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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 36 31
Rank change year-on-year +25 -5 +22
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 6,545 2,466 4,803
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.95% 6.30% 5.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.85% 6.77% 6.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,987 1,472 3,488
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,761 £35,631
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,670 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% -0.57% -10.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,670 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.04% -0.57% -10.77%

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 60,313 36,433 75,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.30% 93.06% 83.01%
Number of salaries quoted 41,346 19,656 55,190
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £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 6 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 6 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
North of England +27 1,611 £55,000 +5.26% 481
London +17 1,440 £72,500 -3.33% 669
Midlands +28 1,218 £55,000 +6.50% 226
South East +27 1,135 £50,000 -4.76% 450
North West +41 868 £55,000 - 262
West Midlands +18 767 £55,900 -2.78% 120
Yorkshire +11 593 £47,500 +57.02% 156
South West +28 584 £60,000 +33.94% 238
East of England +72 519 £40,000 -15.79% 158
East Midlands +47 454 £55,000 +74.60% 106
North East +32 150 £45,000 -30.77% 65
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
1 144 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 120 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (0.15%) Apache
3 10 (0.15%) CMS
4 5 (0.076%) SAS
5 4 (0.061%) IIS
5 4 (0.061%) WordPress
6 3 (0.046%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.031%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.031%) Confluence
8 1 (0.015%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 81 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 48 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (0.37%) Simulink
5 7 (0.11%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.092%) CATIA
7 4 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.046%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.046%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.031%) Maya
9 2 (0.031%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.015%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 24 (0.37%) Cloudability
2 23 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
4 11 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.076%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.061%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.061%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.046%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.046%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.046%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.031%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.031%) Shopify
9 1 (0.015%) Maximo
9 1 (0.015%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.015%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.015%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,407 (36.78%) Azure
2 1,026 (15.68%) Cloud Computing
3 560 (8.56%) Microsoft 365
4 473 (7.23%) AWS
5 323 (4.94%) Entra ID
6 135 (2.06%) GCP
7 128 (1.96%) SaaS
8 86 (1.31%) GitHub
9 71 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
10 66 (1.01%) Power Platform
11 65 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
12 44 (0.67%) Serverless
13 43 (0.66%) OneDrive
14 39 (0.60%) Google Workspace
15 36 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
16 30 (0.46%) Mimecast
17 29 (0.44%) PaaS
18 27 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
18 27 (0.41%) IaaS
18 27 (0.41%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1,105 (16.88%) Internet
2 384 (5.87%) Firewall
3 174 (2.66%) Network Security
4 160 (2.44%) VPN
5 134 (2.05%) DNS
6 101 (1.54%) WAN
7 92 (1.41%) DHCP
8 88 (1.34%) LAN
9 85 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
10 72 (1.10%) TCP/IP
10 72 (1.10%) VLAN
11 47 (0.72%) Broadband
12 46 (0.70%) VoIP
13 36 (0.55%) Unified Communications
14 28 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
15 27 (0.41%) HTTP
16 25 (0.38%) SSL
17 24 (0.37%) Wireless
