Cybersecurity Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Cybersecurity
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 17 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1 38 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of Westminster 1.61% 14.90% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 15.64% 5.88%
Number of salaries quoted 0 16 3
10th Percentile - - £49,700
25th Percentile - - £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £50,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -41.18% -11.38%
75th Percentile - - £86,250
90th Percentile - £53,835 £87,000
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -10.34% -14.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

Cybersecurity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of Westminster.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 35 243 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 56.45% 95.29% 89.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3 76 41
10th Percentile £60,143 £47,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,274 £50,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,648 £60,918 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.40% -23.85% +23.08%
75th Percentile £75,611 £68,750 £110,750
90th Percentile £80,494 £75,000 £150,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the City of Westminster

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Cybersecurity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) IAM Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Cyberattack
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory