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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 38 31
Rank change year-on-year +32 -7 +21
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 8,074 2,420 3,999
As % of all permanent jobs in England 12.63% 5.82% 5.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.10% 6.22% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,323 1,414 3,116
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,375 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,625 £63,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% +5.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £78,975 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,200 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -19.68% +4.17% -7.69%

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 50,162 38,910 62,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.46% 93.52% 87.66%
Number of salaries quoted 30,888 20,514 49,276
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,440
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,185 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +10.91% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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
North of England +35 2,529 £37,500 -31.82% 285
North West +31 1,870 £42,500 -22.73% 142
Midlands +27 1,581 £42,500 -29.17% 178
London +24 1,441 £70,000 -6.67% 390
South East +39 1,284 £48,000 -17.36% 333
West Midlands +22 1,255 £45,000 -28.00% 83
East of England +47 670 £35,000 -30.00% 126
Yorkshire +35 554 £31,500 -42.73% 106
South West +47 508 £55,000 +11.67% 144
East Midlands +36 338 £37,500 -14.29% 93
North East +36 105 £30,500 -23.81% 38
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
1 121 (1.50%) SharePoint
2 73 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (0.17%) CMS
4 11 (0.14%) Confluence
5 8 (0.099%) WordPress
6 6 (0.074%) Apache
6 6 (0.074%) nginx
7 5 (0.062%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.062%) Drupal
8 3 (0.037%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.025%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.025%) SAS
10 1 (0.012%) FileNet
10 1 (0.012%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 106 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
2 66 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (0.42%) Maya
5 24 (0.30%) Simulink
6 19 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.12%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.062%) CATIA
9 4 (0.050%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.025%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.025%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.025%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.012%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 30 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 11 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.074%) Shopify
5 5 (0.062%) SAP IBP
6 4 (0.050%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.050%) Endur
6 4 (0.050%) Exchequer
6 4 (0.050%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.050%) SAP FS
6 4 (0.050%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.050%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.037%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.037%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.037%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.037%) SAP CX
7 3 (0.037%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.037%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.037%) SAP IS-U
7 3 (0.037%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 4,052 (50.19%) Cloud Computing
2 1,749 (21.66%) Azure
3 537 (6.65%) AWS
4 426 (5.28%) Microsoft 365
5 267 (3.31%) Entra ID
6 202 (2.50%) GitHub
7 84 (1.04%) SaaS
8 79 (0.98%) GCP
9 69 (0.85%) Power Platform
10 51 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
11 47 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
11 47 (0.58%) PaaS
12 37 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
13 33 (0.41%) Google Workspace
13 33 (0.41%) Nutanix
14 30 (0.37%) IaaS
15 28 (0.35%) Dynamics 365
16 25 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (0.31%) OneDrive
17 23 (0.28%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4,212 (52.17%) Internet
2 299 (3.70%) Firewall
3 128 (1.59%) Network Security
4 124 (1.54%) VPN
5 94 (1.16%) DNS
6 81 (1.00%) DHCP
7 72 (0.89%) WAN
8 68 (0.84%) TCP/IP
9 65 (0.81%) LAN
9 65 (0.81%) VLAN
10 55 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
