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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 35 31
Rank change year-on-year +28 -4 +23
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 8,027 2,460 4,784
As % of all permanent jobs in England 9.65% 6.31% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.03% 6.76% 6.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,983 1,469 3,504
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,971 £35,631
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £43,395
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,670 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% -3.08% -8.46%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -1.68% -8.46%

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 61,595 36,399 73,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.07% 93.30% 83.66%
Number of salaries quoted 41,041 19,603 54,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +31 2,334 £52,000 -0.95% 289
Midlands +33 1,923 £55,000 +8.48% 146
North West +44 1,513 £55,000 - 157
London +15 1,452 £71,000 -5.33% 273
West Midlands +21 1,429 £54,500 -5.22% 74
South East +24 1,142 £50,000 -9.09% 315
Yorkshire +15 671 £47,500 +57.02% 96
South West +26 586 £60,000 +33.33% 136
East of England +69 539 £40,000 -15.79% 100
East Midlands +49 505 £55,000 +61.76% 72
North East +28 150 £45,000 -30.77% 37
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
1 144 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 117 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (0.12%) Apache
3 10 (0.12%) CMS
4 5 (0.062%) SAS
5 4 (0.050%) IIS
5 4 (0.050%) WordPress
6 3 (0.037%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.025%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.025%) Confluence
8 1 (0.012%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 82 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.29%) Simulink
5 7 (0.087%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.075%) CATIA
7 5 (0.062%) Maya
8 4 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.025%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.012%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 25 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.30%) Cloudability
3 16 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 11 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.062%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.050%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.050%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.037%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.037%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.037%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.025%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.025%) Shopify
9 1 (0.012%) Maximo
9 1 (0.012%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.012%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.012%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,471 (30.78%) Cloud Computing
2 2,469 (30.76%) Azure
3 565 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
4 494 (6.15%) AWS
5 328 (4.09%) Entra ID
6 135 (1.68%) GCP
7 128 (1.59%) SaaS
8 98 (1.22%) GitHub
9 71 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
9 71 (0.88%) Power Platform
10 66 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
11 43 (0.54%) Serverless
12 40 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
12 40 (0.50%) OneDrive
13 39 (0.49%) Google Workspace
14 31 (0.39%) Mimecast
15 29 (0.36%) PaaS
16 28 (0.35%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (0.34%) IaaS
17 27 (0.34%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2,554 (31.82%) Internet
2 382 (4.76%) Firewall
3 175 (2.18%) Network Security
4 160 (1.99%) VPN
5 134 (1.67%) DNS
6 99 (1.23%) WAN
7 93 (1.16%) DHCP
8 87 (1.08%) LAN
9 80 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
10 72 (0.90%) TCP/IP
10 72 (0.90%) VLAN
11 47 (0.59%) Broadband
12 45 (0.56%) VoIP
13 34 (0.42%) Unified Communications
14 29 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
15 25 (0.31%) HTTP
16 24 (0.30%) SSL
16 24 (0.30%) Wireless
17 20 (0.25%) CHAP
18 19 (0.24%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (0.50%) Power BI
2 25 (0.31%) SQL Server
3 22 (0.27%) Big Data
4 18 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (0.19%) Tableau
