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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 37 31
Rank change year-on-year +30 -6 +21
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 8,308 2,262 4,167
As % of all permanent jobs in England 12.56% 5.86% 5.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.12% 6.27% 6.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,365 1,462 3,272
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,625 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.40% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £51,249 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -17.34% +3.33% -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 51,528 36,093 64,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.90% 93.54% 87.05%
Number of salaries quoted 31,904 20,307 50,751
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £29,010
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 +36 2,598 £38,000 -28.47% 300
North West +29 1,898 £42,500 -22.73% 146
Midlands +29 1,639 £42,500 -29.17% 186
London +25 1,474 £70,000 -6.67% 409
South East +38 1,328 £47,500 -17.39% 351
West Midlands +23 1,282 £43,750 -30.00% 89
East of England +42 689 £35,000 -26.32% 119
Yorkshire +39 586 £31,250 -37.50% 117
South West +36 523 £55,000 +15.79% 155
East Midlands +43 368 £39,250 -6.55% 97
North East +38 114 £30,500 -23.81% 40
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
1 120 (1.44%) SharePoint
2 74 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.16%) CMS
4 10 (0.12%) Confluence
5 6 (0.072%) Apache
5 6 (0.072%) nginx
5 6 (0.072%) WordPress
6 5 (0.060%) Drupal
7 4 (0.048%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.036%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.024%) SAS
10 1 (0.012%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.012%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 96 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (0.34%) Maya
5 24 (0.29%) Simulink
6 19 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.12%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.060%) CATIA
9 4 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.036%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.024%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.024%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 27 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.096%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.084%) Shopify
5 4 (0.048%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.048%) Endur
5 4 (0.048%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.048%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.036%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.036%) SAP CX
6 3 (0.036%) SAP FS
6 3 (0.036%) Yoast SEO
7 2 (0.024%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.024%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.024%) SAP FSCM
7 2 (0.024%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.024%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.024%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.024%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 4,053 (48.78%) Cloud Computing
2 1,938 (23.33%) Azure
3 540 (6.50%) AWS
4 421 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
5 268 (3.23%) Entra ID
6 196 (2.36%) GitHub
7 86 (1.04%) SaaS
8 82 (0.99%) GCP
9 65 (0.78%) Power Platform
10 51 (0.61%) Azure Sentinel
11 50 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
12 43 (0.52%) PaaS
13 37 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
14 35 (0.42%) Nutanix
15 33 (0.40%) Google Workspace
16 29 (0.35%) IaaS
17 27 (0.32%) AWS CloudFormation
18 24 (0.29%) Dynamics 365
19 23 (0.28%) Mimecast
20 22 (0.26%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4,209 (50.66%) Internet
2 299 (3.60%) Firewall
3 137 (1.65%) Network Security
4 124 (1.49%) VPN
5 86 (1.04%) DNS
6 74 (0.89%) DHCP
7 70 (0.84%) WAN
8 66 (0.79%) VLAN
9 64 (0.77%) LAN
10 58 (0.70%) TCP/IP
11 52 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
12 37 (0.45%) Broadband
13 33 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
13 33 (0.40%) VoIP
14 27 (0.32%) Wireless
15 22 (0.26%) CHAP
16 20 (0.24%) SD-WAN
17 15 (0.18%) DMZ
18 13 (0.16%) Unified Communications
19 12 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (0.42%) Power BI
2 24 (0.29%) Big Data
2 24 (0.29%) SQL Server
3 23 (0.28%) Tableau
