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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 38 29
Rank change year-on-year +32 -9 +19
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 9,422 2,278 4,710
As % of all permanent jobs in England 12.08% 6.08% 5.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.03% 6.54% 6.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,718 1,543 3,530
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £35,903
25th Percentile £35,237 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 58,792 34,849 70,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.40% 92.99% 85.78%
Number of salaries quoted 37,008 20,692 53,458
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +43 2,946 £43,500 -15.96% 545
North West +39 2,035 £45,000 -18.18% 377
Midlands +28 1,895 £45,000 -17.62% 185
London +24 1,642 £70,539 -3.87% 513
South East +34 1,508 £49,536 -9.94% 355
West Midlands +27 1,393 £45,000 -25.62% 87
Yorkshire +36 759 £40,000 -11.11% 126
East of England +43 754 £40,000 -15.79% 129
South West +27 627 £59,250 +31.67% 141
East Midlands +29 513 £50,000 +35.13% 97
North East +32 152 £40,000 +5.44% 45
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
1 118 (1.25%) SharePoint
2 85 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.12%) CMS
4 9 (0.096%) WordPress
5 6 (0.064%) Apache
5 6 (0.064%) nginx
6 5 (0.053%) Confluence
6 5 (0.053%) Drupal
7 4 (0.042%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.042%) IIS
8 3 (0.032%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.021%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.021%) SAS
10 1 (0.011%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 85 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.27%) Simulink
5 18 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.15%) Maya
7 8 (0.085%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.053%) CATIA
8 5 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.042%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.021%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.021%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 28 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
3 12 (0.13%) Cloudability
4 5 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.042%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.042%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.042%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.042%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.042%) Shopify
5 4 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.032%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 3 (0.032%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.021%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.021%) Yoast SEO
8 1 (0.011%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.011%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.011%) SAP CX
8 1 (0.011%) SAP FS
8 1 (0.011%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.011%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 4,045 (42.93%) Cloud Computing
2 2,612 (27.72%) Azure
3 552 (5.86%) AWS
4 480 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
5 291 (3.09%) Entra ID
6 177 (1.88%) GitHub
7 120 (1.27%) SaaS
8 102 (1.08%) GCP
9 71 (0.75%) Power Platform
10 62 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
11 58 (0.62%) Azure Sentinel
12 38 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
12 38 (0.40%) PaaS
13 37 (0.39%) Google Workspace
14 31 (0.33%) Nutanix
15 30 (0.32%) Mimecast
16 29 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
17 28 (0.30%) IaaS
18 26 (0.28%) Serverless
19 23 (0.24%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4,190 (44.47%) Internet
2 331 (3.51%) Firewall
3 145 (1.54%) Network Security
4 122 (1.29%) VPN
5 103 (1.09%) DNS
6 80 (0.85%) DHCP
7 77 (0.82%) WAN
8 70 (0.74%) LAN
9 69 (0.73%) VLAN
10 65 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (0.55%) TCP/IP
12 41 (0.44%) Broadband
13 31 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
13 31 (0.33%) VoIP
14 28 (0.30%) Wireless
15 25 (0.27%) CHAP
16 22 (0.23%) Unified Communications
17 20 (0.21%) SD-WAN
18 14 (0.15%) Cisco ASA
18 14 (0.15%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (0.44%) Power BI
2 24 (0.25%) Big Data
2 24 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (0.23%) SQL Server
4 20 (0.21%) Neo4j
4 20 (0.21%) Tableau