11 38 (0.47%) Broadband
11 38 (0.47%) VoIP
12 35 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
13 25 (0.31%) Wireless
14 20 (0.25%) CHAP
14 20 (0.25%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.20%) DMZ
16 13 (0.16%) Unified Communications
17 12 (0.15%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (0.48%) Power BI
2 27 (0.33%) Tableau
3 26 (0.32%) SQL Server
4 24 (0.30%) Big Data
4 24 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
6 17 (0.21%) Neo4j
7 14 (0.17%) Relational Database
8 13 (0.16%) Metadata
9 12 (0.15%) Data Lake
10 11 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (0.11%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.087%) SAP BW
13 6 (0.074%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.062%) MariaDB
14 5 (0.062%) PostgreSQL
15 4 (0.050%) MongoDB
16 3 (0.037%) MySQL
17 2 (0.025%) Apache Hive
17 2 (0.025%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 204 (2.53%) Git
2 32 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
3 29 (0.36%) JIRA
4 21 (0.26%) GitLab
5 13 (0.16%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.12%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.074%) JMeter
7 6 (0.074%) Locust
8 5 (0.062%) Apache Continuum
9 4 (0.050%) Burp Suite
9 4 (0.050%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.050%) Metasploit
9 4 (0.050%) MLflow
10 1 (0.012%) Snyk
10 1 (0.012%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.012%) Yeoman
General
1 5,750 (71.22%) Social Skills
2 4,202 (52.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,167 (51.61%) Banking
4 528 (6.54%) Finance
5 360 (4.46%) Multimedia
6 344 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
7 194 (2.40%) Public Sector
8 169 (2.09%) Marketing
9 158 (1.96%) Legal
10 156 (1.93%) Law
11 129 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
12 123 (1.52%) Telecoms
13 113 (1.40%) Retail
14 97 (1.20%) Manufacturing
15 65 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
16 61 (0.76%) Games
17 55 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
18 51 (0.63%) Electronics
19 45 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
20 41 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3,139 (38.88%) Lecturer
2 819 (10.14%) Analyst
3 695 (8.61%) Security Analyst
4 654 (8.10%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 588 (7.28%) Junior
6 566 (7.01%) Junior Analyst
7 565 (7.00%) Junior Security Analyst
8 364 (4.51%) Trainee
9 363 (4.50%) Senior
10 282 (3.49%) Ethical Hacker
11 239 (2.96%) Consultant
12 226 (2.80%) Lead
13 221 (2.74%) Architect
14 206 (2.55%) IT Support
15 154 (1.91%) Developer
16 152 (1.88%) Security Manager
17 147 (1.82%) Security Consultant
18 142 (1.76%) Security Engineer
19 131 (1.62%) Support Engineer
20 130 (1.61%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (2.63%) HTML
2 210 (2.60%) CSS
3 43 (0.53%) REST
4 37 (0.46%) OAuth
5 36 (0.45%) SAML
6 34 (0.42%) OpenID
6 34 (0.42%) React
7 29 (0.36%) LDAP
8 27 (0.33%) SOAP
9 26 (0.32%) GraphQL
10 25 (0.31%) SAP CAF
11 23 (0.28%) AngularJS
12 17 (0.21%) MERN Stack
13 12 (0.15%) Middleware
14 10 (0.12%) .NET
14 10 (0.12%) Node.js
14 10 (0.12%) PyTorch
14 10 (0.12%) SailPoint
14 10 (0.12%) TensorFlow
15 9 (0.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4,073 (50.45%) IoT
2 344 (4.26%) Cyberattack
3 192 (2.38%) Security Posture
4 176 (2.18%) Management Information System
5 119 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
6 115 (1.42%) Driving Licence
7 107 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
8 101 (1.25%) Onboarding
9 90 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
10 78 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
11 70 (0.87%) Cloud Native
12 67 (0.83%) Data Centre
13 55 (0.68%) Operational Technology
14 54 (0.67%) Cyber Defence
15 46 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
16 41 (0.51%) Blog
17 38 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
18 36 (0.45%) Public Cloud
19 35 (0.43%) PKI
20 34 (0.42%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 370 (4.58%) Windows
2 166 (2.06%) Windows Server
3 116 (1.44%) Linux
4 67 (0.83%) Windows 10
5 55 (0.68%) Mac OS
6 35 (0.43%) Android
7 25 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.14%) Unix
10 6 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.050%) VMS
12 3 (0.037%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.025%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.012%) Debian