4 22 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
6 18 (0.22%) Neo4j
7 11 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (0.13%) Metadata
7 11 (0.13%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.12%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.084%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.060%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.060%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.060%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.048%) MySQL
11 4 (0.048%) SAP BW
12 3 (0.036%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.024%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.024%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 199 (2.40%) Git
2 30 (0.36%) JIRA
3 29 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
4 22 (0.26%) GitLab
5 13 (0.16%) Jenkins
6 11 (0.13%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.084%) JMeter
7 7 (0.084%) Locust
8 5 (0.060%) Apache Continuum
8 5 (0.060%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.060%) Metasploit
9 4 (0.048%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.048%) MLflow
10 1 (0.012%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.012%) Snyk
10 1 (0.012%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.012%) Yeoman
General
1 5,915 (71.20%) Social Skills
2 4,205 (50.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,165 (50.13%) Banking
4 523 (6.30%) Finance
5 358 (4.31%) Multimedia
6 335 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
7 195 (2.35%) Public Sector
8 167 (2.01%) Marketing
9 156 (1.88%) Legal
10 152 (1.83%) Law
11 126 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
12 118 (1.42%) Telecoms
13 116 (1.40%) Retail
14 88 (1.06%) Manufacturing
15 70 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
16 55 (0.66%) Games
17 52 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
18 48 (0.58%) Electronics
19 46 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
19 46 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3,143 (37.83%) Lecturer
2 925 (11.13%) Analyst
3 799 (9.62%) Security Analyst
4 746 (8.98%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 681 (8.20%) Junior
6 660 (7.94%) Junior Analyst
7 659 (7.93%) Junior Security Analyst
8 376 (4.53%) Ethical Hacker
9 363 (4.37%) Trainee
10 359 (4.32%) Senior
11 238 (2.86%) Consultant
12 226 (2.72%) Architect
13 222 (2.67%) Lead
14 202 (2.43%) IT Support
15 156 (1.88%) Developer
16 154 (1.85%) Security Manager
17 149 (1.79%) Security Consultant
18 139 (1.67%) Security Engineer
19 136 (1.64%) IT Manager
20 131 (1.58%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (2.49%) CSS
1 207 (2.49%) HTML
2 42 (0.51%) REST
3 36 (0.43%) OAuth
4 35 (0.42%) React
4 35 (0.42%) SAML
5 33 (0.40%) OpenID
6 29 (0.35%) LDAP
7 27 (0.32%) SOAP
8 26 (0.31%) GraphQL
9 22 (0.26%) SAP CAF
10 21 (0.25%) AngularJS
11 17 (0.20%) MERN Stack
12 12 (0.14%) SailPoint
13 10 (0.12%) Node.js
13 10 (0.12%) Tailwind CSS
14 9 (0.11%) Middleware
14 9 (0.11%) YAML
15 8 (0.096%) .NET
15 8 (0.096%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4,072 (49.01%) IoT
2 439 (5.28%) Cyberattack
3 203 (2.44%) Security Posture
4 181 (2.18%) Management Information System
5 112 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
5 112 (1.35%) Driving Licence
6 96 (1.16%) Onboarding
7 94 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
8 84 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
9 80 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
10 67 (0.81%) Data Centre
11 64 (0.77%) Cloud Native
12 59 (0.71%) Cyber Defence
13 54 (0.65%) Operational Technology
14 48 (0.58%) Blog
15 46 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
16 35 (0.42%) PKI
17 34 (0.41%) Public Cloud
18 33 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
18 33 (0.40%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 371 (4.47%) Windows
2 168 (2.02%) Windows Server
3 128 (1.54%) Linux
4 68 (0.82%) Windows 10
5 49 (0.59%) Mac OS
6 32 (0.39%) Android
7 23 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.12%) Unix
10 6 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.048%) VMS
12 3 (0.036%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.036%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.036%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.012%) CentOS
13 1 (0.012%) Debian
