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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 33 37
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 +2
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,853 2,680 3,406
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.63% 6.23% 5.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.66% 6.99% 6.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,854 1,561 1,751
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,188 £35,750 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.73% -5.42% -7.69%

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 76,412 38,327 54,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.56% 89.12% 82.24%
Number of salaries quoted 53,811 21,662 29,728
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,233 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £78,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,033
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.23% -3.28%

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 September 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 September 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 +8 1,541 £80,000 +14.29% 1,838
North of England +18 1,165 £51,500 +8.21% 660
South East +10 1,066 £55,000 +10.00% 667
Midlands +20 1,025 £55,000 +15.79% 373
North West +31 622 £60,000 +25.83% 375
South West -1 583 £55,000 +10.00% 369
West Midlands +9 530 £55,000 +10.00% 240
East Midlands +41 495 £55,000 +46.67% 133
East of England +43 447 £49,000 +8.89% 196
Yorkshire +10 408 £42,500 +10.39% 197
North East +6 135 £50,000 -26.95% 91
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
1 248 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 238 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (0.48%) IIS
4 21 (0.36%) Apache
5 11 (0.19%) Confluence
6 9 (0.15%) SAS
7 6 (0.10%) CMS
8 5 (0.085%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.085%) WordPress
9 3 (0.051%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.017%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 95 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 67 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.31%) Simulink
5 15 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.085%) CATIA
8 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.034%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.034%) SmartSuite
10 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.017%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 24 (0.41%) 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 (0.085%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.085%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.068%) Infor CloudSuite
7 4 (0.068%) Infor M3
7 4 (0.068%) SystmOne
8 3 (0.051%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.051%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.051%) Infor LN
8 3 (0.051%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.051%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.034%) Eikon
9 2 (0.034%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 2 (0.034%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.017%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 1,479 (25.27%) Azure
2 850 (14.52%) Microsoft 365
3 512 (8.75%) Entra ID
4 465 (7.94%) AWS
5 200 (3.42%) SaaS
6 161 (2.75%) GCP
7 101 (1.73%) Power Platform
8 94 (1.61%) OneDrive
9 89 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
10 88 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
11 59 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
11 59 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
12 57 (0.97%) Serverless
13 45 (0.77%) Mimecast
14 42 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
15 34 (0.58%) GitHub
15 34 (0.58%) Power Automate
16 33 (0.56%) Google Workspace
17 29 (0.50%) Azure Logic Apps
18 27 (0.46%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 516 (8.82%) Firewall
2 273 (4.66%) DNS
3 246 (4.20%) VPN
4 243 (4.15%) Network Security
5 199 (3.40%) DHCP
6 191 (3.26%) TCP/IP
7 188 (3.21%) WAN
8 166 (2.84%) LAN
8 166 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
9 128 (2.19%) VLAN
10 100 (1.71%) Internet
11 89 (1.52%) Wireless
12 86 (1.47%) VoIP
13 58 (0.99%) Cisco Nexus
14 49 (0.84%) HTTP
14 49 (0.84%) SSL
15 43 (0.73%) Unified Communications
16 38 (0.65%) Wireshark
17 32 (0.55%) SD-WAN
18 30 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (1.01%) Power BI
