Information Security Management Jobs

Information Security Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Information Security Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security Management over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 706 631 831
Rank change year-on-year -75 +200 -146
Permanent jobs citing Information Security Management 189 392 394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.37% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.39% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 168 207 298
10th Percentile £30,000 £43,477 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £51,250 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £62,500 £59,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +4.60% +8.64%
75th Percentile £75,313 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Information Security Management 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 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Information Security Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Information Security Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security Management in the UK

Information Security Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Information Security Management.

Salary trend for Information Security Management in the UK

Information Security Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security Management over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Information Security Management in the UK

Information Security Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security Management within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 -49 170 £60,000 -4.00% 37
UK excluding London -57 111 £50,000 -20.00% 29
London -1 65 £72,500 +11.54% 8
Work from Home -70 64 £62,500 -7.41% 21
North of England +66 44 £56,500 -16.30% 6
South East +11 31 £52,500 -9.48% 11
Yorkshire +106 23 £56,500 -19.29% 1
North West +19 20 £50,000 -16.67% 3
South West -21 17 £28,000 -55.20% 2
Midlands -13 9 £57,250 -8.40% 4
West Midlands +11 7 £54,000 +2.86% 2
Scotland -71 4 £22,000 -68.57% 1
Wales +10 3 £32,500 - 1
East of England -5 2 £65,000 +4.00% 3
East Midlands -20 2 £68,750 -8.33% 2
Northern Ireland +25 1 £45,000 -18.18% 1
North East 0 1 £37,500 - 2

