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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 34 39
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 6,037 2,762 3,620
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.57% 6.32% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.89% 7.05% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,513 1,689 2,499
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,349 £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 £79,250 £74,258 £75,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,125
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.98% -8.33%

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 67,880 39,178 58,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.83% 89.60% 81.29%
Number of salaries quoted 47,922 22,754 39,478
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 3 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 3 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 +14 1,428 £75,000 +3.45% 948
North of England +17 1,364 £50,000 +4.17% 455
South East +13 1,095 £55,000 +10.00% 453
Midlands +18 1,043 £55,000 +21.17% 249
North West +26 652 £55,000 - 243
South West +5 602 £55,000 +15.79% 246
Yorkshire +13 547 £42,500 +28.79% 172
West Midlands +10 531 £57,500 +9.52% 136
East Midlands +41 511 £55,000 +57.14% 113
East of England +59 480 £45,000 -5.26% 148
North East +25 165 £50,000 -26.95% 43
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
1 189 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 186 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 18 (0.30%) Apache
4 16 (0.27%) IIS
5 11 (0.18%) CMS
6 9 (0.15%) Confluence
6 9 (0.15%) SAS
7 5 (0.083%) WordPress
8 4 (0.066%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.033%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.033%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.017%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 82 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.18%) Simulink
5 6 (0.099%) CATIA
5 6 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.033%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.033%) SmartSuite
8 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.017%) Maya
8 1 (0.017%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 24 (0.40%) Cloudability
2 15 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.099%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.099%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.083%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.083%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.066%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.050%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 3 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.050%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.050%) Q-Pulse
9 2 (0.033%) Infor CloudSuite
9 2 (0.033%) Infor LN
9 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.033%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.033%) Shopify
9 2 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.033%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2,249 (37.25%) Azure
2 719 (11.91%) Microsoft 365
3 463 (7.67%) AWS
4 384 (6.36%) Entra ID
5 181 (3.00%) SaaS
6 153 (2.53%) GCP
7 83 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
8 69 (1.14%) Power Platform
9 63 (1.04%) OneDrive
10 62 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
11 48 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
12 45 (0.75%) Serverless
13 39 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
13 39 (0.65%) Mimecast
14 31 (0.51%) GitHub
15 28 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
15 28 (0.46%) Google Workspace
16 27 (0.45%) PaaS
17 25 (0.41%) IaaS
18 22 (0.36%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 477 (7.90%) Firewall
2 229 (3.79%) Network Security
3 196 (3.25%) VPN
4 192 (3.18%) DNS
5 148 (2.45%) WAN
6 145 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
7 130 (2.15%) LAN
8 128 (2.12%) DHCP
9 120 (1.99%) TCP/IP
10 107 (1.77%) VLAN
11 87 (1.44%) Internet
12 70 (1.16%) VoIP
13 57 (0.94%) Wireless
14 44 (0.73%) Unified Communications
15 40 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
16 39 (0.65%) HTTP
17 35 (0.58%) SSL
18 32 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
19 28 (0.46%) SD-WAN
20 27 (0.45%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (0.75%) Power BI
2 43 (0.71%) SQL Server
3 13 (0.22%) MongoDB
3 13 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (0.20%) MySQL
