Cybersecurity
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 37 46 78
Rank change year-on-year +9 +32 -8
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,433 5,980 7,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.44% 6.03% 4.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.38% 6.31% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,933 3,168 3,662
10th Percentile £35,631 £37,500 £37,029
25th Percentile £44,500 £49,250 £47,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £59,526 £58,503
% change year-on-year -11.80% +1.75% +7.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the UK 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
England +18 4,876 £57,500 -11.54% 1,094
UK excluding London +7 3,811 £52,500 -11.80% 814
Work from Home +10 1,878 £57,500 -11.54% 501
London +25 1,425 £72,500 +3.57% 381
South East +24 973 £50,500 -8.18% 217
North of England +11 909 £52,084 -13.19% 208
Midlands +18 694 £55,000 -8.33% 119
South West +11 622 £60,000 -4.00% 123
North West -1 567 £52,084 -15.99% 109
West Midlands +10 504 £55,000 -12.00% 75
Scotland -55 317 £53,750 -9.70% 47
Yorkshire +15 251 £50,000 -16.67% 87
East of England +22 212 £54,000 +2.86% 70
East Midlands +29 186 £42,500 -10.53% 44
North East +49 91 £42,500 -3.41% 12
Wales -39 52 £52,500 -25.00% 30
Northern Ireland -19 24 £42,500 -20.93% 19
Isle of Man -15 8 £37,500 -16.67% 1
Channel Islands -4 1 £100,000 -13.04% 1

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 249 (4.58%) SharePoint
2 221 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 41 (0.75%) IIS
4 25 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 19 (0.35%) Apache
6 16 (0.29%) Confluence
7 14 (0.26%) FileNet
8 10 (0.18%) CMS
9 6 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.092%) Site Server
11 4 (0.074%) CloudStack
11 4 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2010
11 4 (0.074%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.055%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.055%) Luigi
12 3 (0.055%) nginx
13 2 (0.037%) MS Project Server
13 2 (0.037%) SharePoint 2013
13 2 (0.037%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.037%) WebSphere
Applications
1 234 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 95 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.17%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.17%) Revit
6 9 (0.17%) Simulink
7 6 (0.11%) Trello
8 5 (0.092%) CANalyzer
9 4 (0.074%) Stateflow
9 4 (0.074%) Windchill
10 2 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 17 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.092%) Dynamics GP
3 5 (0.092%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.074%) SAP WM
5 3 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.055%) Primavera
6 2 (0.037%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.037%) SAP FI-GL
6 2 (0.037%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.018%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,383 (25.46%) Azure
2 840 (15.46%) Microsoft 365
3 567 (10.44%) AWS
4 436 (8.03%) Entra ID
5 271 (4.99%) SaaS
6 192 (3.53%) GCP
7 133 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
8 129 (2.37%) PaaS
9 114 (2.10%) IaaS
10 104 (1.91%) Power Platform
11 82 (1.51%) Azure Sentinel
12 68 (1.25%) Amazon S3
13 56 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
14 52 (0.96%) OneDrive
15 51 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
16 39 (0.72%) Serverless
17 38 (0.70%) PowerApps
18 37 (0.68%) GitHub
19 36 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
20 35 (0.64%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 828 (15.24%) Firewall
2 367 (6.76%) Network Security
3 265 (4.88%) WAN
4 245 (4.51%) 5G
5 243 (4.47%) DNS
6 235 (4.33%) Broadband
7 211 (3.88%) TCP/IP
8 194 (3.57%) LAN
9 173 (3.18%) Wi-Fi
10 162 (2.98%) DHCP
11 138 (2.54%) VPN
12 134 (2.47%) Intrusion Detection
13 110 (2.02%) SD-WAN
14 94 (1.73%) Wireless
15 93 (1.71%) Internet
16 80 (1.47%) SAN
17 62 (1.14%) MPLS
18 59 (1.09%) VLAN
19 55 (1.01%) Unified Communications
20 50 (0.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (2.08%) SQL Server
2 88 (1.62%) Power BI
3 61 (1.12%) NoSQL
4 58 (1.07%) MySQL
5 56 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
6 55 (1.01%) Big Data
7 44 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
