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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 33 38
Rank change year-on-year +13 +5 +10
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 6,007 2,774 3,650
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.54% 6.36% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.86% 7.11% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,486 1,698 2,494
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 £75,438
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,125
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.98% -8.51%

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 67,804 39,039 59,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.79% 89.57% 81.31%
Number of salaries quoted 47,813 22,613 39,487
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
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 4 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 4 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 +13 1,423 £75,000 +3.45% 1,095
North of England +17 1,356 £50,000 +3.09% 514
South East +10 1,091 £54,150 +8.30% 495
Midlands +17 1,042 £55,000 +15.79% 291
North West +25 650 £55,000 - 287
South West +9 597 £55,000 +15.79% 284
Yorkshire +14 543 £42,500 +28.79% 181
West Midlands +7 529 £57,500 +8.30% 163
East Midlands +39 512 £55,000 +57.14% 128
East of England +57 477 £45,000 -5.26% 167
North East +23 163 £50,000 -26.95% 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
1 187 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 184 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 18 (0.30%) 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 2 (0.033%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.033%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.017%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 80 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.37%) 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%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.033%) SmartSuite
8 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.017%) Maya
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 2,240 (37.29%) Azure
2 715 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
3 463 (7.71%) AWS
4 382 (6.36%) Entra ID
5 182 (3.03%) SaaS
6 152 (2.53%) GCP
7 81 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
8 68 (1.13%) Power Platform
9 63 (1.05%) OneDrive
10 60 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
11 48 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
12 44 (0.73%) Serverless
13 39 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
13 39 (0.65%) Mimecast
14 32 (0.53%) GitHub
15 28 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
15 28 (0.47%) Google Workspace
16 26 (0.43%) PaaS
17 24 (0.40%) IaaS
18 21 (0.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 473 (7.87%) Firewall
2 227 (3.78%) Network Security
3 195 (3.25%) VPN
4 192 (3.20%) DNS
5 149 (2.48%) WAN
6 145 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
7 131 (2.18%) LAN
8 128 (2.13%) DHCP
9 119 (1.98%) TCP/IP
10 106 (1.76%) VLAN
11 86 (1.43%) Internet
12 69 (1.15%) VoIP
13 55 (0.92%) Wireless
14 43 (0.72%) Unified Communications
15 40 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
16 39 (0.65%) HTTP
17 35 (0.58%) SSL
18 32 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
19 28 (0.47%) SD-WAN
20 27 (0.45%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (0.73%) Power BI
2 42 (0.70%) SQL Server
3 13 (0.22%) MongoDB
3 13 (0.22%) MySQL
4 12 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (0.18%) Big Data
6 10 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (0.17%) Tableau
7 9 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.100%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.100%) GIS
8 6 (0.100%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.083%) Metadata
9 5 (0.083%) NoSQL
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 (0.72%) JIRA
2 42 (0.70%) Git
3 30 (0.50%) 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%) webpack
General
1 2,397 (39.90%) Social Skills
2 536 (8.92%) Finance
3 422 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
4 313 (5.21%) Public Sector
5 308 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 173 (2.88%) Law
7 170 (2.83%) Marketing
8 168 (2.80%) Retail
9 164 (2.73%) Telecoms
10 159 (2.65%) Legal
11 135 (2.25%) Manufacturing
12 123 (2.05%) Banking
13 113 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
14 94 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
15 87 (1.45%) Aerospace
16 59 (0.98%) Local Government
17 58 (0.97%) Advertising
18 46 (0.77%) Multimedia
19 39 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
20 34 (0.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,189 (19.79%) Analyst
2 1,008 (16.78%) Security Analyst
3 911 (15.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 736 (12.25%) Junior
5 673 (11.20%) Junior Analyst
6 663 (11.04%) Junior Security Analyst
7 658 (10.95%) Ethical Hacker
8 618 (10.29%) Senior
9 450 (7.49%) Consultant
10 357 (5.94%) Architect
11 324 (5.39%) Lead
12 288 (4.79%) Security Consultant
13 277 (4.61%) Security Manager
14 272 (4.53%) IT Support
15 244 (4.06%) IT Manager
16 242 (4.03%) Security Architect
17 226 (3.76%) Security Engineer
18 198 (3.30%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 190 (3.16%) IT Engineer
20 187 (3.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (0.92%) SAML
2 49 (0.82%) OAuth
3 48 (0.80%) LDAP
4 43 (0.72%) OpenID
