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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 39 29
Rank change year-on-year +32 -10 +22
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 8,712 2,131 4,395
As % of all permanent jobs in England 12.44% 5.82% 5.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.20% 6.24% 6.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,474 1,491 3,411
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +0.80% -8.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -12.50% +0.80% -8.42%

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 53,786 34,133 67,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 76.78% 93.22% 86.35%
Number of salaries quoted 33,742 20,386 52,114
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,762 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,163 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.06% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 March 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 March 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 +37 2,720 £40,000 -23.81% 296
North West +34 1,936 £42,500 -22.73% 147
Midlands +29 1,730 £45,000 -21.74% 166
London +23 1,519 £70,079 -3.34% 426
South East +38 1,398 £47,750 -13.18% 351
West Midlands +25 1,316 £43,500 -30.40% 83
East of England +44 727 £35,000 -26.32% 111
Yorkshire +43 654 £31,000 -31.11% 112
South West +33 566 £57,500 +27.78% 150
East Midlands +42 425 £45,000 +16.13% 82
North East +41 130 £30,500 -17.50% 40
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
1 121 (1.39%) SharePoint
2 76 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (0.14%) CMS
4 10 (0.11%) Confluence
5 6 (0.069%) nginx
5 6 (0.069%) WordPress
6 5 (0.057%) Apache
6 5 (0.057%) Drupal
7 3 (0.034%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.023%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.023%) SAS
9 1 (0.011%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.011%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 92 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (0.28%) Simulink
5 21 (0.24%) Maya
6 18 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.10%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.057%) CATIA
9 4 (0.046%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.046%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.023%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.023%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 25 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.080%) Shopify
4 4 (0.046%) Dynamics GP
4 4 (0.046%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.046%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.046%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.034%) Endur
5 3 (0.034%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.034%) Yoast SEO
6 2 (0.023%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 2 (0.023%) Carpe Diem
6 2 (0.023%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.023%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.023%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.023%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.023%) SAP FS
6 2 (0.023%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.023%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 4,054 (46.53%) Cloud Computing
2 2,234 (25.64%) Azure
3 550 (6.31%) AWS
4 441 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
5 288 (3.31%) Entra ID
6 196 (2.25%) GitHub
7 99 (1.14%) SaaS
8 87 (1.00%) GCP
9 67 (0.77%) Power Platform
10 54 (0.62%) Azure Sentinel
11 51 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
12 45 (0.52%) PaaS
13 36 (0.41%) Azure DevOps
13 36 (0.41%) Nutanix
14 35 (0.40%) Google Workspace
15 31 (0.36%) IaaS
16 28 (0.32%) AWS CloudFormation
17 26 (0.30%) Mimecast
18 22 (0.25%) Dynamics 365
18 22 (0.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4,213 (48.36%) Internet
2 309 (3.55%) Firewall
3 147 (1.69%) Network Security
4 122 (1.40%) VPN
5 90 (1.03%) DNS
6 75 (0.86%) DHCP
7 66 (0.76%) VLAN
7 66 (0.76%) WAN
8 61 (0.70%) LAN
9 55 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
10 50 (0.57%) TCP/IP
11 37 (0.42%) Broadband
12 35 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
13 28 (0.32%) VoIP
14 25 (0.29%) Wireless
15 23 (0.26%) CHAP
16 18 (0.21%) SD-WAN
17 15 (0.17%) DMZ
18 14 (0.16%) Unified Communications
19 12 (0.14%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (0.39%) Power BI
