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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 34 33
Rank change year-on-year +17 -1 +16
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,830 2,598 4,748
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.80% 6.31% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.23% 6.89% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,255 1,582 3,385
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £35,350
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -9.38%
75th Percentile £78,900 £75,843 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -10.08%

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 63,156 37,707 76,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.63% 91.52% 82.29%
Number of salaries quoted 44,618 21,070 54,965
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,822 £29,490
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1,375 £75,000 +3.45% 618
North of England +20 1,362 £52,500 +1.42% 376
South East +13 1,058 £50,000 -3.85% 393
Midlands +26 969 £56,700 +15.71% 207
North West +29 641 £55,000 - 226
South West +16 582 £57,500 +27.78% 181
Yorkshire +11 561 £50,000 +31.58% 105
West Midlands +16 510 £60,000 +8.11% 113
East Midlands +41 458 £55,000 +74.60% 94
East of England +66 453 £43,500 -8.42% 154
North East +26 160 £48,000 -28.56% 48
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
1 177 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 157 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (0.21%) Apache
4 11 (0.19%) CMS
5 8 (0.14%) IIS
6 5 (0.086%) Confluence
6 5 (0.086%) SAS
6 5 (0.086%) WordPress
7 4 (0.069%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.017%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 71 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.36%) Simulink
5 7 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.069%) CATIA
8 3 (0.051%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.034%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.017%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (0.41%) Cloudability
2 19 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 9 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.086%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.069%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.069%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.069%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.051%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.051%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.051%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.051%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.034%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.034%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 2 (0.034%) Shopify
9 1 (0.017%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.017%) Maximo
9 1 (0.017%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.017%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,363 (40.53%) Azure
2 659 (11.30%) Microsoft 365
3 427 (7.32%) AWS
4 377 (6.47%) Entra ID
5 159 (2.73%) SaaS
6 146 (2.50%) GCP
7 72 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
7 72 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
8 70 (1.20%) Power Platform
9 58 (0.99%) OneDrive
10 46 (0.79%) Serverless
11 41 (0.70%) GitHub
12 40 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
13 36 (0.62%) Google Workspace
14 32 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
15 30 (0.51%) Mimecast
16 29 (0.50%) Microsoft Copilot
17 26 (0.45%) PaaS
18 24 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
18 24 (0.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 463 (7.94%) Firewall
2 210 (3.60%) Network Security
3 182 (3.12%) VPN
4 176 (3.02%) DNS
5 133 (2.28%) WAN
6 122 (2.09%) LAN
7 121 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
8 118 (2.02%) DHCP
9 104 (1.78%) VLAN
10 101 (1.73%) TCP/IP
11 86 (1.48%) Internet
12 60 (1.03%) VoIP
13 46 (0.79%) Broadband
14 43 (0.74%) Wireless
15 41 (0.70%) Unified Communications
16 34 (0.58%) HTTP
17 30 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
17 30 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
17 30 (0.51%) SSL
18 21 (0.36%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (0.72%) Power BI
2 30 (0.51%) SQL Server
3 15 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (0.21%) Tableau
