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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 36 31
Rank change year-on-year +29 -5 +24
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 7,980 2,364 4,760
As % of all permanent jobs in England 9.64% 6.22% 5.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.05% 6.66% 6.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,895 1,435 3,503
10th Percentile £29,303 £25,792 £35,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,375 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -1.68% -8.46%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,400 £59,500
% change year-on-year +1.01% -0.17% -8.46%

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 61,164 35,487 72,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.89% 93.36% 84.12%
Number of salaries quoted 40,556 18,984 54,206
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,779 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,761
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -9.84%

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 May 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 May 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 +35 2,335 £50,000 -4.76% 364
Midlands +31 1,909 £54,000 +3.46% 181
North West +45 1,506 £55,000 -2.65% 214
London +16 1,432 £71,200 -5.07% 565
West Midlands +20 1,419 £50,000 -13.04% 103
South East +29 1,131 £50,000 -9.09% 402
Yorkshire +20 680 £47,500 +11.76% 119
South West +27 584 £60,000 +34.56% 186
East of England +64 535 £40,000 -15.79% 102
East Midlands +49 501 £55,000 +74.60% 78
North East +33 149 £45,000 -33.03% 33
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
1 129 (1.62%) SharePoint
2 108 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (0.13%) CMS
4 9 (0.11%) Apache
5 5 (0.063%) SAS
5 5 (0.063%) WordPress
6 4 (0.050%) IIS
7 3 (0.038%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.025%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.025%) Confluence
9 1 (0.013%) Drupal
9 1 (0.013%) nginx
9 1 (0.013%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 80 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.29%) Simulink
5 7 (0.088%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.075%) CATIA
7 5 (0.063%) Maya
8 4 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.025%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.025%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.013%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 24 (0.30%) Cloudability
1 24 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
3 11 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.063%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.050%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.050%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.038%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 3 (0.038%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.038%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.025%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.025%) Shopify
8 1 (0.013%) Maximo
8 1 (0.013%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.013%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.013%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.013%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,491 (31.22%) Azure
2 2,468 (30.93%) Cloud Computing
3 528 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
4 494 (6.19%) AWS
5 319 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 127 (1.59%) GCP
7 122 (1.53%) SaaS
8 109 (1.37%) GitHub
9 68 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
10 67 (0.84%) Power Platform
11 64 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
12 42 (0.53%) Serverless
13 39 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
14 38 (0.48%) Google Workspace
15 33 (0.41%) OneDrive
16 31 (0.39%) Mimecast
17 29 (0.36%) PaaS
18 28 (0.35%) Nutanix
19 27 (0.34%) AWS CloudFormation
20 26 (0.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2,559 (32.07%) Internet
2 361 (4.52%) Firewall
3 170 (2.13%) Network Security
4 150 (1.88%) VPN
5 121 (1.52%) DNS
6 87 (1.09%) WAN
7 85 (1.07%) DHCP
8 76 (0.95%) LAN
9 69 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
10 68 (0.85%) TCP/IP
11 66 (0.83%) VLAN
12 46 (0.58%) Broadband
13 39 (0.49%) VoIP
14 30 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
15 29 (0.36%) Unified Communications
16 26 (0.33%) Wireless
17 21 (0.26%) HTTP
17 21 (0.26%) SSL
18 20 (0.25%) CHAP
