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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 57 106
Rank change year-on-year +23 +49 -13
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,413 1,768 2,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.92% 5.38% 3.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.55% 5.64% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,042 1,137 1,412
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £43,800
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,233
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 £91,000 £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 21,583 31,348 70,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.41% 95.32% 97.11%
Number of salaries quoted 15,843 22,594 34,368
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,874 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +10 172 £67,500 -12.90% 37
West London -2 134 £55,000 +46.67% 12
South London -2 38 £86,500 +33.08% 6
East London +21 10 £67,500 -1.10% 11
North London +8 8 £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 71 (5.02%) SharePoint
2 43 (3.04%) 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 58 (4.10%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.50%) AutoCAD
4 7 (0.50%) Revit
5 6 (0.42%) 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
1 447 (31.63%) Azure
2 196 (13.87%) Microsoft 365
3 191 (13.52%) Entra ID
4 146 (10.33%) AWS
5 72 (5.10%) GCP
6 46 (3.26%) SaaS
7 38 (2.69%) PaaS
7 38 (2.69%) Power Platform
8 37 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
9 34 (2.41%) IaaS
10 21 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
11 19 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
12 17 (1.20%) Serverless
13 14 (0.99%) Google Workspace
14 13 (0.92%) Mimecast
15 12 (0.85%) Nutanix
16 10 (0.71%) Amazon S3
16 10 (0.71%) GitHub
17 9 (0.64%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 281 (19.89%) Firewall
2 158 (11.18%) Broadband
3 154 (10.90%) 5G
4 141 (9.98%) Network Security
5 86 (6.09%) DNS
6 64 (4.53%) WAN
7 63 (4.46%) TCP/IP
8 55 (3.89%) LAN
9 50 (3.54%) Wi-Fi
10 46 (3.26%) Intrusion Detection
11 41 (2.90%) Wireless
12 39 (2.76%) VPN
13 36 (2.55%) DHCP
13 36 (2.55%) Internet
14 24 (1.70%) Wireshark
15 23 (1.63%) SD-WAN
16 22 (1.56%) Unified Communications
17 20 (1.42%) SAN
18 17 (1.20%) MPLS
19 14 (0.99%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (2.41%) Power BI
2 31 (2.19%) SQL Server
3 20 (1.42%) Oracle Database
4 14 (0.99%) MongoDB
5 13 (0.92%) MySQL
6 12 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.50%) Hadoop
8 7 (0.50%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.42%) Big Data
9 6 (0.42%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.42%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.35%) CockroachDB
10 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.28%) GIS
11 4 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.21%) Data Hub
13 2 (0.14%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.14%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 54 (3.82%) Jenkins
2 31 (2.19%) Metasploit
3 28 (1.98%) Burp Suite
4 23 (1.63%) JIRA
5 17 (1.20%) Oracle APEX
6 5 (0.35%) Git
6 5 (0.35%) Jaeger
6 5 (0.35%) 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 (24.77%) Finance
2 336 (23.78%) Social Skills
3 327 (23.14%) Analytical Skills
4 204 (14.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 112 (7.93%) Legal
6 106 (7.50%) Law
7 71 (5.02%) Banking
8 66 (4.67%) Public Sector
9 50 (3.54%) Marketing
10 48 (3.40%) Telecoms
11 46 (3.26%) Retail
12 43 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (2.48%) Games
14 27 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
15 26 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
16 19 (1.34%) Aerospace
16 19 (1.34%) Manufacturing
17 18 (1.27%) Financial Institution
18 16 (1.13%) Military
19 13 (0.92%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 337 (23.85%) Senior
2 236 (16.70%) Analyst
3 145 (10.26%) Linux Specialist
4 143 (10.12%) Technical Specialist
5 141 (9.98%) Security Engineer
6 135 (9.55%) Security Analyst
7 123 (8.70%) Architect
8 96 (6.79%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 95 (6.72%) Consultant
10 91 (6.44%) Lead
10 91 (6.44%) Senior Linux Specialist
11 89 (6.30%) Senior Technical Specialist
11 89 (6.30%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
12 73 (5.17%) Security Manager
13 65 (4.60%) Tester
14 62 (4.39%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 62 (4.39%) Penetration Tester
14 62 (4.39%) Security Architect
15 61 (4.32%) IT Analyst
16 60 (4.25%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.12%) HTML
2 29 (2.05%) .NET
3 28 (1.98%) JSON
3 28 (1.98%) REST
4 27 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
5 23 (1.63%) CSS
6 20 (1.42%) jQuery
7 15 (1.06%) OAuth
8 13 (0.92%) OpenID
9 12 (0.85%) ARM Templates
9 12 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
10 11 (0.78%) SAML
10 11 (0.78%) Spring Boot
11 10 (0.71%) Django
11 10 (0.71%) Flask
11 10 (0.71%) YAML
12 9 (0.64%) Kafka
13 8 (0.57%) AngularJS
13 8 (0.57%) OpenAPI
14 7 (0.50%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 153 (10.83%) Social Media