5 10 (0.17%) MySQL
5 10 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (0.14%) Big Data
6 8 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (0.14%) Neo4j
7 7 (0.12%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.086%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.086%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.051%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.051%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.051%) GIS
9 3 (0.051%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.034%) Flink
10 2 (0.034%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.034%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 46 (0.79%) Git
2 35 (0.60%) GitLab
3 28 (0.48%) JIRA
4 25 (0.43%) Snyk
5 22 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
6 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
6 13 (0.22%) Metasploit
7 12 (0.21%) Jenkins
8 8 (0.14%) Yeoman
9 5 (0.086%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.086%) JMeter
9 5 (0.086%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.086%) VersionOne
10 4 (0.069%) Apache Continuum
10 4 (0.069%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.069%) Locust
11 2 (0.034%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.034%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.034%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.017%) MLflow
General
1 2,438 (41.82%) Social Skills
2 515 (8.83%) Finance
3 411 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
4 272 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 261 (4.48%) Public Sector
6 173 (2.97%) Retail
7 169 (2.90%) Marketing
8 147 (2.52%) Law
9 136 (2.33%) Legal
10 135 (2.32%) Telecoms
11 128 (2.20%) Banking
12 123 (2.11%) Manufacturing
13 116 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
14 86 (1.48%) Multimedia
15 76 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
16 60 (1.03%) Aerospace
16 60 (1.03%) Local Government
17 48 (0.82%) Advertising
18 39 (0.67%) Aviation
19 34 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,247 (21.39%) Analyst
2 1,077 (18.47%) Security Analyst
3 987 (16.93%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 802 (13.76%) Junior
5 765 (13.12%) Junior Analyst
6 755 (12.95%) Junior Security Analyst
7 705 (12.09%) Ethical Hacker
8 568 (9.74%) Senior
9 377 (6.47%) Consultant
10 342 (5.87%) Architect
11 305 (5.23%) Lead
12 272 (4.67%) Security Manager
13 267 (4.58%) IT Support
14 247 (4.24%) Security Architect
15 241 (4.13%) Security Consultant
16 214 (3.67%) Security Engineer
17 210 (3.60%) IT Manager
18 185 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 184 (3.16%) IT Engineer
20 164 (2.81%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (0.99%) SAML
2 54 (0.93%) OAuth
2 54 (0.93%) REST
3 53 (0.91%) LDAP
4 48 (0.82%) OpenID
5 44 (0.75%) HTML
6 37 (0.63%) CSS
7 27 (0.46%) SOAP
8 24 (0.41%) React
9 20 (0.34%) GraphQL
10 17 (0.29%) Kafka
11 16 (0.27%) .NET
11 16 (0.27%) Middleware
11 16 (0.27%) SailPoint
12 14 (0.24%) FastAPI
13 13 (0.22%) JSON
13 13 (0.22%) Node.js
14 12 (0.21%) RESTful
15 11 (0.19%) AngularJS
15 11 (0.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 813 (13.95%) Cyberattack
2 321 (5.51%) Security Posture
3 189 (3.24%) Cyber Threat
3 189 (3.24%) Management Information System
4 172 (2.95%) Onboarding
5 152 (2.61%) Security Operations Centre
6 134 (2.30%) Driving Licence
7 124 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 101 (1.73%) Operational Technology
9 97 (1.66%) Cyber Defence
10 81 (1.39%) Cloud Native
11 76 (1.30%) Data Centre
12 58 (0.99%) PKI
13 48 (0.82%) Cyber Security Posture
14 42 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
14 42 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
15 40 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
16 38 (0.65%) Blog
17 30 (0.51%) CSOC
18 29 (0.50%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 519 (8.90%) Windows
2 263 (4.51%) Windows Server
3 177 (3.04%) Linux
4 50 (0.86%) Mac OS
5 39 (0.67%) Windows 10
6 29 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 29 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 25 (0.43%) Android
8 22 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 20 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 11 (0.19%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.10%) CentOS
11 6 (0.10%) VMS
12 5 (0.086%) Unix
