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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 32 37
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 +7
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,943 2,771 3,558
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.11% 6.32% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.33% 7.12% 6.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,706 1,685 2,259
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £40,125 £35,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £79,875 £75,000 £76,125
90th Percentile £96,875 £95,000 £97,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.98%

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 71,357 38,940 57,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.40% 88.80% 81.14%
Number of salaries quoted 50,719 22,637 35,999
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -8.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -7.56%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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
London +13 1,481 £75,000 +7.14% 1,165
North of England +18 1,267 £50,750 +19.41% 455
South East +11 1,059 £55,000 +10.00% 493
Midlands +19 1,041 £55,000 +27.60% 296
North West +23 631 £57,500 +15.58% 224
South West +6 602 £55,000 +11.68% 298
West Midlands +7 527 £55,000 +10.00% 161
East Midlands +37 513 £55,000 +57.14% 134
Yorkshire +8 489 £43,500 +31.82% 176
East of England +51 476 £45,000 -5.26% 176
North East +14 147 £50,000 -23.08% 63
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
1 214 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 206 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (0.35%) IIS
4 18 (0.30%) Apache
5 9 (0.15%) Confluence
5 9 (0.15%) SAS
6 7 (0.12%) CMS
7 5 (0.084%) WordPress
8 3 (0.050%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.050%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
Applications
1 82 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.17%) Simulink
5 8 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.067%) CATIA
8 2 (0.034%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.017%) Maya
9 1 (0.017%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (0.40%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.084%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.084%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.067%) SystmOne
8 3 (0.050%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 3 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.050%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.050%) Infor CloudSuite
8 3 (0.050%) Infor LN
8 3 (0.050%) Infor M3
8 3 (0.050%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.050%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.034%) Eikon
9 2 (0.034%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.017%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,877 (31.58%) Azure
2 765 (12.87%) Microsoft 365
3 457 (7.69%) AWS
4 432 (7.27%) Entra ID
5 195 (3.28%) SaaS
6 143 (2.41%) GCP
7 86 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
8 83 (1.40%) Power Platform
9 73 (1.23%) OneDrive
10 71 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
11 55 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
12 48 (0.81%) Serverless
13 47 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
14 44 (0.74%) Mimecast
15 34 (0.57%) GitHub
16 27 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
16 27 (0.45%) PaaS
17 26 (0.44%) Google Workspace
18 25 (0.42%) IaaS
19 22 (0.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 511 (8.60%) Firewall
2 250 (4.21%) Network Security
3 230 (3.87%) DNS
4 215 (3.62%) VPN
5 173 (2.91%) WAN
6 157 (2.64%) DHCP
7 152 (2.56%) LAN
7 152 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
8 151 (2.54%) TCP/IP
9 124 (2.09%) VLAN
10 100 (1.68%) Internet
11 82 (1.38%) VoIP
12 78 (1.31%) Wireless
13 53 (0.89%) Cisco Nexus
14 47 (0.79%) Unified Communications
15 43 (0.72%) HTTP
16 41 (0.69%) SSL
17 31 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
18 30 (0.50%) SD-WAN
19 29 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (0.87%) Power BI
2 48 (0.81%) SQL Server
3 13 (0.22%) Big Data
3 13 (0.22%) GIS
3 13 (0.22%) MongoDB
3 13 (0.22%) MySQL
4 12 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (0.15%) Tableau
6 6 (0.10%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.084%) Metadata
