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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 32 37
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,805 2,702 3,440
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.61% 6.24% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.63% 7.02% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,835 1,581 1,796
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,094 £36,250 £46,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -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 76,043 38,474 55,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.46% 88.78% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 53,667 22,007 30,452
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,664
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.82% -4.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £78,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 27 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 27 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 +7 1,527 £80,000 +14.29% 1,995
North of England +18 1,160 £51,500 +8.21% 766
South East +10 1,053 £55,000 +10.00% 869
Midlands +17 1,017 £55,000 +15.79% 451
North West +29 618 £60,000 +25.83% 430
South West +1 577 £55,000 +10.00% 420
West Midlands +6 525 £55,000 +10.00% 290
East Midlands +40 492 £55,000 +46.67% 161
East of England +41 445 £48,250 +7.22% 251
Yorkshire +9 408 £42,500 +10.39% 241
North East +4 134 £50,000 -26.95% 100
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
1 248 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 236 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (0.47%) IIS
4 21 (0.36%) Apache
5 11 (0.19%) Confluence
6 9 (0.16%) SAS
7 6 (0.10%) CMS
8 5 (0.086%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.086%) WordPress
9 3 (0.052%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.017%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 94 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 67 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.31%) Simulink
5 14 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.086%) CATIA
8 4 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.034%) SmartSuite
10 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.017%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.017%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (0.41%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.086%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.086%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.069%) Infor CloudSuite
7 4 (0.069%) Infor M3
7 4 (0.069%) SystmOne
8 3 (0.052%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.052%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.052%) Infor LN
8 3 (0.052%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.052%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.034%) Eikon
9 2 (0.034%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.017%) SAP CAR
10 1 (0.017%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,474 (25.39%) Azure
2 846 (14.57%) Microsoft 365
3 508 (8.75%) Entra ID
4 458 (7.89%) AWS
5 200 (3.45%) SaaS
6 160 (2.76%) GCP
7 100 (1.72%) Power Platform
8 93 (1.60%) OneDrive
9 87 (1.50%) Azure Sentinel
9 87 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 59 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
10 59 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
11 57 (0.98%) Serverless
12 45 (0.78%) Mimecast
13 42 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
14 34 (0.59%) GitHub
14 34 (0.59%) Power Automate
15 30 (0.52%) Google Workspace
16 29 (0.50%) Azure Logic Apps
16 29 (0.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 515 (8.87%) Firewall
2 271 (4.67%) DNS
3 244 (4.20%) Network Security
4 242 (4.17%) VPN
5 195 (3.36%) DHCP
6 188 (3.24%) TCP/IP
7 182 (3.14%) WAN
8 164 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
9 160 (2.76%) LAN
10 127 (2.19%) VLAN
11 100 (1.72%) Internet
12 88 (1.52%) Wireless
13 87 (1.50%) VoIP
14 58 (1.00%) Cisco Nexus
15 48 (0.83%) HTTP
15 48 (0.83%) SSL
16 44 (0.76%) Unified Communications
17 37 (0.64%) Wireshark
18 32 (0.55%) SD-WAN
19 30 (0.52%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (1.00%) Power BI
2 55 (0.95%) SQL Server
3 17 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (0.24%) Big Data
4 14 (0.24%) GIS
5 13 (0.22%) MySQL
6 12 (0.21%) MongoDB
