Cyber Security Jobs

Cyber security covers everything from triaging alerts in a Security Operations Centre (SOC) through penetration-testing a client's network to writing the policy that the rest of the business has to follow. The label hides a lot of variation — an entry-level SOC analyst job and a Head of GRC role have almost nothing in common day-to-day.

Most live vacancies fall into a handful of buckets. SOC analyst (tier 1 / tier 2) — monitoring SIEM tools (Splunk, Sentinel, QRadar), triaging alerts, writing incident reports. Penetration tester / red team — offensive testing, usually CHECK or CREST-certified. GRC / compliance — ISO 27001, NIST, DORA, SOC 2 audits. Cloud security — AWS, Azure, GCP hardening. Each has its own cert path: CompTIA Security+ for the floor; CISSP, OSCP, CISM as you climb.

Salaries are well above the rest of the security industry. Entry SOC: £28-£35k. Mid-level analyst: £45-£60k. Penetration tester with CREST: £55-£80k. CISO or Head of role: £100k+. Most posts on this site are hybrid or fully remote with occasional on-site days. The London-Manchester-Edinburgh-Bristol cluster has the highest density of openings, but cyber is the one corner of "security" where the work genuinely doesn't care where you live.