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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 32 37
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,873 2,740 3,584
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.04% 6.28% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.23% 7.08% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,721 1,659 2,241
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,850 £37,000
25th Percentile £40,600 £35,534 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £79,250 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £97,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.98%

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 71,345 38,684 57,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.38% 88.66% 81.23%
Number of salaries quoted 50,773 22,445 35,770
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,125 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,075
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.92% -6.54%

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 2 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 2 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 +10 1,481 £75,000 +7.14% 1,852
North of England +19 1,243 £51,500 +12.57% 600
South East +12 1,040 £55,000 +10.00% 645
Midlands +18 1,023 £55,000 +28.70% 358
North West +25 622 £57,500 +11.91% 319
South West +7 594 £55,000 +10.00% 392
West Midlands +9 519 £55,000 +10.00% 201
East Midlands +38 503 £55,000 +57.14% 157
Yorkshire +9 477 £45,000 +36.36% 208
East of England +51 470 £45,000 -5.26% 225
North East +13 144 £50,000 -23.08% 85
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
1 215 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 206 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (0.37%) IIS
4 18 (0.31%) Apache
5 9 (0.15%) Confluence
5 9 (0.15%) SAS
6 6 (0.10%) CMS
7 5 (0.085%) WordPress
8 3 (0.051%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.051%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
Applications
1 82 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.17%) Simulink
5 8 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.068%) CATIA
8 2 (0.034%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.017%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (0.41%) Cloudability
2 9 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.10%) Sage 200
5 5 (0.085%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 5 (0.085%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.068%) SystmOne
7 3 (0.051%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.051%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.051%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.051%) Infor CloudSuite
7 3 (0.051%) Infor LN
7 3 (0.051%) Infor M3
7 3 (0.051%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.051%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.034%) Eikon
8 2 (0.034%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.017%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 1,791 (30.50%) Azure
2 766 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
3 465 (7.92%) AWS
4 437 (7.44%) Entra ID
5 194 (3.30%) SaaS
6 146 (2.49%) GCP
7 91 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
8 85 (1.45%) Power Platform
9 73 (1.24%) OneDrive
10 72 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
11 59 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
12 49 (0.83%) Serverless
13 48 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
14 43 (0.73%) Mimecast
15 35 (0.60%) GitHub
16 29 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
17 27 (0.46%) PaaS
18 26 (0.44%) Google Workspace
18 26 (0.44%) IaaS
19 23 (0.39%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 510 (8.68%) Firewall
2 250 (4.26%) Network Security
3 232 (3.95%) DNS
4 217 (3.69%) VPN
5 173 (2.95%) WAN
6 158 (2.69%) DHCP
7 153 (2.61%) TCP/IP
8 152 (2.59%) Wi-Fi
9 150 (2.55%) LAN
10 122 (2.08%) VLAN
11 105 (1.79%) Internet
12 82 (1.40%) VoIP
13 81 (1.38%) Wireless
14 53 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
15 47 (0.80%) Unified Communications
16 43 (0.73%) HTTP
16 43 (0.73%) SSL
17 31 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
17 31 (0.53%) SD-WAN
18 30 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (0.89%) Power BI
2 50 (0.85%) SQL Server
3 13 (0.22%) Big Data
3 13 (0.22%) GIS
3 13 (0.22%) MongoDB
3 13 (0.22%) MySQL
