Cybersecurity Job Trends in England

Cybersecurity
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 34 37
Rank change year-on-year +16 +3 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,924 2,702 4,529
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.83% 6.27% 5.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.22% 6.92% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,316 1,657 3,317
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £35,579
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -9.38%
75th Percentile £79,250 £75,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -10.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,229 39,036 74,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.05% 90.64% 82.57%
Number of salaries quoted 45,346 22,191 53,359
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,679 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in England

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cybersecurity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in England over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +14 1,387 £75,000 +2.98% 626
North of England +21 1,376 £51,722 -0.08% 340
South East +15 1,084 £52,500 +3.45% 418
Midlands +21 986 £57,500 +15.29% 200
North West +31 645 £55,000 - 184
South West +15 598 £57,500 +27.78% 210
Yorkshire +12 565 £47,500 +34.75% 111
West Midlands +16 517 £60,000 +7.14% 105
East Midlands +43 468 £55,000 +65.41% 95
East of England +64 466 £43,000 -9.47% 153
North East +30 166 £50,000 -23.08% 49
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 178 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 166 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (0.25%) Apache
4 12 (0.20%) CMS
5 10 (0.17%) IIS
6 8 (0.14%) SAS
7 6 (0.10%) Confluence
8 5 (0.084%) WordPress
9 4 (0.068%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.017%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.017%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 74 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.30%) Simulink
5 7 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.084%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.068%) CATIA
8 2 (0.034%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.017%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (0.41%) Cloudability
2 17 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 9 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.084%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.084%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.068%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.068%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.051%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.051%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.051%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.051%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 3 (0.051%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.051%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.034%) Shopify
9 1 (0.017%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.017%) Maximo
9 1 (0.017%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.017%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,383 (40.23%) Azure
2 682 (11.51%) Microsoft 365
3 443 (7.48%) AWS
4 390 (6.58%) Entra ID
5 165 (2.79%) SaaS
6 147 (2.48%) GCP
7 75 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
8 73 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
9 72 (1.22%) Power Platform
10 57 (0.96%) OneDrive
11 47 (0.79%) Serverless
12 45 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
13 36 (0.61%) Google Workspace
14 33 (0.56%) GitHub
15 32 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
16 31 (0.52%) Microsoft Copilot
17 30 (0.51%) Mimecast
18 28 (0.47%) PaaS
19 24 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
19 24 (0.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 485 (8.19%) Firewall
2 215 (3.63%) Network Security
3 194 (3.27%) VPN
4 184 (3.11%) DNS
5 144 (2.43%) WAN
6 134 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
7 129 (2.18%) LAN
8 124 (2.09%) DHCP
9 112 (1.89%) TCP/IP
10 111 (1.87%) VLAN
11 83 (1.40%) Internet
12 62 (1.05%) VoIP
13 49 (0.83%) Wireless
14 47 (0.79%) Broadband
15 43 (0.73%) Unified Communications
16 35 (0.59%) HTTP
17 33 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
18 31 (0.52%) SSL
19 30 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
