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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 35 32
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 +19
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,693 2,558 4,872
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.81% 6.43% 5.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.32% 6.95% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,146 1,525 3,503
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% -9.65%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,875 £97,200 £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 61,081 36,808 78,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.11% 92.55% 81.88%
Number of salaries quoted 42,962 20,151 56,711
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £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 19 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 19 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 +15 1,359 £74,377 +2.59% 405
North of England +21 1,332 £55,000 +6.25% 332
South East +20 1,007 £50,625 -1.70% 362
Midlands +20 966 £55,000 +10.00% 168
North West +30 625 £55,000 - 179
South West +22 563 £60,000 +33.33% 157
Yorkshire +10 555 £50,000 +51.52% 105
West Midlands +12 518 £57,500 +4.55% 85
East Midlands +42 447 £55,000 +74.60% 83
East of England +67 433 £45,000 -5.26% 133
North East +31 152 £47,500 -26.92% 51
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
1 161 (2.83%) SharePoint
2 132 (2.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.19%) Apache
3 11 (0.19%) CMS
4 5 (0.088%) IIS
4 5 (0.088%) SAS
4 5 (0.088%) WordPress
5 4 (0.070%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.070%) Confluence
6 2 (0.035%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.018%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.018%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 69 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.39%) Simulink
5 7 (0.12%) CATIA
5 7 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.035%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.018%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.018%) 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 (0.088%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.070%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.070%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.053%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.053%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.053%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.035%) Q-Pulse
8 2 (0.035%) Shopify
9 1 (0.018%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.018%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.018%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 1 (0.018%) Maximo
9 1 (0.018%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.018%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,373 (41.68%) Azure
2 609 (10.70%) Microsoft 365
3 444 (7.80%) AWS
4 358 (6.29%) Entra ID
5 149 (2.62%) SaaS
6 139 (2.44%) GCP
7 73 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
8 68 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
8 68 (1.19%) Power Platform
9 56 (0.98%) GitHub
10 51 (0.90%) OneDrive
11 45 (0.79%) Serverless
12 43 (0.76%) Google Workspace
13 33 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
14 32 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
15 30 (0.53%) Mimecast
15 30 (0.53%) PaaS
16 28 (0.49%) IaaS
17 27 (0.47%) Nutanix
18 26 (0.46%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 439 (7.71%) Firewall
2 192 (3.37%) Network Security
3 175 (3.07%) VPN
4 159 (2.79%) DNS
5 124 (2.18%) WAN
6 110 (1.93%) LAN
7 106 (1.86%) DHCP
7 106 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
8 93 (1.63%) Internet
9 87 (1.53%) VLAN
10 85 (1.49%) TCP/IP
11 53 (0.93%) VoIP
12 51 (0.90%) Broadband
13 37 (0.65%) Unified Communications
14 33 (0.58%) Wireless
15 31 (0.54%) HTTP
16 29 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
17 28 (0.49%) SSL
18 24 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
19 22 (0.39%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (0.74%) Power BI
2 25 (0.44%) SQL Server
3 15 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (0.25%) Tableau
5 9 (0.16%) Big Data
6 8 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (0.14%) MySQL
6 8 (0.14%) Neo4j
6 8 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.11%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.088%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.088%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.053%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.053%) GIS
9 3 (0.053%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.035%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.035%) Flink
10 2 (0.035%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.035%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 60 (1.05%) Git
2 36 (0.63%) GitLab
3 28 (0.49%) JIRA
4 27 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
5 25 (0.44%) Snyk
6 12 (0.21%) Jenkins
7 8 (0.14%) Burp Suite
7 8 (0.14%) Metasploit
8 7 (0.12%) Apache Continuum
8 7 (0.12%) Yeoman
9 5 (0.088%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.088%) JMeter
9 5 (0.088%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.088%) VersionOne
10 4 (0.070%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.070%) Locust
11 3 (0.053%) MLflow
12 2 (0.035%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.035%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.018%) LoadRunner
General
1 2,385 (41.89%) Social Skills
2 512 (8.99%) Finance
3 403 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
4 275 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 246 (4.32%) Public Sector
6 172 (3.02%) Retail
7 162 (2.85%) Marketing
8 144 (2.53%) Law
9 138 (2.42%) Legal
10 128 (2.25%) Banking
11 127 (2.23%) Telecoms
12 116 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
13 111 (1.95%) Manufacturing
14 108 (1.90%) Multimedia
15 73 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
16 61 (1.07%) Local Government
17 57 (1.00%) Aerospace
18 44 (0.77%) Advertising
19 42 (0.74%) Aviation
20 32 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,234 (21.68%) Analyst
2 1,060 (18.62%) Security Analyst
3 977 (17.16%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 795 (13.96%) Junior
5 765 (13.44%) Junior Analyst
6 755 (13.26%) Junior Security Analyst
