Cybersecurity Jobs in London

Cybersecurity
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 52 106
Rank change year-on-year +18 +54 -13
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,408 1,727 2,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.82% 5.39% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.46% 5.66% 3.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,031 1,128 1,405
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,192 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £108,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Cybersecurity is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,784 30,521 71,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 89.99% 95.21% 97.12%
Number of salaries quoted 15,935 22,372 34,275
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in London.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the London region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +13 176 £67,500 -12.90% 42
West London -4 134 £55,000 +46.67% 9
South London -9 36 £78,750 +21.15% 6
East London +19 10 £67,500 -1.10% 8
North London +7 9 £45,000 -28.00% 6
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 73 (5.18%) SharePoint
2 42 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.57%) Apache
3 8 (0.57%) IIS
4 4 (0.28%) Confluence
4 4 (0.28%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.14%) CMS
5 2 (0.14%) nginx
5 2 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
5 2 (0.14%) WordPress
6 1 (0.071%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.071%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 57 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.50%) AutoCAD
4 7 (0.50%) Revit
5 6 (0.43%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 2 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 8 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.071%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 448 (31.82%) Azure
2 198 (14.06%) Microsoft 365
3 193 (13.71%) Entra ID
4 144 (10.23%) AWS
5 70 (4.97%) GCP
6 44 (3.13%) SaaS
7 38 (2.70%) Power Platform
8 37 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
8 37 (2.63%) PaaS
9 34 (2.41%) IaaS
10 21 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
11 20 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
13 17 (1.21%) Serverless
14 15 (1.07%) Mimecast
15 14 (0.99%) Google Workspace
16 11 (0.78%) Nutanix
17 9 (0.64%) Amazon S3
17 9 (0.64%) Azure Functions
17 9 (0.64%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 281 (19.96%) Firewall
2 158 (11.22%) Broadband
3 154 (10.94%) 5G
4 138 (9.80%) Network Security
5 83 (5.89%) DNS
6 65 (4.62%) WAN
7 59 (4.19%) TCP/IP
8 57 (4.05%) LAN
9 52 (3.69%) Wi-Fi
10 46 (3.27%) Intrusion Detection
11 40 (2.84%) Wireless
12 38 (2.70%) VPN
13 35 (2.49%) DHCP
13 35 (2.49%) Internet
14 26 (1.85%) Wireshark
15 22 (1.56%) SD-WAN
15 22 (1.56%) Unified Communications
16 18 (1.28%) SAN
17 17 (1.21%) MPLS
18 14 (0.99%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (2.41%) Power BI
2 31 (2.20%) SQL Server
3 20 (1.42%) Oracle Database
4 13 (0.92%) MongoDB
5 12 (0.85%) MySQL
6 11 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.50%) Hadoop
8 7 (0.50%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.43%) Big Data
9 6 (0.43%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.43%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.36%) CockroachDB
10 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.28%) GIS
12 3 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.21%) Data Hub
13 2 (0.14%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (3.69%) Jenkins
2 31 (2.20%) Metasploit
3 28 (1.99%) Burp Suite
4 23 (1.63%) JIRA
5 17 (1.21%) Oracle APEX
6 5 (0.36%) Git
6 5 (0.36%) Jaeger
6 5 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.28%) Maven
7 4 (0.28%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.14%) GitLab
9 2 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.14%) Subversion
10 1 (0.071%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.071%) Selenium
10 1 (0.071%) Vagrant
General
1 350 (24.86%) Finance
2 334 (23.72%) Social Skills
3 325 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 206 (14.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 109 (7.74%) Legal
6 104 (7.39%) Law
7 73 (5.18%) Banking
8 65 (4.62%) Public Sector
9 49 (3.48%) Marketing
10 47 (3.34%) Telecoms
11 45 (3.20%) Retail
12 43 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (2.49%) Games
14 27 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
15 26 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
16 19 (1.35%) Aerospace
17 18 (1.28%) Financial Institution
17 18 (1.28%) Manufacturing
18 16 (1.14%) Military
19 14 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 334 (23.72%) Senior
2 234 (16.62%) Analyst
3 144 (10.23%) Linux Specialist
4 143 (10.16%) Technical Specialist
5 140 (9.94%) Security Engineer
6 133 (9.45%) Security Analyst
7 122 (8.66%) Architect
8 95 (6.75%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 94 (6.68%) Consultant
10 91 (6.46%) Lead
11 90 (6.39%) Senior Linux Specialist
12 89 (6.32%) Senior Technical Specialist
12 89 (6.32%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
13 71 (5.04%) Security Manager
14 65 (4.62%) Tester
15 63 (4.47%) Security Architect
16 62 (4.40%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 62 (4.40%) IT Analyst
16 62 (4.40%) Penetration Tester
17 59 (4.19%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.06%) .NET
1 29 (2.06%) HTML
2 28 (1.99%) JSON
2 28 (1.99%) REST
3 26 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
4 23 (1.63%) CSS
