Information Security Jobs

Information Security (InfoSec)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Information Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 96 149
Rank change year-on-year -22 +53 -26
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 2,367 3,171 4,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.26% 3.35% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 3.51% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,826 2,041 2,810
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £98,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Information Security 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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in the UK

Information Security
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Information Security.

Salary trend for Information Security in the UK

Information Security
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Information Security in the UK

Information Security
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England -16 2,161 £60,000 -7.69% 590
UK excluding London -26 1,495 £53,500 -2.73% 381
Work from Home -8 944 £60,000 -5.51% 277
London -15 777 £75,000 +7.14% 218
North of England +3 459 £52,084 +4.17% 95
South East -32 342 £59,250 +2.16% 95
North West -5 276 £52,084 +4.17% 42
Midlands -28 264 £54,650 -8.92% 83
South West -15 194 £50,000 -9.09% 46
West Midlands -36 184 £55,000 -4.35% 51
Yorkshire +10 147 £50,000 -4.76% 42
East of England -23 107 £57,500 -3.36% 31
Scotland -58 95 £49,995 -23.96% 25
East Midlands +24 79 £52,500 -22.22% 32
North East +8 36 £41,536 -12.56% 11
Wales +10 24 £62,500 +35.87% 6
Northern Ireland 0 5 £42,500 -3.41% 3
Isle of Man -15 4 £46,500 +3.33% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -

