Information Security Jobs in England

Information Security (InfoSec)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Information Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 92 138
Rank change year-on-year -19 +46 -16
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 2,188 2,905 4,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.34% 3.49% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 3.65% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,688 1,846 2,537
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,664
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Information Security 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 77,689 79,484 137,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.98% 95.48% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 55,784 48,470 74,128
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,324 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,881 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Information Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in England

Information Security
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Information Security in England.

Salary trend for Information Security in England

Information Security
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security in England over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Information Security in England

Information Security
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security within the England region over the 6 months to 7 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 -14 787 £75,000 +7.14% 168
North of England +6 461 £52,084 +4.17% 79
South East -35 345 £59,250 -1.25% 75
North West -4 279 £52,084 +4.17% 35
Midlands -23 274 £55,000 -8.33% 80
South West -14 200 £50,000 -11.11% 46
West Midlands -27 193 £57,500 +2.68% 54
Yorkshire +2 145 £50,000 -5.44% 37
East of England -28 105 £57,500 -3.36% 28
East Midlands +21 80 £52,500 -20.75% 26
North East +3 37 £41,536 -12.56% 7
Information Security
UK

Information Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 69 (3.15%) SharePoint
2 58 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (0.87%) IIS
4 15 (0.69%) SAS
4 15 (0.69%) Skype for Business
5 12 (0.55%) WordPress
6 11 (0.50%) CMS
7 9 (0.41%) Confluence
8 8 (0.37%) nginx
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
11 4 (0.18%) Apache
12 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.091%) Drupal
13 2 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2003
13 2 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2007
13 2 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2010
13 2 (0.091%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.046%) Apache Spark
14 1 (0.046%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 74 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (1.19%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.69%) SPSS
5 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.046%) Notion
7 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 11 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (0.27%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.23%) Shopify
4 4 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.18%) Relativity
4 4 (0.18%) Ripple
4 4 (0.18%) SAP GRC
5 3 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.091%) Farmplan
6 2 (0.091%) KEYPrime
6 2 (0.091%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.091%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.091%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.091%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 1 (0.046%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.046%) Endur
7 1 (0.046%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 494 (22.58%) Azure
2 287 (13.12%) Microsoft 365
3 258 (11.79%) AWS
4 133 (6.08%) Entra ID
5 103 (4.71%) Power Platform
6 87 (3.98%) GCP
7 78 (3.56%) SaaS
8 57 (2.61%) IaaS
9 52 (2.38%) PaaS
10 46 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
11 39 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
12 35 (1.60%) Serverless
13 29 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
14 24 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
15 22 (1.01%) Snowflake
16 21 (0.96%) OneDrive
17 18 (0.82%) Matillion
18 17 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
19 14 (0.64%) PowerApps
19 14 (0.64%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 325 (14.85%) Firewall
2 192 (8.78%) Network Security
3 116 (5.30%) WAN
4 96 (4.39%) DNS
5 73 (3.34%) LAN
5 73 (3.34%) TCP/IP