5 11 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (0.18%) Big Data
6 10 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (0.17%) Tableau
7 9 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.099%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.099%) GIS
8 6 (0.099%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.083%) Metadata
9 5 (0.083%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.066%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.050%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.050%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.033%) Flink
12 2 (0.033%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 44 (0.73%) JIRA
2 40 (0.66%) Git
3 31 (0.51%) GitLab
4 27 (0.45%) Snyk
5 21 (0.35%) Burp Suite
6 20 (0.33%) Metasploit
7 15 (0.25%) Jenkins
8 14 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
9 9 (0.15%) Yeoman
10 6 (0.099%) Apache Continuum
11 5 (0.083%) JMeter
11 5 (0.083%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.083%) VersionOne
12 4 (0.066%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.066%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.066%) Locust
12 4 (0.066%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.050%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.033%) Claude Code
15 1 (0.017%) webpack
General
1 2,402 (39.79%) Social Skills
2 537 (8.90%) Finance
3 427 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
4 315 (5.22%) Public Sector
5 305 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 173 (2.87%) Marketing
7 172 (2.85%) Law
8 168 (2.78%) Retail
9 165 (2.73%) Telecoms
10 159 (2.63%) Legal
11 136 (2.25%) Manufacturing
12 123 (2.04%) Banking
13 115 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
14 96 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
15 87 (1.44%) Aerospace
16 59 (0.98%) Local Government
17 58 (0.96%) Advertising
18 54 (0.89%) Multimedia
19 39 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
20 34 (0.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,198 (19.84%) Analyst
2 1,013 (16.78%) Security Analyst
3 914 (15.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 735 (12.17%) Junior
5 673 (11.15%) Junior Analyst
6 663 (10.98%) Junior Security Analyst
7 658 (10.90%) Ethical Hacker
8 620 (10.27%) Senior
9 454 (7.52%) Consultant
10 358 (5.93%) Architect
11 320 (5.30%) Lead
12 291 (4.82%) Security Consultant
13 279 (4.62%) Security Manager
14 273 (4.52%) IT Support
15 242 (4.01%) IT Manager
15 242 (4.01%) Security Architect
16 224 (3.71%) Security Engineer
17 199 (3.30%) Cybersecurity Consultant
18 191 (3.16%) IT Engineer
19 188 (3.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (0.91%) SAML
2 49 (0.81%) OAuth
3 48 (0.80%) LDAP
4 43 (0.71%) OpenID
5 41 (0.68%) REST
6 30 (0.50%) HTML
7 23 (0.38%) CSS
8 22 (0.36%) React
9 20 (0.33%) Kafka
10 18 (0.30%) .NET
10 18 (0.30%) JSON
11 17 (0.28%) SailPoint
12 16 (0.27%) Node.js
13 15 (0.25%) XML
14 14 (0.23%) RESTful
14 14 (0.23%) SOAP
15 13 (0.22%) FastAPI
15 13 (0.22%) Middleware
15 13 (0.22%) XMPP
16 12 (0.20%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 762 (12.62%) Cyberattack
2 336 (5.57%) Security Posture
3 245 (4.06%) Cyber Threat
4 221 (3.66%) Onboarding
5 217 (3.59%) Management Information System
6 169 (2.80%) Driving Licence
7 166 (2.75%) Security Operations Centre
8 139 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
9 113 (1.87%) Operational Technology
10 100 (1.66%) Cyber Defence
11 91 (1.51%) Cloud Native
12 83 (1.37%) Data Centre
13 59 (0.98%) PKI
14 57 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
15 42 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
16 40 (0.66%) Cyber Security Posture
17 38 (0.63%) CSOC
18 36 (0.60%) Blog
19 29 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
19 29 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 551 (9.13%) Windows
2 268 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 200 (3.31%) Linux
4 66 (1.09%) Mac OS
5 30 (0.50%) Windows 10
5 30 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (0.41%) Android
7 25 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 23 (0.38%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.099%) CentOS
11 4 (0.066%) VMS
11 4 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.050%) Unix
13 2 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.033%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.033%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.033%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.017%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,102 (18.25%) Mentoring
