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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 35 34
Rank change year-on-year +29 -1 +21
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 7,103 2,740 2,953
As % of all permanent jobs in England 13.52% 5.71% 5.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.64% 6.29% 6.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,046 1,390 2,197
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,475 £35,920
25th Percentile £30,563 £49,075 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +4.84% -4.62%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,375 £100,000 £95,700
UK median annual salary £50,000 £64,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -22.18% +2.80% -3.85%

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 42,676 43,550 44,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.20% 90.77% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 25,628 21,301 34,459
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 +39 2,242 £30,500 -44.55% 307
North West +35 1,775 £41,750 -24.09% 165
Midlands +27 1,424 £42,618 -26.33% 211
London +18 1,334 £67,500 -7.77% 410
West Midlands +20 1,182 £45,500 -24.17% 94
South East +30 1,079 £48,000 -16.52% 499
East of England +49 570 £35,000 -36.36% 211
South West +42 404 £52,500 -19.23% 203
Yorkshire +36 399 £30,500 -48.31% 107
East Midlands +33 251 £37,500 -21.36% 116
North East +39 68 £30,500 -34.01% 39
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 (1.66%) SharePoint
2 63 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (0.23%) Confluence
3 16 (0.23%) IIS
4 11 (0.15%) WordPress
5 7 (0.099%) CMS
6 6 (0.084%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.084%) nginx
7 5 (0.070%) Apache
7 5 (0.070%) Drupal
8 4 (0.056%) FactoryTalk
8 4 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.056%) WinCC
9 3 (0.042%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.042%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.028%) ArchestrA
10 2 (0.028%) SAS
11 1 (0.014%) FileNet
Applications
1 98 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 59 (0.83%) Maya
4 27 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.14%) Simulink
7 9 (0.13%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.099%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.042%) CATIA
9 3 (0.042%) CINEMA 4D
9 3 (0.042%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.014%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 34 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.23%) SAP IBP
4 10 (0.14%) SAP CO
4 10 (0.14%) SAP FI
4 10 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
4 10 (0.14%) SAP FSCM
5 9 (0.13%) SAP FS
5 9 (0.13%) SAP IS-U
6 7 (0.099%) Shopify
7 6 (0.084%) Exchequer
8 5 (0.070%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.056%) Endur
9 4 (0.056%) NEC Housing
9 4 (0.056%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.042%) SAP GRC
10 3 (0.042%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.042%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 4,061 (57.17%) Cloud Computing
2 1,076 (15.15%) Azure
3 518 (7.29%) AWS
4 382 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
5 218 (3.07%) GitHub
6 188 (2.65%) Entra ID
7 90 (1.27%) Power Platform
8 86 (1.21%) SaaS
9 64 (0.90%) GCP
10 55 (0.77%) PaaS
11 42 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
11 42 (0.59%) Azure Sentinel
12 38 (0.53%) IaaS
13 34 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
14 31 (0.44%) OneDrive
15 27 (0.38%) Nutanix
16 23 (0.32%) Microsoft Purview
17 20 (0.28%) Google Workspace
17 20 (0.28%) Power Automate
18 19 (0.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4,227 (59.51%) Internet
2 241 (3.39%) Firewall
3 125 (1.76%) Network Security
4 120 (1.69%) VPN
5 101 (1.42%) TCP/IP
6 97 (1.37%) DNS
7 77 (1.08%) DHCP
8 75 (1.06%) WAN
9 68 (0.96%) LAN
10 66 (0.93%) VoIP
11 55 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
12 44 (0.62%) VLAN
13 33 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
14 30 (0.42%) SD-WAN
15 28 (0.39%) Wireless
16 21 (0.30%) Modbus
16 21 (0.30%) SAN
17 18 (0.25%) Broadband
18 16 (0.23%) DMZ
19 15 (0.21%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (0.82%) Power BI
2 54 (0.76%) SQL Server
3 43 (0.61%) Tableau
4 35 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (0.32%) Big Data
