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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 33 39
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 +10
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 6,014 2,778 3,636
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.48% 6.38% 4.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.79% 7.12% 6.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,520 1,697 2,484
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £79,250 £75,000 £75,063
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% -8.11%

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 68,438 39,016 59,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.74% 89.57% 81.29%
Number of salaries quoted 48,346 22,579 39,414
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 6 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 6 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 +12 1,439 £75,000 +3.45% 1,032
North of England +16 1,345 £50,000 +1.52% 457
South East +8 1,095 £55,000 +10.00% 482
Midlands +19 1,039 £55,000 +15.79% 251
North West +28 646 £55,000 - 239
South West +8 593 £55,000 +15.79% 262
Yorkshire +13 537 £42,500 +28.79% 168
West Midlands +7 527 £57,500 +7.10% 128
East Midlands +40 511 £55,000 +57.14% 123
East of England +57 480 £45,000 -5.26% 152
North East +22 162 £50,000 -26.95% 52
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
1 191 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 189 (3.14%) SharePoint
3 19 (0.32%) Apache
4 17 (0.28%) IIS
5 10 (0.17%) CMS
6 9 (0.15%) Confluence
6 9 (0.15%) SAS
7 5 (0.083%) WordPress
8 4 (0.067%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.050%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.033%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.017%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 85 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.18%) Simulink
5 6 (0.100%) CATIA
5 6 (0.100%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.033%) SmartSuite
8 1 (0.017%) Maya
8 1 (0.017%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.017%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 24 (0.40%) Cloudability
2 14 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.100%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.100%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.083%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.083%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.050%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.050%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.050%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.050%) Q-Pulse
8 2 (0.033%) Infor CloudSuite
8 2 (0.033%) Infor LN
8 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.033%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.033%) Shopify
8 2 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.033%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2,202 (36.61%) Azure
2 727 (12.09%) Microsoft 365
3 470 (7.82%) AWS
4 386 (6.42%) Entra ID
5 183 (3.04%) SaaS
6 154 (2.56%) GCP
7 82 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
8 69 (1.15%) Power Platform
9 64 (1.06%) OneDrive
10 62 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
11 48 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
12 44 (0.73%) Serverless
13 41 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
14 40 (0.67%) Mimecast
15 32 (0.53%) GitHub
16 28 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
17 26 (0.43%) PaaS
18 25 (0.42%) Google Workspace
19 24 (0.40%) IaaS
20 21 (0.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 475 (7.90%) Firewall
2 229 (3.81%) Network Security
3 197 (3.28%) DNS
4 196 (3.26%) VPN
5 150 (2.49%) WAN
6 145 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
7 132 (2.19%) LAN
8 130 (2.16%) DHCP
9 121 (2.01%) TCP/IP
10 106 (1.76%) VLAN
11 87 (1.45%) Internet
12 69 (1.15%) VoIP
13 56 (0.93%) Wireless
14 43 (0.71%) Unified Communications
15 41 (0.68%) HTTP
16 40 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
17 35 (0.58%) SSL
18 32 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
19 28 (0.47%) SD-WAN
20 26 (0.43%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (0.73%) Power BI
2 42 (0.70%) SQL Server
3 14 (0.23%) MongoDB
4 13 (0.22%) Big Data
4 13 (0.22%) MySQL
5 12 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (0.17%) Tableau
