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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 32 36
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,940 2,700 3,476
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.02% 6.27% 5.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.21% 7.09% 6.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,769 1,608 2,047
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,600 £35,536 £46,250
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 £76,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -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 72,313 38,098 55,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.27% 88.52% 80.82%
Number of salaries quoted 51,484 21,895 33,187
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 8 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 8 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 +9 1,503 £78,500 +12.14% 1,875
North of England +19 1,246 £51,500 +12.57% 587
South East +11 1,048 £55,000 +10.00% 640
Midlands +19 1,034 £55,000 +28.15% 359
North West +23 618 £57,500 +11.08% 315
South West +7 611 £55,000 +10.00% 365
West Midlands +6 525 £55,000 +10.00% 208
East Midlands +36 508 £55,000 +57.14% 151
Yorkshire +10 480 £45,000 +36.36% 208
East of England +53 474 £45,000 -5.26% 207
North East +12 148 £50,000 -24.53% 79
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
1 227 (3.82%) SharePoint
2 218 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.40%) IIS
4 19 (0.32%) Apache
5 9 (0.15%) Confluence
5 9 (0.15%) SAS
6 6 (0.10%) CMS
7 5 (0.084%) 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 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.20%) Simulink
5 8 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.067%) CATIA
8 2 (0.034%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 24 (0.40%) Cloudability
2 9 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.084%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.084%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.067%) SystmOne
8 3 (0.051%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 3 (0.051%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.051%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.051%) Infor CloudSuite
8 3 (0.051%) Infor LN
8 3 (0.051%) Infor M3
8 3 (0.051%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.051%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.034%) Eikon
9 2 (0.034%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.017%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 1,810 (30.47%) Azure
2 790 (13.30%) Microsoft 365
3 469 (7.90%) AWS
4 457 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 195 (3.28%) SaaS
6 147 (2.47%) GCP
7 92 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
8 88 (1.48%) Power Platform
9 79 (1.33%) OneDrive
10 76 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
11 60 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
12 50 (0.84%) Microsoft Copilot
12 50 (0.84%) Serverless
13 43 (0.72%) Mimecast
14 35 (0.59%) GitHub
15 29 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
16 28 (0.47%) PaaS
17 26 (0.44%) Google Workspace
17 26 (0.44%) IaaS
18 25 (0.42%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 518 (8.72%) Firewall
2 250 (4.21%) Network Security
3 243 (4.09%) DNS
4 224 (3.77%) VPN
5 174 (2.93%) WAN
6 168 (2.83%) DHCP
7 160 (2.69%) TCP/IP
8 155 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
9 151 (2.54%) LAN
10 125 (2.10%) VLAN
11 106 (1.78%) Internet
12 86 (1.45%) VoIP
13 83 (1.40%) Wireless
14 54 (0.91%) Cisco Nexus
15 47 (0.79%) Unified Communications
16 44 (0.74%) HTTP
17 43 (0.72%) SSL
18 32 (0.54%) Wireshark
19 31 (0.52%) SD-WAN
20 29 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (0.88%) Power BI
1 52 (0.88%) SQL Server
2 14 (0.24%) GIS
2 14 (0.24%) MySQL
3 13 (0.22%) Big Data
3 13 (0.22%) MongoDB
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%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.084%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.084%) Metadata
