Cybersecurity Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 38 45 52
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 +13
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 3,811 3,732 3,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.32% 6.33% 5.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.37% 6.62% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,730 1,736 1,854
10th Percentile £34,823 £32,947 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,526 £58,503
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% +1.75% +7.04%
75th Percentile £67,913 £70,000 £75,167
90th Percentile £80,800 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,837 56,365 67,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.55% 95.59% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 41,306 29,082 41,028
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the UK excluding London 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
South East +24 973 £50,500 -8.18% 213
North of England +11 909 £52,084 -13.19% 213
Midlands +18 694 £55,000 -8.33% 123
South West +11 622 £60,000 -4.00% 124
North West -1 567 £52,084 -15.99% 116
West Midlands +10 504 £55,000 -12.00% 79
Scotland -55 317 £53,750 -9.70% 48
Yorkshire +15 251 £50,000 -16.67% 86
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% 11
Wales -39 52 £52,500 -25.00% 29
Northern Ireland -19 24 £42,500 -20.93% 20
Isle of Man -15 8 £37,500 -16.67% 1
Channel Islands -4 1 £100,000 -13.04% 1
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 175 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 174 (4.57%) SharePoint
3 32 (0.84%) IIS
4 23 (0.60%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.37%) FileNet
6 12 (0.31%) Confluence
7 9 (0.24%) Apache
8 8 (0.21%) CMS
9 5 (0.13%) Site Server
10 4 (0.10%) CloudStack
10 4 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2010
10 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.079%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.079%) Luigi
12 2 (0.052%) MS Project Server
12 2 (0.052%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.052%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.026%) nginx
13 1 (0.026%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 173 (4.54%) Microsoft Office
2 66 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.24%) Simulink
6 5 (0.13%) CANalyzer
7 4 (0.10%) Stateflow
7 4 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
2 5 (0.13%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.10%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.079%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.052%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.052%) Primavera
5 2 (0.052%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 844 (22.15%) Azure
2 604 (15.85%) Microsoft 365
3 376 (9.87%) AWS
4 232 (6.09%) Entra ID
5 193 (5.06%) SaaS
6 104 (2.73%) GCP
7 95 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
8 73 (1.92%) PaaS
9 64 (1.68%) IaaS
9 64 (1.68%) Power Platform
10 56 (1.47%) Amazon S3
11 50 (1.31%) Azure Sentinel
11 50 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
12 47 (1.23%) OneDrive
13 34 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
13 34 (0.89%) PowerApps
14 32 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 32 (0.84%) Datadog
15 29 (0.76%) Power Automate
16 27 (0.71%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 533 (13.99%) Firewall
2 224 (5.88%) Network Security
3 195 (5.12%) WAN
4 149 (3.91%) DNS
5 141 (3.70%) TCP/IP
6 120 (3.15%) DHCP
6 120 (3.15%) Wi-Fi
7 118 (3.10%) LAN
8 97 (2.55%) VPN
9 90 (2.36%) 5G
10 88 (2.31%) Intrusion Detection
11 81 (2.13%) SD-WAN
12 77 (2.02%) Broadband
13 59 (1.55%) SAN
14 53 (1.39%) Internet
15 46 (1.21%) VLAN
15 46 (1.21%) Wireless
16 45 (1.18%) MPLS
17 39 (1.02%) VoIP
18 33 (0.87%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (1.97%) SQL Server
2 58 (1.52%) NoSQL
3 52 (1.36%) Power BI
4 46 (1.21%) Big Data
5 45 (1.18%) MySQL
6 43 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
7 35 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 29 (0.76%) Hadoop
9 28 (0.73%) Redis
10 23 (0.60%) Data Lake
10 23 (0.60%) Scylla
11 17 (0.45%) Relational Database
