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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 35 30
Rank change year-on-year +28 -5 +24
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 7,978 2,439 4,739
As % of all permanent jobs in England 9.71% 6.21% 5.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.16% 6.65% 6.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,844 1,512 3,496
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,000 £35,691
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -0.17% -8.46%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year - +0.84% -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 60,622 36,670 71,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.76% 93.39% 84.79%
Number of salaries quoted 39,997 20,119 53,763
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
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 £73,410
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -10.10%

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 21 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 21 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 +36 2,332 £50,000 -4.76% 340
Midlands +34 1,910 £54,500 +1.87% 166
North West +46 1,498 £55,000 - 193
London +12 1,436 £71,000 -5.33% 523
West Midlands +22 1,412 £51,250 -10.87% 97
South East +29 1,128 £50,000 -9.09% 388
Yorkshire +20 686 £47,500 +18.11% 113
South West +23 586 £60,000 +33.33% 173
East of England +66 531 £40,000 -15.79% 96
East Midlands +51 509 £55,000 +53.84% 68
North East +34 148 £45,000 -30.77% 36
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
1 124 (1.55%) SharePoint
2 105 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (0.13%) CMS
4 8 (0.10%) Apache
5 6 (0.075%) WordPress
6 4 (0.050%) IIS
6 4 (0.050%) SAS
7 3 (0.038%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.025%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.025%) Confluence
8 2 (0.025%) Drupal
8 2 (0.025%) nginx
9 1 (0.013%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 78 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.29%) Simulink
5 14 (0.18%) Maya
6 7 (0.088%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.063%) CATIA
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 26 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.30%) Cloudability
3 16 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 12 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.063%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.050%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.050%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.038%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.038%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.038%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.025%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.025%) Shopify
9 1 (0.013%) Endur
9 1 (0.013%) Maximo
9 1 (0.013%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.013%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.013%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.013%) SAP FS
9 1 (0.013%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.013%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,535 (31.77%) Azure
2 2,472 (30.99%) Cloud Computing
3 519 (6.51%) Microsoft 365
4 491 (6.15%) AWS
5 314 (3.94%) Entra ID
6 123 (1.54%) GCP
7 116 (1.45%) SaaS
8 110 (1.38%) GitHub
9 68 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
9 68 (0.85%) Power Platform
10 64 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
11 42 (0.53%) Serverless
12 38 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
13 37 (0.46%) Google Workspace
14 32 (0.40%) OneDrive
15 31 (0.39%) Mimecast
16 30 (0.38%) PaaS
17 29 (0.36%) Nutanix
18 28 (0.35%) IaaS
19 27 (0.34%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2,558 (32.06%) Internet
2 352 (4.41%) Firewall
3 162 (2.03%) Network Security
4 144 (1.80%) VPN
5 116 (1.45%) DNS
6 86 (1.08%) WAN
7 82 (1.03%) DHCP
8 75 (0.94%) LAN
9 69 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
10 65 (0.81%) VLAN
11 64 (0.80%) TCP/IP
12 45 (0.56%) Broadband
13 34 (0.43%) VoIP
14 30 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
14 30 (0.38%) Unified Communications
15 28 (0.35%) Wireless
16 20 (0.25%) CHAP
17 19 (0.24%) SD-WAN
17 19 (0.24%) SSL
18 18 (0.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (0.48%) Power BI
2 22 (0.28%) SQL Server
3 21 (0.26%) Big Data
4 18 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (0.23%) Tableau
5 14 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (0.14%) Neo4j
7 8 (0.10%) MySQL
8 6 (0.075%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.063%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.050%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.050%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.038%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.038%) GIS
11 3 (0.038%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.038%) Metadata
12 2 (0.025%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.025%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.025%) Impala
Development Applications
1 112 (1.40%) Git
2 36 (0.45%) GitLab
3 28 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
4 25 (0.31%) Snyk
5 19 (0.24%) JIRA
6 12 (0.15%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.075%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.075%) Yeoman
8 5 (0.063%) Apache Continuum
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
11 1 (0.013%) GDB
General
1 4,944 (61.97%) Social Skills
2 2,727 (34.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,569 (32.20%) Banking
4 519 (6.51%) Finance
5 401 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
6 215 (2.69%) Public Sector
7 198 (2.48%) Multimedia
8 158 (1.98%) Retail
9 155 (1.94%) Marketing
10 142 (1.78%) Law
11 120 (1.50%) Legal
12 116 (1.45%) Telecoms
13 106 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
14 92 (1.15%) Manufacturing
15 75 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
16 66 (0.83%) Local Government
17 50 (0.63%) Aerospace
18 40 (0.50%) Aviation
19 38 (0.48%) Games
20 35 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,871 (23.45%) Lecturer
2 1,335 (16.73%) Analyst
3 1,178 (14.77%) Security Analyst