20 24 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (0.74%) Power BI
2 32 (0.54%) SQL Server
3 15 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (0.19%) MySQL
4 11 (0.19%) Tableau
5 9 (0.15%) Big Data
5 9 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (0.14%) Neo4j
7 7 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.12%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.084%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.068%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.051%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.051%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.051%) GIS
10 3 (0.051%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.034%) ClickHouse
11 2 (0.034%) Flink
11 2 (0.034%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 40 (0.68%) Git
2 34 (0.57%) GitLab
3 31 (0.52%) JIRA
4 25 (0.42%) Snyk
5 19 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
6 15 (0.25%) Burp Suite
7 14 (0.24%) Metasploit
8 11 (0.19%) Jenkins
9 9 (0.15%) Yeoman
10 5 (0.084%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.084%) JMeter
10 5 (0.084%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.084%) VersionOne
11 4 (0.068%) Apache Continuum
11 4 (0.068%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.068%) Locust
12 3 (0.051%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.034%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.034%) Claude Code
14 1 (0.017%) GDB
General
1 2,476 (41.80%) Social Skills
2 530 (8.95%) Finance
3 422 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
4 280 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 279 (4.71%) Public Sector
6 180 (3.04%) Retail
7 170 (2.87%) Marketing
8 158 (2.67%) Law
9 143 (2.41%) Telecoms
10 140 (2.36%) Legal
11 133 (2.25%) Banking
12 127 (2.14%) Manufacturing
13 113 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
14 77 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
15 75 (1.27%) Multimedia
16 65 (1.10%) Aerospace
17 59 (1.00%) Local Government
18 52 (0.88%) Advertising
19 39 (0.66%) Aviation
20 37 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,247 (21.05%) Analyst
2 1,083 (18.28%) Security Analyst
3 991 (16.73%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 807 (13.62%) Junior
5 765 (12.91%) Junior Analyst
6 755 (12.74%) Junior Security Analyst
7 705 (11.90%) Ethical Hacker
8 578 (9.76%) Senior
9 396 (6.68%) Consultant
10 352 (5.94%) Architect
11 312 (5.27%) Lead
12 274 (4.63%) IT Support
13 270 (4.56%) Security Manager
14 252 (4.25%) Security Consultant
15 241 (4.07%) Security Architect
16 218 (3.68%) Security Engineer
17 216 (3.65%) IT Manager
18 193 (3.26%) IT Engineer
19 179 (3.02%) Cybersecurity Manager
20 171 (2.89%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (1.05%) SAML
2 57 (0.96%) OAuth
3 56 (0.95%) LDAP
4 54 (0.91%) REST
5 51 (0.86%) OpenID
6 37 (0.62%) HTML
7 29 (0.49%) CSS
8 27 (0.46%) SOAP
9 24 (0.41%) React
10 20 (0.34%) GraphQL
10 20 (0.34%) Kafka
11 17 (0.29%) .NET
12 16 (0.27%) SailPoint
13 15 (0.25%) JSON
13 15 (0.25%) Middleware
13 15 (0.25%) Node.js
14 14 (0.24%) FastAPI
14 14 (0.24%) RESTful
15 13 (0.22%) XML
16 12 (0.20%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 818 (13.81%) Cyberattack
2 337 (5.69%) Security Posture
3 202 (3.41%) Cyber Threat
4 194 (3.27%) Management Information System
5 183 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 155 (2.62%) Security Operations Centre
7 148 (2.50%) Driving Licence
8 126 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
9 102 (1.72%) Operational Technology
10 99 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
11 87 (1.47%) Cloud Native
12 76 (1.28%) Data Centre
13 56 (0.95%) PKI
14 49 (0.83%) Cyber Security Posture
15 45 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
16 41 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
17 39 (0.66%) Blog
17 39 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
18 32 (0.54%) CSOC
19 29 (0.49%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 539 (9.10%) Windows
2 270 (4.56%) Windows Server
3 189 (3.19%) Linux
4 54 (0.91%) Mac OS
5 39 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 31 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 31 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 26 (0.44%) Android
8 23 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 12 (0.20%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.10%) CentOS
11 6 (0.10%) VMS
12 5 (0.084%) Unix
