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 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 40 53 75
Rank change year-on-year +13 +22 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 3,298 7,554 5,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.12% 5.98% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.51% 6.24% 4.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,323 3,761 3,120
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,510 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £80,938 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,290 £100,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

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 50,664 120,987 123,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.08% 95.74% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 36,731 73,454 82,144
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,347 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.84% +8.18%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +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 30 November 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 30 November 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 +11 2,759 £62,500 -3.85% 1,445
UK excluding London +9 2,127 £57,500 - 937
Work from Home +5 1,275 £62,500 -3.85% 656
London +16 952 £75,000 +3.45% 574
North of England +5 522 £55,000 -4.35% 229
South East +26 437 £55,050 -8.25% 247
South West -3 356 £63,250 +10.00% 177
Midlands +5 335 £55,000 +10.00% 139
North West -5 261 £59,526 - 135
West Midlands +8 243 £55,000 +4.76% 101
Yorkshire +15 236 £55,750 +12.63% 74
Scotland -6 217 £59,526 -0.79% 52
East of England +12 117 £65,000 +18.18% 92
Wales -14 97 £48,750 +12.05% 13
East Midlands +2 89 £60,000 +20.00% 37
Northern Ireland +38 57 £45,500 -9.00% 7
North East +32 25 £40,000 -44.83% 20
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 82 (2.49%) SharePoint
2 28 (0.85%) Confluence
3 22 (0.67%) MS Exchange
4 21 (0.64%) IIS
5 10 (0.30%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.30%) nginx
6 6 (0.18%) Apache
7 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.12%) ArcSDE
7 4 (0.12%) CMS
7 4 (0.12%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.091%) Luigi
8 3 (0.091%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.091%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.061%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.061%) JBoss
9 2 (0.061%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.030%) Gunicorn
10 1 (0.030%) uWSGI
Applications
1 104 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.15%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.15%) Revit
5 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.12%) Autodesk Inventor
7 3 (0.091%) 1Password
8 2 (0.061%) Simulink
9 1 (0.030%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 6 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.15%) Primavera
2 5 (0.15%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.091%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.091%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.091%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.091%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (0.091%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.091%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.061%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.061%) SAP FI-GL
4 2 (0.061%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.061%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.030%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.030%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 905 (27.44%) Azure
2 538 (16.31%) AWS
3 374 (11.34%) Microsoft 365
4 318 (9.64%) GCP
5 243 (7.37%) SaaS
6 240 (7.28%) PaaS
7 189 (5.73%) IaaS
8 126 (3.82%) Entra ID
9 83 (2.52%) Azure Sentinel
10 82 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
11 62 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
12 54 (1.64%) GitHub
13 48 (1.46%) Power Platform
14 32 (0.97%) WhatsApp
15 19 (0.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 17 (0.52%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (0.52%) OneDrive
17 16 (0.49%) Amazon S3
18 15 (0.45%) PowerApps
18 15 (0.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 626 (18.98%) Firewall
2 319 (9.67%) Network Security
3 271 (8.22%) WAN
4 242 (7.34%) LAN
5 188 (5.70%) Intrusion Detection
6 170 (5.15%) VPN
7 163 (4.94%) TCP/IP
