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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 32 37
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,809 2,687 3,432
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.62% 6.24% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.65% 7.02% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,832 1,568 1,790
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,141 £35,536 £46,722
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,275
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -7.08% -7.69%

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 75,980 38,286 55,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.46% 88.94% 82.21%
Number of salaries quoted 53,569 21,806 30,376
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,215 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% -4.03%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 28 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 28 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 +8 1,530 £80,000 +14.29% 1,792
North of England +17 1,157 £51,500 +8.21% 651
South East +11 1,054 £55,000 +10.00% 634
Midlands +17 1,019 £55,000 +15.79% 374
North West +28 618 £60,000 +25.83% 370
South West +1 577 £55,000 +10.00% 356
West Midlands +6 525 £55,000 +10.00% 235
East Midlands +37 494 £55,000 +46.67% 139
East of England +46 446 £49,000 +8.89% 193
Yorkshire +8 405 £42,500 +10.39% 196
North East +4 134 £50,000 -26.95% 88
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
1 249 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 238 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (0.46%) IIS
4 21 (0.36%) Apache
5 11 (0.19%) Confluence
6 9 (0.15%) SAS
7 6 (0.10%) CMS
8 5 (0.086%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.086%) WordPress
9 3 (0.052%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.017%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 94 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 67 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.31%) Simulink
5 14 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.086%) CATIA
8 4 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.034%) SmartSuite
10 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.017%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.017%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (0.41%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.086%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.086%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.069%) Infor CloudSuite
7 4 (0.069%) Infor M3
7 4 (0.069%) SystmOne
8 3 (0.052%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.052%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.052%) Infor LN
8 3 (0.052%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.052%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.034%) Eikon
9 2 (0.034%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 2 (0.034%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.017%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 1,472 (25.34%) Azure
2 844 (14.53%) Microsoft 365
3 509 (8.76%) Entra ID
4 459 (7.90%) AWS
5 201 (3.46%) SaaS
6 160 (2.75%) GCP
7 100 (1.72%) Power Platform
8 93 (1.60%) OneDrive
9 88 (1.51%) Azure Sentinel
10 87 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
11 59 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
11 59 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
12 57 (0.98%) Serverless
13 45 (0.77%) Mimecast
14 42 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
15 34 (0.59%) GitHub
15 34 (0.59%) Power Automate
16 29 (0.50%) Azure Logic Apps
16 29 (0.50%) Google Workspace
17 28 (0.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 515 (8.87%) Firewall
2 273 (4.70%) DNS
3 243 (4.18%) VPN
4 242 (4.17%) Network Security
5 197 (3.39%) DHCP
6 189 (3.25%) TCP/IP
7 182 (3.13%) WAN
8 165 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
9 160 (2.75%) LAN
10 127 (2.19%) VLAN
11 101 (1.74%) Internet
12 88 (1.51%) Wireless
13 87 (1.50%) VoIP
14 58 (1.00%) Cisco Nexus
15 48 (0.83%) HTTP
15 48 (0.83%) SSL
16 43 (0.74%) Unified Communications
17 37 (0.64%) Wireshark
18 32 (0.55%) SD-WAN
19 30 (0.52%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (1.00%) Power BI
2 55 (0.95%) SQL Server
3 17 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (0.26%) Big Data
