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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 46 52
Rank change year-on-year +8 +6 +13
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 3,812 3,752 3,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.32% 6.34% 5.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.37% 6.64% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,721 1,743 1,875
10th Percentile £34,823 £32,915 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,526 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% +3.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £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 59,818 56,534 68,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.50% 95.59% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 41,261 29,197 41,375
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% +10.53%
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 20 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 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 East +23 972 £50,500 -8.18% 238
North of England +10 916 £52,084 -13.19% 227
Midlands +17 696 £55,000 -8.33% 132
South West +9 623 £60,000 -4.00% 135
North West 0 571 £52,084 -15.99% 122
West Midlands +12 504 £55,000 -12.00% 84
Scotland -54 317 £55,000 -7.60% 47
Yorkshire +9 252 £50,000 -16.67% 94
East of England +19 206 £54,000 +2.86% 72
East Midlands +24 188 £42,500 -10.53% 48
North East +52 93 £42,500 -3.68% 11
Wales -41 51 £52,500 -25.00% 31
Northern Ireland -13 23 £42,500 -20.93% 22
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 (4.56%) SharePoint
3 31 (0.81%) IIS
4 22 (0.58%) 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
1 171 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (1.15%) 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 (22.14%) Azure
2 601 (15.77%) Microsoft 365
3 378 (9.92%) AWS
4 247 (6.48%) Entra ID
5 191 (5.01%) SaaS
6 104 (2.73%) GCP
7 96 (2.52%) Cloud Computing
8 74 (1.94%) PaaS
9 65 (1.71%) IaaS
10 64 (1.68%) Power Platform
11 55 (1.44%) Amazon S3
12 50 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
13 49 (1.29%) Azure Sentinel
14 47 (1.23%) OneDrive
15 35 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
16 34 (0.89%) PowerApps
17 32 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 32 (0.84%) Datadog
18 29 (0.76%) Power Automate
19 26 (0.68%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 531 (13.93%) Firewall
2 223 (5.85%) 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 (2.54%) VPN
9 90 (2.36%) 5G
10 87 (2.28%) Intrusion Detection
11 81 (2.12%) 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 74 (1.94%) SQL Server
2 57 (1.50%) NoSQL
3 52 (1.36%) Power BI
4 45 (1.18%) Big Data
5 44 (1.15%) MySQL
6 41 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
7 35 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (0.73%) Hadoop
9 26 (0.68%) Redis
10 23 (0.60%) Data Lake
11 22 (0.58%) Scylla
12 17 (0.45%) Relational Database
13 15 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
14 14 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
15 12 (0.31%) MongoDB
16 11 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
17 10 (0.26%) Tableau
18 7 (0.18%) Oracle Database
19 5 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
19 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 17 (0.45%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.34%) Visual Studio
9 10 (0.26%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.21%) Burp Suite
11 7 (0.18%) Gradle
11 7 (0.18%) IntelliJ
11 7 (0.18%) Mockito
12 6 (0.16%) Subversion
13 5 (0.13%) CANoe
13 5 (0.13%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.13%) Metasploit
14 4 (0.10%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.10%) IBM UrbanCode
14 4 (0.10%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 899 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 584 (15.32%) Finance
3 456 (11.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 381 (9.99%) Analytical Skills
5 251 (6.58%) Law
6 151 (3.96%) Legal
7 145 (3.80%) Public Sector
8 128 (3.36%) Telecoms
9 118 (3.10%) Manufacturing
10 101 (2.65%) Military
11 99 (2.60%) Retail
12 97 (2.54%) Banking
12 97 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
13 91 (2.39%) Aerospace
14 83 (2.18%) Games
15 80 (2.10%) Marketing
16 62 (1.63%) Automotive
17 37 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
18 31 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
19 29 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 517 (13.56%) Senior
2 459 (12.04%) Analyst
3 332 (8.71%) Lead
4 269 (7.06%) Architect
5 262 (6.87%) Consultant
6 241 (6.32%) Software Engineer
7 211 (5.54%) Security Analyst
8 201 (5.27%) Security Manager
9 199 (5.22%) Security Consultant
10 193 (5.06%) 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
17 126 (3.31%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 121 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 115 (3.02%) Cybersecurity Consultant