5 41 (0.68%) REST
6 30 (0.50%) HTML
7 23 (0.38%) CSS
8 21 (0.35%) React
9 20 (0.33%) Kafka
10 18 (0.30%) .NET
10 18 (0.30%) JSON
11 17 (0.28%) SailPoint
12 16 (0.27%) Node.js
13 15 (0.25%) RESTful
13 15 (0.25%) XML
14 14 (0.23%) SOAP
15 13 (0.22%) Middleware
15 13 (0.22%) XMPP
16 12 (0.20%) AngularJS
16 12 (0.20%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 763 (12.70%) Cyberattack
2 335 (5.58%) Security Posture
3 246 (4.10%) Cyber Threat
4 223 (3.71%) Onboarding
5 218 (3.63%) Management Information System
6 168 (2.80%) Driving Licence
7 160 (2.66%) Security Operations Centre
8 138 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
9 113 (1.88%) Operational Technology
10 98 (1.63%) Cyber Defence
11 94 (1.56%) Cloud Native
12 82 (1.37%) Data Centre
13 59 (0.98%) PKI
14 58 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
15 42 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
16 41 (0.68%) Cyber Security Posture
17 38 (0.63%) CSOC
18 35 (0.58%) Blog
19 29 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
19 29 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 550 (9.16%) Windows
2 269 (4.48%) Windows Server
3 198 (3.30%) Linux
4 66 (1.10%) Mac OS
5 30 (0.50%) Windows 10
5 30 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 25 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (0.40%) Android
7 24 (0.40%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.100%) CentOS
10 4 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.050%) Unix
11 3 (0.050%) VMS
12 2 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.033%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.033%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.033%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.017%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,092 (18.18%) Mentoring
2 701 (11.67%) Ethical Hacking
3 637 (10.60%) Problem-Solving
4 626 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 513 (8.54%) Information Security
6 503 (8.37%) Incident Response
7 479 (7.97%) Risk Management
8 451 (7.51%) Security Operations
9 433 (7.21%) AI
10 427 (7.11%) SIEM
11 402 (6.69%) Cloud Security
12 394 (6.56%) Vulnerability Management
13 333 (5.54%) Decision-Making
13 333 (5.54%) Disaster Recovery
14 306 (5.09%) Stakeholder Management
15 286 (4.76%) Roadmaps
16 270 (4.49%) Agile
17 259 (4.31%) Service Delivery
18 251 (4.18%) ITIL
18 251 (4.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 303 (5.04%) Python
2 237 (3.95%) PowerShell
3 91 (1.51%) SQL
4 68 (1.13%) C++
4 68 (1.13%) JavaScript
5 62 (1.03%) Bash
6 41 (0.68%) Java
7 39 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
8 31 (0.52%) Rust
9 29 (0.48%) C#
10 22 (0.37%) Go
11 18 (0.30%) TypeScript
12 15 (0.25%) MATLAB
12 15 (0.25%) Search Processing Language
13 14 (0.23%) C
14 11 (0.18%) Perl
15 7 (0.12%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.100%) PHP
17 5 (0.083%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.067%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1,387 (23.09%) Azure Certification
2 825 (13.73%) CompTIA Security+
3 755 (12.57%) CEH
4 699 (11.64%) CompTIA CySA+
5 614 (10.22%) Security Cleared
6 473 (7.87%) Degree
7 448 (7.46%) CISSP
8 424 (7.06%) SC Cleared
9 288 (4.79%) CISM
10 200 (3.33%) DV Cleared
11 157 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
12 105 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 96 (1.60%) CRISC
14 90 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 90 (1.50%) CISA
15 75 (1.25%) AWS Certification
15 75 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
16 72 (1.20%) CREST Certified
17 70 (1.17%) Master's Degree
18 65 (1.08%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 623 (10.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 507 (8.44%) NIST
3 312 (5.19%) GDPR
4 287 (4.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 275 (4.58%) GRC
6 144 (2.40%) PCI DSS
7 137 (2.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 105 (1.75%) QA
9 92 (1.53%) NCSC
10 62 (1.03%) SOC 2
11 41 (0.68%) Accessibility
11 41 (0.68%) NIST 800
12 39 (0.65%) SLA
13 36 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 35 (0.58%) COBIT
15 33 (0.55%) JSP 440
16 28 (0.47%) Data Quality
17 21 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
17 21 (0.35%) ISO 22301
18 20 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 429 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 137 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 115 (1.91%) Hyper-V
4 54 (0.90%) Docker
5 50 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.40%) vSphere
7 23 (0.38%) 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 3 (0.050%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.050%) VMware Server
15 1 (0.017%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.017%) Embedded Firmware
15 1 (0.017%) KVM
15 1 (0.017%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 224 (3.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 86 (1.43%) Terraform
3 73 (1.22%) Kubernetes
4 45 (0.75%) 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 2,481 (41.30%) Microsoft
2 1,317 (21.92%) ForeScout
3 186 (3.10%) Cisco
4 183 (3.05%) VMware
5 159 (2.65%) Palo Alto
6 109 (1.81%) Splunk
7 99 (1.65%) CrowdStrike
8 72 (1.20%) Google
9 68 (1.13%) Qualys
10 64 (1.07%) Fortinet
10 64 (1.07%) ServiceNow
11 61 (1.02%) Apple
12 60 (1.00%) Aruba
13 56 (0.93%) Tenable
14 53 (0.88%) Salesforce
15 40 (0.67%) SAP
16 38 (0.63%) Veeam
17 37 (0.62%) CyberArk
18 36 (0.60%) Adobe
19 29 (0.48%) Dell