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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 36 31
Rank change year-on-year +29 -5 +22
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 7,996 2,462 4,795
As % of all permanent jobs in England 9.61% 6.31% 5.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.00% 6.77% 6.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,958 1,468 3,506
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,824 £35,631
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £42,598
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,670 £59,400
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% -2.91% -8.62%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,085 £59,400
% change year-on-year +3.30% -2.21% -8.62%

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 61,509 36,392 74,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.96% 93.30% 83.31%
Number of salaries quoted 40,986 19,560 54,983
10th Percentile £30,250 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £39,780
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,100 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% +5.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
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 2 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 2 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 +31 2,328 £55,000 +5.26% 458
Midlands +31 1,922 £55,000 +7.00% 224
North West +47 1,512 £55,000 - 264
London +16 1,435 £71,100 -5.20% 659
West Midlands +21 1,426 £55,000 -4.35% 121
South East +27 1,143 £50,000 -9.09% 460
Yorkshire +15 667 £47,500 +53.23% 140
South West +25 581 £60,000 +33.33% 230
East of England +73 538 £40,000 -15.79% 149
East Midlands +52 507 £55,000 +61.76% 103
North East +32 149 £45,000 -30.77% 56
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
1 143 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 117 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (0.13%) Apache
4 9 (0.11%) CMS
5 5 (0.063%) SAS
6 4 (0.050%) IIS
6 4 (0.050%) WordPress
7 3 (0.038%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.025%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.025%) Confluence
9 1 (0.013%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 81 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (0.64%) 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 4 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.025%) Maya
9 2 (0.025%) Siemens NX
10 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%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.013%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,469 (30.88%) Cloud Computing
2 2,459 (30.75%) Azure
3 564 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
4 480 (6.00%) AWS
5 327 (4.09%) Entra ID
6 135 (1.69%) GCP
7 127 (1.59%) SaaS
8 89 (1.11%) GitHub
9 71 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
10 70 (0.88%) Power Platform
11 65 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
12 43 (0.54%) Serverless
13 41 (0.51%) OneDrive
14 39 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
14 39 (0.49%) Google Workspace
15 30 (0.38%) Mimecast
16 29 (0.36%) PaaS
17 27 (0.34%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (0.34%) IaaS
17 27 (0.34%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2,545 (31.83%) Internet
2 380 (4.75%) Firewall
3 172 (2.15%) Network Security
4 159 (1.99%) VPN
5 133 (1.66%) DNS
6 99 (1.24%) WAN
7 92 (1.15%) DHCP
8 87 (1.09%) LAN
9 81 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
10 71 (0.89%) TCP/IP
10 71 (0.89%) VLAN
11 47 (0.59%) Broadband
12 46 (0.58%) VoIP
13 34 (0.43%) Unified Communications
14 28 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
15 25 (0.31%) HTTP
16 24 (0.30%) SSL
16 24 (0.30%) Wireless
17 20 (0.25%) CHAP
18 19 (0.24%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (0.50%) Power BI
2 25 (0.31%) SQL Server
3 22 (0.28%) Big Data
4 18 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (0.19%) Tableau
6 14 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (0.15%) Neo4j
8 8 (0.10%) MySQL
9 7 (0.088%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.075%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.050%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.050%) NoSQL
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%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.025%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.025%) Impala
13 2 (0.025%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 90 (1.13%) Git
2 36 (0.45%) GitLab
3 29 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
4 25 (0.31%) Snyk
5 23 (0.29%) JIRA
6 12 (0.15%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.088%) Burp Suite
7 7 (0.088%) Metasploit
7 7 (0.088%) Yeoman
8 6 (0.075%) Apache Continuum
8 6 (0.075%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.063%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.063%) VersionOne
10 4 (0.050%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.050%) JMeter
10 4 (0.050%) Locust
10 4 (0.050%) MLflow
11 2 (0.025%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.025%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.025%) Visual Studio
General
1 4,884 (61.08%) Social Skills
2 2,731 (34.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,569 (32.13%) Banking
4 510 (6.38%) Finance
5 396 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
6 228 (2.85%) Public Sector
7 168 (2.10%) Retail
8 165 (2.06%) Multimedia
9 158 (1.98%) Marketing
10 133 (1.66%) Law
11 128 (1.60%) Legal
12 122 (1.53%) Telecoms
13 112 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
14 93 (1.16%) Manufacturing
15 74 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
16 63 (0.79%) Local Government
17 52 (0.65%) Aerospace
18 42 (0.53%) Aviation
19 39 (0.49%) Advertising
20 33 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,871 (23.40%) Lecturer
2 1,266 (15.83%) Analyst
3 1,103 (13.79%) Security Analyst
