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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 38 30
Rank change year-on-year +31 -8 +22
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 8,910 2,165 4,499
As % of all permanent jobs in England 12.18% 5.90% 5.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.97% 6.34% 6.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,556 1,516 3,460
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,000 £35,631
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £44,201
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,375 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -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 55,804 34,167 68,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 76.31% 93.17% 86.13%
Number of salaries quoted 35,190 20,509 52,490
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -10.57%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 +37 2,785 £42,500 -19.05% 296
North West +31 1,964 £45,000 -18.18% 147
Midlands +32 1,780 £45,000 -18.55% 166
London +24 1,541 £71,000 -2.07% 426
South East +33 1,427 £48,000 -12.73% 351
West Midlands +25 1,339 £45,000 -28.00% 83
East of England +44 743 £35,000 -26.32% 111
Yorkshire +41 686 £40,000 -11.11% 112
South West +32 579 £57,500 +24.32% 150
East Midlands +40 452 £47,500 +28.37% 82
North East +37 135 £38,750 +4.82% 40
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
1 119 (1.34%) SharePoint
2 77 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (0.13%) CMS
4 8 (0.090%) Confluence
5 6 (0.067%) nginx
5 6 (0.067%) WordPress
6 5 (0.056%) Apache
6 5 (0.056%) Drupal
7 3 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.034%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.022%) IIS
8 2 (0.022%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.022%) SAS
9 1 (0.011%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 89 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.28%) Simulink
5 18 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.16%) Maya
7 8 (0.090%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.056%) CATIA
8 5 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.045%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.022%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.022%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 25 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (0.067%) Shopify
4 5 (0.056%) Cloudability
4 5 (0.056%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.045%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.045%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.045%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.045%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.034%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 3 (0.034%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.034%) Yoast SEO
7 2 (0.022%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.022%) Endur
7 2 (0.022%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.022%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.011%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.011%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.011%) SAP FS
8 1 (0.011%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 4,051 (45.47%) Cloud Computing
2 2,328 (26.13%) Azure
3 550 (6.17%) AWS
4 456 (5.12%) Microsoft 365
5 293 (3.29%) Entra ID
6 182 (2.04%) GitHub
7 104 (1.17%) SaaS
8 92 (1.03%) GCP
9 65 (0.73%) Power Platform
10 56 (0.63%) Azure Sentinel
11 54 (0.61%) Microsoft Purview
12 40 (0.45%) PaaS
13 38 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
14 35 (0.39%) Google Workspace
15 34 (0.38%) Nutanix
16 29 (0.33%) Mimecast
17 28 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
18 27 (0.30%) IaaS
19 21 (0.24%) OneDrive
19 21 (0.24%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4,199 (47.13%) Internet
2 319 (3.58%) Firewall
3 154 (1.73%) Network Security
4 120 (1.35%) VPN
5 91 (1.02%) DNS
6 74 (0.83%) DHCP
7 70 (0.79%) WAN
8 69 (0.77%) VLAN
9 64 (0.72%) LAN
10 58 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
11 49 (0.55%) TCP/IP
12 37 (0.42%) Broadband
13 36 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
14 29 (0.33%) VoIP
15 26 (0.29%) Wireless
16 24 (0.27%) CHAP
17 20 (0.22%) SD-WAN
18 16 (0.18%) Unified Communications
19 15 (0.17%) DMZ
20 12 (0.13%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (0.40%) Power BI