20 113 (2.96%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (1.36%) Kafka
2 50 (1.31%) .NET
2 50 (1.31%) HTML
2 50 (1.31%) Web Services
3 47 (1.23%) Node.js
4 46 (1.21%) AngularJS
5 44 (1.15%) CSS
5 44 (1.15%) Spring
6 43 (1.13%) React
7 42 (1.10%) REST
8 37 (0.97%) OpenID
9 36 (0.94%) GraphQL
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
1 424 (11.12%) Management Information System
2 262 (6.87%) Data Centre
3 193 (5.06%) Algorithms
4 182 (4.77%) Cyber Threat
5 165 (4.33%) Operational Technology
6 147 (3.86%) Security Operations Centre
7 146 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
8 124 (3.25%) Security Posture
9 123 (3.23%) Public Cloud
10 120 (3.15%) Driving Licence
11 102 (2.68%) Cyberattack
12 101 (2.65%) Social Media
13 88 (2.31%) IoT
14 76 (1.99%) Cloud Native
14 76 (1.99%) Onboarding
15 59 (1.55%) Product Ownership
16 54 (1.42%) Private Cloud
17 51 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
18 40 (1.05%) Cyber Security Posture
19 37 (0.97%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 730 (19.15%) Windows
2 361 (9.47%) Linux
3 320 (8.39%) 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 58 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 53 (1.39%) Embedded Linux
10 44 (1.15%) Apple iOS
11 42 (1.10%) Mac OS
12 41 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
13 30 (0.79%) Android
14 25 (0.66%) Windows 7
15 19 (0.50%) VMS
16 17 (0.45%) Mac OS X
17 14 (0.37%) Kali Linux
18 7 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 7 (0.18%) Solaris
19 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 807 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
2 548 (14.38%) Information Security
3 427 (11.20%) Incident Response
4 423 (11.10%) Mentoring
5 409 (10.73%) Agile
6 398 (10.44%) Risk Management
7 357 (9.37%) Computer Science
8 343 (9.00%) Security Operations
9 338 (8.87%) SIEM
10 335 (8.79%) Software Engineering
11 327 (8.58%) Coaching
12 312 (8.18%) ITIL
13 301 (7.90%) Decision-Making
14 293 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 270 (7.08%) Project Management
16 262 (6.87%) Artificial Intelligence
17 248 (6.51%) Vulnerability Management
18 233 (6.11%) Analytics
18 233 (6.11%) Continuous Improvement
19 226 (5.93%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 300 (7.87%) Python
2 223 (5.85%) SQL
3 222 (5.82%) Bash
4 181 (4.75%) PowerShell
5 176 (4.62%) Java
6 104 (2.73%) C
7 90 (2.36%) JavaScript
8 61 (1.60%) Rust
9 51 (1.34%) Embedded C
10 48 (1.26%) C#
11 32 (0.84%) C++
12 29 (0.76%) Go
13 27 (0.71%) Scala
14 22 (0.58%) TypeScript
15 21 (0.55%) PHP
16 12 (0.31%) MATLAB
16 12 (0.31%) Perl
16 12 (0.31%) R
17 8 (0.21%) Ruby
18 5 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 851 (22.32%) Degree
2 662 (17.37%) Security Cleared
3 352 (9.23%) CISSP
4 305 (8.00%) SC Cleared
5 231 (6.06%) CISM
6 159 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
7 130 (3.41%) CCNA
8 121 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 113 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 111 (2.91%) DV Cleared
11 93 (2.44%) CRISC
12 88 (2.31%) CISA
13 86 (2.26%) CCNP
14 80 (2.10%) CompTIA Security+
15 75 (1.97%) Azure Certification
16 66 (1.73%) Master's Degree
17 56 (1.47%) CEH
18 55 (1.44%) CESG Certified Professional
19 48 (1.26%) GIAC
20 44 (1.15%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 462 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 406 (10.65%) NIST
3 245 (6.43%) GDPR
4 231 (6.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 145 (3.80%) GRC
6 140 (3.67%) 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 56 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 55 (1.44%) QA
13 47 (1.23%) ISO 9001
14 45 (1.18%) Data Quality
15 40 (1.05%) JSP 440
16 29 (0.76%) 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
1 549 (14.40%) Active Directory
2 179 (4.70%) 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
7 26 (0.68%) RACF
8 20 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
9 18 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
10 10 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
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
2 113 (2.96%) Kubernetes
3 98 (2.57%) Terraform
4 68 (1.78%) Jamf Pro
5 39 (1.02%) SCCM
6 38 (1.00%) WSUS
7 37 (0.97%) Ansible
8 35 (0.92%) Grafana
9 28 (0.73%) CASB
10 27 (0.71%) FortiGate
11 26 (0.68%) Nessus
12 25 (0.66%) EnCase
13 24 (0.63%) Stealthwatch
14 18 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
15 17 (0.45%) Puppet
15 17 (0.45%) vCenter Server
16 11 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.29%) Nmap
17 10 (0.26%) Functional Safety
18 9 (0.24%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 1,072 (28.12%) Microsoft
2 262 (6.87%) VMware
3 225 (5.90%) Cisco
4 156 (4.09%) Apple
5 135 (3.54%) Adobe
6 100 (2.62%) CyberArk
7 91 (2.39%) Dell
8 90 (2.36%) Veeam
9 87 (2.28%) Splunk
10 81 (2.12%) 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