4 12 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (0.15%) Tableau
6 6 (0.10%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.085%) Metadata
7 5 (0.085%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.068%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.068%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (0.068%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.068%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.068%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 48 (0.82%) Git
2 44 (0.75%) JIRA
3 30 (0.51%) Burp Suite
4 28 (0.48%) Metasploit
5 27 (0.46%) Snyk
6 23 (0.39%) GitLab
7 21 (0.36%) Jenkins
8 11 (0.19%) Yeoman
9 5 (0.085%) Eclipse
9 5 (0.085%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.085%) VersionOne
10 4 (0.068%) Apache Continuum
10 4 (0.068%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.068%) LabVIEW
10 4 (0.068%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.068%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.051%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.051%) JMeter
12 2 (0.034%) Maven
12 2 (0.034%) Xcode
General
1 2,065 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 561 (9.55%) Finance
3 450 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
4 342 (5.82%) Public Sector
5 328 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 182 (3.10%) Marketing
7 180 (3.06%) Law
8 177 (3.01%) Legal
9 173 (2.95%) Retail
10 164 (2.79%) Telecoms
11 155 (2.64%) Manufacturing
12 135 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
13 131 (2.23%) Banking
14 116 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
15 104 (1.77%) Aerospace
16 56 (0.95%) Local Government
17 54 (0.92%) Advertising
17 54 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
18 44 (0.75%) Aviation
19 32 (0.54%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 973 (16.57%) Analyst
2 771 (13.13%) Security Analyst
3 670 (11.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 664 (11.31%) Senior
5 513 (8.73%) Junior
6 512 (8.72%) Consultant
7 439 (7.47%) Junior Analyst
8 429 (7.30%) Junior Security Analyst
9 423 (7.20%) Ethical Hacker
10 375 (6.39%) Lead
11 373 (6.35%) Architect
12 318 (5.41%) Security Consultant
13 310 (5.28%) Security Manager
14 288 (4.90%) IT Support
15 264 (4.50%) IT Manager
16 263 (4.48%) Security Architect
17 260 (4.43%) Security Engineer
18 223 (3.80%) IT Engineer
19 215 (3.66%) Cybersecurity Manager
20 206 (3.51%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (1.31%) Terraform
2 48 (0.82%) SAML
3 45 (0.77%) LDAP
4 42 (0.72%) OAuth
5 36 (0.61%) OpenID
6 35 (0.60%) REST
7 27 (0.46%) HTML
8 25 (0.43%) .NET
9 24 (0.41%) React
10 22 (0.37%) CSS
11 19 (0.32%) JSON
11 19 (0.32%) Node.js
12 18 (0.31%) Kafka
13 15 (0.26%) RESTful
13 15 (0.26%) XML
14 14 (0.24%) SailPoint
15 13 (0.22%) FastAPI
16 12 (0.20%) AngularJS
17 11 (0.19%) Middleware
17 11 (0.19%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 520 (8.85%) Cyberattack
2 352 (5.99%) Security Posture
3 280 (4.77%) Cyber Threat
4 241 (4.10%) Onboarding
5 232 (3.95%) Management Information System
6 168 (2.86%) Driving Licence
7 158 (2.69%) Security Operations Centre
8 152 (2.59%) Operational Technology
9 135 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
10 104 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
11 102 (1.74%) Data Centre
12 98 (1.67%) Cloud Native
13 62 (1.06%) PKI
14 60 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
15 53 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
16 45 (0.77%) Cyber Security Posture
17 36 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
18 35 (0.60%) CSOC
19 34 (0.58%) Cyber Kill Chain
20 33 (0.56%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 588 (10.01%) Windows
2 288 (4.90%) Windows Server
3 218 (3.71%) Linux
4 75 (1.28%) Mac OS
5 38 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 27 (0.46%) Windows 10
8 26 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 21 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 16 (0.27%) Android
10 16 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.10%) CentOS
11 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.085%) Unix
13 4 (0.068%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.068%) VMS
14 2 (0.034%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.034%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.034%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.017%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 841 (14.32%) Mentoring