6 70 (3.20%) Intrusion Detection
7 57 (2.61%) SD-WAN
8 51 (2.33%) VPN
9 39 (1.78%) Wireless
10 34 (1.55%) Internet
11 33 (1.51%) SSL
11 33 (1.51%) VoIP
12 31 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
13 30 (1.37%) DHCP
14 25 (1.14%) SAN
15 23 (1.05%) OSPF
16 22 (1.01%) Wireshark
17 20 (0.91%) BGP
18 19 (0.87%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (4.20%) Power BI
2 66 (3.02%) SQL Server
3 33 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (1.46%) Relational Database
5 23 (1.05%) Metadata
6 22 (1.01%) Big Data
7 21 (0.96%) Data Lake
8 17 (0.78%) EDRMS
9 16 (0.73%) MySQL
10 13 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (0.41%) NoSQL
12 8 (0.37%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.32%) SAP BW
14 6 (0.27%) Data Mining
14 6 (0.27%) SAP HANA
15 5 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.23%) BigQuery
15 5 (0.23%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.23%) Hadoop
16 4 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 42 (1.92%) Burp Suite
2 41 (1.87%) Metasploit
3 39 (1.78%) JIRA
4 18 (0.82%) Git
5 16 (0.73%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.27%) Toad
7 5 (0.23%) MSTest
7 5 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.23%) webpack
8 4 (0.18%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.18%) GitLab
9 3 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.091%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.091%) GDB
10 2 (0.091%) Selenium
10 2 (0.091%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.046%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.046%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.046%) WebDriver
General
1 639 (29.20%) Social Skills
2 484 (22.12%) Finance
3 358 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
4 315 (14.40%) Legal
5 166 (7.59%) Law
6 113 (5.16%) Retail
7 95 (4.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 93 (4.25%) Banking
9 89 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
10 87 (3.98%) Public Sector
11 82 (3.75%) Military
12 47 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
13 44 (2.01%) Marketing
14 40 (1.83%) Telecoms
15 37 (1.69%) Aerospace
16 30 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
17 29 (1.33%) Advertising
18 26 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
19 25 (1.14%) Manufacturing
20 16 (0.73%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 507 (23.17%) Analyst
2 321 (14.67%) Security Analyst
3 316 (14.44%) Senior
4 230 (10.51%) Security Manager
5 216 (9.87%) Lead
6 164 (7.50%) Information Analyst
7 162 (7.40%) Information Security Analyst
8 160 (7.31%) Architect
9 153 (6.99%) Senior Analyst
10 133 (6.08%) Information Manager
10 133 (6.08%) Information Security Manager
11 118 (5.39%) Consultant
12 115 (5.26%) IT Manager
13 106 (4.84%) Security Consultant
14 103 (4.71%) Security Engineer
15 102 (4.66%) Security Architect
16 68 (3.11%) IT Analyst
17 65 (2.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 61 (2.79%) Cybersecurity Analyst
19 60 (2.74%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.51%) .NET
2 28 (1.28%) HTML
3 27 (1.23%) CSS
4 22 (1.01%) React
5 17 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
6 15 (0.69%) REST
7 14 (0.64%) SAML
8 13 (0.59%) Middleware
9 12 (0.55%) 802.1X
9 12 (0.55%) ASP.NET
10 10 (0.46%) .NET Framework
11 9 (0.41%) ModSecurity
11 9 (0.41%) Web Services
12 8 (0.37%) ADO
12 8 (0.37%) EDI
12 8 (0.37%) Entity Framework
12 8 (0.37%) JSON
12 8 (0.37%) Sass
13 7 (0.32%) AngularJS
13 7 (0.32%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 587 (26.83%) Management Information System
2 165 (7.54%) Security Posture
3 105 (4.80%) Security Operations Centre
4 103 (4.71%) Data Centre
5 80 (3.66%) Cyber Threat
6 62 (2.83%) Cyber Defence
7 61 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
8 58 (2.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 52 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
10 51 (2.33%) Cyberattack
11 44 (2.01%) PMI
12 41 (1.87%) Onboarding
13 35 (1.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 35 (1.60%) Product Ownership
14 32 (1.46%) PKI
15 30 (1.37%) Operational Technology
16 29 (1.33%) Cloud Native
17 27 (1.23%) Driving Licence
18 25 (1.14%) Data Structures
19 24 (1.10%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 253 (11.56%) Windows
2 138 (6.31%) Linux
3 112 (5.12%) Windows Server
4 37 (1.69%) Windows 10
5 34 (1.55%) Apple iOS
6 31 (1.42%) Kali Linux
7 29 (1.33%) Android
8 23 (1.05%) Unix
9 13 (0.59%) Ubuntu
10 12 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
11 11 (0.50%) Solaris