2 55 (0.94%) SQL Server
3 17 (0.29%) Big Data
3 17 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (0.24%) GIS
5 13 (0.22%) MySQL
6 12 (0.21%) MongoDB
6 12 (0.21%) Tableau
7 9 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.14%) Metadata
9 7 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (0.12%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.12%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.10%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.085%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.068%) Crystal Reports
12 4 (0.068%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.051%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (0.87%) JIRA
2 42 (0.72%) Git
3 31 (0.53%) Burp Suite
4 29 (0.50%) Metasploit
5 27 (0.46%) Snyk
6 21 (0.36%) GitLab
6 21 (0.36%) Jenkins
7 10 (0.17%) Yeoman
8 9 (0.15%) Eclipse
9 8 (0.14%) LabVIEW
10 6 (0.10%) Rational DOORS
11 5 (0.085%) VersionOne
12 4 (0.068%) Apache Continuum
12 4 (0.068%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.068%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.068%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.051%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.051%) Maven
13 3 (0.051%) Team Foundation Server
14 2 (0.034%) TestRail
General
1 1,823 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 616 (10.52%) Finance
3 459 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
4 391 (6.68%) Public Sector
5 341 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 205 (3.50%) Legal
7 196 (3.35%) Marketing
8 194 (3.31%) Retail
9 193 (3.30%) Law
10 187 (3.19%) Telecoms
11 184 (3.14%) Manufacturing
12 165 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
13 138 (2.36%) Aerospace
14 134 (2.29%) Banking
15 129 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
16 65 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
17 52 (0.89%) Advertising
18 48 (0.82%) Local Government
19 47 (0.80%) Aviation
20 37 (0.63%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 818 (13.98%) Analyst
2 712 (12.16%) Senior
3 590 (10.08%) Security Analyst
4 532 (9.09%) Consultant
5 498 (8.51%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 399 (6.82%) Lead
7 397 (6.78%) Architect
8 335 (5.72%) Security Manager
9 328 (5.60%) Junior
10 325 (5.55%) IT Support
11 315 (5.38%) Security Consultant
12 284 (4.85%) Security Engineer
13 269 (4.60%) Security Architect
14 251 (4.29%) Junior Analyst
15 247 (4.22%) IT Engineer
16 246 (4.20%) IT Manager
17 241 (4.12%) Junior Security Analyst
18 235 (4.02%) Ethical Hacker
19 234 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
20 208 (3.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (1.52%) Terraform
2 52 (0.89%) LDAP
2 52 (0.89%) SAML
3 50 (0.85%) OAuth
4 44 (0.75%) REST
5 42 (0.72%) OpenID
6 32 (0.55%) .NET
7 24 (0.41%) JSON
8 22 (0.38%) React
9 20 (0.34%) Node.js
10 19 (0.32%) HTML
11 18 (0.31%) Kafka
12 17 (0.29%) XML
13 16 (0.27%) RESTful
13 16 (0.27%) SailPoint
14 15 (0.26%) CSS
14 15 (0.26%) FastAPI
14 15 (0.26%) Middleware
15 13 (0.22%) AngularJS
16 11 (0.19%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 361 (6.17%) Security Posture
2 334 (5.71%) Cyberattack
3 326 (5.57%) Cyber Threat
4 276 (4.72%) Onboarding
5 248 (4.24%) Management Information System
6 193 (3.30%) Driving Licence
7 179 (3.06%) Operational Technology
8 163 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
9 141 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
10 108 (1.85%) Data Centre
11 106 (1.81%) Cyber Defence
12 104 (1.78%) Cloud Native
13 81 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
14 59 (1.01%) PKI
15 56 (0.96%) SCADA
16 51 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
17 45 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
18 40 (0.68%) Cyber Security Posture
19 38 (0.65%) CSOC
19 38 (0.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 652 (11.14%) Windows
2 312 (5.33%) Windows Server
3 241 (4.12%) Linux
4 83 (1.42%) Mac OS
5 41 (0.70%) Windows 10
6 39 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 29 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 27 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 23 (0.39%) Android
10 13 (0.22%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.10%) Kali Linux
12 6 (0.10%) Unix
13 4 (0.068%) VMS
14 3 (0.051%) CentOS
14 3 (0.051%) Rocky
