Cybersecurity Job Trends in East London

Cybersecurity
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in East London requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 19 40
Rank change year-on-year +16 +21 +1
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 95 12 7
As % of all permanent jobs in East London 39.58% 7.55% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 43.58% 8.05% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 28 4 7
10th Percentile £67,000 £55,411 £39,950
25th Percentile £86,250 £55,790 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +82.61% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £61,438 £54,375
90th Percentile - £64,925 £63,000
London median annual salary £65,000 £73,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.96% -2.67% +3.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East London

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 East London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 218 149 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in East London 90.83% 93.71% 87.02%
Number of salaries quoted 102 48 191
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,175 -
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £27,965
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £52,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +31.25% -36.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £93,000 £105,000
London median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +0.67%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in East London

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in East London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Cybersecurity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in East London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in East London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in East London

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the East London region over the 6 months to 29 December 2025. 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
Docklands, London - 23 £105,000 -
Havering - 22 - - 2
Bexley +1 19 - -
Redbridge +4 10 £32,000 - 4
Dagenham -2 9 - -
Barking +3 8 - - 1
Tower Hamlets +5 4 £70,000 +20.69% 4
Cybersecurity
London

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 66 (69.47%) Cloud Computing
2 10 (10.53%) AWS
3 4 (4.21%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.11%) Azure
4 2 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 66 (69.47%) Internet
2 10 (10.53%) CHAP
3 2 (2.11%) DHCP
3 2 (2.11%) DNS
3 2 (2.11%) VPN
Development Applications
1 10 (10.53%) Jenkins
General
1 90 (94.74%) Banking
2 80 (84.21%) Social Skills
3 66 (69.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (25.26%) Finance
5 10 (10.53%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 54 (56.84%) Lecturer
2 10 (10.53%) Architect
2 10 (10.53%) Auditor
2 10 (10.53%) Infrastructure Architect
2 10 (10.53%) Internal Auditor
2 10 (10.53%) Security Auditor
3 4 (4.21%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 4 (4.21%) Security Specialist
4 3 (3.16%) Security Architect
5 2 (2.11%) Analyst
5 2 (2.11%) Desktop Analyst
5 2 (2.11%) Desktop Support
5 2 (2.11%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 2 (2.11%) Support Analyst
6 1 (1.05%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (1.05%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (1.05%) Cryptography Engineer
6 1 (1.05%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.11%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 66 (69.47%) IoT
2 12 (12.63%) Management Information System
3 10 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 10 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (10.53%) Public Cloud
4 5 (5.26%) Blockchain
5 4 (4.21%) Security Posture
5 4 (4.21%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.11%) Windows
1 2 (2.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (69.47%) AI
1 66 (69.47%) Machine Learning
1 66 (69.47%) User Experience
1 66 (69.47%) Web Development
2 14 (14.74%) Information Security
2 14 (14.74%) Risk Assessment
2 14 (14.74%) Risk Management
2 14 (14.74%) Vulnerability Management
3 12 (12.63%) Data Protection
3 12 (12.63%) Project Management
4 11 (11.58%) Cloud Security
4 11 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (11.58%) Security Architecture
5 10 (10.53%) Analytics
5 10 (10.53%) Data Analytics
5 10 (10.53%) Incident Response
5 10 (10.53%) Internal Audit
5 10 (10.53%) Roadmaps
5 10 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
5 10 (10.53%) Threat Management
Qualifications
1 70 (73.68%) Degree
1 70 (73.68%) Master's Degree
2 66 (69.47%) PhD
2 66 (69.47%) Postgraduate
3 15 (15.79%) CISM
4 11 (11.58%) CISSP
5 10 (10.53%) CGEIT
5 10 (10.53%) CISA
5 10 (10.53%) FFIEC
5 10 (10.53%) SANS
6 4 (4.21%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.74%) NIST
2 10 (10.53%) COBIT
2 10 (10.53%) GDPR
3 4 (4.21%) GRC
3 4 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.21%) NIST 800
3 4 (4.21%) SOC 1
3 4 (4.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (10.53%) Ansible
2 4 (4.21%) RSA Archer
3 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (2.11%) CyberArk
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft