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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 35 32
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 +18
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,676 2,553 4,880
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.81% 6.44% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.33% 6.95% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,135 1,518 3,508
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £35,631
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -1.71% -9.65%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,400 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -1.71% -10.00%

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 60,860 36,708 78,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.03% 92.57% 81.96%
Number of salaries quoted 42,836 20,086 56,665
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £29,440
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 18 June 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 18 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
London +16 1,353 £73,500 +1.38% 572
North of England +21 1,336 £55,000 +6.25% 402
South East +19 1,003 £50,000 -2.44% 403
Midlands +21 962 £55,000 +10.00% 185
North West +31 625 £55,000 - 226
South West +21 562 £60,000 +33.33% 211
Yorkshire +10 557 £47,500 +43.94% 116
West Midlands +12 516 £57,500 +3.60% 103
East Midlands +45 445 £55,000 +74.60% 82
East of England +68 427 £43,000 -9.47% 145
North East +26 154 £45,750 -29.62% 63
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
1 157 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 131 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.19%) Apache
3 11 (0.19%) CMS
4 5 (0.088%) IIS
4 5 (0.088%) WordPress
5 4 (0.070%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.070%) Confluence
5 4 (0.070%) SAS
6 2 (0.035%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.018%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.018%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 68 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.39%) Simulink
5 7 (0.12%) CATIA
5 7 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.035%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.018%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.018%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (0.42%) Cloudability
2 22 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 11 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.088%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.070%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.070%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.053%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.053%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.035%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.035%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.035%) Shopify
9 1 (0.018%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 1 (0.018%) Maximo
9 1 (0.018%) Q-Pulse
9 1 (0.018%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.018%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,377 (41.88%) Azure
2 597 (10.52%) Microsoft 365
3 447 (7.88%) AWS
4 356 (6.27%) Entra ID
5 146 (2.57%) SaaS
6 138 (2.43%) GCP
7 72 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
8 67 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
8 67 (1.18%) Power Platform
9 66 (1.16%) GitHub
10 49 (0.86%) OneDrive
11 45 (0.79%) Serverless
12 44 (0.78%) Google Workspace
13 33 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
14 31 (0.55%) Mimecast
15 30 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
15 30 (0.53%) PaaS
16 28 (0.49%) IaaS
17 27 (0.48%) Nutanix
18 26 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 433 (7.63%) Firewall
2 190 (3.35%) Network Security
3 175 (3.08%) VPN
4 158 (2.78%) DNS
5 123 (2.17%) WAN
6 109 (1.92%) LAN
7 106 (1.87%) DHCP
8 104 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
9 100 (1.76%) Internet
10 85 (1.50%) TCP/IP
10 85 (1.50%) VLAN
11 52 (0.92%) VoIP
12 51 (0.90%) Broadband
13 36 (0.63%) Unified Communications
14 32 (0.56%) Wireless
15 30 (0.53%) HTTP
16 29 (0.51%) SSL
17 28 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
18 24 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
19 22 (0.39%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (0.72%) Power BI
2 25 (0.44%) SQL Server
3 15 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (0.23%) Tableau
6 9 (0.16%) Big Data
7 8 (0.14%) MySQL
7 8 (0.14%) Neo4j
7 8 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.11%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.088%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.088%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.053%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.053%) GIS
11 3 (0.053%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.035%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.035%) Flink
12 2 (0.035%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.035%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 70 (1.23%) Git
2 36 (0.63%) GitLab
3 27 (0.48%) JIRA
3 27 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
4 25 (0.44%) Snyk
5 12 (0.21%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.14%) Metasploit
7 7 (0.12%) Apache Continuum
7 7 (0.12%) Burp Suite
7 7 (0.12%) Yeoman
8 5 (0.088%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.088%) JMeter
8 5 (0.088%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.088%) VersionOne
9 4 (0.070%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.070%) Locust
10 3 (0.053%) MLflow
11 2 (0.035%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.035%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.018%) LoadRunner
General
1 2,374 (41.83%) Social Skills
2 507 (8.93%) Finance
3 399 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
4 273 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 247 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 173 (3.05%) Retail
7 160 (2.82%) Marketing
8 142 (2.50%) Law
9 137 (2.41%) Legal
10 126 (2.22%) Banking
10 126 (2.22%) Telecoms
11 125 (2.20%) Multimedia
12 115 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
13 106 (1.87%) Manufacturing
14 72 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
15 60 (1.06%) Local Government
16 57 (1.00%) Aerospace
17 44 (0.78%) Advertising
18 42 (0.74%) Aviation
19 31 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,231 (21.69%) Analyst
2 1,058 (18.64%) Security Analyst
3 975 (17.18%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 796 (14.02%) Junior
