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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 35 32
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 +19
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,667 2,543 4,860
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.81% 6.43% 5.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.32% 6.94% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,125 1,515 3,491
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% -9.30%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,550 £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 60,775 36,652 77,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.04% 92.67% 81.96%
Number of salaries quoted 42,765 20,021 56,403
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £29,288
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 17 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 17 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 1,355 £73,000 +0.23% 680
North of England +23 1,331 £55,000 +6.25% 603
South East +20 999 £50,000 - 572
Midlands +21 959 £55,000 +10.00% 299
North West +34 623 £55,000 - 311
South West +21 564 £60,000 +33.33% 266
Yorkshire +12 555 £47,500 +43.94% 194
West Midlands +11 515 £57,500 +4.55% 156
East Midlands +44 443 £55,000 +74.60% 143
East of England +68 425 £42,500 -10.53% 250
North East +30 153 £45,750 -29.62% 101
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
1 156 (2.75%) 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 (0.071%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.071%) SAS
6 3 (0.053%) Confluence
7 2 (0.035%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.018%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 68 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (0.74%) 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 (0.071%) 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 (0.071%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.071%) 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%) Maximo
9 1 (0.018%) Q-Pulse
9 1 (0.018%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.018%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,378 (41.96%) Azure
2 588 (10.38%) Microsoft 365
3 457 (8.06%) AWS
4 353 (6.23%) Entra ID
5 143 (2.52%) SaaS
6 139 (2.45%) GCP
7 73 (1.29%) GitHub
8 70 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
9 67 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
10 65 (1.15%) Power Platform
11 49 (0.86%) OneDrive
12 45 (0.79%) Serverless
13 43 (0.76%) Google Workspace
14 33 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
15 31 (0.55%) Mimecast
16 30 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
16 30 (0.53%) PaaS
17 28 (0.49%) IaaS
18 27 (0.48%) Nutanix
19 26 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 428 (7.55%) Firewall
2 190 (3.35%) Network Security
3 174 (3.07%) VPN
4 157 (2.77%) DNS
5 121 (2.14%) WAN
6 107 (1.89%) LAN
7 106 (1.87%) Internet
8 105 (1.85%) DHCP
9 102 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
10 84 (1.48%) TCP/IP
10 84 (1.48%) VLAN
11 52 (0.92%) VoIP
12 51 (0.90%) Broadband
13 36 (0.64%) Unified Communications
14 31 (0.55%) Wireless
15 30 (0.53%) HTTP
16 29 (0.51%) SSL
17 28 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
18 23 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
19 22 (0.39%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (0.72%) Power BI
2 23 (0.41%) 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
11 4 (0.071%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.053%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.053%) GIS
12 3 (0.053%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.035%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.035%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.035%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.035%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 76 (1.34%) Git
2 36 (0.64%) GitLab
3 27 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
4 26 (0.46%) JIRA
5 25 (0.44%) Snyk
6 12 (0.21%) Jenkins
7 8 (0.14%) Metasploit
8 7 (0.12%) Apache Continuum
8 7 (0.12%) Burp Suite
8 7 (0.12%) Yeoman
9 5 (0.088%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.088%) JMeter
9 5 (0.088%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.088%) VersionOne
10 4 (0.071%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.071%) Locust
11 3 (0.053%) MLflow
12 2 (0.035%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.035%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.018%) LoadRunner
General
1 2,368 (41.79%) Social Skills
2 509 (8.98%) Finance
3 401 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
4 275 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 248 (4.38%) Public Sector
6 173 (3.05%) Retail
7 159 (2.81%) Marketing
8 143 (2.52%) Law
9 134 (2.36%) Legal
10 133 (2.35%) Multimedia
11 128 (2.26%) Banking
12 126 (2.22%) Telecoms
13 114 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
14 104 (1.84%) Manufacturing
15 72 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
16 61 (1.08%) Local Government
17 57 (1.01%) Aerospace
18 44 (0.78%) Advertising
19 42 (0.74%) Aviation
20 32 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,228 (21.67%) Analyst
2 1,057 (18.65%) Security Analyst
3 974 (17.19%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 796 (14.05%) Junior
5 765 (13.50%) Junior Analyst
6 755 (13.32%) Junior Security Analyst
7 705 (12.44%) Ethical Hacker
