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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 36 41
Rank change year-on-year +30 +5 +15
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 7,038 2,880 2,561
As % of all permanent jobs in England 13.66% 5.60% 5.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.38% 6.26% 6.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,984 1,493 2,028
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £74,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
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 42,973 46,002 40,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.43% 89.38% 93.53%
Number of salaries quoted 25,566 23,576 31,202
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 December 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 17 December 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 +39 2,233 £35,000 -36.36% 348
North West +31 1,754 £42,500 -22.58% 185
Midlands +29 1,422 £47,500 -17.39% 251
London +22 1,267 £67,500 -8.78% 384
West Midlands +18 1,169 £50,000 -16.67% 160
South East +30 1,101 £48,924 -14.91% 412
East of England +46 561 £34,000 -30.26% 166
Yorkshire +37 413 £30,500 -46.61% 132
South West +38 409 £50,000 -25.93% 175
East Midlands +34 262 £37,500 -21.05% 89
North East +32 66 £30,500 -27.59% 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
1 123 (1.75%) SharePoint
2 73 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (0.26%) Confluence
4 16 (0.23%) CMS
4 16 (0.23%) IIS
5 11 (0.16%) WordPress
6 6 (0.085%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.085%) nginx
7 5 (0.071%) Apache
7 5 (0.071%) Drupal
7 5 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.057%) FactoryTalk
8 4 (0.057%) WinCC
9 3 (0.043%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.043%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.043%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.028%) ArchestrA
11 1 (0.014%) FileNet
11 1 (0.014%) SAS
Applications
1 116 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (0.90%) Maya
3 53 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 27 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 22 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.14%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.099%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.071%) Simulink
9 3 (0.043%) CINEMA 4D
9 3 (0.043%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.014%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 32 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.27%) SAP IBP
4 12 (0.17%) SAP CO
4 12 (0.17%) SAP FI
4 12 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
4 12 (0.17%) SAP FSCM
5 11 (0.16%) SAP IS-U
6 9 (0.13%) SAP FS
7 7 (0.099%) Shopify
8 6 (0.085%) Exchequer
9 5 (0.071%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.071%) Sage 200
10 4 (0.057%) Endur
10 4 (0.057%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.057%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (0.043%) SAP CX
11 3 (0.043%) Teamcenter
11 3 (0.043%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 4,068 (57.80%) Cloud Computing
2 1,029 (14.62%) Azure
3 471 (6.69%) AWS
4 421 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
5 176 (2.50%) GitHub
6 172 (2.44%) Entra ID
7 94 (1.34%) SaaS
8 90 (1.28%) Power Platform
9 75 (1.07%) GCP
10 62 (0.88%) PaaS
11 52 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
12 48 (0.68%) IaaS
13 44 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
14 34 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
15 28 (0.40%) OneDrive
16 24 (0.34%) Serverless
17 23 (0.33%) Power Automate
18 20 (0.28%) Nutanix
18 20 (0.28%) OCI
19 18 (0.26%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4,186 (59.48%) Internet
2 258 (3.67%) Firewall
3 144 (2.05%) Network Security
4 133 (1.89%) VPN
5 117 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 110 (1.56%) DNS
7 90 (1.28%) DHCP
8 76 (1.08%) VoIP
8 76 (1.08%) WAN
9 72 (1.02%) LAN
10 63 (0.90%) VLAN
11 60 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
12 39 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
13 34 (0.48%) Wireless
14 29 (0.41%) SD-WAN
15 23 (0.33%) Modbus
16 22 (0.31%) SAN
17 16 (0.23%) NAS
18 15 (0.21%) DMZ
19 14 (0.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (0.94%) SQL Server
2 59 (0.84%) Power BI
3 40 (0.57%) Tableau
4 33 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (0.31%) Big Data
6 21 (0.30%) Relational Database