2 24 (0.28%) Big Data
3 23 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
3 23 (0.26%) SQL Server
4 20 (0.23%) Tableau
5 19 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (0.22%) Neo4j
6 11 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (0.10%) Metadata
8 8 (0.092%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.057%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.057%) MariaDB
9 5 (0.057%) MySQL
9 5 (0.057%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.057%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.046%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.046%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.034%) SAP BW
12 2 (0.023%) Apache Hive
12 2 (0.023%) Impala
Development Applications
1 200 (2.30%) Git
2 30 (0.34%) JIRA
3 29 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
4 24 (0.28%) GitLab
5 13 (0.15%) Jenkins
6 12 (0.14%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.092%) JMeter
7 8 (0.092%) Locust
8 5 (0.057%) Apache Continuum
8 5 (0.057%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.057%) Metasploit
9 4 (0.046%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.046%) MLflow
10 3 (0.034%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.011%) GDB
11 1 (0.011%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.011%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.011%) WinDbg
11 1 (0.011%) Yeoman
General
1 6,193 (71.09%) Social Skills
2 4,214 (48.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,167 (47.83%) Banking
4 523 (6.00%) Finance
5 358 (4.11%) Multimedia
6 326 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
7 196 (2.25%) Public Sector
8 157 (1.80%) Marketing
9 156 (1.79%) Legal
10 148 (1.70%) Law
11 123 (1.41%) Telecoms
12 122 (1.40%) Retail
13 121 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
14 89 (1.02%) Manufacturing
15 66 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
16 50 (0.57%) Local Government
17 47 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
17 47 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
18 44 (0.51%) Electronics
18 44 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 3,144 (36.09%) Lecturer
2 1,077 (12.36%) Analyst
3 954 (10.95%) Security Analyst
4 894 (10.26%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 826 (9.48%) Junior
6 802 (9.21%) Junior Analyst
7 801 (9.19%) Junior Security Analyst
8 517 (5.93%) Ethical Hacker
9 368 (4.22%) Senior
10 363 (4.17%) Trainee
11 257 (2.95%) Consultant
12 232 (2.66%) Lead
13 231 (2.65%) Architect
14 211 (2.42%) IT Support
15 159 (1.83%) Security Consultant
16 158 (1.81%) Security Manager
17 157 (1.80%) Developer
18 153 (1.76%) Security Engineer
19 146 (1.68%) IT Manager
20 137 (1.57%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (2.38%) HTML
2 206 (2.36%) CSS
3 41 (0.47%) REST
4 36 (0.41%) OAuth
5 35 (0.40%) React
5 35 (0.40%) SAML
6 33 (0.38%) OpenID
7 30 (0.34%) LDAP
8 27 (0.31%) SOAP
9 26 (0.30%) GraphQL
10 20 (0.23%) AngularJS
11 18 (0.21%) SAP CAF
12 17 (0.20%) MERN Stack
13 14 (0.16%) SailPoint
14 10 (0.11%) Tailwind CSS
14 10 (0.11%) YAML
15 9 (0.10%) Node.js
16 8 (0.092%) Gherkin
16 8 (0.092%) Middleware
16 8 (0.092%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4,070 (46.72%) IoT
2 583 (6.69%) Cyberattack
3 216 (2.48%) Security Posture
4 177 (2.03%) Management Information System
5 109 (1.25%) Driving Licence
6 107 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
7 102 (1.17%) Onboarding
8 81 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
9 80 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
10 78 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
11 65 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
12 61 (0.70%) Cloud Native
13 60 (0.69%) Data Centre
14 59 (0.68%) Operational Technology
15 52 (0.60%) Blog
16 48 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
17 37 (0.42%) Cyber Security Posture
17 37 (0.42%) PKI
18 34 (0.39%) Public Cloud
19 31 (0.36%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 378 (4.34%) Windows
2 173 (1.99%) Windows Server
3 141 (1.62%) Linux
4 68 (0.78%) Windows 10
5 45 (0.52%) Mac OS
6 27 (0.31%) Android
7 21 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.11%) Unix
10 6 (0.069%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.069%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.046%) VMS
12 3 (0.034%) CentOS
12 3 (0.034%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.011%) Debian