19 18 (0.23%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (0.46%) Power BI
2 23 (0.29%) SQL Server
3 22 (0.28%) Big Data
4 18 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
5 17 (0.21%) Tableau
6 14 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (0.14%) Neo4j
8 8 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.10%) MySQL
9 6 (0.075%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.063%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.050%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.050%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.038%) GIS
12 3 (0.038%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.038%) Metadata
13 2 (0.025%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.025%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.025%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.025%) Impala
Development Applications
1 111 (1.39%) Git
2 36 (0.45%) GitLab
3 29 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
4 25 (0.31%) Snyk
5 22 (0.28%) JIRA
6 13 (0.16%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.075%) Apache Continuum
7 6 (0.075%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.075%) Yeoman
8 5 (0.063%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.063%) Metasploit
8 5 (0.063%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.063%) VersionOne
9 4 (0.050%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.050%) JMeter
9 4 (0.050%) Locust
9 4 (0.050%) MLflow
10 2 (0.025%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.025%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.025%) Visual Studio
General
1 4,909 (61.52%) Social Skills
2 2,728 (34.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,572 (32.23%) Banking
4 510 (6.39%) Finance
5 400 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
6 224 (2.81%) Public Sector
7 197 (2.47%) Multimedia
8 163 (2.04%) Retail
9 155 (1.94%) Marketing
10 130 (1.63%) Law
11 119 (1.49%) Legal
12 117 (1.47%) Telecoms
13 108 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
14 90 (1.13%) Manufacturing
15 73 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
16 64 (0.80%) Local Government
17 52 (0.65%) Aerospace
18 42 (0.53%) Aviation
19 35 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
20 34 (0.43%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1,871 (23.45%) Lecturer
2 1,296 (16.24%) Analyst
3 1,133 (14.20%) Security Analyst
4 1,060 (13.28%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 925 (11.59%) Junior
6 895 (11.22%) Junior Analyst
6 895 (11.22%) Junior Security Analyst
7 705 (8.83%) Ethical Hacker
8 508 (6.37%) Senior
9 332 (4.16%) Architect
10 295 (3.70%) Consultant
11 264 (3.31%) Lead
12 255 (3.20%) Security Manager
13 241 (3.02%) Security Architect
14 221 (2.77%) Trainee
15 207 (2.59%) IT Support
16 194 (2.43%) Security Engineer
17 181 (2.27%) IT Manager
17 181 (2.27%) Security Consultant
18 173 (2.17%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (1.47%) HTML
2 115 (1.44%) CSS
3 53 (0.66%) REST
4 49 (0.61%) SAML
5 48 (0.60%) LDAP
5 48 (0.60%) OAuth
6 46 (0.58%) OpenID
7 34 (0.43%) React
8 30 (0.38%) SOAP
9 25 (0.31%) GraphQL
10 17 (0.21%) SailPoint
11 16 (0.20%) Kafka
12 13 (0.16%) AngularJS
12 13 (0.16%) Node.js
13 12 (0.15%) .NET
13 12 (0.15%) RESTful
14 11 (0.14%) FastAPI
14 11 (0.14%) Middleware
15 10 (0.13%) Tailwind CSS
16 9 (0.11%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 2,460 (30.83%) IoT
2 805 (10.09%) Cyberattack
3 253 (3.17%) Security Posture
4 188 (2.36%) Management Information System
5 170 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
6 162 (2.03%) Onboarding
7 122 (1.53%) Security Operations Centre
8 100 (1.25%) Driving Licence
9 96 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 95 (1.19%) Cyber Defence
11 92 (1.15%) Operational Technology
12 83 (1.04%) Data Centre
13 74 (0.93%) Cloud Native
14 51 (0.64%) PKI
15 46 (0.58%) Cyber Security Posture
16 45 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
17 41 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
18 40 (0.50%) Blog
19 33 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
20 32 (0.40%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 415 (5.20%) Windows
2 196 (2.46%) Windows Server
3 153 (1.92%) Linux
4 53 (0.66%) Windows 10
5 42 (0.53%) Mac OS
6 29 (0.36%) Android
7 22 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 20 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.075%) CentOS
12 6 (0.075%) VMS
13 5 (0.063%) Unix
