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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 82 59
Rank change year-on-year +68 -23 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 477 122 180
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 7.09% 3.51% 3.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.99% 3.93% 4.09%
Number of salaries quoted 265 87 135
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,424 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £68,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,400 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.25%

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 4,774 3,101 4,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.99% 89.16% 76.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,360 1,670 3,105
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,156 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +32 132 £65,000 +8.33% 33
Hertfordshire +24 87 £55,000 +37.50% 49
Bedfordshire +38 79 £30,000 -36.84% 9
Essex +26 69 £35,000 -30.00% 23
Norfolk +8 63 £37,853 -15.88% 13
Suffolk +32 47 £34,750 -32.20% 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 41 (8.60%) SharePoint
2 36 (7.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.47%) CMS
4 3 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.42%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.26%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.84%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 205 (42.98%) Azure
2 97 (20.34%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (14.05%) Entra ID
4 20 (4.19%) AWS
5 12 (2.52%) OneDrive
6 9 (1.89%) Power Platform
6 9 (1.89%) PowerApps
7 6 (1.26%) SaaS
8 4 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.63%) GCP
9 3 (0.63%) GitHub
9 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (0.63%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.42%) IaaS
10 2 (0.42%) PaaS
11 1 (0.21%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.21%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (0.21%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 64 (13.42%) Firewall
2 33 (6.92%) VPN
3 27 (5.66%) DNS
4 26 (5.45%) TCP/IP
5 23 (4.82%) DHCP
6 20 (4.19%) LAN
7 18 (3.77%) VLAN
8 17 (3.56%) WAN
9 16 (3.35%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (2.52%) Network Security
11 9 (1.89%) Wireless
12 8 (1.68%) FTP
12 8 (1.68%) HTTP
12 8 (1.68%) SMTP
13 5 (1.05%) Internet
13 5 (1.05%) VoIP
14 3 (0.63%) DMZ
14 3 (0.63%) NAS
14 3 (0.63%) WLAN
15 2 (0.42%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.68%) Power BI
2 3 (0.63%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 4 (0.84%) JIRA
2 1 (0.21%) Git
General
1 205 (42.98%) Social Skills
2 41 (8.60%) Finance
3 27 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.03%) Public Sector
5 18 (3.77%) Aerospace
6 15 (3.14%) Retail
7 13 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.73%) Telecoms
8 12 (2.52%) Billing
9 11 (2.31%) Law
9 11 (2.31%) Legal
9 11 (2.31%) Marketing
10 10 (2.10%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.68%) Games
13 6 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.84%) Banking
16 3 (0.63%) Electronics
17 2 (0.42%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 99 (20.75%) Analyst
2 77 (16.14%) Security Analyst
3 71 (14.88%) Junior
4 67 (14.05%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 60 (12.58%) Ethical Hacker
5 60 (12.58%) Junior Analyst
5 60 (12.58%) Junior Security Analyst
6 52 (10.90%) IT Support
7 40 (8.39%) IT Engineer
8 29 (6.08%) Administrator
9 26 (5.45%) IT Manager
9 26 (5.45%) Senior
10 25 (5.24%) IT Support Engineer
10 25 (5.24%) Support Engineer
11 23 (4.82%) Consultant
12 19 (3.98%) IT Analyst
13 17 (3.56%) Software Engineer
14 15 (3.14%) Lead
15 14 (2.94%) Service Manager
15 14 (2.94%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.68%) LDAP
2 2 (0.42%) Middleware
2 2 (0.42%) Web Services
3 1 (0.21%) CSS
3 1 (0.21%) FHIR
3 1 (0.21%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (12.58%) Cyberattack
2 44 (9.22%) Cyber Threat
3 32 (6.71%) Onboarding
4 20 (4.19%) Security Operations Centre
5 14 (2.94%) Driving Licence
5 14 (2.94%) Security Posture
6 11 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.10%) Client/Server
8 7 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.47%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.47%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.26%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.26%) Robotics
10 5 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.84%) CCTV
11 4 (0.84%) Clustering
11 4 (0.84%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (0.84%) Social Network
12 3 (0.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 72 (15.09%) Windows
2 38 (7.97%) Windows Server
3 12 (2.52%) Linux
4 8 (1.68%) Android
4 8 (1.68%) Mac OS
4 8 (1.68%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.42%) VMS
6 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (16.35%) Mentoring
3 63 (13.21%) Ethical Hacking
4 49 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 43 (9.01%) AI
6 33 (6.92%) Security Operations
7 32 (6.71%) SIEM
8 29 (6.08%) ITIL
9 28 (5.87%) Software Engineering
10 26 (5.45%) Disaster Recovery
10 26 (5.45%) Service Delivery
11 19 (3.98%) Business Continuity
12 18 (3.77%) Incident Response
12 18 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (3.56%) Information Security
13 17 (3.56%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (3.35%) Customer Service
14 16 (3.35%) Data Protection
14 16 (3.35%) Project Delivery
14 16 (3.35%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 31 (6.50%) Python
2 27 (5.66%) PowerShell
3 21 (4.40%) C++
4 8 (1.68%) Rust
5 7 (1.47%) Bash
6 6 (1.26%) Perl
7 5 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (1.05%) Search Processing Language
7 5 (1.05%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.84%) Java
9 2 (0.42%) C
9 2 (0.42%) Embedded C
9 2 (0.42%) Embedded C++
9 2 (0.42%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.42%) SQL
10 1 (0.21%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 127 (26.62%) Azure Certification
2 73 (15.30%) CEH
3 72 (15.09%) CompTIA Security+
4 61 (12.79%) CompTIA CySA+
5 47 (9.85%) Security Cleared
6 43 (9.01%) Degree
7 30 (6.29%) DV Cleared
8 18 (3.77%) SC Cleared
9 17 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (2.52%) CCNA
12 11 (2.31%) CISSP
13 9 (1.89%) CCNP
14 7 (1.47%) CISM
14 7 (1.47%) CREST Certified
15 5 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.84%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
17 3 (0.63%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (4.61%) GRC
3 16 (3.35%) NIST
4 13 (2.73%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.89%) GDPR
6 8 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (1.47%) NCSC
7 7 (1.47%) SLA
8 6 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (1.26%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.84%) JSP 440
9 4 (0.84%) QA
9 4 (0.84%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.63%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.63%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 3 (0.63%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.42%) Automotive SPICE
11 2 (0.42%) COBIT
12 1 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 75 (15.72%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.63%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.42%) vSphere
7 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (4.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.68%) Terraform
3 7 (1.47%) QRadar
4 5 (1.05%) Ansible
5 4 (0.84%) FTK
6 2 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.42%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.42%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.42%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (0.42%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.21%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (0.21%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 235 (49.27%) Microsoft
2 120 (25.16%) ForeScout
3 22 (4.61%) VMware
4 14 (2.94%) Splunk
5 13 (2.73%) Cisco
6 8 (1.68%) Apple
6 8 (1.68%) Epicor
7 6 (1.26%) SolarWinds
7 6 (1.26%) Sophos
7 6 (1.26%) Ubiquiti
8 5 (1.05%) Dell
8 5 (1.05%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.05%) Veeam
9 4 (0.84%) Cellebrite
9 4 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.63%) Aruba
10 3 (0.63%) ConnectWise
10 3 (0.63%) Meraki
10 3 (0.63%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.63%) Synology