5 765 (13.48%) Junior Analyst
6 755 (13.30%) Junior Security Analyst
7 705 (12.42%) Ethical Hacker
8 557 (9.81%) Senior
9 339 (5.97%) Architect
10 335 (5.90%) Consultant
11 294 (5.18%) Lead
12 274 (4.83%) Security Manager
13 248 (4.37%) Security Architect
14 246 (4.33%) IT Support
15 212 (3.74%) Security Consultant
16 211 (3.72%) Security Engineer
17 201 (3.54%) IT Manager
18 191 (3.37%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 168 (2.96%) IT Engineer
20 155 (2.73%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (1.22%) HTML
2 64 (1.13%) CSS
3 58 (1.02%) REST
3 58 (1.02%) SAML
4 57 (1.00%) LDAP
5 54 (0.95%) OAuth
6 50 (0.88%) OpenID
7 33 (0.58%) SOAP
8 26 (0.46%) GraphQL
9 25 (0.44%) React
10 17 (0.30%) Kafka
10 17 (0.30%) Middleware
11 15 (0.26%) SailPoint
12 14 (0.25%) .NET
13 13 (0.23%) JSON
13 13 (0.23%) Node.js
14 12 (0.21%) FastAPI
14 12 (0.21%) RESTful
15 11 (0.19%) XML
15 11 (0.19%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 813 (14.32%) Cyberattack
2 303 (5.34%) Security Posture
3 186 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 182 (3.21%) Cyber Threat
5 158 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 145 (2.55%) Security Operations Centre
7 120 (2.11%) Driving Licence
8 111 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
9 96 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
10 95 (1.67%) Operational Technology
11 83 (1.46%) Cloud Native
12 78 (1.37%) Data Centre
13 58 (1.02%) PKI
14 48 (0.85%) Cyber Security Posture
15 41 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
16 40 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
17 39 (0.69%) Blog
18 36 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
19 33 (0.58%) Cloud Security Posture
20 30 (0.53%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 474 (8.35%) Windows
2 238 (4.19%) Windows Server
3 166 (2.92%) Linux
4 48 (0.85%) Mac OS
5 36 (0.63%) Windows 10
6 26 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 25 (0.44%) Android
7 25 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 20 (0.35%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.11%) CentOS
11 6 (0.11%) Unix
11 6 (0.11%) VMS
12 2 (0.035%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.035%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.018%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.018%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,225 (21.58%) Mentoring
2 791 (13.94%) Ethical Hacking
3 532 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement
4 513 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
5 490 (8.63%) Incident Response
6 439 (7.73%) Information Security
7 425 (7.49%) Risk Management
8 381 (6.71%) Security Operations
9 365 (6.43%) SIEM
10 344 (6.06%) Cloud Security
11 330 (5.81%) AI
12 314 (5.53%) Vulnerability Management
13 280 (4.93%) Disaster Recovery
14 268 (4.72%) Decision-Making
15 250 (4.40%) Roadmaps
16 235 (4.14%) Agile
17 232 (4.09%) Security Architecture
18 226 (3.98%) Stakeholder Management
19 219 (3.86%) Data Protection
19 219 (3.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 319 (5.62%) Python
2 259 (4.56%) PowerShell
3 114 (2.01%) JavaScript
4 111 (1.96%) SQL
5 83 (1.46%) Bash
6 49 (0.86%) C++
7 36 (0.63%) Java
8 28 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
9 26 (0.46%) C#
9 26 (0.46%) MATLAB
9 26 (0.46%) T-SQL
10 25 (0.44%) R
11 18 (0.32%) TypeScript
12 17 (0.30%) Rust
13 16 (0.28%) Go
14 12 (0.21%) Search Processing Language
15 11 (0.19%) C
16 9 (0.16%) Perl
17 7 (0.12%) PHP
18 5 (0.088%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,554 (27.38%) Azure Certification
2 932 (16.42%) CompTIA Security+
3 840 (14.80%) CEH
4 802 (14.13%) CompTIA CySA+
5 496 (8.74%) Security Cleared
6 414 (7.29%) CISSP
6 414 (7.29%) Degree
7 351 (6.18%) SC Cleared
8 266 (4.69%) CISM
9 168 (2.96%) DV Cleared
10 143 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
11 128 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 105 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
13 100 (1.76%) CISA
14 99 (1.74%) AWS Certification
15 98 (1.73%) A+ Certification
16 88 (1.55%) CREST Certified
17 79 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 77 (1.36%) CRISC
19 70 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 585 (10.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 516 (9.09%) NIST
3 322 (5.67%) GDPR
4 272 (4.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 257 (4.53%) GRC
6 146 (2.57%) PCI DSS
7 133 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 114 (2.01%) NCSC
9 107 (1.89%) QA
10 53 (0.93%) SOC 2
11 43 (0.76%) NIST 800
12 36 (0.63%) Accessibility
13 35 (0.62%) SLA
14 34 (0.60%) COBIT
14 34 (0.60%) JSP 440
15 30 (0.53%) Data Quality
16 29 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
16 29 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 18 (0.32%) HIPAA
18 15 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 387 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 108 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 89 (1.57%) Hyper-V
4 54 (0.95%) Docker
5 47 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (0.48%) vSphere
7 12 (0.21%) IAG
7 12 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
8 11 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 7 (0.12%) Firmware
11 6 (0.11%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.088%) ClearTrust
13 3 (0.053%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.018%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.018%) KVM
14 1 (0.018%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 196 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 89 (1.57%) Terraform
3 71 (1.25%) Kubernetes
4 40 (0.70%) Ansible
5 38 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.55%) Grafana
7 20 (0.35%) SCCM
8 18 (0.32%) CASB
8 18 (0.32%) Prometheus
8 18 (0.32%) QRadar
9 14 (0.25%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 9 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
11 9 (0.16%) CSIRT
11 9 (0.16%) Kibana
11 9 (0.16%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.12%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.12%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,501 (44.06%) Microsoft
2 1,458 (25.69%) ForeScout
3 153 (2.70%) VMware
4 136 (2.40%) Cisco
5 115 (2.03%) Palo Alto
6 108 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
7 83 (1.46%) Splunk
8 63 (1.11%) Fortinet
9 62 (1.09%) Google
10 59 (1.04%) Apple
11 57 (1.00%) Tenable
12 53 (0.93%) ServiceNow
13 48 (0.85%) Salesforce
14 42 (0.74%) Qualys
15 41 (0.72%) Aruba
16 39 (0.69%) Adobe
17 34 (0.60%) SAP
18 30 (0.53%) Dell
18 30 (0.53%) Veeam
19 25 (0.44%) CyberArk