7 9 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.12%) GIS
9 6 (0.100%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.100%) Metadata
9 6 (0.100%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.100%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.067%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.050%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.050%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.033%) Flink
12 2 (0.033%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 43 (0.71%) JIRA
2 42 (0.70%) Git
3 29 (0.48%) GitLab
4 27 (0.45%) Snyk
5 21 (0.35%) Burp Suite
6 20 (0.33%) Metasploit
7 16 (0.27%) Jenkins
8 14 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
9 9 (0.15%) Yeoman
10 6 (0.100%) Apache Continuum
11 5 (0.083%) JMeter
11 5 (0.083%) VersionOne
12 4 (0.067%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.067%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.067%) Locust
12 4 (0.067%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.067%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.050%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.033%) Claude Code
15 1 (0.017%) Zephyr
General
1 2,362 (39.28%) Social Skills
2 544 (9.05%) Finance
3 427 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
4 318 (5.29%) Public Sector
5 310 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 175 (2.91%) Law
7 172 (2.86%) Marketing
8 169 (2.81%) Retail
9 164 (2.73%) Telecoms
10 162 (2.69%) Legal
11 137 (2.28%) Manufacturing
12 124 (2.06%) Banking
13 116 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
14 97 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
15 88 (1.46%) Aerospace
16 59 (0.98%) Local Government
17 58 (0.96%) Advertising
18 46 (0.76%) Multimedia
19 40 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
20 34 (0.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,147 (19.07%) Analyst
2 964 (16.03%) Security Analyst
3 866 (14.40%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 690 (11.47%) Junior
5 658 (10.94%) Ethical Hacker
6 625 (10.39%) Junior Analyst
6 625 (10.39%) Senior
7 615 (10.23%) Junior Security Analyst
8 456 (7.58%) Consultant
9 361 (6.00%) Architect
10 330 (5.49%) Lead
11 291 (4.84%) Security Consultant
12 279 (4.64%) Security Manager
13 277 (4.61%) IT Support
14 249 (4.14%) IT Manager
15 245 (4.07%) Security Architect
16 230 (3.82%) Security Engineer
17 200 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
18 193 (3.21%) IT Engineer
19 188 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (0.88%) SAML
2 47 (0.78%) OAuth
3 45 (0.75%) LDAP
4 41 (0.68%) OpenID
5 38 (0.63%) REST
6 30 (0.50%) HTML
7 23 (0.38%) CSS
8 21 (0.35%) Kafka
8 21 (0.35%) React
9 18 (0.30%) .NET
9 18 (0.30%) JSON
10 17 (0.28%) Node.js
10 17 (0.28%) SailPoint
11 15 (0.25%) RESTful
11 15 (0.25%) XML
12 13 (0.22%) Middleware
12 13 (0.22%) XMPP
13 12 (0.20%) AngularJS
13 12 (0.20%) FastAPI
14 11 (0.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 760 (12.64%) Cyberattack
2 339 (5.64%) Security Posture
3 248 (4.12%) Cyber Threat
4 226 (3.76%) Onboarding
5 219 (3.64%) Management Information System
6 169 (2.81%) Driving Licence
7 161 (2.68%) Security Operations Centre
8 139 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
9 115 (1.91%) Operational Technology
10 99 (1.65%) Cyber Defence
11 95 (1.58%) Cloud Native
12 85 (1.41%) Data Centre
13 60 (1.00%) PKI
14 58 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
15 44 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
16 42 (0.70%) Cyber Security Posture
17 38 (0.63%) CSOC
18 35 (0.58%) Blog
19 30 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
20 28 (0.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 561 (9.33%) Windows
2 275 (4.57%) Windows Server
3 204 (3.39%) Linux
4 69 (1.15%) Mac OS
5 31 (0.52%) Windows 10
6 30 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 26 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (0.42%) Android
8 25 (0.42%) Apple iOS
8 25 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 15 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.100%) CentOS
11 4 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.050%) Unix
12 3 (0.050%) VMS
