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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 33 39
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 +7
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,916 2,740 3,628
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.15% 6.27% 4.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.37% 7.05% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,647 1,659 2,364
10th Percentile £30,250 £26,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £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 £76,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £96,250
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 70,697 38,871 59,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.46% 88.96% 81.02%
Number of salaries quoted 50,125 22,487 37,620
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 25 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 25 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 +12 1,465 £75,000 +5.63% 492
North of England +18 1,279 £50,000 +5.26% 368
South East +12 1,063 £55,000 +10.00% 400
Midlands +20 1,028 £55,000 +29.05% 261
North West +24 633 £57,500 +9.52% 177
South West +7 595 £55,000 +10.00% 268
West Midlands +9 518 £55,000 +8.48% 142
East Midlands +35 509 £55,000 +57.14% 119
Yorkshire +11 495 £43,750 +32.58% 143
East of England +49 471 £45,000 -5.26% 149
North East +20 151 £50,000 -25.93% 54
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
1 202 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 196 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (0.34%) IIS
4 17 (0.29%) Apache
5 9 (0.15%) Confluence
5 9 (0.15%) SAS
6 8 (0.14%) 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 83 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.17%) Simulink
5 8 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.10%) CATIA
6 6 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.034%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.017%) Maya
9 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 (0.085%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.085%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.068%) 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
9 2 (0.034%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,906 (32.22%) Azure
2 748 (12.64%) Microsoft 365
3 454 (7.67%) AWS
4 411 (6.95%) Entra ID
5 195 (3.30%) SaaS
6 145 (2.45%) GCP
7 85 (1.44%) Azure Sentinel
8 83 (1.40%) Power Platform
9 69 (1.17%) OneDrive
10 68 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
11 54 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
12 46 (0.78%) Microsoft Copilot
12 46 (0.78%) Serverless
13 42 (0.71%) Mimecast
14 34 (0.57%) GitHub
15 27 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (0.46%) PaaS
16 25 (0.42%) Google Workspace
17 23 (0.39%) IaaS
18 21 (0.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 497 (8.40%) Firewall
2 248 (4.19%) Network Security
3 217 (3.67%) DNS
4 203 (3.43%) VPN
5 170 (2.87%) WAN
6 149 (2.52%) LAN
7 148 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
8 145 (2.45%) DHCP
9 143 (2.42%) TCP/IP
10 116 (1.96%) VLAN
11 95 (1.61%) Internet
12 76 (1.28%) VoIP
13 73 (1.23%) Wireless
14 50 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
15 47 (0.79%) Unified Communications
16 43 (0.73%) HTTP
17 39 (0.66%) SSL
18 30 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
18 30 (0.51%) SD-WAN
19 29 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (0.90%) Power BI
2 45 (0.76%) SQL Server
3 13 (0.22%) Big Data
3 13 (0.22%) GIS
3 13 (0.22%) MongoDB
4 12 (0.20%) 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%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (0.068%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.068%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.068%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.051%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 47 (0.79%) JIRA
2 46 (0.78%) Git
3 27 (0.46%) Burp Suite
3 27 (0.46%) Snyk
4 26 (0.44%) Metasploit
5 24 (0.41%) GitLab
6 20 (0.34%) Jenkins
7 10 (0.17%) Yeoman
8 9 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
9 6 (0.10%) Apache Continuum
10 5 (0.085%) JMeter
10 5 (0.085%) VersionOne
11 4 (0.068%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.068%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.068%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.068%) Locust
11 4 (0.068%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.068%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.051%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.051%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,177 (36.80%) Social Skills
2 560 (9.47%) Finance
3 443 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
4 331 (5.59%) Public Sector
5 325 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 183 (3.09%) Marketing
7 181 (3.06%) Law
8 174 (2.94%) Legal
9 170 (2.87%) Retail
10 163 (2.76%) Telecoms
11 148 (2.50%) Manufacturing
12 132 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
13 126 (2.13%) Banking
14 115 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
15 103 (1.74%) Aerospace
16 56 (0.95%) Local Government
17 54 (0.91%) Advertising
18 49 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
19 37 (0.63%) Aviation
20 33 (0.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,011 (17.09%) Analyst
2 817 (13.81%) Security Analyst
3 717 (12.12%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 650 (10.99%) Senior
5 557 (9.42%) Junior
6 517 (8.74%) Ethical Hacker
7 493 (8.33%) Consultant
8 484 (8.18%) Junior Analyst
9 474 (8.01%) Junior Security Analyst
10 369 (6.24%) Architect
11 367 (6.20%) Lead
12 309 (5.22%) Security Consultant
13 296 (5.00%) Security Manager
14 278 (4.70%) IT Support
15 264 (4.46%) IT Manager
16 256 (4.33%) Security Architect
17 250 (4.23%) Security Engineer
18 211 (3.57%) IT Engineer
19 206 (3.48%) Cybersecurity Manager
20 205 (3.47%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (1.32%) Terraform
2 48 (0.81%) SAML
3 45 (0.76%) LDAP
4 43 (0.73%) OAuth
