Cybersecurity Job Trends in the East Midlands

Cybersecurity
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 50 62
Rank change year-on-year +38 +12 -4
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 514 119 136
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 8.70% 5.15% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.28% 6.02% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 247 78 111
10th Percentile £35,000 - £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £26,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £47,683 £53,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.98%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,187 1,977 3,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 70.83% 85.51% 75.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,747 1,093 1,853
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,208 £27,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,125 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cybersecurity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the East Midlands

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 August 2026. 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
Leicestershire +24 194 £55,000 +34.86% 33
Nottinghamshire +50 166 £46,743 +48.39% 27
Lincolnshire +8 60 £65,000 +62.50% 17
Derbyshire +2 50 £55,000 +100.00% 20
Northamptonshire +31 43 £45,000 +28.57% 12
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 11 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.75%) IIS
3 6 (1.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.97%) SAP Business One
2 3 (0.58%) Infor CloudSuite
2 3 (0.58%) Infor LN
2 3 (0.58%) Infor M3
2 3 (0.58%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 3 (0.58%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.19%) Odoo
3 1 (0.19%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 233 (45.33%) Azure
2 50 (9.73%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (6.61%) Entra ID
4 15 (2.92%) AWS
5 11 (2.14%) SaaS
6 9 (1.75%) Power Platform
7 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.58%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.39%) GCP
10 2 (0.39%) GitHub
10 2 (0.39%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.39%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.19%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.11%) Firewall
2 14 (2.72%) VPN
3 8 (1.56%) DNS
3 8 (1.56%) Network Security
4 6 (1.17%) DHCP
5 5 (0.97%) VLAN
5 5 (0.97%) VoIP
6 4 (0.78%) LoRaWAN
6 4 (0.78%) MQTT
6 4 (0.78%) Value-Added Service
7 3 (0.58%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.58%) Wireless
8 2 (0.39%) Modbus
9 1 (0.19%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.56%) Power BI
2 4 (0.78%) MySQL
2 4 (0.78%) Neo4j
2 4 (0.78%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.58%) Crystal Reports
3 3 (0.58%) GIS
3 3 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (0.97%) VersionOne
2 4 (0.78%) Burp Suite
2 4 (0.78%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.39%) Git
4 1 (0.19%) LabVIEW
General
1 208 (40.47%) Social Skills
2 41 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (5.84%) Manufacturing
4 23 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (2.33%) Finance
6 11 (2.14%) Telecoms
7 9 (1.75%) Law
7 9 (1.75%) Retail
8 5 (0.97%) Aerospace
8 5 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (0.97%) Legal
8 5 (0.97%) Public Sector
9 4 (0.78%) Social Housing
10 3 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.58%) Fire and Rescue
10 3 (0.58%) Games
11 2 (0.39%) Electronics
11 2 (0.39%) Marketing
11 2 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 136 (26.46%) Analyst
2 123 (23.93%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 123 (23.93%) Security Analyst
3 92 (17.90%) Junior
4 78 (15.18%) Ethical Hacker
5 72 (14.01%) Junior Analyst
5 72 (14.01%) Junior Security Analyst
6 47 (9.14%) Consultant
6 47 (9.14%) Technical Consultant
7 45 (8.75%) Security Manager
8 44 (8.56%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 44 (8.56%) Security Consultant
8 44 (8.56%) Security Technical Consultant
8 44 (8.56%) Technical Security Consultant
9 38 (7.39%) DevOps Engineer
10 36 (7.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 35 (6.81%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 35 (6.81%) IT Analyst
11 35 (6.81%) IT Security Analyst
12 30 (5.84%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.17%) EDI
2 2 (0.39%) Middleware
2 2 (0.39%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.19%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 84 (16.34%) Cyberattack
2 31 (6.03%) PKI
3 27 (5.25%) Security Posture
4 26 (5.06%) CSOC
5 24 (4.67%) Onboarding
6 23 (4.47%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (3.89%) Security Operations Centre
8 11 (2.14%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.36%) Operational Technology
11 6 (1.17%) Driving Licence
12 5 (0.97%) Cyber Security Posture
12 5 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.97%) SCADA
13 4 (0.78%) Insider Threat
13 4 (0.78%) IoT
13 4 (0.78%) Replication
13 4 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
14 3 (0.58%) FMCG
14 3 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.28%) Windows
2 11 (2.14%) Linux
2 11 (2.14%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.78%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (20.82%) Mentoring
2 79 (15.37%) Ethical Hacking
3 54 (10.51%) Security Operations
4 52 (10.12%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (7.98%) DevOps
7 29 (5.64%) Incident Response
8 25 (4.86%) Vulnerability Management
8 25 (4.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 23 (4.47%) Decision-Making
9 23 (4.47%) ITIL
9 23 (4.47%) Roadmaps
9 23 (4.47%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (4.28%) ERP
11 21 (4.09%) SIEM
12 20 (3.89%) Service Delivery
13 18 (3.50%) Data Protection
14 17 (3.31%) Cloud Security
14 17 (3.31%) Information Security
15 16 (3.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 19 (3.70%) SQL
2 9 (1.75%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (0.97%) Python
5 4 (0.78%) Bash
6 1 (0.19%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 154 (29.96%) Azure Certification
2 86 (16.73%) CompTIA Security+
3 79 (15.37%) CEH
3 79 (15.37%) CompTIA CySA+
4 65 (12.65%) SC Cleared
4 65 (12.65%) Security Cleared
5 25 (4.86%) Degree
6 17 (3.31%) CISSP
7 14 (2.72%) CISM
8 10 (1.95%) SANS
9 9 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.97%) SSCP
12 4 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.78%) CCSP
12 4 (0.78%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 3 (0.58%) CCNA
14 2 (0.39%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.19%) A+ Certification
15 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (4.47%) GRC
3 20 (3.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (2.72%) GDPR
4 14 (2.72%) NIST
5 12 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.97%) NCSC
6 5 (0.97%) PERC
7 4 (0.78%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.58%) QA
8 3 (0.58%) SLA
9 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.19%) COBIT
9 1 (0.19%) ITGC
System Software
1 26 (5.06%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.11%) Firmware
3 9 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.36%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.78%) vSphere
6 2 (0.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.78%) Galera Cluster
2 4 (0.78%) Nmap
2 4 (0.78%) vCenter Server
3 2 (0.39%) Ansible
3 2 (0.39%) Grafana
3 2 (0.39%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.39%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.39%) Terraform
4 1 (0.19%) Nessus
Vendors
1 224 (43.58%) Microsoft
2 150 (29.18%) ForeScout
3 13 (2.53%) VMware
4 9 (1.75%) Salesforce
4 9 (1.75%) SAP
5 6 (1.17%) Cisco
5 6 (1.17%) Oracle
6 5 (0.97%) ESET
6 5 (0.97%) ServiceNow
6 5 (0.97%) Zoho
7 4 (0.78%) Infor
8 3 (0.58%) Epicor
8 3 (0.58%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.58%) JD Edwards
8 3 (0.58%) QAD
8 3 (0.58%) Sage
8 3 (0.58%) SonicWALL
8 3 (0.58%) Sophos
8 3 (0.58%) SYSPRO
8 3 (0.58%) WatchGuard