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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 48 77
Rank change year-on-year +11 +29 -8
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,465 6,215 7,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.55% 6.00% 4.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.46% 6.28% 4.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,978 3,303 3,652
10th Percentile £35,631 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +5.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £59,526 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.80% +3.52% +4.55%

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 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £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 4 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 4 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 +21 4,894 £57,500 -11.54% 1,123
UK excluding London +4 3,809 £52,500 -11.80% 772
Work from Home +7 1,894 £57,500 -11.54% 555
London +24 1,449 £72,500 +3.57% 371
South East +23 955 £50,500 -8.18% 183
North of England +10 906 £52,084 -13.19% 193
Midlands +14 690 £55,000 -8.33% 123
South West +12 632 £60,000 - 131
North West 0 563 £52,084 -15.99% 108
West Midlands +11 506 £55,000 -12.00% 76
Scotland -56 322 £55,000 -7.60% 44
Yorkshire +10 251 £50,000 -16.67% 72
East of England +25 220 £54,000 +2.86% 78
East Midlands +30 180 £42,500 -10.53% 47
North East +48 92 £42,500 -10.53% 13
Wales -38 54 £52,504 -24.99% 34
Northern Ireland -14 22 £42,500 -22.73% 7
Isle of Man -14 8 £37,500 -16.67%
Channel Islands -3 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
1 251 (4.59%) SharePoint
2 229 (4.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 41 (0.75%) IIS
4 26 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.33%) Apache
6 15 (0.27%) Confluence
7 14 (0.26%) FileNet
8 10 (0.18%) CMS
9 5 (0.091%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.091%) Site Server
10 4 (0.073%) CloudStack
10 4 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2010
10 4 (0.073%) nginx
10 4 (0.073%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.037%) MS Project Server
11 2 (0.037%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.037%) WordPress
12 1 (0.018%) Gunicorn
12 1 (0.018%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.018%) uWSGI
Applications
1 255 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
2 107 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 67 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.18%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.18%) Revit
7 9 (0.16%) Simulink
8 6 (0.11%) Trello
9 5 (0.091%) CANalyzer
10 4 (0.073%) Stateflow
10 4 (0.073%) Windchill
11 2 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 17 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.091%) Dynamics GP
3 5 (0.091%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.073%) 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
7 1 (0.018%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,392 (25.47%) Azure
2 846 (15.48%) Microsoft 365
3 580 (10.61%) AWS
4 430 (7.87%) Entra ID
5 276 (5.05%) SaaS
6 191 (3.49%) GCP
7 133 (2.43%) PaaS
8 125 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
9 119 (2.18%) IaaS
10 101 (1.85%) Power Platform
11 83 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
12 68 (1.24%) Amazon S3
13 56 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
14 52 (0.95%) OneDrive
15 51 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
16 38 (0.70%) Serverless
17 37 (0.68%) GitHub
18 36 (0.66%) PowerApps
19 35 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
20 34 (0.62%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 850 (15.55%) Firewall
2 365 (6.68%) Network Security
3 261 (4.78%) WAN
4 253 (4.63%) DNS
5 247 (4.52%) 5G
6 235 (4.30%) Broadband
7 224 (4.10%) TCP/IP
8 193 (3.53%) LAN
9 171 (3.13%) DHCP
10 167 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
11 147 (2.69%) VPN
12 138 (2.53%) Intrusion Detection
13 111 (2.03%) SD-WAN
14 96 (1.76%) Wireless
15 95 (1.74%) Internet
16 84 (1.54%) SAN
17 60 (1.10%) VLAN
18 57 (1.04%) MPLS
19 54 (0.99%) Unified Communications
20 52 (0.95%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (1.99%) SQL Server
2 87 (1.59%) Power BI
3 63 (1.15%) NoSQL