6 12 (0.21%) Tableau
7 9 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.14%) Metadata
9 7 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (0.12%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (0.12%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.086%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.069%) Crystal Reports
11 4 (0.069%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.052%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (0.88%) JIRA
2 42 (0.72%) Git
3 31 (0.53%) Burp Suite
4 29 (0.50%) Metasploit
5 27 (0.47%) Snyk
6 21 (0.36%) Jenkins
7 20 (0.34%) GitLab
8 10 (0.17%) Yeoman
9 9 (0.16%) Eclipse
10 7 (0.12%) LabVIEW
11 6 (0.10%) Rational DOORS
12 5 (0.086%) VersionOne
13 4 (0.069%) Apache Continuum
13 4 (0.069%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.069%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.069%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.052%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.052%) Maven
14 3 (0.052%) Team Foundation Server
15 2 (0.034%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1,803 (31.06%) Social Skills
2 612 (10.54%) Finance
3 451 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
4 389 (6.70%) Public Sector
5 337 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 202 (3.48%) Legal
7 194 (3.34%) Retail
8 192 (3.31%) Marketing
9 191 (3.29%) Law
10 188 (3.24%) Telecoms
11 181 (3.12%) Manufacturing
12 162 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
13 137 (2.36%) Aerospace
14 133 (2.29%) Banking
15 127 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
16 62 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
17 52 (0.90%) Advertising
18 50 (0.86%) Local Government
19 46 (0.79%) Aviation
20 35 (0.60%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 813 (14.01%) Analyst
2 709 (12.21%) Senior
3 587 (10.11%) Security Analyst
4 534 (9.20%) Consultant
5 495 (8.53%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 398 (6.86%) Lead
7 395 (6.80%) Architect
8 333 (5.74%) Security Manager
9 328 (5.65%) IT Support
9 328 (5.65%) Junior
10 315 (5.43%) Security Consultant
11 282 (4.86%) Security Engineer
12 269 (4.63%) Security Architect
13 251 (4.32%) Junior Analyst
14 245 (4.22%) IT Manager
15 244 (4.20%) IT Engineer
16 241 (4.15%) Junior Security Analyst
17 235 (4.05%) Ethical Hacker
18 232 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 209 (3.60%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (1.52%) Terraform
2 52 (0.90%) SAML
3 51 (0.88%) LDAP
4 50 (0.86%) OAuth
5 44 (0.76%) REST
6 42 (0.72%) OpenID
7 31 (0.53%) .NET
8 23 (0.40%) JSON
9 22 (0.38%) React
10 20 (0.34%) HTML
10 20 (0.34%) Node.js
11 18 (0.31%) Kafka
12 17 (0.29%) XML
13 16 (0.28%) RESTful
13 16 (0.28%) SailPoint
14 15 (0.26%) CSS
14 15 (0.26%) FastAPI
14 15 (0.26%) Middleware
15 13 (0.22%) AngularJS
16 10 (0.17%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 360 (6.20%) Security Posture
2 334 (5.75%) Cyberattack
3 318 (5.48%) Cyber Threat
4 273 (4.70%) Onboarding
5 243 (4.19%) Management Information System
6 189 (3.26%) Driving Licence
7 177 (3.05%) Operational Technology
8 161 (2.77%) Security Operations Centre
9 142 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
10 106 (1.83%) Data Centre
11 105 (1.81%) Cyber Defence
12 103 (1.77%) Cloud Native
13 80 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
14 60 (1.03%) PKI
15 55 (0.95%) SCADA
16 52 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
17 44 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
18 41 (0.71%) Cyber Security Posture
19 38 (0.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
20 37 (0.64%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 642 (11.06%) Windows
2 306 (5.27%) Windows Server
3 232 (4.00%) Linux
4 80 (1.38%) Mac OS
5 40 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 39 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 28 (0.48%) Apple iOS
9 26 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 22 (0.38%) Android
11 14 (0.24%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.10%) Unix
12 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.086%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.069%) CentOS
14 4 (0.069%) VMS
15 2 (0.034%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.034%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.034%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.017%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 756 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
