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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 36 29
Rank change year-on-year +30 -7 +23
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 9,430 2,385 4,764
As % of all permanent jobs in England 11.94% 6.35% 5.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.88% 6.83% 6.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,718 1,531 3,560
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £43,750
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 59,367 34,910 71,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.14% 92.97% 85.66%
Number of salaries quoted 37,486 20,611 53,776
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,030 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 26 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 26 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 +31 2,945 £45,000 -13.88% 443
North West +31 2,043 £47,500 -13.64% 283
Midlands +27 1,897 £47,500 -12.44% 180
London +26 1,654 £71,000 -5.33% 365
South East +29 1,514 £49,536 -9.94% 299
West Midlands +25 1,389 £45,000 -26.83% 80
Yorkshire +34 753 £42,000 -6.67% 120
East of England +46 746 £40,000 -15.79% 106
South West +27 624 £57,500 +27.78% 105
East Midlands +24 519 £50,000 +36.98% 99
North East +29 149 £40,000 +5.44% 41
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
1 112 (1.19%) SharePoint
2 85 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (0.11%) CMS
4 9 (0.095%) WordPress
5 6 (0.064%) nginx
6 5 (0.053%) Apache
6 5 (0.053%) Drupal
7 4 (0.042%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.042%) Confluence
7 4 (0.042%) IIS
8 3 (0.032%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.021%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.021%) SAS
10 1 (0.011%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 84 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.27%) Simulink
5 14 (0.15%) Maya
6 12 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.085%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.053%) CATIA
9 4 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.042%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.021%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.021%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 27 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
3 12 (0.13%) Cloudability
4 6 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.053%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.053%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.042%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.042%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.042%) Shopify
6 4 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.032%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.032%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.021%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.011%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.011%) Maximo
9 1 (0.011%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.011%) SAP CX
9 1 (0.011%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.011%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.011%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 4,045 (42.90%) Cloud Computing
2 2,606 (27.64%) Azure
3 532 (5.64%) AWS
4 480 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
5 286 (3.03%) Entra ID
6 161 (1.71%) GitHub
7 117 (1.24%) SaaS
8 102 (1.08%) GCP
9 71 (0.75%) Power Platform
10 64 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
11 62 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
12 38 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
13 37 (0.39%) Google Workspace
14 32 (0.34%) PaaS
15 30 (0.32%) Mimecast
15 30 (0.32%) Nutanix
16 29 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (0.29%) IaaS
18 25 (0.27%) Serverless
19 24 (0.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4,175 (44.27%) Internet
2 335 (3.55%) Firewall
3 142 (1.51%) Network Security
4 130 (1.38%) VPN
5 110 (1.17%) DNS
6 80 (0.85%) DHCP
7 77 (0.82%) WAN
8 71 (0.75%) LAN
9 69 (0.73%) VLAN
10 66 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
11 55 (0.58%) TCP/IP
12 41 (0.43%) Broadband
13 33 (0.35%) VoIP
14 31 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
15 28 (0.30%) Wireless
16 25 (0.27%) CHAP
17 24 (0.25%) Unified Communications
18 19 (0.20%) SD-WAN
19 16 (0.17%) SSL
20 14 (0.15%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (0.45%) Power BI
2 24 (0.25%) Big Data