2 152 (10.76%) Management Information System
3 81 (5.73%) Cyber Threat
4 79 (5.59%) Security Posture
5 68 (4.81%) PKI
6 55 (3.89%) Cyberattack
7 51 (3.61%) Data Centre
8 41 (2.90%) Operational Technology
9 40 (2.83%) IoT
10 39 (2.76%) Security Operations Centre
11 35 (2.48%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 33 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
13 32 (2.26%) Onboarding
14 30 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
15 29 (2.05%) Cyber Defence
16 27 (1.91%) Replication
17 24 (1.70%) Video Conferencing
18 20 (1.42%) Client/Server
19 18 (1.27%) Cyber Security Posture
19 18 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 271 (19.18%) Linux
2 232 (16.42%) Windows
3 152 (10.76%) Ubuntu
4 90 (6.37%) Windows Server
5 37 (2.62%) Apple iOS
6 34 (2.41%) Android
7 28 (1.98%) Kali Linux
8 27 (1.91%) Windows 10
9 19 (1.34%) Unix
10 17 (1.20%) Mac OS
11 13 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (0.50%) Debian
13 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 3 (0.21%) Windows XP
16 2 (0.14%) CentOS
16 2 (0.14%) Mac OS X
17 1 (0.071%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (25.83%) Information Security
2 273 (19.32%) SIEM
3 232 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
4 201 (14.23%) Incident Response
4 201 (14.23%) IT Strategy
5 189 (13.38%) Technology Strategy
6 186 (13.16%) Artificial Intelligence
7 175 (12.38%) Security Operations
8 157 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
9 156 (11.04%) CRM
10 134 (9.48%) Computer Science
11 133 (9.41%) Risk Management
12 127 (8.99%) ITIL
13 126 (8.92%) Security Architecture
14 122 (8.63%) Cloud Security
15 121 (8.56%) Agile
16 110 (7.78%) Mentoring
17 107 (7.57%) DevOps
18 106 (7.50%) Vulnerability Management
19 104 (7.36%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 191 (13.52%) Bash
2 153 (10.83%) Python
3 113 (8.00%) PowerShell
4 95 (6.72%) SQL
5 43 (3.04%) Java
6 42 (2.97%) JavaScript
7 28 (1.98%) C
8 18 (1.27%) C#
9 17 (1.20%) C++
9 17 (1.20%) PL/SQL
10 12 (0.85%) TypeScript
11 10 (0.71%) RPG
12 9 (0.64%) Perl
13 5 (0.35%) Go
13 5 (0.35%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.14%) PHP
15 2 (0.14%) R
16 1 (0.071%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 281 (19.89%) CISSP
2 250 (17.69%) Degree
3 151 (10.69%) CISM
4 141 (9.98%) Security Cleared
5 85 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 84 (5.94%) SC Cleared
7 77 (5.45%) DV Cleared
8 72 (5.10%) Cisco Certification
9 62 (4.39%) GIAC
10 60 (4.25%) CEH
11 59 (4.18%) CISA
12 52 (3.68%) CRISC
13 50 (3.54%) CREST Certified
14 47 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
15 45 (3.18%) Master's Degree
16 37 (2.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 36 (2.55%) CCSP
18 23 (1.63%) CCNP
18 23 (1.63%) CompTIA Security+
18 23 (1.63%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (16.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 172 (12.17%) NIST
3 75 (5.31%) GDPR
4 59 (4.18%) GRC
5 54 (3.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 54 (3.82%) PCI DSS
6 53 (3.75%) NCSC
7 36 (2.55%) COBIT
8 32 (2.26%) QA
9 24 (1.70%) SOC 2
10 21 (1.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 17 (1.20%) SLA
12 16 (1.13%) Data Quality
13 13 (0.92%) HIPAA
14 12 (0.85%) NIST 800
15 11 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 9 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 7 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
18 6 (0.42%) ISO 31000
18 6 (0.42%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 278 (19.67%) Active Directory
2 70 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (3.33%) Docker
4 20 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (1.34%) vSphere
6 15 (1.06%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
8 10 (0.71%) Firmware
9 7 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.42%) Forefront TMG
10 6 (0.42%) RACF
10 6 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.14%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.071%) LXC
12 1 (0.071%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.071%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.071%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 169 (11.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 145 (10.26%) Jamf Pro
3 56 (3.96%) Ansible
4 30 (2.12%) Kubernetes
5 29 (2.05%) QRadar
6 28 (1.98%) Terraform
7 21 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (1.13%) SCOM
9 11 (0.78%) Grafana
9 11 (0.78%) Graphite
9 11 (0.78%) Nagios
10 10 (0.71%) CASB
10 10 (0.71%) CSIRT
10 10 (0.71%) Puppet
11 9 (0.64%) HAProxy
11 9 (0.64%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.57%) Nessus
12 8 (0.57%) SCCM
12 8 (0.57%) WSUS
13 7 (0.50%) Nmap
Vendors
1 520 (36.80%) Microsoft
2 171 (12.10%) CyberArk
3 158 (11.18%) Tanium
4 86 (6.09%) VMware
5 73 (5.17%) Cisco
6 61 (4.32%) Google
7 52 (3.68%) Splunk
8 33 (2.34%) IBM
8 33 (2.34%) Veeam
9 31 (2.19%) Qualys
10 30 (2.12%) Oracle
11 27 (1.91%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.84%) Juniper
13 25 (1.77%) Apple
14 22 (1.56%) Adobe
14 22 (1.56%) HP
14 22 (1.56%) SolarWinds
15 21 (1.49%) Dell
16 19 (1.34%) Fortinet
16 19 (1.34%) ServiceNow