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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 32 37
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,946 2,727 3,550
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.03% 6.30% 5.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.23% 7.11% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,773 1,635 2,116
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,600 £35,532 £46,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% -5.83% -6.98%

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 72,264 38,362 56,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.27% 88.56% 81.03%
Number of salaries quoted 51,467 22,133 34,126
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.39%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 +9 1,506 £78,500 +12.14% 1,346
North of England +17 1,248 £51,500 +12.57% 485
South East +10 1,051 £55,000 +10.00% 505
Midlands +17 1,036 £55,000 +29.41% 311
North West +22 620 £57,500 +11.91% 246
South West +6 607 £55,000 +10.00% 306
West Midlands +6 528 £55,000 +10.00% 176
East Midlands +37 507 £55,000 +57.14% 135
Yorkshire +9 480 £45,000 +36.36% 175
East of England +50 476 £45,000 -5.26% 176
North East +11 148 £50,000 -24.53% 74
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
1 225 (3.78%) SharePoint
2 216 (3.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (0.39%) IIS
4 18 (0.30%) Apache
5 9 (0.15%) Confluence
5 9 (0.15%) SAS
6 6 (0.10%) CMS
7 5 (0.084%) WordPress
8 3 (0.050%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.050%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
Applications
1 82 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.20%) Simulink
5 8 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.067%) CATIA
8 2 (0.034%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 24 (0.40%) Cloudability
2 9 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.084%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.084%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.067%) SystmOne
8 3 (0.050%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 3 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.050%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.050%) Infor CloudSuite
8 3 (0.050%) Infor LN
8 3 (0.050%) Infor M3
8 3 (0.050%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.050%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.034%) Eikon
9 2 (0.034%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.017%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 1,807 (30.39%) Azure
2 785 (13.20%) Microsoft 365
3 469 (7.89%) AWS
4 454 (7.64%) Entra ID
5 196 (3.30%) SaaS
6 148 (2.49%) GCP
7 92 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
8 87 (1.46%) Power Platform
9 79 (1.33%) OneDrive
10 76 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
11 60 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
12 50 (0.84%) Microsoft Copilot
13 49 (0.82%) Serverless
14 43 (0.72%) Mimecast
15 35 (0.59%) GitHub
16 29 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
17 28 (0.47%) PaaS
18 26 (0.44%) Google Workspace
18 26 (0.44%) IaaS
19 24 (0.40%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 516 (8.68%) Firewall
2 251 (4.22%) Network Security
3 238 (4.00%) DNS
4 222 (3.73%) VPN
5 175 (2.94%) WAN
6 163 (2.74%) DHCP
7 156 (2.62%) TCP/IP
8 154 (2.59%) Wi-Fi
9 152 (2.56%) LAN
10 123 (2.07%) VLAN
11 107 (1.80%) Internet
12 84 (1.41%) VoIP
13 83 (1.40%) Wireless
14 54 (0.91%) Cisco Nexus
15 47 (0.79%) Unified Communications
16 44 (0.74%) HTTP
17 43 (0.72%) SSL
18 32 (0.54%) Wireshark
19 31 (0.52%) SD-WAN
20 29 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (0.87%) Power BI
2 50 (0.84%) SQL Server
3 14 (0.24%) GIS
4 13 (0.22%) Big Data
4 13 (0.22%) MongoDB
4 13 (0.22%) MySQL
5 12 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (0.15%) Tableau
7 6 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (0.084%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.084%) Metadata
8 5 (0.084%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.067%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.067%) Crystal Reports
9 4 (0.067%) Neo4j
9 4 (0.067%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.067%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 48 (0.81%) Git
2 44 (0.74%) JIRA
3 31 (0.52%) Burp Suite
4 29 (0.49%) Metasploit
5 27 (0.45%) Snyk
6 23 (0.39%) GitLab
7 21 (0.35%) Jenkins
8 10 (0.17%) Yeoman
9 6 (0.10%) Eclipse
10 5 (0.084%) Rational DOORS
10 5 (0.084%) VersionOne
11 4 (0.067%) Apache Continuum
11 4 (0.067%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.067%) LabVIEW
11 4 (0.067%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.067%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.050%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.050%) JMeter
13 2 (0.034%) Locust
13 2 (0.034%) XCUITest
General
1 2,079 (34.96%) Social Skills
2 565 (9.50%) Finance
3 451 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
4 349 (5.87%) Public Sector
5 329 (5.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 181 (3.04%) Law
6 181 (3.04%) Marketing
7 177 (2.98%) Legal
8 174 (2.93%) Retail
9 168 (2.83%) Telecoms
10 159 (2.67%) Manufacturing
11 138 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
12 130 (2.19%) Banking
13 119 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
14 104 (1.75%) Aerospace
15 56 (0.94%) Local Government
16 55 (0.92%) Advertising
16 55 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
17 46 (0.77%) Aviation
18 32 (0.54%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 982 (16.52%) Analyst
2 776 (13.05%) Security Analyst
3 677 (11.39%) Senior
4 675 (11.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 522 (8.78%) Consultant
6 514 (8.64%) Junior
7 440 (7.40%) Junior Analyst
8 430 (7.23%) Junior Security Analyst
9 423 (7.11%) Ethical Hacker
10 375 (6.31%) Lead
11 368 (6.19%) Architect
12 322 (5.42%) Security Consultant
13 319 (5.36%) Security Manager
14 298 (5.01%) IT Support
15 266 (4.47%) IT Manager
16 265 (4.46%) Security Engineer
17 261 (4.39%) Security Architect
18 225 (3.78%) IT Engineer
19 224 (3.77%) Cybersecurity Manager
20 207 (3.48%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (1.28%) Terraform
2 48 (0.81%) SAML
3 45 (0.76%) LDAP
4 42 (0.71%) OAuth
5 36 (0.61%) OpenID
6 35 (0.59%) REST
7 27 (0.45%) HTML
8 25 (0.42%) .NET
9 24 (0.40%) React
10 22 (0.37%) CSS
11 20 (0.34%) JSON
12 19 (0.32%) Node.js
13 18 (0.30%) Kafka
14 16 (0.27%) SailPoint
15 15 (0.25%) RESTful
15 15 (0.25%) XML
16 13 (0.22%) FastAPI
17 12 (0.20%) AngularJS
18 11 (0.18%) Middleware
19 10 (0.17%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 519 (8.73%) Cyberattack
2 357 (6.00%) Security Posture
3 286 (4.81%) Cyber Threat
4 245 (4.12%) Onboarding
5 232 (3.90%) Management Information System
6 176 (2.96%) Driving Licence
7 159 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
8 156 (2.62%) Operational Technology
9 137 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
10 105 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
11 103 (1.73%) Data Centre
12 98 (1.65%) Cloud Native
13 61 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
13 61 (1.03%) PKI
14 53 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
15 45 (0.76%) Cyber Security Posture
16 37 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
17 35 (0.59%) CSOC
18 34 (0.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
19 33 (0.55%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 602 (10.12%) Windows
2 293 (4.93%) Windows Server
3 227 (3.82%) Linux
4 76 (1.28%) Mac OS
5 38 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 31 (0.52%) Windows 10
7 28 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 26 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 21 (0.35%) Apple iOS
10 16 (0.27%) Android
10 16 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.10%) CentOS
11 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.084%) Unix
13 4 (0.067%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.067%) VMS
14 2 (0.034%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.034%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.034%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.017%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 842 (14.16%) Mentoring
2 712 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
3 670 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 552 (9.28%) Information Security
5 550 (9.25%) AI
6 530 (8.91%) Incident Response
7 520 (8.75%) Risk Management
8 503 (8.46%) Security Operations
9 459 (7.72%) SIEM
10 445 (7.48%) Vulnerability Management
11 438 (7.37%) Ethical Hacking
12 422 (7.10%) Cloud Security
13 412 (6.93%) Stakeholder Management
14 394 (6.63%) Disaster Recovery
15 353 (5.94%) Decision-Making
16 321 (5.40%) Roadmaps
17 310 (5.21%) Service Delivery
18 294 (4.94%) Data Protection
19 285 (4.79%) ITIL
20 283 (4.76%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 317 (5.33%) Python
2 236 (3.97%) PowerShell
3 94 (1.58%) SQL
4 72 (1.21%) C++
5 66 (1.11%) JavaScript
6 55 (0.92%) Bash
7 48 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
8 44 (0.74%) Java
9 34 (0.57%) C#
10 33 (0.55%) Rust
11 25 (0.42%) Go
12 23 (0.39%) C
13 21 (0.35%) TypeScript
14 16 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
15 15 (0.25%) MATLAB
16 12 (0.20%) Embedded C
16 12 (0.20%) Perl
17 5 (0.084%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.067%) Embedded C++
18 4 (0.067%) R
Qualifications
1 936 (15.74%) Azure Certification
2 691 (11.62%) Security Cleared
3 573 (9.64%) CompTIA Security+
4 512 (8.61%) Degree
5 502 (8.44%) CEH
6 475 (7.99%) CISSP
7 474 (7.97%) SC Cleared
8 466 (7.84%) CompTIA CySA+
9 308 (5.18%) CISM
10 229 (3.85%) DV Cleared
11 165 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
12 128 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 102 (1.72%) CRISC
14 89 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
15 88 (1.48%) CISA
16 87 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 85 (1.43%) AWS Certification
18 84 (1.41%) Master's Degree
19 82 (1.38%) CREST Certified
20 65 (1.09%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 666 (11.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 524 (8.81%) NIST
3 339 (5.70%) GDPR
4 329 (5.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 319 (5.36%) GRC
6 147 (2.47%) PCI DSS
7 143 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 107 (1.80%) NCSC
9 105 (1.77%) QA
10 58 (0.98%) SOC 2
11 47 (0.79%) NIST 800
12 45 (0.76%) SLA
13 39 (0.66%) Accessibility
14 37 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 34 (0.57%) COBIT
16 33 (0.55%) JSP 440
17 30 (0.50%) Data Quality
18 24 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
19 23 (0.39%) ISO 22301
20 21 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 462 (7.77%) Active Directory
2 163 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 136 (2.29%) Hyper-V
4 62 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (0.86%) Docker
6 38 (0.64%) Firmware
7 26 (0.44%) vSphere
8 14 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.22%) IAG
9 13 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 12 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 9 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
12 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.084%) ClearTrust
14 3 (0.050%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.050%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.050%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 260 (4.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 79 (1.33%) Kubernetes
3 62 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
4 44 (0.74%) Ansible
5 26 (0.44%) Nmap
6 24 (0.40%) Nessus
6 24 (0.40%) QRadar
7 23 (0.39%) FortiGate
8 22 (0.37%) Grafana
9 21 (0.35%) SCCM
10 20 (0.34%) CASB
11 16 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
12 13 (0.22%) Prometheus
13 9 (0.15%) Kibana
14 8 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
14 8 (0.13%) Functional Safety
15 7 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
15 7 (0.12%) Graylog
16 6 (0.10%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.084%) Argo
Vendors
1 2,110 (35.49%) Microsoft
2 846 (14.23%) ForeScout
3 217 (3.65%) Cisco
4 208 (3.50%) VMware
5 171 (2.88%) Palo Alto
6 116 (1.95%) Splunk
7 99 (1.66%) CrowdStrike
8 75 (1.26%) Google
8 75 (1.26%) Qualys
9 69 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 67 (1.13%) Aruba
11 65 (1.09%) Apple
12 59 (0.99%) Salesforce
12 59 (0.99%) Tenable
13 57 (0.96%) Fortinet
14 49 (0.82%) Veeam
15 41 (0.69%) Adobe
16 40 (0.67%) SAP
17 39 (0.66%) SonicWALL
18 38 (0.64%) CyberArk