5 14 (0.24%) GIS
6 13 (0.22%) MySQL
7 12 (0.21%) MongoDB
7 12 (0.21%) Tableau
8 9 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.14%) Metadata
10 7 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.12%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (0.12%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.086%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.069%) Crystal Reports
12 4 (0.069%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.052%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (0.88%) JIRA
2 42 (0.72%) Git
3 31 (0.53%) Burp Suite
4 29 (0.50%) Metasploit
5 27 (0.46%) Snyk
6 21 (0.36%) Jenkins
7 20 (0.34%) GitLab
8 10 (0.17%) Yeoman
9 9 (0.15%) Eclipse
10 7 (0.12%) LabVIEW
11 6 (0.10%) Rational DOORS
12 5 (0.086%) VersionOne
13 4 (0.069%) Apache Continuum
13 4 (0.069%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.069%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.069%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.052%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.052%) Maven
14 3 (0.052%) Team Foundation Server
15 2 (0.034%) Zephyr
General
1 1,806 (31.09%) Social Skills
2 612 (10.54%) Finance
3 452 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
4 389 (6.70%) Public Sector
5 341 (5.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 203 (3.49%) Legal
7 195 (3.36%) Marketing
8 194 (3.34%) Retail
9 190 (3.27%) Law
10 184 (3.17%) Telecoms
11 182 (3.13%) Manufacturing
12 162 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
13 137 (2.36%) Aerospace
14 134 (2.31%) Banking
15 127 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
16 62 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
17 52 (0.90%) Advertising
18 49 (0.84%) Local Government
19 46 (0.79%) Aviation
20 35 (0.60%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 814 (14.01%) Analyst
2 713 (12.27%) Senior
3 588 (10.12%) Security Analyst
4 533 (9.18%) Consultant
5 496 (8.54%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 398 (6.85%) Lead
7 397 (6.83%) Architect
8 333 (5.73%) Security Manager
9 328 (5.65%) Junior
10 326 (5.61%) IT Support
11 315 (5.42%) Security Consultant
12 280 (4.82%) Security Engineer
13 270 (4.65%) Security Architect
14 251 (4.32%) Junior Analyst
15 245 (4.22%) IT Manager
16 244 (4.20%) IT Engineer
17 241 (4.15%) Junior Security Analyst
18 235 (4.05%) Ethical Hacker
19 232 (3.99%) Cybersecurity Manager
20 209 (3.60%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (1.51%) Terraform
2 52 (0.90%) SAML
3 51 (0.88%) LDAP
4 50 (0.86%) OAuth
5 44 (0.76%) REST
6 42 (0.72%) OpenID
7 31 (0.53%) .NET
8 23 (0.40%) JSON
9 22 (0.38%) React
10 20 (0.34%) Node.js
11 19 (0.33%) HTML
12 18 (0.31%) Kafka
13 17 (0.29%) XML
14 16 (0.28%) RESTful
14 16 (0.28%) SailPoint
15 15 (0.26%) CSS
15 15 (0.26%) FastAPI
15 15 (0.26%) Middleware
16 13 (0.22%) AngularJS
17 10 (0.17%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 359 (6.18%) Security Posture
2 333 (5.73%) Cyberattack
3 320 (5.51%) Cyber Threat
4 275 (4.73%) Onboarding
5 246 (4.23%) Management Information System
6 190 (3.27%) Driving Licence
7 178 (3.06%) Operational Technology
8 161 (2.77%) Security Operations Centre
9 142 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
10 106 (1.82%) Data Centre
11 105 (1.81%) Cyber Defence
12 104 (1.79%) Cloud Native
13 80 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
14 60 (1.03%) PKI
15 55 (0.95%) SCADA
16 52 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
17 44 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
18 41 (0.71%) Cyber Security Posture
19 38 (0.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
20 37 (0.64%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 642 (11.05%) Windows
2 306 (5.27%) Windows Server
3 234 (4.03%) Linux
4 81 (1.39%) Mac OS
5 41 (0.71%) Windows 10
6 39 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 28 (0.48%) Apple iOS
9 26 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 22 (0.38%) Android
11 14 (0.24%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.10%) Unix
12 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.086%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.069%) CentOS
14 4 (0.069%) VMS
15 2 (0.034%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.034%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.034%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.017%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 757 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
