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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 37 30
Rank change year-on-year +30 -7 +25
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 8,731 2,409 4,764
As % of all permanent jobs in England 10.81% 6.18% 5.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.54% 6.62% 6.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,770 1,551 3,544
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £39,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,400 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% -0.21% -8.42%
75th Percentile £79,750 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -4.17% +0.80% -8.42%

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 60,055 36,381 71,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.36% 93.39% 85.24%
Number of salaries quoted 38,771 20,528 53,796
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 May 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 May 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
North of England +38 2,615 £45,750 -12.86% 284
Midlands +27 1,910 £50,000 -6.87% 181
North West +39 1,740 £55,000 - 158
London +23 1,568 £70,000 -6.67% 467
West Midlands +25 1,397 £47,500 -19.15% 97
South East +31 1,342 £50,625 -7.96% 337
Yorkshire +36 727 £43,500 -3.33% 93
East of England +65 643 £40,000 -15.79% 107
South West +21 598 £58,500 +30.00% 134
East Midlands +52 524 £51,500 +44.05% 83
North East +29 148 £43,500 -18.78% 34
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
1 115 (1.32%) SharePoint
2 92 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.10%) CMS
4 8 (0.092%) WordPress
5 7 (0.080%) Apache
6 5 (0.057%) nginx
7 4 (0.046%) Drupal
7 4 (0.046%) IIS
8 3 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.034%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.023%) Confluence
9 2 (0.023%) SAS
10 1 (0.011%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 79 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.29%) Simulink
5 14 (0.16%) Maya
6 8 (0.092%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.057%) CATIA
8 4 (0.046%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.034%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.034%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.023%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.011%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 26 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.25%) Cloudability
3 16 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.092%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.057%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.046%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.046%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.046%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.034%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.034%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.034%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.023%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.023%) Shopify
9 1 (0.011%) Endur
9 1 (0.011%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.011%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.011%) SAP CX
9 1 (0.011%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.011%) SAP FS
9 1 (0.011%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 3,272 (37.48%) Cloud Computing
2 2,579 (29.54%) Azure
3 504 (5.77%) AWS
4 493 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
5 293 (3.36%) Entra ID
6 130 (1.49%) GitHub
7 118 (1.35%) SaaS
8 116 (1.33%) GCP
9 69 (0.79%) Power Platform
10 66 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
11 65 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
12 37 (0.42%) Google Workspace
12 37 (0.42%) Serverless
13 34 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
14 30 (0.34%) Nutanix
15 29 (0.33%) Mimecast
15 29 (0.33%) PaaS
16 28 (0.32%) AWS CloudFormation
16 28 (0.32%) OneDrive
17 27 (0.31%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3,376 (38.67%) Internet
2 344 (3.94%) Firewall
3 154 (1.76%) Network Security
4 133 (1.52%) VPN
5 109 (1.25%) DNS
6 80 (0.92%) WAN
7 76 (0.87%) DHCP
8 70 (0.80%) LAN
9 65 (0.74%) VLAN
10 62 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
11 58 (0.66%) TCP/IP
12 46 (0.53%) Broadband
13 35 (0.40%) VoIP
14 30 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
15 28 (0.32%) Unified Communications
15 28 (0.32%) Wireless
16 26 (0.30%) CHAP
17 19 (0.22%) SD-WAN
18 17 (0.19%) SSL
19 16 (0.18%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (0.47%) Power BI
2 23 (0.26%) Big Data
3 21 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
3 21 (0.24%) SQL Server
4 20 (0.23%) Tableau
5 15 (0.17%) Neo4j
6 12 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.092%) MySQL
9 6 (0.069%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.069%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.046%) MariaDB
10 4 (0.046%) Metadata
10 4 (0.046%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.034%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.023%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.023%) GIS
12 2 (0.023%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.023%) Impala
12 2 (0.023%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 131 (1.50%) Git
2 35 (0.40%) GitLab
3 30 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
4 21 (0.24%) Snyk
5 16 (0.18%) JIRA
6 12 (0.14%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.080%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.057%) Apache Continuum
8 5 (0.057%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.057%) Metasploit
8 5 (0.057%) VersionOne
9 4 (0.046%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.046%) JMeter
9 4 (0.046%) Locust
9 4 (0.046%) MLflow
9 4 (0.046%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.034%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.034%) Yeoman
11 2 (0.023%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.011%) WinDbg
General
1 5,778 (66.18%) Social Skills
2 3,515 (40.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,376 (38.67%) Banking
4 533 (6.10%) Finance
5 379 (4.34%) Analytical Skills
6 238 (2.73%) Multimedia
7 204 (2.34%) Public Sector
8 155 (1.78%) Retail
9 152 (1.74%) Marketing
10 141 (1.61%) Law
11 125 (1.43%) Telecoms
12 113 (1.29%) Legal
13 108 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
14 98 (1.12%) Manufacturing
15 70 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
16 64 (0.73%) Local Government
17 45 (0.52%) Aerospace
18 40 (0.46%) Aviation
19 38 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
19 38 (0.44%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2,506 (28.70%) Lecturer
2 1,366 (15.65%) Analyst
3 1,214 (13.90%) Security Analyst
4 1,140 (13.06%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1,020 (11.68%) Junior
6 990 (11.34%) Junior Analyst
7 989 (11.33%) Junior Security Analyst
8 705 (8.07%) Ethical Hacker
9 495 (5.67%) Senior
10 298 (3.41%) Architect
11 282 (3.23%) Consultant
12 259 (2.97%) Trainee
13 242 (2.77%) Security Manager
14 233 (2.67%) Lead
15 207 (2.37%) Security Architect
16 195 (2.23%) Security Engineer
17 194 (2.22%) IT Support
18 168 (1.92%) Security Consultant
19 165 (1.89%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 165 (1.89%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (1.56%) CSS
1 136 (1.56%) HTML
2 51 (0.58%) REST
3 45 (0.52%) OAuth
3 45 (0.52%) SAML
4 43 (0.49%) LDAP
4 43 (0.49%) OpenID
5 37 (0.42%) React
6 31 (0.36%) SOAP
7 26 (0.30%) GraphQL
8 15 (0.17%) AngularJS
8 15 (0.17%) SailPoint
9 14 (0.16%) Kafka
9 14 (0.16%) RESTful
10 13 (0.15%) FastAPI
10 13 (0.15%) Middleware
11 12 (0.14%) MERN Stack
12 11 (0.13%) Node.js
13 10 (0.11%) SAP CAF
13 10 (0.11%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3,255 (37.28%) IoT
2 800 (9.16%) Cyberattack
3 247 (2.83%) Security Posture
4 195 (2.23%) Management Information System
5 158 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
6 152 (1.74%) Onboarding
7 110 (1.26%) Security Operations Centre
8 94 (1.08%) Driving Licence
9 90 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
10 88 (1.01%) Operational Technology
11 87 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
12 84 (0.96%) Data Centre
13 66 (0.76%) Cloud Native
14 59 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
15 50 (0.57%) PKI
16 47 (0.54%) Blog
17 45 (0.52%) Cyber Security Posture
18 43 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
19 36 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
20 33 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 380 (4.35%) Windows
2 174 (1.99%) Windows Server
3 153 (1.75%) Linux
4 55 (0.63%) Windows 10
5 39 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 28 (0.32%) Android
7 20 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 17 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.092%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.069%) CentOS
12 6 (0.069%) Unix
