Cybersecurity Jobs in England

Cybersecurity
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 47 79
Rank change year-on-year +16 +32 -5
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 4,927 4,920 6,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.42% 5.85% 4.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.48% 6.12% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,628 2,706 3,168
10th Percentile £35,920 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,942 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,066 80,344 135,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.60% 95.49% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 55,107 48,707 73,448
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,294
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
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 within the England region 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
London +19 1,408 £72,500 +3.57% 370
South East +18 978 £50,500 -8.27% 166
North of England +5 954 £52,084 -13.19% 219
Midlands +9 707 £55,000 -8.33% 133
South West +4 623 £60,000 -4.00% 133
North West -7 585 £52,084 -15.99% 146
West Midlands +6 515 £55,087 -11.86% 81
Yorkshire +19 274 £50,000 -16.67% 66
East of England +19 210 £50,000 -4.76% 58
East Midlands +20 189 £42,500 -10.53% 51
North East +46 95 £42,500 -3.95% 7
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
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:

Application Platforms
1 222 (4.51%) SharePoint
2 204 (4.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (0.67%) IIS
4 19 (0.39%) Apache
5 15 (0.30%) Confluence
6 10 (0.20%) CMS
7 5 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.10%) Luigi
7 5 (0.10%) Site Server
8 4 (0.081%) CloudStack
8 4 (0.081%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (0.081%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.081%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.061%) WordPress
10 2 (0.041%) nginx
10 2 (0.041%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.020%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.020%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.020%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 197 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 87 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.16%) Simulink
7 7 (0.14%) AutoCAD
7 7 (0.14%) Revit
8 4 (0.081%) CANalyzer
8 4 (0.081%) Stateflow
8 4 (0.081%) Windchill
9 3 (0.061%) Trello
10 2 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 16 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
2 5 (0.10%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.081%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.061%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.061%) Primavera
5 2 (0.041%) Infor LN
6 1 (0.020%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.020%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1,238 (25.13%) Azure
2 762 (15.47%) Microsoft 365
3 440 (8.93%) Entra ID
4 415 (8.42%) AWS
5 161 (3.27%) SaaS
6 134 (2.72%) GCP
7 116 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
8 98 (1.99%) Power Platform
9 83 (1.68%) PaaS
10 78 (1.58%) IaaS
11 71 (1.44%) Azure Sentinel
12 53 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
13 49 (0.99%) OneDrive
14 45 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
15 37 (0.75%) Serverless
16 34 (0.69%) PowerApps
17 33 (0.67%) Power Automate
18 31 (0.63%) GitHub
19 28 (0.57%) Amazon S3
19 28 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 772 (15.67%) Firewall
2 351 (7.12%) Network Security
3 255 (5.18%) WAN
4 244 (4.95%) 5G
5 235 (4.77%) Broadband
6 227 (4.61%) DNS
7 186 (3.78%) TCP/IP
8 171 (3.47%) Wi-Fi
9 170 (3.45%) LAN
10 151 (3.06%) DHCP
11 126 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
12 123 (2.50%) VPN
13 101 (2.05%) SD-WAN
14 85 (1.73%) Internet
15 81 (1.64%) Wireless
16 76 (1.54%) SAN
17 65 (1.32%) MPLS
18 58 (1.18%) VLAN
19 53 (1.08%) Unified Communications
20 49 (0.99%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 86 (1.75%) Power BI
3 48 (0.97%) MySQL
4 34 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (0.61%) Big Data
6 28 (0.57%) NoSQL