5 13 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (0.085%) MySQL
8 7 (0.074%) Metadata
9 6 (0.064%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.064%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.053%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.053%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.042%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.042%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.042%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.021%) Apache Hive
12 2 (0.021%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.021%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 177 (1.88%) Git
2 30 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
3 27 (0.29%) GitLab
4 23 (0.24%) JIRA
5 13 (0.14%) Snyk
6 12 (0.13%) Cucumber
6 12 (0.13%) Jenkins
7 8 (0.085%) JMeter
7 8 (0.085%) Locust
8 5 (0.053%) Apache Continuum
8 5 (0.053%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.053%) Metasploit
9 4 (0.042%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.042%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.042%) MLflow
9 4 (0.042%) VersionOne
10 1 (0.011%) GDB
10 1 (0.011%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.011%) WinDbg
10 1 (0.011%) Yeoman
General
1 6,579 (69.83%) Social Skills
2 4,267 (45.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,169 (44.25%) Banking
4 556 (5.90%) Finance
5 367 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
6 318 (3.38%) Multimedia
7 198 (2.10%) Public Sector
8 162 (1.72%) Retail
9 156 (1.66%) Marketing
10 150 (1.59%) Law
11 149 (1.58%) Legal
12 128 (1.36%) Telecoms
13 113 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
14 94 (1.00%) Manufacturing
15 72 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
16 58 (0.62%) Local Government
17 48 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
18 39 (0.41%) Electronics
18 39 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
19 38 (0.40%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3,141 (33.34%) Lecturer
2 1,343 (14.25%) Analyst
3 1,199 (12.73%) Security Analyst
4 1,120 (11.89%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1,021 (10.84%) Junior
6 990 (10.51%) Junior Analyst
7 989 (10.50%) Junior Security Analyst
8 705 (7.48%) Ethical Hacker
9 459 (4.87%) Senior
10 334 (3.54%) Trainee
11 276 (2.93%) Consultant
12 267 (2.83%) Architect
13 239 (2.54%) Lead
14 211 (2.24%) Security Manager
15 210 (2.23%) IT Support
16 181 (1.92%) Security Engineer
17 177 (1.88%) Security Architect
18 166 (1.76%) Security Consultant
19 154 (1.63%) Developer
20 152 (1.61%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (1.94%) HTML
2 182 (1.93%) CSS
3 49 (0.52%) REST
4 43 (0.46%) OAuth
4 43 (0.46%) SAML
5 41 (0.44%) OpenID
6 39 (0.41%) LDAP
7 38 (0.40%) React
8 31 (0.33%) SOAP
9 26 (0.28%) GraphQL
10 19 (0.20%) AngularJS
11 17 (0.18%) MERN Stack
12 15 (0.16%) RESTful
13 14 (0.15%) SailPoint
13 14 (0.15%) SAP CAF
14 12 (0.13%) FastAPI
15 11 (0.12%) Middleware
16 10 (0.11%) Kafka
16 10 (0.11%) Node.js
16 10 (0.11%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4,037 (42.85%) IoT
2 791 (8.40%) Cyberattack
3 243 (2.58%) Security Posture
4 187 (1.98%) Management Information System
5 137 (1.45%) Onboarding
6 132 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
7 102 (1.08%) Driving Licence
8 94 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
9 85 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
10 78 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
11 77 (0.82%) Data Centre
12 73 (0.77%) Operational Technology
13 63 (0.67%) Cloud Native
14 62 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
15 57 (0.60%) Blog
16 48 (0.51%) PKI
17 44 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
18 43 (0.46%) Cyber Security Posture
19 35 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
20 33 (0.35%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 379 (4.02%) Windows
2 174 (1.85%) Windows Server
3 138 (1.46%) Linux
4 65 (0.69%) Windows 10
5 43 (0.46%) Mac OS
6 29 (0.31%) Android
7 21 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (0.085%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.074%) Unix
12 6 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.042%) CentOS
13 4 (0.042%) VMS
14 1 (0.011%) Debian
14 1 (0.011%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.011%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.011%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.011%) Solaris