6 20 (0.28%) Relational Database
7 18 (0.25%) SAP BW
8 17 (0.24%) Data Lake
9 16 (0.23%) Metadata
10 15 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (0.18%) Neo4j
12 11 (0.15%) Oracle Database
13 10 (0.14%) NoSQL
14 8 (0.11%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (0.099%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 6 (0.084%) MS Access
17 5 (0.070%) MariaDB
18 4 (0.056%) Azure SQL Database
18 4 (0.056%) BusinessObjects
18 4 (0.056%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 217 (3.06%) Git
2 32 (0.45%) JIRA
3 18 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (0.23%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.15%) GitLab
6 7 (0.099%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.056%) JMeter
7 4 (0.056%) Locust
7 4 (0.056%) MLflow
7 4 (0.056%) Toad
8 3 (0.042%) Apache Continuum
8 3 (0.042%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.042%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.042%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.028%) Snyk
10 1 (0.014%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.014%) Bitbucket
General
1 5,167 (72.74%) Social Skills
2 4,176 (58.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,158 (58.54%) Banking
4 526 (7.41%) Finance
5 368 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
6 335 (4.72%) Multimedia
7 193 (2.72%) Marketing
8 185 (2.60%) Public Sector
9 171 (2.41%) Law
10 157 (2.21%) Telecoms
11 150 (2.11%) Legal
12 122 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
13 104 (1.46%) Manufacturing
14 91 (1.28%) Retail
15 90 (1.27%) Games
16 68 (0.96%) Electronics
17 67 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
18 59 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
19 43 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
20 35 (0.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3,134 (44.12%) Lecturer
2 478 (6.73%) Analyst
3 349 (4.91%) Senior
4 345 (4.86%) Security Analyst
5 335 (4.72%) Trainee
6 301 (4.24%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 259 (3.65%) Junior
8 237 (3.34%) Junior Analyst
9 236 (3.32%) Junior Security Analyst
10 221 (3.11%) Consultant
11 205 (2.89%) Lead
12 204 (2.87%) Architect
13 177 (2.49%) IT Support
14 152 (2.14%) Support Engineer
15 142 (2.00%) Developer
15 142 (2.00%) Security Consultant
16 137 (1.93%) IT Manager
17 127 (1.79%) Security Engineer
18 120 (1.69%) Security Manager
19 111 (1.56%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (3.24%) HTML
2 226 (3.18%) CSS
3 32 (0.45%) React
4 26 (0.37%) SAP CAF
5 24 (0.34%) AngularJS
5 24 (0.34%) REST
6 19 (0.27%) OAuth
7 18 (0.25%) SAML
7 18 (0.25%) YAML
8 16 (0.23%) OpenID
9 14 (0.20%) LDAP
10 13 (0.18%) GraphQL
10 13 (0.18%) MERN Stack
10 13 (0.18%) Middleware
10 13 (0.18%) Pandas
11 12 (0.17%) PyTorch
11 12 (0.17%) SOAP
11 12 (0.17%) TensorFlow
12 10 (0.14%) .NET
13 9 (0.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4,071 (57.31%) IoT
2 186 (2.62%) Management Information System
3 149 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
4 147 (2.07%) Security Posture
5 117 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
6 111 (1.56%) Onboarding
7 101 (1.42%) Driving Licence
8 93 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
9 80 (1.13%) Data Centre
10 64 (0.90%) Cloud Native
10 64 (0.90%) Operational Technology
11 57 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
12 55 (0.77%) Security Operations Centre
13 44 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
14 40 (0.56%) Cyber Defence
15 39 (0.55%) Public Cloud
16 37 (0.52%) Cyberattack
17 34 (0.48%) Blockchain
18 31 (0.44%) CCTV
19 30 (0.42%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 355 (5.00%) Windows
2 143 (2.01%) Windows Server
3 132 (1.86%) Linux
4 66 (0.93%) Mac OS
5 63 (0.89%) Windows 10
6 22 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.30%) Android
7 21 (0.30%) Unix
8 8 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.084%) Debian
9 6 (0.084%) VMS
9 6 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.070%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.042%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.042%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.028%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.014%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.014%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.014%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,263 (60.02%) AI
