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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 32 34
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 +7
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,835 2,710 3,539
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.80% 6.28% 5.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.91% 7.07% 6.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,783 1,603 1,947
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,188 £35,643 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -5.62%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -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 73,754 38,333 56,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.28% 88.82% 81.58%
Number of salaries quoted 52,343 22,038 32,065
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 16 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 16 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 +10 1,489 £80,000 +14.29% 2,702
North of England +16 1,195 £52,000 +11.53% 846
South East +11 1,054 £55,000 +10.00% 989
Midlands +16 1,025 £55,000 +23.48% 503
North West +25 604 £59,000 +21.65% 483
South West +5 590 £55,000 +10.00% 465
West Midlands +7 522 £55,000 +10.00% 317
East Midlands +39 503 £55,000 +57.14% 186
East of England +45 457 £45,000 - 286
Yorkshire +11 450 £45,000 +20.00% 279
North East +9 141 £50,000 -24.53% 100
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
1 235 (4.03%) SharePoint
2 223 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (0.43%) IIS
4 20 (0.34%) Apache
5 10 (0.17%) Confluence
6 9 (0.15%) SAS
7 5 (0.086%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.086%) CMS
7 5 (0.086%) WordPress
8 3 (0.051%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.017%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 88 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.27%) Simulink
5 9 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.069%) CATIA
8 2 (0.034%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 24 (0.41%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.086%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.086%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.069%) SystmOne
8 3 (0.051%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 3 (0.051%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.051%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.051%) Infor CloudSuite
8 3 (0.051%) Infor LN
8 3 (0.051%) Infor M3
8 3 (0.051%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.051%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.034%) Eikon
9 2 (0.034%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.017%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 1,612 (27.63%) Azure
2 817 (14.00%) Microsoft 365
3 477 (8.17%) Entra ID
4 448 (7.68%) AWS
5 192 (3.29%) SaaS
6 150 (2.57%) GCP
7 89 (1.53%) Power Platform
8 87 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
9 84 (1.44%) OneDrive
10 80 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
11 58 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
12 55 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
13 53 (0.91%) Serverless
14 44 (0.75%) Mimecast
15 29 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
15 29 (0.50%) Power Automate
16 27 (0.46%) GitHub
16 27 (0.46%) Google Workspace
16 27 (0.46%) PaaS
17 26 (0.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 524 (8.98%) Firewall
2 261 (4.47%) DNS
3 244 (4.18%) Network Security
4 234 (4.01%) VPN
5 184 (3.15%) DHCP
6 177 (3.03%) TCP/IP
6 177 (3.03%) WAN
7 160 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
8 152 (2.60%) LAN
9 128 (2.19%) VLAN
10 99 (1.70%) Internet
11 87 (1.49%) VoIP
12 85 (1.46%) Wireless
13 57 (0.98%) Cisco Nexus
14 46 (0.79%) HTTP
14 46 (0.79%) Unified Communications
15 45 (0.77%) SSL
16 34 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
16 34 (0.58%) Wireshark
17 33 (0.57%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (0.93%) SQL Server
2 53 (0.91%) Power BI
3 14 (0.24%) Big Data
3 14 (0.24%) GIS
3 14 (0.24%) MySQL
4 13 (0.22%) MongoDB
4 13 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (0.17%) Tableau
6 9 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (0.14%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.086%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.086%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.086%) Metadata
