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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 35 32
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 +19
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,735 2,562 4,876
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.84% 6.43% 5.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.33% 6.95% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,182 1,526 3,495
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £35,631
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -1.71% -9.83%
75th Percentile £79,813 £75,563 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,250
% change year-on-year +4.35% -1.29% -10.38%

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 61,488 36,863 78,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.28% 92.45% 81.75%
Number of salaries quoted 43,312 20,255 56,794
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,939 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +17 1,367 £74,377 +2.59% 392
North of England +20 1,337 £55,000 +6.25% 332
South East +20 1,019 £50,000 - 346
Midlands +20 974 £55,000 +10.28% 168
North West +28 627 £55,000 - 183
South West +20 566 £60,000 +33.33% 148
Yorkshire +11 556 £50,000 +41.84% 104
West Midlands +10 522 £57,500 +3.60% 84
East Midlands +45 451 £55,000 +50.67% 84
East of England +65 439 £43,000 -9.47% 132
North East +28 154 £47,500 -26.92% 48
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
1 167 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 141 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.19%) Apache
3 11 (0.19%) CMS
4 6 (0.10%) IIS
5 5 (0.087%) SAS
5 5 (0.087%) WordPress
6 4 (0.070%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.070%) Confluence
7 2 (0.035%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.017%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 70 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.35%) Simulink
5 7 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.10%) CATIA
7 5 (0.087%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.035%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.017%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (0.42%) Cloudability
2 21 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 11 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.087%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.070%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.070%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.052%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.052%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.052%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.052%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.035%) Q-Pulse
8 2 (0.035%) Shopify
9 1 (0.017%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.017%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.017%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 1 (0.017%) Maximo
9 1 (0.017%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.017%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,385 (41.59%) Azure
2 623 (10.86%) Microsoft 365
3 448 (7.81%) AWS
4 365 (6.36%) Entra ID
5 153 (2.67%) SaaS
6 141 (2.46%) GCP
7 74 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
8 71 (1.24%) Power Platform
9 69 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
10 55 (0.96%) GitHub
11 54 (0.94%) OneDrive
12 46 (0.80%) Serverless
13 43 (0.75%) Google Workspace
14 34 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
15 33 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
16 30 (0.52%) Mimecast
16 30 (0.52%) PaaS
17 28 (0.49%) IaaS
18 27 (0.47%) Microsoft Copilot
19 26 (0.45%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 447 (7.79%) Firewall
2 201 (3.50%) Network Security
3 179 (3.12%) VPN
4 166 (2.89%) DNS
5 128 (2.23%) WAN
6 114 (1.99%) LAN
7 110 (1.92%) DHCP
8 109 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
9 95 (1.66%) Internet
10 94 (1.64%) VLAN
11 88 (1.53%) TCP/IP
12 55 (0.96%) VoIP
13 51 (0.89%) Broadband
14 38 (0.66%) Unified Communications
15 35 (0.61%) Wireless
16 33 (0.58%) HTTP
17 29 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
17 29 (0.51%) SSL
18 24 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
19 22 (0.38%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (0.77%) Power BI
2 25 (0.44%) SQL Server
