r e c o g n i s e d ?


Salary Range (£)


248-279k 215-244k 191-212k 167-188k 141-162k


0% 10% 20% 30% 40% CSO / Global Resilience & Risk Director


The land grab for corporate responsibility should be within the realm of resilience and the threads for business continuity, cyber preparedness and crisis management. Responsible for policy, Executive board briefings. Dotted line or direct responsibilty for Cyber & Resilience should see pay increase €30-60k p.a.


Essex University research centre predicts 6.5m jobs in the UK could be lost, post October, after the furlough scheme ends.


The weather might have been bearable, unlike the gales and flooding in the early part of the year, just plague, pestilence and Viking raiders needed…


So to Brexit. A common thread in the SSR® survey was that Brexit will affect respondents’ future options, with many commenting that upward travel in a security career is hard. Has the appetite for confrontation diminished on either the UK or EU negotiation sides as a recession three times as bad than that of 2009 and the worst recession in 300 years is predicted?


The money would appear to be on a no deal. We are all wounded by a virus, the Euro will be under pressure, Turkey has many millions of refugees to send to Europe and the UK.


Life is not going to be normal, we will have economic uncertainty for years, but the UK security sector will have opportunities to thrive. Unfortunately, that may be due to civil reactions to ongoing personal restrictions and intermediate localised lockdowns, as well as the new technologies that need to be deployed.


Peter French MBE Managing Director SSR® Personnel


www.ssr-personnel.com


Salary Range (£)


101-112k 85-96k 66-81k 55-60k 38-50k


0% Senior Investigator


Responsibility for more than one country’s operations. Active across all security breaches, due diligence, product diversion, counterfeit and auditing functions for the corporation. Provides the forensic function in company.


Salary Range (£)


102-120k 88-91k 65-83k 50-61k 37-48k


0% 10% 20% 30% 40% National Security Head


Responsibile for all aspects of corporate security and maintaining standards across an estate. Developing an estate programme for internet-connected devices and plant that has been overlooked by IT departments. GDPR has been and remains a major part of this role oversight.


Salary Range (£)


69k


51-75k 43-50k 34-42k 23-30k


0% 10% 20% 30% 40% Cyber Analyst / White Hat / Ethical Hacker


As organisations go on the attack against cyber-resistant intruders, the skills for this role are stretched across the UK and Europe. Certification will not help; like law enforcement you are seeking technicians who have an exploring nature, ‘in harmony with machine code’.


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UK SALARY SURVEY 2019 – 2020


Salary Range (£)


122-130k 106-116k 92-112k 79-85k 66-71k


0% 10% 20% 30% Cyber Resilience Manager / Head of Cyber


A role that is developing across a range of sectors as organisations elevate their response to cyber attacks. The rapid controls of insider users that organisations need to have require a robust cyber policy against perennial and growth risk.


Salary Range (£)


158-171k 126-131k 101-121k 90-95k 48-85k


0% EMEA Security Head


Regional policy development, executive reporting, promulgating corporate policy overview of physical and intellectual protection. Taking responsibility for cyber hunting, risk alert programmes, business continuity and crisis management should have increased basic salary by 20-30%.


Salary Range (£)


177-192k 142-170k 120-135k 89-115k


0% 20% 40% 60% Director, Risk & Resilience / Head of Security


Responsible for delivering localised policy and executive board briefings. They are a driver for change and service expansion. Responsibility for cyber hunting, risk alert programmes, business continuity and crisis management should have increased basic salary by 20-30%.


Dundee Edinburgh


Manchester Glasgow Leeds


Sheffield


Liverpool Bradford


Birmingham London


Cost of a Cappuccino across the UK


Anchoring the UK Salary Survey through comparing the cost of a cup of cappuccino provides more indicators as to the regional variance we find in salaries. In these indices we see the cost difference between London and Bradford is £2.78 to £2.38, 15.5% higher.


> 29 £2.38 £2.64 £2.78 £2.56 £2.49 £2.62 £2.55 £2.45


£2.65 £2.65


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