4 1,028 (12.86%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 881 (11.02%) Junior
6 850 (10.63%) Junior Analyst
7 849 (10.62%) Junior Security Analyst
8 705 (8.82%) Ethical Hacker
9 515 (6.44%) Senior
10 335 (4.19%) Architect
11 302 (3.78%) Consultant
12 270 (3.38%) Lead
13 262 (3.28%) Security Manager
14 245 (3.06%) Security Architect
15 225 (2.81%) IT Support
16 195 (2.44%) Security Engineer
17 192 (2.40%) IT Manager
18 191 (2.39%) Trainee
19 186 (2.33%) Security Consultant
20 182 (2.28%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (1.20%) HTML
2 92 (1.15%) CSS
3 53 (0.66%) REST
4 50 (0.63%) SAML
5 49 (0.61%) LDAP
5 49 (0.61%) OAuth
6 45 (0.56%) OpenID
7 32 (0.40%) React
8 30 (0.38%) SOAP
9 24 (0.30%) GraphQL
10 17 (0.21%) SailPoint
11 16 (0.20%) Kafka
12 14 (0.18%) AngularJS
13 13 (0.16%) .NET
13 13 (0.16%) Node.js
14 12 (0.15%) FastAPI
15 11 (0.14%) Middleware
15 11 (0.14%) RESTful
16 9 (0.11%) JSON
16 9 (0.11%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 2,462 (30.79%) IoT
2 807 (10.09%) Cyberattack
3 267 (3.34%) Security Posture
4 192 (2.40%) Management Information System
5 171 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
6 170 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 129 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
8 107 (1.34%) Driving Licence
9 99 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
10 98 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
11 92 (1.15%) Operational Technology
12 82 (1.03%) Data Centre
13 75 (0.94%) Cloud Native
14 53 (0.66%) PKI
15 46 (0.58%) Cyber Security Posture
16 43 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
17 41 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
18 40 (0.50%) Blog
19 34 (0.43%) Cloud Security Posture
20 33 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 442 (5.53%) Windows
2 213 (2.66%) Windows Server
3 157 (1.96%) Linux
4 52 (0.65%) Windows 10
5 47 (0.59%) Mac OS
6 29 (0.36%) Android
7 23 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 21 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (0.13%) 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 2,751 (34.40%) AI
2 2,492 (31.17%) Machine Learning
3 2,485 (31.08%) User Experience
4 2,448 (30.62%) Web Development
5 1,352 (16.91%) Mentoring
6 803 (10.04%) Ethical Hacking
7 501 (6.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 458 (5.73%) Incident Response
9 455 (5.69%) Problem-Solving
10 417 (5.22%) Information Security
11 398 (4.98%) Risk Management
12 332 (4.15%) Security Operations
13 319 (3.99%) Cloud Security
14 317 (3.96%) SIEM
15 264 (3.30%) Vulnerability Management
16 243 (3.04%) Disaster Recovery
17 236 (2.95%) Agile
18 233 (2.91%) Decision-Making
19 231 (2.89%) Roadmaps
20 227 (2.84%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 348 (4.35%) Python
2 252 (3.15%) PowerShell
3 146 (1.83%) JavaScript
4 111 (1.39%) SQL
5 80 (1.00%) Bash
6 47 (0.59%) C++
7 44 (0.55%) R
8 39 (0.49%) Java
9 32 (0.40%) C#
10 27 (0.34%) MATLAB
11 24 (0.30%) T-SQL
12 21 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
12 21 (0.26%) TypeScript
13 18 (0.23%) Go
14 17 (0.21%) Rust
15 13 (0.16%) C
16 10 (0.13%) Perl
17 7 (0.088%) PHP
17 7 (0.088%) Search Processing Language
18 3 (0.038%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,854 (35.69%) Degree
2 2,500 (31.27%) Master's Degree
3 2,436 (30.47%) PhD
3 2,436 (30.47%) Postgraduate
4 1,672 (20.91%) Azure Certification
5 1,025 (12.82%) CompTIA Security+
6 893 (11.17%) CompTIA CySA+
7 855 (10.69%) CEH
8 466 (5.83%) Security Cleared
9 396 (4.95%) CISSP
10 330 (4.13%) SC Cleared
11 251 (3.14%) CISM
12 152 (1.90%) DV Cleared
12 152 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
13 139 (1.74%) AWS Certification
14 135 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
15 120 (1.50%) Network+ Certification
16 113 (1.41%) A+ Certification
17 101 (1.26%) CISA
18 95 (1.19%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 551 (6.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 504 (6.30%) NIST
3 295 (3.69%) GDPR
4 257 (3.21%) Cyber Essentials
4 257 (3.21%) GRC
5 138 (1.73%) PCI DSS
6 123 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 110 (1.38%) NCSC
8 106 (1.33%) QA
9 52 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 47 (0.59%) SLA
11 43 (0.54%) NIST 800
12 37 (0.46%) Accessibility
13 33 (0.41%) COBIT
14 31 (0.39%) JSP 440
15 29 (0.36%) 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
1 362 (4.53%) Active Directory
2 91 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (0.94%) Hyper-V
4 57 (0.71%) 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%) ClearTrust
11 3 (0.038%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.013%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.013%) KVM
Systems Management
1 176 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 86 (1.08%) Terraform
3 74 (0.93%) Kubernetes
4 37 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
5 36 (0.45%) 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 13 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 10 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (0.13%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 10 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 9 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
13 8 (0.10%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.10%) VxRail
14 7 (0.088%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.088%) Kibana
14 7 (0.088%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 2,555 (31.95%) Microsoft
2 1,552 (19.41%) ForeScout
3 132 (1.65%) VMware
4 125 (1.56%) Cisco
5 110 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
6 92 (1.15%) Palo Alto
7 76 (0.95%) Apple
8 73 (0.91%) Splunk
9 62 (0.78%) Fortinet
10 60 (0.75%) Google
11 57 (0.71%) Adobe
12 56 (0.70%) Tenable
13 47 (0.59%) ServiceNow
14 44 (0.55%) Salesforce
15 37 (0.46%) SAP
16 31 (0.39%) Dell
17 27 (0.34%) Veeam
18 26 (0.33%) CyberArk
18 26 (0.33%) Siemens
19 23 (0.29%) Aruba