4 55 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
4 55 (1.01%) MySQL
5 53 (0.97%) Big Data
6 49 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
7 36 (0.66%) Hadoop
8 31 (0.57%) Data Lake
9 30 (0.55%) MongoDB
10 29 (0.53%) Redis
11 23 (0.42%) Relational Database
11 23 (0.42%) Scylla
12 22 (0.40%) Oracle Database
13 17 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
14 14 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
15 12 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
16 10 (0.18%) Tableau
17 6 (0.11%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 86 (1.57%) Jenkins
2 74 (1.35%) JIRA
3 57 (1.04%) Git
4 38 (0.70%) Burp Suite
4 38 (0.70%) Metasploit
5 26 (0.48%) JUnit
6 25 (0.46%) GitLab
7 19 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
7 19 (0.35%) SonarQube
8 17 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
9 16 (0.29%) Visual Studio
10 13 (0.24%) TeamCity
11 10 (0.18%) Gradle
11 10 (0.18%) IntelliJ
12 9 (0.16%) Mockito
12 9 (0.16%) Subversion
13 8 (0.15%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.091%) CANoe
14 5 (0.091%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.091%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,360 (24.89%) Social Skills
2 940 (17.20%) Finance
3 714 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
4 679 (12.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 374 (6.84%) Law
6 280 (5.12%) Legal
7 255 (4.67%) Public Sector
8 176 (3.22%) Telecoms
9 153 (2.80%) Retail
10 151 (2.76%) Marketing
11 146 (2.67%) Banking
12 138 (2.53%) Games
13 132 (2.42%) Manufacturing
14 118 (2.16%) Aerospace
15 117 (2.14%) Military
16 112 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
17 97 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
18 71 (1.30%) Automotive
19 66 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
20 61 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 876 (16.03%) Senior
2 693 (12.68%) Analyst
3 445 (8.14%) Architect
4 418 (7.65%) Lead
5 378 (6.92%) Consultant
6 361 (6.61%) Security Analyst
7 319 (5.84%) Security Engineer
8 281 (5.14%) Security Manager
8 281 (5.14%) Software Engineer
9 277 (5.07%) Security Consultant
10 238 (4.35%) IT Manager
11 230 (4.21%) Security Architect
12 216 (3.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 215 (3.93%) Technical Specialist
14 212 (3.88%) Linux Specialist
15 195 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 193 (3.53%) IT Engineer
17 170 (3.11%) IT Support
18 162 (2.96%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 160 (2.93%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (1.67%) HTML
2 83 (1.52%) .NET
3 76 (1.39%) CSS
3 76 (1.39%) REST
4 63 (1.15%) Kafka
4 63 (1.15%) Web Services
5 59 (1.08%) JSON
6 57 (1.04%) OpenID
7 56 (1.02%) React
8 55 (1.01%) AngularJS
9 54 (0.99%) Spring
10 50 (0.91%) Node.js
10 50 (0.91%) OAuth
11 43 (0.79%) jQuery
12 38 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
13 37 (0.68%) GraphQL
14 36 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
15 29 (0.53%) Middleware
15 29 (0.53%) SAML
16 28 (0.51%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 577 (10.56%) Management Information System
2 335 (6.13%) Data Centre
3 289 (5.29%) Cyber Threat
4 253 (4.63%) Social Media
5 233 (4.26%) Security Posture
6 222 (4.06%) Operational Technology
7 198 (3.62%) Algorithms
8 185 (3.39%) Cyberattack
8 185 (3.39%) Security Operations Centre
8 185 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
9 145 (2.65%) Public Cloud
10 138 (2.53%) Driving Licence
11 129 (2.36%) IoT
12 126 (2.31%) Onboarding
13 102 (1.87%) Cloud Native
14 101 (1.85%) PKI
15 86 (1.57%) Cyber Defence
16 81 (1.48%) Product Ownership
17 63 (1.15%) Private Cloud
18 58 (1.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 1,012 (18.52%) Windows
2 662 (12.11%) Linux
3 439 (8.03%) Windows Server
4 241 (4.41%) Ubuntu
5 148 (2.71%) Windows 10
6 110 (2.01%) Apple iOS
7 94 (1.72%) Unix
8 87 (1.59%) Android
9 73 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
10 68 (1.24%) Mac OS
11 58 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
12 53 (0.97%) Embedded Linux
13 48 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
14 43 (0.79%) Kali Linux
15 24 (0.44%) Windows 7
16 23 (0.42%) Mac OS X
17 21 (0.38%) VMS
18 18 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
