Hire cyber security specialists in the UK
Cyber Security Jobs is the UK board for security engineers, SOC analysts, penetration testers and the people who run incident response and governance. Advertise a role to practitioners directly, keep every application, and pay a fixed price once.
- What it costs
- From £99 for a 30-day listing. Pay once — no subscription, no recruiter fee, no percentage of salary.
- How fast it goes live
- One working day. A person reads every advert before it publishes, usually within a couple of hours.
- Who reads it
- Security engineers, SOC and detection people, pentesters, GRC and cloud-security specialists — many of them cleared, most of them employed, and reading this board to see which organisations are building a serious security function.
- What it is not
- A CV database you rent, or an agency taking a fee on the hire. You post the role; candidates come to you.
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There are three ways to fill a Cyber role. We are honest about being one of them.
Security hiring has its own frictions — clearance, on-call, whether the role is hands-on or governance — and a route that cannot state them up front wastes everyone's time. Here is the short version, including where a board is the wrong tool.
A specialist board
You are hereFixed, from £99 per role
You know roughly who you want, the salary is competitive, and you want the applications to land in your own inbox or ATS.
You need someone headhunted out of a named competitor, or the role is confidential.
A generalist platform
Per-click or per-slot, unbounded
Volume roles where reach matters more than fit, and hiring for functions outside engineering at the same time.
Any hands-on security role. "Cyber" draws a flood of career-changers with a certificate and no incidents behind them, and the analyst who has actually run a response is one application in hundreds.
A recruitment agency
Typically 15–25% of first-year salary
CISO and head-of-security searches, roles that need a specific clearance held today, and confidential hires after an incident.
Roles you can attract directly. On a £90k salary the fee is most of a hiring budget.
Who actually reads this board
A smaller audience than a generalist site, and one that reads the small print. People arrive here because they work in security and want to see who is hiring for detection engineering, cloud security, AppSec and response this month — and whether the role says clearance, on-call and remote plainly.
Who we have on the board
Each one opens the live roles for it on Cyber Security Jobs.
Seniority mix of live roles
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Graduate and entry 4%
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Junior 2%
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Mid-level 21%
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Senior and staff 51%
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Lead and principal 16%
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Head of and director 6%
Where they are
Location pages carry the local salary picture and the companies hiring there.
How the live roles are worked
How the advert reaches them
- Search and Google Jobs
- Every listing is structured for Google Jobs and indexed on the board, so it keeps working for the whole run.
- Saved alerts
- Candidates subscribe to a specialism, a salary floor and a location. Matching roles email out as they publish.
- The weekly digest
- One email, curated, read by people who are not actively applying yet — which is where most senior candidates sit.
- The rest of the network
- Add any of the other fifteen boards for +£75 each. Only worth it where the field genuinely overlaps.
Hiring now
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CrowdStrike 64 open roles
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Entrust 28 open roles
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Bridewell 12 open roles
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Experis 12 open roles
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Adecco 10 open roles
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Cambridge University Press & Assessment (CUPA) 1 open role
Companies with at least one active listing on Cyber Security Jobs.
What Cyber roles pay in the UK
Built from the salaries stated in live adverts on this board, not a survey — the range employers are advertising, and its midpoint.
Security pay turns on three things an advert can state in one line: whether it is hands-on or governance, whether it needs clearance, and whether on-call is paid. Adverts that name the band and those three get answered; adverts that hide the number get read as ones that have not decided.
All UK Cyber salary benchmarks, coming soon
| Role | Midpoint | Top salary |
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Application Security Engineer
Application Security Engineer jobs on Cyber Security Jobs
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£77k | £92k |
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CISO
CISO jobs on Cyber Security Jobs
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£107k | £135k |
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Cloud Security Engineer
Cloud Security Engineer jobs on Cyber Security Jobs
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£72k | £91k |
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Cyber Security Analyst
Cyber Security Analyst jobs on Cyber Security Jobs
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£51k | £85k |
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GRC Analyst
GRC Analyst jobs on Cyber Security Jobs
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£52k | £63k |
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Identity and Access Management Engineer
Identity and Access Management Engineer jobs on Cyber Security Jobs
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£65k | £74k |
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Penetration Tester
Penetration Tester jobs on Cyber Security Jobs
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£64k | £85k |
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Security Architect
Security Architect jobs on Cyber Security Jobs
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£85k | £110k |
From live adverts on this board · rows link to the role
From £99 a role. Paid once.
Three tiers and three durations, priced up front. Extra boards are +£75 each and only worth adding where the field overlaps — we will tell you when it does not.
In every listing, including the cheapest one
- A person reviews the advert before it publishes
- Structured for Google Jobs and indexed on the board
- Emailed to matching alert subscribers
- Applications to your inbox or straight into your ATS
- Live for 30 days, extendable
- No subscription and no auto-renewal
If it does not perform
Every listing carries an application benchmark set from the role itself — pay, contract type, working pattern. Come in under it and we extend the run and re-promote the role at no charge. It is in the terms, not a goodwill gesture.
Hiring several roles, or running an agency desk?
Bundles across roles and boards, and automatic ingestion from your ATS or a feed so nothing is re-keyed.
Works with your ATS
Send applications straight into it, or let us pull your open roles from it — and send candidates straight back.
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Ashby
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Greenhouse
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Lever
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Workable
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Personio
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BambooHR
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Rippling
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Workday
Not listed? We can usually build a connector in about a week — tell us about your ATS.
Put the role in front of people who defend systems for a living.
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