Cybersecurity
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 46 78
Rank change year-on-year +9 +32 -8
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,476 6,137 7,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.52% 6.06% 4.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.45% 6.33% 4.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,979 3,241 3,646
10th Percentile £35,605 £37,463 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £59,526 £58,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% +2.63% +6.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,952 96,876 150,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,894 57,115 82,331
10th Percentile £29,002 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the UK

Cybersecurity
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +18 4,913 £57,500 -11.54% 1,117
UK excluding London +7 3,826 £52,500 -11.80% 763
Work from Home +11 1,892 £57,500 -11.54% 585
London +25 1,445 £72,500 +3.57% 358
South East +23 971 £50,500 -8.18% 178
North of England +9 910 £52,084 -13.19% 206
Midlands +14 695 £55,000 -8.33% 127
South West +11 628 £60,000 -2.04% 125
North West -4 568 £52,084 -15.99% 113
West Midlands +11 507 £55,000 -12.00% 85
Scotland -57 318 £55,000 -7.60% 43
Yorkshire +10 251 £51,000 -15.00% 77
East of England +21 222 £54,000 +5.37% 64
East Midlands +23 184 £42,500 -10.53% 42
North East +45 91 £42,500 -7.36% 16
Wales -41 51 £52,504 -24.99% 30
Northern Ireland -17 23 £42,500 -20.93% 10
Isle of Man -15 8 £37,500 -16.67% 1
Channel Islands -4 1 £100,000 -13.04% 1

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 254 (4.64%) SharePoint
2 226 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 41 (0.75%) IIS
4 26 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 19 (0.35%) Apache
6 16 (0.29%) Confluence
7 14 (0.26%) FileNet
8 10 (0.18%) CMS
9 6 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.091%) Site Server
11 4 (0.073%) CloudStack
11 4 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2010
11 4 (0.073%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.055%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.055%) Luigi
12 3 (0.055%) nginx
13 2 (0.037%) MS Project Server
13 2 (0.037%) SharePoint 2013
13 2 (0.037%) WordPress
14 1 (0.018%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 249 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 103 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 63 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.16%) Revit
6 9 (0.16%) Simulink
7 6 (0.11%) Trello
8 5 (0.091%) CANalyzer
9 4 (0.073%) Stateflow
9 4 (0.073%) Windchill
10 2 (0.037%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 17 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.091%) Dynamics GP
3 5 (0.091%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.073%) SAP WM
5 3 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.055%) Primavera
6 2 (0.037%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.037%) SAP FI-GL
6 2 (0.037%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.018%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.018%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,396 (25.49%) Azure
2 848 (15.49%) Microsoft 365
3 579 (10.57%) AWS
4 431 (7.87%) Entra ID
5 275 (5.02%) SaaS
6 198 (3.62%) GCP
7 133 (2.43%) PaaS
8 131 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
9 118 (2.15%) IaaS
10 103 (1.88%) Power Platform
11 83 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
12 69 (1.26%) Amazon S3
13 56 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
14 52 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
14 52 (0.95%) OneDrive
15 38 (0.69%) Serverless
16 37 (0.68%) GitHub
16 37 (0.68%) Microsoft Purview
16 37 (0.68%) PowerApps
17 35 (0.64%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 839 (15.32%) Firewall
2 369 (6.74%) Network Security
3 261 (4.77%) WAN
4 249 (4.55%) DNS
5 246 (4.49%) 5G
6 235 (4.29%) Broadband
7 219 (4.00%) TCP/IP
8 192 (3.51%) LAN
9 170 (3.10%) Wi-Fi
10 167 (3.05%) DHCP
11 142 (2.59%) VPN
12 136 (2.48%) Intrusion Detection
13 111 (2.03%) SD-WAN
14 93 (1.70%) Wireless
15 92 (1.68%) Internet
16 83 (1.52%) SAN
17 59 (1.08%) MPLS
17 59 (1.08%) VLAN
18 54 (0.99%) Unified Communications
19 52 (0.95%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (2.03%) SQL Server