12 16 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
13 14 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (0.37%) MongoDB
14 11 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (0.26%) Tableau
16 7 (0.18%) Oracle Database
17 5 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
17 5 (0.13%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 47 (1.23%) JIRA
2 43 (1.13%) Git
3 32 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 23 (0.60%) JUnit
5 21 (0.55%) GitLab
6 19 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
7 16 (0.42%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.34%) Visual Studio
9 10 (0.26%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.24%) Burp Suite
11 7 (0.18%) Gradle
11 7 (0.18%) IntelliJ
11 7 (0.18%) Mockito
12 6 (0.16%) Metasploit
12 6 (0.16%) Subversion
13 5 (0.13%) CANoe
13 5 (0.13%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.10%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.10%) IBM UrbanCode
14 4 (0.10%) Selenium
General
1 908 (23.83%) Social Skills
2 572 (15.01%) Finance
3 458 (12.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 379 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
5 251 (6.59%) Law
6 146 (3.83%) Public Sector
7 134 (3.52%) Legal
8 128 (3.36%) Telecoms
9 118 (3.10%) Manufacturing
10 101 (2.65%) Military
11 99 (2.60%) Retail
12 97 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
13 91 (2.39%) Aerospace
14 83 (2.18%) Games
15 81 (2.13%) Banking
16 80 (2.10%) Marketing
17 62 (1.63%) Automotive
18 37 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
19 36 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
20 29 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 506 (13.28%) Senior
2 451 (11.83%) Analyst
3 330 (8.66%) Lead
4 269 (7.06%) Architect
5 262 (6.87%) Consultant
6 244 (6.40%) Software Engineer
7 214 (5.62%) Security Analyst
8 202 (5.30%) Security Manager
9 199 (5.22%) Security Consultant
10 194 (5.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 185 (4.85%) IT Manager
12 167 (4.38%) Security Engineer
13 153 (4.01%) IT Support
14 149 (3.91%) IT Engineer
15 135 (3.54%) Security Architect
16 132 (3.46%) Data Scientist
17 129 (3.38%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 120 (3.15%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 115 (3.02%) Cybersecurity Consultant
20 113 (2.97%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (1.39%) Kafka
2 51 (1.34%) HTML
3 50 (1.31%) .NET
3 50 (1.31%) Web Services
4 48 (1.26%) Node.js
5 46 (1.21%) AngularJS
6 45 (1.18%) CSS
7 44 (1.15%) React
7 44 (1.15%) Spring
8 42 (1.10%) REST
9 37 (0.97%) GraphQL
9 37 (0.97%) OpenID
10 31 (0.81%) OpenTelemetry
11 28 (0.73%) OAuth
12 23 (0.60%) jQuery
12 23 (0.60%) JSON
13 21 (0.55%) 802.1X
13 21 (0.55%) Middleware
13 21 (0.55%) RESTful
14 18 (0.47%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 406 (10.65%) Management Information System
2 262 (6.87%) Data Centre
3 194 (5.09%) Algorithms
4 183 (4.80%) Cyber Threat
5 166 (4.36%) Operational Technology
6 149 (3.91%) Security Operations Centre
7 146 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
8 123 (3.23%) Public Cloud
8 123 (3.23%) Security Posture
9 122 (3.20%) Driving Licence
10 101 (2.65%) Cyberattack
10 101 (2.65%) Social Media
11 90 (2.36%) IoT
12 78 (2.05%) Cloud Native
13 75 (1.97%) Onboarding
14 59 (1.55%) Product Ownership
15 54 (1.42%) Private Cloud
16 51 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
17 40 (1.05%) Cyber Security Posture
18 37 (0.97%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 731 (19.18%) Windows
2 363 (9.53%) Linux
3 322 (8.45%) Windows Server
4 114 (2.99%) Windows 10
5 87 (2.28%) Ubuntu
6 78 (2.05%) Unix
7 65 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 57 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 53 (1.39%) Embedded Linux
10 44 (1.15%) Apple iOS
10 44 (1.15%) Mac OS
11 41 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
12 30 (0.79%) Android
13 25 (0.66%) Windows 7
14 19 (0.50%) VMS
15 17 (0.45%) Mac OS X
16 15 (0.39%) Kali Linux
17 7 (0.18%) Solaris
18 6 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 6 (0.16%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 807 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