2 709 (11.74%) Ethical Hacking
3 637 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
4 628 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 514 (8.51%) Information Security
6 510 (8.45%) Incident Response
7 481 (7.97%) Risk Management
8 458 (7.59%) Security Operations
9 434 (7.19%) AI
9 434 (7.19%) SIEM
10 403 (6.68%) Cloud Security
11 395 (6.54%) Vulnerability Management
12 335 (5.55%) Disaster Recovery
13 332 (5.50%) Decision-Making
14 307 (5.09%) Stakeholder Management
15 287 (4.75%) Roadmaps
16 271 (4.49%) Agile
17 256 (4.24%) Service Delivery
18 254 (4.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 251 (4.16%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 304 (5.04%) Python
2 239 (3.96%) PowerShell
3 91 (1.51%) SQL
4 68 (1.13%) JavaScript
5 67 (1.11%) C++
6 62 (1.03%) Bash
7 39 (0.65%) Java
7 39 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
8 32 (0.53%) Rust
9 29 (0.48%) C#
10 21 (0.35%) Go
11 18 (0.30%) TypeScript
12 15 (0.25%) MATLAB
12 15 (0.25%) Search Processing Language
13 14 (0.23%) C
14 11 (0.18%) Perl
15 7 (0.12%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.099%) PHP
17 5 (0.083%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.066%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1,387 (22.97%) Azure Certification
2 831 (13.77%) CompTIA Security+
3 763 (12.64%) CEH
4 701 (11.61%) CompTIA CySA+
5 618 (10.24%) Security Cleared
6 479 (7.93%) Degree
7 450 (7.45%) CISSP
8 427 (7.07%) SC Cleared
9 292 (4.84%) CISM
10 202 (3.35%) DV Cleared
11 161 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
12 105 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 96 (1.59%) CRISC
14 92 (1.52%) CISA
15 90 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 77 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
17 75 (1.24%) AWS Certification
17 75 (1.24%) CREST Certified
18 71 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
19 70 (1.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 624 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 515 (8.53%) NIST
3 318 (5.27%) GDPR
4 284 (4.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 276 (4.57%) GRC
6 146 (2.42%) PCI DSS
7 138 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 106 (1.76%) QA
9 94 (1.56%) NCSC
10 63 (1.04%) SOC 2
11 41 (0.68%) NIST 800
12 40 (0.66%) Accessibility
13 38 (0.63%) SLA
14 36 (0.60%) COBIT
14 36 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 33 (0.55%) JSP 440
16 28 (0.46%) Data Quality
17 22 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
18 21 (0.35%) ISO 22301
18 21 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 430 (7.12%) Active Directory
2 138 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 113 (1.87%) Hyper-V
4 55 (0.91%) Docker
5 51 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.41%) vSphere
7 22 (0.36%) Firmware
8 14 (0.23%) IAG
9 13 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 12 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 9 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.083%) ClearTrust
14 4 (0.066%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.050%) VMware Server
16 1 (0.017%) BitLocker
16 1 (0.017%) Embedded Firmware
16 1 (0.017%) KVM
16 1 (0.017%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 225 (3.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 87 (1.44%) Terraform
3 73 (1.21%) Kubernetes
4 46 (0.76%) Ansible
5 44 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.51%) Grafana
7 20 (0.33%) QRadar
8 19 (0.31%) FortiGate
9 17 (0.28%) Nmap
9 17 (0.28%) Prometheus
10 16 (0.27%) CASB
11 15 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
11 15 (0.25%) Nessus
11 15 (0.25%) SCCM
12 10 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
13 9 (0.15%) Kibana
14 8 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
15 6 (0.099%) CSIRT
15 6 (0.099%) Graylog
15 6 (0.099%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,491 (41.26%) Microsoft
2 1,317 (21.82%) ForeScout
3 189 (3.13%) Cisco
4 184 (3.05%) VMware
5 160 (2.65%) Palo Alto
6 110 (1.82%) Splunk
7 101 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
8 72 (1.19%) Google
9 68 (1.13%) Qualys
10 66 (1.09%) Fortinet
11 64 (1.06%) ServiceNow
12 61 (1.01%) Apple
12 61 (1.01%) Aruba
13 58 (0.96%) Tenable
14 54 (0.89%) Salesforce
15 40 (0.66%) SAP
16 38 (0.63%) Veeam
17 36 (0.60%) Adobe
17 36 (0.60%) CyberArk
18 28 (0.46%) Dell