15 2 (0.034%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.034%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.034%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 769 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
2 739 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 645 (11.02%) Mentoring
4 627 (10.71%) AI
5 586 (10.01%) Information Security
6 557 (9.52%) Incident Response
7 550 (9.40%) Security Operations
8 541 (9.24%) Risk Management
9 499 (8.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 485 (8.29%) Vulnerability Management
11 463 (7.91%) SIEM
12 430 (7.35%) Cloud Security
13 407 (6.95%) Decision-Making
14 394 (6.73%) Disaster Recovery
15 334 (5.71%) Roadmaps
16 325 (5.55%) Data Protection
17 312 (5.33%) ITIL
18 311 (5.31%) Service Delivery
19 289 (4.94%) Business Continuity
20 282 (4.82%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 343 (5.86%) Python
2 248 (4.24%) PowerShell
3 101 (1.73%) SQL
4 81 (1.38%) C++
5 64 (1.09%) Bash
6 59 (1.01%) JavaScript
7 56 (0.96%) Java
7 56 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
8 40 (0.68%) C#
9 38 (0.65%) Rust
10 31 (0.53%) Go
11 30 (0.51%) C
12 25 (0.43%) TypeScript
13 20 (0.34%) MATLAB
14 17 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
15 16 (0.27%) Embedded C
16 12 (0.21%) Perl
17 9 (0.15%) Bicep
18 8 (0.14%) Shell Script
19 4 (0.068%) Swift
Qualifications
1 774 (13.22%) Security Cleared
2 580 (9.91%) Degree
3 557 (9.52%) Azure Certification
4 530 (9.06%) SC Cleared
5 479 (8.18%) CISSP
6 366 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
7 315 (5.38%) CISM
8 301 (5.14%) CEH
9 278 (4.75%) CompTIA CySA+
10 240 (4.10%) DV Cleared
11 158 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
12 133 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 109 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
14 103 (1.76%) CRISC
15 101 (1.73%) Master's Degree
16 88 (1.50%) CISA
17 84 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 78 (1.33%) CREST Certified
19 76 (1.30%) AWS Certification
20 74 (1.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 688 (11.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 525 (8.97%) NIST
3 362 (6.18%) Cyber Essentials
4 328 (5.60%) GDPR
5 323 (5.52%) GRC
6 151 (2.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 139 (2.37%) PCI DSS
8 131 (2.24%) NCSC
9 97 (1.66%) QA
10 55 (0.94%) SLA
11 53 (0.91%) SOC 2
12 47 (0.80%) Accessibility
13 45 (0.77%) NIST 800
14 37 (0.63%) Data Quality
15 36 (0.62%) ISO 22301
16 35 (0.60%) COBIT
17 31 (0.53%) JSP 440
18 29 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 23 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
20 20 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 491 (8.39%) Active Directory
2 163 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 143 (2.44%) Hyper-V
4 69 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (0.92%) Docker
6 41 (0.70%) Firmware
7 27 (0.46%) vSphere
8 19 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
9 13 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 9 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
12 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.085%) ClearTrust
13 5 (0.085%) IAG
14 3 (0.051%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.034%) BitLocker
15 2 (0.034%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
15 2 (0.034%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 295 (5.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 79 (1.35%) Kubernetes
3 73 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
4 49 (0.84%) Ansible
5 26 (0.44%) Grafana
5 26 (0.44%) Nmap
6 24 (0.41%) Nessus
6 24 (0.41%) QRadar
7 23 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
8 22 (0.38%) CASB
9 21 (0.36%) FortiGate
10 20 (0.34%) SCCM
11 17 (0.29%) Functional Safety
12 14 (0.24%) Prometheus
13 9 (0.15%) Kibana
14 8 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
14 8 (0.14%) Progress Chef
15 7 (0.12%) Graylog
16 6 (0.10%) Autotask
16 6 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,815 (31.01%) Microsoft
2 470 (8.03%) ForeScout
3 234 (4.00%) Cisco
4 217 (3.71%) VMware
5 169 (2.89%) Palo Alto
6 111 (1.90%) Splunk
7 99 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
8 89 (1.52%) Google
9 79 (1.35%) Qualys
10 74 (1.26%) ServiceNow
11 69 (1.18%) Aruba
11 69 (1.18%) Salesforce
12 63 (1.08%) Apple
13 60 (1.03%) Tenable
14 55 (0.94%) Fortinet
15 51 (0.87%) Veeam
16 50 (0.85%) Meraki
17 43 (0.73%) SAP
18 42 (0.72%) Adobe
19 40 (0.68%) SonicWALL