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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 37 31
Rank change year-on-year +30 -6 +20
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 8,365 2,220 4,185
As % of all permanent jobs in England 12.44% 5.87% 5.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.01% 6.27% 6.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,413 1,459 3,294
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,200 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.93% +1.67% -7.69%

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 52,241 35,401 65,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.72% 93.58% 86.88%
Number of salaries quoted 32,434 20,236 50,834
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £29,010
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 +34 2,604 £40,000 -24.88% 274
North West +30 1,903 £42,500 -22.73% 134
Midlands +28 1,647 £42,500 -29.17% 162
London +23 1,498 £70,000 -4.60% 417
South East +39 1,333 £47,500 -17.39% 336
West Midlands +22 1,285 £45,000 -28.00% 80
East of England +46 696 £35,000 -26.32% 113
Yorkshire +36 586 £31,250 -37.50% 109
South West +34 527 £55,000 +15.79% 145
East Midlands +39 373 £41,500 -1.19% 82
North East +37 115 £30,500 -23.81% 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
1 121 (1.45%) SharePoint
2 76 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.16%) CMS
4 9 (0.11%) Confluence
5 6 (0.072%) nginx
5 6 (0.072%) WordPress
6 5 (0.060%) Apache
6 5 (0.060%) Drupal
7 3 (0.036%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.036%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.024%) SAS
9 1 (0.012%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.012%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 94 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (0.33%) Maya
5 24 (0.29%) Simulink
6 19 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.11%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.060%) CATIA
9 4 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.036%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.024%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.024%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 27 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.096%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.084%) Shopify
5 4 (0.048%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.048%) Endur
5 4 (0.048%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.048%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.036%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.036%) SAP CX
6 3 (0.036%) SAP FS
6 3 (0.036%) Yoast SEO
7 2 (0.024%) Exchequer
7 2 (0.024%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.024%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.024%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.024%) SAP FSCM
7 2 (0.024%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.024%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 4,054 (48.46%) Cloud Computing
2 1,945 (23.25%) Azure
3 546 (6.53%) AWS
4 429 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 278 (3.32%) Entra ID
6 197 (2.36%) GitHub
7 89 (1.06%) SaaS
8 87 (1.04%) GCP
9 64 (0.77%) Power Platform
10 54 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
11 50 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
12 43 (0.51%) PaaS
13 38 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
14 35 (0.42%) Nutanix
15 33 (0.39%) Google Workspace
16 29 (0.35%) IaaS
17 27 (0.32%) AWS CloudFormation
18 26 (0.31%) Mimecast
19 23 (0.27%) Dynamics 365
19 23 (0.27%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4,212 (50.35%) Internet
2 309 (3.69%) Firewall
3 142 (1.70%) Network Security
4 126 (1.51%) VPN
5 86 (1.03%) DNS
6 74 (0.88%) DHCP
7 67 (0.80%) WAN
8 65 (0.78%) VLAN
9 62 (0.74%) LAN
10 55 (0.66%) TCP/IP
10 55 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
11 37 (0.44%) Broadband
12 36 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
13 33 (0.39%) VoIP
14 27 (0.32%) Wireless
15 23 (0.27%) CHAP
16 18 (0.22%) SD-WAN
17 15 (0.18%) DMZ
18 13 (0.16%) Unified Communications
19 11 (0.13%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (0.41%) Power BI
2 24 (0.29%) Big Data
3 23 (0.27%) SQL Server
3 23 (0.27%) Tableau
4 22 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
5 21 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (0.22%) Neo4j
