95%) Firewall
2 316 (9.90%) Network Security
3 266 (8.33%) WAN
4 235 (7.36%) LAN
5 177 (5.55%) Intrusion Detection
6 165 (5.17%) TCP/IP
7 157 (4.92%) VPN
8 126 (3.95%) DNS
9 95 (2.98%) Internet
10 94 (2.94%) DHCP
11 79 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
12 72 (2.26%) SD-WAN
12 72 (2.26%) Wireless
13 59 (1.85%) HTTP
14 52 (1.63%) 5G
15 40 (1.25%) SAN
15 40 (1.25%) SMTP
15 40 (1.25%) VLAN
16 36 (1.13%) FTP
17 33 (1.03%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
2 117 (3.67%) Data Lake
3 116 (3.63%) NoSQL
4 76 (2.38%) SQL Server
5 46 (1.44%) Big Data
6 42 (1.32%) Power BI
7 29 (0.91%) MySQL
8 22 (0.69%) Relational Database
9 21 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (0.56%) Redis
12 14 (0.44%) GIS
13 13 (0.41%) RDBMS
14 12 (0.38%) Hadoop
14 12 (0.38%) MongoDB
15 11 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
15 11 (0.34%) Scylla
15 11 (0.34%) Tableau
16 10 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
17 9 (0.28%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 75 (2.35%) Jenkins
2 50 (1.57%) JIRA
3 46 (1.44%) Git
4 21 (0.66%) Visual Studio
5 12 (0.38%) Gradle
6 9 (0.28%) Burp Suite
6 9 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (0.28%) TeamCity
7 8 (0.25%) JUnit
7 8 (0.25%) LabVIEW
8 7 (0.22%) GitLab
8 7 (0.22%) IntelliJ
8 7 (0.22%) Mockito
9 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.19%) Xcode
10 5 (0.16%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.16%) IDA Disassembler
10 5 (0.16%) Metasploit
11 4 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
12 3 (0.094%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 918 (28.76%) Social Skills
2 787 (24.66%) Finance
3 400 (12.53%) Banking
4 277 (8.68%) Games
5 246 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
6 208 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 200 (6.27%) Public Sector
8 178 (5.58%) Retail
8 178 (5.58%) Telecoms
9 162 (5.08%) Legal
10 154 (4.82%) Law
11 97 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
12 92 (2.88%) Marketing
13 77 (2.41%) Aerospace
14 46 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
15 39 (1.22%) Manufacturing
16 38 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
17 29 (0.91%) Military
18 24 (0.75%) Automotive
19 23 (0.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 548 (17.17%) Architect
2 510 (15.98%) Analyst
3 497 (15.57%) Senior
4 316 (9.90%) Security Engineer
5 291 (9.12%) Security Analyst
6 264 (8.27%) Security Manager
7 257 (8.05%) Security Architect
8 201 (6.30%) Enterprise Architect
9 197 (6.17%) Consultant
10 190 (5.95%) Lead
11 167 (5.23%) Solutions Architect
12 146 (4.57%) Security Consultant
13 145 (4.54%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 140 (4.39%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 108 (3.38%) IT Manager
16 101 (3.16%) Senior Security Engineer
17 97 (3.04%) Cybersecurity Manager
18 96 (3.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 95 (2.98%) Cloud Engineer
20 94 (2.94%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (4.07%) OpenID
2 82 (2.57%) Web Services
3 68 (2.13%) Kafka
4 60 (1.88%) REST
5 46 (1.44%) JWT
6 40 (1.25%) RESTful
7 36 (1.13%) LDAP
8 34 (1.07%) HTML
9 31 (0.97%) JSON
10 30 (0.94%) .NET
11 28 (0.88%) OAuth
12 21 (0.66%) Middleware
12 21 (0.66%) Node.js
13 20 (0.63%) CSS
14 18 (0.56%) React
15 15 (0.47%) ModSecurity
16 13 (0.41%) hapi
16 13 (0.41%) Spring
17 12 (0.38%) GraphQL
18 10 (0.31%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 257 (8.05%) Management Information System
2 193 (6.05%) Security Operations Centre
3 157 (4.92%) Cyber Threat
4 134 (4.20%) Public Cloud
5 127 (3.98%) Security Posture
6 126 (3.95%) PKI
7 123 (3.85%) Operational Technology
8 116 (3.63%) Blockchain
9 110 (3.45%) Mainframe
10 107 (3.35%) Cyberattack
11 102 (3.20%) Data Centre
12 94 (2.94%) Onboarding
13 77 (2.41%) Cloud Native
14 66 (2.07%) Product Ownership
14 66 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
15 47 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
16 43 (1.35%) Driving Licence
17 38 (1.19%) Cybercrime
18 36 (1.13%) IoT
19 34 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 570 (17.86%) Windows
2 276 (8.65%) Linux
3 228 (7.14%) Unix
4 208 (6.52%) Windows Server
5 71 (2.22%) Windows 10
6 59 (1.85%) Apple iOS
7 51 (1.60%) Android
8 47 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 46 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 39 (1.22%) Mac OS
11 21 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
12 20 (0.63%) Mac OS X
