Cybersecurity Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cybersecurity Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £68,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 637 709 798
Rank change year-on-year +72 +89 -148
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Manager 121 41 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.069% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.078% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 109 39 49
10th Percentile £49,750 £50,300 £51,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.60% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £70,250 £78,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £91,450 £82,500
UK median annual salary £68,500 £65,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.58% -6.43% +17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,966 52,773 69,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.23% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 47,979 30,132 42,817
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cybersecurity Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Manager in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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 West +9 40 £68,500 +29.25% 2
South East +35 32 £62,750 -2.78% 8
Midlands +6 19 £70,000 -0.71% 3
North of England +44 14 £55,000 -27.15% 7
West Midlands +20 12 £70,000 -9.68% 1
North West +4 7 £55,000 -29.94% 2
East Midlands -12 7 £72,000 +15.20% 2
Scotland -58 7 £65,000 -8.45% 1
Yorkshire +84 6 £45,000 -35.71% 5
Wales +11 6 £65,000 +41.30% 2
East of England +6 3 £80,000 +39.13% 1
North East - 1 £80,000 -
Cybersecurity Manager
UK

Cybersecurity Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Cybersecurity Manager 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cybersecurity Manager in the job title.

1 121 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 49 (40.50%) Risk Management
3 48 (39.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (33.88%) Security Management
5 38 (31.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 38 (31.40%) Security Cleared
6 35 (28.93%) NCSC
7 33 (27.27%) Cyberattack
7 33 (27.27%) SC Cleared
7 33 (27.27%) Information Assurance
8 29 (23.97%) Information Security
9 20 (16.53%) Security Operations
9 20 (16.53%) Social Skills
10 19 (15.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 19 (15.70%) Vulnerability Management
11 17 (14.05%) CISSP
12 15 (12.40%) Microsoft
12 15 (12.40%) GDPR
12 15 (12.40%) NIST
13 14 (11.57%) CISM
14 13 (10.74%) Finance
14 13 (10.74%) Degree
15 12 (9.92%) Retail
16 11 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
16 11 (9.09%) SIEM
16 11 (9.09%) Management Information System
16 11 (9.09%) GRC
16 11 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
17 10 (8.26%) Incident Response
17 10 (8.26%) Computer Science

Cybersecurity Manager Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (3.31%) Azure
3 3 (2.48%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.83%) AWS
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (0.83%) Mimecast
4 1 (0.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.61%) Network Security
2 2 (1.65%) Firewall
2 2 (1.65%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.83%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Git
General
1 20 (16.53%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.74%) Finance
3 12 (9.92%) Retail
4 7 (5.79%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.13%) Automotive
5 5 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.31%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.31%) Law
6 4 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.48%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.48%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.65%) Legal
9 1 (0.83%) Banking
9 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.83%) Games
9 1 (0.83%) Marketing
9 1 (0.83%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.65%) LDAP
1 2 (1.65%) SAML
2 1 (0.83%) CSS
2 1 (0.83%) HTML
2 1 (0.83%) RESTful
2 1 (0.83%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 33 (27.27%) Cyberattack
2 11 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 8 (6.61%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (5.79%) Security Posture
4 7 (5.79%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.96%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.96%) Freedom of Information
5 6 (4.96%) Virtual Team
6 5 (4.13%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.48%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.65%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.65%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.65%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.83%) NHS
9 1 (0.83%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.13%) Windows
2 2 (1.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 49 (40.50%) Risk Management
3 41 (33.88%) Security Management
4 38 (31.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (27.27%) Information Assurance
6 29 (23.97%) Information Security
7 20 (16.53%) Security Operations
8 19 (15.70%) Vulnerability Management
9 11 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
9 11 (9.09%) SIEM
10 10 (8.26%) Computer Science
10 10 (8.26%) Incident Response
11 9 (7.44%) Red Team
12 8 (6.61%) Customer Service
12 8 (6.61%) Purple Team
13 7 (5.79%) Data Protection
13 7 (5.79%) Kalman Filter
13 7 (5.79%) Project Management
14 6 (4.96%) PRINCE
14 6 (4.96%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
1 1 (0.83%) Python
Qualifications
1 38 (31.40%) Security Cleared
2 33 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 17 (14.05%) CISSP
4 14 (11.57%) CISM
5 13 (10.74%) Degree
6 8 (6.61%) GIAC
7 6 (4.96%) GPEN
7 6 (4.96%) PMI Certification
7 6 (4.96%) PMP
7 6 (4.96%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 5 (4.13%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.65%) CASP
9 2 (1.65%) CEH
9 2 (1.65%) CISA
9 2 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.65%) CRISC
10 1 (0.83%) CCNA
10 1 (0.83%) CCSP
10 1 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.83%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (39.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (28.93%) NCSC
3 19 (15.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 15 (12.40%) GDPR
4 15 (12.40%) NIST
5 11 (9.09%) GRC
6 6 (4.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (4.96%) NIST 800
7 4 (3.31%) PCI DSS
8 3 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.83%) COBIT
9 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.31%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (4.96%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 6 (4.96%) Nessus
2 2 (1.65%) Progress Chef
2 2 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.83%) QRadar
3 1 (0.83%) SCCM
3 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (12.40%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.96%) Qualys
3 2 (1.65%) Darktrace
4 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.83%) SonicWALL
4 1 (0.83%) Splunk
4 1 (0.83%) Tripwire
4 1 (0.83%) VMware