Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in England

Cybersecurity Engineer
UK > England

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 727 721 981
Rank change year-on-year -6 +260 -208
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 136 173 205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.23% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 104 150 121
10th Percentile £37,750 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +24.44%
75th Percentile £82,813 £80,313 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,375 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +21.74%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in England

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in England

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in England

Cybersecurity Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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 +58 60 £77,500 +16.98% 14
South East -23 26 £53,750 -2.27% 7
North of England +14 19 £40,000 -38.46% 8
East of England -3 14 £67,500 +12.50% 3
West Midlands -8 14 £58,750 -2.08% 4
Midlands -46 14 £58,750 +20.51% 9
North West -25 13 £52,500 -19.23% 7
Yorkshire +70 5 £38,500 - 1
South West -42 1 £50,000 -1.96% 6
North East - 1 £27,500 -
Cybersecurity Engineer
UK

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Cybersecurity Engineer 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 across the England region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 136 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (33.82%) SIEM
3 44 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (31.62%) CISSP
5 41 (30.15%) Degree
6 39 (28.68%) Python
6 39 (28.68%) Firewall
7 38 (27.94%) Azure
8 31 (22.79%) Information Security
9 30 (22.06%) Data Modelling
9 30 (22.06%) Analytics
10 29 (21.32%) Finance
11 28 (20.59%) PowerShell
12 27 (19.85%) Data Quality
12 27 (19.85%) Coaching
12 27 (19.85%) Data Engineering
12 27 (19.85%) Data Science
12 27 (19.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 25 (18.38%) Mentoring
13 25 (18.38%) Microsoft
14 24 (17.65%) Windows
14 24 (17.65%) Incident Response
15 22 (16.18%) Security Operations
15 22 (16.18%) Red Team
16 21 (15.44%) NIST
16 21 (15.44%) Vulnerability Management
17 19 (13.97%) Bash
17 19 (13.97%) Identity Access Management
17 19 (13.97%) Management Information System
18 18 (13.24%) ISO/IEC 27001

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (27.94%) Azure
2 18 (13.24%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (8.09%) GCP
4 9 (6.62%) AWS
5 7 (5.15%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (4.41%) SaaS
7 3 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.21%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.21%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.74%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 39 (28.68%) Firewall
2 12 (8.82%) Network Security
3 9 (6.62%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.68%) LAN
4 5 (3.68%) VPN
5 4 (2.94%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (2.21%) DNS
6 3 (2.21%) Internet
6 3 (2.21%) WAN
7 2 (1.47%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.68%) BigQuery
1 5 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (3.68%) Hadoop
1 5 (3.68%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.21%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (6.62%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.21%) Burp Suite
General
1 29 (21.32%) Finance
2 27 (19.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 15 (11.03%) Banking
5 7 (5.15%) Law
5 7 (5.15%) Retail
6 5 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.68%) Electronics
7 4 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.21%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.47%) French Language
9 2 (1.47%) German Language
9 2 (1.47%) Italian Language
9 2 (1.47%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.47%) Military
9 2 (1.47%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.47%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.74%) Legal
10 1 (0.74%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.21%) Fluent Bit
1 3 (2.21%) web3js
2 2 (1.47%) CSS
3 1 (0.74%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.97%) Management Information System
2 14 (10.29%) Operational Technology
3 12 (8.82%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (7.35%) Cyberattack
4 10 (7.35%) SCADA
5 9 (6.62%) Onboarding
6 8 (5.88%) PKI
7 7 (5.15%) Blog
7 7 (5.15%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.94%) IoT
9 3 (2.21%) Blockchain
9 3 (2.21%) NHS
9 3 (2.21%) Web3
10 2 (1.47%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.47%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.47%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.74%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (17.65%) Windows
2 12 (8.82%) Linux
3 8 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.47%) Android
4 2 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 46 (33.82%) SIEM
3 44 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (22.79%) Information Security
5 30 (22.06%) Analytics
5 30 (22.06%) Data Modelling
6 27 (19.85%) Coaching
6 27 (19.85%) Data Engineering
6 27 (19.85%) Data Science
7 25 (18.38%) Mentoring
8 24 (17.65%) Incident Response
9 22 (16.18%) Red Team
9 22 (16.18%) Security Operations
10 21 (15.44%) Vulnerability Management
11 19 (13.97%) Identity Access Management
12 18 (13.24%) Cloud Security
13 17 (12.50%) Patch Management
14 16 (11.76%) CI/CD
14 16 (11.76%) Computer Science
15 13 (9.56%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 39 (28.68%) Python
2 28 (20.59%) PowerShell
3 19 (13.97%) Bash
4 10 (7.35%) Java
5 9 (6.62%) SQL
6 7 (5.15%) C
7 4 (2.94%) C++
8 1 (0.74%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 43 (31.62%) CISSP
2 41 (30.15%) Degree
3 16 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 14 (10.29%) SC Cleared
5 13 (9.56%) CEH
6 11 (8.09%) CISM
7 7 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (4.41%) CISA
9 5 (3.68%) GIAC
9 5 (3.68%) SANS
10 4 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (2.21%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (2.21%) CRISC
11 3 (2.21%) GCIA
11 3 (2.21%) ISSMP
11 3 (2.21%) Master's Degree
11 3 (2.21%) OSCP
12 2 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (1.47%) CCNP
12 2 (1.47%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (19.85%) Data Quality
2 21 (15.44%) NIST
3 18 (13.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (7.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (4.41%) NIST 800
6 5 (3.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (3.68%) SOC 2
7 3 (2.21%) COBIT
8 2 (1.47%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.74%) GRC
9 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.74%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (13.24%) Ansible
2 8 (5.88%) logstash
3 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.94%) Nessus
3 4 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.21%) Fluentd
5 2 (1.47%) CASB
5 2 (1.47%) Nmap
6 1 (0.74%) QRadar
6 1 (0.74%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 25 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.24%) CyberArk
3 15 (11.03%) ArcSight
3 15 (11.03%) Atlassian
3 15 (11.03%) Carbon Black
3 15 (11.03%) McAfee
4 11 (8.09%) Qualys
5 9 (6.62%) Splunk
6 8 (5.88%) Google
7 6 (4.41%) Rapid7
8 3 (2.21%) Alibaba
8 3 (2.21%) Cisco
8 3 (2.21%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.21%) iManage
8 3 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.47%) Darktrace
9 2 (1.47%) LogRhythm
9 2 (1.47%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.47%) Symantec
9 2 (1.47%) Thycotic