Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in the North West

Cybersecurity Engineer
England > North West

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in the North West is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 275 336
Rank change year-on-year -21 +61 -87
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 13 15 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.11% 0.21% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.23% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 13 15 12
10th Percentile - £50,850 £46,375
25th Percentile £35,000 £59,750 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -8.77% +50.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £66,500 £81,000 -
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +24.44%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 10,796 6,520 9,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 89.55% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8,061 3,995 5,421
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £40,834 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the North West

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the North West

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in the North West

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 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
Cheshire -10 9 £52,500 -19.23% 4
Manchester 0 3 £55,000 -15.38% 2
Lancashire -18 1 £47,000 -32.86% 2
Cybersecurity Engineer
England

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, Cybersecurity Engineer 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 North West region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 6 (46.15%) CISSP
3 6 (46.15%) Firewall
4 5 (38.46%) SIEM
4 5 (38.46%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (38.46%) Threat Modelling
4 5 (38.46%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (38.46%) Cyberattack
4 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
4 5 (38.46%) Security Posture
5 4 (30.77%) Incident Response
5 4 (30.77%) SOC 2
5 4 (30.77%) Secure Coding
5 4 (30.77%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (30.77%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 4 (30.77%) CISA
5 4 (30.77%) Release Management
5 4 (30.77%) Project Management
5 4 (30.77%) ITIL
5 4 (30.77%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (30.77%) Nessus
5 4 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (23.08%) Degree
6 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Java
6 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
6 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
6 3 (23.08%) Computer Science

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) Firewall
2 4 (30.77%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Burp Suite
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Law
2 1 (7.69%) Military
2 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Cyber Threat
1 5 (38.46%) Cyberattack
1 5 (38.46%) Security Posture
2 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
2 2 (15.38%) Client/Server
2 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
3 1 (7.69%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (38.46%) SIEM
3 5 (38.46%) Threat Modelling
3 5 (38.46%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (30.77%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (30.77%) Incident Response
4 4 (30.77%) ITIL
4 4 (30.77%) Project Management
4 4 (30.77%) Release Management
4 4 (30.77%) Secure Coding
4 4 (30.77%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
5 3 (23.08%) Security Operations
5 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Ethical Hacking
6 2 (15.38%) Information Assurance
6 2 (15.38%) Information Security
6 2 (15.38%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) C++
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) CISSP
2 4 (30.77%) CISA
3 3 (23.08%) Degree
4 2 (15.38%) GIAC
5 1 (7.69%) CEH
5 1 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (7.69%) GCFA
5 1 (7.69%) GCIA
5 1 (7.69%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (30.77%) SOC 2
2 2 (15.38%) NIST
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (7.69%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Nessus
2 1 (7.69%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Darktrace
2 2 (15.38%) Symantec
3 1 (7.69%) CrowdStrike