2 24 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
3 23 (0.26%) Big Data
3 23 (0.26%) SQL Server
4 20 (0.22%) Neo4j
4 20 (0.22%) Tableau
5 15 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (0.090%) MySQL
8 7 (0.079%) Metadata
8 7 (0.079%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.056%) MariaDB
9 5 (0.056%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.045%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.045%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.045%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.045%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.022%) ClickHouse
11 2 (0.022%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.022%) Impala
Development Applications
1 183 (2.05%) Git
2 30 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
3 26 (0.29%) JIRA
4 25 (0.28%) GitLab
5 14 (0.16%) Jenkins
6 12 (0.13%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.090%) JMeter
7 8 (0.090%) Locust
8 6 (0.067%) Snyk
9 5 (0.056%) Apache Continuum
9 5 (0.056%) Burp Suite
9 5 (0.056%) Metasploit
10 4 (0.045%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.045%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.045%) MLflow
11 2 (0.022%) VersionOne
12 1 (0.011%) GDB
12 1 (0.011%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.011%) WinDbg
12 1 (0.011%) Yeoman
General
1 6,299 (70.70%) Social Skills
2 4,227 (47.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,168 (46.78%) Banking
4 521 (5.85%) Finance
5 333 (3.74%) Multimedia
6 322 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
7 202 (2.27%) Public Sector
8 157 (1.76%) Marketing
9 150 (1.68%) Legal
10 144 (1.62%) Law
11 128 (1.44%) Retail
12 126 (1.41%) Telecoms
13 119 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
14 91 (1.02%) Manufacturing
15 69 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
16 48 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
16 48 (0.54%) Local Government
17 47 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
18 43 (0.48%) Electronics
19 37 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3,145 (35.30%) Lecturer
2 1,144 (12.84%) Analyst
3 1,015 (11.39%) Security Analyst
4 947 (10.63%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 876 (9.83%) Junior
6 849 (9.53%) Junior Analyst
7 848 (9.52%) Junior Security Analyst
8 564 (6.33%) Ethical Hacker
9 399 (4.48%) Senior
10 338 (3.79%) Trainee
11 260 (2.92%) Consultant
12 251 (2.82%) Architect
13 232 (2.60%) Lead
14 214 (2.40%) IT Support
15 180 (2.02%) Security Manager
16 162 (1.82%) Security Consultant
17 161 (1.81%) Security Engineer
18 160 (1.80%) Security Architect
19 154 (1.73%) IT Manager
20 150 (1.68%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (2.14%) HTML
2 190 (2.13%) CSS
3 44 (0.49%) REST
4 38 (0.43%) OAuth
5 37 (0.42%) React
5 37 (0.42%) SAML
6 35 (0.39%) OpenID
7 34 (0.38%) LDAP
8 28 (0.31%) SOAP
9 26 (0.29%) GraphQL
10 20 (0.22%) AngularJS
11 17 (0.19%) MERN Stack
11 17 (0.19%) SAP CAF
12 14 (0.16%) SailPoint
13 11 (0.12%) Node.js
14 10 (0.11%) Tailwind CSS
15 9 (0.10%) FastAPI
15 9 (0.10%) Kafka
15 9 (0.10%) Middleware
15 9 (0.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4,067 (45.65%) IoT
2 638 (7.16%) Cyberattack
3 217 (2.44%) Security Posture
4 185 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 112 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
5 112 (1.26%) Onboarding
6 109 (1.22%) Driving Licence
7 86 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
8 79 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
9 66 (0.74%) Data Centre
10 65 (0.73%) Cyber Defence
11 63 (0.71%) Cloud Native
11 63 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
11 63 (0.71%) Operational Technology
12 55 (0.62%) Blog
13 46 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
14 39 (0.44%) Cyber Security Posture
14 39 (0.44%) PKI
15 33 (0.37%) Public Cloud
16 29 (0.33%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 384 (4.31%) Windows
2 176 (1.98%) Windows Server
3 143 (1.60%) Linux
4 67 (0.75%) Windows 10
5 43 (0.48%) Mac OS
6 26 (0.29%) Android
7 20 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.11%) Unix
10 8 (0.090%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.079%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.045%) CentOS
13 4 (0.045%) VMS
14 3 (0.034%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.011%) Debian
15 1 (0.011%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.011%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.011%) OpenWrt