6 28 (0.57%) Relational Database
7 27 (0.55%) MongoDB
8 21 (0.43%) Oracle Database
9 19 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (0.30%) Data Lake
12 14 (0.28%) Hadoop
13 11 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (0.16%) Redis
15 6 (0.12%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.12%) SAP HANA
16 5 (0.10%) Bigtable
16 5 (0.10%) RethinkDB
Development Applications
1 71 (1.44%) Jenkins
2 70 (1.42%) JIRA
3 48 (0.97%) Git
4 35 (0.71%) Burp Suite
4 35 (0.71%) Metasploit
5 23 (0.47%) GitLab
6 21 (0.43%) SonarQube
7 19 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
8 17 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
9 13 (0.26%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.18%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.16%) JUnit
11 8 (0.16%) Selenium
11 8 (0.16%) Subversion
12 7 (0.14%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.14%) IntelliJ
13 6 (0.12%) Mockito
14 5 (0.10%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.10%) Gradle
14 5 (0.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,092 (22.16%) Social Skills
2 802 (16.28%) Finance
3 684 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
4 531 (10.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 273 (5.54%) Legal
6 257 (5.22%) Law
7 208 (4.22%) Public Sector
8 167 (3.39%) Telecoms
9 153 (3.11%) Banking
10 133 (2.70%) Retail
11 121 (2.46%) Manufacturing
12 113 (2.29%) Marketing
13 102 (2.07%) Aerospace
14 101 (2.05%) Games
15 100 (2.03%) Military
16 97 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
17 74 (1.50%) Automotive
18 68 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
19 63 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
20 43 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 850 (17.25%) Senior
2 656 (13.31%) Analyst
3 398 (8.08%) Lead
4 365 (7.41%) Architect
5 351 (7.12%) Consultant
6 328 (6.66%) Security Analyst
7 295 (5.99%) Security Engineer
8 261 (5.30%) Security Manager
9 260 (5.28%) Security Consultant
10 214 (4.34%) Technical Specialist
11 212 (4.30%) IT Manager
12 211 (4.28%) Linux Specialist
13 209 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 194 (3.94%) Security Architect
15 175 (3.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 175 (3.55%) IT Engineer
16 169 (3.43%) Senior Analyst
17 168 (3.41%) IT Support
18 158 (3.21%) Developer
19 155 (3.15%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (1.64%) .NET
2 69 (1.40%) HTML
3 56 (1.14%) CSS
4 55 (1.12%) REST
5 41 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
6 39 (0.79%) Web Services
7 38 (0.77%) OpenID
8 37 (0.75%) JSON
9 35 (0.71%) OAuth
10 33 (0.67%) Node.js
11 30 (0.61%) jQuery
12 24 (0.49%) 802.1X
13 23 (0.47%) React
14 21 (0.43%) AngularJS
14 21 (0.43%) ARM Templates
14 21 (0.43%) Spring Boot
15 20 (0.41%) Middleware
16 18 (0.37%) Kafka
16 18 (0.37%) Laravel
16 18 (0.37%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 547 (11.10%) Management Information System
2 314 (6.37%) Data Centre
3 245 (4.97%) Cyber Threat
4 244 (4.95%) Social Media
5 199 (4.04%) Security Posture
6 185 (3.75%) Operational Technology
7 184 (3.73%) Security Operations Centre
8 170 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
9 155 (3.15%) Cyberattack
10 148 (3.00%) Algorithms
11 117 (2.37%) IoT
12 102 (2.07%) Driving Licence
13 93 (1.89%) Onboarding
14 89 (1.81%) PKI
15 82 (1.66%) Cyber Defence
16 80 (1.62%) Public Cloud
17 70 (1.42%) Cyber Kill Chain
18 64 (1.30%) Private Cloud
18 64 (1.30%) Product Ownership
19 58 (1.18%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 895 (18.17%) Windows
2 598 (12.14%) Linux
3 396 (8.04%) Windows Server
4 238 (4.83%) Ubuntu
5 137 (2.78%) Windows 10
6 82 (1.66%) Apple iOS
7 68 (1.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 66 (1.34%) Android
8 66 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 61 (1.24%) Unix
10 54 (1.10%) Embedded Linux
11 45 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
12 40 (0.81%) Kali Linux
13 39 (0.79%) Mac OS
14 25 (0.51%) Windows 7
15 19 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
16 17 (0.35%) VMS
17 9 (0.18%) Solaris
18 7 (0.14%) CentOS
18 7 (0.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 966 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