2 705 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
3 664 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
4 548 (9.33%) Information Security
5 536 (9.13%) AI
6 524 (8.92%) Incident Response
7 513 (8.73%) Risk Management
8 492 (8.38%) Security Operations
9 452 (7.70%) SIEM
10 438 (7.46%) Ethical Hacking
11 436 (7.42%) Vulnerability Management
12 417 (7.10%) Cloud Security
13 401 (6.83%) Stakeholder Management
14 388 (6.61%) Disaster Recovery
15 348 (5.93%) Decision-Making
16 315 (5.36%) Roadmaps
17 305 (5.19%) Service Delivery
18 286 (4.87%) Data Protection
19 278 (4.73%) Penetration Testing
20 273 (4.65%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 313 (5.33%) Python
2 234 (3.98%) PowerShell
3 94 (1.60%) SQL
4 72 (1.23%) C++
5 66 (1.12%) JavaScript
6 55 (0.94%) Bash
7 46 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
8 43 (0.73%) Java
9 34 (0.58%) C#
10 33 (0.56%) Rust
11 25 (0.43%) Go
12 22 (0.37%) C
13 21 (0.36%) TypeScript
14 16 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
15 13 (0.22%) MATLAB
16 12 (0.20%) Perl
17 11 (0.19%) Embedded C
18 5 (0.085%) Shell Script
19 4 (0.068%) Embedded C++
19 4 (0.068%) XAML
Qualifications
1 937 (15.95%) Azure Certification
2 676 (11.51%) Security Cleared
3 573 (9.76%) CompTIA Security+
4 509 (8.67%) Degree
5 502 (8.55%) CEH
6 471 (8.02%) CISSP
7 466 (7.93%) CompTIA CySA+
8 464 (7.90%) SC Cleared
9 302 (5.14%) CISM
10 225 (3.83%) DV Cleared
11 162 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
12 122 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 101 (1.72%) CRISC
14 88 (1.50%) CISA
14 88 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
15 87 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 86 (1.46%) AWS Certification
17 82 (1.40%) Master's Degree
18 81 (1.38%) CREST Certified
19 64 (1.09%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 656 (11.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 518 (8.82%) NIST
3 333 (5.67%) GDPR
4 322 (5.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 316 (5.38%) GRC
6 143 (2.43%) PCI DSS
7 141 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 104 (1.77%) NCSC
8 104 (1.77%) QA
9 60 (1.02%) SOC 2
10 46 (0.78%) NIST 800
11 43 (0.73%) SLA
12 39 (0.66%) Accessibility
13 37 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 35 (0.60%) COBIT
15 33 (0.56%) JSP 440
16 29 (0.49%) Data Quality
17 23 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 22 (0.37%) ISO 22301
19 20 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 452 (7.70%) Active Directory
2 162 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 131 (2.23%) Hyper-V
4 61 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (0.87%) Docker
6 37 (0.63%) Firmware
7 25 (0.43%) vSphere
8 14 (0.24%) IAG
8 14 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
9 13 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 12 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 9 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.085%) ClearTrust
13 5 (0.085%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.051%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.051%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.034%) BitLocker
15 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 252 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 78 (1.33%) Kubernetes
3 60 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
4 45 (0.77%) Ansible
5 25 (0.43%) Nmap
6 23 (0.39%) FortiGate
6 23 (0.39%) Grafana
6 23 (0.39%) Nessus
7 22 (0.37%) QRadar
8 21 (0.36%) SCCM
9 19 (0.32%) CASB
10 16 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
11 13 (0.22%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.15%) Kibana
13 8 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
13 8 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
13 8 (0.14%) Functional Safety
14 7 (0.12%) Graylog
15 6 (0.10%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.085%) Argo
Vendors
1 2,084 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 846 (14.40%) ForeScout
3 213 (3.63%) Cisco
4 202 (3.44%) VMware
5 170 (2.89%) Palo Alto
6 114 (1.94%) Splunk
7 97 (1.65%) CrowdStrike
8 74 (1.26%) Qualys
9 73 (1.24%) Google
10 66 (1.12%) Aruba
10 66 (1.12%) ServiceNow
11 65 (1.11%) Apple
12 59 (1.00%) Salesforce
12 59 (1.00%) Tenable
13 58 (0.99%) Fortinet
14 49 (0.83%) Veeam
15 41 (0.70%) Adobe
15 41 (0.70%) SAP
16 38 (0.65%) SonicWALL
17 36 (0.61%) CyberArk