Information Security
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 71 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 66 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (1.14%) IIS
4 15 (0.63%) SAS
4 15 (0.63%) Skype for Business
5 13 (0.55%) WordPress
6 12 (0.51%) CMS
7 10 (0.42%) Confluence
8 8 (0.34%) nginx
9 6 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.21%) Apache
10 5 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.13%) Drupal
11 3 (0.13%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.084%) Exchange Server 2003
12 2 (0.084%) Exchange Server 2007
12 2 (0.084%) Exchange Server 2010
12 2 (0.084%) IBM Domino
13 1 (0.042%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.042%) WebSphere
Applications
1 82 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (1.14%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.63%) SPSS
5 14 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.084%) Notion
Business Applications
1 12 (0.51%) Endur
2 11 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (0.25%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.21%) Shopify
5 4 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.17%) Relativity
5 4 (0.17%) SAP GRC
6 3 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.084%) Farmplan
7 2 (0.084%) KEYPrime
7 2 (0.084%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.084%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.084%) Veritas eDiscovery
8 1 (0.042%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.042%) Ringtail
8 1 (0.042%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 568 (24.00%) Azure
2 318 (13.43%) Microsoft 365
3 285 (12.04%) AWS
4 151 (6.38%) Entra ID
5 105 (4.44%) Power Platform
6 101 (4.27%) SaaS
7 97 (4.10%) GCP
8 67 (2.83%) IaaS
9 62 (2.62%) PaaS
10 52 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
12 43 (1.82%) Serverless
13 36 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
14 24 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
15 22 (0.93%) OneDrive
15 22 (0.93%) Snowflake
16 18 (0.76%) Matillion
17 17 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
18 16 (0.68%) PowerApps
19 14 (0.59%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 345 (14.58%) Firewall
2 198 (8.37%) Network Security
3 121 (5.11%) WAN
4 109 (4.60%) DNS
5 94 (3.97%) LAN
6 77 (3.25%) TCP/IP
7 73 (3.08%) Intrusion Detection
8 62 (2.62%) SD-WAN
9 60 (2.53%) VPN
10 46 (1.94%) Internet
11 42 (1.77%) Wireless
12 35 (1.48%) SSL
13 34 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
14 31 (1.31%) DHCP
14 31 (1.31%) DKIM
14 31 (1.31%) DMARC
15 30 (1.27%) VoIP
16 25 (1.06%) SAN
16 25 (1.06%) Wireshark
17 23 (0.97%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (3.97%) Power BI
2 74 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 41 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (1.65%) Relational Database
5 27 (1.14%) Metadata
6 24 (1.01%) Big Data
7 21 (0.89%) Data Lake
8 17 (0.72%) EDRMS
9 16 (0.68%) MySQL
10 12 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (0.38%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.30%) SAP BW
14 6 (0.25%) Data Mining
14 6 (0.25%) SAP HANA
15 5 (0.21%) BigQuery
15 5 (0.21%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.21%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.21%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 42 (1.77%) Burp Suite
2 41 (1.73%) JIRA
2 41 (1.73%) Metasploit
3 23 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 20 (0.84%) Git
5 9 (0.38%) GitLab
6 6 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.25%) Toad
7 5 (0.21%) CircleCI
7 5 (0.21%) MSTest
7 5 (0.21%) webpack
8 4 (0.17%) git-flow
9 3 (0.13%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.084%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.084%) GDB
10 2 (0.084%) Selenium
10 2 (0.084%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.042%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.042%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.042%) WebDriver
General
1 719 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 524 (22.14%) Finance
3 382 (16.14%) Analytical Skills
4 330 (13.94%) Legal
5 178 (7.52%) Law
6 119 (5.03%) Public Sector
7 118 (4.99%) Retail
8 116 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 103 (4.35%) Banking
10 97 (4.10%) Military
11 96 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
12 65 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
13 58 (2.45%) Marketing
14 41 (1.73%) Telecoms
15 38 (1.61%) Aerospace
16 36 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
17 30 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
18 27 (1.14%) Advertising
19 26 (1.10%) Manufacturing
20 15 (0.63%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 545 (23.02%) Analyst
2 336 (14.20%) Senior
3 331 (13.98%) Security Analyst
4 228 (9.63%) Lead
4 228 (9.63%) Security Manager
5 188 (7.94%) Architect
6 175 (7.39%) Information Analyst
7 173 (7.31%) Information Security Analyst
8 155 (6.55%) Senior Analyst
9 136 (5.75%) Consultant
10 130 (5.49%) Information Manager
11 128 (5.41%) Information Security Manager
12 127 (5.37%) Security Architect
13 118 (4.99%) IT Manager
14 111 (4.69%) Security Consultant
15 107 (4.52%) Security Engineer
16 68 (2.87%) IT Analyst
17 63 (2.66%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 59 (2.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 58 (2.45%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.07%) .NET
2 29 (1.23%) HTML
3 28 (1.18%) CSS
4 22 (0.93%) React
5 21 (0.89%) REST
6 20 (0.84%) ASP.NET
6 20 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
7 16 (0.68%) SAML
8 14 (0.59%) Middleware
8 14 (0.59%) Web Services
9 12 (0.51%) 802.1X
10 11 (0.46%) .NET Framework
11 9 (0.38%) Entity Framework