Information Security Management
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 1 (0.53%) Apache
1 1 (0.53%) IIS
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
1 1 (0.53%) Skype for Business
1 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (5.82%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.06%) SAP GRC
2 2 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.87%) Azure
2 28 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (12.70%) PaaS
3 24 (12.70%) SaaS
4 23 (12.17%) IaaS
5 17 (8.99%) Cloud Computing
6 15 (7.94%) Azure Sentinel
7 14 (7.41%) AWS
7 14 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (7.41%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (3.17%) Azure Service Fabric
8 6 (3.17%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.17%) GCP
9 4 (2.12%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.59%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.59%) Serverless
11 2 (1.06%) GitHub
12 1 (0.53%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 32 (16.93%) Network Security
2 27 (14.29%) Firewall
3 17 (8.99%) Wireshark
4 16 (8.47%) TCP/IP
5 15 (7.94%) LAN
5 15 (7.94%) WAN
6 4 (2.12%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.59%) Bluetooth
8 2 (1.06%) DHCP
8 2 (1.06%) DNS
8 2 (1.06%) HTTP
8 2 (1.06%) IPv4
9 1 (0.53%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.53%) SAN
9 1 (0.53%) Skype
9 1 (0.53%) VLAN
9 1 (0.53%) VPN
9 1 (0.53%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.12%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (1.59%) Big Data
3 3 (1.59%) MS Access
4 2 (1.06%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 52 (27.51%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.93%) Finance
3 20 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.05%) Legal
5 7 (3.70%) Retail
6 6 (3.17%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.65%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.12%) Law
8 4 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.59%) Marketing
10 2 (1.06%) Advertising
10 2 (1.06%) Banking
10 2 (1.06%) Billing
10 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.06%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 42 (22.22%) Security Manager
2 36 (19.05%) Analyst
3 25 (13.23%) Information Manager
3 25 (13.23%) Security Analyst
3 25 (13.23%) Senior
4 24 (12.70%) Information Security Manager
5 18 (9.52%) Consultant
5 18 (9.52%) Security Engineer
6 15 (7.94%) Security Consultant
7 13 (6.88%) Engineering Manager
8 11 (5.82%) Information Security Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 10 (5.29%) Lead
9 10 (5.29%) Senior Analyst
10 9 (4.76%) Architect
10 9 (4.76%) Information Analyst
10 9 (4.76%) Information Security Analyst
10 9 (4.76%) IT Analyst
10 9 (4.76%) IT Security Analyst
10 9 (4.76%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.35%) Web Services
2 8 (4.23%) REST
3 6 (3.17%) Middleware
3 6 (3.17%) SOAP
4 4 (2.12%) .NET
5 3 (1.59%) COM
5 3 (1.59%) HTML
5 3 (1.59%) HTML5
5 3 (1.59%) WinForms
6 2 (1.06%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.53%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.53%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.53%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.53%) CSS
7 1 (0.53%) jQuery
7 1 (0.53%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 99 (52.38%) Management Information System
2 30 (15.87%) Security Posture
3 20 (10.58%) Security Operations Centre
4 15 (7.94%) Cyberattack
5 14 (7.41%) Cyber Threat
5 14 (7.41%) Data Centre
6 9 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (4.23%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.17%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (3.17%) Operational Technology
9 4 (2.12%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.12%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.59%) Raspberry Pi
10 3 (1.59%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.06%) Digital Media
12 1 (0.53%) Driving Licence
12 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.53%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.81%) Windows
2 14 (7.41%) Android
2 14 (7.41%) Apple iOS
3 11 (5.82%) Linux
4 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (100.00%) Information Security
2 186 (98.41%) Security Management
3 92 (48.68%) Cybersecurity
3 92 (48.68%) ISMS
4 56 (29.63%) Risk Management
5 40 (21.16%) Roadmaps
6 38 (20.11%) Vulnerability Management
7 34 (17.99%) Cloud Security
8 31 (16.40%) Regulatory Compliance
9 29 (15.34%) Project Management
9 29 (15.34%) Security Operations
10 28 (14.81%) Identity Access Management
11 27 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (13.76%) Security Architecture
13 25 (13.23%) Data Loss Prevention
13 25 (13.23%) Risk Assessment
14 24 (12.70%) Incident Response
14 24 (12.70%) SIEM
15 23 (12.17%) Computer Science
16 22 (11.64%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.52%) PowerShell
1 18 (9.52%) Python
2 10 (5.29%) SQL
3 4 (2.12%) C#
4 3 (1.59%) VB
5 2 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (42.33%) CISSP
2 49 (25.93%) CISM
3 42 (22.22%) Degree
4 27 (14.29%) CISA
5 24 (12.70%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (12.17%) SANS
7 22 (11.64%) Master's Degree
8 21 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 21 (11.11%) CCSP
9 16 (8.47%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 15 (7.94%) CEH
11 14 (7.41%) SSCP
12 13 (6.88%) CRISC
13 11 (5.82%) Security Cleared
14 10 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (5.29%) GIAC
15 8 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (4.23%) PCI QSA
16 7 (3.70%) CESG Certified Professional
17 6 (3.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (60.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 85 (44.97%) NIST
3 39 (20.63%) PCI DSS
4 30 (15.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 22 (11.64%) GRC
6 19 (10.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 19 (10.05%) GDPR
7 17 (8.99%) COBIT
8 14 (7.41%) NCSC
9 10 (5.29%) ISO 9001
9 10 (5.29%) NIST 800
10 7 (3.70%) ISO 22301
10 7 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 6 (3.17%) RMADS
11 6 (3.17%) Web Application Security Consortium
12 5 (2.65%) ISO 14001
13 4 (2.12%) JSP 440
13 4 (2.12%) TickIT
14 3 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (7.41%) Virtual Desktop
2 8 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (7.41%) Nmap
3 7 (3.70%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 6 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.12%) QRadar
6 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.53%) DatAdvantage
6 1 (0.53%) SCCM
6 1 (0.53%) Stealthwatch
6 1 (0.53%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 1 (0.53%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.53%) WSUS
Vendors
1 44 (23.28%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.99%) Splunk
3 15 (7.94%) Qualys
4 14 (7.41%) Rapid7
4 14 (7.41%) Thycotic
5 12 (6.35%) Cisco
6 6 (3.17%) CA
7 5 (2.65%) Dell
8 4 (2.12%) Citrix
8 4 (2.12%) VMware
9 3 (1.59%) Google
9 3 (1.59%) LogRhythm
9 3 (1.59%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.59%) Quadient
9 3 (1.59%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.59%) Xero
10 2 (1.06%) AlienVault
10 2 (1.06%) SAP
11 1 (0.53%) Symantec
11 1 (0.53%) Varonis