13 1 (0.011%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.011%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.011%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.011%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,249 (48.77%) AI
2 4,059 (46.59%) Machine Learning
3 4,051 (46.50%) User Experience
4 4,038 (46.35%) Web Development
5 1,411 (16.20%) Mentoring
6 692 (7.94%) Ethical Hacking
7 433 (4.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 420 (4.82%) Problem-Solving
9 373 (4.28%) Risk Management
10 362 (4.16%) Information Security
11 354 (4.06%) Incident Response
12 275 (3.16%) Agile
13 233 (2.67%) SIEM
14 225 (2.58%) Cloud Security
15 203 (2.33%) ITIL
16 198 (2.27%) Line Management
17 192 (2.20%) Roadmaps
18 188 (2.16%) Security Operations
19 187 (2.15%) Disaster Recovery
20 186 (2.13%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 406 (4.66%) Python
2 251 (2.88%) JavaScript
3 195 (2.24%) PowerShell
4 104 (1.19%) SQL
5 99 (1.14%) R
6 63 (0.72%) Bash
7 43 (0.49%) Java
8 34 (0.39%) C++
9 31 (0.36%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.30%) MATLAB
11 25 (0.29%) T-SQL
12 23 (0.26%) C
13 22 (0.25%) C#
14 10 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.10%) Go
16 8 (0.092%) Rust
17 6 (0.069%) PHP
18 4 (0.046%) Kotlin
19 3 (0.034%) Bicep
19 3 (0.034%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 4,431 (50.86%) Degree
2 4,067 (46.68%) Master's Degree
3 4,010 (46.03%) PhD
4 4,007 (45.99%) Postgraduate
5 1,543 (17.71%) Azure Certification
6 1,024 (11.75%) CompTIA Security+
7 841 (9.65%) CompTIA CySA+
8 738 (8.47%) CEH
9 358 (4.11%) CISSP
10 313 (3.59%) Security Cleared
11 259 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 239 (2.74%) CISM
13 236 (2.71%) AWS Certification
14 205 (2.35%) SC Cleared
15 194 (2.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 191 (2.19%) Network+ Certification
17 179 (2.05%) A+ Certification
18 109 (1.25%) DV Cleared
19 105 (1.21%) CISA
20 104 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 508 (5.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 473 (5.43%) NIST
3 275 (3.16%) GDPR
4 226 (2.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 186 (2.13%) GRC
6 122 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 115 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 102 (1.17%) NCSC
9 78 (0.90%) QA
10 47 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 43 (0.49%) COBIT
12 39 (0.45%) NIST 800
13 38 (0.44%) SLA
14 34 (0.39%) Accessibility
15 27 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 24 (0.28%) Data Quality
17 21 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
18 20 (0.23%) JSP 440
19 19 (0.22%) ISO 22301
20 18 (0.21%) SOC 3
System Software
1 307 (3.52%) Active Directory
2 71 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 56 (0.64%) Docker
5 27 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.25%) vSphere
7 10 (0.11%) Firmware
7 10 (0.11%) IAG
8 9 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (0.069%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.023%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.023%) GPFS
12 2 (0.023%) Lustre
13 1 (0.011%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.011%) iptables
13 1 (0.011%) KVM
Systems Management
1 160 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 71 (0.81%) Terraform
3 61 (0.70%) Kubernetes
4 38 (0.44%) Ansible
5 26 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.22%) Grafana
7 16 (0.18%) CASB
8 14 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (0.16%) SCCM
9 11 (0.13%) CSIRT
10 10 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.10%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.092%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.080%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 7 (0.080%) FTK
13 7 (0.080%) Nessus
13 7 (0.080%) VxRail
14 6 (0.069%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.057%) Prometheus
15 5 (0.057%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2,245 (25.77%) Microsoft
2 1,317 (15.12%) ForeScout
3 120 (1.38%) VMware
4 94 (1.08%) Cisco
5 74 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
6 65 (0.75%) Fortinet
7 62 (0.71%) Palo Alto
8 61 (0.70%) Apple
9 49 (0.56%) SAP
10 46 (0.53%) Google
11 42 (0.48%) Splunk
12 35 (0.40%) Salesforce
13 33 (0.38%) Dell
14 31 (0.36%) Tenable
15 30 (0.34%) Oracle
15 30 (0.34%) ServiceNow
15 30 (0.34%) Siemens
16 29 (0.33%) Adobe
17 27 (0.31%) CyberArk
18 20 (0.23%) Commvault