Cybersecurity Analyst Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cybersecurity Analyst salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 640 677 753
Rank change year-on-year +37 +76 -175
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Analyst 126 80 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.15% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 112 64 90
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,825 £31,475
25th Percentile £42,188 £37,463 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -1.16% -11.34%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £74,750 £67,500 £65,275
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £45,473
% change year-on-year - +20.95% -9.06%

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 69,899 52,023 70,286
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 89.12% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 49,392 29,903 42,846
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
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 Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Analyst
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Analyst
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Analyst in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Analyst
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 Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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 +13 32 £67,500 +22.73% 7
South West +5 32 £65,000 +36.84% 4
North of England +66 29 £42,500 -16.37% 4
Scotland -58 14 £50,000 +5.02% 1
Yorkshire +77 11 £57,500 -12.64%
North West +12 11 £37,500 -23.86% 4
East of England -6 10 £50,000 +17.65% 1
Midlands -20 7 £49,750 +17.06% 2
North East - 7 £42,500 -
West Midlands -8 4 £42,000 -1.18% 2
East Midlands -19 3 £52,500 +31.25%
Northern Ireland +20 1 - -
Wales - 1 £37,500 - 1
Cybersecurity Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 2024, Cybersecurity Analyst 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 Analyst in the job title.

1 126 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 62 (49.21%) SIEM
3 48 (38.10%) Incident Response
4 44 (34.92%) Azure
5 42 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 40 (31.75%) Vulnerability Management
7 39 (30.95%) Firewall
8 38 (30.16%) Security Operations
9 33 (26.19%) CISSP
9 33 (26.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 30 (23.81%) Information Security
11 29 (23.02%) NIST
11 29 (23.02%) Cloud Security
12 26 (20.63%) Social Skills
13 25 (19.84%) Degree
13 25 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
14 23 (18.25%) CompTIA Security+
15 19 (15.08%) Security Operations Centre
15 19 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (15.08%) Security Architecture
15 19 (15.08%) Vulnerability Assessment
16 17 (13.49%) Risk Management
16 17 (13.49%) Windows
17 16 (12.70%) Law
18 15 (11.90%) Finance
18 15 (11.90%) Management Information System
18 15 (11.90%) Vulnerability Scanning
18 15 (11.90%) Cyber Essentials
19 14 (11.11%) GDPR
19 14 (11.11%) Security Cleared

Cybersecurity Analyst 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.79%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 44 (34.92%) Azure
2 12 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (6.35%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (4.76%) AWS
4 6 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.17%) SaaS
6 3 (2.38%) IaaS
6 3 (2.38%) PaaS
7 2 (1.59%) GCP
8 1 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 39 (30.95%) Firewall
2 7 (5.56%) Network Security
3 6 (4.76%) LAN
3 6 (4.76%) WAN
4 2 (1.59%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.79%) NGFW
5 1 (0.79%) VPN
General
1 26 (20.63%) Social Skills
2 25 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (12.70%) Law
4 15 (11.90%) Finance
5 13 (10.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (7.94%) Retail
7 6 (4.76%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.38%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.38%) Banking
8 3 (2.38%) Marketing
9 2 (1.59%) Publishing
10 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.08%) Security Operations Centre
2 15 (11.90%) Management Information System
3 13 (10.32%) Cyberattack
4 11 (8.73%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (8.73%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (4.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 6 (4.76%) Operational Technology
7 5 (3.97%) Cyber Security Posture
7 5 (3.97%) IoT
8 4 (3.17%) Insider Threat
9 3 (2.38%) CSOC
9 3 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.59%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.49%) Windows
2 8 (6.35%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.97%) Linux
4 4 (3.17%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.79%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 62 (49.21%) SIEM
3 48 (38.10%) Incident Response
4 40 (31.75%) Vulnerability Management
5 38 (30.16%) Security Operations
6 30 (23.81%) Information Security
7 29 (23.02%) Cloud Security
8 19 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (15.08%) Security Architecture
8 19 (15.08%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 17 (13.49%) Risk Management
10 15 (11.90%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 13 (10.32%) Data Protection
11 13 (10.32%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (10.32%) Threat Intelligence
12 12 (9.52%) Penetration Testing
13 11 (8.73%) Network Monitoring
14 10 (7.94%) Data Loss Prevention
14 10 (7.94%) Incident Management
14 10 (7.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.17%) Python
2 2 (1.59%) Bash
2 2 (1.59%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.79%) C++
3 1 (0.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (26.19%) CISSP
2 25 (19.84%) Degree
3 23 (18.25%) CompTIA Security+
4 14 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 11 (8.73%) CEH
5 11 (8.73%) CISM
5 11 (8.73%) CompTIA CySA+
6 10 (7.94%) Master's Degree
7 9 (7.14%) SSCP
8 8 (6.35%) CISA
9 6 (4.76%) GIAC
9 6 (4.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 5 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (3.17%) SC Cleared
12 3 (2.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (2.38%) CCSP
12 3 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (1.59%) CISMP
13 2 (1.59%) GSEC
13 2 (1.59%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (26.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (23.02%) NIST
3 15 (11.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (11.11%) GDPR
5 13 (10.32%) PCI DSS
6 5 (3.97%) ISO 22301
7 4 (3.17%) GRC
8 3 (2.38%) NCSC
9 2 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.59%) QA
10 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (7.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (7.14%) CASB
2 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (3.97%) Nessus
4 4 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.38%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 42 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.97%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.17%) BT
3 4 (3.17%) Intel
4 3 (2.38%) Splunk
5 2 (1.59%) Facebook
5 2 (1.59%) Sun
6 1 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.79%) Darktrace
6 1 (0.79%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.79%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.79%) SonicWALL
6 1 (0.79%) Zscaler