7 11 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.12%) Metadata
8 10 (0.12%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.11%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.072%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.060%) MariaDB
11 5 (0.060%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.060%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.048%) MySQL
12 4 (0.048%) SAP BW
13 3 (0.036%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.024%) Apache Hive
14 2 (0.024%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 200 (2.39%) Git
2 29 (0.35%) JIRA
2 29 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
3 23 (0.27%) GitLab
4 13 (0.16%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.13%) Cucumber
6 7 (0.084%) JMeter
6 7 (0.084%) Locust
7 5 (0.060%) Apache Continuum
7 5 (0.060%) Burp Suite
7 5 (0.060%) Metasploit
8 4 (0.048%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.048%) MLflow
9 2 (0.024%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.012%) GDB
10 1 (0.012%) Snyk
10 1 (0.012%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.012%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.012%) WinDbg
10 1 (0.012%) Yeoman
General
1 5,928 (70.87%) Social Skills
2 4,211 (50.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,165 (49.79%) Banking
4 534 (6.38%) Finance
5 358 (4.28%) Multimedia
6 335 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
7 195 (2.33%) Public Sector
8 167 (2.00%) Marketing
9 156 (1.86%) Law
10 155 (1.85%) Legal
11 126 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
12 122 (1.46%) Retail
13 121 (1.45%) Telecoms
14 89 (1.06%) Manufacturing
15 67 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
16 54 (0.65%) Games
17 53 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
18 47 (0.56%) Electronics
18 47 (0.56%) Local Government
19 46 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3,143 (37.57%) Lecturer
2 929 (11.11%) Analyst
3 805 (9.62%) Security Analyst
4 749 (8.95%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 682 (8.15%) Junior
6 661 (7.90%) Junior Analyst
7 660 (7.89%) Junior Security Analyst
8 376 (4.49%) Ethical Hacker
9 363 (4.34%) Trainee
10 361 (4.32%) Senior
11 247 (2.95%) Consultant
12 232 (2.77%) Architect
13 228 (2.73%) Lead
14 202 (2.41%) IT Support
15 156 (1.86%) Developer
15 156 (1.86%) Security Consultant
16 154 (1.84%) Security Manager
17 143 (1.71%) Security Engineer
18 141 (1.69%) IT Manager
19 131 (1.57%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (2.47%) CSS
1 207 (2.47%) HTML
2 42 (0.50%) REST
3 36 (0.43%) OAuth
4 35 (0.42%) React
4 35 (0.42%) SAML
5 33 (0.39%) OpenID
6 29 (0.35%) LDAP
7 27 (0.32%) SOAP
8 26 (0.31%) GraphQL
9 21 (0.25%) AngularJS
9 21 (0.25%) SAP CAF
10 17 (0.20%) MERN Stack
11 14 (0.17%) SailPoint
12 11 (0.13%) YAML
13 10 (0.12%) Node.js
13 10 (0.12%) Tailwind CSS
14 9 (0.11%) Middleware
15 8 (0.096%) .NET
15 8 (0.096%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4,072 (48.68%) IoT
2 437 (5.22%) Cyberattack
3 211 (2.52%) Security Posture
4 181 (2.16%) Management Information System
5 114 (1.36%) Driving Licence
6 109 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
7 97 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 92 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
9 84 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
10 80 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
11 65 (0.78%) Cloud Native
11 65 (0.78%) Data Centre
12 63 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
13 55 (0.66%) Operational Technology
14 50 (0.60%) Blog
15 46 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
16 36 (0.43%) Cyber Security Posture
16 36 (0.43%) PKI
17 34 (0.41%) Public Cloud
18 32 (0.38%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 379 (4.53%) Windows
2 170 (2.03%) Windows Server
3 137 (1.64%) Linux
4 69 (0.82%) Windows 10
5 48 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 32 (0.38%) Android
7 23 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.12%) Unix
10 6 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.048%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.048%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.048%) VMS
12 3 (0.036%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.024%) CentOS
14 1 (0.012%) Debian
