Information Security Jobs in London

Information Security (InfoSec)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Information Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 79 158
Rank change year-on-year -9 +79 -28
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 772 1,407 1,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.27% 4.08% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.58% 4.28% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 642 1,010 1,159
10th Percentile £43,875 £42,494 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,563 £55,000 £55,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - +7.41%
75th Percentile £92,188 £91,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,375 £107,750 £110,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Information Security 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 21,537 32,863 65,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.17% 95.33% 96.93%
Number of salaries quoted 15,985 23,589 34,129
10th Percentile £37,800 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,750 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,073 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% +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%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in London

Information Security
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Information Security in London

Information Security
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Information Security in London

Information Security
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security within the London region over the 6 months to 8 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 +20 161 £79,921 -0.10% 17
West London -34 22 £55,000 +4.76% 4
North London +4 9 £65,000 +44.44%
South London -48 9 £46,250 +23.33% 1
East London +11 6 £61,250 -2.00% 2
Information Security
England

Information Security
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 30 (3.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (1.94%) SAS
3 14 (1.81%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.04%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.39%) CMS
5 3 (0.39%) Confluence
5 3 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.26%) Apache
6 2 (0.26%) Drupal
6 2 (0.26%) nginx
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.26%) WordPress
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) IIS
7 1 (0.13%) Site Server
Applications
1 32 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.94%) SPSS
4 11 (1.42%) MS Visio
5 9 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.26%) Notion
Business Applications
1 8 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.52%) Relativity
2 4 (0.52%) Shopify
3 2 (0.26%) Farmplan
3 2 (0.26%) KEYPrime
3 2 (0.26%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.26%) Veritas eDiscovery
4 1 (0.13%) Endur
4 1 (0.13%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 208 (26.94%) Azure
2 134 (17.36%) Microsoft 365
3 105 (13.60%) AWS
4 50 (6.48%) GCP
5 40 (5.18%) SaaS
6 38 (4.92%) Entra ID
7 32 (4.15%) Power Platform
8 23 (2.98%) IaaS
8 23 (2.98%) PaaS
9 21 (2.72%) Microsoft Purview
10 20 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
11 17 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (1.68%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (1.55%) Dropbox
14 8 (1.04%) Rubrik
15 6 (0.78%) Serverless
15 6 (0.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (0.78%) WhatsApp
16 5 (0.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 4 (0.52%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 180 (23.32%) Firewall
2 95 (12.31%) Network Security
3 46 (5.96%) Intrusion Detection
4 43 (5.57%) TCP/IP
5 39 (5.05%) LAN
5 39 (5.05%) WAN
6 34 (4.40%) DNS
7 30 (3.89%) VPN
8 21 (2.72%) SSL
8 21 (2.72%) Wireless
9 18 (2.33%) Internet
10 16 (2.07%) VoIP
11 13 (1.68%) SD-WAN
12 10 (1.30%) MPLS
13 9 (1.17%) DHCP
13 9 (1.17%) Reverse Proxy
14 8 (1.04%) SAN
14 8 (1.04%) Skype
14 8 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (1.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (3.76%) Power BI
2 24 (3.11%) SQL Server
3 17 (2.20%) EDRMS
4 16 (2.07%) Big Data
5 11 (1.42%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.78%) SAP HANA
8 5 (0.65%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.65%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.39%) MySQL
9 3 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.26%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.26%) Metadata
10 2 (0.26%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.13%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (4.79%) Burp Suite
1 37 (4.79%) Metasploit
2 29 (3.76%) JIRA
3 15 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.39%) GitLab
5 2 (0.26%) Git
5 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.26%) Toad
6 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.13%) Selenium
6 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 256 (33.16%) Social Skills
2 195 (25.26%) Finance
3 143 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (17.10%) Legal
5 114 (14.77%) Law
6 42 (5.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (4.27%) Retail
8 28 (3.63%) Public Sector
9 25 (3.24%) Banking
9 25 (3.24%) Marketing
10 24 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
11 22 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (2.59%) Advertising
12 20 (2.59%) Military
13 12 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.04%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.65%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 187 (24.22%) Analyst
2 135 (17.49%) Security Analyst
3 122 (15.80%) Senior
4 108 (13.99%) Security Manager
5 80 (10.36%) Lead
6 73 (9.46%) Information Security Manager
7 71 (9.20%) Information Manager