12 5 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.034%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.034%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.034%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.017%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.017%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,208 (20.39%) Mentoring
2 773 (13.05%) Ethical Hacking
3 599 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 582 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
5 523 (8.83%) Incident Response
6 478 (8.07%) Information Security
7 472 (7.97%) Risk Management
8 423 (7.14%) SIEM
9 415 (7.01%) Security Operations
10 378 (6.38%) Cloud Security
11 364 (6.14%) AI
12 363 (6.13%) Vulnerability Management
13 315 (5.32%) Disaster Recovery
14 308 (5.20%) Decision-Making
15 276 (4.66%) Roadmaps
16 266 (4.49%) Stakeholder Management
17 252 (4.25%) Agile
18 242 (4.09%) Data Protection
19 238 (4.02%) Penetration Testing
20 235 (3.97%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 303 (5.11%) Python
2 257 (4.34%) PowerShell
3 104 (1.76%) SQL
4 81 (1.37%) JavaScript
5 76 (1.28%) Bash
6 61 (1.03%) C++
7 41 (0.69%) Java
8 35 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
9 27 (0.46%) C#
10 26 (0.44%) Rust
11 22 (0.37%) MATLAB
12 20 (0.34%) T-SQL
12 20 (0.34%) TypeScript
13 19 (0.32%) Go
14 18 (0.30%) C
15 14 (0.24%) Search Processing Language
16 9 (0.15%) Perl
17 7 (0.12%) PHP
18 6 (0.10%) Shell Script
19 5 (0.084%) R
Qualifications
1 1,525 (25.74%) Azure Certification
2 918 (15.50%) CompTIA Security+
3 828 (13.98%) CEH
4 803 (13.56%) CompTIA CySA+
5 555 (9.37%) Security Cleared
6 448 (7.56%) Degree
7 445 (7.51%) CISSP
8 384 (6.48%) SC Cleared
9 286 (4.83%) CISM
10 192 (3.24%) DV Cleared
11 159 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
12 105 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 103 (1.74%) CISA
14 95 (1.60%) CRISC
15 88 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 83 (1.40%) CREST Certified
17 81 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
18 75 (1.27%) A+ Certification
19 70 (1.18%) CCNA
19 70 (1.18%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 635 (10.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 544 (9.18%) NIST
3 346 (5.84%) GDPR
4 291 (4.91%) Cyber Essentials
5 268 (4.52%) GRC
6 149 (2.52%) PCI DSS
7 135 (2.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 113 (1.91%) QA
9 103 (1.74%) NCSC
10 57 (0.96%) SOC 2
11 50 (0.84%) NIST 800
12 36 (0.61%) Accessibility
12 36 (0.61%) COBIT
12 36 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 34 (0.57%) JSP 440
14 33 (0.56%) SLA
15 30 (0.51%) Data Quality
16 28 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
17 20 (0.34%) HIPAA
18 19 (0.32%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 428 (7.22%) Active Directory
2 128 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 106 (1.79%) Hyper-V
4 51 (0.86%) Docker
5 48 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (0.46%) vSphere
7 14 (0.24%) IAG
8 11 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.17%) Firmware
9 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.084%) ClearTrust
12 5 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.068%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.051%) VMware Server
15 1 (0.017%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.017%) Embedded Firmware
15 1 (0.017%) KVM
Systems Management
1 212 (3.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 91 (1.54%) Terraform
3 72 (1.22%) Kubernetes
4 43 (0.73%) Ansible
5 41 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.52%) Grafana
7 20 (0.34%) QRadar
8 19 (0.32%) SCCM
9 18 (0.30%) Prometheus
10 17 (0.29%) FortiGate
11 16 (0.27%) CASB
12 11 (0.19%) Nmap
13 10 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 9 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 9 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
14 9 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.15%) Kibana
14 9 (0.15%) vCenter Server
15 8 (0.14%) CSIRT
15 8 (0.14%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2,569 (43.37%) Microsoft
2 1,458 (24.61%) ForeScout
3 180 (3.04%) VMware
4 159 (2.68%) Cisco
5 137 (2.31%) Palo Alto
6 107 (1.81%) CrowdStrike
7 98 (1.65%) Splunk
8 65 (1.10%) Fortinet
9 61 (1.03%) Tenable
10 60 (1.01%) Google
10 60 (1.01%) Qualys
11 57 (0.96%) Aruba
11 57 (0.96%) ServiceNow
12 51 (0.86%) Apple
13 50 (0.84%) Salesforce
14 36 (0.61%) Veeam
15 33 (0.56%) Adobe
15 33 (0.56%) SAP
16 29 (0.49%) Dell
17 27 (0.46%) CyberArk