Cybersecurity Jobs in the South West

Cybersecurity
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 37 49
Rank change year-on-year +11 +12 +4
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 622 488 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.64% 7.30% 5.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.00% 7.73% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 478 254 240
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72,188 £74,713 £76,563
90th Percentile £97,250 £84,625 £90,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Cybersecurity 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 advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,774 6,314 7,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 82.96% 94.49% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,600 3,501 4,988
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +6.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,750 £66,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the South West.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the South West over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the South West

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the South West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Bristol +5 278 £68,500 +5.38% 45
Gloucestershire +19 174 £56,000 +1.82% 30
Wiltshire -12 66 £65,000 -10.96% 10
Dorset -2 41 £45,000 -15.09% 9
Devon -3 36 £56,337 +58.05% 9
Somerset -3 24 £49,948 -20.08% 11
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 15 (2.41%) IIS
2 14 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.80%) Apache
5 4 (0.64%) Confluence
5 4 (0.64%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.64%) Site Server
6 3 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.48%) Luigi
7 2 (0.32%) MS Project Server
8 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 11 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.64%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Primavera
1 2 (0.32%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 88 (14.15%) Azure
2 58 (9.32%) AWS
3 34 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (3.54%) SaaS
5 18 (2.89%) GCP
6 12 (1.93%) Entra ID
7 11 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.13%) PaaS
9 6 (0.96%) IaaS
9 6 (0.96%) OneDrive
10 4 (0.64%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.64%) GitHub
10 4 (0.64%) Power Platform
11 3 (0.48%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (0.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.48%) OCI
11 3 (0.48%) PowerApps
11 3 (0.48%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 65 (10.45%) Network Security
2 59 (9.49%) Firewall
3 23 (3.70%) WAN
4 20 (3.22%) LAN
5 19 (3.05%) VPN
6 18 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
7 16 (2.57%) SD-WAN
8 13 (2.09%) VSAN
9 11 (1.77%) Internet
10 10 (1.61%) TCP/IP
11 8 (1.29%) Cisco IPT
12 7 (1.13%) Wireless
13 6 (0.96%) BGP
13 6 (0.96%) MPLS
13 6 (0.96%) VLAN
13 6 (0.96%) VPLS
14 4 (0.64%) Ethernet
14 4 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
15 3 (0.48%) SAN
15 3 (0.48%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.77%) Big Data
2 8 (1.29%) NoSQL
3 7 (1.13%) SQL Server
4 6 (0.96%) Data Lake
4 6 (0.96%) MongoDB
5 5 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.64%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.48%) Bigtable
7 3 (0.48%) CouchDB
7 3 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.48%) Redis
7 3 (0.48%) RethinkDB
8 1 (0.16%) Power BI
8 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (2.09%) Jenkins
2 12 (1.93%) Git
3 4 (0.64%) IBM UrbanCode
3 4 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.48%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.48%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.48%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.48%) JIRA
4 3 (0.48%) Selenium
4 3 (0.48%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.32%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.32%) LabVIEW
5 2 (0.32%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.16%) GCC
General
1 118 (18.97%) Social Skills
2 104 (16.72%) Finance
3 65 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (7.72%) Military
5 46 (7.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (6.11%) Law
7 37 (5.95%) Aerospace
8 24 (3.86%) Public Sector
9 22 (3.54%) Banking
10 20 (3.22%) Retail
11 17 (2.73%) Aviation
12 11 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.61%) Games
13 10 (1.61%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.29%) Marketing
15 7 (1.13%) Legal
16 5 (0.80%) Electronics
16 5 (0.80%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 137 (22.03%) Consultant
2 133 (21.38%) Senior
3 125 (20.10%) Security Consultant
4 79 (12.70%) Software Engineer
5 69 (11.09%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 54 (8.68%) Analyst
7 50 (8.04%) Embedded Engineer
7 50 (8.04%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 50 (8.04%) Lead
8 48 (7.72%) Security Manager
9 46 (7.40%) Architect
10 41 (6.59%) Senior Software Engineer
11 39 (6.27%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 39 (6.27%) Security Analyst
12 36 (5.79%) Security Architect
13 35 (5.63%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 32 (5.14%) Information Manager
14 32 (5.14%) Information Security Manager
15 30 (4.82%) Information Assurance Manager