9 5 (0.086%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.069%) Crystal Reports
10 4 (0.069%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.069%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.051%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 44 (0.75%) JIRA
2 40 (0.69%) Git
3 31 (0.53%) Burp Suite
4 29 (0.50%) Metasploit
5 27 (0.46%) Snyk
6 21 (0.36%) GitLab
7 20 (0.34%) Jenkins
8 10 (0.17%) Yeoman
9 8 (0.14%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.10%) LabVIEW
11 5 (0.086%) Rational DOORS
11 5 (0.086%) 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 (0.051%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.051%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.034%) git-flow
14 2 (0.034%) Zephyr
General
1 1,940 (33.25%) Social Skills
2 577 (9.89%) Finance
3 451 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
4 368 (6.31%) Public Sector
5 336 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 192 (3.29%) Legal
7 188 (3.22%) Retail
8 186 (3.19%) Marketing
9 183 (3.14%) Law
10 181 (3.10%) Telecoms
11 170 (2.91%) Manufacturing
12 146 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
13 132 (2.26%) Banking
14 123 (2.11%) Aerospace
15 120 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
16 59 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
17 54 (0.93%) Advertising
18 53 (0.91%) Local Government
19 45 (0.77%) Aviation
20 32 (0.55%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 888 (15.22%) Analyst
2 691 (11.84%) Senior
3 677 (11.60%) Security Analyst
4 584 (10.01%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 527 (9.03%) Consultant
6 419 (7.18%) Junior
7 385 (6.60%) Lead
8 370 (6.34%) Architect
9 346 (5.93%) Junior Analyst
10 336 (5.76%) Junior Security Analyst
11 329 (5.64%) Ethical Hacker
12 319 (5.47%) Security Consultant
13 318 (5.45%) Security Manager
14 317 (5.43%) IT Support
15 274 (4.70%) Security Engineer
16 262 (4.49%) Security Architect
17 254 (4.35%) IT Manager
18 238 (4.08%) IT Engineer
19 226 (3.87%) Cybersecurity Manager
20 206 (3.53%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (1.37%) Terraform
2 48 (0.82%) SAML
3 46 (0.79%) LDAP
4 43 (0.74%) OAuth
5 37 (0.63%) REST
6 36 (0.62%) OpenID
7 27 (0.46%) .NET
8 21 (0.36%) React
9 20 (0.34%) JSON
10 19 (0.33%) Node.js
11 18 (0.31%) Kafka
12 17 (0.29%) HTML
13 15 (0.26%) RESTful
13 15 (0.26%) SailPoint
13 15 (0.26%) XML
14 14 (0.24%) FastAPI
15 12 (0.21%) AngularJS
15 12 (0.21%) CSS
15 12 (0.21%) Middleware
16 10 (0.17%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 426 (7.30%) Cyberattack
2 354 (6.07%) Security Posture
3 305 (5.23%) Cyber Threat
4 259 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 237 (4.06%) Management Information System
6 185 (3.17%) Driving Licence
7 167 (2.86%) Operational Technology
8 158 (2.71%) Security Operations Centre
9 139 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
10 104 (1.78%) Cyber Defence
11 103 (1.77%) Data Centre
12 98 (1.68%) Cloud Native
13 70 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
14 57 (0.98%) PKI
15 51 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
16 47 (0.81%) SCADA
17 45 (0.77%) Cyber Security Posture
18 41 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
19 36 (0.62%) Cyber Kill Chain
20 35 (0.60%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 613 (10.51%) Windows
2 298 (5.11%) Windows Server
3 230 (3.94%) Linux
4 77 (1.32%) Mac OS
5 38 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 37 (0.63%) Windows 10
7 28 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 28 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (0.41%) Apple iOS
9 19 (0.33%) Android
10 16 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.10%) Unix
11 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.086%) CentOS
13 4 (0.069%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.069%) VMS
14 2 (0.034%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.034%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.034%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.017%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 727 (12.46%) Mentoring
2 723 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
