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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 34 39
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,972 2,746 3,573
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.28% 6.27% 4.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.54% 7.02% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,621 1,661 2,404
10th Percentile £30,250 £26,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.92%
75th Percentile £79,250 £75,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.98%

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 69,952 39,107 58,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.57% 89.26% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 49,460 22,554 38,208
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 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 18 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 +12 1,475 £75,000 +5.63% 459
North of England +17 1,304 £50,000 +3.09% 342
South East +11 1,079 £55,000 +10.00% 402
Midlands +20 1,027 £55,000 +21.17% 218
North West +31 639 £57,500 +9.52% 178
South West +8 593 £55,000 +14.58% 203
West Midlands +8 516 £57,500 +10.82% 119
East Midlands +38 510 £55,000 +57.14% 98
Yorkshire +12 509 £43,500 +31.82% 121
East of England +47 475 £45,000 -5.26% 121
North East +18 156 £50,000 -26.95% 47
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
1 195 (3.27%) SharePoint
2 191 (3.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (0.32%) Apache
3 19 (0.32%) IIS
4 9 (0.15%) CMS
4 9 (0.15%) Confluence
4 9 (0.15%) SAS
5 5 (0.084%) WordPress
6 4 (0.067%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.050%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.033%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.017%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 83 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.20%) Simulink
5 8 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.10%) CATIA
6 6 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.033%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.017%) Maya
9 1 (0.017%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (0.40%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.084%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.084%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.067%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.067%) SystmOne
8 3 (0.050%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 3 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.050%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.050%) Infor CloudSuite
8 3 (0.050%) Infor LN
8 3 (0.050%) Infor M3
8 3 (0.050%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.050%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.033%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.033%) Eikon
9 2 (0.033%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,010 (33.66%) Azure
2 743 (12.44%) Microsoft 365
3 467 (7.82%) AWS
4 399 (6.68%) Entra ID
5 193 (3.23%) SaaS
6 149 (2.49%) GCP
7 83 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
8 77 (1.29%) Power Platform
9 68 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
10 67 (1.12%) OneDrive
11 53 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
12 44 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
12 44 (0.74%) Serverless
13 40 (0.67%) Mimecast
14 34 (0.57%) GitHub
15 27 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
16 26 (0.44%) PaaS
17 24 (0.40%) Google Workspace
18 23 (0.39%) IaaS
19 21 (0.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 486 (8.14%) Firewall
2 241 (4.04%) Network Security
3 206 (3.45%) DNS
4 198 (3.32%) VPN
5 166 (2.78%) WAN
6 147 (2.46%) Wi-Fi
7 146 (2.44%) LAN
8 137 (2.29%) DHCP
9 135 (2.26%) TCP/IP
10 111 (1.86%) VLAN
11 93 (1.56%) Internet
12 70 (1.17%) VoIP
13 65 (1.09%) Wireless
14 47 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
15 46 (0.77%) Unified Communications
16 43 (0.72%) HTTP
17 37 (0.62%) SSL
18 33 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
19 29 (0.49%) SD-WAN
20 28 (0.47%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (0.82%) Power BI
2 44 (0.74%) SQL Server
3 14 (0.23%) Big Data
3 14 (0.23%) MongoDB
4 13 (0.22%) MySQL
4 13 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (0.18%) GIS
6 9 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (0.15%) Tableau