7 705 (12.38%) Ethical Hacker
8 563 (9.89%) Senior
9 341 (5.99%) Consultant
10 339 (5.95%) Architect
11 295 (5.18%) Lead
12 272 (4.78%) Security Manager
13 247 (4.34%) IT Support
14 246 (4.32%) Security Architect
15 215 (3.78%) Security Consultant
16 214 (3.76%) Security Engineer
17 206 (3.62%) IT Manager
18 190 (3.34%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 169 (2.97%) IT Engineer
20 144 (2.53%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (1.04%) HTML
2 58 (1.02%) LDAP
2 58 (1.02%) REST
2 58 (1.02%) SAML
3 54 (0.95%) CSS
3 54 (0.95%) OAuth
4 50 (0.88%) OpenID
5 33 (0.58%) SOAP
6 26 (0.46%) GraphQL
7 25 (0.44%) React
8 17 (0.30%) Kafka
8 17 (0.30%) Middleware
9 14 (0.25%) .NET
9 14 (0.25%) SailPoint
10 13 (0.23%) JSON
10 13 (0.23%) Node.js
11 12 (0.21%) FastAPI
11 12 (0.21%) RESTful
12 11 (0.19%) XML
12 11 (0.19%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 813 (14.28%) Cyberattack
2 306 (5.38%) Security Posture
3 188 (3.30%) Management Information System
4 186 (3.27%) Cyber Threat
5 164 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 146 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
7 123 (2.16%) Driving Licence
8 114 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 96 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
9 96 (1.69%) Operational Technology
10 83 (1.46%) Cloud Native
11 77 (1.35%) Data Centre
12 58 (1.02%) PKI
13 49 (0.86%) Cyber Security Posture
14 42 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
15 41 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
16 39 (0.69%) Blog
17 36 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
18 32 (0.56%) Cloud Security Posture
19 30 (0.53%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 481 (8.45%) Windows
2 244 (4.29%) Windows Server
3 169 (2.97%) Linux
4 47 (0.83%) Mac OS
5 36 (0.63%) Windows 10
6 26 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 25 (0.44%) Android
7 25 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 19 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.11%) CentOS
11 6 (0.11%) Unix
11 6 (0.11%) VMS
12 2 (0.035%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.035%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.018%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.018%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,213 (21.31%) Mentoring
2 784 (13.77%) Ethical Hacking
3 543 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
4 524 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
5 493 (8.66%) Incident Response
6 442 (7.76%) Information Security
7 427 (7.50%) Risk Management
8 384 (6.75%) Security Operations
9 371 (6.52%) SIEM
10 349 (6.13%) Cloud Security
11 340 (5.97%) AI
12 319 (5.60%) Vulnerability Management
13 287 (5.04%) Disaster Recovery
14 274 (4.81%) Decision-Making
15 255 (4.48%) Roadmaps
16 238 (4.18%) Agile
17 232 (4.08%) Security Architecture
18 228 (4.00%) Stakeholder Management
19 223 (3.92%) Data Protection
20 222 (3.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 313 (5.50%) Python
2 264 (4.64%) PowerShell
3 112 (1.97%) SQL
4 105 (1.84%) JavaScript
5 83 (1.46%) Bash
6 50 (0.88%) C++
7 37 (0.65%) Java
8 29 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
9 26 (0.46%) C#
9 26 (0.46%) MATLAB
9 26 (0.46%) T-SQL
10 20 (0.35%) R
11 18 (0.32%) TypeScript
12 17 (0.30%) Rust
13 16 (0.28%) Go
14 12 (0.21%) Search Processing Language
15 11 (0.19%) C
16 9 (0.16%) Perl
17 7 (0.12%) PHP
18 5 (0.088%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,544 (27.12%) Azure Certification
2 926 (16.27%) CompTIA Security+
3 835 (14.67%) CEH
4 802 (14.09%) CompTIA CySA+
5 499 (8.77%) Security Cleared
6 419 (7.36%) Degree
7 417 (7.32%) CISSP
8 354 (6.22%) SC Cleared
9 269 (4.73%) CISM
10 171 (3.00%) DV Cleared
11 143 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
12 118 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 102 (1.79%) CISA
14 98 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
15 90 (1.58%) A+ Certification
16 89 (1.56%) AWS Certification
17 87 (1.53%) CREST Certified
18 79 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 79 (1.39%) CRISC
19 70 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 594 (10.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 523 (9.19%) NIST
3 324 (5.69%) GDPR
4 274 (4.81%) Cyber Essentials
5 257 (4.51%) GRC
6 147 (2.58%) PCI DSS
7 133 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 114 (2.00%) NCSC
9 107 (1.88%) QA
10 53 (0.93%) SOC 2
11 44 (0.77%) NIST 800
12 36 (0.63%) Accessibility
13 35 (0.61%) JSP 440
13 35 (0.61%) SLA
14 34 (0.60%) COBIT
15 31 (0.54%) Data Quality
16 30 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
16 30 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 18 (0.32%) HIPAA
18 15 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 390 (6.85%) Active Directory
2 110 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 90 (1.58%) Hyper-V
4 54 (0.95%) Docker
5 48 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (0.49%) vSphere
7 12 (0.21%) IAG
7 12 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
8 11 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 7 (0.12%) Firmware
11 5 (0.088%) ClearTrust
11 5 (0.088%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.053%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.035%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.018%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.018%) KVM
Systems Management
1 199 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 90 (1.58%) Terraform
3 72 (1.26%) Kubernetes
4 40 (0.70%) Ansible
5 37 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.54%) Grafana
7 22 (0.39%) SCCM
8 18 (0.32%) Prometheus
8 18 (0.32%) QRadar
9 17 (0.30%) CASB
10 14 (0.25%) FortiGate
11 10 (0.18%) 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%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.12%) RSA Archer
14 7 (0.12%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,507 (44.04%) Microsoft
2 1,458 (25.61%) ForeScout
3 157 (2.76%) VMware
4 136 (2.39%) Cisco
5 116 (2.04%) Palo Alto
6 108 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
7 86 (1.51%) Splunk
8 63 (1.11%) Fortinet
9 61 (1.07%) Google
10 58 (1.02%) Apple
10 58 (1.02%) Tenable
11 54 (0.95%) ServiceNow
12 50 (0.88%) Salesforce
13 44 (0.77%) Qualys
14 42 (0.74%) Aruba
15 39 (0.69%) Adobe
16 36 (0.63%) SAP
17 31 (0.54%) Veeam
18 29 (0.51%) Dell
19 24 (0.42%) CyberArk