3 15 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (0.24%) Tableau
5 9 (0.16%) Big Data
5 9 (0.16%) MySQL
6 8 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (0.14%) Neo4j
6 8 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.10%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.087%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.087%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.052%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.052%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.052%) GIS
9 3 (0.052%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.052%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.035%) Flink
10 2 (0.035%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 60 (1.05%) Git
2 36 (0.63%) GitLab
3 28 (0.49%) JIRA
4 25 (0.44%) Snyk
5 24 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
6 12 (0.21%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.19%) Metasploit
8 10 (0.17%) Burp Suite
9 7 (0.12%) Yeoman
10 6 (0.10%) Apache Continuum
11 5 (0.087%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.087%) JMeter
11 5 (0.087%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.087%) VersionOne
12 4 (0.070%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.070%) Locust
13 2 (0.035%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.035%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.035%) MLflow
13 2 (0.035%) Visual Studio
General
1 2,408 (41.99%) Social Skills
2 518 (9.03%) Finance
3 410 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
4 276 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 249 (4.34%) Public Sector
6 176 (3.07%) Retail
7 163 (2.84%) Marketing
8 144 (2.51%) Law
9 139 (2.42%) Legal
10 130 (2.27%) Banking
11 128 (2.23%) Telecoms
12 118 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
13 113 (1.97%) Manufacturing
14 107 (1.87%) Multimedia
15 73 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
16 61 (1.06%) Local Government
17 57 (0.99%) Aerospace
18 46 (0.80%) Advertising
19 42 (0.73%) Aviation
20 32 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,241 (21.64%) Analyst
2 1,064 (18.55%) Security Analyst
3 979 (17.07%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 796 (13.88%) Junior
5 765 (13.34%) Junior Analyst
6 755 (13.16%) Junior Security Analyst
7 705 (12.29%) Ethical Hacker
8 560 (9.76%) Senior
9 349 (6.09%) Consultant
10 345 (6.02%) Architect
11 298 (5.20%) Lead
12 271 (4.73%) Security Manager
13 252 (4.39%) IT Support
14 251 (4.38%) Security Architect
15 223 (3.89%) Security Consultant
16 215 (3.75%) Security Engineer
17 209 (3.64%) IT Manager
18 188 (3.28%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 173 (3.02%) IT Engineer
20 148 (2.58%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (1.03%) REST
1 59 (1.03%) SAML
2 58 (1.01%) HTML
2 58 (1.01%) LDAP
3 56 (0.98%) OAuth
4 52 (0.91%) CSS
5 50 (0.87%) OpenID
6 33 (0.58%) SOAP
7 26 (0.45%) GraphQL
8 25 (0.44%) React
9 17 (0.30%) Kafka
9 17 (0.30%) Middleware
10 16 (0.28%) .NET
11 14 (0.24%) SailPoint
12 13 (0.23%) JSON
12 13 (0.23%) Node.js
13 12 (0.21%) FastAPI
13 12 (0.21%) RESTful
14 11 (0.19%) XML
14 11 (0.19%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 814 (14.19%) Cyberattack
2 312 (5.44%) Security Posture
3 189 (3.30%) Cyber Threat
3 189 (3.30%) Management Information System
4 166 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 146 (2.55%) Security Operations Centre
6 126 (2.20%) Driving Licence
7 117 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 97 (1.69%) Operational Technology
9 96 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
10 84 (1.46%) Cloud Native
11 78 (1.36%) Data Centre
12 58 (1.01%) PKI
13 49 (0.85%) Cyber Security Posture
14 42 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
15 41 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
16 39 (0.68%) Blog
17 37 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
18 32 (0.56%) Cloud Security Posture
19 30 (0.52%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 495 (8.63%) Windows
2 252 (4.39%) Windows Server
3 172 (3.00%) Linux
4 48 (0.84%) Mac OS
5 37 (0.65%) Windows 10
6 27 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 26 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 25 (0.44%) Android
9 21 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 19 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.17%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.10%) CentOS