8 62 (8.03%) Security Engineer
9 53 (6.87%) Information Analyst
9 53 (6.87%) Information Security Analyst
10 43 (5.57%) IT Manager
11 40 (5.18%) Architect
12 38 (4.92%) Tester
13 37 (4.79%) Consultant
13 37 (4.79%) Penetration Tester
14 36 (4.66%) IT Analyst
15 34 (4.40%) Senior Analyst
16 31 (4.02%) Security Consultant
17 30 (3.89%) Security Architect
18 29 (3.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (1.68%) REST
2 13 (1.68%) SAML
3 10 (1.30%) 802.1X
4 5 (0.65%) EDI
4 5 (0.65%) SailPoint
5 4 (0.52%) OAuth
6 3 (0.39%) .NET
6 3 (0.39%) web3js
7 2 (0.26%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.26%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.26%) HTML
7 2 (0.26%) HTML5
7 2 (0.26%) JSON
7 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.26%) Middleware
7 2 (0.26%) Next.js
7 2 (0.26%) RESTful
7 2 (0.26%) WebSockets
7 2 (0.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 171 (22.15%) Management Information System
2 95 (12.31%) Security Posture
3 39 (5.05%) Cyber Threat
4 36 (4.66%) Security Operations Centre
5 24 (3.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 22 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.72%) Onboarding
8 20 (2.59%) Clustering
9 19 (2.46%) Data Centre
9 19 (2.46%) PKI
10 16 (2.07%) Cyber Defence
10 16 (2.07%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 16 (2.07%) Cybercrime
11 15 (1.94%) Cloud Security Posture
11 15 (1.94%) Product Ownership
12 11 (1.42%) Cloud Native
12 11 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
13 10 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (1.17%) Blog
14 9 (1.17%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 105 (13.60%) Windows
2 61 (7.90%) Linux
3 45 (5.83%) Windows Server
4 28 (3.63%) Kali Linux
5 17 (2.20%) Apple iOS
6 10 (1.30%) Android
7 8 (1.04%) Mac OS
7 8 (1.04%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.65%) Unix
11 1 (0.13%) CentOS
11 1 (0.13%) Solaris
11 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.13%) VMS
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (47.41%) Cybersecurity
2 158 (20.47%) Risk Management
3 146 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
4 120 (15.54%) Incident Response
5 118 (15.28%) SIEM
6 108 (13.99%) Security Operations
7 104 (13.47%) Computer Science
8 99 (12.82%) Security Architecture
9 96 (12.44%) Cloud Security
10 91 (11.79%) Vulnerability Management
11 87 (11.27%) ITIL
11 87 (11.27%) Security Management
12 84 (10.88%) Roadmaps
13 79 (10.23%) Penetration Testing
14 77 (9.97%) Disaster Recovery
15 75 (9.72%) Data Protection
16 73 (9.46%) Agile
16 73 (9.46%) Incident Management
17 71 (9.20%) Application Security
18 68 (8.81%) Information Security Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (8.03%) Python
2 60 (7.77%) PowerShell
3 34 (4.40%) SQL
4 26 (3.37%) Bash
5 9 (1.17%) Java
6 5 (0.65%) C#
6 5 (0.65%) Perl
6 5 (0.65%) PHP
7 3 (0.39%) Ruby
8 2 (0.26%) Go
8 2 (0.26%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.26%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.13%) Korn
9 1 (0.13%) Rust
9 1 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 262 (33.94%) CISSP
2 187 (24.22%) Degree
3 152 (19.69%) CISM
4 96 (12.44%) CISA
5 65 (8.42%) Cisco Certification
6 58 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 49 (6.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 49 (6.35%) CEH
8 47 (6.09%) Security Cleared
9 41 (5.31%) CCSP
9 41 (5.31%) CRISC
10 35 (4.53%) GIAC
11 34 (4.40%) CompTIA Security+
12 28 (3.63%) Master's Degree
13 27 (3.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 26 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
15 25 (3.24%) CompTIA CySA+
16 22 (2.85%) DV Cleared
16 22 (2.85%) SSCP
17 21 (2.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 259 (33.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 179 (23.19%) NIST
3 84 (10.88%) GRC
4 76 (9.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 72 (9.33%) GDPR
6 64 (8.29%) PCI DSS
7 37 (4.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 33 (4.27%) COBIT
9 19 (2.46%) SOC 2
10 17 (2.20%) NCSC
11 14 (1.81%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 12 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 11 (1.42%) Data Quality
14 8 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.91%) HIPAA
15 7 (0.91%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.91%) QA
16 6 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.65%) ISO 22301
18 4 (0.52%) ISO 14000
System Software
1 73 (9.46%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.59%) VMware ESXi
3 18 (2.33%) vSphere
4 16 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (1.17%) Docker
5 9 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.13%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) LXC
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 44 (5.70%) Single Sign-On
2 42 (5.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (2.59%) Microsoft Clustering
3 20 (2.59%) vCenter Server
4 17 (2.20%) Nmap
5 16 (2.07%) SCCM
6 15 (1.94%) Kubernetes
7 14 (1.81%) Ansible
8 13 (1.68%) Terraform
9 9 (1.17%) CASB
10 7 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.91%) QRadar
11 5 (0.65%) logstash
12 3 (0.39%) CSIRT
13 2 (0.26%) WSUS
14 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.13%) Packer
14 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.13%) Puppet
14 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 202 (26.17%) Microsoft
2 36 (4.66%) VMware
3 32 (4.15%) Cisco
3 32 (4.15%) Google
3 32 (4.15%) ServiceNow
4 25 (3.24%) SolarWinds
5 20 (2.59%) Commvault
6 18 (2.33%) Rapid7
6 18 (2.33%) Sun
7 17 (2.20%) Splunk
8 16 (2.07%) Tripwire
9 15 (1.94%) Qualys
9 15 (1.94%) Tanium
10 14 (1.81%) CheckPoint
11 12 (1.55%) CyberArk
12 11 (1.42%) Alibaba
12 11 (1.42%) Oracle
13 10 (1.30%) SAP
14 9 (1.17%) Apple
14 9 (1.17%) IBM