2 88 (1.61%) Power BI
3 65 (1.19%) NoSQL
4 57 (1.04%) Big Data
4 57 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
5 56 (1.02%) MySQL
6 49 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
7 37 (0.68%) Hadoop
8 31 (0.57%) Data Lake
8 31 (0.57%) MongoDB
8 31 (0.57%) Redis
9 24 (0.44%) Oracle Database
9 24 (0.44%) Relational Database
10 23 (0.42%) Scylla
11 17 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
11 17 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
12 14 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.18%) Tableau
15 6 (0.11%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 88 (1.61%) Jenkins
2 74 (1.35%) JIRA
3 59 (1.08%) Git
4 37 (0.68%) Burp Suite
4 37 (0.68%) Metasploit
5 25 (0.46%) JUnit
6 24 (0.44%) GitLab
7 19 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
7 19 (0.35%) SonarQube
8 17 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
9 15 (0.27%) Visual Studio
10 12 (0.22%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.16%) Gradle
11 9 (0.16%) IntelliJ
11 9 (0.16%) Subversion
12 8 (0.15%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.15%) Mockito
13 5 (0.091%) CANoe
13 5 (0.091%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.091%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,366 (24.95%) Social Skills
2 947 (17.29%) Finance
3 720 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
4 680 (12.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 369 (6.74%) Law
6 275 (5.02%) Legal
7 253 (4.62%) Public Sector
8 178 (3.25%) Telecoms
9 154 (2.81%) Retail
10 152 (2.78%) Marketing
11 145 (2.65%) Banking
12 136 (2.48%) Manufacturing
13 131 (2.39%) Games
14 117 (2.14%) Military
15 116 (2.12%) Aerospace
16 112 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
17 95 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
18 72 (1.31%) Automotive
19 65 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
20 63 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 878 (16.03%) Senior
2 699 (12.76%) Analyst
3 444 (8.11%) Architect
4 424 (7.74%) Lead
5 378 (6.90%) Consultant
6 364 (6.65%) Security Analyst
7 320 (5.84%) Security Engineer
8 283 (5.17%) Security Manager
9 279 (5.09%) Software Engineer
10 276 (5.04%) Security Consultant
11 238 (4.35%) IT Manager
12 228 (4.16%) Security Architect
13 214 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 214 (3.91%) Technical Specialist
14 212 (3.87%) Linux Specialist
15 200 (3.65%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 193 (3.52%) IT Engineer
17 174 (3.18%) IT Support
18 162 (2.96%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 159 (2.90%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (1.64%) HTML
2 83 (1.52%) .NET
3 76 (1.39%) CSS
4 75 (1.37%) REST
5 66 (1.21%) Kafka
6 65 (1.19%) Web Services
7 58 (1.06%) JSON
8 56 (1.02%) AngularJS
8 56 (1.02%) OpenID
8 56 (1.02%) React
9 53 (0.97%) Spring
10 52 (0.95%) Node.js
11 49 (0.89%) OAuth
12 43 (0.79%) jQuery
13 40 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
14 37 (0.68%) GraphQL
15 36 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
16 29 (0.53%) Middleware
17 28 (0.51%) RESTful
17 28 (0.51%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 581 (10.61%) Management Information System
2 339 (6.19%) Data Centre
3 286 (5.22%) Cyber Threat
4 255 (4.66%) Social Media
5 231 (4.22%) Security Posture
6 222 (4.05%) Operational Technology
7 198 (3.62%) Algorithms
8 188 (3.43%) Security Operations Centre
9 187 (3.41%) Cyberattack
10 185 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
11 147 (2.68%) Public Cloud
12 136 (2.48%) Driving Licence
13 131 (2.39%) IoT
14 124 (2.26%) Onboarding
15 100 (1.83%) Cloud Native
16 98 (1.79%) PKI
17 86 (1.57%) Cyber Defence
18 79 (1.44%) Product Ownership
19 64 (1.17%) Private Cloud
20 61 (1.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 1,003 (18.32%) Windows
2 657 (12.00%) Linux
3 434 (7.93%) Windows Server
4 241 (4.40%) Ubuntu
5 148 (2.70%) Windows 10
6 107 (1.95%) Apple iOS
7 96 (1.75%) Unix
8 85 (1.55%) Android
9 73 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 64 (1.17%) Mac OS
11 59 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
12 53 (0.97%) Embedded Linux
13 48 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
14 43 (0.79%) Kali Linux
15 25 (0.46%) Windows 7
