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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 77 158
Rank change year-on-year -12 +81 -29
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 772 1,439 1,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.28% 4.09% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 4.29% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 641 1,037 1,151
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,288 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - +7.41%
75th Percentile £91,250 £91,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £107,500 £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 21,515 33,562 64,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.30% 95.35% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 16,011 24,064 34,411
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,477 £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%

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 4 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 4 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 +17 158 £79,842 -0.20% 15
West London -41 22 £55,000 +4.76% 4
North London +7 9 £65,000 +44.44%
South London -53 8 £45,125 +20.33% 1
East London +12 6 £61,250 -2.00% 4
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 4 (0.52%) CMS
6 3 (0.39%) Confluence
6 3 (0.39%) Drupal
6 3 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (0.39%) WordPress
7 2 (0.26%) Apache
7 2 (0.26%) nginx
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 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
1 209 (27.07%) Azure
2 134 (17.36%) Microsoft 365
3 108 (13.99%) AWS
4 50 (6.48%) GCP
5 41 (5.31%) SaaS
6 38 (4.92%) Entra ID
7 32 (4.15%) Power Platform
8 24 (3.11%) IaaS
8 24 (3.11%) 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 AKS
16 5 (0.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 182 (23.58%) Firewall
2 94 (12.18%) Network Security
3 47 (6.09%) Intrusion Detection
4 43 (5.57%) TCP/IP
5 39 (5.05%) LAN
5 39 (5.05%) WAN
6 35 (4.53%) DNS
7 31 (4.02%) VPN
8 22 (2.85%) SSL
9 21 (2.72%) Wireless
10 18 (2.33%) Internet
11 16 (2.07%) VoIP
12 14 (1.81%) SD-WAN
13 10 (1.30%) DHCP
13 10 (1.30%) MPLS
14 9 (1.17%) BGP
14 9 (1.17%) Reverse Proxy
15 8 (1.04%) OSPF
15 8 (1.04%) SAN
15 8 (1.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (3.89%) 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 16 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.52%) 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%) Selenium
6 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 257 (33.29%) Social Skills
2 196 (25.39%) Finance
3 142 (18.39%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (17.10%) Legal
5 113 (14.64%) Law
6 42 (5.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (4.40%) Retail
8 29 (3.76%) Public Sector
9 26 (3.37%) Banking
10 25 (3.24%) Marketing
11 24 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
12 22 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
13 21 (2.72%) Advertising
14 20 (2.59%) Military
15 11 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (1.04%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.65%) Police
19 4 (0.52%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 184 (23.83%) Analyst
2 133 (17.23%) Security Analyst
3 125 (16.19%) Senior
4 108 (13.99%) Security Manager
5 82 (10.62%) Lead
6 74 (9.59%) Information Security Manager
7 72 (9.33%) Information Manager
8 62 (8.03%) Security Engineer
9 52 (6.74%) Information Analyst
9 52 (6.74%) 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 28 (3.63%) 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%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.26%) HTML
7 2 (0.26%) HTML5
7 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.26%) Middleware
7 2 (0.26%) Next.js
7 2 (0.26%) Node.js
7 2 (0.26%) React
7 2 (0.26%) Sass
7 2 (0.26%) WebSockets
7 2 (0.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 168 (21.76%) Management Information System
2 96 (12.44%) Security Posture
3 38 (4.92%) Cyber Threat
4 34 (4.40%) Security Operations Centre
5 25 (3.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 22 (2.85%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.59%) Clustering
