Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
England > London

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in London is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 507 860
Rank change year-on-year +58 +353 -277
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 60 96 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.24% 0.31% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.32% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 53 78 52
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £47,875
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,313 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £66,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.98% -11.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £89,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +24.44%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Central London +46 8 £78,750 -3.08% 2
South London - 2 £44,000 -
North London - 1 £45,000 -
Cybersecurity Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 London region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 60 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 34 (56.67%) CISSP
3 32 (53.33%) SIEM
4 30 (50.00%) Python
5 29 (48.33%) Finance
6 25 (41.67%) PowerShell
7 24 (40.00%) Information Security
8 22 (36.67%) Firewall
9 19 (31.67%) Azure
10 18 (30.00%) CyberArk
10 18 (30.00%) Ansible
11 17 (28.33%) Incident Response
12 16 (26.67%) CI/CD
12 16 (26.67%) Patch Management
12 16 (26.67%) Management Information System
12 16 (26.67%) Windows
13 15 (25.00%) McAfee
13 15 (25.00%) Banking
13 15 (25.00%) Atlassian
13 15 (25.00%) ArcSight
13 15 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (25.00%) Carbon Black
14 14 (23.33%) Cloud Security
15 13 (21.67%) Microsoft
16 12 (20.00%) Bash
16 12 (20.00%) CEH
16 12 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
16 12 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
17 11 (18.33%) Cryptography
17 11 (18.33%) Qualys

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (31.67%) Azure
2 15 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (13.33%) GCP
4 5 (8.33%) AWS
5 3 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (36.67%) Firewall
2 5 (8.33%) LAN
2 5 (8.33%) Network Security
2 5 (8.33%) VPN
3 3 (5.00%) DNS
3 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.00%) WAN
4 2 (3.33%) Internet
4 2 (3.33%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.67%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) BigQuery
1 5 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (8.33%) Hadoop
1 5 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Jenkins
General
1 29 (48.33%) Finance
2 15 (25.00%) Banking
3 6 (10.00%) Law
4 5 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (8.33%) Retail
4 5 (8.33%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) French Language
6 2 (3.33%) German Language
6 2 (3.33%) Italian Language
6 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.33%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.67%) Electronics
7 1 (1.67%) Legal
7 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.67%) Marketing
7 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.00%) web3js
2 2 (3.33%) CSS
3 1 (1.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.67%) Management Information System
2 9 (15.00%) Onboarding
3 7 (11.67%) Blog
3 7 (11.67%) PKI
4 6 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (5.00%) Blockchain
5 3 (5.00%) Cyberattack
5 3 (5.00%) Operational Technology
5 3 (5.00%) Web3
6 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (3.33%) IoT
6 2 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.67%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.67%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.67%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (26.67%) Windows
2 4 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.00%) Linux
4 2 (3.33%) Android
4 2 (3.33%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (53.33%) SIEM
3 24 (40.00%) Information Security
4 17 (28.33%) Incident Response
5 16 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 16 (26.67%) Patch Management
6 14 (23.33%) Cloud Security
7 12 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
7 12 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
8 11 (18.33%) Cryptography
9 10 (16.67%) Security Operations
10 9 (15.00%) DevOps
10 9 (15.00%) Use Case
11 8 (13.33%) Analytics
11 8 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
11 8 (13.33%) Data Modelling
12 7 (11.67%) Process Improvement
12 7 (11.67%) Security Monitoring
12 7 (11.67%) Threat Management
13 6 (10.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (50.00%) Python
2 25 (41.67%) PowerShell
3 12 (20.00%) Bash
4 7 (11.67%) Java
5 5 (8.33%) SQL
6 2 (3.33%) C
6 2 (3.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 34 (56.67%) CISSP
2 12 (20.00%) CEH
3 10 (16.67%) CISM
4 9 (15.00%) Degree
5 3 (5.00%) CRISC
5 3 (5.00%) GIAC
5 3 (5.00%) ISSMP
5 3 (5.00%) OSCP
5 3 (5.00%) SANS
5 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (3.33%) CCSP
6 2 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.33%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.33%) SSCP
7 1 (1.67%) CISA
7 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.67%) ISSAP
7 1 (1.67%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.67%) NIST
2 5 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.00%) COBIT
5 2 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.67%) NCSC
6 1 (1.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (30.00%) Ansible
2 5 (8.33%) logstash
3 4 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.33%) Nmap
6 1 (1.67%) CASB
6 1 (1.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 18 (30.00%) CyberArk
2 15 (25.00%) ArcSight
2 15 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 15 (25.00%) Carbon Black
2 15 (25.00%) McAfee
3 13 (21.67%) Microsoft
4 11 (18.33%) Qualys
5 8 (13.33%) Google
6 6 (10.00%) Rapid7
7 4 (6.67%) Splunk
8 3 (5.00%) Alibaba
8 3 (5.00%) Cisco
8 3 (5.00%) Fortinet
8 3 (5.00%) iManage
9 2 (3.33%) LogRhythm
9 2 (3.33%) Palo Alto
9 2 (3.33%) Thycotic
10 1 (1.67%) IBM
10 1 (1.67%) Meraki
10 1 (1.67%) SAP