3 693 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 581 (9.96%) AI
5 555 (9.51%) Information Security
6 527 (9.03%) Incident Response
6 527 (9.03%) Risk Management
7 513 (8.79%) Security Operations
8 461 (7.90%) SIEM
9 459 (7.87%) Vulnerability Management
10 439 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
11 418 (7.16%) Cloud Security
12 384 (6.58%) Disaster Recovery
13 380 (6.51%) Decision-Making
14 336 (5.76%) Ethical Hacking
15 320 (5.48%) Roadmaps
16 311 (5.33%) Service Delivery
17 310 (5.31%) Data Protection
18 293 (5.02%) ITIL
19 279 (4.78%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 319 (5.47%) Python
2 239 (4.10%) PowerShell
3 96 (1.65%) SQL
4 75 (1.29%) C++
5 61 (1.05%) Bash
6 55 (0.94%) JavaScript
7 51 (0.87%) Java
7 51 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
8 37 (0.63%) C#
9 35 (0.60%) Rust
10 28 (0.48%) Go
11 26 (0.45%) C
12 22 (0.38%) TypeScript
13 18 (0.31%) MATLAB
14 17 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
15 15 (0.26%) Embedded C
16 12 (0.21%) Perl
17 6 (0.10%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.069%) Ada
18 4 (0.069%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 737 (12.63%) Security Cleared
2 735 (12.60%) Azure Certification
3 536 (9.19%) Degree
4 505 (8.65%) SC Cleared
5 477 (8.17%) CISSP
6 465 (7.97%) CompTIA Security+
7 396 (6.79%) CEH
8 372 (6.38%) CompTIA CySA+
9 313 (5.36%) CISM
10 234 (4.01%) DV Cleared
11 159 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
12 121 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 103 (1.77%) CRISC
14 98 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
15 89 (1.53%) Master's Degree
16 86 (1.47%) CISA
17 85 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 82 (1.41%) CREST Certified
19 74 (1.27%) AWS Certification
20 68 (1.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 674 (11.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 522 (8.95%) NIST
3 338 (5.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 336 (5.76%) GDPR
5 317 (5.43%) GRC
6 142 (2.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 140 (2.40%) PCI DSS
8 118 (2.02%) NCSC
9 100 (1.71%) QA
10 59 (1.01%) SOC 2
11 49 (0.84%) Accessibility
12 48 (0.82%) SLA
13 46 (0.79%) NIST 800
14 34 (0.58%) COBIT
14 34 (0.58%) Data Quality
14 34 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 33 (0.57%) JSP 440
16 27 (0.46%) ISO 22301
17 23 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 19 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 469 (8.04%) Active Directory
2 164 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 139 (2.38%) Hyper-V
4 64 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (0.89%) Docker
6 40 (0.69%) Firmware
7 24 (0.41%) vSphere
8 15 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 11 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 11 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.17%) IAG
12 8 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
13 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.086%) ClearTrust
15 3 (0.051%) BitLocker
15 3 (0.051%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.034%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 272 (4.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 77 (1.32%) Kubernetes
3 65 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
4 49 (0.84%) Ansible
5 26 (0.45%) Nmap
6 24 (0.41%) Nessus
7 23 (0.39%) QRadar
8 21 (0.36%) CASB
8 21 (0.36%) FortiGate
8 21 (0.36%) SCCM
9 20 (0.34%) Grafana
10 14 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
11 13 (0.22%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.15%) Functional Safety
12 9 (0.15%) Kibana
13 8 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
14 7 (0.12%) Graylog
15 6 (0.10%) Cisco CUCM
15 6 (0.10%) Progress Chef
15 6 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,940 (33.25%) Microsoft
2 658 (11.28%) ForeScout
3 221 (3.79%) Cisco
4 211 (3.62%) VMware
5 172 (2.95%) Palo Alto
6 113 (1.94%) Splunk
7 96 (1.65%) CrowdStrike
8 79 (1.35%) Google
9 78 (1.34%) Qualys
10 70 (1.20%) ServiceNow
11 69 (1.18%) Aruba
12 63 (1.08%) Salesforce
13 62 (1.06%) Apple
14 60 (1.03%) Tenable
15 57 (0.98%) Fortinet
16 52 (0.89%) Veeam
17 42 (0.72%) Adobe
18 41 (0.70%) SAP
19 40 (0.69%) SonicWALL
20 38 (0.65%) CyberArk