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

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 46 52
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 +15
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 3,835 3,695 3,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.24% 6.33% 5.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.33% 6.62% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,738 1,751 1,870
10th Percentile £34,801 £33,000 £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 £80,000 £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 60,593 55,780 68,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.77% 95.57% 94.24%
Number of salaries quoted 41,777 28,809 41,151
10th Percentile £27,300 £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% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 25 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 25 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 +20 975 £50,500 -8.18% 299
North of England +13 930 £52,084 -13.19% 224
Midlands +15 698 £55,000 -8.33% 122
South West +10 622 £60,000 -4.00% 152
North West -3 576 £52,084 -15.99% 139
West Midlands +13 505 £55,087 -11.86% 71
Scotland -54 319 £51,750 -13.06% 51
Yorkshire +18 259 £51,000 -15.00% 74
East of England +24 206 £54,000 +2.86% 88
East Midlands +23 189 £42,500 -10.53% 49
North East +49 95 £42,500 -3.41% 11
Wales -41 52 £52,500 -25.00% 22
Northern Ireland -19 25 £42,500 -19.05% 15
Isle of Man -12 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
1 174 (4.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 173 (4.51%) SharePoint
3 29 (0.76%) IIS
4 19 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.37%) FileNet
6 12 (0.31%) Confluence
7 11 (0.29%) Apache
8 8 (0.21%) CMS
9 5 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.13%) Luigi
9 5 (0.13%) Site Server
10 4 (0.10%) CloudStack
10 4 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2010
10 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.052%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.052%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.026%) MS Project Server
12 1 (0.026%) nginx
12 1 (0.026%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 166 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (0.26%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.23%) Simulink
6 5 (0.13%) CANalyzer
7 4 (0.10%) Stateflow
7 4 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
2 5 (0.13%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.10%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.078%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.052%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.052%) Primavera
6 1 (0.026%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 835 (21.77%) Azure
2 598 (15.59%) Microsoft 365
3 369 (9.62%) AWS
4 264 (6.88%) Entra ID
5 172 (4.49%) SaaS
6 98 (2.56%) GCP
7 96 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
8 69 (1.80%) PaaS
9 65 (1.69%) Power Platform
10 60 (1.56%) IaaS
11 52 (1.36%) Amazon S3
12 50 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
13 48 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
14 47 (1.23%) OneDrive
15 35 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
16 34 (0.89%) PowerApps
17 32 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 32 (0.83%) Datadog
18 29 (0.76%) Power Automate
19 25 (0.65%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 533 (13.90%) Firewall
2 235 (6.13%) Network Security
3 197 (5.14%) WAN
4 146 (3.81%) DNS
5 140 (3.65%) TCP/IP
6 118 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
7 117 (3.05%) DHCP
8 116 (3.02%) LAN
9 94 (2.45%) VPN
10 90 (2.35%) 5G
11 86 (2.24%) Intrusion Detection
12 84 (2.19%) SD-WAN
13 77 (2.01%) Broadband
14 59 (1.54%) SAN
15 53 (1.38%) Internet
16 47 (1.23%) Wireless
17 46 (1.20%) MPLS
18 45 (1.17%) VLAN
19 37 (0.96%) VoIP
20 33 (0.86%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (1.88%) SQL Server
2 54 (1.41%) NoSQL
3 53 (1.38%) Power BI
4 45 (1.17%) MySQL
5 44 (1.15%) Big Data
6 40 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
7 31 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (0.65%) Hadoop