2 24 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (0.23%) SQL Server
4 20 (0.21%) Neo4j
4 20 (0.21%) Tableau
5 13 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (0.085%) MySQL
8 7 (0.074%) Metadata
9 6 (0.064%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.064%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.053%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.053%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.042%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.042%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.042%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.021%) Apache Hive
12 2 (0.021%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.021%) Impala
Development Applications
1 160 (1.70%) Git
2 30 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
3 27 (0.29%) GitLab
4 21 (0.22%) JIRA
5 13 (0.14%) Snyk
6 12 (0.13%) Jenkins
7 8 (0.085%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.053%) Apache Continuum
8 5 (0.053%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.053%) Metasploit
8 5 (0.053%) VersionOne
9 4 (0.042%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.042%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.042%) JMeter
9 4 (0.042%) Locust
9 4 (0.042%) MLflow
10 1 (0.011%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.011%) GDB
10 1 (0.011%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.011%) WinDbg
General
1 6,569 (69.66%) Social Skills
2 4,269 (45.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,169 (44.21%) Banking
4 561 (5.95%) Finance
5 374 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
6 292 (3.10%) Multimedia
7 197 (2.09%) Public Sector
8 165 (1.75%) Retail
9 156 (1.65%) Marketing
10 148 (1.57%) Law
11 145 (1.54%) Legal
12 129 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 112 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
14 94 (1.00%) Manufacturing
15 68 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
16 59 (0.63%) Local Government
17 48 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
18 39 (0.41%) Aerospace
19 38 (0.40%) Electronics
19 38 (0.40%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3,141 (33.31%) Lecturer
2 1,345 (14.26%) Analyst
3 1,199 (12.71%) Security Analyst
4 1,124 (11.92%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1,021 (10.83%) Junior
6 990 (10.50%) Junior Analyst
7 989 (10.49%) Junior Security Analyst
8 705 (7.48%) Ethical Hacker
9 462 (4.90%) Senior
10 310 (3.29%) Trainee
11 279 (2.96%) Consultant
12 273 (2.90%) Architect
13 241 (2.56%) Lead
14 219 (2.32%) Security Manager
15 206 (2.18%) IT Support
16 184 (1.95%) Security Engineer
17 183 (1.94%) Security Architect
18 168 (1.78%) Security Consultant
19 150 (1.59%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 150 (1.59%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (1.75%) CSS
1 165 (1.75%) HTML
2 49 (0.52%) REST
3 43 (0.46%) OAuth
3 43 (0.46%) SAML
4 41 (0.43%) OpenID
5 40 (0.42%) LDAP
6 39 (0.41%) React
7 31 (0.33%) SOAP
8 26 (0.28%) GraphQL
9 20 (0.21%) AngularJS
10 17 (0.18%) MERN Stack
11 15 (0.16%) RESTful
12 14 (0.15%) SailPoint
13 13 (0.14%) FastAPI
13 13 (0.14%) SAP CAF
14 12 (0.13%) Middleware
15 10 (0.11%) Kafka
15 10 (0.11%) Node.js
15 10 (0.11%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4,030 (42.74%) IoT
2 793 (8.41%) Cyberattack
3 238 (2.52%) Security Posture
4 194 (2.06%) Management Information System
5 144 (1.53%) Onboarding
6 140 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
7 101 (1.07%) Driving Licence
7 101 (1.07%) Security Operations Centre
8 87 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
9 83 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
10 78 (0.83%) Data Centre
11 72 (0.76%) Operational Technology
12 63 (0.67%) Cloud Native
13 62 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
14 56 (0.59%) Blog
15 49 (0.52%) PKI
16 43 (0.46%) Cyber Security Posture
16 43 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
17 39 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
18 33 (0.35%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 380 (4.03%) Windows
2 175 (1.86%) Windows Server
3 142 (1.51%) Linux
4 64 (0.68%) Windows 10
5 42 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 29 (0.31%) Android
7 21 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.095%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.074%) Unix
12 6 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.053%) CentOS