7 5 (0.084%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.067%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.067%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (0.067%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.067%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.067%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 48 (0.81%) Git
2 44 (0.74%) JIRA
3 31 (0.52%) Burp Suite
4 29 (0.49%) Metasploit
5 27 (0.45%) Snyk
6 23 (0.39%) GitLab
7 21 (0.35%) Jenkins
8 10 (0.17%) Yeoman
9 6 (0.10%) Eclipse
10 5 (0.084%) Rational DOORS
10 5 (0.084%) VersionOne
11 4 (0.067%) Apache Continuum
11 4 (0.067%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.067%) LabVIEW
11 4 (0.067%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.067%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.051%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.051%) JMeter
13 2 (0.034%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.034%) Zephyr
General
1 2,077 (34.97%) Social Skills
2 563 (9.48%) Finance
3 444 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
4 350 (5.89%) Public Sector
5 330 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 181 (3.05%) Law
7 180 (3.03%) Marketing
8 179 (3.01%) Legal
9 175 (2.95%) Retail
10 168 (2.83%) Telecoms
11 161 (2.71%) Manufacturing
12 138 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
13 130 (2.19%) Banking
14 119 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
15 105 (1.77%) Aerospace
16 56 (0.94%) Local Government
16 56 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
17 55 (0.93%) Advertising
18 46 (0.77%) Aviation
19 32 (0.54%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 974 (16.40%) Analyst
2 774 (13.03%) Security Analyst
3 677 (11.40%) Senior
4 675 (11.36%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 520 (8.75%) Consultant
6 514 (8.65%) Junior
7 440 (7.41%) Junior Analyst
8 430 (7.24%) Junior Security Analyst
9 423 (7.12%) Ethical Hacker
10 375 (6.31%) Lead
11 369 (6.21%) Architect
12 320 (5.39%) Security Consultant
12 320 (5.39%) Security Manager
13 300 (5.05%) IT Support
14 265 (4.46%) IT Manager
14 265 (4.46%) Security Engineer
15 261 (4.39%) Security Architect
16 229 (3.86%) IT Engineer
17 226 (3.80%) Cybersecurity Manager
18 206 (3.47%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (1.28%) Terraform
2 48 (0.81%) SAML
3 45 (0.76%) LDAP
4 42 (0.71%) OAuth
5 36 (0.61%) OpenID
6 35 (0.59%) REST
7 27 (0.45%) HTML
8 26 (0.44%) .NET
9 24 (0.40%) React
10 22 (0.37%) CSS
11 20 (0.34%) JSON
12 19 (0.32%) Node.js
13 18 (0.30%) Kafka
14 16 (0.27%) SailPoint
15 15 (0.25%) RESTful
15 15 (0.25%) XML
16 13 (0.22%) FastAPI
17 12 (0.20%) AngularJS
18 11 (0.19%) Middleware
19 10 (0.17%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 519 (8.74%) Cyberattack
2 357 (6.01%) Security Posture
3 288 (4.85%) Cyber Threat
4 246 (4.14%) Onboarding
5 232 (3.91%) Management Information System
6 175 (2.95%) Driving Licence
7 160 (2.69%) Security Operations Centre
8 156 (2.63%) Operational Technology
9 137 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
10 103 (1.73%) Data Centre
11 102 (1.72%) Cyber Defence
12 98 (1.65%) Cloud Native
13 61 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
13 61 (1.03%) PKI
14 53 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
15 45 (0.76%) Cyber Security Posture
16 37 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
17 35 (0.59%) CSOC
18 34 (0.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
19 32 (0.54%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 605 (10.19%) Windows
2 295 (4.97%) Windows Server
3 228 (3.84%) Linux
4 76 (1.28%) Mac OS
5 38 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 31 (0.52%) Windows 10
7 29 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 26 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 21 (0.35%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.29%) Ubuntu
11 16 (0.27%) Android
12 6 (0.10%) CentOS
12 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.084%) Unix
14 4 (0.067%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.067%) 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
1 837 (14.09%) Mentoring
2 706 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
3 676 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 553 (9.31%) Information Security
5 549 (9.24%) AI
6 530 (8.92%) Incident Response
7 519 (8.74%) Risk Management