2 726 (12.51%) Continuous Improvement
3 642 (11.06%) Mentoring
4 607 (10.46%) AI
5 576 (9.92%) Information Security
6 548 (9.44%) Incident Response
7 539 (9.29%) Security Operations
8 533 (9.18%) Risk Management
9 490 (8.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 477 (8.22%) Vulnerability Management
11 460 (7.92%) SIEM
12 428 (7.37%) Cloud Security
13 398 (6.86%) Decision-Making
14 387 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
15 328 (5.65%) Roadmaps
16 323 (5.56%) Data Protection
17 311 (5.36%) Service Delivery
18 306 (5.27%) ITIL
19 282 (4.86%) Business Continuity
20 281 (4.84%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 336 (5.79%) Python
2 247 (4.25%) PowerShell
3 101 (1.74%) SQL
4 80 (1.38%) C++
5 61 (1.05%) Bash
6 59 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 56 (0.96%) Java
8 55 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
9 39 (0.67%) C#
9 39 (0.67%) Rust
10 30 (0.52%) C
10 30 (0.52%) Go
11 25 (0.43%) TypeScript
12 20 (0.34%) MATLAB
13 17 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
14 16 (0.28%) Embedded C
15 12 (0.21%) Perl
16 9 (0.16%) Bicep
17 6 (0.10%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.069%) Swift
Qualifications
1 762 (13.13%) Security Cleared
2 575 (9.91%) Degree
3 557 (9.60%) Azure Certification
4 525 (9.04%) SC Cleared
5 476 (8.20%) CISSP
6 366 (6.30%) CompTIA Security+
7 311 (5.36%) CISM
8 302 (5.20%) CEH
9 278 (4.79%) CompTIA CySA+
10 234 (4.03%) DV Cleared
11 157 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
12 131 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
13 108 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
14 102 (1.76%) CRISC
15 97 (1.67%) Master's Degree
16 87 (1.50%) CISA
17 84 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 79 (1.36%) CREST Certified
19 76 (1.31%) AWS Certification
20 73 (1.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 682 (11.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 522 (8.99%) NIST
3 355 (6.12%) Cyber Essentials
4 325 (5.60%) GDPR
5 319 (5.50%) GRC
6 148 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 139 (2.39%) PCI DSS
8 128 (2.20%) NCSC
9 97 (1.67%) QA
10 53 (0.91%) SLA
11 52 (0.90%) SOC 2
12 48 (0.83%) Accessibility
13 45 (0.78%) NIST 800
14 36 (0.62%) Data Quality
15 35 (0.60%) COBIT
16 31 (0.53%) JSP 440
17 29 (0.50%) ISO 22301
17 29 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 23 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
19 20 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 485 (8.35%) Active Directory
2 161 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 141 (2.43%) Hyper-V
4 66 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (0.93%) Docker
6 40 (0.69%) Firmware
7 24 (0.41%) vSphere
8 19 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 11 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 9 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
13 6 (0.10%) IAG
13 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.086%) ClearTrust
15 3 (0.052%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.034%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.034%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
17 1 (0.017%) Snort
Systems Management
1 290 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 80 (1.38%) Kubernetes
3 73 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
4 47 (0.81%) Ansible
5 26 (0.45%) Grafana
5 26 (0.45%) Nmap
6 24 (0.41%) Nessus
7 23 (0.40%) QRadar
8 22 (0.38%) CASB
9 21 (0.36%) FortiGate
10 20 (0.34%) SCCM
11 18 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
12 17 (0.29%) Functional Safety
13 14 (0.24%) Prometheus
14 9 (0.16%) Kibana
15 8 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
16 7 (0.12%) Graylog
16 7 (0.12%) Progress Chef
17 6 (0.10%) WSUS
18 5 (0.086%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 1,805 (31.09%) Microsoft
2 470 (8.10%) ForeScout
3 227 (3.91%) Cisco
4 212 (3.65%) VMware
5 170 (2.93%) Palo Alto
6 109 (1.88%) Splunk
7 99 (1.71%) CrowdStrike
8 85 (1.46%) Google
9 79 (1.36%) Qualys
10 73 (1.26%) ServiceNow
11 69 (1.19%) Aruba
12 67 (1.15%) Salesforce
13 62 (1.07%) Apple
14 60 (1.03%) Tenable
15 55 (0.95%) Fortinet
16 51 (0.88%) Veeam
17 44 (0.76%) Meraki
18 43 (0.74%) SAP
19 42 (0.72%) Adobe
20 41 (0.71%) CyberArk