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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 32 38
Rank change year-on-year +12 +6 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,910 2,756 3,624
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.16% 6.29% 4.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.38% 7.06% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,643 1,672 2,365
10th Percentile £30,600 £26,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,550 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £79,250 £75,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £96,250
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 70,489 39,024 59,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.45% 89.04% 81.03%
Number of salaries quoted 49,966 22,592 37,637
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 +11 1,467 £75,000 +6.38% 469
North of England +18 1,276 £50,000 +5.26% 354
South East +12 1,067 £55,000 +10.00% 400
Midlands +21 1,024 £55,000 +27.60% 249
North West +25 631 £57,500 +9.52% 172
South West +6 591 £55,000 +13.40% 220
West Midlands +9 518 £56,250 +9.33% 139
East Midlands +36 505 £55,000 +57.14% 110
Yorkshire +11 494 £43,500 +31.82% 139
East of England +44 470 £45,000 -5.26% 146
North East +19 151 £50,000 -25.93% 49
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
1 201 (3.40%) SharePoint
2 196 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (0.34%) IIS
4 17 (0.29%) Apache
5 9 (0.15%) Confluence
5 9 (0.15%) SAS
6 8 (0.14%) CMS
7 5 (0.085%) WordPress
8 3 (0.051%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.051%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
Applications
1 83 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.22%) Simulink
5 8 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.10%) CATIA
6 6 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.034%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.017%) Maya
9 1 (0.017%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (0.41%) Cloudability
2 11 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.085%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.085%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.068%) 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
9 2 (0.034%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,907 (32.27%) Azure
2 748 (12.66%) Microsoft 365
3 455 (7.70%) AWS
4 409 (6.92%) Entra ID
5 194 (3.28%) SaaS
6 146 (2.47%) GCP
7 84 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
8 81 (1.37%) Power Platform
9 69 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
10 67 (1.13%) OneDrive
11 54 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
12 46 (0.78%) Serverless
13 45 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
14 42 (0.71%) Mimecast
15 34 (0.58%) GitHub
16 27 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
17 26 (0.44%) PaaS
18 25 (0.42%) Google Workspace
19 23 (0.39%) IaaS
20 21 (0.36%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 495 (8.38%) Firewall
2 247 (4.18%) Network Security
3 216 (3.65%) DNS
4 202 (3.42%) VPN
5 170 (2.88%) WAN
6 149 (2.52%) LAN
7 148 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
8 144 (2.44%) DHCP
9 142 (2.40%) TCP/IP
10 115 (1.95%) VLAN
11 95 (1.61%) Internet
12 75 (1.27%) VoIP
13 71 (1.20%) Wireless
14 50 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
15 47 (0.80%) Unified Communications
16 43 (0.73%) HTTP
17 39 (0.66%) SSL
18 30 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
18 30 (0.51%) SD-WAN
19 29 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (0.86%) Power BI
2 46 (0.78%) SQL Server
3 13 (0.22%) Big Data
3 13 (0.22%) GIS
3 13 (0.22%) MongoDB
4 12 (0.20%) MySQL
4 12 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (0.15%) Tableau
6 6 (0.10%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.10%) Metadata
6 6 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.085%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.085%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.068%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (0.068%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.068%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.051%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 47 (0.80%) JIRA
2 46 (0.78%) Git
3 27 (0.46%) Burp Suite
3 27 (0.46%) Snyk
4 26 (0.44%) Metasploit
5 25 (0.42%) GitLab
6 20 (0.34%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
8 10 (0.17%) Yeoman
9 6 (0.10%) Apache Continuum
10 5 (0.085%) JMeter
10 5 (0.085%) VersionOne
11 4 (0.068%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.068%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.068%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.068%) Locust
11 4 (0.068%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.068%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.051%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.034%) Zephyr
General
1 2,177 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 561 (9.49%) Finance
3 443 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 331 (5.60%) Public Sector
5 325 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 184 (3.11%) Marketing
7 179 (3.03%) Law
8 173 (2.93%) Legal
9 171 (2.89%) Retail
10 162 (2.74%) Telecoms
11 148 (2.50%) Manufacturing
12 131 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
13 127 (2.15%) Banking
14 115 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
15 103 (1.74%) Aerospace
16 57 (0.96%) Local Government
17 54 (0.91%) Advertising
18 48 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
19 36 (0.61%) Aviation
20 33 (0.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,011 (17.11%) Analyst
2 816 (13.81%) Security Analyst
3 716 (12.12%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 650 (11.00%) Senior
5 557 (9.42%) Junior
6 517 (8.75%) Ethical Hacker
7 491 (8.31%) Consultant
8 484 (8.19%) Junior Analyst
9 474 (8.02%) Junior Security Analyst
10 369 (6.24%) Architect
11 367 (6.21%) Lead
12 308 (5.21%) Security Consultant
13 295 (4.99%) Security Manager
14 276 (4.67%) IT Support
15 264 (4.47%) IT Manager
16 255 (4.31%) Security Architect
