Cybersecurity Job Trends in the East of England

Cybersecurity
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 85 65
Rank change year-on-year +70 -20 +18
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 414 105 210
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 6.68% 3.52% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.62% 3.80% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 194 76 159
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £25,700
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,424 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,625 £66,697
90th Percentile £78,785 £92,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,670 £58,500
% change year-on-year +4.04% -1.42% -10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,302 2,760 5,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 69.36% 92.59% 77.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,937 1,386 3,924
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,533 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,200 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Cybersecurity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in the East of England over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in the East of England

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the East of England region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
Cambridgeshire +20 94 £49,000 -14.78% 43
Hertfordshire +31 87 £65,000 +55.60% 30
Essex +27 70 £35,000 - 21
Bedfordshire +39 60 £30,000 -36.84% 13
Norfolk +13 52 £60,000 +33.33% 14
Suffolk +36 51 £34,875 -26.58% 9
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 31 (7.49%) SharePoint
2 26 (6.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.45%) CMS
4 3 (0.72%) SAS
5 1 (0.24%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.45%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.97%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 206 (49.76%) Azure
2 76 (18.36%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (14.25%) Entra ID
4 20 (4.83%) AWS
5 11 (2.66%) Power Platform
5 11 (2.66%) PowerApps
6 8 (1.93%) OneDrive
7 5 (1.21%) SaaS
8 4 (0.97%) IaaS
8 4 (0.97%) PaaS
9 3 (0.72%) GitHub
9 3 (0.72%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.24%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (0.24%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.24%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.24%) Boomi
11 1 (0.24%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 59 (14.25%) Firewall
2 32 (7.73%) VPN
3 23 (5.56%) DNS
4 19 (4.59%) DHCP
4 19 (4.59%) LAN
4 19 (4.59%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (3.86%) WAN
6 15 (3.62%) TCP/IP
7 14 (3.38%) Network Security
8 12 (2.90%) VLAN
9 7 (1.69%) FTP
9 7 (1.69%) HTTP
9 7 (1.69%) SMTP
10 6 (1.45%) DMZ
10 6 (1.45%) Wireless
11 5 (1.21%) Internet
12 4 (0.97%) VoIP
12 4 (0.97%) WLAN
13 3 (0.72%) 5G
13 3 (0.72%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.42%) Power BI
2 4 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.72%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 7 (1.69%) JIRA
2 1 (0.24%) Git
General
1 184 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 41 (9.90%) Finance
3 30 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.59%) Billing
6 17 (4.11%) Manufacturing
7 15 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.90%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.66%) Law
9 11 (2.66%) Marketing
10 10 (2.42%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (2.17%) Legal
11 9 (2.17%) Retail
12 8 (1.93%) Games
13 4 (0.97%) Banking
13 4 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.97%) Local Government
13 4 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 103 (24.88%) Analyst
2 83 (20.05%) Security Analyst
3 71 (17.15%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 69 (16.67%) Junior
5 68 (16.43%) Junior Analyst
5 68 (16.43%) Junior Security Analyst
6 60 (14.49%) Ethical Hacker
7 48 (11.59%) IT Support
8 39 (9.42%) IT Engineer
9 28 (6.76%) Administrator
10 25 (6.04%) IT Support Engineer
10 25 (6.04%) Support Engineer
11 20 (4.83%) Consultant
12 19 (4.59%) IT Analyst
13 14 (3.38%) IT Manager
14 13 (3.14%) Systems Engineer
15 12 (2.90%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 12 (2.90%) Senior
16 11 (2.66%) Cybersecurity Manager
16 11 (2.66%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.69%) LDAP
2 2 (0.48%) Web Services
3 1 (0.24%) CSS
3 1 (0.24%) HTML
3 1 (0.24%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 60 (14.49%) Cyberattack
2 21 (5.07%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.86%) Security Posture
4 14 (3.38%) Cyber Threat
4 14 (3.38%) Security Operations Centre
5 10 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.93%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 7 (1.69%) Robotics
8 6 (1.45%) Blog
8 6 (1.45%) Client/Server
8 6 (1.45%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.45%) PKI
9 5 (1.21%) Operational Technology
10 4 (0.97%) CCTV
10 4 (0.97%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.97%) Social Network
11 3 (0.72%) PropTech
11 3 (0.72%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 57 (13.77%) Windows
2 32 (7.73%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.93%) Android
4 7 (1.69%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.45%) Linux
5 6 (1.45%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.97%) VMS
6 4 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (19.32%) Mentoring
2 63 (15.22%) Ethical Hacking
3 55 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (5.56%) ITIL
6 22 (5.31%) AI
7 21 (5.07%) SIEM
8 18 (4.35%) ERP
9 17 (4.11%) Security Operations
10 16 (3.86%) Cloud Security
11 15 (3.62%) Risk Management
11 15 (3.62%) Service Delivery
11 15 (3.62%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (3.62%) Use Case
12 14 (3.38%) Data Protection
12 14 (3.38%) Disaster Recovery
13 13 (3.14%) Computer Science
13 13 (3.14%) User Experience
14 12 (2.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 12 (2.90%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 24 (5.80%) PowerShell
2 15 (3.62%) Python
3 7 (1.69%) Bash
3 7 (1.69%) C++
4 6 (1.45%) Perl
5 5 (1.21%) Java
6 2 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.48%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.24%) C
7 1 (0.24%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.24%) Embedded C++
7 1 (0.24%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.24%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.24%) SQL
Qualifications
1 137 (33.09%) Azure Certification
2 79 (19.08%) CompTIA Security+
3 72 (17.39%) CEH
4 69 (16.67%) CompTIA CySA+
5 36 (8.70%) Security Cleared
6 34 (8.21%) Degree
7 22 (5.31%) DV Cleared
8 17 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (3.38%) CISSP
10 13 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (2.90%) SC Cleared
12 11 (2.66%) CCNA
13 8 (1.93%) CCNP
14 7 (1.69%) CISM
14 7 (1.69%) CREST Certified
15 6 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
16 5 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
17 3 (0.72%) CCSK
17 3 (0.72%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (5.07%) GRC
3 16 (3.86%) NIST
4 13 (3.14%) PCI DSS
5 9 (2.17%) GDPR
5 9 (2.17%) NCSC
6 8 (1.93%) SLA
7 7 (1.69%) JSP 440
8 6 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 4 (0.97%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.72%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.72%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.72%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.72%) QA
11 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.24%) Automotive SPICE
12 1 (0.24%) IASME
12 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 63 (15.22%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.97%) vSphere
4 3 (0.72%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.24%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 21 (5.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (1.69%) QRadar
3 5 (1.21%) FTK
3 5 (1.21%) Terraform
4 4 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (0.97%) SolarWinds Orion
4 4 (0.97%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.48%) Ansible
5 2 (0.48%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.24%) Computer Incident Response Team
6 1 (0.24%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.24%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 226 (54.59%) Microsoft
2 128 (30.92%) ForeScout
3 15 (3.62%) VMware
4 14 (3.38%) Cisco
5 10 (2.42%) Splunk
6 9 (2.17%) Epicor
7 8 (1.93%) Apple
7 8 (1.93%) SolarWinds
8 6 (1.45%) Fortinet
8 6 (1.45%) Sophos
9 5 (1.21%) Cellebrite
9 5 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (1.21%) Dell
9 5 (1.21%) Veeam
10 4 (0.97%) Aruba
10 4 (0.97%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.97%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.72%) Meraki
11 3 (0.72%) Synology
11 3 (0.72%) Ubiquiti