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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 39 30
Rank change year-on-year +32 -9 +24
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 7,963 2,380 4,732
As % of all permanent jobs in England 9.75% 6.02% 5.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.22% 6.45% 6.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,833 1,522 3,511
10th Percentile £28,550 £26,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £39,959 £38,563 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £58,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% -1.72% -8.42%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -2.08% +0.80% -8.42%

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 60,212 36,881 71,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.70% 93.36% 84.87%
Number of salaries quoted 39,696 20,356 53,809
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 £73,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%

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 18 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 18 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 +44 2,330 £49,900 -4.95% 320
Midlands +35 1,898 £50,750 -3.33% 166
North West +47 1,497 £55,000 - 176
London +16 1,440 £70,000 -6.67% 503
West Midlands +23 1,409 £50,000 -13.04% 95
South East +30 1,130 £50,000 -9.09% 394
Yorkshire +40 686 £45,000 +5.88% 114
South West +22 585 £60,000 +33.33% 184
East of England +60 529 £40,000 -15.79% 108
East Midlands +49 500 £55,000 +53.84% 70
North East +38 147 £45,000 -30.77% 32
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
1 121 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 102 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.11%) CMS
4 6 (0.075%) Apache
4 6 (0.075%) WordPress
5 4 (0.050%) IIS
6 3 (0.038%) SAS
7 2 (0.025%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.025%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.025%) Confluence
7 2 (0.025%) Drupal
7 2 (0.025%) nginx
8 1 (0.013%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 78 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.31%) 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 10 (0.13%) 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%) SAP ERP
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 FS
9 1 (0.013%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.013%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,529 (31.76%) Azure
2 2,472 (31.04%) Cloud Computing
3 506 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
4 491 (6.17%) AWS
5 306 (3.84%) Entra ID
6 119 (1.49%) GCP
7 118 (1.48%) SaaS
8 113 (1.42%) GitHub
9 68 (0.85%) Power Platform
10 67 (0.84%) Microsoft Purview
11 66 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
12 40 (0.50%) Serverless
13 37 (0.46%) Google Workspace
14 36 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
15 31 (0.39%) OneDrive
16 30 (0.38%) Nutanix
16 30 (0.38%) PaaS
17 29 (0.36%) Mimecast
18 28 (0.35%) AWS CloudFormation
18 28 (0.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2,562 (32.17%) Internet
2 348 (4.37%) Firewall
3 159 (2.00%) Network Security
4 141 (1.77%) VPN
5 114 (1.43%) DNS
6 84 (1.05%) WAN
7 81 (1.02%) DHCP
8 73 (0.92%) LAN
9 67 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
10 66 (0.83%) VLAN
11 59 (0.74%) TCP/IP
12 45 (0.57%) Broadband
13 35 (0.44%) VoIP
14 30 (0.38%) Unified Communications
15 29 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
16 28 (0.35%) Wireless
17 22 (0.28%) CHAP
18 20 (0.25%) SD-WAN
19 19 (0.24%) SSL
20 17 (0.21%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (0.49%) Power BI
2 23 (0.29%) SQL Server
3 21 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (0.25%) Big Data
5 18 (0.23%) Tableau
6 15 (0.19%) Neo4j
7 12 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.10%) MySQL
10 5 (0.063%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.063%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.038%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.038%) Metadata
11 3 (0.038%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.038%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.025%) Apache Hive
12 2 (0.025%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.025%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.025%) Impala
12 2 (0.025%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 114 (1.43%) Git
2 35 (0.44%) GitLab
3 30 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
4 24 (0.30%) Snyk
5 16 (0.20%) JIRA
6 12 (0.15%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.088%) Cucumber
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
9 4 (0.050%) Yeoman
10 3 (0.038%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.025%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.013%) GDB
General
1 4,939 (62.02%) Social Skills
2 2,723 (34.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,573 (32.31%) Banking
4 525 (6.59%) Finance
5 397 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
6 210 (2.64%) Multimedia
6 210 (2.64%) Public Sector
7 158 (1.98%) Retail
8 154 (1.93%) Marketing
9 139 (1.75%) Law
10 119 (1.49%) Telecoms
11 116 (1.46%) Legal
12 105 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
13 94 (1.18%) Manufacturing
14 73 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
15 65 (0.82%) Local Government
16 49 (0.62%) Aerospace
17 40 (0.50%) Aviation
18 37 (0.46%) Games
19 36 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,871 (23.50%) Lecturer
2 1,335 (16.77%) Analyst
3 1,179 (14.81%) Security Analyst
4 1,105 (13.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 973 (12.22%) Junior
6 943 (11.84%) Junior Analyst
7 942 (11.83%) Junior Security Analyst
8 705 (8.85%) Ethical Hacker
9 504 (6.33%) Senior
10 318 (3.99%) Architect
11 285 (3.58%) Consultant
12 246 (3.09%) Security Manager
13 245 (3.08%) Lead
14 233 (2.93%) Trainee
15 226 (2.84%) Security Architect
16 203 (2.55%) IT Support
17 192 (2.41%) Security Engineer