8 505 (8.50%) Security Operations
9 460 (7.74%) SIEM
10 445 (7.49%) Vulnerability Management
11 438 (7.37%) Ethical Hacking
12 424 (7.14%) Cloud Security
13 416 (7.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 393 (6.62%) Disaster Recovery
15 353 (5.94%) Decision-Making
16 324 (5.45%) Roadmaps
17 312 (5.25%) Service Delivery
18 295 (4.97%) Data Protection
19 286 (4.81%) ITIL
20 283 (4.76%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 316 (5.32%) Python
2 236 (3.97%) PowerShell
3 94 (1.58%) SQL
4 72 (1.21%) C++
5 66 (1.11%) JavaScript
6 55 (0.93%) Bash
7 48 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
8 44 (0.74%) Java
9 35 (0.59%) C#
10 33 (0.56%) Rust
11 25 (0.42%) Go
12 23 (0.39%) C
13 21 (0.35%) TypeScript
14 16 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
15 15 (0.25%) MATLAB
16 12 (0.20%) Embedded C
16 12 (0.20%) Perl
17 5 (0.084%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.067%) Embedded C++
18 4 (0.067%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 936 (15.76%) Azure Certification
2 694 (11.68%) Security Cleared
3 570 (9.60%) CompTIA Security+
4 510 (8.59%) Degree
5 502 (8.45%) CEH
6 477 (8.03%) SC Cleared
7 472 (7.95%) CISSP
8 466 (7.85%) CompTIA CySA+
9 309 (5.20%) CISM
10 229 (3.86%) DV Cleared
11 164 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
12 130 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
13 102 (1.72%) CRISC
14 89 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
15 87 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 86 (1.45%) AWS Certification
17 85 (1.43%) CISA
18 84 (1.41%) Master's Degree
19 82 (1.38%) CREST Certified
20 64 (1.08%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 665 (11.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 517 (8.70%) NIST
3 339 (5.71%) GDPR
4 330 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 320 (5.39%) GRC
6 147 (2.47%) PCI DSS
7 142 (2.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 107 (1.80%) NCSC
9 104 (1.75%) QA
10 58 (0.98%) SOC 2
11 47 (0.79%) NIST 800
12 45 (0.76%) SLA
13 38 (0.64%) Accessibility
14 37 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 34 (0.57%) COBIT
16 33 (0.56%) JSP 440
17 30 (0.51%) Data Quality
18 23 (0.39%) ISO 22301
18 23 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
19 21 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 464 (7.81%) Active Directory
2 164 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 137 (2.31%) Hyper-V
4 62 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (0.86%) Docker
6 38 (0.64%) Firmware
7 26 (0.44%) vSphere
8 14 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.22%) IAG
9 13 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 12 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 10 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
12 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.084%) ClearTrust
14 3 (0.051%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.051%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.051%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 263 (4.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 79 (1.33%) Kubernetes
3 62 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
4 44 (0.74%) Ansible
5 26 (0.44%) Nmap
6 24 (0.40%) Nessus
6 24 (0.40%) QRadar
7 23 (0.39%) FortiGate
8 22 (0.37%) Grafana
9 21 (0.35%) SCCM
10 20 (0.34%) CASB
11 16 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
12 13 (0.22%) Prometheus
13 9 (0.15%) Kibana
14 8 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
14 8 (0.13%) Functional Safety
15 7 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
15 7 (0.12%) Graylog
16 6 (0.10%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.084%) Argo
Vendors
1 2,115 (35.61%) Microsoft
2 846 (14.24%) ForeScout
3 217 (3.65%) Cisco
4 209 (3.52%) VMware
5 172 (2.90%) Palo Alto
6 116 (1.95%) Splunk
7 99 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
8 75 (1.26%) Qualys
9 74 (1.25%) Google
10 69 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 68 (1.14%) Aruba
12 65 (1.09%) Apple
13 59 (0.99%) Salesforce
13 59 (0.99%) Tenable
14 57 (0.96%) Fortinet
15 51 (0.86%) Veeam
16 41 (0.69%) Adobe
17 40 (0.67%) SAP
17 40 (0.67%) SonicWALL
18 38 (0.64%) CyberArk