8 36 (0.66%) Hadoop
9 31 (0.57%) Redis
10 29 (0.53%) MongoDB
11 27 (0.50%) Data Lake
12 26 (0.48%) Oracle Database
13 24 (0.44%) Relational Database
14 23 (0.42%) Scylla
15 17 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
16 16 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
17 14 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
18 11 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
19 10 (0.18%) Tableau
20 6 (0.11%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 87 (1.60%) Jenkins
2 74 (1.36%) JIRA
3 56 (1.03%) Git
4 37 (0.68%) Burp Suite
4 37 (0.68%) Metasploit
5 24 (0.44%) GitLab
6 23 (0.42%) JUnit
7 19 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
7 19 (0.35%) SonarQube
8 17 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
9 14 (0.26%) Visual Studio
10 11 (0.20%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.17%) Subversion
12 8 (0.15%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.15%) IntelliJ
13 7 (0.13%) Gradle
13 7 (0.13%) Mockito
14 5 (0.092%) CANoe
14 5 (0.092%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.092%) Selenium
General
1 1,338 (24.63%) Social Skills
2 946 (17.41%) Finance
3 719 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
4 683 (12.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 365 (6.72%) Law
6 277 (5.10%) Legal
7 241 (4.44%) Public Sector
8 178 (3.28%) Telecoms
9 154 (2.83%) Banking
9 154 (2.83%) Retail
10 151 (2.78%) Marketing
11 138 (2.54%) Manufacturing
12 131 (2.41%) Games
13 117 (2.15%) Military
14 112 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
15 111 (2.04%) Aerospace
16 92 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
17 74 (1.36%) Automotive
18 64 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
19 59 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 881 (16.22%) Senior
2 693 (12.76%) Analyst
3 443 (8.15%) Architect
4 429 (7.90%) Lead
5 370 (6.81%) Consultant
6 356 (6.55%) Security Analyst
7 319 (5.87%) Security Engineer
8 283 (5.21%) Security Manager
9 274 (5.04%) Software Engineer
10 268 (4.93%) Security Consultant
11 234 (4.31%) IT Manager
12 230 (4.23%) Security Architect
13 214 (3.94%) Technical Specialist
14 213 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 212 (3.90%) Linux Specialist
16 196 (3.61%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 192 (3.53%) IT Engineer
18 176 (3.24%) IT Support
19 158 (2.91%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 158 (2.91%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (1.62%) HTML
2 82 (1.51%) .NET
3 74 (1.36%) CSS
3 74 (1.36%) REST
4 66 (1.21%) Kafka
5 64 (1.18%) Web Services
6 57 (1.05%) AngularJS
7 55 (1.01%) JSON
7 55 (1.01%) React
8 52 (0.96%) Node.js
9 51 (0.94%) OpenID
9 51 (0.94%) Spring
10 48 (0.88%) OAuth
11 43 (0.79%) jQuery
12 40 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
13 37 (0.68%) GraphQL
14 36 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
15 31 (0.57%) Middleware
16 27 (0.50%) RESTful
16 27 (0.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 589 (10.84%) Management Information System
2 341 (6.28%) Data Centre
3 281 (5.17%) Cyber Threat
4 255 (4.69%) Social Media
5 223 (4.10%) Security Posture
6 220 (4.05%) Operational Technology
7 198 (3.64%) Algorithms
8 188 (3.46%) Security Operations Centre
9 185 (3.41%) Cyberattack
10 184 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
11 148 (2.72%) Public Cloud
12 134 (2.47%) IoT
13 127 (2.34%) Driving Licence
14 121 (2.23%) Onboarding
15 97 (1.79%) Cloud Native
16 95 (1.75%) PKI
17 85 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
18 77 (1.42%) Product Ownership
19 64 (1.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
19 64 (1.18%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 995 (18.31%) Windows
2 651 (11.98%) Linux
3 426 (7.84%) Windows Server
4 242 (4.45%) Ubuntu
5 145 (2.67%) Windows 10
6 100 (1.84%) Apple iOS
7 95 (1.75%) Unix
8 80 (1.47%) Android
9 73 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
10 63 (1.16%) Mac OS
10 63 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 53 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
12 48 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
13 43 (0.79%) Kali Linux
14 25 (0.46%) Windows 7
15 21 (0.39%) Mac OS X
15 21 (0.39%) VMS
16 18 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