2 4,067 (57.26%) Machine Learning
3 4,037 (56.84%) User Experience
4 4,033 (56.78%) Web Development
5 792 (11.15%) Mentoring
6 489 (6.88%) Problem-Solving
7 365 (5.14%) Risk Management
8 329 (4.63%) Information Security
9 312 (4.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 305 (4.29%) Incident Response
11 257 (3.62%) Agile
12 226 (3.18%) ITIL
13 203 (2.86%) Analytics
13 203 (2.86%) Project Management
14 188 (2.65%) Roadmaps
15 185 (2.60%) SIEM
16 181 (2.55%) Data Protection
17 178 (2.51%) Line Management
18 175 (2.46%) Decision-Making
19 174 (2.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 362 (5.10%) Python
2 255 (3.59%) JavaScript
3 148 (2.08%) PowerShell
4 119 (1.68%) SQL
5 113 (1.59%) R
6 41 (0.58%) Bash
7 24 (0.34%) Java
8 20 (0.28%) C#
9 18 (0.25%) C++
10 17 (0.24%) TypeScript
11 16 (0.23%) T-SQL
12 15 (0.21%) Bicep
13 14 (0.20%) C
14 13 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
15 10 (0.14%) MATLAB
16 6 (0.084%) Go
17 5 (0.070%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.056%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.056%) Perl
18 4 (0.056%) VB
Qualifications
1 4,505 (63.42%) Degree
2 4,080 (57.44%) Master's Degree
3 4,012 (56.48%) PhD
4 4,004 (56.37%) Postgraduate
5 485 (6.83%) Azure Certification
6 421 (5.93%) CompTIA Security+
7 353 (4.97%) CISSP
8 286 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 270 (3.80%) Security Cleared
10 263 (3.70%) AWS Certification
11 252 (3.55%) CISM
11 252 (3.55%) CompTIA CySA+
12 213 (3.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 192 (2.70%) SC Cleared
14 184 (2.59%) CEH
15 146 (2.06%) Network+ Certification
16 144 (2.03%) A+ Certification
17 109 (1.53%) CISA
18 84 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
19 79 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 452 (6.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 415 (5.84%) NIST
3 233 (3.28%) GDPR
4 210 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 175 (2.46%) GRC
6 102 (1.44%) NCSC
7 92 (1.30%) PCI DSS
8 90 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 57 (0.80%) QA
10 53 (0.75%) SLA
11 44 (0.62%) COBIT
12 42 (0.59%) NIST 800
13 36 (0.51%) SOC 2
14 33 (0.46%) JSP 440
15 25 (0.35%) Data Quality
16 21 (0.30%) RMADS
17 20 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 18 (0.25%) ISO 9001
18 18 (0.25%) PMO
19 17 (0.24%) Accessibility
System Software
1 243 (3.42%) Active Directory
2 78 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (0.76%) Hyper-V
4 44 (0.62%) Docker
5 36 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.21%) vSphere
7 6 (0.084%) BitLocker
7 6 (0.084%) Firmware
7 6 (0.084%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.056%) Kamailio
9 4 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.042%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.028%) GPFS
11 2 (0.028%) Lustre
11 2 (0.028%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.014%) iptables
12 1 (0.014%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.014%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 156 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (0.62%) Terraform
3 38 (0.53%) Kubernetes
4 28 (0.39%) Ansible
5 22 (0.31%) SCCM
6 20 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
8 15 (0.21%) CASB
9 14 (0.20%) Nessus
10 13 (0.18%) CSIRT
11 9 (0.13%) QRadar
11 9 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 8 (0.11%) Nagios
12 8 (0.11%) PaperCut
13 7 (0.099%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.084%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.084%) Grafana
14 6 (0.084%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 4 (0.056%) MaaS360
15 4 (0.056%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1,137 (16.01%) Microsoft
2 235 (3.31%) ForeScout
3 117 (1.65%) SAP
4 115 (1.62%) VMware
5 84 (1.18%) Palo Alto
6 83 (1.17%) Cisco
7 72 (1.01%) Apple
8 67 (0.94%) Oracle
9 66 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
10 64 (0.90%) Fortinet
11 61 (0.86%) Adobe
12 50 (0.70%) Salesforce
13 35 (0.49%) ServiceNow
14 30 (0.42%) Google
15 26 (0.37%) Dell
16 23 (0.32%) Tenable
17 22 (0.31%) MuleSoft
17 22 (0.31%) Splunk
18 21 (0.30%) Siemens
19 19 (0.27%) PayPal