8 25 (0.65%) Redis
9 19 (0.50%) Data Lake
9 19 (0.50%) Scylla
10 17 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (0.44%) Relational Database
11 14 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (0.31%) MongoDB
13 11 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (0.21%) Tableau
15 5 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.13%) Bigtable
15 5 (0.13%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 47 (1.23%) JIRA
2 41 (1.07%) Git
3 30 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 22 (0.57%) JUnit
5 21 (0.55%) GitLab
6 19 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
7 17 (0.44%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.34%) Visual Studio
9 9 (0.23%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.21%) Burp Suite
11 6 (0.16%) IntelliJ
11 6 (0.16%) Mockito
11 6 (0.16%) Subversion
12 5 (0.13%) CANoe
12 5 (0.13%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.13%) Gradle
12 5 (0.13%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.10%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.10%) Rational Team Concert
13 4 (0.10%) Selenium
General
1 890 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 596 (15.54%) Finance
3 453 (11.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 384 (10.01%) Analytical Skills
5 253 (6.60%) Law
6 170 (4.43%) Legal
7 145 (3.78%) Public Sector
8 128 (3.34%) Telecoms
9 121 (3.16%) Manufacturing
10 107 (2.79%) Banking
11 101 (2.63%) Military
12 97 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
12 97 (2.53%) Retail
13 89 (2.32%) Aerospace
14 79 (2.06%) Games
15 77 (2.01%) Marketing
16 63 (1.64%) Automotive
17 36 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
18 31 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
19 28 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 544 (14.19%) Senior
2 472 (12.31%) Analyst
3 338 (8.81%) Lead
4 272 (7.09%) Architect
5 264 (6.88%) Consultant
6 233 (6.08%) Software Engineer
7 212 (5.53%) Security Analyst
8 201 (5.24%) Security Manager
9 199 (5.19%) Security Consultant
10 193 (5.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 184 (4.80%) IT Manager
12 176 (4.59%) Security Engineer
13 154 (4.02%) IT Support
14 146 (3.81%) IT Engineer
15 141 (3.68%) Security Architect
16 134 (3.49%) Data Scientist
17 127 (3.31%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 124 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
19 122 (3.18%) Cybersecurity Manager
20 116 (3.02%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (1.30%) .NET
1 50 (1.30%) HTML
1 50 (1.30%) Kafka
1 50 (1.30%) Web Services
2 48 (1.25%) Node.js
3 47 (1.23%) AngularJS
4 44 (1.15%) CSS
5 43 (1.12%) React
6 42 (1.10%) Spring
7 41 (1.07%) REST
8 33 (0.86%) GraphQL
9 32 (0.83%) OpenID
10 31 (0.81%) OpenTelemetry
11 27 (0.70%) OAuth
12 23 (0.60%) jQuery
12 23 (0.60%) JSON
13 22 (0.57%) Middleware
13 22 (0.57%) RESTful
14 21 (0.55%) 802.1X
15 18 (0.47%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 442 (11.53%) Management Information System
2 265 (6.91%) Data Centre
3 190 (4.95%) Algorithms
4 181 (4.72%) Cyber Threat
5 167 (4.35%) Operational Technology
6 150 (3.91%) Security Operations Centre
7 146 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
8 126 (3.29%) Security Posture
9 123 (3.21%) Public Cloud
10 118 (3.08%) Driving Licence
11 102 (2.66%) Cyberattack
12 101 (2.63%) Social Media
13 89 (2.32%) IoT
14 75 (1.96%) Cloud Native
14 75 (1.96%) Onboarding
15 59 (1.54%) Product Ownership
16 54 (1.41%) Private Cloud
17 51 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
18 41 (1.07%) Cyber Security Posture
19 37 (0.96%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 719 (18.75%) Windows
2 356 (9.28%) Linux
3 319 (8.32%) Windows Server
4 115 (3.00%) Windows 10
5 87 (2.27%) Ubuntu
6 74 (1.93%) Unix
7 64 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 60 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 53 (1.38%) Embedded Linux
10 43 (1.12%) Apple iOS
11 40 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
12 37 (0.96%) Mac OS
13 30 (0.78%) Android
14 25 (0.65%) Windows 7
15 19 (0.50%) VMS
16 17 (0.44%) Mac OS X
17 13 (0.34%) Kali Linux
18 8 (0.21%) Solaris
