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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 79 64
Rank change year-on-year +65 -15 +5
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 482 123 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 6.94% 3.56% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.83% 4.02% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 280 89 109
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,424 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £68,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,200 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,750
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.95% -6.97%

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 4,905 3,060 3,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.63% 88.49% 74.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,479 1,657 2,486
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,533 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £89,600 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.41%

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 1 August 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 1 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
Cambridgeshire +34 139 £65,000 -1.89% 35
Hertfordshire +33 88 £55,000 +31.66% 48
Bedfordshire +34 79 £30,000 -36.84% 9
Essex +24 67 £35,000 -30.00% 25
Norfolk +9 63 £37,500 -16.67% 15
Suffolk +30 46 £34,750 -36.82% 10
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 46 (9.54%) SharePoint
2 40 (8.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.45%) CMS
4 3 (0.62%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.41%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.83%) Dynamics GP
2 4 (0.83%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 199 (41.29%) Azure
2 97 (20.12%) Microsoft 365
3 65 (13.49%) Entra ID
4 19 (3.94%) AWS
5 15 (3.11%) OneDrive
6 8 (1.66%) Power Platform
6 8 (1.66%) PowerApps
7 6 (1.24%) SaaS
8 4 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.62%) GCP
9 3 (0.62%) GitHub
9 3 (0.62%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.21%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.21%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.21%) Boomi
10 1 (0.21%) IaaS
10 1 (0.21%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (13.49%) Firewall
2 31 (6.43%) VPN
3 27 (5.60%) DNS
4 25 (5.19%) TCP/IP
5 23 (4.77%) DHCP
6 18 (3.73%) LAN
7 17 (3.53%) VLAN
7 17 (3.53%) WAN
8 16 (3.32%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (2.49%) Network Security
10 11 (2.28%) Wireless
11 8 (1.66%) FTP
11 8 (1.66%) HTTP
11 8 (1.66%) SMTP
12 5 (1.04%) Internet
12 5 (1.04%) NAS
12 5 (1.04%) VoIP
13 3 (0.62%) DMZ
14 2 (0.41%) L2TP
14 2 (0.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.45%) Power BI
2 5 (1.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 4 (0.83%) JIRA
2 1 (0.21%) Git
General
1 205 (42.53%) Social Skills
2 41 (8.51%) Finance
3 26 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (5.39%) Public Sector
4 25 (5.19%) Aerospace
5 14 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (2.70%) Retail
7 12 (2.49%) Legal
8 11 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (2.28%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.07%) Billing
9 10 (2.07%) Law
10 9 (1.87%) Marketing
11 8 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.45%) Games
13 5 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.83%) Banking
14 4 (0.83%) Electronics
15 2 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 96 (19.92%) Analyst
2 73 (15.15%) Security Analyst
3 69 (14.32%) Junior
4 63 (13.07%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 60 (12.45%) Ethical Hacker
6 56 (11.62%) Junior Analyst
6 56 (11.62%) Junior Security Analyst
7 50 (10.37%) IT Support
8 36 (7.47%) IT Engineer
9 31 (6.43%) Senior
10 28 (5.81%) IT Manager
11 27 (5.60%) Consultant
12 26 (5.39%) Administrator
13 23 (4.77%) IT Support Engineer
13 23 (4.77%) Support Engineer
14 20 (4.15%) Software Engineer
15 19 (3.94%) IT Analyst
16 17 (3.53%) Lead
17 14 (2.90%) Service Manager
18 13 (2.70%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.66%) LDAP
2 2 (0.41%) Middleware
2 2 (0.41%) Web Services
3 1 (0.21%) CSS
3 1 (0.21%) FHIR
3 1 (0.21%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (12.45%) Cyberattack
2 53 (11.00%) Cyber Threat
3 32 (6.64%) Onboarding
4 21 (4.36%) Security Operations Centre
5 15 (3.11%) Driving Licence
6 13 (2.70%) Security Posture
7 11 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.07%) Client/Server
8 10 (2.07%) Operational Technology
9 8 (1.66%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.24%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.24%) Clustering
10 6 (1.24%) Cyber Defence
10 6 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.83%) CCTV
12 4 (0.83%) Robotics
12 4 (0.83%) Social Network
13 3 (0.62%) Blog
13 3 (0.62%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 66 (13.69%) Windows
2 32 (6.64%) Windows Server
3 11 (2.28%) Linux
4 8 (1.66%) Android
5 7 (1.45%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.24%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.83%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.21%) VMS
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (15.77%) Mentoring
3 61 (12.66%) Ethical Hacking
4 50 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 49 (10.17%) AI
6 38 (7.88%) Software Engineering
7 33 (6.85%) Security Operations
7 33 (6.85%) SIEM
8 31 (6.43%) ITIL
9 29 (6.02%) Disaster Recovery
9 29 (6.02%) Service Delivery
10 20 (4.15%) Business Continuity
10 20 (4.15%) Information Security
10 20 (4.15%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (3.94%) Incident Response
12 18 (3.73%) Customer Service
12 18 (3.73%) Roadmaps
13 17 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (3.53%) Project Delivery
13 17 (3.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 36 (7.47%) Python
2 25 (5.19%) PowerShell
3 22 (4.56%) C++
4 8 (1.66%) Rust
5 7 (1.45%) Bash
6 6 (1.24%) Perl
7 5 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (1.04%) Search Processing Language
7 5 (1.04%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.62%) Java
9 2 (0.41%) C
9 2 (0.41%) Embedded C
9 2 (0.41%) Embedded C++
9 2 (0.41%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.41%) SQL
10 1 (0.21%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 122 (25.31%) Azure Certification
2 71 (14.73%) CEH
3 67 (13.90%) CompTIA Security+
4 56 (11.62%) CompTIA CySA+
4 56 (11.62%) Security Cleared
5 45 (9.34%) Degree
6 36 (7.47%) DV Cleared
7 24 (4.98%) SC Cleared
8 18 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (2.49%) CISSP
11 11 (2.28%) CCNA
12 9 (1.87%) CCNP
13 7 (1.45%) CISM
13 7 (1.45%) CREST Certified
14 6 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.83%) CCSK
15 4 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
15 4 (0.83%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (5.19%) GRC
3 17 (3.53%) NIST
4 13 (2.70%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.87%) GDPR
5 9 (1.87%) SLA
6 8 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (1.66%) NCSC
7 7 (1.45%) Data Quality
8 6 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.04%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.83%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.83%) QA
10 4 (0.83%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.62%) COBIT
11 3 (0.62%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.62%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.41%) Automotive SPICE
13 1 (0.21%) IASME
System Software
1 73 (15.15%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.87%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.83%) Firmware
6 3 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.62%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (4.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.66%) Terraform
3 6 (1.24%) QRadar
4 5 (1.04%) Ansible
5 3 (0.62%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.62%) FTK
6 2 (0.41%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.21%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.21%) SCCM
7 1 (0.21%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 229 (47.51%) Microsoft
2 116 (24.07%) ForeScout
3 22 (4.56%) VMware
4 15 (3.11%) Cisco
5 13 (2.70%) Splunk
6 10 (2.07%) Apple
7 6 (1.24%) Epicor
7 6 (1.24%) Sophos
7 6 (1.24%) Ubiquiti
8 5 (1.04%) Dell
8 5 (1.04%) SolarWinds
8 5 (1.04%) Veeam
9 4 (0.83%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.83%) SonicWALL
10 3 (0.62%) Adobe
10 3 (0.62%) Cellebrite
10 3 (0.62%) ConnectWise
10 3 (0.62%) Meraki
10 3 (0.62%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.62%) Synology