12 6 (0.069%) VMS
13 2 (0.023%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.011%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.011%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.011%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,518 (40.29%) AI
2 3,279 (37.56%) Machine Learning
3 3,268 (37.43%) User Experience
4 3,250 (37.22%) Web Development
5 1,542 (17.66%) Mentoring
6 827 (9.47%) Ethical Hacking
7 447 (5.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 427 (4.89%) Information Security
9 426 (4.88%) Incident Response
10 420 (4.81%) Problem-Solving
11 395 (4.52%) Risk Management
12 286 (3.28%) SIEM
13 278 (3.18%) Cloud Security
13 278 (3.18%) Security Operations
14 248 (2.84%) Agile
15 228 (2.61%) Roadmaps
15 228 (2.61%) Vulnerability Management
16 220 (2.52%) Disaster Recovery
17 214 (2.45%) Data Protection
18 207 (2.37%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 386 (4.42%) Python
2 230 (2.63%) PowerShell
3 187 (2.14%) JavaScript
4 105 (1.20%) SQL
5 83 (0.95%) Bash
6 62 (0.71%) R
7 43 (0.49%) C++
8 39 (0.45%) Java
9 30 (0.34%) C#
10 29 (0.33%) MATLAB
11 28 (0.32%) TypeScript
12 25 (0.29%) T-SQL
13 19 (0.22%) C
14 18 (0.21%) Go
15 15 (0.17%) Rust
16 12 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.069%) Perl
17 6 (0.069%) PHP
18 4 (0.046%) Shell Script
19 3 (0.034%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 3,649 (41.79%) Degree
2 3,300 (37.80%) Master's Degree
3 3,231 (37.01%) PhD
4 3,229 (36.98%) Postgraduate
5 1,849 (21.18%) Azure Certification
6 1,180 (13.52%) CompTIA Security+
7 1,033 (11.83%) CompTIA CySA+
8 879 (10.07%) CEH
9 413 (4.73%) Security Cleared
10 392 (4.49%) CISSP
11 288 (3.30%) SC Cleared
12 261 (2.99%) CISM
13 189 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
14 187 (2.14%) AWS Certification
15 140 (1.60%) Network+ Certification
16 134 (1.53%) A+ Certification
17 124 (1.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 121 (1.39%) DV Cleared
19 115 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
20 109 (1.25%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 526 (6.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 496 (5.68%) NIST
3 288 (3.30%) GDPR
4 246 (2.82%) GRC
5 238 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 128 (1.47%) PCI DSS
7 125 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 100 (1.15%) NCSC
9 97 (1.11%) QA
10 53 (0.61%) SOC 2
11 46 (0.53%) NIST 800
12 42 (0.48%) COBIT
13 37 (0.42%) SLA
14 36 (0.41%) Accessibility
15 25 (0.29%) Data Quality
16 24 (0.27%) JSP 440
17 22 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
18 19 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 18 (0.21%) ISO 22301
20 17 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 317 (3.63%) Active Directory
2 80 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 56 (0.64%) Docker
4 55 (0.63%) Hyper-V
5 37 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.27%) vSphere
7 12 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.13%) Firmware
9 10 (0.11%) IAG
10 9 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 6 (0.069%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.023%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.023%) GPFS
13 2 (0.023%) Lustre
13 2 (0.023%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.011%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.011%) KVM
Systems Management
1 140 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 80 (0.92%) Terraform
3 69 (0.79%) Kubernetes
4 37 (0.42%) Ansible
5 34 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (0.29%) Grafana
7 16 (0.18%) SCCM
8 14 (0.16%) CASB
9 13 (0.15%) QRadar
10 12 (0.14%) CSIRT
10 12 (0.14%) Prometheus
11 11 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 10 (0.11%) FortiGate
13 9 (0.10%) Cisco CUCM
13 9 (0.10%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 7 (0.080%) Nessus
14 7 (0.080%) RSA Archer
14 7 (0.080%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.080%) VxRail
15 6 (0.069%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 2,632 (30.15%) Microsoft
2 1,693 (19.39%) ForeScout
3 122 (1.40%) VMware
4 107 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
5 103 (1.18%) Cisco
6 87 (1.00%) Palo Alto
7 71 (0.81%) Apple
8 65 (0.74%) Fortinet
9 58 (0.66%) Splunk
10 55 (0.63%) Adobe
10 55 (0.63%) Tenable
11 53 (0.61%) Google
12 44 (0.50%) SAP
13 42 (0.48%) Salesforce
13 42 (0.48%) ServiceNow
14 34 (0.39%) Dell
15 29 (0.33%) CyberArk
16 28 (0.32%) Siemens
17 18 (0.21%) Veeam
18 17 (0.19%) Sophos