14 2 (0.025%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.013%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.013%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.013%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,744 (34.39%) AI
2 2,489 (31.19%) Machine Learning
3 2,483 (31.12%) User Experience
4 2,450 (30.70%) Web Development
5 1,426 (17.87%) Mentoring
6 811 (10.16%) Ethical Hacking
7 476 (5.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 444 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
9 441 (5.53%) Incident Response
10 414 (5.19%) Information Security
11 391 (4.90%) Risk Management
12 310 (3.88%) Security Operations
13 304 (3.81%) Cloud Security
14 299 (3.75%) SIEM
15 243 (3.05%) Vulnerability Management
16 241 (3.02%) Agile
17 231 (2.89%) Roadmaps
18 228 (2.86%) Disaster Recovery
19 226 (2.83%) Security Architecture
20 217 (2.72%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 364 (4.56%) Python
2 246 (3.08%) PowerShell
3 167 (2.09%) JavaScript
4 102 (1.28%) SQL
5 78 (0.98%) Bash
6 52 (0.65%) R
7 47 (0.59%) C++
8 38 (0.48%) Java
9 31 (0.39%) C#
10 27 (0.34%) MATLAB
11 24 (0.30%) T-SQL
12 22 (0.28%) TypeScript
13 18 (0.23%) Go
14 17 (0.21%) Rust
15 16 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
16 13 (0.16%) C
17 10 (0.13%) Perl
18 6 (0.075%) PHP
19 5 (0.063%) Search Processing Language
20 3 (0.038%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,854 (35.76%) Degree
2 2,501 (31.34%) Master's Degree
3 2,436 (30.53%) PhD
4 2,435 (30.51%) Postgraduate
5 1,739 (21.79%) Azure Certification
6 1,074 (13.46%) CompTIA Security+
7 937 (11.74%) CompTIA CySA+
8 863 (10.81%) CEH
9 455 (5.70%) Security Cleared
10 388 (4.86%) CISSP
11 316 (3.96%) SC Cleared
12 252 (3.16%) CISM
13 169 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
14 164 (2.06%) AWS Certification
15 145 (1.82%) DV Cleared
16 130 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
17 126 (1.58%) Network+ Certification
18 121 (1.52%) A+ Certification
19 103 (1.29%) CISA
20 101 (1.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 539 (6.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 496 (6.22%) NIST
3 291 (3.65%) GDPR
4 252 (3.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 251 (3.15%) GRC
6 139 (1.74%) PCI DSS
7 123 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 106 (1.33%) NCSC
9 105 (1.32%) QA
10 53 (0.66%) SOC 2
11 44 (0.55%) NIST 800
11 44 (0.55%) SLA
12 37 (0.46%) Accessibility
13 35 (0.44%) COBIT
14 29 (0.36%) JSP 440
15 28 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
16 26 (0.33%) Data Quality
17 19 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 17 (0.21%) HIPAA
19 15 (0.19%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 343 (4.30%) Active Directory
2 84 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (0.84%) Hyper-V
4 55 (0.69%) Docker
5 43 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.31%) vSphere
7 12 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 11 (0.14%) IAG
9 9 (0.11%) Firmware
9 9 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (0.075%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.025%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.013%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.013%) ClearTrust
13 1 (0.013%) KVM
Systems Management
1 164 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 82 (1.03%) Terraform
3 74 (0.93%) Kubernetes
4 38 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
5 37 (0.46%) Ansible
6 28 (0.35%) Grafana
7 18 (0.23%) SCCM
8 17 (0.21%) QRadar
9 15 (0.19%) CASB
9 15 (0.19%) Prometheus
10 11 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 11 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 10 (0.13%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 10 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 9 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
13 7 (0.088%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.088%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.088%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.088%) VxRail
14 6 (0.075%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2,580 (32.33%) Microsoft
2 1,599 (20.04%) ForeScout
3 124 (1.55%) VMware
4 112 (1.40%) Cisco
5 109 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
6 86 (1.08%) Palo Alto
7 74 (0.93%) Apple
8 69 (0.86%) Splunk
9 62 (0.78%) Fortinet
10 59 (0.74%) Tenable
11 58 (0.73%) Google
12 55 (0.69%) Adobe
13 48 (0.60%) ServiceNow
14 43 (0.54%) Salesforce
15 38 (0.48%) SAP
16 31 (0.39%) Dell
17 26 (0.33%) CyberArk
17 26 (0.33%) Siemens
18 22 (0.28%) Veeam
19 18 (0.23%) Sophos