Cybersecurity Jobs in the Thames Valley

Cybersecurity
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 50 43
Rank change year-on-year +18 -7 +44
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 450 309 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.32% 5.42% 6.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.57% 5.72% 6.92%
Number of salaries quoted 221 124 262
10th Percentile £38,000 £36,327 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -9.43% +15.22%
75th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £92,500 £100,000
South East median annual salary £50,500 £55,050 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.27% -8.25% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,941 5,401 6,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 83.42% 94.65% 93.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,955 3,005 3,894
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,265 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,250 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in the Thames Valley

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in the Thames Valley

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the Thames Valley

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 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
Buckinghamshire +20 260 £50,000 - 11
Berkshire -6 142 £52,550 -24.93% 37
Oxfordshire +16 48 £42,500 -26.09% 9
Cybersecurity
South East

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 28 (6.22%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 27 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.11%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 86 (19.11%) Microsoft 365
2 65 (14.44%) Azure
3 21 (4.67%) Entra ID
4 20 (4.44%) OneDrive
5 18 (4.00%) AWS
6 14 (3.11%) Azure Sentinel
7 9 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (1.33%) GCP
9 5 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.11%) WhatsApp
10 4 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (0.89%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.89%) SaaS
11 3 (0.67%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.44%) Serverless
13 1 (0.22%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.22%) Azure Pipelines
13 1 (0.22%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (16.67%) Firewall
2 26 (5.78%) Intrusion Detection
3 25 (5.56%) Network Security
3 25 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
4 21 (4.67%) WAN
5 18 (4.00%) SD-WAN
6 11 (2.44%) DNS
6 11 (2.44%) Internet
7 10 (2.22%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (2.00%) Unified Communications
9 7 (1.56%) VPN
10 6 (1.33%) MPLS
11 5 (1.11%) LAN
11 5 (1.11%) SNMP
12 4 (0.89%) DHCP
12 4 (0.89%) SAN
12 4 (0.89%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.67%) 5G
13 3 (0.67%) Broadband
13 3 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.67%) Power BI
3 2 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.44%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (1.33%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.22%) Git
2 1 (0.22%) JIRA
General
1 141 (31.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 50 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 34 (7.56%) Finance
4 30 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (4.67%) Law
6 20 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (4.44%) Legal
7 16 (3.56%) Telecoms
8 15 (3.33%) Retail
9 11 (2.44%) Automotive
10 7 (1.56%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.33%) Banking
11 6 (1.33%) Games
11 6 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.67%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.22%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.22%) Local Government
13 1 (0.22%) Marketing
13 1 (0.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 102 (22.67%) Data Scientist
2 63 (14.00%) Analyst
3 61 (13.56%) Senior
4 38 (8.44%) Architect
5 32 (7.11%) Data Engineer
6 30 (6.67%) Security Architect
6 30 (6.67%) Security Engineer
7 29 (6.44%) IT Support
8 28 (6.22%) SOC Analyst
9 27 (6.00%) Security Manager
10 23 (5.11%) Lead
11 22 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (4.89%) Support Engineer
12 20 (4.44%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 20 (4.44%) IT Engineer
12 20 (4.44%) Systems Engineer
13 19 (4.22%) IT Manager
13 19 (4.22%) IT Support Engineer
14 18 (4.00%) Consultant
15 17 (3.78%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.11%) NETCONF
1 5 (1.11%) Web Services
2 1 (0.22%) .NET
2 1 (0.22%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.22%) CSS
2 1 (0.22%) EDI
2 1 (0.22%) HTML
2 1 (0.22%) JSON
2 1 (0.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 103 (22.89%) Algorithms
2 65 (14.44%) Management Information System
3 54 (12.00%) Data Centre
4 32 (7.11%) Cyber Threat
5 26 (5.78%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (4.89%) Security Operations Centre
7 13 (2.89%) Client/Server
8 11 (2.44%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.00%) Private Cloud
9 9 (2.00%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.78%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
11 6 (1.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 6 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.33%) Operational Technology
12 5 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.11%) Insider Threat
13 4 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.67%) IoT
14 3 (0.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 103 (22.89%) Windows
2 51 (11.33%) Windows Server
3 42 (9.33%) Windows 10
4 21 (4.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 21 (4.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 20 (4.44%) Windows Server 2012
6 17 (3.78%) Windows 7
7 6 (1.33%) Linux
8 5 (1.11%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.67%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.22%) Unix
10 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (44.00%) Problem-Solving
2 158 (35.11%) Decision-Making
3 155 (34.44%) Mentoring
4 146 (32.44%) Coaching
5 142 (31.56%) Red Team
6 140 (31.11%) Computer Science
7 134 (29.78%) Data Science
8 108 (24.00%) Mathematics
9 103 (22.89%) Data Analysis
10 102 (22.67%) Digital Forensics
10 102 (22.67%) Statistical Modelling
11 65 (14.44%) ITIL
12 55 (12.22%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 54 (12.00%) Security Operations
14 50 (11.11%) Analytics
15 49 (10.89%) Software Licensing
16 48 (10.67%) Presales
17 47 (10.44%) Incident Response
18 40 (8.89%) SIEM
19 36 (8.00%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 25 (5.56%) PowerShell
2 21 (4.67%) SQL
3 6 (1.33%) Python
4 4 (0.89%) Bash
5 2 (0.44%) R
6 1 (0.22%) C#
6 1 (0.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 256 (56.89%) Degree
2 64 (14.22%) Security Cleared
3 35 (7.78%) CISSP
4 20 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (4.22%) CompTIA Security+
6 18 (4.00%) CCNA
7 17 (3.78%) CCNP
7 17 (3.78%) HNC
7 17 (3.78%) MCP
8 16 (3.56%) SC Cleared
9 15 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (2.67%) AWS Certification
11 10 (2.22%) Azure Certification
11 10 (2.22%) CISM
12 8 (1.78%) GIAC
12 8 (1.78%) GPEN
13 7 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.89%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.56%) NIST
2 32 (7.11%) Data Quality
3 28 (6.22%) GDPR
3 28 (6.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (3.33%) GRC
5 14 (3.11%) PCI DSS
6 13 (2.89%) SLA
7 12 (2.67%) NIST 800
8 10 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.78%) COBIT
10 6 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 6 (1.33%) NCSC
11 5 (1.11%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.67%) COSO
12 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.67%) ITGC
13 2 (0.44%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.44%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.22%) QA
System Software
1 84 (18.67%) Active Directory
2 38 (8.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.33%) Firmware
4 2 (0.44%) Docker
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.22%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 33 (7.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (4.22%) SCCM
3 10 (2.22%) Stealthwatch
4 7 (1.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 7 (1.56%) Nessus
5 5 (1.11%) CASB
5 5 (1.11%) Suricata
6 3 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.44%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.22%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.22%) Terraform
8 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 162 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 53 (11.78%) VMware
3 50 (11.11%) Apple
4 49 (10.89%) Adobe
5 25 (5.56%) Citrix
6 22 (4.89%) Cisco
7 19 (4.22%) Veeam
8 16 (3.56%) Meraki
9 12 (2.67%) Dell
9 12 (2.67%) HP
10 11 (2.44%) Samsung
11 10 (2.22%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.56%) Splunk
13 6 (1.33%) Intel
13 6 (1.33%) Qualys
13 6 (1.33%) Sophos
14 5 (1.11%) BT
14 5 (1.11%) Juniper
14 5 (1.11%) Palo Alto
14 5 (1.11%) WatchGuard