7 5 (0.084%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.067%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (0.067%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.067%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.067%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.050%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 47 (0.79%) Git
2 44 (0.74%) JIRA
3 28 (0.47%) Burp Suite
4 27 (0.45%) Metasploit
4 27 (0.45%) Snyk
5 23 (0.39%) GitLab
6 20 (0.34%) Jenkins
7 10 (0.17%) Yeoman
8 5 (0.084%) Eclipse
8 5 (0.084%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (0.084%) VersionOne
9 4 (0.067%) Apache Continuum
9 4 (0.067%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.067%) LabVIEW
9 4 (0.067%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.067%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.050%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.050%) JMeter
11 2 (0.034%) Maven
11 2 (0.034%) Xcode
General
1 2,148 (36.14%) Social Skills
2 563 (9.47%) Finance
3 448 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
4 336 (5.65%) Public Sector
5 324 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 183 (3.08%) Marketing
7 181 (3.05%) Law
8 176 (2.96%) Legal
9 170 (2.86%) Retail
10 164 (2.76%) Telecoms
11 154 (2.59%) Manufacturing
12 134 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
13 129 (2.17%) Banking
14 115 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
15 104 (1.75%) Aerospace
16 56 (0.94%) Local Government
17 54 (0.91%) Advertising
18 52 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
19 42 (0.71%) Aviation
20 32 (0.54%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,020 (17.16%) Analyst
2 819 (13.78%) Security Analyst
3 718 (12.08%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 659 (11.09%) Senior
5 559 (9.41%) Junior
6 508 (8.55%) Consultant
7 485 (8.16%) Junior Analyst
8 475 (7.99%) Junior Security Analyst
9 470 (7.91%) Ethical Hacker
10 374 (6.29%) Architect
11 371 (6.24%) Lead
12 317 (5.33%) Security Consultant
13 307 (5.17%) Security Manager
14 287 (4.83%) IT Support
15 267 (4.49%) IT Manager
16 262 (4.41%) Security Architect
17 254 (4.27%) Security Engineer
18 221 (3.72%) IT Engineer
19 213 (3.58%) Cybersecurity Manager
20 207 (3.48%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (1.28%) Terraform
2 48 (0.81%) SAML
3 46 (0.77%) LDAP
4 43 (0.72%) OAuth
5 37 (0.62%) OpenID
6 36 (0.61%) REST
7 29 (0.49%) HTML
8 24 (0.40%) React
9 23 (0.39%) .NET
10 22 (0.37%) CSS
11 19 (0.32%) JSON
12 18 (0.30%) Kafka
12 18 (0.30%) Node.js
13 15 (0.25%) RESTful
13 15 (0.25%) SailPoint
13 15 (0.25%) XML
14 14 (0.24%) FastAPI
15 12 (0.20%) AngularJS
16 11 (0.19%) Middleware
16 11 (0.19%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 566 (9.52%) Cyberattack
2 350 (5.89%) Security Posture
3 274 (4.61%) Cyber Threat
4 243 (4.09%) Onboarding
5 227 (3.82%) Management Information System
6 166 (2.79%) Driving Licence
7 159 (2.68%) Security Operations Centre
8 148 (2.49%) Operational Technology
9 136 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
10 107 (1.80%) Cyber Defence
11 102 (1.72%) Data Centre
12 96 (1.62%) Cloud Native
13 63 (1.06%) PKI
14 58 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
15 52 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
16 46 (0.77%) Cyber Security Posture
17 36 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
17 36 (0.61%) CSOC
18 33 (0.56%) Blog
18 33 (0.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 587 (9.88%) Windows
2 292 (4.91%) Windows Server
3 215 (3.62%) Linux
4 74 (1.25%) Mac OS
5 37 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
7 27 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 26 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 18 (0.30%) Android
11 16 (0.27%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.10%) CentOS
13 5 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.067%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.067%) Unix
14 4 (0.067%) VMS
15 2 (0.034%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.034%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.034%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.017%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 886 (14.91%) Mentoring
2 699 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