5 20 (1.42%) jQuery
6 15 (1.07%) OAuth
7 13 (0.92%) OpenID
8 12 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
9 11 (0.78%) ARM Templates
9 11 (0.78%) SAML
9 11 (0.78%) Spring Boot
10 10 (0.71%) Django
10 10 (0.71%) Flask
11 9 (0.64%) Kafka
11 9 (0.64%) YAML
12 8 (0.57%) AngularJS
12 8 (0.57%) OpenAPI
13 7 (0.50%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 153 (10.87%) Social Media
2 151 (10.72%) Management Information System
3 81 (5.75%) Cyber Threat
4 76 (5.40%) Security Posture
5 65 (4.62%) PKI
6 55 (3.91%) Cyberattack
7 50 (3.55%) Data Centre
8 41 (2.91%) Operational Technology
9 40 (2.84%) IoT
10 39 (2.77%) Security Operations Centre
11 36 (2.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 33 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
13 31 (2.20%) Onboarding
14 30 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
14 30 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
15 28 (1.99%) Replication
16 24 (1.70%) Video Conferencing
17 21 (1.49%) Client/Server
18 19 (1.35%) Cyber Security Posture
18 19 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 270 (19.18%) Linux
2 231 (16.41%) Windows
3 152 (10.80%) Ubuntu
4 89 (6.32%) Windows Server
5 38 (2.70%) Apple iOS
6 35 (2.49%) Android
7 28 (1.99%) Kali Linux
8 27 (1.92%) Windows 10
9 20 (1.42%) Unix
10 16 (1.14%) Mac OS
11 13 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (0.50%) Debian
13 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.28%) Windows XP
15 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 2 (0.14%) CentOS
16 2 (0.14%) Mac OS X
17 1 (0.071%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (26.14%) Information Security
2 273 (19.39%) SIEM
3 232 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
4 203 (14.42%) Incident Response
5 201 (14.28%) IT Strategy
6 189 (13.42%) Technology Strategy
7 186 (13.21%) Artificial Intelligence
8 172 (12.22%) Security Operations
9 156 (11.08%) CRM
10 154 (10.94%) Penetration Testing
11 134 (9.52%) Computer Science
12 132 (9.38%) Risk Management
13 128 (9.09%) Security Architecture
14 127 (9.02%) ITIL
15 121 (8.59%) Agile
16 119 (8.45%) Cloud Security
17 109 (7.74%) Mentoring
18 106 (7.53%) Vulnerability Management
19 105 (7.46%) DevOps
20 103 (7.32%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 190 (13.49%) Bash
2 153 (10.87%) Python
3 113 (8.03%) PowerShell
4 94 (6.68%) SQL
5 43 (3.05%) Java
6 42 (2.98%) JavaScript
7 28 (1.99%) C
8 17 (1.21%) C#
8 17 (1.21%) C++
8 17 (1.21%) PL/SQL
9 12 (0.85%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.71%) RPG
11 8 (0.57%) Perl
12 5 (0.36%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.28%) Go
13 4 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.14%) PHP
14 2 (0.14%) R
15 1 (0.071%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 279 (19.82%) CISSP
2 250 (17.76%) Degree
3 148 (10.51%) CISM
4 140 (9.94%) Security Cleared
5 84 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 83 (5.89%) SC Cleared
7 77 (5.47%) DV Cleared
8 70 (4.97%) Cisco Certification
9 63 (4.47%) GIAC
10 60 (4.26%) CISA
11 58 (4.12%) CEH
12 51 (3.62%) CRISC
13 50 (3.55%) CREST Certified
14 46 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
15 43 (3.05%) Master's Degree
16 36 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 35 (2.49%) CCSP
18 23 (1.63%) Azure Certification
18 23 (1.63%) CCNP
18 23 (1.63%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (16.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 172 (12.22%) NIST
3 76 (5.40%) GDPR
4 57 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 57 (4.05%) GRC
5 54 (3.84%) NCSC
5 54 (3.84%) PCI DSS
6 37 (2.63%) COBIT
7 32 (2.27%) QA
8 23 (1.63%) SOC 2
9 19 (1.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 17 (1.21%) SLA
11 14 (0.99%) Data Quality
12 13 (0.92%) HIPAA
13 12 (0.85%) NIST 800
14 11 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 9 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.43%) ISO 31000
17 6 (0.43%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 277 (19.67%) Active Directory
2 67 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (3.20%) Docker
4 19 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (1.35%) vSphere
5 14 (0.99%) Hyper-V
6 13 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
7 10 (0.71%) Firmware
8 7 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.43%) Forefront TMG
9 6 (0.43%) RACF
9 6 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.14%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.071%) LXC
11 1 (0.071%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.071%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.071%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 171 (12.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 145 (10.30%) Jamf Pro
3 56 (3.98%) Ansible
4 29 (2.06%) Kubernetes
4 29 (2.06%) QRadar
5 26 (1.85%) Terraform
6 21 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (1.14%) SCOM
8 10 (0.71%) CASB
8 10 (0.71%) CSIRT
8 10 (0.71%) Grafana
8 10 (0.71%) Graphite
8 10 (0.71%) Nagios
9 9 (0.64%) Puppet
10 8 (0.57%) HAProxy
10 8 (0.57%) Nessus
10 8 (0.57%) SCCM
10 8 (0.57%) vCenter Server
10 8 (0.57%) WSUS
11 7 (0.50%) Nmap
Vendors
1 519 (36.86%) Microsoft
2 172 (12.22%) CyberArk
3 158 (11.22%) Tanium
4 84 (5.97%) VMware
5 74 (5.26%) Cisco
6 59 (4.19%) Google
7 51 (3.62%) Splunk
8 33 (2.34%) IBM
9 32 (2.27%) Qualys
9 32 (2.27%) Veeam
10 28 (1.99%) Oracle
11 27 (1.92%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.85%) Juniper
13 25 (1.78%) Apple
14 22 (1.56%) Adobe
14 22 (1.56%) SolarWinds
15 21 (1.49%) Dell
15 21 (1.49%) HP
16 20 (1.42%) Fortinet
17 19 (1.35%) ServiceNow