6 14 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (0.15%) Neo4j
8 9 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (0.11%) MySQL
9 6 (0.075%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.062%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.050%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.050%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.037%) GIS
12 3 (0.037%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.037%) Metadata
13 2 (0.025%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.025%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.025%) Impala
13 2 (0.025%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 99 (1.23%) Git
2 36 (0.45%) GitLab
3 29 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
4 25 (0.31%) Snyk
5 23 (0.29%) JIRA
6 12 (0.15%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.087%) Burp Suite
7 7 (0.087%) Metasploit
7 7 (0.087%) Yeoman
8 6 (0.075%) Apache Continuum
8 6 (0.075%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.062%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.062%) VersionOne
10 4 (0.050%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.050%) JMeter
10 4 (0.050%) Locust
10 4 (0.050%) MLflow
11 2 (0.025%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.025%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.025%) Visual Studio
General
1 4,893 (60.96%) Social Skills
2 2,732 (34.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,570 (32.02%) Banking
4 518 (6.45%) Finance
5 405 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
6 232 (2.89%) Public Sector
7 178 (2.22%) Multimedia
8 168 (2.09%) Retail
9 159 (1.98%) Marketing
10 136 (1.69%) Law
11 128 (1.59%) Legal
12 123 (1.53%) Telecoms
13 113 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
14 93 (1.16%) Manufacturing
15 76 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
16 66 (0.82%) Local Government
17 52 (0.65%) Aerospace
18 42 (0.52%) Aviation
19 39 (0.49%) Advertising
20 35 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,871 (23.31%) Lecturer
2 1,264 (15.75%) Analyst
3 1,101 (13.72%) Security Analyst
4 1,026 (12.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 880 (10.96%) Junior
6 850 (10.59%) Junior Analyst
7 849 (10.58%) Junior Security Analyst
8 705 (8.78%) Ethical Hacker
9 515 (6.42%) Senior
10 337 (4.20%) Architect
11 303 (3.77%) Consultant
12 271 (3.38%) Lead
13 265 (3.30%) Security Manager
14 245 (3.05%) Security Architect
15 224 (2.79%) IT Support
16 204 (2.54%) Trainee
17 200 (2.49%) Security Engineer
18 194 (2.42%) IT Manager
19 187 (2.33%) Security Consultant
20 184 (2.29%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (1.31%) HTML
2 101 (1.26%) CSS
3 55 (0.69%) REST
4 50 (0.62%) SAML
5 49 (0.61%) LDAP
5 49 (0.61%) OAuth
6 45 (0.56%) OpenID
7 33 (0.41%) React
8 30 (0.37%) SOAP
9 25 (0.31%) GraphQL
10 17 (0.21%) SailPoint
11 16 (0.20%) Kafka
12 14 (0.17%) AngularJS
12 14 (0.17%) Node.js
13 13 (0.16%) .NET
13 13 (0.16%) RESTful
14 12 (0.15%) FastAPI
15 11 (0.14%) Middleware
16 9 (0.11%) JSON
16 9 (0.11%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 2,462 (30.67%) IoT
2 806 (10.04%) Cyberattack
3 267 (3.33%) Security Posture
4 193 (2.40%) Management Information System
5 171 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
5 171 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 129 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
7 109 (1.36%) Driving Licence
8 100 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
9 98 (1.22%) Cyber Defence
10 95 (1.18%) Operational Technology
11 82 (1.02%) Data Centre
12 76 (0.95%) Cloud Native
13 53 (0.66%) PKI
14 46 (0.57%) Cyber Security Posture
15 44 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
16 43 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
17 40 (0.50%) Blog
18 34 (0.42%) Cloud Security Posture
19 33 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 440 (5.48%) Windows
2 211 (2.63%) Windows Server
3 158 (1.97%) Linux
4 53 (0.66%) Windows 10
5 48 (0.60%) Mac OS
6 30 (0.37%) Android
7 23 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 22 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 20 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (0.12%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.075%) CentOS
12 6 (0.075%) VMS
13 5 (0.062%) Unix
