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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 32 36
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,774 2,690 3,495
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.59% 6.24% 5.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.62% 7.03% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,829 1,581 1,852
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,875 £36,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,750 £95,000 £97,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -7.69%

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 75,808 38,286 56,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.42% 88.78% 82.02%
Number of salaries quoted 53,559 21,944 31,035
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,215 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,560
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -4.07%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +7 1,522 £80,000 +14.29% 2,186
North of England +17 1,151 £51,500 +7.09% 760
South East +10 1,046 £55,000 +10.00% 871
Midlands +18 1,008 £55,000 +21.69% 469
North West +30 607 £59,250 +19.10% 422
South West 0 576 £55,000 +10.00% 436
West Midlands +5 516 £55,000 +10.00% 300
East Midlands +37 492 £56,250 +50.00% 169
East of England +45 445 £45,000 - 269
Yorkshire +9 410 £42,500 +10.39% 240
North East 0 134 £50,000 -24.53% 103
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
1 244 (4.23%) SharePoint
2 233 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (0.47%) IIS
4 21 (0.36%) Apache
5 11 (0.19%) Confluence
6 9 (0.16%) SAS
7 6 (0.10%) CMS
8 5 (0.087%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.087%) WordPress
9 3 (0.052%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.035%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.017%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 92 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 66 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.31%) Simulink
5 12 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.087%) CATIA
8 4 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.035%) SmartSuite
10 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.017%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.017%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (0.42%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.087%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.087%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.069%) Infor CloudSuite
7 4 (0.069%) Infor M3
7 4 (0.069%) SystmOne
8 3 (0.052%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.052%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.052%) Infor LN
8 3 (0.052%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.052%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.035%) Eikon
9 2 (0.035%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.017%) Odoo
10 1 (0.017%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,470 (25.46%) Azure
2 842 (14.58%) Microsoft 365
3 502 (8.69%) Entra ID
4 459 (7.95%) AWS
5 203 (3.52%) SaaS
6 159 (2.75%) GCP
7 99 (1.71%) Power Platform
8 90 (1.56%) OneDrive
9 87 (1.51%) Azure Sentinel
10 85 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
11 58 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
11 58 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
11 58 (1.00%) Serverless
12 43 (0.74%) Mimecast
13 40 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
14 34 (0.59%) GitHub
14 34 (0.59%) Power Automate
15 31 (0.54%) PaaS
16 29 (0.50%) Azure Logic Apps
17 28 (0.48%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 517 (8.95%) Firewall
2 271 (4.69%) DNS
3 245 (4.24%) Network Security
4 239 (4.14%) VPN
5 196 (3.39%) DHCP
6 186 (3.22%) TCP/IP
7 182 (3.15%) WAN
8 162 (2.81%) Wi-Fi
9 159 (2.75%) LAN
10 128 (2.22%) VLAN
11 98 (1.70%) Internet
12 87 (1.51%) VoIP
12 87 (1.51%) Wireless
13 57 (0.99%) Cisco Nexus
14 48 (0.83%) SSL
15 47 (0.81%) HTTP
16 45 (0.78%) Unified Communications
17 37 (0.64%) Wireshark
18 33 (0.57%) SD-WAN
19 29 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (1.00%) Power BI
2 57 (0.99%) SQL Server
3 17 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (0.24%) Big Data
4 14 (0.24%) GIS
5 13 (0.23%) MongoDB
5 13 (0.23%) MySQL
6 12 (0.21%) Tableau
7 9 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.14%) Metadata