13 10 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 8 (0.25%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
15 7 (0.22%) Debian
15 7 (0.22%) Windows 8
16 6 (0.19%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.13%) CentOS
17 4 (0.13%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 731 (22.90%) SIEM
2 727 (22.78%) Information Security
3 535 (16.76%) Agile
4 454 (14.22%) Vulnerability Management
5 451 (14.13%) Security Operations
6 422 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
7 356 (11.15%) Roadmaps
8 350 (10.96%) Incident Response
9 342 (10.71%) Risk Management
10 324 (10.15%) DevOps
11 309 (9.68%) Computer Science
12 304 (9.52%) Actionable Insight
13 302 (9.46%) Cloud Security
14 245 (7.68%) Identity Access Management
15 236 (7.39%) Penetration Testing
16 222 (6.95%) Enterprise Architecture
17 213 (6.67%) Customer Service
18 209 (6.55%) Asset Management
19 206 (6.45%) Vulnerability Scanning
20 202 (6.33%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 273 (8.55%) Python
2 163 (5.11%) PowerShell
3 143 (4.48%) SQL
4 110 (3.45%) Bash
5 85 (2.66%) Java
6 65 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 54 (1.69%) C++
8 52 (1.63%) C#
9 35 (1.10%) Go
10 28 (0.88%) C
11 23 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
11 23 (0.72%) Perl
12 20 (0.63%) TypeScript
13 18 (0.56%) Ruby
14 12 (0.38%) Scala
15 10 (0.31%) MATLAB
16 9 (0.28%) PHP
16 9 (0.28%) Rust
16 9 (0.28%) Swift
17 7 (0.22%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 759 (23.78%) Security Cleared
2 563 (17.64%) Degree
3 541 (16.95%) CISSP
4 353 (11.06%) CISM
5 326 (10.21%) SC Cleared
6 207 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 143 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
8 108 (3.38%) Master's Degree
9 102 (3.20%) CRISC
10 101 (3.16%) CISA
11 94 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
12 92 (2.88%) DV Cleared
12 92 (2.88%) TOGAF Certification
13 90 (2.82%) CEH
14 89 (2.79%) OSCP
15 81 (2.54%) SSCP
16 76 (2.38%) CREST Certified
17 70 (2.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 69 (2.16%) CISMP
19 58 (1.82%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 600 (18.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 380 (11.90%) NIST
3 241 (7.55%) GDPR
4 205 (6.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 147 (4.61%) GRC
6 127 (3.98%) NCSC
7 114 (3.57%) PCI DSS
8 75 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 70 (2.19%) QA
10 54 (1.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 51 (1.60%) NIST 800
12 45 (1.41%) PMO
13 40 (1.25%) ISO 9001
14 38 (1.19%) SOC 2
15 37 (1.16%) COBIT
16 32 (1.00%) RMADS
17 30 (0.94%) SLA
18 23 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 17025
19 20 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 20 (0.63%) JSP 440
System Software
1 315 (9.87%) Active Directory
2 171 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
3 130 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 126 (3.95%) Docker
5 59 (1.85%) Hyper-V
6 23 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.53%) Firmware
8 10 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (0.22%) vSphere
11 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.16%) XenApp
12 4 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.13%) Squid
12 4 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
13 3 (0.094%) KVM
13 3 (0.094%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.063%) NFS
14 2 (0.063%) Snort
14 2 (0.063%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 174 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 114 (3.57%) Terraform
3 93 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 53 (1.66%) Ansible
5 34 (1.07%) FortiGate
6 29 (0.91%) SCCM
7 27 (0.85%) Nessus
8 20 (0.63%) EnCase
9 17 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.47%) CASB
11 14 (0.44%) CSIRT
12 12 (0.38%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.34%) Puppet
13 11 (0.34%) Stealthwatch
14 8 (0.25%) Fluentd
14 8 (0.25%) logstash
15 7 (0.22%) Nmap
15 7 (0.22%) WSUS
16 6 (0.19%) Nagios
16 6 (0.19%) SCOM
Vendors
1 632 (19.80%) Microsoft
2 237 (7.42%) Cisco
3 197 (6.17%) VMware
4 116 (3.63%) Splunk
5 109 (3.41%) Google
6 89 (2.79%) Palo Alto
7 67 (2.10%) CheckPoint
8 63 (1.97%) F5
9 60 (1.88%) ArcSight
9 60 (1.88%) Oracle
10 56 (1.75%) Juniper
11 48 (1.50%) ServiceNow
12 46 (1.44%) Citrix
13 41 (1.28%) Fortinet
14 38 (1.19%) Dell
14 38 (1.19%) IBM
15 35 (1.10%) Qualys
16 30 (0.94%) SAP
16 30 (0.94%) TippingPoint
16 30 (0.94%) Trend Micro