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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 40 44
Rank change year-on-year +29 +4 +10
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 4,389 3,096 2,586
As % of all permanent jobs in England 9.36% 5.17% 5.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.03% 6.05% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,893 1,600 2,033
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £31,375 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £74,000 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,290
UK median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -3.85%

All Process and 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 39,784 51,149 42,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.80% 85.43% 93.67%
Number of salaries quoted 24,863 26,668 32,820
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +37 1,137 £35,000 -36.36% 308
London +17 1,125 £68,942 -4.91% 436
South East +22 896 £49,000 -14.78% 463
North West +35 814 £42,500 -22.73% 191
Midlands +15 424 £49,375 -14.13% 245
East of England +44 413 £34,500 -27.37% 114
South West +29 363 £50,000 -23.08% 170
Yorkshire +19 268 £30,500 -46.61% 89
West Midlands +14 250 £52,500 -12.50% 173
East Midlands +30 171 £37,500 -21.05% 72
North East +33 55 £30,500 -36.00% 32
South Coast - 1 £59,000 -
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
1 122 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 77 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (0.46%) CMS
4 19 (0.43%) Confluence
5 16 (0.36%) IIS
6 11 (0.25%) WordPress
7 8 (0.18%) Apache
7 8 (0.18%) nginx
8 6 (0.14%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.14%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.091%) Drupal
10 4 (0.091%) FactoryTalk
10 4 (0.091%) WinCC
11 3 (0.068%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.068%) Oracle Coherence
11 3 (0.068%) Traefik
12 2 (0.046%) ArchestrA
13 1 (0.023%) FileNet
Applications
1 112 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (1.34%) Maya
3 40 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 29 (0.66%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.23%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.068%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.068%) CINEMA 4D
9 3 (0.068%) Sketch
9 3 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.046%) Simulink
11 1 (0.023%) Civil 3D
11 1 (0.023%) GNU Octave
11 1 (0.023%) Revit
Business Applications
1 32 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.43%) SAP IBP
4 13 (0.30%) SAP CO
4 13 (0.30%) SAP FI
4 13 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
4 13 (0.30%) SAP FSCM
5 11 (0.25%) SAP IS-U
6 9 (0.21%) SAP FS
7 7 (0.16%) Shopify
8 6 (0.14%) Exchequer
8 6 (0.14%) Sage 200
9 5 (0.11%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.091%) Endur
10 4 (0.091%) Magento
10 4 (0.091%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.091%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.068%) SAP CX
11 3 (0.068%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 1,636 (37.28%) Cloud Computing
2 825 (18.80%) Azure
3 426 (9.71%) AWS
4 418 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
5 172 (3.92%) Entra ID
6 147 (3.35%) GitHub
7 95 (2.16%) SaaS
8 84 (1.91%) Power Platform
9 76 (1.73%) GCP
10 68 (1.55%) PaaS
11 52 (1.18%) IaaS
12 49 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
13 39 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
14 38 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
15 37 (0.84%) Serverless
16 27 (0.62%) OneDrive
17 21 (0.48%) Power Automate
18 19 (0.43%) Nutanix
19 17 (0.39%) OCI
20 16 (0.36%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1,718 (39.14%) Internet
2 258 (5.88%) Firewall
3 145 (3.30%) Network Security
4 138 (3.14%) VPN
5 124 (2.83%) TCP/IP
6 109 (2.48%) DNS
7 90 (2.05%) DHCP
8 83 (1.89%) WAN
9 78 (1.78%) LAN
10 76 (1.73%) VoIP
11 63 (1.44%) VLAN
12 62 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
13 46 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
14 36 (0.82%) Modbus
15 32 (0.73%) Wireless
16 30 (0.68%) SD-WAN
17 26 (0.59%) SAN
18 14 (0.32%) NAS
18 14 (0.32%) Unified Communications
19 13 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (1.64%) SQL Server
2 57 (1.30%) Power BI
3 37 (0.84%) Tableau
4 33 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (0.62%) Relational Database
