BSA 2024 Cyber Security Salary Guide v5 SPREADS - Flipbook - Page 4
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Permanent recruitment trends
The cyber security and data privacy recruitment
market enjoyed a buoyant year in 2023, although
the market has come off the boil when compared
to the frenzied levels of activity that occurred in the
immediate post-pandemic period.
Hiring demand remains relatively high, and there is
certainly no shortage of vacancies, particularly within
specialist technical areas such as incident response.
However, while 2021 and 2022 were characterised
by signi昀椀cant growth-related hiring in addition to
the back昀椀lling of any open positions, we are now
seeing back昀椀lling as the main source of vacancies
due to budgets tightening.
“The cyber security and data privacy market is still
busy. Teams are quite short staffed and struggling
to 昀椀nd good people,” says Sophie Spencer, Head
of Cyber Security and Technology Recruitment
at Barclay Simpson.
“That means there’s a lot of vacancies out there,
but fewer organisations are expanding their teams
with newly created roles.”
Employers are also expecting more for their money
in the current economic climate. Teams are being
asked to do more with less, so they are keen to hire
candidates who are both subject matter experts
89% of employers
intend to hire
additional permanent
staff in 2024
