Cybersecurity Jobs in the South East

Cybersecurity
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 55 49
Rank change year-on-year +22 -6 +46
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 968 742 1,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.61% 5.23% 5.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.71% 5.54% 6.20%
Number of salaries quoted 622 402 580
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,000 £35,825
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £44,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% -8.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £78,938
90th Percentile £75,000 £89,750 £95,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,434 13,394 19,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 83.67% 94.49% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 9,994 7,821 11,800
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the South East

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in the South East.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the South East

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the South East over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the South East

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 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
Thames Valley +20 444 £50,000 -18.37% 50
Buckinghamshire +24 261 £50,000 - 9
Surrey +16 201 £50,500 -15.83% 22
Hampshire -26 153 £55,000 -8.33% 41
Berkshire -8 135 £52,550 -24.93% 33
Kent -2 67 £45,000 +12.50% 11
Oxfordshire +18 48 £42,500 -26.09% 8
West Sussex +23 34 £50,000 -4.76% 7
Middlesex - 33 £56,919 -
East Sussex +12 10 £45,000 -13.46% 6
Sussex - 7 £75,000 -
Home Counties +12 1 £48,000 -49.47%
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 49 (5.06%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.52%) Confluence
4 4 (0.41%) Apache
5 3 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.31%) IIS
6 1 (0.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 50 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.62%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.62%) Simulink
3 4 (0.41%) Stateflow
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
2 4 (0.41%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 264 (27.27%) Azure
2 165 (17.05%) Microsoft 365
3 106 (10.95%) Entra ID
4 65 (6.71%) AWS
5 29 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
6 24 (2.48%) OneDrive
7 20 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
8 10 (1.03%) GCP
9 9 (0.93%) SaaS
10 7 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.62%) Power Automate
11 6 (0.62%) Twilio
12 5 (0.52%) Amazon S3
12 5 (0.52%) Power Platform
12 5 (0.52%) WhatsApp
13 4 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (0.41%) Serverless
14 3 (0.31%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (0.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 3 (0.31%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 146 (15.08%) Firewall
2 83 (8.57%) 5G
3 70 (7.23%) Broadband
4 52 (5.37%) Network Security
5 51 (5.27%) WAN
6 41 (4.24%) DNS
7 34 (3.51%) Intrusion Detection
8 30 (3.10%) Wi-Fi
9 29 (3.00%) VPN
10 28 (2.89%) TCP/IP
11 23 (2.38%) DHCP
12 22 (2.27%) MPLS
13 20 (2.07%) LAN
13 20 (2.07%) Wireless
14 18 (1.86%) 4G
15 17 (1.76%) SD-WAN
16 11 (1.14%) Internet
16 11 (1.14%) VLAN
17 9 (0.93%) SAN
17 9 (0.93%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 8 (0.83%) Big Data
3 7 (0.72%) NoSQL
3 7 (0.72%) Relational Database
4 6 (0.62%) Hadoop
4 6 (0.62%) MongoDB
4 6 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.52%) MySQL
5 5 (0.52%) SAP BW
6 3 (0.31%) Power BI
7 2 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.21%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.10%) Redis
8 1 (0.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (0.72%) Git
2 7 (0.72%) GitLab
2 7 (0.72%) JIRA
2 7 (0.72%) Visual Studio
3 5 (0.52%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.52%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.21%) Apache Continuum
4 2 (0.21%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.21%) JUnit
4 2 (0.21%) Subversion
5 1 (0.10%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.10%) Selenium
General
1 208 (21.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 187 (19.32%) Social Skills
3 116 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (9.81%) Finance
5 40 (4.13%) Telecoms
6 32 (3.31%) Public Sector
7 30 (3.10%) Marketing
8 28 (2.89%) Legal
9 26 (2.69%) Law
10 24 (2.48%) Retail
11 21 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (1.76%) Automotive
13 16 (1.65%) Games
14 13 (1.34%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (0.93%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.93%) Banking
17 8 (0.83%) Aviation
18 7 (0.72%) Military
19 6 (0.62%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 135 (13.95%) Senior
2 132 (13.64%) Analyst
3 102 (10.54%) Data Scientist
4 71 (7.33%) Security Specialist
5 70 (7.23%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 67 (6.92%) Linux Specialist
6 67 (6.92%) Technical Specialist
7 65 (6.71%) Lead
8 58 (5.99%) Architect
9 54 (5.58%) Security Manager
10 53 (5.48%) Security Analyst
11 51 (5.27%) IT Support
12 44 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
13 43 (4.44%) Security Engineer
14 42 (4.34%) Security Architect
15 41 (4.24%) IT Engineer
16 40 (4.13%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
17 39 (4.03%) IT Manager
17 39 (4.03%) Support Engineer