14 4 (0.042%) VMS
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
15 1 (0.011%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,270 (45.28%) AI
2 4,046 (42.91%) Machine Learning
3 4,045 (42.90%) User Experience
4 4,025 (42.68%) Web Development
5 1,582 (16.78%) Mentoring
6 852 (9.03%) Ethical Hacking
7 464 (4.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 442 (4.69%) Problem-Solving
9 419 (4.44%) Information Security
10 401 (4.25%) Incident Response
11 387 (4.10%) Risk Management
12 274 (2.91%) SIEM
13 258 (2.74%) Cloud Security
14 256 (2.71%) Agile
15 245 (2.60%) Security Operations
16 216 (2.29%) Data Protection
17 211 (2.24%) Roadmaps
18 210 (2.23%) ITIL
19 206 (2.18%) Disaster Recovery
20 201 (2.13%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 409 (4.34%) Python
2 221 (2.34%) PowerShell
3 218 (2.31%) JavaScript
4 112 (1.19%) SQL
5 76 (0.81%) Bash
5 76 (0.81%) R
6 42 (0.45%) Java
7 39 (0.41%) C++
8 33 (0.35%) TypeScript
9 29 (0.31%) MATLAB
10 26 (0.28%) C#
11 25 (0.27%) T-SQL
12 23 (0.24%) C
13 15 (0.16%) Go
14 12 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
15 10 (0.11%) Rust
16 6 (0.064%) PHP
17 4 (0.042%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.042%) Perl
17 4 (0.042%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4,433 (47.01%) Degree
2 4,070 (43.16%) Master's Degree
3 4,000 (42.42%) PhD
4 3,998 (42.40%) Postgraduate
5 1,878 (19.92%) Azure Certification
6 1,206 (12.79%) CompTIA Security+
7 1,036 (10.99%) CompTIA CySA+
8 902 (9.57%) CEH
9 399 (4.23%) CISSP
10 386 (4.09%) Security Cleared
11 263 (2.79%) SC Cleared
12 259 (2.75%) CISM
13 221 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
14 209 (2.22%) AWS Certification
15 164 (1.74%) Network+ Certification
16 158 (1.68%) A+ Certification
17 154 (1.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 119 (1.26%) DV Cleared
19 108 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
20 107 (1.13%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 515 (5.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 489 (5.19%) NIST
3 291 (3.09%) GDPR
4 231 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 220 (2.33%) GRC
6 126 (1.34%) PCI DSS
7 121 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 103 (1.09%) NCSC
9 90 (0.95%) QA
10 58 (0.62%) SOC 2
11 44 (0.47%) NIST 800
12 43 (0.46%) COBIT
12 43 (0.46%) SLA
13 34 (0.36%) Accessibility
14 25 (0.27%) Data Quality
15 22 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 21 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
16 21 (0.22%) JSP 440
17 18 (0.19%) HIPAA
17 18 (0.19%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 312 (3.31%) Active Directory
2 76 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (0.62%) Docker
4 53 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 40 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.24%) vSphere
7 10 (0.11%) Firmware
7 10 (0.11%) IAG
8 9 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.064%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.064%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.021%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.021%) GPFS
11 2 (0.021%) Lustre
12 1 (0.011%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.011%) iptables
12 1 (0.011%) KVM
Systems Management
1 139 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 72 (0.76%) Terraform
3 68 (0.72%) Kubernetes
4 38 (0.40%) Ansible
5 32 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (0.22%) Grafana
7 13 (0.14%) CASB
7 13 (0.14%) CSIRT
8 12 (0.13%) SCCM
9 11 (0.12%) QRadar
10 10 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.11%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (0.095%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.085%) Cisco CUCM
12 8 (0.085%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 7 (0.074%) Nessus
13 7 (0.074%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.074%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.074%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,632 (27.91%) Microsoft
2 1,693 (17.95%) ForeScout
3 119 (1.26%) VMware
4 105 (1.11%) Cisco
5 96 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
6 80 (0.85%) Palo Alto
7 66 (0.70%) Apple
8 63 (0.67%) Fortinet
9 52 (0.55%) Google
9 52 (0.55%) Splunk
10 48 (0.51%) SAP
11 45 (0.48%) Adobe
12 43 (0.46%) Tenable
13 42 (0.45%) Salesforce
14 41 (0.43%) ServiceNow
15 32 (0.34%) Dell
16 29 (0.31%) CyberArk
17 28 (0.30%) Siemens
18 22 (0.23%) Oracle
19 19 (0.20%) Veeam