8 124 (3.76%) DNS
9 98 (2.97%) Internet
10 94 (2.85%) DHCP
11 76 (2.30%) SD-WAN
11 76 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
12 75 (2.27%) Wireless
13 63 (1.91%) HTTP
14 53 (1.61%) 5G
15 43 (1.30%) SMTP
15 43 (1.30%) VLAN
16 42 (1.27%) FTP
17 39 (1.18%) SAN
18 34 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
2 112 (3.40%) NoSQL
3 111 (3.37%) Data Lake
4 78 (2.37%) SQL Server
5 44 (1.33%) Big Data
6 40 (1.21%) Power BI
7 29 (0.88%) MySQL
8 22 (0.67%) Relational Database
9 21 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.58%) GIS
11 16 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (0.45%) Redis
13 13 (0.39%) RDBMS
14 11 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (0.33%) MongoDB
15 10 (0.30%) BigQuery
16 9 (0.27%) Hadoop
17 8 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
17 8 (0.24%) Scylla
17 8 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 69 (2.09%) Jenkins
2 50 (1.52%) JIRA
3 45 (1.36%) Git
4 21 (0.64%) Visual Studio
5 13 (0.39%) Gradle
6 9 (0.27%) JUnit
6 9 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (0.27%) TeamCity
7 8 (0.24%) Burp Suite
7 8 (0.24%) LabVIEW
8 7 (0.21%) IntelliJ
8 7 (0.21%) Mockito
8 7 (0.21%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.18%) GitLab
9 6 (0.18%) Xcode
10 5 (0.15%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.15%) IDA Disassembler
11 4 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
11 4 (0.12%) Metasploit
12 3 (0.091%) InstallShield
General
1 987 (29.93%) Social Skills
2 841 (25.50%) Finance
3 446 (13.52%) Banking
4 336 (10.19%) Games
5 252 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
6 207 (6.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 199 (6.03%) Public Sector
8 187 (5.67%) Telecoms
9 183 (5.55%) Retail
10 163 (4.94%) Legal
11 142 (4.31%) Law
12 102 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
13 87 (2.64%) Marketing
14 70 (2.12%) Aerospace
15 50 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
16 40 (1.21%) Manufacturing
17 33 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
18 25 (0.76%) Automotive
18 25 (0.76%) Electronics
19 24 (0.73%) Military
Job Titles
1 599 (18.16%) Architect
2 523 (15.86%) Analyst
3 501 (15.19%) Senior
4 316 (9.58%) Security Engineer
5 314 (9.52%) Security Architect
6 297 (9.01%) Security Analyst
7 268 (8.13%) Security Manager
8 210 (6.37%) Consultant
8 210 (6.37%) Lead
9 197 (5.97%) Enterprise Architect
10 165 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
11 158 (4.79%) Security Consultant
12 145 (4.40%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 143 (4.34%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 122 (3.70%) IT Manager
15 99 (3.00%) Senior Manager
16 98 (2.97%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 97 (2.94%) SOC Analyst
18 94 (2.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 92 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (3.79%) OpenID
2 83 (2.52%) Web Services
3 67 (2.03%) Kafka
4 62 (1.88%) REST
5 47 (1.43%) JWT
6 41 (1.24%) RESTful
7 39 (1.18%) LDAP
8 35 (1.06%) .NET
9 32 (0.97%) HTML
10 30 (0.91%) JSON
11 27 (0.82%) OAuth
12 23 (0.70%) Middleware
13 21 (0.64%) Node.js
14 19 (0.58%) CSS
14 19 (0.58%) React
15 16 (0.49%) ModSecurity
16 13 (0.39%) hapi
16 13 (0.39%) Spring
17 11 (0.33%) PyTorch
17 11 (0.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 268 (8.13%) Management Information System
2 194 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
3 157 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
4 129 (3.91%) PKI
5 126 (3.82%) Security Posture
6 123 (3.73%) Operational Technology
7 122 (3.70%) Public Cloud
8 113 (3.43%) Cyberattack
9 111 (3.37%) Blockchain
10 106 (3.21%) Data Centre
10 106 (3.21%) Mainframe
11 95 (2.88%) Onboarding
12 77 (2.33%) Cloud Native
13 64 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
14 59 (1.79%) Product Ownership
15 50 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
16 39 (1.18%) Driving Licence
17 36 (1.09%) Cybercrime
18 35 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
18 35 (1.06%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 563 (17.07%) Windows
2 280 (8.49%) Linux
3 226 (6.85%) Unix
4 208 (6.31%) Windows Server
5 71 (2.15%) Windows 10
6 55 (1.67%) Apple iOS
7 48 (1.46%) Android
8 46 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 45 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
10 36 (1.09%) Mac OS
11 20 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