14 1 (0.012%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.012%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.012%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.012%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,257 (50.89%) AI
2 4,065 (48.60%) Machine Learning
3 4,046 (48.37%) User Experience
4 4,038 (48.27%) Web Development
5 1,272 (15.21%) Mentoring
6 551 (6.59%) Ethical Hacking
7 434 (5.19%) Problem-Solving
8 429 (5.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 380 (4.54%) Risk Management
10 362 (4.33%) Information Security
11 358 (4.28%) Incident Response
12 273 (3.26%) Agile
13 232 (2.77%) SIEM
14 219 (2.62%) Cloud Security
15 201 (2.40%) ITIL
15 201 (2.40%) Line Management
16 195 (2.33%) Roadmaps
17 188 (2.25%) Project Management
18 186 (2.22%) Security Operations
19 185 (2.21%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 400 (4.78%) Python
2 251 (3.00%) JavaScript
3 192 (2.30%) PowerShell
4 108 (1.29%) SQL
5 99 (1.18%) R
6 62 (0.74%) Bash
7 40 (0.48%) Java
8 32 (0.38%) C++
9 30 (0.36%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.31%) MATLAB
11 25 (0.30%) T-SQL
12 23 (0.27%) C#
13 22 (0.26%) C
14 10 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.11%) Go
16 7 (0.084%) Rust
17 6 (0.072%) PHP
18 4 (0.048%) Kotlin
19 3 (0.036%) Bicep
19 3 (0.036%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4,437 (53.04%) Degree
2 4,070 (48.66%) Master's Degree
3 4,013 (47.97%) PhD
4 4,006 (47.89%) Postgraduate
5 1,263 (15.10%) Azure Certification
6 883 (10.56%) CompTIA Security+
7 700 (8.37%) CompTIA CySA+
8 595 (7.11%) CEH
9 356 (4.26%) CISSP
10 307 (3.67%) Security Cleared
11 258 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 242 (2.89%) CISM
13 238 (2.85%) AWS Certification
14 200 (2.39%) SC Cleared
15 194 (2.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 188 (2.25%) Network+ Certification
17 177 (2.12%) A+ Certification
18 111 (1.33%) CISA
19 110 (1.32%) DV Cleared
20 104 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 506 (6.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 470 (5.62%) NIST
3 268 (3.20%) GDPR
4 222 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 186 (2.22%) GRC
6 116 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 109 (1.30%) PCI DSS
8 104 (1.24%) NCSC
9 73 (0.87%) QA
10 46 (0.55%) SOC 2
11 44 (0.53%) COBIT
12 40 (0.48%) SLA
13 37 (0.44%) NIST 800
14 32 (0.38%) Accessibility
15 26 (0.31%) Data Quality
16 24 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 21 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
18 19 (0.23%) ISO 22301
18 19 (0.23%) JSP 440
19 18 (0.22%) SOC 3
System Software
1 304 (3.63%) Active Directory
2 69 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 54 (0.65%) Docker
5 26 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.24%) vSphere
7 9 (0.11%) Firmware
7 9 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.096%) IAG
9 7 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.072%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.060%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.036%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.024%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.024%) GPFS
14 2 (0.024%) Lustre
15 1 (0.012%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.012%) iptables
15 1 (0.012%) KVM
Systems Management
1 157 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 67 (0.80%) Terraform
3 59 (0.71%) Kubernetes
4 36 (0.43%) Ansible
5 27 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.20%) Grafana
7 16 (0.19%) CASB
8 14 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (0.17%) SCCM
9 11 (0.13%) CSIRT
10 10 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.12%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.096%) Nessus
11 8 (0.096%) RSA Archer
12 7 (0.084%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 7 (0.084%) FTK
12 7 (0.084%) VxRail
13 5 (0.060%) Prometheus
13 5 (0.060%) QRadar
13 5 (0.060%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,952 (23.34%) Microsoft
2 1,035 (12.37%) ForeScout
3 120 (1.43%) VMware
4 95 (1.14%) Cisco
5 77 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
6 66 (0.79%) Fortinet
7 63 (0.75%) Palo Alto
8 61 (0.73%) Apple
9 58 (0.69%) SAP
10 43 (0.51%) Google
11 40 (0.48%) Splunk
12 39 (0.47%) Salesforce
13 37 (0.44%) Dell
14 36 (0.43%) Oracle
15 32 (0.38%) Adobe
16 31 (0.37%) Tenable
17 30 (0.36%) Siemens
18 28 (0.33%) ServiceNow
19 25 (0.30%) CyberArk
20 20 (0.24%) Commvault