19 11 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
20 10 (0.18%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,069 (19.56%) Problem-Solving
2 944 (17.27%) Information Security
3 670 (12.26%) Incident Response
4 619 (11.33%) SIEM
5 556 (10.17%) Mentoring
6 535 (9.79%) Risk Management
7 522 (9.55%) Agile
8 518 (9.48%) Security Operations
9 508 (9.30%) Computer Science
10 456 (8.34%) Artificial Intelligence
11 445 (8.14%) ITIL
12 405 (7.41%) Software Engineering
13 393 (7.19%) IT Strategy
14 379 (6.94%) Penetration Testing
15 370 (6.77%) Vulnerability Management
16 362 (6.62%) Project Management
17 360 (6.59%) Coaching
18 350 (6.40%) Decision-Making
19 346 (6.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 336 (6.15%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 462 (8.45%) Python
2 425 (7.78%) Bash
3 293 (5.36%) SQL
4 277 (5.07%) PowerShell
5 238 (4.35%) Java
6 149 (2.73%) JavaScript
7 132 (2.42%) C
8 87 (1.59%) C#
9 65 (1.19%) Rust
10 56 (1.02%) C++
11 51 (0.93%) Embedded C
12 46 (0.84%) Go
13 36 (0.66%) TypeScript
14 29 (0.53%) Scala
15 24 (0.44%) Perl
16 23 (0.42%) PHP
17 18 (0.33%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.26%) MATLAB
18 14 (0.26%) R
19 12 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,166 (21.34%) Degree
2 877 (16.05%) Security Cleared
3 683 (12.50%) CISSP
4 442 (8.09%) SC Cleared
5 416 (7.61%) CISM
6 248 (4.54%) Cisco Certification
7 220 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 188 (3.44%) DV Cleared
9 170 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 158 (2.89%) CRISC
11 150 (2.74%) CCNA
12 142 (2.60%) CISA
13 131 (2.40%) CompTIA Security+
14 125 (2.29%) Master's Degree
15 120 (2.20%) CEH
16 115 (2.10%) Azure Certification
16 115 (2.10%) GIAC
17 106 (1.94%) CREST Certified
18 103 (1.88%) CCNP
19 88 (1.61%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 753 (13.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 609 (11.14%) NIST
3 344 (6.29%) GDPR
4 318 (5.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 210 (3.84%) GRC
6 205 (3.75%) NCSC
7 157 (2.87%) PCI DSS
8 112 (2.05%) QA
9 105 (1.92%) SLA
10 84 (1.54%) Def Stans
11 79 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 78 (1.43%) NIST 800
13 71 (1.30%) ISO 9001
14 65 (1.19%) SOC 2
15 61 (1.12%) COBIT
16 58 (1.06%) Data Quality
17 50 (0.91%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 45 (0.82%) JSP 440
19 42 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 17025
20 39 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 868 (15.88%) Active Directory
2 270 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 150 (2.74%) Hyper-V
4 139 (2.54%) Docker
5 46 (0.84%) vSphere
6 36 (0.66%) Firmware
6 36 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
7 35 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
8 33 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
9 28 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
10 11 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 11 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
11 9 (0.16%) Forefront TMG
12 6 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 5 (0.091%) XenApp
14 4 (0.073%) pfSense
14 4 (0.073%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.073%) VMware Server
15 3 (0.055%) NFS
15 3 (0.055%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 424 (7.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 214 (3.92%) Jamf Pro
3 152 (2.78%) Kubernetes
4 133 (2.43%) Terraform
5 89 (1.63%) Ansible
6 51 (0.93%) SCCM
7 48 (0.88%) WSUS
8 47 (0.86%) Grafana
9 44 (0.81%) Nessus
10 43 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
11 41 (0.75%) CASB
12 38 (0.70%) EnCase
13 33 (0.60%) FortiGate
14 28 (0.51%) Puppet
14 28 (0.51%) QRadar
15 27 (0.49%) vCenter Server
16 25 (0.46%) Stealthwatch
17 19 (0.35%) CSIRT
17 19 (0.35%) Nmap
17 19 (0.35%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,640 (30.01%) Microsoft
2 360 (6.59%) VMware
3 297 (5.43%) Cisco
4 239 (4.37%) CyberArk
5 236 (4.32%) Tanium
6 176 (3.22%) Apple
7 154 (2.82%) Adobe
8 143 (2.62%) Google
9 142 (2.60%) Splunk
10 133 (2.43%) Dell
11 127 (2.32%) Veeam
12 95 (1.74%) Meraki
13 90 (1.65%) HP
14 82 (1.50%) Oracle
15 65 (1.19%) ServiceNow
16 62 (1.13%) Qualys
17 57 (1.04%) Juniper
18 56 (1.02%) Fortinet
19 54 (0.99%) SAP
20 51 (0.93%) CrowdStrike