11 9 (0.38%) HTML5 Canvas
11 9 (0.38%) ModSecurity
12 8 (0.34%) ADO
12 8 (0.34%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (0.34%) EDI
12 8 (0.34%) JSON
12 8 (0.34%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 644 (27.21%) Management Information System
2 176 (7.44%) Security Posture
3 118 (4.99%) Data Centre
4 99 (4.18%) Security Operations Centre
5 87 (3.68%) Cyber Threat
6 78 (3.30%) Cyberattack
7 66 (2.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 65 (2.75%) Cyber Defence
9 62 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
10 55 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
10 55 (2.32%) Onboarding
11 45 (1.90%) PMI
12 38 (1.61%) Operational Technology
13 34 (1.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 34 (1.44%) Product Ownership
14 32 (1.35%) Driving Licence
14 32 (1.35%) PKI
15 28 (1.18%) Cloud Native
16 27 (1.14%) Data Structures
17 24 (1.01%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 268 (11.32%) Windows
2 156 (6.59%) Linux
3 107 (4.52%) Windows Server
4 42 (1.77%) Apple iOS
4 42 (1.77%) Unix
5 37 (1.56%) Android
6 36 (1.52%) Windows 10
7 31 (1.31%) Kali Linux
8 16 (0.68%) Mac OS X
9 12 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
10 11 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (0.46%) Solaris
10 11 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (0.42%) zOS
12 9 (0.38%) Mac OS
12 9 (0.38%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.21%) VMS
14 4 (0.17%) Windows XP
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 973 (41.11%) Cybersecurity
2 427 (18.04%) Risk Management
3 412 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
4 308 (13.01%) Security Operations
5 295 (12.46%) Data Protection
6 293 (12.38%) Incident Response
7 289 (12.21%) Agile
8 267 (11.28%) SIEM
9 254 (10.73%) Cloud Security
9 254 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 247 (10.44%) Roadmaps
11 244 (10.31%) Project Management
12 242 (10.22%) Security Management
13 241 (10.18%) Vulnerability Management
14 230 (9.72%) ITIL
15 220 (9.29%) Security Architecture
16 206 (8.70%) Computer Science
17 194 (8.20%) Coaching
18 193 (8.15%) Incident Management
19 192 (8.11%) Information Security Management
Programming Languages
1 182 (7.69%) SQL
2 178 (7.52%) PowerShell
3 129 (5.45%) Python
4 38 (1.61%) Bash
5 34 (1.44%) T-SQL
6 32 (1.35%) Java
7 27 (1.14%) C#
7 27 (1.14%) JavaScript
8 18 (0.76%) PHP
8 18 (0.76%) TypeScript
9 9 (0.38%) Go
10 8 (0.34%) Perl
11 6 (0.25%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.17%) Ruby
13 3 (0.13%) Korn
13 3 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.13%) VB
14 2 (0.084%) C++
14 2 (0.084%) R
14 2 (0.084%) Rust
Qualifications
1 569 (24.04%) CISSP
2 462 (19.52%) Degree
3 413 (17.45%) CISM
4 239 (10.10%) Security Cleared
5 195 (8.24%) CISA
6 159 (6.72%) Cisco Certification
7 129 (5.45%) SC Cleared
8 111 (4.69%) Azure Certification
9 110 (4.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 99 (4.18%) CCSP
11 98 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
12 94 (3.97%) CRISC
13 92 (3.89%) AWS Certification
14 79 (3.34%) CEH
15 72 (3.04%) Master's Degree
16 67 (2.83%) DV Cleared
17 62 (2.62%) GIAC
18 54 (2.28%) CCSK
18 54 (2.28%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 54 (2.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 693 (29.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 477 (20.15%) NIST
3 294 (12.42%) GDPR
4 257 (10.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 194 (8.20%) GRC
6 176 (7.44%) PCI DSS
7 101 (4.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 82 (3.46%) NCSC
9 69 (2.92%) NIST 800
10 65 (2.75%) COBIT
11 47 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 42 (1.77%) QA
13 40 (1.69%) SLA
14 37 (1.56%) ISO 9001
15 35 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 31 (1.31%) Data Quality
16 31 (1.31%) SOC 2
17 29 (1.23%) JSP 440
18 26 (1.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 26 (1.10%) RMADS
System Software
1 245 (10.35%) Active Directory
2 56 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (2.15%) Docker
4 50 (2.11%) RACF
5 32 (1.35%) Hyper-V
6 26 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 23 (0.97%) vSphere
8 20 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.17%) Firmware
10 4 (0.17%) pfSense
11 2 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.084%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.042%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.042%) Lustre
12 1 (0.042%) LXC
12 1 (0.042%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.042%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.042%) Snort
12 1 (0.042%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 82 (3.46%) Single Sign-On
2 81 (3.42%) Kubernetes
3 69 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 46 (1.94%) CASB
5 34 (1.44%) Ansible
6 32 (1.35%) Terraform
7 29 (1.23%) SCCM
8 27 (1.14%) Nmap
9 21 (0.89%) vCenter Server
10 20 (0.84%) Microsoft Clustering
11 14 (0.59%) Nessus
12 13 (0.55%) WSUS
13 11 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 10 (0.42%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 10 (0.42%) QRadar
15 8 (0.34%) CSIRT
15 8 (0.34%) Puppet
16 7 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
17 6 (0.25%) logstash
18 5 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 626 (26.45%) Microsoft
2 99 (4.18%) VMware
3 96 (4.06%) Cisco
4 65 (2.75%) CyberArk
5 52 (2.20%) ServiceNow
6 49 (2.07%) Google
7 38 (1.61%) Oracle
8 35 (1.48%) Rapid7
9 34 (1.44%) Qualys
9 34 (1.44%) Splunk
10 33 (1.39%) Dell
11 28 (1.18%) Databricks
12 27 (1.14%) SAP
12 27 (1.14%) SolarWinds
13 25 (1.06%) CheckPoint
14 23 (0.97%) Commvault
14 23 (0.97%) Palo Alto
15 22 (0.93%) Salesforce
15 22 (0.93%) Veeam
16 20 (0.84%) Sun