6 21 (0.48%) SAP BW
7 18 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (0.39%) Data Lake
9 15 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (0.32%) Metadata
11 12 (0.27%) Big Data
12 11 (0.25%) MySQL
12 11 (0.25%) Oracle Database
13 10 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (0.21%) Neo4j
15 8 (0.18%) NoSQL
15 8 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (0.16%) MS Access
17 6 (0.14%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 152 (3.46%) Git
2 37 (0.84%) JIRA
3 17 (0.39%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.21%) GitLab
5 8 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
6 6 (0.14%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.091%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.091%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.091%) JMeter
7 4 (0.091%) Locust
7 4 (0.091%) Toad
8 3 (0.068%) git-flow
8 3 (0.068%) Metasploit
8 3 (0.068%) Snyk
8 3 (0.068%) Spinnaker
9 2 (0.046%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.023%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.023%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.023%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.023%) SonarQube
General
1 2,697 (61.45%) Social Skills
2 1,733 (39.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,723 (39.26%) Banking
4 566 (12.90%) Finance
5 409 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
6 226 (5.15%) Marketing
7 216 (4.92%) Multimedia
7 216 (4.92%) Telecoms
8 204 (4.65%) Law
9 198 (4.51%) Public Sector
10 154 (3.51%) Legal
11 146 (3.33%) Manufacturing
12 104 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
13 91 (2.07%) Games
14 84 (1.91%) Electronics
14 84 (1.91%) Retail
15 72 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
16 49 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
17 48 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
18 30 (0.68%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 1,282 (29.21%) Lecturer
2 350 (7.97%) Analyst
3 312 (7.11%) Senior
4 232 (5.29%) Lead
5 217 (4.94%) Trainee
6 207 (4.72%) IT Support
6 207 (4.72%) Security Analyst
7 202 (4.60%) Consultant
8 170 (3.87%) Architect
9 153 (3.49%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 148 (3.37%) Support Engineer
11 132 (3.01%) IT Manager
12 130 (2.96%) Security Engineer
13 124 (2.83%) Security Consultant
14 121 (2.76%) Junior
15 102 (2.32%) Developer
16 98 (2.23%) Junior Analyst
17 95 (2.16%) Junior Security Analyst
18 86 (1.96%) Security Manager
19 82 (1.87%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (3.53%) HTML
2 152 (3.46%) CSS
3 36 (0.82%) React
4 28 (0.64%) .NET
5 25 (0.57%) REST
6 24 (0.55%) AngularJS
6 24 (0.55%) YAML
7 22 (0.50%) SAP CAF
8 16 (0.36%) RESTful
9 14 (0.32%) Vue
9 14 (0.32%) Web Services
10 12 (0.27%) Kafka
10 12 (0.27%) Middleware
11 11 (0.25%) EDI
12 10 (0.23%) Pandas
13 9 (0.21%) MERN Stack
13 9 (0.21%) PyTorch
13 9 (0.21%) TensorFlow
13 9 (0.21%) XML
14 7 (0.16%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1,643 (37.43%) IoT
2 192 (4.37%) Management Information System
3 165 (3.76%) Security Posture
4 146 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 116 (2.64%) Cyber Threat
6 108 (2.46%) Driving Licence
7 107 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
8 92 (2.10%) Data Centre
9 90 (2.05%) Onboarding
10 89 (2.03%) Operational Technology
11 71 (1.62%) Cloud Native
12 66 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
13 64 (1.46%) Security Operations Centre
14 49 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
15 47 (1.07%) Cyberattack
16 40 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
17 37 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
17 37 (0.84%) SCADA
18 33 (0.75%) CCTV
19 32 (0.73%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 414 (9.43%) Windows
2 173 (3.94%) Windows Server
3 147 (3.35%) Linux
4 75 (1.71%) Windows 10
5 74 (1.69%) Mac OS
6 23 (0.52%) Unix
7 21 (0.48%) Android
8 20 (0.46%) Apple iOS
9 13 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (0.25%) VMS
11 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.16%) Debian
12 7 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.11%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.068%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.046%) Check Point GAiA
