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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 57 100
Rank change year-on-year +24 +43 -8
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,456 1,892 2,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.17% 5.35% 3.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.75% 5.61% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,090 1,220 1,426
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,219 £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 £110,000
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 21,556 33,737 64,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.32% 95.35% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 16,061 24,162 34,305
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £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 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
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 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 2 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 +14 169 £67,000 -18.79% 36
West London -5 137 £55,000 +10.00% 19
South London -9 42 £72,500 +11.54% 3
North London +8 12 £60,500 -32.78% 5
East London +8 11 £68,750 +25.00% 11
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 66 (4.53%) SharePoint
2 48 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.62%) Apache
3 9 (0.62%) IIS
4 4 (0.27%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.21%) Confluence
5 3 (0.21%) nginx
6 2 (0.14%) CMS
6 2 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
6 2 (0.14%) WordPress
7 1 (0.069%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.069%) Gunicorn
7 1 (0.069%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.069%) uWSGI
Applications
1 61 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.69%) AutoCAD
3 10 (0.69%) Revit
4 9 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 2 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 8 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.14%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.069%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.069%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 458 (31.46%) Azure
2 200 (13.74%) Microsoft 365
3 185 (12.71%) Entra ID
4 158 (10.85%) AWS
5 77 (5.29%) GCP
6 45 (3.09%) SaaS
7 39 (2.68%) PaaS
7 39 (2.68%) Power Platform
8 33 (2.27%) IaaS
9 31 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
10 23 (1.58%) Azure Sentinel
11 20 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (1.24%) Serverless
13 17 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
14 14 (0.96%) Google Workspace
15 13 (0.89%) Nutanix
16 12 (0.82%) Mimecast
17 11 (0.76%) Amazon S3
18 10 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 10 (0.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 293 (20.12%) Firewall
2 158 (10.85%) Broadband
3 154 (10.58%) 5G
4 140 (9.62%) Network Security
5 94 (6.46%) DNS
6 73 (5.01%) TCP/IP
7 60 (4.12%) WAN
8 52 (3.57%) LAN
9 47 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
9 47 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
10 45 (3.09%) DHCP
11 43 (2.95%) VPN
11 43 (2.95%) Wireless
12 38 (2.61%) Internet
13 26 (1.79%) SD-WAN
14 22 (1.51%) SAN
15 21 (1.44%) Unified Communications
16 20 (1.37%) Wireshark
17 16 (1.10%) MPLS
18 14 (0.96%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (2.40%) Power BI
2 31 (2.13%) SQL Server
3 17 (1.17%) Oracle Database
4 16 (1.10%) MongoDB
5 14 (0.96%) MySQL
6 13 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.48%) Big Data
8 7 (0.48%) Hadoop
8 7 (0.48%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.41%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.41%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.34%) CockroachDB
11 4 (0.27%) GIS
11 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.21%) Data Hub
12 3 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.14%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.14%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 53 (3.64%) Jenkins
2 31 (2.13%) Metasploit
3 28 (1.92%) Burp Suite
4 22 (1.51%) JIRA
5 17 (1.17%) Oracle APEX
6 8 (0.55%) Git
7 5 (0.34%) Jaeger
7 5 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.27%) Maven
8 4 (0.27%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.21%) Subversion
9 3 (0.21%) Xcode
10 2 (0.14%) GitLab
10 2 (0.14%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.069%) Ant
11 1 (0.069%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.069%) Vagrant
General
1 347 (23.83%) Social Skills
2 330 (22.66%) Finance
3 328 (22.53%) Analytical Skills
4 198 (13.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 127 (8.72%) Legal
6 115 (7.90%) Law
7 71 (4.88%) Public Sector
8 53 (3.64%) Banking
9 50 (3.43%) Telecoms
10 49 (3.37%) Marketing
11 48 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (3.30%) Retail
12 40 (2.75%) Games
13 28 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
14 26 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
15 19 (1.30%) Aerospace
16 17 (1.17%) Manufacturing
17 16 (1.10%) Financial Institution
17 16 (1.10%) Military
18 14 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 341 (23.42%) Senior
2 227 (15.59%) Analyst
3 145 (9.96%) Linux Specialist
3 145 (9.96%) Technical Specialist
4 142 (9.75%) Security Analyst
5 136 (9.34%) Architect
6 134 (9.20%) Security Engineer
7 106 (7.28%) Consultant
8 98 (6.73%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 91 (6.25%) Senior Linux Specialist
9 91 (6.25%) Senior Technical Specialist
9 91 (6.25%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
10 90 (6.18%) Lead
11 77 (5.29%) Security Manager
12 69 (4.74%) Security Consultant
13 67 (4.60%) Security Architect
14 65 (4.46%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 63 (4.33%) Tester