18 20 (0.31%) CHAP
18 20 (0.31%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (0.60%) Power BI
2 24 (0.37%) SQL Server
3 18 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (0.21%) Big Data
4 14 (0.21%) Tableau
5 12 (0.18%) Neo4j
6 8 (0.12%) MySQL
7 7 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.061%) Metadata
8 4 (0.061%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.061%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.061%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.046%) GIS
9 3 (0.046%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.031%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.031%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.031%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.031%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 87 (1.33%) Git
2 37 (0.57%) GitLab
3 29 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
4 25 (0.38%) Snyk
5 23 (0.35%) JIRA
6 13 (0.20%) Jenkins
7 8 (0.12%) Burp Suite
7 8 (0.12%) Metasploit
8 7 (0.11%) Yeoman
9 6 (0.092%) Apache Continuum
9 6 (0.092%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.076%) JMeter
10 5 (0.076%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.076%) VersionOne
11 4 (0.061%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.061%) Locust
11 4 (0.061%) MLflow
12 2 (0.031%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.031%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.031%) Visual Studio
General
1 3,396 (51.89%) Social Skills
2 1,283 (19.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,126 (17.20%) Banking
4 507 (7.75%) Finance
5 398 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
6 231 (3.53%) Public Sector
7 172 (2.63%) Retail
8 157 (2.40%) Multimedia
9 153 (2.34%) Marketing
10 134 (2.05%) Law
11 127 (1.94%) Legal
12 123 (1.88%) Telecoms
13 112 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
14 94 (1.44%) Manufacturing
15 72 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
16 63 (0.96%) Local Government
17 52 (0.79%) Aerospace
18 42 (0.64%) Aviation
19 41 (0.63%) Advertising
20 32 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 1,226 (18.73%) Analyst
2 1,064 (16.26%) Security Analyst
3 988 (15.10%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 855 (13.06%) Lecturer
5 835 (12.76%) Junior
6 804 (12.28%) Junior Analyst
7 802 (12.25%) Junior Security Analyst
8 705 (10.77%) Ethical Hacker
9 520 (7.94%) Senior
10 335 (5.12%) Architect
11 312 (4.77%) Consultant
12 275 (4.20%) Lead
13 261 (3.99%) Security Manager
14 246 (3.76%) Security Architect
15 227 (3.47%) IT Support
16 197 (3.01%) Security Engineer
17 195 (2.98%) Security Consultant
18 189 (2.89%) IT Manager
19 184 (2.81%) Cybersecurity Manager
20 183 (2.80%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (1.39%) HTML
2 87 (1.33%) CSS
3 53 (0.81%) REST
4 51 (0.78%) SAML
5 50 (0.76%) OAuth
6 49 (0.75%) LDAP
7 45 (0.69%) OpenID
8 31 (0.47%) React
9 30 (0.46%) SOAP
10 24 (0.37%) GraphQL
11 16 (0.24%) Kafka
11 16 (0.24%) SailPoint
12 14 (0.21%) AngularJS
12 14 (0.21%) Middleware
13 13 (0.20%) .NET
13 13 (0.20%) Node.js
13 13 (0.20%) RESTful
14 12 (0.18%) FastAPI
15 10 (0.15%) JSON
16 9 (0.14%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 1,018 (15.55%) IoT
2 807 (12.33%) Cyberattack
3 274 (4.19%) Security Posture
4 193 (2.95%) Management Information System
5 171 (2.61%) Cyber Threat
6 164 (2.51%) Onboarding
7 131 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
8 107 (1.63%) Driving Licence
9 99 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
10 96 (1.47%) Cyber Defence
11 94 (1.44%) Operational Technology
12 82 (1.25%) Data Centre
13 77 (1.18%) Cloud Native
14 54 (0.83%) PKI
15 47 (0.72%) Cyber Security Posture
16 42 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
17 41 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
18 40 (0.61%) Blog
19 34 (0.52%) Cloud Security Posture
20 33 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 444 (6.78%) Windows
2 215 (3.28%) Windows Server
3 156 (2.38%) Linux
4 51 (0.78%) Windows 10
5 46 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 29 (0.44%) Android
7 23 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 22 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
9 20 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (0.15%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.092%) CentOS
12 6 (0.092%) VMS
13 5 (0.076%) Unix