15 2 (0.046%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.046%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.023%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,823 (41.54%) AI
2 1,650 (37.59%) Machine Learning
3 1,616 (36.82%) User Experience
4 1,593 (36.30%) Web Development
5 568 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
6 563 (12.83%) Mentoring
7 370 (8.43%) Risk Management
8 334 (7.61%) Information Security
9 299 (6.81%) Incident Response
10 293 (6.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 270 (6.15%) Agile
12 241 (5.49%) ITIL
13 229 (5.22%) Project Management
14 208 (4.74%) Analytics
15 205 (4.67%) Computer Science
16 194 (4.42%) Vulnerability Management
17 191 (4.35%) Decision-Making
18 188 (4.28%) SIEM
19 185 (4.22%) Roadmaps
20 179 (4.08%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 294 (6.70%) Python
2 174 (3.96%) JavaScript
3 135 (3.08%) PowerShell
4 116 (2.64%) SQL
5 67 (1.53%) R
6 40 (0.91%) Bash
6 40 (0.91%) Java
7 31 (0.71%) C#
8 20 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
9 16 (0.36%) Bicep
10 13 (0.30%) TypeScript
11 11 (0.25%) C++
12 10 (0.23%) C
12 10 (0.23%) Go
13 8 (0.18%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.18%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.16%) Scala
15 6 (0.14%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.091%) Perl
16 4 (0.091%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 2,134 (48.62%) Degree
2 1,648 (37.55%) Master's Degree
3 1,583 (36.07%) PhD
4 1,576 (35.91%) Postgraduate
5 359 (8.18%) CISSP
6 275 (6.27%) Security Cleared
7 268 (6.11%) Azure Certification
8 262 (5.97%) CompTIA Security+
9 238 (5.42%) CISM
10 209 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 183 (4.17%) SC Cleared
12 168 (3.83%) AWS Certification
13 164 (3.74%) CEH
14 133 (3.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 110 (2.51%) CompTIA CySA+
16 101 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
17 99 (2.26%) Network+ Certification
18 96 (2.19%) A+ Certification
19 95 (2.16%) CISA
20 83 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 449 (10.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 398 (9.07%) NIST
3 244 (5.56%) GDPR
4 202 (4.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 144 (3.28%) GRC
6 88 (2.01%) NCSC
6 88 (2.01%) PCI DSS
7 82 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 71 (1.62%) QA
9 50 (1.14%) NIST 800
10 45 (1.03%) SLA
11 40 (0.91%) SOC 2
12 39 (0.89%) COBIT
13 34 (0.77%) JSP 440
14 25 (0.57%) PMO
15 22 (0.50%) Data Quality
15 22 (0.50%) ISO 9001
15 22 (0.50%) RMADS
16 18 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 17 (0.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 271 (6.17%) Active Directory
2 103 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (1.55%) Hyper-V
4 48 (1.09%) Docker
5 38 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (0.36%) vSphere
8 8 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.14%) BitLocker
10 5 (0.11%) Kamailio
11 4 (0.091%) Firmware
12 3 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.046%) GPFS
13 2 (0.046%) Lustre
14 1 (0.023%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.023%) iptables
14 1 (0.023%) Terminal Server
14 1 (0.023%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 163 (3.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 54 (1.23%) Terraform
3 46 (1.05%) Kubernetes
4 31 (0.71%) Ansible
5 24 (0.55%) SCCM
6 17 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
6 17 (0.39%) RSA Archer
7 16 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.34%) Functional Safety
8 15 (0.34%) Nessus
9 14 (0.32%) QRadar
10 11 (0.25%) CASB
10 11 (0.25%) CSIRT
10 11 (0.25%) PaperCut
11 9 (0.21%) Grafana
12 7 (0.16%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 7 (0.16%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.16%) Nagios
13 6 (0.14%) Autotask
13 6 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 961 (21.90%) Microsoft
2 145 (3.30%) VMware
3 142 (3.24%) SAP
4 94 (2.14%) Cisco
4 94 (2.14%) ForeScout
5 85 (1.94%) Palo Alto
6 73 (1.66%) Oracle
7 55 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
7 55 (1.25%) Salesforce
8 54 (1.23%) Apple
8 54 (1.23%) Fortinet
9 49 (1.12%) Adobe
10 42 (0.96%) Splunk
11 41 (0.93%) ServiceNow
12 29 (0.66%) Sophos
13 28 (0.64%) Siemens
14 25 (0.57%) Dell
14 25 (0.57%) Qualys
15 21 (0.48%) Progress
16 20 (0.46%) Rockwell