2 535 (14.04%) Information Security
3 433 (11.36%) Incident Response
4 422 (11.07%) Mentoring
5 400 (10.50%) Risk Management
6 395 (10.36%) Agile
7 356 (9.34%) Computer Science
8 339 (8.90%) SIEM
9 337 (8.84%) Software Engineering
10 329 (8.63%) Security Operations
11 312 (8.19%) Coaching
12 311 (8.16%) ITIL
13 301 (7.90%) Decision-Making
14 294 (7.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 270 (7.08%) Project Management
16 262 (6.87%) Artificial Intelligence
17 250 (6.56%) Vulnerability Management
18 241 (6.32%) Analytics
19 233 (6.11%) Continuous Improvement
20 229 (6.01%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 301 (7.90%) Python
2 224 (5.88%) Bash
3 208 (5.46%) SQL
4 177 (4.64%) Java
5 166 (4.36%) PowerShell
6 104 (2.73%) C
7 91 (2.39%) JavaScript
8 61 (1.60%) Rust
9 51 (1.34%) Embedded C
10 49 (1.29%) C#
11 32 (0.84%) C++
12 30 (0.79%) Go
13 28 (0.73%) Scala
14 22 (0.58%) PHP
14 22 (0.58%) TypeScript
15 12 (0.31%) MATLAB
15 12 (0.31%) Perl
15 12 (0.31%) R
16 8 (0.21%) Ruby
17 5 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 850 (22.30%) Degree
2 664 (17.42%) Security Cleared
3 357 (9.37%) CISSP
4 306 (8.03%) SC Cleared
5 232 (6.09%) CISM
6 159 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
7 130 (3.41%) CCNA
8 120 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 113 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 111 (2.91%) DV Cleared
11 94 (2.47%) CRISC
12 89 (2.34%) CISA
13 86 (2.26%) CCNP
14 81 (2.13%) CompTIA Security+
15 76 (1.99%) Azure Certification
16 65 (1.71%) Master's Degree
17 57 (1.50%) CEH
18 55 (1.44%) CESG Certified Professional
19 49 (1.29%) GIAC
20 44 (1.15%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 464 (12.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 407 (10.68%) NIST
3 245 (6.43%) GDPR
4 233 (6.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 145 (3.80%) GRC
6 139 (3.65%) NCSC
7 99 (2.60%) PCI DSS
8 88 (2.31%) SLA
9 84 (2.20%) Def Stans
10 65 (1.71%) NIST 800
11 60 (1.57%) QA
12 56 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 50 (1.31%) ISO 9001
14 45 (1.18%) Data Quality
15 40 (1.05%) JSP 440
16 31 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 27 (0.71%) COBIT
17 27 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 25 (0.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
19 24 (0.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 536 (14.06%) Active Directory
2 180 (4.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 127 (3.33%) Hyper-V
4 78 (2.05%) Docker
5 31 (0.81%) vSphere
6 27 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (0.68%) Firmware
8 20 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
9 18 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
10 10 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 10 (0.26%) RACF
10 10 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
12 4 (0.10%) NFS
12 4 (0.10%) pfSense
12 4 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 4 (0.10%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.10%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.10%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.10%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 234 (6.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 112 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 97 (2.55%) Terraform
4 68 (1.78%) Jamf Pro
5 39 (1.02%) SCCM
6 38 (1.00%) WSUS
7 36 (0.94%) Ansible
8 35 (0.92%) Grafana
9 28 (0.73%) CASB
10 27 (0.71%) EnCase
10 27 (0.71%) FortiGate
10 27 (0.71%) Nessus
11 24 (0.63%) Stealthwatch
12 18 (0.47%) Puppet
12 18 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
13 17 (0.45%) vCenter Server
14 11 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 11 (0.29%) Nmap
15 10 (0.26%) Functional Safety
16 9 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1,058 (27.76%) Microsoft
2 263 (6.90%) VMware
3 225 (5.90%) Cisco
4 156 (4.09%) Apple
5 135 (3.54%) Adobe
6 94 (2.47%) Dell
7 90 (2.36%) Veeam
8 87 (2.28%) Splunk
9 84 (2.20%) CyberArk
10 81 (2.13%) Meraki
11 80 (2.10%) Tanium
12 75 (1.97%) Google
13 65 (1.71%) HP
14 52 (1.36%) Oracle
15 41 (1.08%) Citrix
16 36 (0.94%) Fortinet
16 36 (0.94%) ServiceNow
17 35 (0.92%) Sage
18 34 (0.89%) SAP
19 33 (0.87%) Juniper