17 249 (4.21%) Security Engineer
18 210 (3.55%) IT Engineer
19 205 (3.47%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 205 (3.47%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (1.35%) Terraform
2 48 (0.81%) SAML
3 45 (0.76%) LDAP
4 43 (0.73%) OAuth
5 37 (0.63%) OpenID
6 36 (0.61%) REST
7 30 (0.51%) HTML
8 23 (0.39%) .NET
8 23 (0.39%) CSS
8 23 (0.39%) React
9 19 (0.32%) JSON
9 19 (0.32%) Kafka
10 18 (0.30%) Node.js
11 16 (0.27%) SailPoint
12 15 (0.25%) FastAPI
12 15 (0.25%) RESTful
12 15 (0.25%) XML
13 12 (0.20%) AngularJS
13 12 (0.20%) XMPP
14 11 (0.19%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 613 (10.37%) Cyberattack
2 343 (5.80%) Security Posture
3 265 (4.48%) Cyber Threat
4 238 (4.03%) Onboarding
5 232 (3.93%) Management Information System
6 163 (2.76%) Driving Licence
7 162 (2.74%) Security Operations Centre
8 137 (2.32%) Operational Technology
8 137 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
9 105 (1.78%) Cyber Defence
10 98 (1.66%) Data Centre
11 95 (1.61%) Cloud Native
12 62 (1.05%) PKI
13 59 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
14 49 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
15 46 (0.78%) Cyber Security Posture
16 38 (0.64%) CSOC
17 36 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
18 33 (0.56%) Blog
19 31 (0.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 576 (9.75%) Windows
2 281 (4.75%) Windows Server
3 213 (3.60%) Linux
4 73 (1.24%) Mac OS
5 35 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (0.42%) Windows 10
8 22 (0.37%) Apple iOS
9 19 (0.32%) Android
10 15 (0.25%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.10%) CentOS
12 4 (0.068%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.051%) Unix
13 3 (0.051%) 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
1 886 (14.99%) Mentoring
2 684 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
3 651 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
4 546 (9.24%) Information Security
5 533 (9.02%) Ethical Hacking
6 516 (8.73%) Incident Response
7 507 (8.58%) AI
8 503 (8.51%) Risk Management
9 481 (8.14%) Security Operations
10 446 (7.55%) SIEM
11 426 (7.21%) Vulnerability Management
12 409 (6.92%) Cloud Security
13 377 (6.38%) Stakeholder Management
14 374 (6.33%) Disaster Recovery
15 349 (5.91%) Decision-Making
16 302 (5.11%) Roadmaps
17 295 (4.99%) Service Delivery
18 281 (4.75%) Agile
18 281 (4.75%) Data Protection
19 269 (4.55%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 317 (5.36%) Python
2 235 (3.98%) PowerShell
3 96 (1.62%) SQL
4 71 (1.20%) C++
5 66 (1.12%) JavaScript
6 57 (0.96%) Bash
7 46 (0.78%) Java
8 44 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
9 32 (0.54%) C#
10 31 (0.52%) Rust
11 24 (0.41%) Go
12 21 (0.36%) C
12 21 (0.36%) TypeScript
13 17 (0.29%) MATLAB
14 16 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
15 12 (0.20%) Perl
16 9 (0.15%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.085%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.068%) Ada
18 4 (0.068%) R
Qualifications
1 1,070 (18.10%) Azure Certification
2 660 (11.17%) Security Cleared
3 619 (10.47%) CompTIA Security+
4 592 (10.02%) CEH
5 512 (8.66%) CompTIA CySA+
6 500 (8.46%) Degree
7 456 (7.72%) CISSP
8 451 (7.63%) SC Cleared
9 289 (4.89%) CISM
10 218 (3.69%) DV Cleared
11 157 (2.66%) Cisco Certification
12 111 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
13 99 (1.68%) CRISC
14 87 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 86 (1.46%) CISA
16 84 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
17 82 (1.39%) AWS Certification
18 76 (1.29%) CREST Certified
19 72 (1.22%) Master's Degree
20 66 (1.12%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 632 (10.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 511 (8.65%) NIST
3 328 (5.55%) GDPR
4 307 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials
5 299 (5.06%) GRC
6 138 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 138 (2.34%) PCI DSS
7 104 (1.76%) QA
8 94 (1.59%) NCSC
9 61 (1.03%) SOC 2
10 43 (0.73%) SLA
11 42 (0.71%) Accessibility
11 42 (0.71%) NIST 800
12 37 (0.63%) COBIT
12 37 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 31 (0.52%) JSP 440
14 30 (0.51%) Data Quality
15 22 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 21 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
16 21 (0.36%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 444 (7.51%) Active Directory
2 156 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (2.03%) Hyper-V
4 55 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (0.91%) Docker
6 35 (0.59%) Firmware
7 26 (0.44%) vSphere
8 15 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
9 14 (0.24%) IAG
9 14 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.085%) ClearTrust
13 4 (0.068%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.051%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.051%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
16 1 (0.017%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 236 (3.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 81 (1.37%) Kubernetes
3 51 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
4 45 (0.76%) Ansible
5 27 (0.46%) Grafana
6 23 (0.39%) Nmap
7 22 (0.37%) FortiGate
7 22 (0.37%) Nessus
7 22 (0.37%) QRadar
8 18 (0.30%) SCCM
9 17 (0.29%) CASB
10 16 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
11 14 (0.24%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.15%) Kibana
13 8 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
14 7 (0.12%) Functional Safety
14 7 (0.12%) Graylog
15 6 (0.10%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.085%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 2,196 (37.16%) Microsoft
2 987 (16.70%) ForeScout
3 209 (3.54%) Cisco
4 194 (3.28%) VMware
5 168 (2.84%) Palo Alto
6 118 (2.00%) Splunk
7 100 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
8 73 (1.24%) Qualys
9 70 (1.18%) Google
10 67 (1.13%) Apple
11 66 (1.12%) ServiceNow
12 63 (1.07%) Aruba
12 63 (1.07%) Fortinet
13 60 (1.02%) Tenable
14 59 (1.00%) Salesforce
15 43 (0.73%) Veeam
16 42 (0.71%) SAP
17 41 (0.69%) Adobe
18 39 (0.66%) CyberArk
19 35 (0.59%) SonicWALL