14 2 (0.031%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.015%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.015%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.015%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,315 (20.09%) AI
2 1,293 (19.76%) Mentoring
3 1,057 (16.15%) Machine Learning
4 1,049 (16.03%) User Experience
5 1,003 (15.32%) Web Development
6 800 (12.22%) Ethical Hacking
7 500 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 463 (7.07%) Incident Response
9 458 (7.00%) Problem-Solving
10 421 (6.43%) Information Security
11 401 (6.13%) Risk Management
12 340 (5.19%) Security Operations
13 323 (4.94%) Cloud Security
14 321 (4.90%) SIEM
15 272 (4.16%) Vulnerability Management
16 248 (3.79%) Disaster Recovery
17 242 (3.70%) Decision-Making
18 233 (3.56%) Agile
19 232 (3.54%) Security Architecture
20 230 (3.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 339 (5.18%) Python
2 251 (3.83%) PowerShell
3 137 (2.09%) JavaScript
4 107 (1.63%) SQL
5 82 (1.25%) Bash
6 48 (0.73%) C++
7 40 (0.61%) R
8 39 (0.60%) Java
9 29 (0.44%) C#
10 28 (0.43%) MATLAB
11 24 (0.37%) T-SQL
12 22 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
13 21 (0.32%) TypeScript
14 18 (0.28%) Go
15 17 (0.26%) Rust
16 14 (0.21%) C
17 10 (0.15%) Perl
18 9 (0.14%) Search Processing Language
19 7 (0.11%) PHP
20 3 (0.046%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 1,623 (24.80%) Azure Certification
2 1,414 (21.60%) Degree
3 1,058 (16.17%) Master's Degree
4 1,000 (15.28%) PhD
4 1,000 (15.28%) Postgraduate
5 978 (14.94%) CompTIA Security+
6 853 (13.03%) CEH
7 846 (12.93%) CompTIA CySA+
8 478 (7.30%) Security Cleared
9 404 (6.17%) CISSP
10 339 (5.18%) SC Cleared
11 258 (3.94%) CISM
12 155 (2.37%) DV Cleared
13 148 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
14 139 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
15 132 (2.02%) AWS Certification
16 116 (1.77%) Network+ Certification
17 109 (1.67%) A+ Certification
18 100 (1.53%) CISA
19 95 (1.45%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 556 (8.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 507 (7.75%) NIST
3 294 (4.49%) GDPR
4 259 (3.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 256 (3.91%) GRC
6 139 (2.12%) PCI DSS
7 124 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 111 (1.70%) NCSC
9 107 (1.63%) QA
10 50 (0.76%) SOC 2
11 47 (0.72%) SLA
12 43 (0.66%) NIST 800
13 37 (0.57%) Accessibility
14 34 (0.52%) COBIT
15 33 (0.50%) JSP 440
16 28 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
17 27 (0.41%) Data Quality
18 22 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 17 (0.26%) HIPAA
20 15 (0.23%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 359 (5.49%) Active Directory
2 93 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 77 (1.18%) Hyper-V
4 58 (0.89%) Docker
5 42 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.38%) vSphere
7 12 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
8 11 (0.17%) IAG
8 11 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.14%) Firmware
9 9 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (0.092%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.046%) ClearTrust
11 3 (0.046%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.015%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.015%) KVM
Systems Management
1 176 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 87 (1.33%) Terraform
3 76 (1.16%) Kubernetes
4 37 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
5 36 (0.55%) Ansible
6 29 (0.44%) Grafana
7 18 (0.28%) SCCM
8 17 (0.26%) QRadar
9 16 (0.24%) CASB
9 16 (0.24%) Prometheus
10 13 (0.20%) FortiGate
11 10 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (0.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 10 (0.15%) CSIRT
12 9 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
13 8 (0.12%) Kibana
13 8 (0.12%) Nmap
13 8 (0.12%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.12%) VxRail
14 7 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 2,498 (38.17%) Microsoft
2 1,505 (22.99%) ForeScout
3 133 (2.03%) VMware
4 127 (1.94%) Cisco
5 111 (1.70%) CrowdStrike
6 95 (1.45%) Palo Alto
7 75 (1.15%) Splunk
8 70 (1.07%) Apple
9 61 (0.93%) Fortinet
10 59 (0.90%) Google
11 56 (0.86%) Tenable
12 52 (0.79%) Adobe
13 47 (0.72%) ServiceNow
14 45 (0.69%) Salesforce
15 36 (0.55%) SAP
16 31 (0.47%) Dell
17 28 (0.43%) Veeam
18 25 (0.38%) Aruba
18 25 (0.38%) CyberArk
18 25 (0.38%) Siemens