Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in England

Cybersecurity Engineer
UK > England

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 702 723 954
Rank change year-on-year +21 +231 -212
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 134 186 212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.23% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 102 156 128
10th Percentile £37,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +24.44%
75th Percentile £81,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,625 £93,750 -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +17.39%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 84,097 79,150 134,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.43% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,393 50,588 75,337
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in England

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in England

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in England

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
London +98 57 £77,500 +21.57% 12
South East +4 27 £50,000 -9.09% 3
North of England +48 19 £40,000 -38.46% 7
West Midlands +13 15 £60,000 -
Midlands -12 15 £60,000 +26.32% 6
East of England +3 14 £67,500 +12.50% 4
North West +1 13 £52,500 -19.23% 3
Yorkshire +83 5 £38,500 - 2
North East - 1 £27,500 - 2
Cybersecurity Engineer
UK

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Cybersecurity Engineer 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 across the England region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 134 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 45 (33.58%) SIEM
3 44 (32.84%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (31.34%) Degree
5 40 (29.85%) CISSP
5 40 (29.85%) Firewall
6 39 (29.10%) Azure
7 34 (25.37%) Python
8 31 (23.13%) Information Security
9 30 (22.39%) Data Modelling
10 29 (21.64%) Analytics
11 27 (20.15%) Data Quality
11 27 (20.15%) Data Engineering
11 27 (20.15%) Data Science
11 27 (20.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 26 (19.40%) Coaching
12 26 (19.40%) Microsoft
13 25 (18.66%) Incident Response
14 24 (17.91%) Finance
14 24 (17.91%) Mentoring
15 23 (17.16%) Security Operations
15 23 (17.16%) Windows
15 23 (17.16%) PowerShell
16 22 (16.42%) Vulnerability Management
16 22 (16.42%) Red Team
17 21 (15.67%) NIST
17 21 (15.67%) Cloud Security
18 19 (14.18%) Microsoft 365
18 19 (14.18%) Identity Access Management
19 18 (13.43%) ISO/IEC 27001

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 39 (29.10%) Azure
2 19 (14.18%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (8.21%) GCP
4 9 (6.72%) AWS
5 7 (5.22%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (4.48%) SaaS
7 3 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.24%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.24%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.75%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 40 (29.85%) Firewall
2 14 (10.45%) Network Security
3 8 (5.97%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.48%) LAN
5 5 (3.73%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (3.73%) VPN
6 4 (2.99%) WAN
7 3 (2.24%) DNS
7 3 (2.24%) Internet
8 2 (1.49%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.73%) BigQuery
1 5 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (3.73%) Hadoop
1 5 (3.73%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.99%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.24%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (6.72%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.24%) Burp Suite
General
1 27 (20.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 24 (17.91%) Finance
3 17 (12.69%) Social Skills
4 12 (8.96%) Banking
5 7 (5.22%) Law
5 7 (5.22%) Retail
6 5 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.99%) Electronics
7 4 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.24%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.49%) French Language
9 2 (1.49%) German Language
9 2 (1.49%) Italian Language
9 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.49%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.49%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.75%) Legal
10 1 (0.75%) Marketing
10 1 (0.75%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.73%) web3js
2 3 (2.24%) Fluent Bit
3 2 (1.49%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.43%) Management Information System
2 14 (10.45%) Operational Technology
3 12 (8.96%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (7.46%) Cyberattack
4 10 (7.46%) PKI
4 10 (7.46%) SCADA
5 7 (5.22%) Blog
5 7 (5.22%) Security Posture
6 6 (4.48%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.73%) Blockchain
7 5 (3.73%) Web3
8 4 (2.99%) IoT
9 3 (2.24%) NHS
10 2 (1.49%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.49%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.49%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.16%) Windows
2 10 (7.46%) Linux
3 9 (6.72%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.49%) Android
4 2 (1.49%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 45 (33.58%) SIEM
3 44 (32.84%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (23.13%) Information Security
5 30 (22.39%) Data Modelling
6 29 (21.64%) Analytics
7 27 (20.15%) Data Engineering
7 27 (20.15%) Data Science
8 26 (19.40%) Coaching
9 25 (18.66%) Incident Response
10 24 (17.91%) Mentoring
11 23 (17.16%) Security Operations
12 22 (16.42%) Red Team
12 22 (16.42%) Vulnerability Management
13 21 (15.67%) Cloud Security
14 19 (14.18%) Identity Access Management
15 17 (12.69%) Computer Science
16 15 (11.19%) Cryptography
17 14 (10.45%) Patch Management
18 13 (9.70%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 34 (25.37%) Python
2 23 (17.16%) PowerShell
3 17 (12.69%) Bash
4 10 (7.46%) Java
5 9 (6.72%) SQL
6 7 (5.22%) C
7 4 (2.99%) C++
8 1 (0.75%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.75%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 42 (31.34%) Degree
2 40 (29.85%) CISSP
3 14 (10.45%) Security Cleared
4 13 (9.70%) CEH
4 13 (9.70%) CISM
4 13 (9.70%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.48%) CISA
7 5 (3.73%) GIAC
7 5 (3.73%) SANS
8 4 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.24%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (2.24%) CRISC
9 3 (2.24%) GCIA
9 3 (2.24%) ISSMP
9 3 (2.24%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.49%) CCNA
10 2 (1.49%) CCNP
10 2 (1.49%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (20.15%) Data Quality
2 21 (15.67%) NIST
3 18 (13.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (8.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (4.48%) NIST 800
6 5 (3.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (3.73%) SOC 2
7 3 (2.24%) COBIT
8 2 (1.49%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.75%) GRC
9 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (4.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (11.19%) Ansible
2 8 (5.97%) logstash
3 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.99%) Nessus
3 4 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.24%) CASB
4 3 (2.24%) Fluentd
5 2 (1.49%) Nmap
6 1 (0.75%) QRadar
6 1 (0.75%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 26 (19.40%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.45%) CyberArk
3 12 (8.96%) ArcSight
3 12 (8.96%) Atlassian
3 12 (8.96%) Carbon Black
3 12 (8.96%) McAfee
4 9 (6.72%) Splunk
5 8 (5.97%) Google
5 8 (5.97%) Qualys
6 6 (4.48%) Rapid7
7 4 (2.99%) Cisco
7 4 (2.99%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.24%) Alibaba
8 3 (2.24%) iManage
8 3 (2.24%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.49%) Darktrace
9 2 (1.49%) LogRhythm
9 2 (1.49%) Meraki
9 2 (1.49%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.49%) Thycotic