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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 33 38
Rank change year-on-year +13 +5 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 6,038 2,735 3,808
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.61% 6.29% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.96% 7.01% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,482 1,670 2,655
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £36,100
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,387 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% -7.03%
75th Percentile £79,813 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -10.08%

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 67,388 39,043 61,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.82% 89.74% 81.57%
Number of salaries quoted 47,625 22,552 42,071
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,920 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +1.67% -11.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +14 1,420 £75,000 +3.45% 712
North of England +18 1,361 £50,000 +3.09% 356
South East +14 1,100 £55,000 +10.00% 366
Midlands +18 1,048 £55,000 +21.17% 190
North West +27 653 £55,000 - 193
South West +12 605 £55,000 +22.22% 204
Yorkshire +14 544 £42,500 +28.79% 131
West Midlands +10 535 £58,750 +11.90% 97
East Midlands +39 512 £55,000 +57.14% 93
East of England +62 480 £45,000 -5.26% 121
North East +27 164 £50,000 -26.95% 35
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
1 185 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 183 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 18 (0.30%) Apache
4 16 (0.26%) IIS
5 11 (0.18%) CMS
6 9 (0.15%) Confluence
6 9 (0.15%) SAS
7 5 (0.083%) WordPress
8 4 (0.066%) 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 81 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.20%) Simulink
5 5 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.066%) CATIA
6 4 (0.066%) 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 15 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.099%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.099%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.083%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.083%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.066%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.050%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 3 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.050%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.050%) Q-Pulse
9 2 (0.033%) Infor CloudSuite
9 2 (0.033%) Infor LN
9 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.033%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.033%) Shopify
9 2 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.017%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 2,299 (38.08%) Azure
2 716 (11.86%) Microsoft 365
3 464 (7.68%) AWS
4 383 (6.34%) Entra ID
5 179 (2.96%) SaaS
6 153 (2.53%) GCP
7 83 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
8 69 (1.14%) Power Platform
9 62 (1.03%) OneDrive
10 60 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
11 48 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
12 45 (0.75%) Serverless
13 39 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
14 35 (0.58%) Mimecast
15 31 (0.51%) GitHub
16 29 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
17 28 (0.46%) Google Workspace
18 26 (0.43%) PaaS
19 23 (0.38%) IaaS
20 22 (0.36%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 473 (7.83%) Firewall
2 221 (3.66%) Network Security
3 196 (3.25%) VPN
4 189 (3.13%) DNS
5 145 (2.40%) WAN
6 143 (2.37%) Wi-Fi
7 128 (2.12%) LAN
8 126 (2.09%) DHCP
9 118 (1.95%) TCP/IP
10 107 (1.77%) VLAN
11 86 (1.42%) Internet
12 66 (1.09%) VoIP
13 56 (0.93%) Wireless
14 43 (0.71%) Unified Communications
15 40 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
16 38 (0.63%) HTTP
17 34 (0.56%) SSL
18 31 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
19 28 (0.46%) Broadband
20 27 (0.45%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (0.75%) Power BI
2 43 (0.71%) SQL Server
3 13 (0.22%) MongoDB
3 13 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (0.20%) MySQL
5 11 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (0.18%) Tableau
6 10 (0.17%) Big Data