9 7 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (0.12%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (0.12%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.087%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.069%) Crystal Reports
11 4 (0.069%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.052%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 49 (0.85%) JIRA
2 42 (0.73%) Git
3 31 (0.54%) Burp Suite
4 29 (0.50%) Metasploit
5 27 (0.47%) Snyk
6 20 (0.35%) GitLab
6 20 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 10 (0.17%) Yeoman
8 9 (0.16%) Eclipse
9 7 (0.12%) LabVIEW
10 6 (0.10%) Rational DOORS
11 5 (0.087%) VersionOne
12 4 (0.069%) Apache Continuum
12 4 (0.069%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.069%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.069%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.052%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.052%) Maven
13 3 (0.052%) Team Foundation Server
14 2 (0.035%) XCUITest
General
1 1,794 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 599 (10.37%) Finance
3 455 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
4 390 (6.75%) Public Sector
5 337 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 201 (3.48%) Legal
7 193 (3.34%) Marketing
8 192 (3.33%) Retail
9 189 (3.27%) Law
10 185 (3.20%) Telecoms
11 182 (3.15%) Manufacturing
12 153 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
13 135 (2.34%) Aerospace
14 134 (2.32%) Banking
15 128 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
16 62 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
17 53 (0.92%) Advertising
18 51 (0.88%) Local Government
19 44 (0.76%) Aviation
20 35 (0.61%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 809 (14.01%) Analyst
2 704 (12.19%) Senior
3 585 (10.13%) Security Analyst
4 531 (9.20%) Consultant
5 494 (8.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 398 (6.89%) Lead
7 396 (6.86%) Architect
8 332 (5.75%) Security Manager
9 328 (5.68%) Junior
10 327 (5.66%) IT Support
11 316 (5.47%) Security Consultant
12 279 (4.83%) Security Engineer
13 271 (4.69%) Security Architect
14 251 (4.35%) Junior Analyst
15 246 (4.26%) IT Manager
16 242 (4.19%) IT Engineer
17 241 (4.17%) Junior Security Analyst
18 235 (4.07%) Ethical Hacker
19 232 (4.02%) Cybersecurity Manager
20 209 (3.62%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (1.51%) Terraform
2 52 (0.90%) LDAP
2 52 (0.90%) SAML
3 50 (0.87%) OAuth
4 43 (0.74%) REST
5 42 (0.73%) OpenID
6 31 (0.54%) .NET
7 23 (0.40%) JSON
8 22 (0.38%) React
9 20 (0.35%) Node.js
10 19 (0.33%) HTML
11 18 (0.31%) Kafka
12 17 (0.29%) XML
13 16 (0.28%) RESTful
13 16 (0.28%) SailPoint
14 15 (0.26%) FastAPI
14 15 (0.26%) Middleware
15 14 (0.24%) CSS
16 13 (0.23%) AngularJS
17 10 (0.17%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 363 (6.29%) Security Posture
2 333 (5.77%) Cyberattack
3 316 (5.47%) Cyber Threat
4 271 (4.69%) Onboarding
5 244 (4.23%) Management Information System
6 188 (3.26%) Driving Licence
7 174 (3.01%) Operational Technology
8 161 (2.79%) Security Operations Centre
9 142 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
10 105 (1.82%) Data Centre
11 104 (1.80%) Cyber Defence
12 103 (1.78%) Cloud Native
13 80 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
14 60 (1.04%) PKI
15 53 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
16 52 (0.90%) SCADA
17 44 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
18 42 (0.73%) Cyber Security Posture
19 38 (0.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
20 37 (0.64%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 637 (11.03%) Windows
2 306 (5.30%) Windows Server
3 231 (4.00%) Linux
4 78 (1.35%) Mac OS
5 40 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 39 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 28 (0.48%) Apple iOS
9 27 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 22 (0.38%) Android
11 14 (0.24%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.10%) Unix
12 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.087%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.069%) CentOS
14 4 (0.069%) VMS
15 2 (0.035%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.035%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.035%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.017%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 752 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
