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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 33 35
Rank change year-on-year +12 +2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,890 2,706 3,523
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.88% 6.26% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.05% 7.05% 6.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,765 1,599 1,995
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,375
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% -6.92%

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 73,171 38,378 55,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.08% 88.74% 81.34%
Number of salaries quoted 52,052 22,031 32,570
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,485 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.93%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
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 14 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 14 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 1,486 £78,500 +12.14% 2,215
North of England +16 1,217 £52,000 +13.66% 633
South East +13 1,063 £55,000 +10.00% 797
Midlands +19 1,036 £55,000 +27.60% 392
North West +28 607 £59,500 +16.67% 354
South West +6 602 £55,000 +10.00% 375
West Midlands +8 522 £55,000 +10.00% 230
East Midlands +39 514 £55,000 +57.14% 162
Yorkshire +14 464 £45,000 +36.36% 218
East of England +48 462 £45,000 -5.26% 227
North East +15 146 £50,000 -25.93% 78
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 (3.99%) SharePoint
2 221 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.41%) IIS
4 19 (0.32%) Apache
5 9 (0.15%) Confluence
5 9 (0.15%) SAS
6 5 (0.085%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.085%) CMS
6 5 (0.085%) WordPress
7 3 (0.051%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.017%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 86 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.27%) Simulink
5 8 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.068%) CATIA
8 2 (0.034%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 24 (0.41%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.14%) 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
10 1 (0.017%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 1,695 (28.78%) Azure
2 807 (13.70%) Microsoft 365
3 469 (7.96%) Entra ID
4 446 (7.57%) AWS
5 189 (3.21%) SaaS
6 147 (2.50%) GCP
7 87 (1.48%) Azure Sentinel
8 86 (1.46%) Power Platform
9 84 (1.43%) OneDrive
10 79 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
11 57 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
12 54 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
13 53 (0.90%) Serverless
14 45 (0.76%) Mimecast
15 28 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
16 27 (0.46%) GitHub
16 27 (0.46%) IaaS
16 27 (0.46%) PaaS
16 27 (0.46%) Power Automate
17 26 (0.44%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 526 (8.93%) Firewall
2 255 (4.33%) DNS
3 243 (4.13%) Network Security
4 230 (3.90%) VPN
5 179 (3.04%) DHCP
6 175 (2.97%) WAN
7 172 (2.92%) TCP/IP
8 159 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
9 151 (2.56%) LAN
10 129 (2.19%) VLAN
11 96 (1.63%) Internet
12 89 (1.51%) VoIP
13 83 (1.41%) Wireless
14 57 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
15 47 (0.80%) Unified Communications
16 44 (0.75%) HTTP
16 44 (0.75%) SSL
17 35 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
18 34 (0.58%) Wireshark
19 32 (0.54%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (0.90%) SQL Server
2 51 (0.87%) 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 (0.085%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.085%) Metadata
9 5 (0.085%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.068%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.068%) Crystal Reports
10 4 (0.068%) Neo4j
10 4 (0.068%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.068%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (0.71%) JIRA
2 40 (0.68%) Git
3 30 (0.51%) Burp Suite
4 28 (0.48%) 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 (0.085%) Rational DOORS
11 5 (0.085%) VersionOne
12 4 (0.068%) Apache Continuum
12 4 (0.068%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.068%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.068%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.051%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.051%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.034%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.034%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2,010 (34.13%) Social Skills
2 571 (9.69%) Finance
3 448 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
4 362 (6.15%) Public Sector
5 337 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 188 (3.19%) Retail
7 187 (3.17%) Legal
8 184 (3.12%) Law
9 183 (3.11%) Marketing
10 180 (3.06%) Telecoms
11 165 (2.80%) Manufacturing
12 143 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
13 133 (2.26%) Banking
14 120 (2.04%) Aerospace
15 119 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
16 59 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
17 54 (0.92%) Local Government
18 53 (0.90%) Advertising
19 48 (0.81%) Aviation
20 30 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 927 (15.74%) Analyst
2 719 (12.21%) Security Analyst
3 680 (11.54%) Senior
4 626 (10.63%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 529 (8.98%) Consultant
6 468 (7.95%) Junior
7 393 (6.67%) Junior Analyst
8 385 (6.54%) Lead
9 383 (6.50%) Junior Security Analyst
10 376 (6.38%) Ethical Hacker
11 368 (6.25%) Architect
12 321 (5.45%) Security Consultant
13 320 (5.43%) Security Manager
14 310 (5.26%) IT Support
15 272 (4.62%) Security Engineer
16 262 (4.45%) Security Architect
17 254 (4.31%) IT Manager
18 237 (4.02%) IT Engineer
19 227 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Manager
20 208 (3.53%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (1.32%) Terraform