17 10 (0.18%) Debian
18 9 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,061 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
2 940 (17.30%) Information Security
3 668 (12.30%) Incident Response
4 617 (11.36%) SIEM
5 552 (10.16%) Mentoring
6 549 (10.10%) Risk Management
7 525 (9.66%) Agile
8 522 (9.61%) Security Operations
9 509 (9.37%) Computer Science
10 460 (8.47%) ITIL
11 452 (8.32%) Artificial Intelligence
12 403 (7.42%) Software Engineering
13 389 (7.16%) IT Strategy
14 370 (6.81%) Coaching
14 370 (6.81%) Penetration Testing
15 367 (6.76%) Vulnerability Management
16 364 (6.70%) Project Management
17 360 (6.63%) Decision-Making
18 350 (6.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 341 (6.28%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 461 (8.49%) Python
2 418 (7.69%) Bash
3 311 (5.72%) SQL
4 282 (5.19%) PowerShell
5 233 (4.29%) Java
6 146 (2.69%) JavaScript
7 134 (2.47%) C
8 82 (1.51%) C#
9 65 (1.20%) Rust
10 52 (0.96%) C++
11 51 (0.94%) Embedded C
12 46 (0.85%) Go
13 35 (0.64%) TypeScript
14 28 (0.52%) Scala
15 27 (0.50%) PHP
16 22 (0.40%) Perl
17 19 (0.35%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.26%) R
19 12 (0.22%) MATLAB
19 12 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,166 (21.46%) Degree
2 853 (15.70%) Security Cleared
3 671 (12.35%) CISSP
4 431 (7.93%) SC Cleared
5 410 (7.55%) CISM
6 247 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
7 217 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 188 (3.46%) DV Cleared
9 168 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 157 (2.89%) CCNA
11 154 (2.83%) CRISC
12 147 (2.71%) CISA
13 124 (2.28%) Master's Degree
14 120 (2.21%) CEH
14 120 (2.21%) GIAC
15 115 (2.12%) Azure Certification
15 115 (2.12%) CompTIA Security+
16 109 (2.01%) CCNP
17 100 (1.84%) CREST Certified
18 87 (1.60%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 729 (13.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 601 (11.06%) NIST
3 338 (6.22%) GDPR
4 307 (5.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 206 (3.79%) GRC
6 205 (3.77%) NCSC
7 161 (2.96%) PCI DSS
8 106 (1.95%) SLA
9 103 (1.90%) QA
10 84 (1.55%) Def Stans
11 80 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 78 (1.44%) NIST 800
13 67 (1.23%) COBIT
14 62 (1.14%) ISO 9001
15 60 (1.10%) Data Quality
16 50 (0.92%) SOC 2
17 49 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 45 (0.83%) JSP 440
19 39 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
20 31 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 857 (15.77%) Active Directory
2 265 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 148 (2.72%) Hyper-V
4 134 (2.47%) Docker
5 50 (0.92%) vSphere
6 36 (0.66%) Firmware
7 35 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
8 33 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
9 32 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
10 27 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
11 11 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 11 (0.20%) RACF
11 11 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
12 9 (0.17%) Forefront TMG
13 7 (0.13%) Terminal Services
14 6 (0.11%) XenApp
15 5 (0.092%) VMware NSX
16 4 (0.074%) pfSense
16 4 (0.074%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 4 (0.074%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 418 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 214 (3.94%) Jamf Pro
3 154 (2.83%) Kubernetes
4 129 (2.37%) Terraform
5 92 (1.69%) Ansible
6 52 (0.96%) SCCM
7 47 (0.87%) Grafana
7 47 (0.87%) WSUS
8 46 (0.85%) Nessus
9 43 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
10 38 (0.70%) CASB
11 34 (0.63%) FortiGate
12 30 (0.55%) QRadar
13 29 (0.53%) Stealthwatch
14 27 (0.50%) EnCase
14 27 (0.50%) Puppet
15 26 (0.48%) vCenter Server
16 20 (0.37%) Nagios
17 19 (0.35%) SCOM
18 18 (0.33%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1,639 (30.17%) Microsoft
2 363 (6.68%) VMware
3 302 (5.56%) Cisco
4 249 (4.58%) CyberArk
5 238 (4.38%) Tanium
6 182 (3.35%) Apple
7 159 (2.93%) Adobe
8 141 (2.60%) Google
9 137 (2.52%) Splunk
10 129 (2.37%) Dell
11 128 (2.36%) Veeam
12 100 (1.84%) Meraki
13 91 (1.67%) HP
14 85 (1.56%) Oracle
15 60 (1.10%) Qualys
16 59 (1.09%) Juniper
17 58 (1.07%) ServiceNow
18 55 (1.01%) Fortinet
19 54 (0.99%) SAP
20 50 (0.92%) CrowdStrike