6 21 (0.30%) SAP BW
7 19 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (0.24%) Data Lake
9 16 (0.23%) Metadata
10 13 (0.18%) Neo4j
11 11 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (0.16%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.13%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.085%) MS Access
15 5 (0.071%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.071%) MariaDB
16 4 (0.057%) MySQL
16 4 (0.057%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 179 (2.54%) Git
2 33 (0.47%) JIRA
3 15 (0.21%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.14%) GitLab
4 10 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
5 7 (0.099%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.085%) Burp Suite
7 5 (0.071%) Metasploit
8 4 (0.057%) JMeter
8 4 (0.057%) Locust
8 4 (0.057%) Toad
9 3 (0.043%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.043%) Snyk
10 1 (0.014%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.014%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.014%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.014%) MLflow
10 1 (0.014%) SonarQube
General
1 5,251 (74.61%) Social Skills
2 4,169 (59.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,158 (59.08%) Banking
4 549 (7.80%) Finance
5 413 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
6 275 (3.91%) Multimedia
7 219 (3.11%) Marketing
8 202 (2.87%) Public Sector
9 196 (2.78%) Telecoms
10 182 (2.59%) Law
11 156 (2.22%) Legal
12 126 (1.79%) Manufacturing
13 108 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
14 95 (1.35%) Games
15 85 (1.21%) Retail
16 84 (1.19%) Electronics
17 70 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
18 58 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
19 50 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
20 35 (0.50%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3,126 (44.42%) Lecturer
2 476 (6.76%) Analyst
3 337 (4.79%) Security Analyst
4 326 (4.63%) Senior
5 290 (4.12%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 275 (3.91%) Trainee
7 264 (3.75%) Junior
8 239 (3.40%) Junior Analyst
9 236 (3.35%) Junior Security Analyst
10 214 (3.04%) Consultant
11 211 (3.00%) Lead
12 196 (2.78%) IT Support
13 187 (2.66%) Architect
14 163 (2.32%) Support Engineer
15 139 (1.97%) Security Consultant
16 137 (1.95%) IT Manager
17 130 (1.85%) Security Engineer
18 119 (1.69%) Developer
19 99 (1.41%) Security Manager
20 90 (1.28%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (2.70%) HTML
2 182 (2.59%) CSS
3 36 (0.51%) React
4 25 (0.36%) AngularJS
5 24 (0.34%) SAP CAF
6 21 (0.30%) YAML
7 19 (0.27%) .NET
8 16 (0.23%) REST
9 13 (0.18%) MERN Stack
10 12 (0.17%) Middleware
10 12 (0.17%) Web Services
11 11 (0.16%) Pandas
12 10 (0.14%) EDI
12 10 (0.14%) PyTorch
12 10 (0.14%) RESTful
12 10 (0.14%) TensorFlow
13 9 (0.13%) XML
14 8 (0.11%) OAuth
14 8 (0.11%) Vue
15 7 (0.099%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4,071 (57.84%) IoT
2 184 (2.61%) Management Information System
3 163 (2.32%) Security Posture
4 150 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
5 116 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
6 110 (1.56%) Driving Licence
7 105 (1.49%) Onboarding
8 98 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
9 81 (1.15%) Data Centre
10 69 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
11 68 (0.97%) Operational Technology
12 65 (0.92%) Cloud Native
13 58 (0.82%) Security Operations Centre
14 49 (0.70%) Cyberattack
15 42 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
16 41 (0.58%) Cyber Defence
17 34 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
18 32 (0.45%) CCTV
19 30 (0.43%) Public Cloud
20 29 (0.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 399 (5.67%) Windows
2 166 (2.36%) Windows Server
3 144 (2.05%) Linux
4 78 (1.11%) Windows 10
5 70 (0.99%) Mac OS
6 24 (0.34%) Android
7 20 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.28%) Unix
8 11 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.13%) VMS
9 9 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.099%) Debian
10 7 (0.099%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.071%) Mac OS X
12 4 (0.057%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.043%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.028%) Check Point GAiA
14 2 (0.028%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.028%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.014%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,261 (60.54%) AI