14 1 (0.011%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,271 (45.33%) AI
2 4,047 (42.95%) Machine Learning
3 4,046 (42.94%) User Experience
4 4,025 (42.72%) Web Development
5 1,605 (17.03%) Mentoring
6 863 (9.16%) Ethical Hacking
7 465 (4.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 440 (4.67%) Problem-Solving
9 414 (4.39%) Information Security
10 395 (4.19%) Incident Response
11 386 (4.10%) Risk Management
12 270 (2.87%) SIEM
13 265 (2.81%) Agile
14 259 (2.75%) Cloud Security
15 235 (2.49%) Security Operations
16 216 (2.29%) Data Protection
17 209 (2.22%) Roadmaps
18 207 (2.20%) ITIL
19 203 (2.15%) Disaster Recovery
20 198 (2.10%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 422 (4.48%) Python
2 234 (2.48%) JavaScript
3 219 (2.32%) PowerShell
4 111 (1.18%) SQL
5 86 (0.91%) R
6 74 (0.79%) Bash
7 45 (0.48%) Java
8 38 (0.40%) C++
9 33 (0.35%) TypeScript
10 29 (0.31%) MATLAB
11 25 (0.27%) T-SQL
12 24 (0.25%) C#
13 23 (0.24%) C
14 14 (0.15%) Go
15 11 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (0.11%) Rust
17 6 (0.064%) PHP
18 4 (0.042%) Bicep
18 4 (0.042%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.042%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4,435 (47.07%) Degree
2 4,068 (43.18%) Master's Degree
3 4,000 (42.45%) PhD
4 3,998 (42.43%) Postgraduate
5 1,894 (20.10%) Azure Certification
6 1,210 (12.84%) CompTIA Security+
7 1,036 (11.00%) CompTIA CySA+
8 911 (9.67%) CEH
9 395 (4.19%) CISSP
10 378 (4.01%) Security Cleared
11 259 (2.75%) CISM
12 255 (2.71%) SC Cleared
13 239 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
14 225 (2.39%) AWS Certification
15 173 (1.84%) Network+ Certification
16 171 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 167 (1.77%) A+ Certification
18 121 (1.28%) DV Cleared
19 108 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
20 107 (1.14%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 514 (5.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 485 (5.15%) NIST
3 297 (3.15%) GDPR
4 233 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 222 (2.36%) GRC
6 129 (1.37%) PCI DSS
7 125 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 105 (1.11%) NCSC
9 95 (1.01%) QA
10 57 (0.60%) SOC 2
11 43 (0.46%) COBIT
11 43 (0.46%) NIST 800
11 43 (0.46%) SLA
12 37 (0.39%) Accessibility
13 23 (0.24%) Data Quality
13 23 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 21 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
14 21 (0.22%) JSP 440
15 17 (0.18%) HIPAA
15 17 (0.18%) SOC 3
System Software
1 310 (3.29%) Active Directory
2 77 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (0.66%) Docker
4 54 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 40 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.24%) vSphere
7 10 (0.11%) Firmware
7 10 (0.11%) IAG
8 9 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.064%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.064%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.021%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.021%) GPFS
11 2 (0.021%) Lustre
12 1 (0.011%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.011%) iptables
12 1 (0.011%) KVM
Systems Management
1 147 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 75 (0.80%) Terraform
3 71 (0.75%) Kubernetes
4 39 (0.41%) Ansible
5 29 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (0.27%) Grafana
7 14 (0.15%) CASB
8 13 (0.14%) SCCM
9 12 (0.13%) CSIRT
9 12 (0.13%) QRadar
10 10 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.11%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (0.096%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.085%) Cisco CUCM
12 8 (0.085%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 7 (0.074%) Nessus
13 7 (0.074%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.074%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.074%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,639 (28.01%) Microsoft
2 1,693 (17.97%) ForeScout
3 121 (1.28%) VMware
4 104 (1.10%) Cisco
5 96 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
6 81 (0.86%) Palo Alto
7 66 (0.70%) Apple
8 64 (0.68%) Fortinet
9 52 (0.55%) Google
9 52 (0.55%) Splunk
10 47 (0.50%) SAP
11 45 (0.48%) Adobe
12 43 (0.46%) ServiceNow
12 43 (0.46%) Tenable
13 41 (0.44%) Salesforce
14 32 (0.34%) Dell
15 29 (0.31%) CyberArk
16 28 (0.30%) Siemens
17 22 (0.23%) Oracle
18 20 (0.21%) Veeam