13 2 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.033%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.033%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.033%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.017%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,044 (17.36%) Mentoring
2 700 (11.64%) Ethical Hacking
3 645 (10.72%) Problem-Solving
4 635 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 519 (8.63%) Information Security
6 506 (8.41%) Incident Response
7 484 (8.05%) Risk Management
8 452 (7.52%) Security Operations
9 440 (7.32%) AI
10 428 (7.12%) SIEM
11 405 (6.73%) Cloud Security
12 399 (6.63%) Vulnerability Management
13 339 (5.64%) Disaster Recovery
14 335 (5.57%) Decision-Making
15 317 (5.27%) Stakeholder Management
16 286 (4.76%) Roadmaps
17 271 (4.51%) Agile
18 268 (4.46%) Service Delivery
19 254 (4.22%) ITIL
20 252 (4.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 306 (5.09%) Python
2 237 (3.94%) PowerShell
3 89 (1.48%) SQL
4 69 (1.15%) C++
4 69 (1.15%) JavaScript
5 60 (1.00%) Bash
6 42 (0.70%) Java
7 40 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
8 32 (0.53%) Rust
9 29 (0.48%) C#
10 22 (0.37%) Go
11 19 (0.32%) TypeScript
12 15 (0.25%) C
12 15 (0.25%) MATLAB
12 15 (0.25%) Search Processing Language
13 11 (0.18%) Perl
14 6 (0.100%) PHP
14 6 (0.100%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.067%) Ada
15 4 (0.067%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,340 (22.28%) Azure Certification
2 780 (12.97%) CompTIA Security+
3 757 (12.59%) CEH
4 651 (10.82%) CompTIA CySA+
5 625 (10.39%) Security Cleared
6 480 (7.98%) Degree
7 451 (7.50%) CISSP
8 430 (7.15%) SC Cleared
9 290 (4.82%) CISM
10 202 (3.36%) DV Cleared
11 158 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
12 107 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
13 96 (1.60%) CRISC
14 91 (1.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 90 (1.50%) CISA
16 76 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
17 75 (1.25%) AWS Certification
18 72 (1.20%) CREST Certified
18 72 (1.20%) Master's Degree
19 66 (1.10%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 624 (10.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 509 (8.46%) NIST
3 314 (5.22%) GDPR
4 291 (4.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 275 (4.57%) GRC
6 145 (2.41%) PCI DSS
7 139 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 108 (1.80%) QA
9 89 (1.48%) NCSC
10 62 (1.03%) SOC 2
11 42 (0.70%) NIST 800
12 41 (0.68%) Accessibility
13 39 (0.65%) SLA
14 36 (0.60%) COBIT
14 36 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 33 (0.55%) JSP 440
16 27 (0.45%) Data Quality
17 22 (0.37%) ISO 22301
18 21 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
18 21 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 431 (7.17%) Active Directory
2 141 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 118 (1.96%) Hyper-V
4 55 (0.91%) Docker
5 51 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.42%) vSphere
7 24 (0.40%) Firmware
8 14 (0.23%) IAG
9 13 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 12 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.083%) ClearTrust
14 4 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.050%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.050%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.033%) ProxySG
17 1 (0.017%) BitLocker
17 1 (0.017%) Embedded Firmware
17 1 (0.017%) KVM
Systems Management
1 228 (3.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 85 (1.41%) Terraform
3 76 (1.26%) Kubernetes
4 46 (0.76%) Ansible
5 44 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (0.50%) Grafana
7 20 (0.33%) QRadar
8 19 (0.32%) FortiGate
9 17 (0.28%) Nmap
10 16 (0.27%) CASB
10 16 (0.27%) Prometheus
11 15 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
11 15 (0.25%) Nessus
11 15 (0.25%) SCCM
12 10 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
13 9 (0.15%) Kibana
14 8 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
15 6 (0.100%) CSIRT
15 6 (0.100%) Functional Safety
15 6 (0.100%) Graylog
Vendors
1 2,451 (40.75%) Microsoft
2 1,269 (21.10%) ForeScout
3 188 (3.13%) Cisco
4 187 (3.11%) VMware
5 161 (2.68%) Palo Alto
6 109 (1.81%) Splunk
7 100 (1.66%) CrowdStrike
8 72 (1.20%) Google
9 69 (1.15%) Qualys
10 65 (1.08%) ServiceNow
11 64 (1.06%) Fortinet
12 62 (1.03%) Apple
13 60 (1.00%) Aruba
14 56 (0.93%) Tenable
15 55 (0.91%) Salesforce
16 40 (0.67%) SAP
17 39 (0.65%) Veeam
18 38 (0.63%) CyberArk
19 36 (0.60%) Adobe
20 29 (0.48%) Dell