3 659 (11.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 548 (9.22%) Information Security
5 520 (8.75%) AI
6 519 (8.73%) Incident Response
7 509 (8.56%) Risk Management
8 486 (8.18%) Ethical Hacking
8 486 (8.18%) Security Operations
9 448 (7.54%) SIEM
10 432 (7.27%) Vulnerability Management
11 412 (6.93%) Cloud Security
12 389 (6.55%) Disaster Recovery
13 388 (6.53%) Stakeholder Management
14 345 (5.81%) Decision-Making
15 309 (5.20%) Roadmaps
16 303 (5.10%) Service Delivery
17 286 (4.81%) Data Protection
18 274 (4.61%) Penetration Testing
19 273 (4.59%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 314 (5.28%) Python
2 235 (3.95%) PowerShell
3 95 (1.60%) SQL
4 72 (1.21%) C++
5 67 (1.13%) JavaScript
6 55 (0.93%) Bash
7 44 (0.74%) Java
7 44 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
8 32 (0.54%) C#
8 32 (0.54%) Rust
9 24 (0.40%) Go
10 23 (0.39%) C
11 22 (0.37%) TypeScript
12 16 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
13 13 (0.22%) MATLAB
14 12 (0.20%) Perl
15 11 (0.19%) Embedded C
16 5 (0.084%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.067%) Ada
17 4 (0.067%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 1,027 (17.28%) Azure Certification
2 669 (11.26%) Security Cleared
3 620 (10.43%) CompTIA Security+
4 547 (9.20%) CEH
5 513 (8.63%) CompTIA CySA+
6 509 (8.56%) Degree
7 466 (7.84%) CISSP
8 460 (7.74%) SC Cleared
9 297 (5.00%) CISM
10 222 (3.74%) DV Cleared
11 161 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
12 120 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 101 (1.70%) CRISC
14 88 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 87 (1.46%) CISA
15 87 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
16 84 (1.41%) AWS Certification
17 78 (1.31%) CREST Certified
17 78 (1.31%) Master's Degree
18 65 (1.09%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 653 (10.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 521 (8.77%) NIST
3 332 (5.59%) GDPR
4 320 (5.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 310 (5.22%) GRC
6 141 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 141 (2.37%) PCI DSS
7 103 (1.73%) QA
8 102 (1.72%) NCSC
9 60 (1.01%) SOC 2
10 44 (0.74%) NIST 800
10 44 (0.74%) SLA
11 39 (0.66%) Accessibility
12 37 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 35 (0.59%) COBIT
14 33 (0.56%) JSP 440
15 29 (0.49%) Data Quality
16 23 (0.39%) ISO 22301
17 22 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
17 22 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 457 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 161 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (2.19%) Hyper-V
4 58 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (0.86%) Docker
6 37 (0.62%) Firmware
7 25 (0.42%) vSphere
8 14 (0.24%) IAG
8 14 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
9 13 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 12 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.084%) ClearTrust
13 5 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.050%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.050%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.034%) BitLocker
15 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 249 (4.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 78 (1.31%) Kubernetes
3 59 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
4 44 (0.74%) Ansible
5 24 (0.40%) Nmap
6 23 (0.39%) FortiGate
6 23 (0.39%) Grafana
7 22 (0.37%) Nessus
7 22 (0.37%) QRadar
8 20 (0.34%) SCCM
9 19 (0.32%) CASB
10 17 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
11 13 (0.22%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.15%) Kibana
13 8 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
13 8 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
13 8 (0.13%) Functional Safety
14 7 (0.12%) Graylog
15 6 (0.10%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.084%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 2,169 (36.50%) Microsoft
2 940 (15.82%) ForeScout
3 215 (3.62%) Cisco
4 201 (3.38%) VMware
5 170 (2.86%) Palo Alto
6 115 (1.94%) Splunk
7 99 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
8 74 (1.25%) Qualys
9 71 (1.19%) Google
10 67 (1.13%) Apple
10 67 (1.13%) ServiceNow
11 65 (1.09%) Aruba
12 61 (1.03%) Fortinet
13 60 (1.01%) Tenable
14 58 (0.98%) Salesforce
15 49 (0.82%) Veeam
16 41 (0.69%) Adobe
16 41 (0.69%) SAP
17 38 (0.64%) SonicWALL
18 37 (0.62%) CyberArk