6 10 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.099%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.099%) GIS
8 6 (0.099%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.083%) Metadata
9 5 (0.083%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.066%) 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 40 (0.66%) JIRA
2 38 (0.63%) Git
3 32 (0.53%) GitLab
4 27 (0.45%) Snyk
5 18 (0.30%) Burp Suite
6 17 (0.28%) Metasploit
7 15 (0.25%) Jenkins
8 13 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
9 9 (0.15%) Yeoman
10 5 (0.083%) JMeter
10 5 (0.083%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.083%) VersionOne
11 4 (0.066%) Apache Continuum
11 4 (0.066%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.066%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.066%) Locust
11 4 (0.066%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.050%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.033%) Claude Code
14 1 (0.017%) webpack
General
1 2,422 (40.11%) Social Skills
2 526 (8.71%) Finance
3 415 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
4 313 (5.18%) Public Sector
5 295 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 171 (2.83%) Law
6 171 (2.83%) Marketing
7 169 (2.80%) Retail
8 159 (2.63%) Telecoms
9 158 (2.62%) Legal
10 135 (2.24%) Manufacturing
11 123 (2.04%) Banking
12 110 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
13 94 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
14 78 (1.29%) Aerospace
15 58 (0.96%) Local Government
16 57 (0.94%) Advertising
17 55 (0.91%) Multimedia
18 34 (0.56%) Games
18 34 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,187 (19.66%) Analyst
2 1,007 (16.68%) Security Analyst
3 909 (15.05%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 736 (12.19%) Junior
5 705 (11.68%) Ethical Hacker
6 673 (11.15%) Junior Analyst
7 663 (10.98%) Junior Security Analyst
8 614 (10.17%) Senior
9 454 (7.52%) Consultant
10 355 (5.88%) Architect
11 314 (5.20%) Lead
12 292 (4.84%) Security Consultant
13 281 (4.65%) Security Manager
14 272 (4.50%) IT Support
15 240 (3.97%) IT Manager
16 239 (3.96%) Security Architect
17 227 (3.76%) Security Engineer
18 199 (3.30%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 191 (3.16%) IT Engineer
20 188 (3.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (0.91%) SAML
2 49 (0.81%) OAuth
3 48 (0.79%) LDAP
4 43 (0.71%) OpenID
5 42 (0.70%) REST
6 30 (0.50%) HTML
7 23 (0.38%) CSS
8 22 (0.36%) React
9 20 (0.33%) Kafka
10 18 (0.30%) .NET
10 18 (0.30%) JSON
10 18 (0.30%) SailPoint
11 16 (0.26%) Node.js
12 15 (0.25%) SOAP
12 15 (0.25%) XML
13 14 (0.23%) Middleware
13 14 (0.23%) RESTful
14 13 (0.22%) FastAPI
14 13 (0.22%) XMPP
15 12 (0.20%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 808 (13.38%) Cyberattack
2 330 (5.47%) Security Posture
3 233 (3.86%) Cyber Threat
4 215 (3.56%) Onboarding
5 212 (3.51%) Management Information System
6 167 (2.77%) Driving Licence
7 163 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
8 136 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
9 110 (1.82%) Operational Technology
10 99 (1.64%) Cyber Defence
11 90 (1.49%) Cloud Native
12 74 (1.23%) Data Centre
13 59 (0.98%) PKI
14 55 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
15 41 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
16 39 (0.65%) Cyber Security Posture
17 38 (0.63%) Blog
17 38 (0.63%) CSOC
18 28 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
19 27 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 549 (9.09%) Windows
2 269 (4.46%) Windows Server
3 199 (3.30%) Linux
4 64 (1.06%) Mac OS
5 32 (0.53%) Windows 10
6 29 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 26 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 25 (0.41%) Android
8 25 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 23 (0.38%) Apple iOS
10 15 (0.25%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.099%) CentOS
12 4 (0.066%) VMS
12 4 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.050%) Unix
14 2 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.033%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.033%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.017%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.017%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,098 (18.18%) Mentoring
2 757 (12.54%) Ethical Hacking
3 623 (10.32%) Problem-Solving