7 6 (0.10%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.10%) Metadata
7 6 (0.10%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.10%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.084%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.067%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.050%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.050%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (0.050%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 47 (0.79%) JIRA
2 44 (0.74%) Git
3 27 (0.45%) Snyk
4 26 (0.44%) Burp Suite
4 26 (0.44%) GitLab
5 25 (0.42%) Metasploit
6 17 (0.28%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
8 10 (0.17%) Yeoman
9 6 (0.10%) Apache Continuum
10 5 (0.084%) JMeter
10 5 (0.084%) VersionOne
11 4 (0.067%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.067%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.067%) Locust
11 4 (0.067%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.067%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.050%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.050%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.033%) Zephyr
General
1 2,254 (37.74%) Social Skills
2 562 (9.41%) Finance
3 443 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
4 328 (5.49%) Public Sector
5 321 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 179 (3.00%) Law
6 179 (3.00%) Marketing
7 172 (2.88%) Retail
8 169 (2.83%) Legal
9 165 (2.76%) Telecoms
10 142 (2.38%) Manufacturing
11 128 (2.14%) Banking
12 126 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
13 110 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
14 98 (1.64%) Aerospace
15 60 (1.00%) Local Government
16 55 (0.92%) Advertising
17 46 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
18 35 (0.59%) Multimedia
19 32 (0.54%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,053 (17.63%) Analyst
2 865 (14.48%) Security Analyst
3 766 (12.83%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 643 (10.77%) Senior
5 600 (10.05%) Junior
6 564 (9.44%) Ethical Hacker
7 531 (8.89%) Junior Analyst
8 521 (8.72%) Junior Security Analyst
9 489 (8.19%) Consultant
10 368 (6.16%) Architect
11 357 (5.98%) Lead
12 310 (5.19%) Security Consultant
13 283 (4.74%) Security Manager
14 278 (4.66%) IT Support
15 262 (4.39%) IT Manager
16 254 (4.25%) Security Architect
17 240 (4.02%) Security Engineer
18 208 (3.48%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 200 (3.35%) IT Engineer
20 197 (3.30%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (0.80%) SAML
2 44 (0.74%) LDAP
3 43 (0.72%) OAuth
4 37 (0.62%) OpenID
4 37 (0.62%) REST
5 30 (0.50%) HTML
6 23 (0.39%) CSS
6 23 (0.39%) React
7 22 (0.37%) .NET
8 20 (0.33%) Kafka
9 19 (0.32%) JSON
9 19 (0.32%) Node.js
10 16 (0.27%) SailPoint
11 15 (0.25%) FastAPI
11 15 (0.25%) RESTful
11 15 (0.25%) XML
12 12 (0.20%) AngularJS
12 12 (0.20%) XMPP
13 11 (0.18%) Middleware
14 10 (0.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 661 (11.07%) Cyberattack
2 342 (5.73%) Security Posture
3 258 (4.32%) Cyber Threat
4 235 (3.94%) Management Information System
5 233 (3.90%) Onboarding
6 163 (2.73%) Driving Licence
7 160 (2.68%) Security Operations Centre
8 138 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
9 125 (2.09%) Operational Technology
10 106 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
11 97 (1.62%) Cloud Native
12 92 (1.54%) Data Centre
13 63 (1.05%) PKI
14 59 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
15 47 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
16 45 (0.75%) Cyber Security Posture
17 38 (0.64%) CSOC
18 35 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
18 35 (0.59%) Blog
19 30 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 573 (9.59%) Windows
2 278 (4.66%) Windows Server
3 211 (3.53%) Linux
4 71 (1.19%) Mac OS
5 33 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (0.45%) Windows 10
7 26 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 26 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 21 (0.35%) Android
10 15 (0.25%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.10%) CentOS
12 4 (0.067%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.050%) Unix
13 3 (0.050%) VMS
14 2 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.033%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.033%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.017%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 940 (15.74%) Mentoring