2 4,066 (57.77%) Machine Learning
3 4,042 (57.43%) User Experience
4 4,033 (57.30%) Web Development
5 749 (10.64%) Mentoring
6 546 (7.76%) Problem-Solving
7 374 (5.31%) Risk Management
8 337 (4.79%) Information Security
9 316 (4.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 304 (4.32%) Incident Response
11 258 (3.67%) Agile
12 244 (3.47%) ITIL
13 215 (3.05%) Project Management
14 209 (2.97%) Analytics
15 189 (2.69%) SIEM
16 188 (2.67%) Roadmaps
16 188 (2.67%) Vulnerability Management
17 182 (2.59%) Data Protection
17 182 (2.59%) Decision-Making
18 181 (2.57%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 327 (4.65%) Python
2 211 (3.00%) JavaScript
3 141 (2.00%) PowerShell
4 110 (1.56%) SQL
5 89 (1.26%) R
6 36 (0.51%) Bash
7 28 (0.40%) Java
8 26 (0.37%) C#
9 18 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
9 18 (0.26%) TypeScript
10 16 (0.23%) Bicep
11 14 (0.20%) C
11 14 (0.20%) C++
12 8 (0.11%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.071%) Go
13 5 (0.071%) MATLAB
13 5 (0.071%) Perl
13 5 (0.071%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.057%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.057%) VB
Qualifications
1 4,541 (64.52%) Degree
2 4,092 (58.14%) Master's Degree
3 4,012 (57.00%) PhD
4 4,005 (56.91%) Postgraduate
5 447 (6.35%) Azure Certification
6 425 (6.04%) CompTIA Security+
7 366 (5.20%) CISSP
8 278 (3.95%) Security Cleared
9 254 (3.61%) CISM
10 250 (3.55%) CompTIA CySA+
11 248 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 216 (3.07%) AWS Certification
13 186 (2.64%) SC Cleared
14 185 (2.63%) CEH
15 172 (2.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 122 (1.73%) Network+ Certification
17 118 (1.68%) A+ Certification
18 102 (1.45%) CISA
19 87 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
20 84 (1.19%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 469 (6.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 415 (5.90%) NIST
3 236 (3.35%) GDPR
4 213 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 160 (2.27%) GRC
6 92 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 85 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 84 (1.19%) NCSC
9 68 (0.97%) QA
10 52 (0.74%) SLA
11 51 (0.72%) NIST 800
12 43 (0.61%) SOC 2
13 42 (0.60%) COBIT
14 34 (0.48%) JSP 440
15 22 (0.31%) Data Quality
16 21 (0.30%) ISO 9001
16 21 (0.30%) RMADS
17 19 (0.27%) PMO
17 19 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 17 (0.24%) Accessibility
System Software
1 265 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 91 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (0.94%) Hyper-V
4 42 (0.60%) Docker
5 40 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.23%) vSphere
7 7 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
7 7 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.085%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.085%) Firmware
8 6 (0.085%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.071%) Kamailio
10 3 (0.043%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.043%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.028%) GPFS
11 2 (0.028%) Lustre
12 1 (0.014%) iptables
12 1 (0.014%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.014%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.014%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 162 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (0.61%) Terraform
3 38 (0.54%) Kubernetes
4 30 (0.43%) Ansible
5 21 (0.30%) SCCM
6 17 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
6 17 (0.24%) RSA Archer
6 17 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (0.23%) Nessus
8 14 (0.20%) QRadar
9 12 (0.17%) CSIRT
10 11 (0.16%) CASB
10 11 (0.16%) PaperCut
11 9 (0.13%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.099%) Nagios
13 6 (0.085%) Autotask
13 6 (0.085%) Grafana
13 6 (0.085%) Nmap
13 6 (0.085%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 5 (0.071%) MaaS360
Vendors
1 1,133 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 235 (3.34%) ForeScout
3 138 (1.96%) SAP
4 131 (1.86%) VMware
5 96 (1.36%) Cisco
6 90 (1.28%) Palo Alto
7 71 (1.01%) Oracle
8 68 (0.97%) Apple
9 63 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
10 60 (0.85%) Adobe
11 59 (0.84%) Fortinet
12 52 (0.74%) Salesforce
13 39 (0.55%) ServiceNow
14 28 (0.40%) Splunk
15 26 (0.37%) Qualys
16 23 (0.33%) Dell
16 23 (0.33%) Google
17 20 (0.28%) Tenable
18 19 (0.27%) PayPal
19 18 (0.26%) Siemens