15 30 (4.82%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.93%) CSS
2 11 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (1.45%) HTML
3 9 (1.45%) React
4 8 (1.29%) ModSecurity
5 7 (1.13%) .NET
5 7 (1.13%) Pandas
6 6 (0.96%) OpenID
7 5 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (0.80%) REST
8 4 (0.64%) .NET Core
8 4 (0.64%) .NET Framework
8 4 (0.64%) Flash
8 4 (0.64%) Keras
8 4 (0.64%) NumPy
8 4 (0.64%) PySpark
8 4 (0.64%) PyTorch
8 4 (0.64%) scikit-learn
8 4 (0.64%) Statsmodels
8 4 (0.64%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.91%) Cyberattack
2 41 (6.59%) Security Operations Centre
3 33 (5.31%) Management Information System
4 29 (4.66%) Cyber Defence
5 21 (3.38%) Data Centre
6 19 (3.05%) Cyber Threat
6 19 (3.05%) Public Cloud
7 16 (2.57%) Operational Technology
8 15 (2.41%) CESG
9 14 (2.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 13 (2.09%) Product Ownership
11 12 (1.93%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.80%) Cloud Native
14 5 (0.80%) Clustering
14 5 (0.80%) Cyber Security Posture
14 5 (0.80%) Private Cloud
14 5 (0.80%) Reinsurance
14 5 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 101 (16.24%) Linux
2 77 (12.38%) Windows
3 50 (8.04%) Embedded Linux
4 13 (2.09%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.77%) Unix
6 8 (1.29%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.13%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.64%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.64%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.32%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.32%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.16%) Android
11 1 (0.16%) VMS
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (18.97%) Risk Management
2 98 (15.76%) Information Assurance
3 89 (14.31%) Software Engineering
4 85 (13.67%) Information Security
5 80 (12.86%) Security Operations
6 79 (12.70%) Agile
7 65 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (10.45%) SIEM
8 62 (9.97%) Incident Response
8 62 (9.97%) Mentoring
9 55 (8.84%) Security Architecture
10 44 (7.07%) Computer Science
10 44 (7.07%) Incident Management
11 43 (6.91%) Penetration Testing
11 43 (6.91%) Project Delivery
11 43 (6.91%) Vulnerability Management
12 39 (6.27%) Stakeholder Management
13 37 (5.95%) Machine Learning
14 36 (5.79%) Coaching
15 35 (5.63%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 136 (21.86%) Python
2 94 (15.11%) Bash
3 70 (11.25%) C
4 53 (8.52%) Rust
5 50 (8.04%) Embedded C
6 30 (4.82%) SQL
7 21 (3.38%) Java
8 17 (2.73%) JavaScript
9 16 (2.57%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.41%) C#
10 15 (2.41%) C++
11 5 (0.80%) R
11 5 (0.80%) Scala
12 3 (0.48%) Perl
13 2 (0.32%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.16%) Go
14 1 (0.16%) PHP
14 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 283 (45.50%) Security Cleared
2 120 (19.29%) SC Cleared
3 94 (15.11%) CISSP
4 80 (12.86%) DV Cleared
5 77 (12.38%) Degree
6 73 (11.74%) CISM
7 53 (8.52%) CRISC
8 37 (5.95%) CESG Certified Professional
9 31 (4.98%) CISA
10 18 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (2.89%) Master's Degree
11 17 (2.73%) CISMP
12 15 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (1.93%) IISP
14 11 (1.77%) CEH
14 11 (1.77%) CHECK Team Member
14 11 (1.77%) CompTIA CySA+
14 11 (1.77%) GIAC
14 11 (1.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 11 (1.77%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (15.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 90 (14.47%) NIST
3 44 (7.07%) NCSC
4 37 (5.95%) JSP 440
5 30 (4.82%) NIST 800
6 28 (4.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (3.54%) GDPR
8 17 (2.73%) PCI DSS
9 14 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 14 (2.25%) RMADS
10 13 (2.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 11 (1.77%) Accessibility
12 8 (1.29%) GRC
13 7 (1.13%) DO-254
13 7 (1.13%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (0.80%) SOC 1
15 4 (0.64%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.64%) JTAG
16 3 (0.48%) QA
System Software
1 30 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 24 (3.86%) vSphere
4 21 (3.38%) Docker
5 8 (1.29%) Firmware
5 8 (1.29%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.64%) NFS
6 4 (0.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.48%) Forefront TMG
7 3 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.16%) RACF
Systems Management
1 23 (3.70%) Ansible
2 20 (3.22%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.89%) WSUS
4 15 (2.41%) Puppet
5 14 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (2.09%) vCenter Server
7 12 (1.93%) CASB
8 9 (1.45%) Terraform
9 5 (0.80%) Nagios
10 4 (0.64%) Grafana
11 3 (0.48%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.48%) SCOM
12 2 (0.32%) Nmap
12 2 (0.32%) SCCM
13 1 (0.16%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 79 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.31%) VMware
3 25 (4.02%) Cisco
4 13 (2.09%) Tanium
5 12 (1.93%) Google
6 11 (1.77%) SolarWinds
6 11 (1.77%) Tripwire
7 8 (1.29%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.13%) Oracle
9 6 (0.96%) Apple
9 6 (0.96%) Juniper
9 6 (0.96%) PagerDuty
10 5 (0.80%) Databricks
11 4 (0.64%) Dataiku
11 4 (0.64%) Intel
11 4 (0.64%) Mentor Graphics
11 4 (0.64%) Siemens
11 4 (0.64%) Splunk
11 4 (0.64%) Xilinx
12 3 (0.48%) Atlassian