12 6 (0.10%) Unix
12 6 (0.10%) VMS
13 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.035%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.017%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.017%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.017%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,216 (21.20%) Mentoring
2 785 (13.69%) Ethical Hacking
3 550 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
4 540 (9.42%) Problem-Solving
5 497 (8.67%) Incident Response
6 448 (7.81%) Information Security
7 433 (7.55%) Risk Management
8 384 (6.70%) Security Operations
9 377 (6.57%) SIEM
10 356 (6.21%) Cloud Security
11 342 (5.96%) AI
12 323 (5.63%) Vulnerability Management
13 292 (5.09%) Disaster Recovery
14 282 (4.92%) Decision-Making
15 256 (4.46%) Roadmaps
16 237 (4.13%) Agile
17 234 (4.08%) Security Architecture
17 234 (4.08%) Stakeholder Management
18 228 (3.98%) Data Protection
19 223 (3.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 312 (5.44%) Python
2 267 (4.66%) PowerShell
3 114 (1.99%) SQL
4 104 (1.81%) JavaScript
5 83 (1.45%) Bash
6 50 (0.87%) C++
7 37 (0.65%) Java
8 29 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
9 27 (0.47%) C#
10 26 (0.45%) T-SQL
11 24 (0.42%) MATLAB
12 19 (0.33%) R
12 19 (0.33%) TypeScript
13 17 (0.30%) Rust
14 16 (0.28%) Go
15 12 (0.21%) Search Processing Language
16 11 (0.19%) C
17 9 (0.16%) Perl
18 7 (0.12%) PHP
19 5 (0.087%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,544 (26.92%) Azure Certification
2 926 (16.15%) CompTIA Security+
3 835 (14.56%) CEH
4 803 (14.00%) CompTIA CySA+
5 509 (8.88%) Security Cleared
6 425 (7.41%) Degree
7 424 (7.39%) CISSP
8 361 (6.29%) SC Cleared
9 271 (4.73%) CISM
10 173 (3.02%) DV Cleared
11 150 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
12 120 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 103 (1.80%) CISA
14 98 (1.71%) Network+ Certification
15 90 (1.57%) A+ Certification
16 89 (1.55%) AWS Certification
16 89 (1.55%) CREST Certified
17 83 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 83 (1.45%) CRISC
18 67 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 604 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 531 (9.26%) NIST
3 331 (5.77%) GDPR
4 279 (4.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 257 (4.48%) GRC
6 150 (2.62%) PCI DSS
7 135 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 116 (2.02%) NCSC
9 110 (1.92%) QA
10 54 (0.94%) SOC 2
11 44 (0.77%) NIST 800
12 38 (0.66%) COBIT
13 36 (0.63%) Accessibility
13 36 (0.63%) SLA
14 35 (0.61%) JSP 440
15 32 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 31 (0.54%) Data Quality
17 30 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
18 18 (0.31%) HIPAA
19 15 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 401 (6.99%) Active Directory
2 114 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 94 (1.64%) Hyper-V
4 53 (0.92%) Docker
5 49 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (0.49%) vSphere
7 13 (0.23%) IAG
8 12 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
9 11 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 7 (0.12%) Firmware
12 5 (0.087%) ClearTrust
12 5 (0.087%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.070%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
15 2 (0.035%) VMware Server
16 1 (0.017%) BitLocker
16 1 (0.017%) KVM
Systems Management
1 202 (3.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 90 (1.57%) Terraform
3 71 (1.24%) Kubernetes
4 40 (0.70%) Ansible
5 37 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.54%) Grafana
7 21 (0.37%) SCCM
8 18 (0.31%) Prometheus
8 18 (0.31%) QRadar
9 17 (0.30%) CASB
10 15 (0.26%) FortiGate
11 10 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 9 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.16%) CSIRT
12 9 (0.16%) Kibana
12 9 (0.16%) Nmap
12 9 (0.16%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,527 (44.06%) Microsoft
2 1,458 (25.42%) ForeScout
3 162 (2.82%) VMware
4 140 (2.44%) Cisco
5 117 (2.04%) Palo Alto
6 107 (1.87%) CrowdStrike
7 87 (1.52%) Splunk
8 64 (1.12%) Fortinet
9 62 (1.08%) Google
10 58 (1.01%) Apple
10 58 (1.01%) Tenable
11 54 (0.94%) ServiceNow
12 50 (0.87%) Salesforce
13 45 (0.78%) Qualys
14 43 (0.75%) Aruba
15 39 (0.68%) Adobe
16 36 (0.63%) SAP
17 31 (0.54%) Veeam
18 29 (0.51%) Dell
19 24 (0.42%) CyberArk