12 10 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 9 (0.41%) Mac OS
13 9 (0.41%) zOS
14 8 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.23%) VMS
16 4 (0.18%) Rocky
16 4 (0.18%) Windows XP
17 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 893 (40.81%) Cybersecurity
2 389 (17.78%) Risk Management
3 374 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
4 290 (13.25%) Security Operations
5 276 (12.61%) Incident Response
6 269 (12.29%) Data Protection
7 258 (11.79%) Agile
8 248 (11.33%) SIEM
9 242 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 238 (10.88%) Cloud Security
10 238 (10.88%) Vulnerability Management
11 229 (10.47%) Security Management
12 223 (10.19%) Project Management
13 212 (9.69%) Roadmaps
14 206 (9.41%) ITIL
15 199 (9.10%) Security Architecture
16 192 (8.78%) Computer Science
17 182 (8.32%) Incident Management
18 179 (8.18%) Information Security Management
19 169 (7.72%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 164 (7.50%) PowerShell
2 150 (6.86%) SQL
3 128 (5.85%) Python
4 41 (1.87%) Bash
5 26 (1.19%) T-SQL
6 24 (1.10%) Java
7 23 (1.05%) JavaScript
8 22 (1.01%) C#
9 17 (0.78%) PHP
9 17 (0.78%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.37%) Perl
11 4 (0.18%) Go
11 4 (0.18%) Ruby
12 3 (0.14%) Korn
12 3 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.091%) AWK
13 2 (0.091%) C++
13 2 (0.091%) R
13 2 (0.091%) Rust
13 2 (0.091%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 521 (23.81%) CISSP
2 423 (19.33%) Degree
3 373 (17.05%) CISM
4 209 (9.55%) Security Cleared
5 195 (8.91%) CISA
6 141 (6.44%) Cisco Certification
7 100 (4.57%) SC Cleared
8 97 (4.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 94 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 94 (4.30%) CRISC
10 92 (4.20%) Azure Certification
11 86 (3.93%) CCSP
12 76 (3.47%) AWS Certification
13 75 (3.43%) CEH
14 67 (3.06%) DV Cleared
15 60 (2.74%) Master's Degree
16 55 (2.51%) GIAC
17 54 (2.47%) CCSK
18 52 (2.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 52 (2.38%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 667 (30.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 442 (20.20%) NIST
3 286 (13.07%) GDPR
4 253 (11.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 187 (8.55%) GRC
6 170 (7.77%) PCI DSS
7 93 (4.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 74 (3.38%) NCSC
9 66 (3.02%) NIST 800
10 54 (2.47%) COBIT
11 45 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 41 (1.87%) SLA
13 37 (1.69%) QA
14 34 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 32 (1.46%) ISO 9001
16 28 (1.28%) JSP 440
17 27 (1.23%) RMADS
18 26 (1.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 26 (1.19%) SOC 2
19 25 (1.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 216 (9.87%) Active Directory
2 58 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (2.06%) RACF
4 43 (1.97%) Docker
5 28 (1.28%) Hyper-V
6 24 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 24 (1.10%) vSphere
7 20 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.18%) Firmware
9 4 (0.18%) pfSense
10 2 (0.091%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.091%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.046%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.046%) Lustre
11 1 (0.046%) LXC
11 1 (0.046%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.046%) Snort
11 1 (0.046%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.046%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 82 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
2 69 (3.15%) Kubernetes
3 60 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (1.65%) CASB
5 28 (1.28%) Ansible
6 24 (1.10%) Nmap
7 23 (1.05%) SCCM
8 21 (0.96%) vCenter Server
9 20 (0.91%) Microsoft Clustering
10 19 (0.87%) Terraform
11 13 (0.59%) Nessus
11 13 (0.59%) WSUS
12 11 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 10 (0.46%) QRadar
14 9 (0.41%) Puppet
15 7 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
16 6 (0.27%) CSIRT
16 6 (0.27%) logstash
17 5 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
18 4 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 568 (25.96%) Microsoft
2 98 (4.48%) VMware
3 92 (4.20%) Cisco
4 57 (2.61%) CyberArk
5 50 (2.29%) ServiceNow
6 44 (2.01%) Google
7 38 (1.74%) Oracle
8 32 (1.46%) Rapid7
9 30 (1.37%) Qualys
9 30 (1.37%) Splunk
10 28 (1.28%) Databricks
11 26 (1.19%) SolarWinds
12 25 (1.14%) CheckPoint
13 24 (1.10%) SAP
14 23 (1.05%) Commvault
14 23 (1.05%) Palo Alto
15 22 (1.01%) Salesforce
16 20 (0.91%) Sun
17 19 (0.87%) Veeam
18 18 (0.82%) IBM