8 553 (9.76%) Senior
9 342 (6.03%) Architect
10 335 (5.91%) Consultant
11 292 (5.15%) Lead
12 272 (4.80%) Security Manager
13 250 (4.41%) Security Architect
14 243 (4.29%) IT Support
15 212 (3.74%) Security Consultant
16 208 (3.67%) Security Engineer
17 198 (3.49%) IT Manager
18 189 (3.34%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 168 (2.96%) IT Engineer
20 162 (2.86%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (1.34%) HTML
2 71 (1.25%) CSS
3 59 (1.04%) SAML
4 57 (1.01%) LDAP
4 57 (1.01%) REST
5 55 (0.97%) OAuth
6 51 (0.90%) OpenID
7 32 (0.56%) SOAP
8 26 (0.46%) GraphQL
9 25 (0.44%) React
10 17 (0.30%) Kafka
11 16 (0.28%) Middleware
12 15 (0.26%) SailPoint
13 14 (0.25%) .NET
14 13 (0.23%) Node.js
15 12 (0.21%) FastAPI
15 12 (0.21%) JSON
15 12 (0.21%) RESTful
16 11 (0.19%) XMPP
17 10 (0.18%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 813 (14.35%) Cyberattack
2 299 (5.28%) Security Posture
3 188 (3.32%) Management Information System
4 181 (3.19%) Cyber Threat
5 158 (2.79%) Onboarding
6 144 (2.54%) Security Operations Centre
7 118 (2.08%) Driving Licence
8 110 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
9 96 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
10 94 (1.66%) Operational Technology
11 83 (1.46%) Cloud Native
12 78 (1.38%) Data Centre
13 59 (1.04%) PKI
14 48 (0.85%) Cyber Security Posture
15 40 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
15 40 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
16 39 (0.69%) Blog
17 35 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
18 33 (0.58%) Cloud Security Posture
19 30 (0.53%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 470 (8.29%) Windows
2 235 (4.15%) Windows Server
3 165 (2.91%) Linux
4 48 (0.85%) Mac OS
5 36 (0.64%) Windows 10
6 26 (0.46%) Android
7 25 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 24 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 21 (0.37%) Apple iOS
9 21 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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 1,231 (21.72%) Mentoring
2 792 (13.98%) Ethical Hacking
3 527 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 508 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
5 490 (8.65%) Incident Response
6 440 (7.76%) Information Security
7 426 (7.52%) Risk Management
8 378 (6.67%) Security Operations
9 364 (6.42%) SIEM
10 343 (6.05%) Cloud Security
11 325 (5.73%) AI
12 312 (5.51%) Vulnerability Management
13 275 (4.85%) Disaster Recovery
14 270 (4.76%) Decision-Making
15 248 (4.38%) Roadmaps
16 236 (4.16%) Agile
17 231 (4.08%) Security Architecture
18 224 (3.95%) Stakeholder Management
19 222 (3.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 217 (3.83%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 323 (5.70%) Python
2 258 (4.55%) PowerShell
3 121 (2.14%) JavaScript
4 110 (1.94%) SQL
5 83 (1.46%) Bash
6 48 (0.85%) C++
7 37 (0.65%) Java
8 29 (0.51%) R
9 28 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
10 26 (0.46%) C#
10 26 (0.46%) MATLAB
10 26 (0.46%) T-SQL
11 18 (0.32%) TypeScript
12 17 (0.30%) Go
12 17 (0.30%) Rust
13 12 (0.21%) Search Processing Language
14 11 (0.19%) C
15 9 (0.16%) Perl
16 7 (0.12%) PHP
17 5 (0.088%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,562 (27.56%) Azure Certification
2 931 (16.43%) CompTIA Security+
3 841 (14.84%) CEH
4 802 (14.15%) CompTIA CySA+
5 496 (8.75%) Security Cleared
6 414 (7.31%) CISSP
7 411 (7.25%) Degree
8 351 (6.19%) SC Cleared
9 266 (4.69%) CISM
10 168 (2.96%) DV Cleared
11 143 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
12 135 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 108 (1.91%) AWS Certification
14 106 (1.87%) Network+ Certification
15 100 (1.76%) CISA
16 99 (1.75%) A+ Certification
17 88 (1.55%) CREST Certified
18 80 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 77 (1.36%) CRISC
20 70 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 582 (10.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 516 (9.11%) NIST
3 319 (5.63%) GDPR
4 267 (4.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 259 (4.57%) GRC
6 145 (2.56%) PCI DSS
7 130 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 114 (2.01%) NCSC
9 106 (1.87%) QA
10 53 (0.94%) SOC 2
11 43 (0.76%) NIST 800
12 37 (0.65%) Accessibility
13 35 (0.62%) COBIT
14 34 (0.60%) JSP 440
14 34 (0.60%) SLA
15 30 (0.53%) Data Quality
16 29 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
16 29 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 17 (0.30%) HIPAA
18 15 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 385 (6.79%) Active Directory
2 107 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 87 (1.54%) 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
1 194 (3.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 89 (1.57%) Terraform
3 72 (1.27%) Kubernetes
4 40 (0.71%) Ansible
5 39 (0.69%) 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%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
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 2,497 (44.06%) Microsoft
2 1,458 (25.73%) ForeScout
3 152 (2.68%) VMware
4 134 (2.36%) Cisco
5 114 (2.01%) Palo Alto
6 109 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
7 83 (1.46%) Splunk
8 63 (1.11%) Fortinet
9 61 (1.08%) Google
10 59 (1.04%) Apple
11 58 (1.02%) Tenable
12 53 (0.94%) ServiceNow
13 47 (0.83%) Salesforce
14 41 (0.72%) Qualys
15 40 (0.71%) Aruba
16 39 (0.69%) Adobe
17 35 (0.62%) SAP
18 30 (0.53%) Dell
18 30 (0.53%) Veeam
19 25 (0.44%) CyberArk