2 719 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 639 (11.07%) Mentoring
4 605 (10.48%) AI
5 572 (9.91%) Information Security
6 544 (9.42%) Incident Response
7 535 (9.27%) Security Operations
8 531 (9.20%) Risk Management
9 480 (8.31%) Stakeholder Management
10 475 (8.23%) Vulnerability Management
11 456 (7.90%) SIEM
12 424 (7.34%) Cloud Security
13 394 (6.82%) Decision-Making
14 384 (6.65%) Disaster Recovery
15 330 (5.72%) Roadmaps
16 320 (5.54%) Data Protection
17 307 (5.32%) Service Delivery
18 306 (5.30%) ITIL
19 280 (4.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 279 (4.83%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 336 (5.82%) Python
2 248 (4.30%) PowerShell
3 101 (1.75%) SQL
4 79 (1.37%) C++
5 59 (1.02%) Bash
5 59 (1.02%) JavaScript
6 57 (0.99%) Java
7 55 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
8 39 (0.68%) C#
8 39 (0.68%) Rust
9 30 (0.52%) Go
10 29 (0.50%) C
11 24 (0.42%) TypeScript
12 20 (0.35%) MATLAB
13 17 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
14 16 (0.28%) Embedded C
15 12 (0.21%) Perl
16 9 (0.16%) Bicep
17 6 (0.10%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.069%) Swift
Qualifications
1 760 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 569 (9.85%) Degree
3 557 (9.65%) Azure Certification
4 523 (9.06%) SC Cleared
5 479 (8.30%) CISSP
6 366 (6.34%) CompTIA Security+
7 311 (5.39%) CISM
8 303 (5.25%) CEH
9 278 (4.81%) CompTIA CySA+
10 235 (4.07%) DV Cleared
11 160 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
12 131 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 106 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
14 101 (1.75%) CRISC
15 95 (1.65%) Master's Degree
16 86 (1.49%) CISA
17 85 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 81 (1.40%) CREST Certified
19 75 (1.30%) AWS Certification
20 71 (1.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 681 (11.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 520 (9.01%) NIST
3 353 (6.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 329 (5.70%) GDPR
5 319 (5.52%) GRC
6 149 (2.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 139 (2.41%) PCI DSS
8 128 (2.22%) NCSC
9 98 (1.70%) QA
10 52 (0.90%) SOC 2
11 51 (0.88%) SLA
12 49 (0.85%) Accessibility
13 45 (0.78%) NIST 800
14 36 (0.62%) Data Quality
15 34 (0.59%) COBIT
16 30 (0.52%) JSP 440
16 30 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 29 (0.50%) ISO 22301
18 23 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
19 20 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 486 (8.42%) Active Directory
2 163 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 143 (2.48%) Hyper-V
4 67 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 53 (0.92%) Docker
6 40 (0.69%) Firmware
7 25 (0.43%) vSphere
8 18 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 11 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 11 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
11 9 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
12 6 (0.10%) IAG
12 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.087%) ClearTrust
14 3 (0.052%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.035%) BitLocker
15 2 (0.035%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.035%) ProxySG
16 1 (0.017%) Snort
Systems Management
1 287 (4.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 78 (1.35%) Kubernetes
3 72 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
4 46 (0.80%) Ansible
5 28 (0.48%) Grafana
6 26 (0.45%) Nmap
7 24 (0.42%) Nessus
8 23 (0.40%) QRadar
9 22 (0.38%) CASB
10 21 (0.36%) FortiGate
11 20 (0.35%) SCCM
12 16 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
13 14 (0.24%) Prometheus
14 12 (0.21%) Functional Safety
15 9 (0.16%) Kibana
16 8 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
17 7 (0.12%) Graylog
17 7 (0.12%) Progress Chef
18 6 (0.10%) Cisco CUCM
18 6 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,796 (31.10%) Microsoft
2 470 (8.14%) ForeScout
3 226 (3.91%) Cisco
4 215 (3.72%) VMware
5 171 (2.96%) Palo Alto
6 111 (1.92%) Splunk
7 97 (1.68%) CrowdStrike
8 82 (1.42%) Google
9 79 (1.37%) Qualys
10 74 (1.28%) ServiceNow
11 70 (1.21%) Aruba
12 67 (1.16%) Salesforce
13 61 (1.06%) Apple
13 61 (1.06%) Tenable
14 56 (0.97%) Fortinet
15 52 (0.90%) Veeam
16 43 (0.74%) SAP
17 42 (0.73%) Adobe
18 41 (0.71%) CyberArk
18 41 (0.71%) Meraki