2 48 (0.81%) SAML
3 45 (0.76%) LDAP
4 42 (0.71%) OAuth
5 36 (0.61%) OpenID
6 35 (0.59%) REST
7 26 (0.44%) .NET
8 21 (0.36%) React
9 20 (0.34%) JSON
10 19 (0.32%) Node.js
11 18 (0.31%) Kafka
12 15 (0.25%) HTML
12 15 (0.25%) RESTful
12 15 (0.25%) SailPoint
12 15 (0.25%) XML
13 14 (0.24%) FastAPI
14 12 (0.20%) AngularJS
15 11 (0.19%) Middleware
16 10 (0.17%) CSS
16 10 (0.17%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 473 (8.03%) Cyberattack
2 359 (6.10%) Security Posture
3 296 (5.03%) Cyber Threat
4 255 (4.33%) Onboarding
5 232 (3.94%) Management Information System
6 183 (3.11%) Driving Licence
7 167 (2.84%) Operational Technology
8 159 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
9 137 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
10 104 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
11 103 (1.75%) Data Centre
12 98 (1.66%) Cloud Native
13 64 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
14 59 (1.00%) PKI
15 51 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
16 45 (0.76%) Cyber Security Posture
17 44 (0.75%) SCADA
18 40 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
19 35 (0.59%) CSOC
19 35 (0.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 610 (10.36%) Windows
2 299 (5.08%) Windows Server
3 227 (3.85%) Linux
4 77 (1.31%) 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 (0.32%) Android
10 16 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.085%) CentOS
12 5 (0.085%) Unix
13 4 (0.068%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.068%) 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
1 773 (13.12%) Mentoring
2 719 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
3 682 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 568 (9.64%) AI
5 551 (9.35%) Information Security
6 530 (9.00%) Incident Response
7 526 (8.93%) Risk Management
8 510 (8.66%) Security Operations
9 457 (7.76%) SIEM
9 457 (7.76%) Vulnerability Management
10 432 (7.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 417 (7.08%) Cloud Security
12 384 (6.52%) Disaster Recovery
13 383 (6.50%) Ethical Hacking
14 374 (6.35%) Decision-Making
15 317 (5.38%) Roadmaps
16 308 (5.23%) Service Delivery
17 306 (5.20%) Data Protection
18 289 (4.91%) ITIL
19 281 (4.77%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 313 (5.31%) Python
2 236 (4.01%) PowerShell
3 95 (1.61%) SQL
4 72 (1.22%) C++
5 59 (1.00%) Bash
6 53 (0.90%) JavaScript
7 49 (0.83%) Java
7 49 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
8 36 (0.61%) C#
9 33 (0.56%) Rust
10 28 (0.48%) Go
11 25 (0.42%) C
12 21 (0.36%) TypeScript
13 18 (0.31%) MATLAB
14 16 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
15 14 (0.24%) Embedded C
16 12 (0.20%) Perl
17 6 (0.10%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.068%) Embedded C++
18 4 (0.068%) Swift
Qualifications
1 829 (14.07%) Azure Certification
2 720 (12.22%) Security Cleared
3 528 (8.96%) Degree
4 514 (8.73%) CompTIA Security+
5 493 (8.37%) SC Cleared
6 476 (8.08%) CISSP
7 446 (7.57%) CEH
8 418 (7.10%) CompTIA CySA+
9 310 (5.26%) CISM
10 233 (3.96%) DV Cleared
11 163 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
12 120 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
13 103 (1.75%) CRISC
14 96 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
15 88 (1.49%) Master's Degree
16 87 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 86 (1.46%) CISA
18 81 (1.38%) CREST Certified
19 73 (1.24%) AWS Certification
20 67 (1.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 665 (11.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 521 (8.85%) NIST
3 338 (5.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 334 (5.67%) GDPR
5 315 (5.35%) GRC
6 143 (2.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 142 (2.41%) PCI DSS
8 115 (1.95%) NCSC
9 96 (1.63%) QA
10 58 (0.98%) SOC 2
11 49 (0.83%) Accessibility
12 46 (0.78%) NIST 800
12 46 (0.78%) SLA
13 35 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 34 (0.58%) COBIT
14 34 (0.58%) Data Quality
15 33 (0.56%) JSP 440
16 27 (0.46%) ISO 22301
17 23 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 20 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 468 (7.95%) Active Directory
2 164 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 141 (2.39%) Hyper-V
4 63 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (0.87%) Docker
6 40 (0.68%) Firmware
7 26 (0.44%) vSphere
8 15 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 12 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 11 (0.19%) IAG
12 10 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
13 8 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
14 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
15 5 (0.085%) ClearTrust
16 3 (0.051%) BitLocker
16 3 (0.051%) VMware Server
17 2 (0.034%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 272 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 76 (1.29%) Kubernetes
3 63 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
4 47 (0.80%) Ansible
5 25 (0.42%) Nmap
6 24 (0.41%) Nessus
7 22 (0.37%) QRadar
8 21 (0.36%) FortiGate
8 21 (0.36%) Grafana
8 21 (0.36%) SCCM
9 20 (0.34%) CASB
10 15 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
11 13 (0.22%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.15%) Kibana
13 8 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
13 8 (0.14%) Functional Safety
14 7 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
14 7 (0.12%) Graylog
15 6 (0.10%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.085%) Podman
Vendors
1 2,021 (34.31%) Microsoft
2 752 (12.77%) ForeScout
3 221 (3.75%) Cisco
4 212 (3.60%) VMware
5 172 (2.92%) Palo Alto
6 110 (1.87%) Splunk
7 97 (1.65%) CrowdStrike
8 77 (1.31%) Google
8 77 (1.31%) Qualys
9 68 (1.15%) Aruba
9 68 (1.15%) ServiceNow
10 63 (1.07%) Salesforce
11 62 (1.05%) Apple
12 60 (1.02%) Tenable
13 59 (1.00%) Fortinet
14 51 (0.87%) Veeam
15 41 (0.70%) Adobe
16 40 (0.68%) SAP
17 39 (0.66%) CyberArk
17 39 (0.66%) SonicWALL