Cybersecurity Jobs

Cybersecurity
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 35 74
Rank change year-on-year -4 +39 +14
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 4,451 5,315 8,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.92% 6.59% 4.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.02% 6.91% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,111 2,929 3,943
10th Percentile £35,750 £37,254 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,750 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +1.17% +2.40%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,998 £59,526 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.97% +3.52% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cybersecurity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +1 3,985 £57,500 -10.16% 611
UK excluding London -9 3,183 £52,998 -10.97% 564
Work from Home +12 1,561 £60,000 -10.24% 315
London +8 1,126 £72,500 +3.57% 157
South East +7 820 £52,500 -4.55% 142
North of England 0 758 £52,084 -12.50% 124
Midlands -8 573 £50,000 -16.67% 98
South West +1 524 £62,500 -3.85% 72
North West -7 504 £54,793 -8.68% 75
West Midlands -5 418 £57,500 -6.50% 59
Scotland -46 274 £50,309 -15.48% 44
Yorkshire -7 193 £50,000 -16.00% 34
East Midlands -13 152 £42,500 -10.53% 38
East of England -8 151 £50,000 -9.09% 36
North East +20 61 £45,000 +12.50% 17
Wales -33 47 £50,309 -28.13% 20
Northern Ireland -7 29 £46,404 -7.19% 41
Isle of Man -12 8 £37,500 -16.67%

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
1 192 (4.31%) SharePoint
2 167 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (0.43%) Apache
4 17 (0.38%) IIS
5 14 (0.31%) FileNet
6 12 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.27%) CMS
7 10 (0.22%) Confluence
8 8 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.11%) Luigi
10 5 (0.11%) WordPress
11 4 (0.090%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.067%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.045%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.045%) nginx
13 2 (0.045%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.045%) WebSphere
14 1 (0.022%) BizTalk Server
14 1 (0.022%) Site Server
Applications
1 147 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.067%) Trello
7 2 (0.045%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.045%) CANalyzer
7 2 (0.045%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.022%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.022%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.022%) Revit
8 1 (0.022%) Simulink
8 1 (0.022%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.27%) Primavera
3 10 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.11%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.090%) SAP WM
6 3 (0.067%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.067%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.067%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.045%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.045%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.045%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.045%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.045%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.045%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.045%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.022%) Infor LN
8 1 (0.022%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.022%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.022%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.022%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,176 (26.42%) Azure
2 683 (15.34%) Microsoft 365
3 494 (11.10%) AWS
4 447 (10.04%) Entra ID
5 166 (3.73%) SaaS
6 134 (3.01%) GCP
7 129 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
8 98 (2.20%) IaaS
9 95 (2.13%) PaaS
10 86 (1.93%) Azure Sentinel
11 72 (1.62%) Power Platform
12 51 (1.15%) OneDrive
13 46 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 35 (0.79%) Datadog
15 32 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
16 31 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
17 27 (0.61%) Amazon S3
17 27 (0.61%) GitHub
17 27 (0.61%) Serverless
18 24 (0.54%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 656 (14.74%) Firewall
2 312 (7.01%) Network Security
3 264 (5.93%) 5G
4 237 (5.32%) WAN
5 229 (5.14%) Broadband
6 168 (3.77%) DNS
7 156 (3.50%) LAN
8 149 (3.35%) Wi-Fi
9 140 (3.15%) TCP/IP
10 119 (2.67%) DHCP
11 118 (2.65%) VPN
12 104 (2.34%) SD-WAN