5 37 (0.63%) OpenID
6 36 (0.61%) REST
7 30 (0.51%) HTML
8 23 (0.39%) .NET
8 23 (0.39%) CSS
8 23 (0.39%) React
9 19 (0.32%) JSON
9 19 (0.32%) Kafka
10 18 (0.30%) Node.js
11 16 (0.27%) SailPoint
12 15 (0.25%) FastAPI
12 15 (0.25%) RESTful
12 15 (0.25%) XML
13 12 (0.20%) AngularJS
14 11 (0.19%) Middleware
14 11 (0.19%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 613 (10.36%) Cyberattack
2 342 (5.78%) Security Posture
3 265 (4.48%) Cyber Threat
4 238 (4.02%) Onboarding
5 230 (3.89%) Management Information System
6 165 (2.79%) Driving Licence
7 160 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
8 138 (2.33%) Operational Technology
9 135 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
10 105 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
11 99 (1.67%) Data Centre
12 96 (1.62%) Cloud Native
13 63 (1.06%) PKI
14 59 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
15 48 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
16 46 (0.78%) Cyber Security Posture
17 37 (0.63%) CSOC
18 35 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
19 34 (0.57%) Blog
20 32 (0.54%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 576 (9.74%) Windows
2 282 (4.77%) Windows Server
3 212 (3.58%) Linux
4 74 (1.25%) Mac OS
5 35 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (0.44%) Windows 10
6 26 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 19 (0.32%) Android
9 15 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.10%) CentOS
11 5 (0.085%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.068%) Kali Linux
13 3 (0.051%) Unix
13 3 (0.051%) 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
1 886 (14.98%) Mentoring
2 685 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
3 647 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 546 (9.23%) Information Security
5 533 (9.01%) Ethical Hacking
6 512 (8.65%) Incident Response
7 509 (8.60%) AI
8 503 (8.50%) Risk Management
9 478 (8.08%) Security Operations
10 445 (7.52%) SIEM
11 427 (7.22%) Vulnerability Management
12 409 (6.91%) Cloud Security
13 379 (6.41%) Stakeholder Management
14 377 (6.37%) Disaster Recovery
15 345 (5.83%) Decision-Making
16 300 (5.07%) Roadmaps
17 293 (4.95%) Service Delivery
18 282 (4.77%) Data Protection
19 277 (4.68%) Agile
20 269 (4.55%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 314 (5.31%) Python
2 236 (3.99%) PowerShell
3 97 (1.64%) SQL
4 71 (1.20%) C++
5 66 (1.12%) JavaScript
6 56 (0.95%) Bash
7 46 (0.78%) Java
8 44 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
9 32 (0.54%) C#
10 31 (0.52%) Rust
11 24 (0.41%) Go
12 21 (0.35%) C
12 21 (0.35%) TypeScript
13 16 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
14 14 (0.24%) MATLAB
15 12 (0.20%) Perl
16 9 (0.15%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.085%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.068%) Ada
18 4 (0.068%) R
Qualifications
1 1,070 (18.09%) Azure Certification
2 663 (11.21%) Security Cleared
3 618 (10.45%) CompTIA Security+
4 592 (10.01%) CEH
5 513 (8.67%) CompTIA CySA+
6 498 (8.42%) Degree
7 455 (7.69%) CISSP
8 453 (7.66%) SC Cleared
9 289 (4.89%) CISM
10 219 (3.70%) DV Cleared
11 158 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
12 114 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
13 99 (1.67%) CRISC
14 87 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 86 (1.45%) CISA
16 84 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
17 82 (1.39%) AWS Certification
18 76 (1.28%) CREST Certified
19 72 (1.22%) Master's Degree
20 65 (1.10%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 635 (10.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 512 (8.65%) NIST
3 327 (5.53%) GDPR
4 307 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials
5 301 (5.09%) GRC
6 138 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 138 (2.33%) PCI DSS
7 104 (1.76%) QA
8 95 (1.61%) NCSC
9 61 (1.03%) SOC 2
10 43 (0.73%) SLA
11 42 (0.71%) NIST 800
12 41 (0.69%) Accessibility
13 37 (0.63%) COBIT
13 37 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 32 (0.54%) JSP 440
15 28 (0.47%) Data Quality
16 22 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 21 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
17 21 (0.35%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 444 (7.51%) Active Directory
2 155 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 122 (2.06%) Hyper-V
4 56 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (0.91%) Docker
6 36 (0.61%) Firmware
7 25 (0.42%) vSphere
8 14 (0.24%) IAG
8 14 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
9 13 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.085%) ClearTrust
13 4 (0.068%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.051%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.051%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
16 1 (0.017%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 237 (4.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 81 (1.37%) Kubernetes
3 51 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
4 44 (0.74%) Ansible
5 26 (0.44%) Grafana
6 23 (0.39%) FortiGate
6 23 (0.39%) Nmap
7 22 (0.37%) Nessus
7 22 (0.37%) QRadar
8 19 (0.32%) SCCM
9 18 (0.30%) CASB
10 16 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
11 14 (0.24%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.15%) Kibana
13 8 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
13 8 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
14 7 (0.12%) Functional Safety
14 7 (0.12%) Graylog
15 6 (0.10%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.085%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 2,195 (37.10%) Microsoft
2 987 (16.68%) ForeScout
3 208 (3.52%) Cisco
4 194 (3.28%) VMware
5 168 (2.84%) Palo Alto
6 117 (1.98%) Splunk
7 99 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
8 73 (1.23%) Qualys
9 70 (1.18%) Google
10 67 (1.13%) Apple
11 66 (1.12%) ServiceNow
12 63 (1.06%) Aruba
13 62 (1.05%) Fortinet
14 60 (1.01%) Tenable
15 59 (1.00%) Salesforce
16 44 (0.74%) Veeam
17 42 (0.71%) SAP
18 41 (0.69%) Adobe
19 38 (0.64%) CyberArk
20 35 (0.59%) SonicWALL