16 22 (0.40%) Mac OS X
17 21 (0.38%) VMS
18 17 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
19 10 (0.18%) Debian
20 9 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,079 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
2 944 (17.24%) Information Security
3 678 (12.38%) Incident Response
4 619 (11.30%) SIEM
5 557 (10.17%) Mentoring
6 549 (10.03%) Risk Management
7 522 (9.53%) Agile
8 520 (9.50%) Security Operations
9 513 (9.37%) Computer Science
10 458 (8.36%) Artificial Intelligence
10 458 (8.36%) ITIL
11 406 (7.41%) Software Engineering
12 394 (7.20%) IT Strategy
13 378 (6.90%) Penetration Testing
14 370 (6.76%) Vulnerability Management
15 365 (6.67%) Project Management
16 361 (6.59%) Coaching
17 357 (6.52%) Decision-Making
18 349 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 338 (6.17%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 469 (8.56%) Python
2 424 (7.74%) Bash
3 302 (5.51%) SQL
4 279 (5.09%) PowerShell
5 238 (4.35%) Java
6 149 (2.72%) JavaScript
7 132 (2.41%) C
8 85 (1.55%) C#
9 65 (1.19%) Rust
10 55 (1.00%) C++
11 51 (0.93%) Embedded C
12 46 (0.84%) Go
13 36 (0.66%) TypeScript
14 29 (0.53%) Scala
15 24 (0.44%) PHP
16 23 (0.42%) Perl
17 18 (0.33%) PL/SQL
18 14 (0.26%) R
19 13 (0.24%) MATLAB
20 12 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,175 (21.46%) Degree
2 870 (15.89%) Security Cleared
3 677 (12.36%) CISSP
4 438 (8.00%) SC Cleared
5 414 (7.56%) CISM
6 248 (4.53%) Cisco Certification
7 222 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 188 (3.43%) DV Cleared
9 170 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 158 (2.89%) CRISC
11 154 (2.81%) CCNA
12 146 (2.67%) CISA
13 127 (2.32%) Master's Degree
14 123 (2.25%) CompTIA Security+
15 122 (2.23%) CEH
16 118 (2.15%) GIAC
17 117 (2.14%) Azure Certification
18 107 (1.95%) CCNP
19 101 (1.84%) CREST Certified
20 87 (1.59%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 747 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 608 (11.10%) NIST
3 345 (6.30%) GDPR
4 318 (5.81%) Cyber Essentials
5 207 (3.78%) GRC
5 207 (3.78%) NCSC
6 160 (2.92%) PCI DSS
7 110 (2.01%) QA
8 106 (1.94%) SLA
9 84 (1.53%) Def Stans
10 80 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 77 (1.41%) NIST 800
12 69 (1.26%) ISO 9001
13 66 (1.21%) COBIT
14 59 (1.08%) Data Quality
15 57 (1.04%) SOC 2
16 50 (0.91%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 45 (0.82%) JSP 440
18 40 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 17025
19 39 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 863 (15.76%) Active Directory
2 270 (4.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 151 (2.76%) Hyper-V
4 140 (2.56%) Docker
5 49 (0.89%) vSphere
6 36 (0.66%) Firmware
7 35 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
8 34 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
9 33 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
10 27 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
11 11 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 11 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
12 9 (0.16%) Forefront TMG
13 7 (0.13%) XenApp
14 6 (0.11%) Terminal Services
15 5 (0.091%) VMware NSX
16 4 (0.073%) NFS
16 4 (0.073%) pfSense
16 4 (0.073%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 4 (0.073%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 424 (7.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 214 (3.91%) Jamf Pro
3 155 (2.83%) Kubernetes
4 133 (2.43%) Terraform
5 93 (1.70%) Ansible
6 52 (0.95%) SCCM
7 48 (0.88%) Grafana
7 48 (0.88%) WSUS
8 45 (0.82%) Nessus
9 43 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
10 38 (0.69%) CASB
11 35 (0.64%) EnCase
12 32 (0.58%) FortiGate
13 30 (0.55%) QRadar
14 28 (0.51%) Puppet
15 27 (0.49%) Stealthwatch
15 27 (0.49%) vCenter Server
16 20 (0.37%) Nagios
17 19 (0.35%) SCOM
18 18 (0.33%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1,649 (30.11%) Microsoft
2 364 (6.65%) VMware
3 301 (5.50%) Cisco
4 238 (4.35%) CyberArk
5 237 (4.33%) Tanium
6 179 (3.27%) Apple
7 156 (2.85%) Adobe
8 144 (2.63%) Google
9 141 (2.57%) Splunk
10 132 (2.41%) Dell
11 129 (2.36%) Veeam
12 99 (1.81%) Meraki
13 91 (1.66%) HP
14 83 (1.52%) Oracle
15 63 (1.15%) ServiceNow
16 62 (1.13%) Qualys
17 57 (1.04%) Juniper
18 56 (1.02%) Fortinet
19 55 (1.00%) SAP
20 50 (0.91%) CrowdStrike