14 1 (0.012%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.012%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.012%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.012%) Solaris
14 1 (0.012%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,259 (52.75%) AI
2 4,066 (50.36%) Machine Learning
3 4,040 (50.04%) User Experience
4 4,035 (49.98%) Web Development
5 1,164 (14.42%) Mentoring
6 458 (5.67%) Ethical Hacking
7 448 (5.55%) Problem-Solving
8 410 (5.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 376 (4.66%) Risk Management
10 353 (4.37%) Information Security
11 344 (4.26%) Incident Response
12 257 (3.18%) Agile
13 213 (2.64%) SIEM
14 202 (2.50%) ITIL
15 196 (2.43%) Line Management
15 196 (2.43%) Roadmaps
16 194 (2.40%) Decision-Making
17 191 (2.37%) Cloud Security
18 189 (2.34%) Project Management
19 184 (2.28%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 399 (4.94%) Python
2 255 (3.16%) JavaScript
3 182 (2.25%) PowerShell
4 114 (1.41%) SQL
5 103 (1.28%) R
6 57 (0.71%) Bash
7 42 (0.52%) Java
8 31 (0.38%) C++
9 30 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 25 (0.31%) C#
10 25 (0.31%) MATLAB
10 25 (0.31%) T-SQL
11 21 (0.26%) C
12 10 (0.12%) Go
12 10 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.087%) Rust
14 6 (0.074%) PHP
15 5 (0.062%) Bicep
16 4 (0.050%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.037%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 4,452 (55.14%) Degree
2 4,072 (50.43%) Master's Degree
3 4,014 (49.72%) PhD
4 4,004 (49.59%) Postgraduate
5 1,077 (13.34%) Azure Certification
6 779 (9.65%) CompTIA Security+
7 602 (7.46%) CompTIA CySA+
8 497 (6.16%) CEH
9 343 (4.25%) CISSP
10 311 (3.85%) Security Cleared
11 261 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 245 (3.03%) AWS Certification
13 241 (2.98%) CISM
14 208 (2.58%) SC Cleared
15 196 (2.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 189 (2.34%) Network+ Certification
17 181 (2.24%) A+ Certification
18 108 (1.34%) CISA
19 103 (1.28%) DV Cleared
20 101 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 489 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 445 (5.51%) NIST
3 260 (3.22%) GDPR
4 221 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 178 (2.20%) GRC
6 111 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 107 (1.33%) NCSC
8 97 (1.20%) PCI DSS
9 63 (0.78%) QA
10 44 (0.54%) SLA
11 42 (0.52%) SOC 2
12 41 (0.51%) COBIT
13 37 (0.46%) NIST 800
14 29 (0.36%) Data Quality
15 25 (0.31%) Accessibility
16 21 (0.26%) JSP 440
17 19 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
17 19 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 18 (0.22%) ISO 22301
18 18 (0.22%) SOC 3
System Software
1 296 (3.67%) Active Directory
2 68 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (0.74%) Hyper-V
4 53 (0.66%) Docker
5 27 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.21%) vSphere
7 9 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.087%) Firmware
9 6 (0.074%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.074%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.037%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.025%) GPFS
12 2 (0.025%) Lustre
13 1 (0.012%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.012%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.012%) IAG
13 1 (0.012%) iptables
13 1 (0.012%) KVM
Systems Management
1 157 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 63 (0.78%) Terraform
3 52 (0.64%) Kubernetes
4 33 (0.41%) Ansible
5 27 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (0.20%) CASB
7 15 (0.19%) Grafana
8 13 (0.16%) SCCM
9 12 (0.15%) CSIRT
9 12 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
9 12 (0.15%) Nessus
10 10 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.12%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.11%) RSA Archer
12 8 (0.099%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 7 (0.087%) FTK
14 6 (0.074%) Nagios
14 6 (0.074%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 5 (0.062%) Backup Exec
15 5 (0.062%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1,770 (21.92%) Microsoft
2 847 (10.49%) ForeScout
3 119 (1.47%) VMware
4 90 (1.11%) Cisco
5 73 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
6 70 (0.87%) Fortinet
7 69 (0.85%) SAP
8 67 (0.83%) Palo Alto
9 53 (0.66%) Apple
10 46 (0.57%) Oracle
11 40 (0.50%) Salesforce
12 39 (0.48%) Google
13 38 (0.47%) Dell
14 36 (0.45%) Adobe
15 33 (0.41%) Tenable
16 32 (0.40%) Siemens
17 28 (0.35%) ServiceNow
18 27 (0.33%) Splunk
19 22 (0.27%) MuleSoft
20 21 (0.26%) CyberArk