Cybersecurity Job Trends in West Sussex

Cybersecurity
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 25 23
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +44
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 19 21 35
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 4.73% 6.75% 7.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.53% 7.61% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 12 13 28
10th Percentile £26,500 £40,000 £45,175
25th Percentile £27,250 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,825 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £83,125 £51,250 £76,563
90th Percentile £107,500 £73,250 £82,500
South East median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 in West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 291 276 423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 72.39% 88.75% 90.38%
Number of salaries quoted 211 140 286
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £34,250 £37,725 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £54,151
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -9.97% -5.83%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £75,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £59,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.25% +12.38% -4.55%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Cybersecurity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in West Sussex over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in West Sussex

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 20 January 2026. 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
Chichester - 7 £41,650 - 1
Horsham +1 5 £105,000 +121.05% 2
Worthing +1 3 £27,000 - 1
Crawley -1 3 £30,000 -25.00% 21
East Grinstead - 1 £50,000 -
Cybersecurity
South East

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) Confluence
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (31.58%) Entra ID
4 5 (26.32%) AWS
5 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (15.79%) SaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) VPN
2 2 (10.53%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) Internet
3 1 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Analyst
1 7 (36.84%) Security Analyst
2 6 (31.58%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 6 (31.58%) Junior
2 6 (31.58%) Junior Analyst
2 6 (31.58%) Junior Security Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) IT Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) IT Support
3 4 (21.05%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Lead
3 4 (21.05%) Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Trainee
4 2 (10.53%) Trainee Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Trainee Web Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Web Developer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) CSS
1 2 (10.53%) HTML
1 2 (10.53%) React
1 2 (10.53%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
1 3 (15.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Mentoring
2 7 (36.84%) Risk Management
3 4 (21.05%) Agile
3 4 (21.05%) Coaching
3 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) AI
4 3 (15.79%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 3 (15.79%) Customer-Centricity
4 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
4 3 (15.79%) Line Management
4 3 (15.79%) Programme Delivery
4 3 (15.79%) SDLC
4 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.79%) Waterfall
5 2 (10.53%) Business Development
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.53%) Incident Response
5 2 (10.53%) Information Security
5 2 (10.53%) Web Development
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
1 2 (10.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Azure Certification
2 7 (36.84%) CompTIA Security+
3 6 (31.58%) CompTIA CySA+
4 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (10.53%) CISSP
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (5.26%) CCSP
6 1 (5.26%) CEH
6 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (5.26%) CISM
6 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) PMO
2 2 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (5.26%) GRC
3 1 (5.26%) NCSC
3 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) Microsoft
2 6 (31.58%) ForeScout
3 4 (21.05%) VMware
4 2 (10.53%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.26%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (5.26%) Imperva
5 1 (5.26%) Netskope
5 1 (5.26%) Qualys
5 1 (5.26%) Rapid7
5 1 (5.26%) Thales
5 1 (5.26%) Trend Micro