14 2 (0.025%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.012%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.012%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.012%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,756 (34.33%) AI
2 2,492 (31.05%) Machine Learning
3 2,487 (30.98%) User Experience
4 2,448 (30.50%) Web Development
5 1,371 (17.08%) Mentoring
6 807 (10.05%) Ethical Hacking
7 503 (6.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 463 (5.77%) Incident Response
9 462 (5.76%) Problem-Solving
10 423 (5.27%) Information Security
11 407 (5.07%) Risk Management
12 334 (4.16%) Security Operations
13 322 (4.01%) Cloud Security
14 320 (3.99%) SIEM
15 265 (3.30%) Vulnerability Management
16 244 (3.04%) Disaster Recovery
17 241 (3.00%) Agile
18 237 (2.95%) Roadmaps
19 234 (2.92%) Decision-Making
20 229 (2.85%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 357 (4.45%) Python
2 253 (3.15%) PowerShell
3 155 (1.93%) JavaScript
4 111 (1.38%) SQL
5 80 (1.00%) Bash
6 49 (0.61%) C++
7 48 (0.60%) R
8 39 (0.49%) Java
9 32 (0.40%) C#
10 27 (0.34%) MATLAB
11 24 (0.30%) T-SQL
12 22 (0.27%) TypeScript
13 21 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
14 18 (0.22%) Go
15 17 (0.21%) Rust
16 13 (0.16%) C
17 10 (0.12%) Perl
18 7 (0.087%) PHP
18 7 (0.087%) Search Processing Language
19 3 (0.037%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,864 (35.68%) Degree
2 2,503 (31.18%) Master's Degree
3 2,436 (30.35%) PhD
3 2,436 (30.35%) Postgraduate
4 1,681 (20.94%) Azure Certification
5 1,030 (12.83%) CompTIA Security+
6 894 (11.14%) CompTIA CySA+
7 860 (10.71%) CEH
8 468 (5.83%) Security Cleared
9 399 (4.97%) CISSP
10 331 (4.12%) SC Cleared
11 255 (3.18%) CISM
12 161 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
13 152 (1.89%) DV Cleared
14 148 (1.84%) AWS Certification
15 136 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
16 124 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
17 117 (1.46%) A+ Certification
18 103 (1.28%) CISA
19 96 (1.20%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 554 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 508 (6.33%) NIST
3 297 (3.70%) GDPR
4 259 (3.23%) GRC
5 258 (3.21%) Cyber Essentials
6 139 (1.73%) PCI DSS
7 124 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 110 (1.37%) NCSC
9 107 (1.33%) QA
10 53 (0.66%) SOC 2
11 47 (0.59%) SLA
12 43 (0.54%) NIST 800
13 37 (0.46%) Accessibility
14 35 (0.44%) COBIT
15 31 (0.39%) JSP 440
16 29 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
17 26 (0.32%) Data Quality
18 20 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 17 (0.21%) HIPAA
20 15 (0.19%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 362 (4.51%) Active Directory
2 91 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (0.93%) Hyper-V
4 57 (0.71%) Docker
5 43 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.31%) vSphere
7 12 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 11 (0.14%) IAG
9 9 (0.11%) Firmware
9 9 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (0.075%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.037%) ClearTrust
11 3 (0.037%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.012%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.012%) KVM
Systems Management
1 175 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 87 (1.08%) Terraform
3 75 (0.93%) Kubernetes
4 37 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
5 36 (0.45%) Ansible
6 28 (0.35%) Grafana
7 18 (0.22%) SCCM
8 17 (0.21%) QRadar
9 16 (0.20%) CASB
10 15 (0.19%) Prometheus
11 13 (0.16%) FortiGate
12 10 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 10 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 10 (0.12%) CSIRT
13 9 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
14 8 (0.100%) vCenter Server
14 8 (0.100%) VxRail
15 7 (0.087%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (0.087%) Kibana
15 7 (0.087%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 2,567 (31.98%) Microsoft
2 1,552 (19.33%) ForeScout
3 132 (1.64%) VMware
4 126 (1.57%) Cisco
5 110 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
6 93 (1.16%) Palo Alto
7 75 (0.93%) Apple
8 73 (0.91%) Splunk
9 62 (0.77%) Fortinet
10 60 (0.75%) Google
11 58 (0.72%) Tenable
12 56 (0.70%) Adobe
13 47 (0.59%) ServiceNow
14 44 (0.55%) Salesforce
15 37 (0.46%) SAP
16 31 (0.39%) Dell
17 27 (0.34%) Veeam
18 26 (0.32%) CyberArk
18 26 (0.32%) Siemens
19 23 (0.29%) Aruba