2 728 (12.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 644 (11.09%) Mentoring
4 614 (10.57%) AI
5 576 (9.92%) Information Security
6 548 (9.43%) Incident Response
7 540 (9.30%) Security Operations
8 533 (9.18%) Risk Management
9 490 (8.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 479 (8.25%) Vulnerability Management
11 459 (7.90%) SIEM
12 428 (7.37%) Cloud Security
13 402 (6.92%) Decision-Making
14 386 (6.64%) Disaster Recovery
15 330 (5.68%) Roadmaps
16 321 (5.53%) Data Protection
17 310 (5.34%) Service Delivery
18 306 (5.27%) ITIL
19 282 (4.85%) Business Continuity
20 281 (4.84%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 338 (5.82%) Python
2 246 (4.23%) PowerShell
3 101 (1.74%) SQL
4 80 (1.38%) C++
5 61 (1.05%) Bash
6 58 (1.00%) JavaScript
7 56 (0.96%) Java
7 56 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
8 39 (0.67%) C#
9 38 (0.65%) Rust
10 30 (0.52%) Go
11 29 (0.50%) C
12 24 (0.41%) TypeScript
13 20 (0.34%) MATLAB
14 17 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
15 16 (0.28%) Embedded C
16 12 (0.21%) Perl
17 9 (0.15%) Bicep
18 6 (0.10%) Shell Script
19 4 (0.069%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 763 (13.13%) Security Cleared
2 580 (9.98%) Degree
3 557 (9.59%) Azure Certification
4 524 (9.02%) SC Cleared
5 476 (8.19%) CISSP
6 366 (6.30%) CompTIA Security+
7 312 (5.37%) CISM
8 301 (5.18%) CEH
9 278 (4.79%) CompTIA CySA+
10 235 (4.05%) DV Cleared
11 157 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
12 132 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 108 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
14 103 (1.77%) CRISC
15 101 (1.74%) Master's Degree
16 87 (1.50%) CISA
17 84 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 78 (1.34%) CREST Certified
19 76 (1.31%) AWS Certification
20 74 (1.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 683 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 523 (9.00%) NIST
3 356 (6.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 326 (5.61%) GDPR
5 319 (5.49%) GRC
6 149 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 139 (2.39%) PCI DSS
8 128 (2.20%) NCSC
9 98 (1.69%) QA
10 54 (0.93%) SLA
11 53 (0.91%) SOC 2
12 48 (0.83%) Accessibility
13 46 (0.79%) NIST 800
14 36 (0.62%) Data Quality
15 35 (0.60%) COBIT
16 31 (0.53%) JSP 440
17 29 (0.50%) ISO 22301
17 29 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 23 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
19 20 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 486 (8.37%) Active Directory
2 161 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 141 (2.43%) Hyper-V
4 66 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (0.93%) Docker
6 40 (0.69%) Firmware
7 25 (0.43%) vSphere
8 19 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 11 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 9 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
13 6 (0.10%) IAG
13 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.086%) ClearTrust
15 3 (0.052%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.034%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.034%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
17 1 (0.017%) Snort
Systems Management
1 290 (4.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 80 (1.38%) Kubernetes
3 73 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
4 47 (0.81%) Ansible
5 26 (0.45%) Grafana
5 26 (0.45%) Nmap
6 24 (0.41%) Nessus
6 24 (0.41%) QRadar
7 22 (0.38%) CASB
8 21 (0.36%) FortiGate
9 20 (0.34%) SCCM
10 18 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
11 17 (0.29%) Functional Safety
12 14 (0.24%) Prometheus
13 9 (0.15%) Kibana
14 8 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
15 7 (0.12%) Graylog
15 7 (0.12%) Progress Chef
16 6 (0.10%) WSUS
17 5 (0.086%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 1,804 (31.06%) Microsoft
2 470 (8.09%) ForeScout
3 228 (3.92%) Cisco
4 213 (3.67%) VMware
5 169 (2.91%) Palo Alto
6 110 (1.89%) Splunk
7 98 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
8 84 (1.45%) Google
9 79 (1.36%) Qualys
10 72 (1.24%) ServiceNow
11 69 (1.19%) Aruba
12 68 (1.17%) Salesforce
13 62 (1.07%) Apple
14 60 (1.03%) Tenable
15 55 (0.95%) Fortinet
16 51 (0.88%) Veeam
17 45 (0.77%) Meraki
18 43 (0.74%) SAP
19 42 (0.72%) Adobe
20 40 (0.69%) SonicWALL