4 619 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 509 (8.43%) Information Security
6 506 (8.38%) Incident Response
7 479 (7.93%) Risk Management
8 451 (7.47%) Security Operations
9 430 (7.12%) SIEM
10 424 (7.02%) AI
11 398 (6.59%) Cloud Security
12 390 (6.46%) Vulnerability Management
13 329 (5.45%) Disaster Recovery
14 325 (5.38%) Decision-Making
15 301 (4.99%) Stakeholder Management
16 284 (4.70%) Roadmaps
17 265 (4.39%) Agile
18 253 (4.19%) Service Delivery
19 251 (4.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 247 (4.09%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 301 (4.99%) Python
2 239 (3.96%) PowerShell
3 94 (1.56%) SQL
4 65 (1.08%) C++
4 65 (1.08%) JavaScript
5 62 (1.03%) Bash
6 39 (0.65%) Java
7 38 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
8 31 (0.51%) Rust
9 28 (0.46%) C#
10 21 (0.35%) Go
11 16 (0.26%) MATLAB
11 16 (0.26%) TypeScript
12 14 (0.23%) C
12 14 (0.23%) Search Processing Language
13 10 (0.17%) Perl
14 8 (0.13%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.12%) PHP
16 5 (0.083%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.066%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1,432 (23.72%) Azure Certification
2 830 (13.75%) CompTIA Security+
3 811 (13.43%) CEH
4 700 (11.59%) CompTIA CySA+
5 606 (10.04%) Security Cleared
6 471 (7.80%) Degree
7 449 (7.44%) CISSP
8 421 (6.97%) SC Cleared
9 293 (4.85%) CISM
10 198 (3.28%) DV Cleared
11 163 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
12 102 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
13 94 (1.56%) CRISC
14 93 (1.54%) CISA
15 91 (1.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 76 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
16 76 (1.26%) CREST Certified
17 73 (1.21%) AWS Certification
18 71 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
19 69 (1.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 620 (10.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 521 (8.63%) NIST
3 316 (5.23%) GDPR
4 281 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 273 (4.52%) GRC
6 146 (2.42%) PCI DSS
7 135 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 104 (1.72%) QA
9 95 (1.57%) NCSC
10 62 (1.03%) SOC 2
11 42 (0.70%) NIST 800
12 40 (0.66%) Accessibility
13 36 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 34 (0.56%) COBIT
14 34 (0.56%) SLA
15 33 (0.55%) JSP 440
16 27 (0.45%) Data Quality
17 23 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
17 23 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 21 (0.35%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 430 (7.12%) Active Directory
2 135 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 113 (1.87%) Hyper-V
4 55 (0.91%) Docker
5 50 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.41%) vSphere
7 21 (0.35%) Firmware
8 14 (0.23%) IAG
9 13 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 12 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 9 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
12 6 (0.099%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.083%) ClearTrust
14 4 (0.066%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.050%) VMware Server
16 1 (0.017%) BitLocker
16 1 (0.017%) Embedded Firmware
16 1 (0.017%) KVM
16 1 (0.017%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 222 (3.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 88 (1.46%) Terraform
3 74 (1.23%) Kubernetes
4 45 (0.75%) Ansible
5 43 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.51%) Grafana
7 19 (0.31%) QRadar
8 17 (0.28%) FortiGate
8 17 (0.28%) Prometheus
9 16 (0.26%) CASB
10 15 (0.25%) SCCM
11 14 (0.23%) Nmap
12 13 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
12 13 (0.22%) Nessus
13 10 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
14 9 (0.15%) Kibana
15 8 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
16 6 (0.099%) CSIRT
16 6 (0.099%) Graylog
16 6 (0.099%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,525 (41.82%) Microsoft
2 1,364 (22.59%) ForeScout
3 183 (3.03%) VMware
4 182 (3.01%) Cisco
5 155 (2.57%) Palo Alto
6 107 (1.77%) Splunk
7 100 (1.66%) CrowdStrike
8 69 (1.14%) Google
9 68 (1.13%) Qualys
10 64 (1.06%) Fortinet
10 64 (1.06%) ServiceNow
11 61 (1.01%) Aruba
12 59 (0.98%) Apple
13 56 (0.93%) Tenable
14 52 (0.86%) Salesforce
15 40 (0.66%) SAP
16 38 (0.63%) Veeam
17 35 (0.58%) Adobe
17 35 (0.58%) CyberArk
18 28 (0.46%) Dell