18 38 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.03%) .NET
1 10 (1.03%) Node.js
2 8 (0.83%) CSS
2 8 (0.83%) HTML
2 8 (0.83%) Web Services
3 6 (0.62%) Kafka
3 6 (0.62%) Keycloak
4 5 (0.52%) JSON
4 5 (0.52%) NETCONF
5 4 (0.41%) .NET Framework
5 4 (0.41%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (0.41%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.41%) ASP.NET
5 4 (0.41%) Django
5 4 (0.41%) Qt
5 4 (0.41%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (0.41%) RESTful
5 4 (0.41%) WebSockets
5 4 (0.41%) XML
5 4 (0.41%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 106 (10.95%) Algorithms
2 102 (10.54%) Management Information System
3 80 (8.26%) Social Media
4 73 (7.54%) Self-Motivation
5 60 (6.20%) Data Centre
6 42 (4.34%) Cyber Threat
7 40 (4.13%) Security Operations Centre
8 31 (3.20%) Driving Licence
8 31 (3.20%) Security Posture
9 28 (2.89%) IoT
10 22 (2.27%) Operational Technology
11 16 (1.65%) Onboarding
12 15 (1.55%) Cyber Security Posture
13 14 (1.45%) Client/Server
14 12 (1.24%) Product Ownership
14 12 (1.24%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.14%) Cyberattack
15 11 (1.14%) PKI
16 9 (0.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 9 (0.93%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 211 (21.80%) Windows
2 96 (9.92%) Windows Server
3 95 (9.81%) Linux
4 67 (6.92%) Ubuntu
5 48 (4.96%) Windows 10
6 28 (2.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 26 (2.69%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (2.27%) Windows 7
9 20 (2.07%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (1.86%) Apple iOS
11 10 (1.03%) Android
12 6 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.52%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.52%) Windows 8
14 4 (0.41%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.10%) CentOS
15 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.10%) Unix
15 1 (0.10%) VMS
15 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (29.86%) Problem-Solving
2 179 (18.49%) Decision-Making
3 175 (18.08%) Computer Science
4 169 (17.46%) Mentoring
5 149 (15.39%) Coaching
6 146 (15.08%) Red Team
7 134 (13.84%) Data Science
8 123 (12.71%) Mathematics
9 106 (10.95%) ITIL
10 103 (10.64%) Digital Forensics
11 102 (10.54%) Data Analysis
11 102 (10.54%) Statistical Modelling
12 98 (10.12%) CRM
13 91 (9.40%) Information Security
14 89 (9.19%) Incident Response
15 86 (8.88%) SIEM
16 84 (8.68%) IT Strategy
16 84 (8.68%) Security Operations
17 77 (7.95%) Artificial Intelligence
18 70 (7.23%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 74 (7.64%) Bash
2 51 (5.27%) SQL
3 37 (3.82%) PowerShell
4 29 (3.00%) Python
5 22 (2.27%) C
6 16 (1.65%) JavaScript
7 13 (1.34%) C#
8 10 (1.03%) C++
9 6 (0.62%) Go
9 6 (0.62%) Java
9 6 (0.62%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.31%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.21%) R
12 1 (0.10%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.10%) PHP
Qualifications
1 326 (33.68%) Degree
2 122 (12.60%) Security Cleared
3 66 (6.82%) CISSP
4 48 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (4.65%) SC Cleared
6 37 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
8 28 (2.89%) CompTIA Security+
9 26 (2.69%) CCNA
9 26 (2.69%) MCP
10 23 (2.38%) CISM
11 21 (2.17%) CCNP
12 19 (1.96%) Azure Certification
12 19 (1.96%) DBS Check
13 18 (1.86%) HNC
14 16 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (1.45%) CESG Certified Professional
16 13 (1.34%) GIAC
17 12 (1.24%) CTC Cleared
17 12 (1.24%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (12.81%) NIST
2 99 (10.23%) GRC
3 94 (9.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 77 (7.95%) GDPR
5 69 (7.13%) Def Stans
6 61 (6.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 32 (3.31%) Data Quality
8 27 (2.79%) NCSC
9 22 (2.27%) PCI DSS
10 17 (1.76%) SLA
11 16 (1.65%) NIST 800
12 12 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (1.14%) QA
14 10 (1.03%) COBIT
14 10 (1.03%) COSHH
14 10 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 8 (0.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 7 (0.72%) ISO 13485
17 6 (0.62%) HIPAA
18 5 (0.52%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 209 (21.59%) Active Directory
2 53 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (3.10%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.14%) Docker
5 6 (0.62%) Firmware
6 2 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.10%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 107 (11.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 67 (6.92%) Jamf Pro
3 21 (2.17%) FortiGate
4 19 (1.96%) SCCM
5 12 (1.24%) WSUS
6 11 (1.14%) Nessus
7 9 (0.93%) Stealthwatch
8 7 (0.72%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 7 (0.72%) Terraform
9 6 (0.62%) Kubernetes
10 5 (0.52%) CASB
10 5 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.52%) Suricata
11 4 (0.41%) Ansible
11 4 (0.41%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.31%) CSIRT
13 2 (0.21%) Podman
13 2 (0.21%) Puppet
14 1 (0.10%) Nagios
14 1 (0.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 346 (35.74%) Microsoft
2 80 (8.26%) VMware
3 67 (6.92%) CyberArk
3 67 (6.92%) Tanium
4 54 (5.58%) Apple
5 52 (5.37%) Cisco
6 49 (5.06%) Adobe
7 28 (2.89%) HP
8 25 (2.58%) Citrix
9 24 (2.48%) Darktrace
10 23 (2.38%) Veeam
11 16 (1.65%) Meraki
11 16 (1.65%) NEC
12 13 (1.34%) Dell
12 13 (1.34%) SAP
13 11 (1.14%) Samsung
13 11 (1.14%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.14%) Splunk
14 10 (1.03%) Qualys
15 9 (0.93%) Ribbon