8 19 (2.46%) Data Centre
8 19 (2.46%) PKI
9 16 (2.07%) Cyber Defence
9 16 (2.07%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 16 (2.07%) Cybercrime
9 16 (2.07%) Product Ownership
10 15 (1.94%) Cloud Security Posture
11 11 (1.42%) Cloud Native
11 11 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
12 9 (1.17%) Blog
12 9 (1.17%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 105 (13.60%) Windows
2 62 (8.03%) 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
1 364 (47.15%) Cybersecurity
2 157 (20.34%) Risk Management
3 147 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
4 116 (15.03%) Incident Response
4 116 (15.03%) SIEM
5 106 (13.73%) Security Operations
6 105 (13.60%) Computer Science
7 97 (12.56%) Security Architecture
8 96 (12.44%) Cloud Security
9 90 (11.66%) Vulnerability Management
10 86 (11.14%) ITIL
10 86 (11.14%) Roadmaps
11 84 (10.88%) Security Management
12 79 (10.23%) Penetration Testing
13 78 (10.10%) Disaster Recovery
14 74 (9.59%) Data Protection
15 73 (9.46%) Agile
16 72 (9.33%) Application Security
17 68 (8.81%) Incident Management
18 65 (8.42%) Information Security Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (8.03%) Python
2 60 (7.77%) PowerShell
3 34 (4.40%) SQL
4 27 (3.50%) Bash
5 9 (1.17%) Java
6 7 (0.91%) PHP
7 5 (0.65%) Perl
8 4 (0.52%) C#
9 3 (0.39%) Ruby
10 2 (0.26%) Go
10 2 (0.26%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.13%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.13%) Korn
11 1 (0.13%) Rust
11 1 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 263 (34.07%) CISSP
2 188 (24.35%) Degree
3 151 (19.56%) CISM
4 95 (12.31%) CISA
5 66 (8.55%) Cisco Certification
6 59 (7.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 50 (6.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 49 (6.35%) CEH
9 48 (6.22%) Security Cleared
10 42 (5.44%) CCSP
11 41 (5.31%) CRISC
12 35 (4.53%) GIAC
13 34 (4.40%) CompTIA Security+
14 28 (3.63%) Master's Degree
15 27 (3.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 27 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
16 26 (3.37%) CompTIA CySA+
17 23 (2.98%) SSCP
18 22 (2.85%) DV Cleared
18 22 (2.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 261 (33.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 177 (22.93%) NIST
3 82 (10.62%) GRC
4 74 (9.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 73 (9.46%) GDPR
6 64 (8.29%) PCI DSS
7 36 (4.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 31 (4.02%) COBIT
9 20 (2.59%) 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 7 (0.91%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.91%) NIST 800
14 7 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.78%) QA
16 5 (0.65%) ISO 22301
17 4 (0.52%) ITGC
System Software
1 74 (9.59%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.59%) VMware ESXi
3 18 (2.33%) vSphere
4 17 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (1.42%) Docker
6 9 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.39%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.13%) Firmware
9 1 (0.13%) LXC
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 44 (5.70%) Single Sign-On
2 43 (5.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (2.59%) Microsoft Clustering
3 20 (2.59%) vCenter Server
4 17 (2.20%) Kubernetes
4 17 (2.20%) Nmap
5 16 (2.07%) SCCM
6 14 (1.81%) Ansible
6 14 (1.81%) Terraform
7 9 (1.17%) CASB
8 8 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (0.91%) QRadar
10 5 (0.65%) logstash
11 3 (0.39%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.26%) WSUS
13 1 (0.13%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.13%) Puppet
13 1 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 202 (26.17%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.79%) VMware
3 34 (4.40%) Cisco
4 32 (4.15%) Google
5 30 (3.89%) ServiceNow
6 26 (3.37%) SolarWinds
7 20 (2.59%) Commvault
8 18 (2.33%) Rapid7
8 18 (2.33%) Sun
9 17 (2.20%) Splunk
10 16 (2.07%) Tripwire
11 15 (1.94%) Qualys
11 15 (1.94%) Tanium
12 14 (1.81%) CheckPoint
13 12 (1.55%) CyberArk
14 11 (1.42%) Alibaba
14 11 (1.42%) Oracle
15 10 (1.30%) SAP
16 9 (1.17%) Apple
16 9 (1.17%) IBM