2 679 (11.37%) Problem-Solving
3 645 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
4 595 (9.96%) Ethical Hacking
5 546 (9.14%) Information Security
6 518 (8.67%) Incident Response
7 500 (8.37%) Risk Management
8 498 (8.34%) AI
9 473 (7.92%) Security Operations
10 449 (7.52%) SIEM
11 424 (7.10%) Vulnerability Management
12 415 (6.95%) Cloud Security
13 373 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
14 367 (6.15%) Stakeholder Management
15 349 (5.84%) Decision-Making
16 301 (5.04%) Roadmaps
17 291 (4.87%) Service Delivery
18 281 (4.71%) Agile
19 279 (4.67%) Data Protection
20 267 (4.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 319 (5.34%) Python
2 238 (3.99%) PowerShell
3 93 (1.56%) SQL
4 73 (1.22%) C++
5 68 (1.14%) JavaScript
6 60 (1.00%) Bash
7 45 (0.75%) Java
8 43 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
9 31 (0.52%) C#
9 31 (0.52%) Rust
10 23 (0.39%) Go
11 22 (0.37%) TypeScript
12 20 (0.33%) C
13 16 (0.27%) MATLAB
13 16 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
14 12 (0.20%) Perl
15 8 (0.13%) Embedded C
16 5 (0.084%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.067%) Ada
17 4 (0.067%) R
Qualifications
1 1,160 (19.42%) Azure Certification
2 679 (11.37%) CompTIA Security+
3 663 (11.10%) Security Cleared
4 654 (10.95%) CEH
5 558 (9.34%) CompTIA CySA+
6 497 (8.32%) Degree
7 457 (7.65%) CISSP
8 452 (7.57%) SC Cleared
9 293 (4.91%) CISM
10 219 (3.67%) DV Cleared
11 164 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
12 108 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 100 (1.67%) CRISC
14 92 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 88 (1.47%) CISA
16 83 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
17 80 (1.34%) AWS Certification
18 74 (1.24%) CREST Certified
18 74 (1.24%) Master's Degree
19 67 (1.12%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 630 (10.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 516 (8.64%) NIST
3 328 (5.49%) GDPR
4 301 (5.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 290 (4.86%) GRC
6 142 (2.38%) PCI DSS
7 139 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 106 (1.77%) QA
9 91 (1.52%) NCSC
10 62 (1.04%) SOC 2
11 44 (0.74%) Accessibility
12 41 (0.69%) NIST 800
12 41 (0.69%) SLA
13 39 (0.65%) COBIT
14 37 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 32 (0.54%) JSP 440
16 29 (0.49%) Data Quality
17 22 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 21 (0.35%) ISO 22301
19 20 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 441 (7.38%) Active Directory
2 152 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 118 (1.98%) Hyper-V
4 54 (0.90%) Docker
4 54 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.55%) Firmware
6 28 (0.47%) vSphere
7 15 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
8 14 (0.23%) IAG
8 14 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 11 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.084%) ClearTrust
13 3 (0.050%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.050%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.050%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.033%) ProxySG
15 1 (0.017%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 234 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 82 (1.37%) Terraform
3 80 (1.34%) Kubernetes
4 48 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
5 44 (0.74%) Ansible
6 27 (0.45%) Grafana
7 22 (0.37%) FortiGate
7 22 (0.37%) Nmap
7 22 (0.37%) QRadar
8 21 (0.35%) Nessus
9 18 (0.30%) SCCM
10 17 (0.28%) CASB
11 15 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
12 14 (0.23%) Prometheus
13 9 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
13 9 (0.15%) Kibana
14 8 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
15 7 (0.12%) Functional Safety
15 7 (0.12%) Graylog
16 6 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,284 (38.25%) Microsoft
2 1,081 (18.10%) ForeScout
3 209 (3.50%) Cisco
4 196 (3.28%) VMware
5 166 (2.78%) Palo Alto
6 117 (1.96%) Splunk
7 101 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
8 72 (1.21%) Google
8 72 (1.21%) Qualys
9 66 (1.11%) Fortinet
9 66 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 64 (1.07%) Apple
11 61 (1.02%) Aruba
12 60 (1.00%) Tenable
13 58 (0.97%) Salesforce
14 43 (0.72%) SAP
15 40 (0.67%) Veeam
16 38 (0.64%) Adobe
17 37 (0.62%) CyberArk
18 32 (0.54%) SonicWALL