13 4 (0.069%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.034%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.017%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.017%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.017%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.017%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,201 (20.60%) Mentoring
2 777 (13.33%) Ethical Hacking
3 579 (9.93%) Continuous Improvement
4 566 (9.71%) Problem-Solving
5 506 (8.68%) Incident Response
6 465 (7.98%) Information Security
7 445 (7.63%) Risk Management
8 399 (6.84%) Security Operations
9 398 (6.83%) SIEM
10 363 (6.23%) Cloud Security
11 346 (5.93%) AI
12 344 (5.90%) Vulnerability Management
13 310 (5.32%) Disaster Recovery
14 296 (5.08%) Decision-Making
15 258 (4.43%) Roadmaps
16 244 (4.19%) Stakeholder Management
17 235 (4.03%) Agile
18 233 (4.00%) Data Protection
18 233 (4.00%) Penetration Testing
19 232 (3.98%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 297 (5.09%) Python
2 258 (4.43%) PowerShell
3 106 (1.82%) SQL
4 87 (1.49%) JavaScript
5 76 (1.30%) Bash
6 57 (0.98%) C++
7 40 (0.69%) Java
8 31 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
9 26 (0.45%) C#
10 25 (0.43%) MATLAB
11 20 (0.34%) Rust
11 20 (0.34%) T-SQL
11 20 (0.34%) TypeScript
12 16 (0.27%) Go
13 13 (0.22%) C
13 13 (0.22%) Search Processing Language
14 11 (0.19%) R
15 8 (0.14%) Perl
16 7 (0.12%) PHP
17 5 (0.086%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,530 (26.24%) Azure Certification
2 918 (15.75%) CompTIA Security+
3 825 (14.15%) CEH
4 803 (13.77%) CompTIA CySA+
5 520 (8.92%) Security Cleared
6 435 (7.46%) Degree
7 430 (7.38%) CISSP
8 364 (6.24%) SC Cleared
9 273 (4.68%) CISM
10 175 (3.00%) DV Cleared
11 152 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
12 108 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
13 97 (1.66%) CISA
14 90 (1.54%) CRISC
15 89 (1.53%) Network+ Certification
16 87 (1.49%) CREST Certified
17 85 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 84 (1.44%) A+ Certification
19 72 (1.23%) AWS Certification
20 68 (1.17%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 615 (10.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 526 (9.02%) NIST
3 339 (5.81%) GDPR
4 285 (4.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 259 (4.44%) GRC
6 147 (2.52%) PCI DSS
7 135 (2.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 113 (1.94%) QA
9 105 (1.80%) NCSC
10 57 (0.98%) SOC 2
11 45 (0.77%) NIST 800
12 37 (0.63%) COBIT
13 36 (0.62%) Accessibility
14 34 (0.58%) JSP 440
14 34 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 34 (0.58%) SLA
15 31 (0.53%) Data Quality
16 29 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
17 19 (0.33%) HIPAA
18 16 (0.27%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 417 (7.15%) Active Directory
2 123 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 101 (1.73%) Hyper-V
4 51 (0.87%) Docker
5 49 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (0.48%) vSphere
7 14 (0.24%) IAG
8 11 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 8 (0.14%) Firmware
12 5 (0.086%) ClearTrust
12 5 (0.086%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.069%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.051%) VMware Server
15 1 (0.017%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.017%) Embedded Firmware
15 1 (0.017%) KVM
Systems Management
1 206 (3.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 90 (1.54%) Terraform
3 71 (1.22%) Kubernetes
4 40 (0.69%) Ansible
5 37 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.53%) Grafana
7 19 (0.33%) QRadar
7 19 (0.33%) SCCM
8 18 (0.31%) Prometheus
9 16 (0.27%) FortiGate
10 14 (0.24%) CASB
11 10 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 10 (0.17%) Nmap
12 9 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
12 9 (0.15%) Kibana
12 9 (0.15%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.14%) CSIRT
13 8 (0.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,547 (43.69%) Microsoft
2 1,458 (25.01%) ForeScout
3 172 (2.95%) VMware
4 149 (2.56%) Cisco
5 128 (2.20%) Palo Alto
6 107 (1.84%) CrowdStrike
7 92 (1.58%) Splunk
8 63 (1.08%) Tenable
9 62 (1.06%) Fortinet
10 61 (1.05%) Google
11 56 (0.96%) Qualys
11 56 (0.96%) ServiceNow
12 52 (0.89%) Apple
13 51 (0.87%) Aruba
14 50 (0.86%) Salesforce
15 36 (0.62%) Veeam
16 34 (0.58%) SAP
17 33 (0.57%) Adobe
18 30 (0.51%) Dell
19 25 (0.43%) CyberArk