12 19 (0.58%) Mac OS X
13 12 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 8 (0.24%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
15 7 (0.21%) Debian
16 6 (0.18%) Windows 8
17 5 (0.15%) Kali Linux
18 4 (0.12%) CentOS
18 4 (0.12%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 792 (24.01%) SIEM
2 762 (23.10%) Information Security
3 520 (15.77%) Agile
4 505 (15.31%) Vulnerability Management
5 467 (14.16%) Security Operations
6 415 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
7 360 (10.92%) Actionable Insight
8 353 (10.70%) Risk Management
9 343 (10.40%) Incident Response
10 342 (10.37%) Roadmaps
11 321 (9.73%) DevOps
12 314 (9.52%) Cloud Security
13 309 (9.37%) Identity Access Management
14 302 (9.16%) Computer Science
15 264 (8.00%) Asset Management
16 230 (6.97%) Penetration Testing
17 226 (6.85%) Containerisation
18 224 (6.79%) Enterprise Architecture
19 216 (6.55%) Network Segmentation
20 215 (6.52%) IT Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 262 (7.94%) Python
2 164 (4.97%) PowerShell
3 146 (4.43%) SQL
4 106 (3.21%) Bash
5 82 (2.49%) Java
6 68 (2.06%) JavaScript
7 55 (1.67%) C++
8 54 (1.64%) C#
9 32 (0.97%) Go
10 29 (0.88%) C
11 23 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
11 23 (0.70%) Perl
12 20 (0.61%) TypeScript
13 19 (0.58%) Ruby
14 10 (0.30%) MATLAB
14 10 (0.30%) Rust
14 10 (0.30%) Scala
15 9 (0.27%) PHP
15 9 (0.27%) Swift
16 7 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 833 (25.26%) Security Cleared
2 568 (17.22%) Degree
3 556 (16.86%) CISSP
4 359 (10.89%) CISM
5 338 (10.25%) SC Cleared
6 206 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 147 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
8 108 (3.27%) CRISC
9 106 (3.21%) Master's Degree
10 104 (3.15%) CISA
11 98 (2.97%) DV Cleared
12 94 (2.85%) CompTIA Security+
13 92 (2.79%) TOGAF Certification
14 89 (2.70%) CEH
15 87 (2.64%) OSCP
16 78 (2.37%) SSCP
17 74 (2.24%) CREST Certified
18 69 (2.09%) CISMP
19 68 (2.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 60 (1.82%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 608 (18.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 385 (11.67%) NIST
3 243 (7.37%) GDPR
4 217 (6.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 158 (4.79%) GRC
6 131 (3.97%) NCSC
7 117 (3.55%) PCI DSS
8 85 (2.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 66 (2.00%) QA
10 54 (1.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 52 (1.58%) NIST 800
12 46 (1.39%) PMO
13 40 (1.21%) COBIT
14 37 (1.12%) ISO 9001
15 36 (1.09%) SOC 2
16 33 (1.00%) RMADS
17 30 (0.91%) SLA
18 21 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 17025
18 21 (0.64%) JSP 440
19 20 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 319 (9.67%) Active Directory
2 225 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
3 130 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 119 (3.61%) Docker
5 60 (1.82%) Hyper-V
6 22 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.55%) Firmware
8 10 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (0.21%) vSphere
11 6 (0.18%) KVM
12 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.15%) XenApp
13 4 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
13 4 (0.12%) Squid
13 4 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
14 3 (0.091%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.061%) BitLocker
15 2 (0.061%) Ceph
15 2 (0.061%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 163 (4.94%) Kubernetes
2 103 (3.12%) Terraform
3 87 (2.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 54 (1.64%) Ansible
5 38 (1.15%) FortiGate
6 31 (0.94%) SCCM
7 30 (0.91%) Nessus
8 24 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.55%) EnCase
10 16 (0.49%) CASB
11 13 (0.39%) CSIRT
11 13 (0.39%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.39%) Puppet
12 9 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.27%) Stealthwatch
13 8 (0.24%) WSUS
14 7 (0.21%) Fluentd
14 7 (0.21%) logstash
15 6 (0.18%) SCOM
16 5 (0.15%) Nagios
Vendors
1 631 (19.13%) Microsoft
2 246 (7.46%) Cisco
3 198 (6.00%) VMware
4 117 (3.55%) Splunk
5 99 (3.00%) Google
6 93 (2.82%) Palo Alto
7 74 (2.24%) F5
8 71 (2.15%) CheckPoint
9 66 (2.00%) Oracle
10 65 (1.97%) ArcSight
10 65 (1.97%) Juniper
11 51 (1.55%) Citrix
12 46 (1.39%) ServiceNow
13 41 (1.24%) IBM
14 40 (1.21%) Fortinet
15 33 (1.00%) Aruba
15 33 (1.00%) Dell
15 33 (1.00%) TippingPoint
15 33 (1.00%) Trend Micro
16 31 (0.94%) Qualys