Cybersecurity Manager
UK

The median Cybersecurity Manager salary in the UK is £68,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 746 885 1067
Rank change year-on-year +139 +182 -245
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Manager 148 100 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.095% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.10% 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 136 81 118
10th Percentile £51,250 £43,162 £49,625
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -7.14% +20.88%
75th Percentile £76,250 £87,500 £86,875
90th Percentile £84,375 £93,250 £105,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.60% -3.85% +13.04%

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 92,682 96,623 147,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,673 60,571 85,427
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Cybersecurity Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK

Cybersecurity Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK

Cybersecurity Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Manager over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK

Cybersecurity Manager
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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 +167 130 £68,500 +5.38% 23
UK excluding London +82 112 £68,500 +9.60% 16
South West +14 37 £68,500 +29.25% 2
South East +46 32 £62,750 +10.72% 7
London +152 29 £79,000 +21.54% 11
Work from Home +82 27 £72,500 +15.08% 15
Midlands +15 18 £71,000 +0.71% 1
West Midlands +36 11 £70,000 -9.68% 1
North of England +53 9 £50,000 -37.50% 1
Yorkshire +94 7 £50,000 -41.18%
East Midlands -10 7 £72,000 +15.20%
Scotland -54 7 £65,000 -18.75% 3
Wales +10 6 £65,000 +41.30%
East of England +23 3 £80,000 +39.13% 2
North West +9 1 £52,000 -33.76% 1
North East +3 1 £80,000 +6.67%

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Cybersecurity Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 148 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 63 (42.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 59 (39.86%) Risk Management
4 49 (33.11%) Information Security
5 46 (31.08%) Security Management
6 40 (27.03%) Stakeholder Management
7 39 (26.35%) Security Cleared
8 35 (23.65%) Information Assurance
8 35 (23.65%) NCSC
9 34 (22.97%) Cyberattack
9 34 (22.97%) SC Cleared
10 32 (21.62%) CISSP
11 29 (19.59%) Vulnerability Management
12 25 (16.89%) Security Operations
12 25 (16.89%) Microsoft
13 21 (14.19%) Cyber Essentials
13 21 (14.19%) NIST
14 20 (13.51%) GDPR
14 20 (13.51%) CISM
15 17 (11.49%) Degree
15 17 (11.49%) SIEM
15 17 (11.49%) Social Skills
16 16 (10.81%) Incident Response
16 16 (10.81%) Penetration Testing
17 15 (10.14%) Management Information System
17 15 (10.14%) ITIL
18 14 (9.46%) Finance
18 14 (9.46%) Service Delivery
18 14 (9.46%) Retail
18 14 (9.46%) Mentoring

Cybersecurity Manager 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (7.43%) Azure
3 4 (2.70%) Entra ID
4 3 (2.03%) AWS
4 3 (2.03%) SaaS
5 2 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.68%) IaaS
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.68%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.68%) PaaS
6 1 (0.68%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.76%) Network Security
2 4 (2.70%) Firewall
3 3 (2.03%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.35%) DHCP
4 2 (1.35%) DNS
4 2 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.35%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.35%) LAN
4 2 (1.35%) OSPF
4 2 (1.35%) Wireless
4 2 (1.35%) WLAN
5 1 (0.68%) Internet
5 1 (0.68%) Intranet
5 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.68%) SSL
5 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Git
General
1 17 (11.49%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.46%) Finance
2 14 (9.46%) Retail
3 13 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (4.73%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.38%) Automotive
5 5 (3.38%) Legal
5 5 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.38%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.70%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.70%) Law
7 3 (2.03%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.03%) Marketing
8 1 (0.68%) Banking
8 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.68%) Games
8 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.35%) LDAP
1 2 (1.35%) SAML
2 1 (0.68%) CSS
2 1 (0.68%) HTML
2 1 (0.68%) RESTful
2 1 (0.68%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 34 (22.97%) Cyberattack
2 15 (10.14%) Management Information System
3 12 (8.11%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (7.43%) Security Posture
5 7 (4.73%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (4.05%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.38%) Operational Technology
8 4 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (2.03%) Cyber Security Posture
10 2 (1.35%) CESG
10 2 (1.35%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.35%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.35%) NHS
10 2 (1.35%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.68%) Cloud Security Posture
11 1 (0.68%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.05%) Windows
2 2 (1.35%) Linux
2 2 (1.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.68%) Android
3 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 59 (39.86%) Risk Management
3 49 (33.11%) Information Security
4 46 (31.08%) Security Management
5 40 (27.03%) Stakeholder Management
6 35 (23.65%) Information Assurance
7 29 (19.59%) Vulnerability Management
8 25 (16.89%) Security Operations
9 17 (11.49%) SIEM
10 16 (10.81%) Incident Response
10 16 (10.81%) Penetration Testing
11 15 (10.14%) ITIL
12 14 (9.46%) Mentoring
12 14 (9.46%) Service Delivery
13 13 (8.78%) Collaborative Working
14 12 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 11 (7.43%) Computer Science
16 10 (6.76%) Data Protection
17 9 (6.08%) Agile
17 9 (6.08%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
1 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (0.68%) Python
Qualifications
1 39 (26.35%) Security Cleared
2 34 (22.97%) SC Cleared
3 32 (21.62%) CISSP
4 20 (13.51%) CISM
5 17 (11.49%) Degree
6 13 (8.78%) DBS Check
7 10 (6.76%) CEH
7 10 (6.76%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (6.08%) CCNA
9 8 (5.41%) GIAC
10 6 (4.05%) GPEN
11 4 (2.70%) CRISC
12 3 (2.03%) CISA
12 3 (2.03%) Master's Degree
13 2 (1.35%) CASP
13 2 (1.35%) CESG Certified Professional
13 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (1.35%) GSEC
13 2 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.68%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (42.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (23.65%) NCSC
3 21 (14.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 21 (14.19%) NIST
4 20 (13.51%) GDPR
5 14 (9.46%) GRC
6 10 (6.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (4.05%) NIST 800
8 5 (3.38%) PCI DSS
9 3 (2.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.68%) COBIT
10 1 (0.68%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.68%) QA
10 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (6.08%) SCCM
2 6 (4.05%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 6 (4.05%) Nessus
3 3 (2.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (2.03%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.68%) QRadar
5 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (16.89%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.08%) ServiceNow
3 6 (4.05%) Qualys
4 2 (1.35%) Darktrace
5 1 (0.68%) Cisco
5 1 (0.68%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.68%) Meraki
5 1 (0.68%) SonicWALL
5 1 (0.68%) Splunk
5 1 (0.68%) Tripwire
5 1 (0.68%) VMware