Cybersecurity jobs in the UK paying over £70k
Live cybersecurity jobs in the UK paying over £70k, observed on public careers and vacancy pages and updated hourly. Annual salary filters and contract-rate displays retain their stated basis.
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We are currently tracking 9 live vacancies matching cybersecurity jobs in the UK paying over £70k, across 5 source domains. The source labels with the most observed roles in this slice are Pyramidledger, Foundations Search, Securityinnovationeurope and Triad. Every role links back to the public careers or vacancy page where it was observed.
Of the 9 roles, 9 publish an annual salary. The median advertised range midpoint is £80,000. The middle half of the market sits between £75,000 and £82,500, so anything above the upper figure is a genuinely strong offer for cybersecurity jobs in the UK paying over £70k. Contract day and hourly rates are excluded from this annual-salary comparison.
On working pattern, 100% of roles with a known arrangement are hybrid. Filter by any of these on the left.
Security Architect
Cyber Security Solutions Architect
Head of Cyber Security
Senior SOC Analyst (L3)
OT Security Engineer
Security Engineer
Senior Penetration Test Engineer
Mid-Level Penetration Test Engineer
Junior Penetration Test Engineer
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Questions about these roles
How many cybersecurity jobs in the UK paying over £70k are there right now?
We are tracking 9 live vacancies across 5 source domains. The crawler revisits public careers and vacancy pages continuously and roles disappear from this page as soon as they come down, so the count reflects what is genuinely open today.
What do cybersecurity jobs in the UK paying over £70k pay?
The median advertised annual salary midpoint is £80,000, based on the 9 of these roles that publish a figure. The middle half of the market runs from £75,000 to £82,500. Day and hourly rates are kept out of this annual-salary benchmark.
Can these roles be done remotely?
0% are advertised as fully remote and 100% as hybrid. Based on 4 roles that state an arrangement; 5 unknowns are excluded.
Are these contract or permanent roles?
Every role here that states a basis is permanent. Contract vacancies are listed separately.
Which sources list the most roles?
The most active source labels right now are Pyramidledger, Foundations Search, Securityinnovationeurope, Triad and Clinicbooking. Every vacancy links to its public source page — we are an aggregator, not the hiring company.
How much does a cybersecurity specialist earn in the UK?
£80,000 is the middle of what is advertised here, which is 88% above the £42,500 median across UK IT as a whole. Read it as the midpoint of each advertised annual range rather than an offer: 0 of these adverts name no figure at all, and those are the ones where asking early is worth most.
Can you work from home as a cybersecurity specialist in the UK?
4 of the 9 live adverts here offer home working in some form — 0 fully remote and 4 hybrid. Fully remote means the advert states no office requirement; hybrid means it names a split.
Are there entry-level or graduate cybersecurity specialist jobs in the UK?
1 of the roles on this page read as graduate or junior level, which is 11% of what is live. Level is read from the job title, so a role advertised without one is counted as mid-level and may still be open to less experience.
What job titles are used for this role?
Employers on this page advertise it as Junior Penetration Test Engineer, Mid-Level Penetration Test Engineer, Senior Penetration Test Engineer, Cyber Security Solutions Architect and Security Architect. Searching one wording and not another is the most common way people miss vacancies, which is why this page groups them.
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