13 1 (0.012%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.012%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.012%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.012%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,256 (51.23%) AI
2 4,064 (48.92%) Machine Learning
3 4,044 (48.68%) User Experience
4 4,038 (48.60%) Web Development
5 1,267 (15.25%) Mentoring
6 552 (6.64%) Ethical Hacking
7 433 (5.21%) Problem-Solving
8 420 (5.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 372 (4.48%) Risk Management
10 355 (4.27%) Incident Response
10 355 (4.27%) Information Security
11 266 (3.20%) Agile
12 223 (2.68%) SIEM
13 206 (2.48%) Cloud Security
14 199 (2.40%) Line Management
15 196 (2.36%) ITIL
16 190 (2.29%) Roadmaps
17 183 (2.20%) Data Protection
17 183 (2.20%) Project Management
18 182 (2.19%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 396 (4.77%) Python
2 251 (3.02%) JavaScript
3 185 (2.23%) PowerShell
4 108 (1.30%) SQL
5 99 (1.19%) R
6 58 (0.70%) Bash
7 40 (0.48%) Java
8 30 (0.36%) TypeScript
9 29 (0.35%) C++
10 26 (0.31%) MATLAB
11 25 (0.30%) T-SQL
12 23 (0.28%) C#
13 22 (0.26%) C
14 10 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.11%) Go
16 7 (0.084%) Rust
17 6 (0.072%) PHP
18 4 (0.048%) Kotlin
19 3 (0.036%) Bicep
19 3 (0.036%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 4,436 (53.39%) Degree
2 4,071 (49.00%) Master's Degree
3 4,014 (48.31%) PhD
4 4,005 (48.21%) Postgraduate
5 1,263 (15.20%) Azure Certification
6 879 (10.58%) CompTIA Security+
7 699 (8.41%) CompTIA CySA+
8 595 (7.16%) CEH
9 345 (4.15%) CISSP
10 300 (3.61%) Security Cleared
11 257 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 239 (2.88%) AWS Certification
13 238 (2.86%) CISM
14 195 (2.35%) SC Cleared
15 194 (2.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 188 (2.26%) Network+ Certification
17 178 (2.14%) A+ Certification
18 109 (1.31%) CISA
19 107 (1.29%) DV Cleared
20 100 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 492 (5.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 454 (5.46%) NIST
3 257 (3.09%) GDPR
4 221 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 178 (2.14%) GRC
6 114 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 104 (1.25%) NCSC
8 102 (1.23%) PCI DSS
9 70 (0.84%) QA
10 43 (0.52%) COBIT
11 40 (0.48%) SLA
12 39 (0.47%) SOC 2
13 36 (0.43%) NIST 800
14 29 (0.35%) Accessibility
15 28 (0.34%) Data Quality
16 22 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 21 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
18 19 (0.23%) ISO 22301
19 18 (0.22%) SOC 3
20 17 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 298 (3.59%) Active Directory
2 70 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 53 (0.64%) Docker
5 26 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.24%) vSphere
7 9 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.096%) Firmware
9 7 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.072%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.060%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.048%) IAG
13 3 (0.036%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.024%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.024%) GPFS
14 2 (0.024%) Lustre
15 1 (0.012%) iptables
15 1 (0.012%) KVM
Systems Management
1 156 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 65 (0.78%) Terraform
3 55 (0.66%) Kubernetes
4 34 (0.41%) Ansible
5 26 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.20%) Grafana
7 16 (0.19%) CASB
8 14 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
9 12 (0.14%) CSIRT
9 12 (0.14%) SCCM
10 11 (0.13%) FortiGate
10 11 (0.13%) Nessus
11 10 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.096%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.084%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 7 (0.084%) FTK
13 7 (0.084%) VxRail
14 5 (0.060%) Prometheus
14 5 (0.060%) QRadar
14 5 (0.060%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,945 (23.41%) Microsoft
2 1,035 (12.46%) ForeScout
3 120 (1.44%) VMware
4 92 (1.11%) Cisco
5 76 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
6 66 (0.79%) Fortinet
7 65 (0.78%) Palo Alto
8 59 (0.71%) Apple
8 59 (0.71%) SAP
9 41 (0.49%) Google
10 38 (0.46%) Salesforce
11 37 (0.45%) Dell
11 37 (0.45%) Oracle
12 36 (0.43%) Splunk
13 33 (0.40%) Tenable
14 32 (0.39%) Adobe
15 30 (0.36%) Siemens
16 26 (0.31%) ServiceNow
17 23 (0.28%) CyberArk
18 20 (0.24%) MuleSoft