16 60 (4.12%) Penetration Tester
17 59 (4.05%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.47%) JSON
2 35 (2.40%) HTML
3 30 (2.06%) .NET
4 28 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
5 26 (1.79%) REST
6 25 (1.72%) CSS
7 20 (1.37%) jQuery
7 20 (1.37%) OAuth
8 16 (1.10%) OpenID
9 15 (1.03%) Microsoft Graph
10 14 (0.96%) SAML
11 13 (0.89%) ARM Templates
11 13 (0.89%) Django
11 13 (0.89%) Flask
12 12 (0.82%) Spring Boot
13 11 (0.76%) OpenAPI
13 11 (0.76%) YAML
14 10 (0.69%) Swagger
14 10 (0.69%) Unreal Engine
14 10 (0.69%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 154 (10.58%) Social Media
2 148 (10.16%) Management Information System
3 90 (6.18%) Security Posture
4 87 (5.98%) Cyber Threat
5 76 (5.22%) PKI
6 58 (3.98%) Cyberattack
7 50 (3.43%) Data Centre
8 43 (2.95%) Operational Technology
9 41 (2.82%) IoT
10 39 (2.68%) Security Operations Centre
11 32 (2.20%) Onboarding
12 31 (2.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 31 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
13 30 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
14 29 (1.99%) Cyber Defence
15 28 (1.92%) Replication
16 27 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
17 23 (1.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 22 (1.51%) Product Ownership
19 17 (1.17%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 275 (18.89%) Linux
2 239 (16.41%) Windows
3 153 (10.51%) Ubuntu
4 100 (6.87%) Windows Server
5 47 (3.23%) Apple iOS
6 41 (2.82%) Android
7 35 (2.40%) Windows 10
8 28 (1.92%) Kali Linux
9 18 (1.24%) Mac OS
10 15 (1.03%) Windows Server 2008
11 10 (0.69%) Unix
12 9 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.48%) Debian
14 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (0.41%) Mac OS X
16 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 2 (0.14%) CentOS
18 1 (0.069%) Solaris
18 1 (0.069%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (25.07%) Information Security
2 261 (17.93%) SIEM
3 237 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
4 206 (14.15%) IT Strategy
5 201 (13.80%) Incident Response
6 194 (13.32%) Technology Strategy
7 187 (12.84%) Artificial Intelligence
8 186 (12.77%) Security Operations
9 170 (11.68%) Penetration Testing
10 159 (10.92%) CRM
11 143 (9.82%) Computer Science
12 134 (9.20%) Security Architecture
13 132 (9.07%) Risk Management
14 127 (8.72%) Cloud Security
15 124 (8.52%) ITIL
16 120 (8.24%) Agile
17 114 (7.83%) DevOps
17 114 (7.83%) Mentoring
18 113 (7.76%) Disaster Recovery
19 104 (7.14%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 196 (13.46%) Bash
2 145 (9.96%) Python
3 105 (7.21%) PowerShell
4 90 (6.18%) SQL
5 46 (3.16%) Java
5 46 (3.16%) JavaScript
6 28 (1.92%) C
7 24 (1.65%) C#
8 17 (1.17%) PL/SQL
9 16 (1.10%) C++
10 13 (0.89%) TypeScript
11 10 (0.69%) Perl
11 10 (0.69%) RPG
12 5 (0.34%) Go
13 4 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.27%) Objective-C
13 4 (0.27%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.27%) Swift
14 3 (0.21%) PHP
15 2 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 293 (20.12%) CISSP
2 279 (19.16%) Degree
3 158 (10.85%) CISM
4 145 (9.96%) Security Cleared
5 92 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 88 (6.04%) SC Cleared
7 77 (5.29%) Cisco Certification
8 75 (5.15%) DV Cleared
9 64 (4.40%) CRISC
10 61 (4.19%) CEH
11 59 (4.05%) CISA
11 59 (4.05%) GIAC
12 53 (3.64%) CREST Certified
13 52 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 51 (3.50%) Master's Degree
15 46 (3.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 45 (3.09%) CCSP
16 45 (3.09%) CompTIA Security+
17 40 (2.75%) CompTIA CySA+
18 25 (1.72%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (17.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 172 (11.81%) NIST
3 81 (5.56%) GDPR
4 62 (4.26%) GRC
5 59 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 54 (3.71%) PCI DSS
7 49 (3.37%) NCSC
8 37 (2.54%) QA
8 37 (2.54%) SOC 2
9 28 (1.92%) COBIT
10 24 (1.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 18 (1.24%) SLA
12 14 (0.96%) Data Quality
13 13 (0.89%) HIPAA
14 12 (0.82%) NIST 800
15 11 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 10 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 7 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
17 7 (0.48%) ISO 31000
18 5 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 287 (19.71%) Active Directory
2 84 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (3.57%) Docker
4 21 (1.44%) Hyper-V
4 21 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (1.30%) vSphere
6 16 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
7 10 (0.69%) Firmware
8 7 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.41%) Forefront TMG
9 6 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.21%) XenApp
11 2 (0.14%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.069%) LXC
12 1 (0.069%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 175 (12.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 145 (9.96%) Jamf Pro
3 49 (3.37%) Ansible
4 31 (2.13%) Terraform
5 28 (1.92%) Kubernetes
6 27 (1.85%) QRadar
7 23 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (1.10%) SCOM
9 12 (0.82%) Graphite
9 12 (0.82%) Nagios
10 11 (0.76%) Grafana
11 10 (0.69%) CSIRT
11 10 (0.69%) HAProxy
11 10 (0.69%) Puppet
11 10 (0.69%) vCenter Server
12 9 (0.62%) CASB
12 9 (0.62%) WSUS
13 7 (0.48%) Cisco CUCM
13 7 (0.48%) Nessus
13 7 (0.48%) Nmap
Vendors
1 533 (36.61%) Microsoft
2 162 (11.13%) CyberArk
3 158 (10.85%) Tanium
4 96 (6.59%) VMware
5 76 (5.22%) Cisco
6 65 (4.46%) Google
7 50 (3.43%) Splunk
8 38 (2.61%) Veeam
9 32 (2.20%) Qualys
10 31 (2.13%) IBM
11 28 (1.92%) Oracle
12 25 (1.72%) Adobe
12 25 (1.72%) Apple
13 24 (1.65%) Palo Alto
13 24 (1.65%) SolarWinds
14 23 (1.58%) HP
14 23 (1.58%) Juniper
15 22 (1.51%) ServiceNow
16 21 (1.44%) Dell
17 20 (1.37%) SAP