13 101 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
14 83 (1.86%) Wireless
15 65 (1.46%) Internet
16 58 (1.30%) SAN
17 47 (1.06%) VLAN
18 46 (1.03%) MPLS
19 42 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
20 36 (0.81%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (2.27%) SQL Server
2 62 (1.39%) Power BI
3 57 (1.28%) MySQL
4 54 (1.21%) Big Data
5 51 (1.15%) NoSQL
6 33 (0.74%) Relational Database
7 32 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
8 27 (0.61%) MongoDB
9 24 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
10 22 (0.49%) Hadoop
10 22 (0.49%) Oracle Database
11 21 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
12 16 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
13 13 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 12 (0.27%) Redis
14 12 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 10 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (0.18%) BigQuery
17 6 (0.13%) Bigtable
17 6 (0.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 60 (1.35%) JIRA
2 56 (1.26%) Git
3 47 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 26 (0.58%) SonarQube
5 20 (0.45%) JUnit
5 20 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
6 17 (0.38%) Burp Suite
7 14 (0.31%) Metasploit
8 13 (0.29%) GitLab
8 13 (0.29%) Visual Studio
9 12 (0.27%) Selenium
10 11 (0.25%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
11 7 (0.16%) PHPUnit
12 6 (0.13%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.13%) Rational Team Concert
12 6 (0.13%) Subversion
13 4 (0.090%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.090%) Maven
13 4 (0.090%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,055 (23.70%) Social Skills
2 739 (16.60%) Finance
3 592 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
4 488 (10.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 302 (6.78%) Law
6 233 (5.23%) Legal
7 180 (4.04%) Telecoms
8 164 (3.68%) Public Sector
9 153 (3.44%) Banking
10 116 (2.61%) Marketing
11 115 (2.58%) Retail
12 96 (2.16%) Manufacturing
13 88 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
14 81 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
15 69 (1.55%) Games
15 69 (1.55%) Military
16 67 (1.51%) Aerospace
17 51 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
18 47 (1.06%) Automotive
19 46 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 813 (18.27%) Senior
2 607 (13.64%) Analyst
3 375 (8.43%) Lead
4 346 (7.77%) Architect
5 333 (7.48%) Consultant
6 292 (6.56%) Security Analyst
7 252 (5.66%) Security Engineer
8 251 (5.64%) Security Manager
9 234 (5.26%) Security Consultant
10 214 (4.81%) Technical Specialist
11 211 (4.74%) Linux Specialist
12 206 (4.63%) IT Manager
13 189 (4.25%) Software Engineer
14 184 (4.13%) Security Architect
15 167 (3.75%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 161 (3.62%) IT Support
17 160 (3.59%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 160 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 155 (3.48%) IT Engineer
19 152 (3.41%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (2.29%) HTML
2 70 (1.57%) CSS
3 63 (1.42%) Node.js
4 49 (1.10%) AngularJS
4 49 (1.10%) Kafka
4 49 (1.10%) React
5 46 (1.03%) .NET
6 39 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
7 36 (0.81%) jQuery
7 36 (0.81%) Web Services
8 35 (0.79%) JSON
9 33 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
10 32 (0.72%) Spring
11 30 (0.67%) 802.1X
11 30 (0.67%) REST
12 27 (0.61%) RESTful
13 20 (0.45%) EDI
14 19 (0.43%) Django
14 19 (0.43%) GraphQL
15 18 (0.40%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 499 (11.21%) Management Information System
2 332 (7.46%) Data Centre
3 244 (5.48%) Social Media
4 230 (5.17%) Cyber Threat
5 178 (4.00%) Cyberattack
6 175 (3.93%) Operational Technology
7 165 (3.71%) Security Posture
8 149 (3.35%) Security Operations Centre
9 119 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
10 103 (2.31%) Onboarding
11 99 (2.22%) IoT
12 97 (2.18%) Cloud Native
13 93 (2.09%) Driving Licence
14 89 (2.00%) Public Cloud
15 60 (1.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 52 (1.17%) Algorithms
17 50 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
17 50 (1.12%) PKI
18 49 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
19 46 (1.03%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 747 (16.78%) Windows
2 534 (12.00%) Linux
3 338 (7.59%) Windows Server
4 239 (5.37%) Ubuntu
5 115 (2.58%) Windows 10
6 62 (1.39%) Unix
7 54 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 48 (1.08%) Embedded Linux