19 6 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 6 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (20.94%) Problem-Solving
2 565 (14.73%) Information Security
3 429 (11.19%) Incident Response
4 420 (10.95%) Agile
5 419 (10.93%) Mentoring
6 411 (10.72%) Risk Management
7 363 (9.47%) Security Operations
8 360 (9.39%) Computer Science
9 344 (8.97%) Coaching
10 335 (8.74%) SIEM
11 326 (8.50%) Software Engineering
12 312 (8.14%) ITIL
13 303 (7.90%) Decision-Making
14 292 (7.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 266 (6.94%) Project Management
16 259 (6.75%) Artificial Intelligence
17 244 (6.36%) Vulnerability Management
18 237 (6.18%) Analytics
18 237 (6.18%) Roadmaps
19 233 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 298 (7.77%) Python
2 242 (6.31%) SQL
3 220 (5.74%) Bash
4 199 (5.19%) PowerShell
5 172 (4.49%) Java
6 102 (2.66%) C
7 89 (2.32%) JavaScript
8 61 (1.59%) Rust
9 51 (1.33%) Embedded C
10 47 (1.23%) C#
11 30 (0.78%) C++
12 26 (0.68%) Go
13 24 (0.63%) Scala
14 22 (0.57%) PHP
14 22 (0.57%) TypeScript
15 13 (0.34%) Perl
16 12 (0.31%) R
17 11 (0.29%) MATLAB
18 8 (0.21%) Ruby
19 5 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 858 (22.37%) Degree
2 656 (17.11%) Security Cleared
3 356 (9.28%) CISSP
4 306 (7.98%) SC Cleared
5 231 (6.02%) CISM
6 160 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
7 132 (3.44%) CCNA
8 122 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 111 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 110 (2.87%) DV Cleared
11 94 (2.45%) CRISC
12 88 (2.29%) CCNP
12 88 (2.29%) CISA
13 81 (2.11%) CompTIA Security+
14 75 (1.96%) Azure Certification
15 66 (1.72%) Master's Degree
16 57 (1.49%) CEH
17 55 (1.43%) CESG Certified Professional
18 49 (1.28%) GIAC
19 45 (1.17%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 455 (11.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 407 (10.61%) NIST
3 243 (6.34%) GDPR
4 230 (6.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 144 (3.75%) GRC
6 140 (3.65%) NCSC
7 97 (2.53%) PCI DSS
8 88 (2.29%) SLA
9 84 (2.19%) Def Stans
10 66 (1.72%) NIST 800
11 58 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 54 (1.41%) QA
13 47 (1.23%) Data Quality
14 44 (1.15%) ISO 9001
15 40 (1.04%) JSP 440
16 28 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 27 (0.70%) COBIT
17 27 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 25 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
19 23 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 562 (14.65%) Active Directory
2 175 (4.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 127 (3.31%) Hyper-V
4 75 (1.96%) Docker
5 44 (1.15%) RACF
6 33 (0.86%) vSphere
7 26 (0.68%) Firmware
8 24 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
9 20 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
10 18 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 9 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
14 4 (0.10%) NFS
14 4 (0.10%) pfSense
14 4 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.10%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.10%) VMware Server
14 4 (0.10%) XenApp
15 3 (0.078%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 230 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 110 (2.87%) Kubernetes
3 98 (2.56%) Terraform
4 68 (1.77%) Jamf Pro
5 39 (1.02%) SCCM
6 38 (0.99%) WSUS
7 37 (0.96%) Ansible
8 35 (0.91%) Grafana
9 28 (0.73%) CASB
9 28 (0.73%) FortiGate
10 27 (0.70%) Stealthwatch
11 26 (0.68%) Nessus
12 24 (0.63%) EnCase
13 17 (0.44%) Puppet
13 17 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
13 17 (0.44%) vCenter Server
14 11 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 11 (0.29%) Nmap
15 10 (0.26%) Functional Safety
16 9 (0.23%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,083 (28.24%) Microsoft
2 258 (6.73%) VMware
3 226 (5.89%) Cisco
4 153 (3.99%) Apple
5 132 (3.44%) Adobe
6 119 (3.10%) CyberArk
7 91 (2.37%) Veeam
8 89 (2.32%) Splunk
9 86 (2.24%) Dell
10 82 (2.14%) Meraki
11 80 (2.09%) Tanium
12 72 (1.88%) Google
13 65 (1.69%) HP
14 47 (1.23%) Oracle
15 39 (1.02%) Citrix
16 37 (0.96%) Fortinet
17 35 (0.91%) Sage
17 35 (0.91%) ServiceNow
18 34 (0.89%) Juniper
19 31 (0.81%) Sophos