15 1 (0.011%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,255 (47.76%) AI
2 4,054 (45.50%) Machine Learning
3 4,052 (45.48%) User Experience
4 4,036 (45.30%) Web Development
5 1,442 (16.18%) Mentoring
6 730 (8.19%) Ethical Hacking
7 441 (4.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 422 (4.74%) Problem-Solving
9 371 (4.16%) Information Security
10 367 (4.12%) Risk Management
11 361 (4.05%) Incident Response
12 271 (3.04%) Agile
13 240 (2.69%) SIEM
14 237 (2.66%) Cloud Security
15 204 (2.29%) ITIL
16 198 (2.22%) Roadmaps
17 197 (2.21%) Data Protection
18 196 (2.20%) Security Operations
19 192 (2.15%) Disaster Recovery
20 189 (2.12%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 399 (4.48%) Python
2 236 (2.65%) JavaScript
3 203 (2.28%) PowerShell
4 108 (1.21%) SQL
5 91 (1.02%) R
6 66 (0.74%) Bash
7 43 (0.48%) Java
8 34 (0.38%) C++
9 33 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 27 (0.30%) MATLAB
11 25 (0.28%) T-SQL
12 23 (0.26%) C
13 22 (0.25%) C#
14 9 (0.10%) Go
14 9 (0.10%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.090%) Rust
16 6 (0.067%) PHP
17 4 (0.045%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.034%) Shell Script
18 3 (0.034%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 4,426 (49.67%) Degree
2 4,067 (45.65%) Master's Degree
3 4,007 (44.97%) PhD
3 4,007 (44.97%) Postgraduate
4 1,619 (18.17%) Azure Certification
5 1,066 (11.96%) CompTIA Security+
6 891 (10.00%) CompTIA CySA+
7 775 (8.70%) CEH
8 367 (4.12%) CISSP
9 335 (3.76%) Security Cleared
10 244 (2.74%) CISM
11 243 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 224 (2.51%) AWS Certification
13 223 (2.50%) SC Cleared
14 182 (2.04%) Network+ Certification
15 178 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 170 (1.91%) A+ Certification
17 111 (1.25%) DV Cleared
18 106 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
19 105 (1.18%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 512 (5.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 471 (5.29%) NIST
3 290 (3.25%) GDPR
4 235 (2.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 196 (2.20%) GRC
6 124 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 122 (1.37%) PCI DSS
8 104 (1.17%) NCSC
9 80 (0.90%) QA
10 50 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 44 (0.49%) COBIT
12 38 (0.43%) NIST 800
12 38 (0.43%) SLA
13 36 (0.40%) Accessibility
14 24 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 23 (0.26%) Data Quality
16 22 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
17 21 (0.24%) JSP 440
18 18 (0.20%) SOC 3
19 17 (0.19%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 312 (3.50%) Active Directory
2 72 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 59 (0.66%) Docker
5 33 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.26%) vSphere
7 10 (0.11%) Firmware
7 10 (0.11%) IAG
8 8 (0.090%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.067%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.067%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.022%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.022%) GPFS
11 2 (0.022%) Lustre
12 1 (0.011%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.011%) iptables
12 1 (0.011%) KVM
Systems Management
1 163 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 73 (0.82%) Terraform
3 65 (0.73%) Kubernetes
4 39 (0.44%) Ansible
5 27 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (0.25%) Grafana
7 16 (0.18%) CASB
8 14 (0.16%) SCCM
9 13 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
10 10 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.11%) CSIRT
10 10 (0.11%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.079%) FTK
11 7 (0.079%) Nessus
11 7 (0.079%) Prometheus
11 7 (0.079%) QRadar
11 7 (0.079%) RSA Archer
11 7 (0.079%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.079%) VxRail
12 6 (0.067%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 2,338 (26.24%) Microsoft
2 1,411 (15.84%) ForeScout
3 120 (1.35%) VMware
4 97 (1.09%) Cisco
5 81 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
6 69 (0.77%) Palo Alto
7 67 (0.75%) Fortinet
8 63 (0.71%) Apple
9 47 (0.53%) SAP
10 46 (0.52%) Google
11 45 (0.51%) Splunk
12 38 (0.43%) Tenable
13 37 (0.42%) Salesforce
14 36 (0.40%) ServiceNow
15 34 (0.38%) Adobe
16 32 (0.36%) Dell
17 31 (0.35%) Siemens
18 27 (0.30%) CyberArk
19 26 (0.29%) Oracle
20 19 (0.21%) Veeam