9 44 (0.99%) Apple iOS
10 40 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
11 39 (0.88%) Android
12 38 (0.85%) Mac OS
13 20 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
14 18 (0.40%) Kali Linux
15 17 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 14 (0.31%) Windows 7
17 13 (0.29%) Mac OS X
17 13 (0.29%) VMS
18 11 (0.25%) CentOS
18 11 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 794 (17.84%) Information Security
2 660 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
3 527 (11.84%) Incident Response
3 527 (11.84%) SIEM
4 516 (11.59%) Risk Management
5 441 (9.91%) Security Operations
6 424 (9.53%) Artificial Intelligence
7 397 (8.92%) Agile
8 371 (8.34%) ITIL
9 340 (7.64%) IT Strategy
10 325 (7.30%) Project Management
11 314 (7.05%) Computer Science
12 306 (6.87%) Vulnerability Management
13 294 (6.61%) Software Engineering
14 285 (6.40%) CRM
15 284 (6.38%) Roadmaps
16 276 (6.20%) Mentoring
17 274 (6.16%) Penetration Testing
18 262 (5.89%) Decision-Making
19 261 (5.86%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 396 (8.90%) Python
2 363 (8.16%) Bash
3 325 (7.30%) SQL
4 281 (6.31%) PowerShell
5 164 (3.68%) Java
6 112 (2.52%) JavaScript
7 104 (2.34%) C
8 62 (1.39%) Rust
9 60 (1.35%) C++
10 52 (1.17%) C#
11 50 (1.12%) PHP
12 48 (1.08%) Embedded C
13 35 (0.79%) Go
14 34 (0.76%) TypeScript
15 30 (0.67%) Perl
16 26 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
17 15 (0.34%) Shell Script
18 13 (0.29%) PL/SQL
19 12 (0.27%) R
20 10 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 830 (18.65%) Degree
2 766 (17.21%) Security Cleared
3 579 (13.01%) CISSP
4 423 (9.50%) SC Cleared
5 373 (8.38%) CISM
6 211 (4.74%) Cisco Certification
7 156 (3.50%) DV Cleared
8 153 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 144 (3.24%) CISA
10 138 (3.10%) CCNA
11 128 (2.88%) CRISC
12 127 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
13 111 (2.49%) CCNP
14 109 (2.45%) Master's Degree
15 102 (2.29%) Azure Certification
16 88 (1.98%) CEH
17 87 (1.95%) GIAC
18 86 (1.93%) CompTIA Security+
18 86 (1.93%) CREST Certified
19 82 (1.84%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 562 (12.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 506 (11.37%) NIST
3 257 (5.77%) GDPR
4 246 (5.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 208 (4.67%) NCSC
6 177 (3.98%) GRC
7 116 (2.61%) PCI DSS
8 96 (2.16%) SLA
9 78 (1.75%) QA
10 73 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 69 (1.55%) Def Stans
12 62 (1.39%) NIST 800
13 61 (1.37%) COBIT
14 47 (1.06%) SOC 2
15 41 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 30 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 29 (0.65%) Accessibility
18 28 (0.63%) JSP 440
19 27 (0.61%) HIPAA
20 21 (0.47%) Data Quality
System Software
1 775 (17.41%) Active Directory
2 207 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 113 (2.54%) Hyper-V
4 93 (2.09%) Docker
5 51 (1.15%) RACF
6 48 (1.08%) vSphere
7 37 (0.83%) Firmware
8 20 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
9 13 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
12 7 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 7 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
13 6 (0.13%) Forefront TMG
14 5 (0.11%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.11%) XenApp
15 4 (0.090%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.090%) pfSense
15 4 (0.090%) VMware Server
15 4 (0.090%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 373 (8.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 214 (4.81%) Jamf Pro
3 125 (2.81%) Kubernetes
4 102 (2.29%) Terraform
5 93 (2.09%) Ansible
6 49 (1.10%) Nessus
7 42 (0.94%) Grafana
8 40 (0.90%) CASB
9 36 (0.81%) Stealthwatch
10 34 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
11 31 (0.70%) FortiGate
12 30 (0.67%) WSUS
13 24 (0.54%) QRadar
14 22 (0.49%) SCCM
15 16 (0.36%) Nagios
16 15 (0.34%) CSIRT
16 15 (0.34%) Puppet
17 14 (0.31%) vCenter Server
18 13 (0.29%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
19 10 (0.22%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1,351 (30.35%) Microsoft
2 314 (7.05%) VMware
3 304 (6.83%) CyberArk
4 268 (6.02%) Cisco
5 237 (5.32%) Tanium
6 153 (3.44%) Apple
7 142 (3.19%) Adobe
8 120 (2.70%) Splunk
9 97 (2.18%) Veeam
10 95 (2.13%) Meraki
11 90 (2.02%) Dell
12 84 (1.89%) Google
13 73 (1.64%) HP
14 68 (1.53%) Oracle
15 61 (1.37%) Juniper
16 53 (1.19%) Fortinet
16 53 (1.19%) Palo Alto
17 43 (0.97%) Citrix
18 40 (0.90%) SolarWinds
19 38 (0.85%) Qualys