4 1,107 (13.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 973 (12.20%) Junior
6 943 (11.82%) Junior Analyst
7 942 (11.81%) Junior Security Analyst
8 705 (8.84%) Ethical Hacker
9 503 (6.30%) Senior
10 328 (4.11%) Architect
11 288 (3.61%) Consultant
12 261 (3.27%) Lead
13 249 (3.12%) Security Manager
14 233 (2.92%) Security Architect
15 221 (2.77%) Trainee
16 205 (2.57%) IT Support
17 192 (2.41%) Security Engineer
18 177 (2.22%) IT Manager
19 173 (2.17%) Security Consultant
20 170 (2.13%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (1.47%) HTML
2 115 (1.44%) CSS
3 53 (0.66%) REST
4 47 (0.59%) LDAP
4 47 (0.59%) SAML
5 46 (0.58%) OAuth
6 45 (0.56%) OpenID
7 33 (0.41%) React
8 30 (0.38%) SOAP
9 25 (0.31%) GraphQL
10 16 (0.20%) Kafka
10 16 (0.20%) SailPoint
11 13 (0.16%) RESTful
12 12 (0.15%) AngularJS
12 12 (0.15%) Middleware
12 12 (0.15%) Node.js
13 11 (0.14%) .NET
13 11 (0.14%) FastAPI
14 10 (0.13%) Tailwind CSS
15 9 (0.11%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 2,459 (30.82%) IoT
2 801 (10.04%) Cyberattack
3 251 (3.15%) Security Posture
4 187 (2.34%) Management Information System
5 165 (2.07%) Cyber Threat
6 157 (1.97%) Onboarding
7 119 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
8 96 (1.20%) Driving Licence
9 92 (1.15%) Cyber Defence
10 91 (1.14%) Operational Technology
10 91 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
11 83 (1.04%) Data Centre
12 74 (0.93%) Cloud Native
13 58 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
14 50 (0.63%) PKI
15 47 (0.59%) Cyber Security Posture
16 43 (0.54%) Blog
17 42 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
18 34 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
18 34 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 404 (5.06%) Windows
2 192 (2.41%) Windows Server
3 148 (1.86%) Linux
4 53 (0.66%) Windows 10
5 42 (0.53%) Mac OS
6 29 (0.36%) Android
7 21 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 20 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (0.18%) 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 2,745 (34.41%) AI
2 2,488 (31.19%) Machine Learning
3 2,480 (31.09%) User Experience
4 2,450 (30.71%) Web Development
5 1,476 (18.50%) Mentoring
6 810 (10.15%) Ethical Hacking
7 460 (5.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 434 (5.44%) Incident Response
9 432 (5.41%) Problem-Solving
10 411 (5.15%) Information Security
11 392 (4.91%) Risk Management
12 301 (3.77%) Security Operations
13 294 (3.69%) Cloud Security
14 289 (3.62%) SIEM
15 246 (3.08%) Agile
16 236 (2.96%) Vulnerability Management
17 234 (2.93%) Roadmaps
18 224 (2.81%) Security Architecture
19 223 (2.80%) Disaster Recovery
20 213 (2.67%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 361 (4.52%) Python
2 243 (3.05%) PowerShell
3 166 (2.08%) JavaScript
4 100 (1.25%) SQL
5 76 (0.95%) Bash
6 52 (0.65%) R
7 46 (0.58%) C++
8 38 (0.48%) Java
9 30 (0.38%) 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 14 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
16 13 (0.16%) C
17 9 (0.11%) Perl
18 6 (0.075%) PHP
19 3 (0.038%) Shell Script
19 3 (0.038%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 2,857 (35.81%) Degree
2 2,501 (31.35%) Master's Degree
3 2,436 (30.53%) PhD
4 2,435 (30.52%) Postgraduate
5 1,784 (22.36%) Azure Certification
6 1,118 (14.01%) CompTIA Security+
7 984 (12.33%) CompTIA CySA+
8 862 (10.80%) CEH
9 439 (5.50%) Security Cleared
10 383 (4.80%) CISSP
11 307 (3.85%) SC Cleared
12 255 (3.20%) CISM
13 170 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
14 165 (2.07%) AWS Certification
15 134 (1.68%) DV Cleared
16 126 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
17 125 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
18 120 (1.50%) A+ Certification
19 102 (1.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 102 (1.28%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 530 (6.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 488 (6.12%) NIST
3 286 (3.58%) GDPR
4 251 (3.15%) GRC
5 246 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 134 (1.68%) PCI DSS
7 121 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 103 (1.29%) NCSC
8 103 (1.29%) QA
9 52 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 44 (0.55%) NIST 800
11 43 (0.54%) SLA
12 36 (0.45%) Accessibility
13 35 (0.44%) COBIT
14 27 (0.34%) JSP 440
15 26 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
16 23 (0.29%) Data Quality
17 19 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 17 (0.21%) HIPAA
19 16 (0.20%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 339 (4.25%) Active Directory
2 83 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (0.81%) Hyper-V
4 54 (0.68%) Docker
5 42 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.31%) vSphere
7 12 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.14%) IAG
8 11 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.11%) Firmware
10 8 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 6 (0.075%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.025%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.013%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.013%) KVM
Systems Management
1 161 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 79 (0.99%) Terraform
3 73 (0.92%) Kubernetes
4 35 (0.44%) Ansible
5 34 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
6 28 (0.35%) Grafana
7 19 (0.24%) SCCM
8 16 (0.20%) QRadar
9 15 (0.19%) CASB
9 15 (0.19%) Prometheus
10 11 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (0.13%) CSIRT
11 10 (0.13%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.11%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 7 (0.088%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.088%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.088%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.088%) VxRail
14 5 (0.063%) Argo
Vendors
1 2,613 (32.75%) Microsoft
2 1,646 (20.63%) ForeScout
3 122 (1.53%) VMware
4 109 (1.37%) Cisco
4 109 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
5 86 (1.08%) Palo Alto
6 74 (0.93%) Apple
7 65 (0.81%) Splunk
8 64 (0.80%) Fortinet
9 61 (0.76%) Tenable
10 57 (0.71%) Adobe
11 53 (0.66%) Google
12 47 (0.59%) ServiceNow
13 46 (0.58%) SAP
14 44 (0.55%) Salesforce
15 33 (0.41%) Dell
16 26 (0.33%) CyberArk
16 26 (0.33%) Siemens
17 21 (0.26%) Veeam
18 18 (0.23%) Sophos