SANS Institute
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SANS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 642 833 823
Rank change year-on-year +191 -10 +197
Permanent jobs citing SANS 50 63 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.064% 0.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.20% 0.23% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 28 42 98
10th Percentile £53,332 £38,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,313 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £58,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -22.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £103,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £83,750 £114,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £56,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +17.26% -19.29% +16.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

SANS falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 25,404 27,420 33,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.81% 27.84% 32.71%
Number of salaries quoted 11,182 17,336 15,221
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.99% +1.00%

SANS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SANS in the UK

SANS
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SANS in the UK

SANS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SANS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SANS in the UK

SANS
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SANS within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +165 48 £68,750 +19.05% 33
UK excluding London +205 31 £66,250 +17.26% 22
Work from Home +191 27 £63,750 +6.25% 27
London +107 19 £96,250 +32.76% 13
Midlands +87 13 £53,688 -7.43% 1
West Midlands +57 13 £53,688 -7.43% 1
South West +107 6 £75,000 - 1
South East +109 5 £60,000 - 3
North of England +75 5 £55,000 -2.65% 14
North West +35 4 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Scotland - 2 £80,000 - 1
Yorkshire +69 1 £45,000 -20.35% 10

SANS
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:

Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.00%) AWS
2 10 (20.00%) Azure
3 5 (10.00%) SaaS
4 4 (8.00%) IaaS
4 4 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (4.00%) PaaS
6 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (52.00%) Firewall
2 10 (20.00%) SAN
3 8 (16.00%) Network Security
4 5 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 5 (10.00%) VPN
5 4 (8.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (8.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (4.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Bugzilla
1 1 (2.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (2.00%) ESLint
1 1 (2.00%) Gatling
1 1 (2.00%) Git
1 1 (2.00%) JIRA
1 1 (2.00%) JMeter
General
1 22 (44.00%) Finance
2 10 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Retail
5 3 (6.00%) Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.00%) Law
6 2 (4.00%) Legal
6 2 (4.00%) Police
7 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (42.00%) Security Engineer
2 16 (32.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 13 (26.00%) Analyst
4 11 (22.00%) Security Analyst
5 9 (18.00%) CISSP Analyst
5 9 (18.00%) Incident Analyst
5 9 (18.00%) Junior
5 9 (18.00%) Junior Analyst
5 9 (18.00%) Junior Operations Analyst
5 9 (18.00%) Junior Security Analyst
5 9 (18.00%) Operations Analyst
5 9 (18.00%) Security Incident Analyst
5 9 (18.00%) Security Operations Analyst
5 9 (18.00%) SIEM Analyst
6 6 (12.00%) Senior
7 5 (10.00%) Architect
7 5 (10.00%) Security Architect
8 4 (8.00%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) Senior Security Engineer
9 3 (6.00%) Enterprise Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (2.00%) Jest
1 1 (2.00%) Node.js
1 1 (2.00%) Prisma
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Hedge funds
1 9 (18.00%) Management Information System
1 9 (18.00%) Podcast
2 5 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.00%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) PKI
4 2 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.00%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.00%) Windows
2 2 (4.00%) Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 26 (52.00%) SIEM
3 21 (42.00%) Incident Response
4 19 (38.00%) Information Security
5 15 (30.00%) Security Operations
6 13 (26.00%) Computer Science
6 13 (26.00%) ITIL
6 13 (26.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 11 (22.00%) Application Security
7 11 (22.00%) Penetration Testing
8 10 (20.00%) Risk Management
9 9 (18.00%) Problem Management
9 9 (18.00%) Roadmaps
10 8 (16.00%) Compliance Management
10 8 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (16.00%) Security Architecture
11 7 (14.00%) Cloud Security
11 7 (14.00%) Data Loss Prevention
11 7 (14.00%) Security Testing
12 6 (12.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) PowerShell
2 10 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 44 (88.00%) CISSP
2 25 (50.00%) Degree
3 20 (40.00%) CISM
3 20 (40.00%) GIAC
4 17 (34.00%) CEH
4 17 (34.00%) GCIA
4 17 (34.00%) GCIH
5 16 (32.00%) CISA
6 15 (30.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 14 (28.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (28.00%) ISACA
8 12 (24.00%) OSCP
8 12 (24.00%) Security Cleared
9 11 (22.00%) SC Cleared
10 7 (14.00%) CCNA
10 7 (14.00%) CCNP
10 7 (14.00%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (10.00%) CRISC
12 4 (8.00%) AWS Certification
12 4 (8.00%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (28.00%) NIST
3 9 (18.00%) GRC
4 8 (16.00%) JSP 440
4 8 (16.00%) NCSC
5 7 (14.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 5 (10.00%) NIST 800
7 4 (8.00%) Accessibility
7 4 (8.00%) COBIT
7 4 (8.00%) GDPR
8 3 (6.00%) PCI DSS
9 2 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (4.00%) SOC 2
10 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Snort
1 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (12.00%) Nessus
2 4 (8.00%) FortiGate
3 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.00%) Ansible
4 2 (4.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.00%) Puppet
5 1 (2.00%) RSA Archer
5 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.00%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (14.00%) Cisco
4 6 (12.00%) Tenable
5 4 (8.00%) Fortinet
6 3 (6.00%) Splunk
7 2 (4.00%) VMware
8 1 (2.00%) HP
8 1 (2.00%) LogRhythm
8 1 (2.00%) Qualys