18 172 (2.16%) IT Manager
19 170 (2.13%) Security Consultant
20 168 (2.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (1.48%) HTML
2 117 (1.47%) CSS
3 52 (0.65%) REST
4 46 (0.58%) SAML
5 45 (0.57%) LDAP
5 45 (0.57%) OAuth
6 44 (0.55%) OpenID
7 36 (0.45%) React
8 30 (0.38%) SOAP
9 25 (0.31%) GraphQL
10 16 (0.20%) SailPoint
11 15 (0.19%) AngularJS
11 15 (0.19%) Kafka
12 14 (0.18%) RESTful
13 13 (0.16%) FastAPI
13 13 (0.16%) Middleware
14 12 (0.15%) MERN Stack
15 11 (0.14%) Node.js
16 10 (0.13%) Tailwind CSS
17 9 (0.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2,458 (30.87%) IoT
2 801 (10.06%) Cyberattack
3 248 (3.11%) Security Posture
4 186 (2.34%) Management Information System
5 167 (2.10%) Cyber Threat
6 153 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 117 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
8 95 (1.19%) Driving Licence
9 93 (1.17%) Operational Technology
10 92 (1.16%) Cyber Defence
11 91 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
12 86 (1.08%) Data Centre
13 72 (0.90%) Cloud Native
14 57 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
15 51 (0.64%) PKI
16 46 (0.58%) Cyber Security Posture
17 45 (0.57%) Blog
18 42 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
19 35 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
20 34 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 395 (4.96%) Windows
2 187 (2.35%) Windows Server
3 149 (1.87%) Linux
4 54 (0.68%) Windows 10
5 41 (0.51%) Mac OS
6 29 (0.36%) Android
7 21 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 19 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.075%) CentOS
12 6 (0.075%) VMS
13 4 (0.050%) 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 2,734 (34.33%) AI
2 2,485 (31.21%) Machine Learning
3 2,477 (31.11%) User Experience
4 2,450 (30.77%) Web Development
5 1,480 (18.59%) Mentoring
6 818 (10.27%) Ethical Hacking
7 456 (5.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 428 (5.37%) Incident Response
8 428 (5.37%) Problem-Solving
9 415 (5.21%) Information Security
10 393 (4.94%) Risk Management
11 292 (3.67%) Security Operations
12 290 (3.64%) Cloud Security
13 287 (3.60%) SIEM
14 247 (3.10%) Agile
15 230 (2.89%) Vulnerability Management
16 227 (2.85%) Roadmaps
17 219 (2.75%) Disaster Recovery
18 217 (2.73%) Security Architecture
19 211 (2.65%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 367 (4.61%) Python
2 238 (2.99%) PowerShell
3 169 (2.12%) JavaScript
4 99 (1.24%) SQL
5 78 (0.98%) Bash
6 55 (0.69%) R
7 45 (0.57%) C++
8 40 (0.50%) Java
9 29 (0.36%) C#
9 29 (0.36%) MATLAB
10 26 (0.33%) TypeScript
11 24 (0.30%) T-SQL
12 18 (0.23%) C
12 18 (0.23%) Go
13 17 (0.21%) Rust
14 13 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.10%) Perl
16 6 (0.075%) PHP
17 3 (0.038%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.038%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 2,852 (35.82%) Degree
2 2,501 (31.41%) Master's Degree
3 2,436 (30.59%) PhD
4 2,434 (30.57%) Postgraduate
5 1,787 (22.44%) Azure Certification
6 1,126 (14.14%) CompTIA Security+
7 984 (12.36%) CompTIA CySA+
8 869 (10.91%) CEH
9 430 (5.40%) Security Cleared
10 383 (4.81%) CISSP
11 299 (3.75%) SC Cleared
12 255 (3.20%) CISM
13 175 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
14 168 (2.11%) AWS Certification
15 133 (1.67%) DV Cleared
16 132 (1.66%) Network+ Certification
17 126 (1.58%) A+ Certification
18 124 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
19 106 (1.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
20 105 (1.32%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 523 (6.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 488 (6.13%) NIST
3 283 (3.55%) GDPR
4 247 (3.10%) GRC
5 238 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
6 132 (1.66%) PCI DSS
7 118 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 98 (1.23%) NCSC
8 98 (1.23%) QA
9 52 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 43 (0.54%) NIST 800
11 39 (0.49%) COBIT
11 39 (0.49%) SLA
12 36 (0.45%) Accessibility
13 25 (0.31%) JSP 440
14 24 (0.30%) Data Quality
15 23 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
16 18 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 17 (0.21%) HIPAA
17 17 (0.21%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 332 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 82 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (0.77%) Hyper-V
4 56 (0.70%) Docker
5 40 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.31%) vSphere
7 12 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.14%) IAG
9 10 (0.13%) Firmware
9 10 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 7 (0.088%) 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
1 152 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 78 (0.98%) Terraform
3 73 (0.92%) Kubernetes
4 34 (0.43%) Ansible
5 33 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (0.34%) Grafana
7 19 (0.24%) SCCM
8 15 (0.19%) CASB
8 15 (0.19%) QRadar
9 14 (0.18%) Prometheus
10 11 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 11 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 10 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 9 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.11%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 7 (0.088%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.088%) Nessus
13 7 (0.088%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.088%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.088%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,602 (32.68%) Microsoft
2 1,646 (20.67%) ForeScout
3 122 (1.53%) VMware
4 107 (1.34%) Cisco
5 106 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
6 85 (1.07%) Palo Alto
7 74 (0.93%) Apple
8 64 (0.80%) Fortinet
9 59 (0.74%) Splunk
10 58 (0.73%) Tenable
11 57 (0.72%) Adobe
12 52 (0.65%) Google
13 46 (0.58%) SAP
14 44 (0.55%) ServiceNow
15 43 (0.54%) Salesforce
16 33 (0.41%) Dell
17 28 (0.35%) Siemens
18 26 (0.33%) CyberArk
19 20 (0.25%) Veeam
20 18 (0.23%) Meraki