Cybersecurity Manager Jobs

Cybersecurity Manager
UK

The median Cybersecurity Manager salary in the UK is £68,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 749 878 1124
Rank change year-on-year +129 +246 -261
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Manager 159 69 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.073% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.080% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 144 64 120
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £59,625 £55,357 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £70,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.84% -4.41% +22.92%
75th Percentile £76,250 £91,375 £90,000
90th Percentile £84,625 £95,971 £101,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,500 £62,500 £61,750
% change year-on-year +9.60% +1.21% +7.39%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Cybersecurity Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK

Cybersecurity Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK

Cybersecurity Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Manager over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK

Cybersecurity Manager
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +118 140 £68,500 -7.12% 41
UK excluding London +54 125 £68,500 +9.60% 22
South West +9 40 £68,500 -19.88% 4
Work from Home +51 35 £70,000 +11.11% 15
South East +17 32 £62,750 +4.51% 6
London +115 25 £80,000 +6.67% 19
Midlands 0 21 £70,000 +1.08% 6
North of England +45 16 £52,000 -28.77% 4
West Midlands -8 13 £70,000 -6.67%
North West +4 9 £55,000 -39.56% 2
East Midlands -11 8 £72,000 +15.20% 6
Scotland -60 7 £65,000 -0.76% 1
Yorkshire +66 6 £45,000 -18.18% 2
Wales +10 6 £65,000 +41.30%
East of England -1 3 £80,000 +36.17% 1
North East - 1 £80,000 -

Cybersecurity Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Cybersecurity Manager 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 featuring Cybersecurity Manager in the job title.

1 159 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 59 (37.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (36.48%) Risk Management
4 47 (29.56%) Information Security
5 45 (28.30%) Security Management
6 40 (25.16%) Stakeholder Management
7 39 (24.53%) Security Cleared
8 35 (22.01%) Information Assurance
8 35 (22.01%) NCSC
9 34 (21.38%) SC Cleared
10 33 (20.75%) Vulnerability Management
10 33 (20.75%) Cyberattack
11 30 (18.87%) Microsoft
11 30 (18.87%) CISSP
12 24 (15.09%) Social Skills
13 23 (14.47%) Cyber Essentials
14 21 (13.21%) Security Operations
14 21 (13.21%) NIST
15 18 (11.32%) CISM
16 17 (10.69%) GDPR
17 16 (10.06%) Microsoft 365
17 16 (10.06%) Finance
17 16 (10.06%) Penetration Testing
18 15 (9.43%) ITIL
18 15 (9.43%) SIEM
19 14 (8.81%) Mentoring
19 14 (8.81%) DBS Check
19 14 (8.81%) GRC
19 14 (8.81%) Collaborative Working
19 14 (8.81%) Service Delivery

Cybersecurity Manager Skill Set
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 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (10.06%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (6.29%) Azure
3 6 (3.77%) AWS
4 5 (3.14%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (1.26%) SaaS
6 1 (0.63%) GCP
6 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.63%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.66%) Network Security
2 3 (1.89%) Firewall
3 2 (1.26%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.63%) DNS
4 1 (0.63%) Intranet
4 1 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.63%) SSL
4 1 (0.63%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (1.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.63%) Git
General
1 24 (15.09%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.06%) Finance
3 14 (8.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (8.18%) Retail
5 7 (4.40%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.14%) Automotive
6 5 (3.14%) Legal
6 5 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.52%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.52%) Law
8 3 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.89%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.26%) Marketing
10 1 (0.63%) Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.63%) Games
10 1 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.26%) LDAP
1 2 (1.26%) SAML
2 1 (0.63%) CSS
2 1 (0.63%) HTML
2 1 (0.63%) RESTful
2 1 (0.63%) Web Services
2 1 (0.63%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 33 (20.75%) Cyberattack
2 13 (8.18%) Management Information System
3 11 (6.92%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (6.92%) Security Posture
4 10 (6.29%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.77%) Freedom of Information
6 6 (3.77%) Virtual Team
7 5 (3.14%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.89%) Cyber Security Posture
8 3 (1.89%) NHS
8 3 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.26%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.26%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.26%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.63%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.63%) PKI
10 1 (0.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.77%) Windows
2 2 (1.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 58 (36.48%) Risk Management
3 47 (29.56%) Information Security
4 45 (28.30%) Security Management
5 40 (25.16%) Stakeholder Management
6 35 (22.01%) Information Assurance
7 33 (20.75%) Vulnerability Management
8 21 (13.21%) Security Operations
9 16 (10.06%) Penetration Testing
10 15 (9.43%) ITIL
10 15 (9.43%) SIEM
11 14 (8.81%) Collaborative Working
11 14 (8.81%) Data Protection
11 14 (8.81%) Incident Response
11 14 (8.81%) Mentoring
11 14 (8.81%) Service Delivery
12 13 (8.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 10 (6.29%) Business Development
13 10 (6.29%) Computer Science
14 9 (5.66%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.89%) Python
2 2 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 39 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 34 (21.38%) SC Cleared
3 30 (18.87%) CISSP
4 18 (11.32%) CISM
5 14 (8.81%) DBS Check
6 13 (8.18%) Degree
7 11 (6.92%) CEH
7 11 (6.92%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (6.29%) CCNA
9 9 (5.66%) GIAC
10 6 (3.77%) CRISC
10 6 (3.77%) GPEN
10 6 (3.77%) PMI Certification
10 6 (3.77%) PMP
10 6 (3.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (1.26%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.26%) CASP
11 2 (1.26%) CISA
11 2 (1.26%) GSEC
12 1 (0.63%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (37.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (22.01%) NCSC
3 23 (14.47%) Cyber Essentials
4 21 (13.21%) NIST
5 17 (10.69%) GDPR
6 14 (8.81%) GRC
7 9 (5.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (3.77%) NIST 800
8 6 (3.77%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (1.26%) COBIT
11 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.40%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (6.29%) SCCM
2 6 (3.77%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 6 (3.77%) Nessus
3 3 (1.89%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.26%) Ansible
4 2 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.63%) QRadar
5 1 (0.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.29%) ServiceNow
3 6 (3.77%) Qualys
4 2 (1.26%) Darktrace
5 1 (0.63%) Alibaba
5 1 (0.63%) Google
5 1 (0.63%) SonicWALL
5 1 (0.63%) Splunk
5 1 (0.63%) Tripwire
5 1 (0.63%) VMware