2 890 (18.06%) Information Security
3 598 (12.14%) Incident Response
4 582 (11.81%) SIEM
5 524 (10.64%) Mentoring
5 524 (10.64%) Risk Management
6 496 (10.07%) Security Operations
7 469 (9.52%) Computer Science
8 440 (8.93%) Agile
9 415 (8.42%) ITIL
10 369 (7.49%) Coaching
11 349 (7.08%) IT Strategy
12 347 (7.04%) Artificial Intelligence
13 344 (6.98%) Decision-Making
14 336 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 333 (6.76%) Penetration Testing
16 326 (6.62%) Project Management
17 313 (6.35%) Vulnerability Management
18 296 (6.01%) Technology Strategy
19 288 (5.85%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 418 (8.48%) Python
2 392 (7.96%) Bash
3 315 (6.39%) SQL
4 305 (6.19%) PowerShell
5 129 (2.62%) C
6 117 (2.37%) JavaScript
7 112 (2.27%) Java
8 70 (1.42%) C#
9 64 (1.30%) Rust
10 51 (1.04%) Embedded C
11 49 (0.99%) C++
12 31 (0.63%) PHP
13 24 (0.49%) Perl
14 21 (0.43%) TypeScript
15 17 (0.35%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.32%) Go
17 14 (0.28%) R
18 10 (0.20%) RPG
19 9 (0.18%) MATLAB
19 9 (0.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,064 (21.60%) Degree
2 781 (15.85%) Security Cleared
3 602 (12.22%) CISSP
4 377 (7.65%) SC Cleared
5 352 (7.14%) CISM
6 219 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
7 204 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 190 (3.86%) DV Cleared
9 164 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 148 (3.00%) CISA
10 148 (3.00%) CRISC
11 144 (2.92%) CCNA
12 113 (2.29%) CEH
13 110 (2.23%) GIAC
14 108 (2.19%) CCNP
15 102 (2.07%) Master's Degree
16 98 (1.99%) Azure Certification
17 97 (1.97%) CompTIA Security+
18 89 (1.81%) CREST Certified
19 71 (1.44%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 676 (13.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 554 (11.24%) NIST
3 315 (6.39%) GDPR
4 279 (5.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 198 (4.02%) GRC
6 193 (3.92%) NCSC
7 149 (3.02%) PCI DSS
8 103 (2.09%) SLA
9 84 (1.70%) Def Stans
10 78 (1.58%) NIST 800
11 77 (1.56%) QA
12 67 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 61 (1.24%) Data Quality
14 57 (1.16%) COBIT
15 48 (0.97%) ISO 9001
16 46 (0.93%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 44 (0.89%) JSP 440
18 42 (0.85%) SOC 2
19 38 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
20 27 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 819 (16.62%) Active Directory
2 245 (4.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 143 (2.90%) Hyper-V
4 121 (2.46%) Docker
5 55 (1.12%) vSphere
6 45 (0.91%) RACF
7 37 (0.75%) Firmware
8 31 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
9 29 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
10 27 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
11 17 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
12 11 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
13 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 9 (0.18%) Forefront TMG
15 7 (0.14%) Terminal Services
15 7 (0.14%) XenApp
16 5 (0.10%) VMware NSX
17 4 (0.081%) NFS
17 4 (0.081%) pfSense
17 4 (0.081%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 389 (7.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 213 (4.32%) Jamf Pro
3 93 (1.89%) Ansible
4 91 (1.85%) Kubernetes
5 73 (1.48%) Terraform
6 44 (0.89%) WSUS
7 42 (0.85%) SCCM
8 39 (0.79%) CASB
9 36 (0.73%) Nessus
10 35 (0.71%) FortiGate
11 32 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
12 30 (0.61%) QRadar
12 30 (0.61%) Stealthwatch
13 26 (0.53%) Puppet
14 25 (0.51%) vCenter Server
15 23 (0.47%) EnCase
16 19 (0.39%) SCOM
17 18 (0.37%) Nagios
18 17 (0.35%) Nmap
19 15 (0.30%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1,543 (31.32%) Microsoft
2 349 (7.08%) VMware
3 282 (5.72%) Cisco
3 282 (5.72%) CyberArk
4 239 (4.85%) Tanium
5 171 (3.47%) Apple
6 151 (3.06%) Adobe
7 123 (2.50%) Veeam
8 107 (2.17%) Splunk
9 96 (1.95%) Meraki
10 95 (1.93%) Google
11 87 (1.77%) HP
12 71 (1.44%) Dell
13 58 (1.18%) Juniper
14 55 (1.12%) Qualys
15 52 (1.06%) ServiceNow
16 50 (1.01%) Fortinet
17 44 (0.89%) Citrix
17 44 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
18 43 (0.87%) SolarWinds