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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 40 43
Rank change year-on-year +29 +3 +12
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 4,393 3,062 2,601
As % of all permanent jobs in England 9.35% 5.16% 5.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.05% 6.03% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,899 1,580 2,045
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £31,375 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £74,000 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,250 £97,290
UK median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -3.85%

All Process and 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 39,773 50,774 42,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.63% 85.55% 93.64%
Number of salaries quoted 24,866 26,512 32,958
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 +36 1,138 £34,000 -38.18% 307
London +18 1,126 £69,692 -3.87% 429
South East +23 894 £49,000 -14.78% 464
North West +34 813 £42,500 -22.73% 189
Midlands +16 423 £49,750 -14.00% 242
East of England +46 414 £34,000 -32.00% 109
South West +30 365 £50,000 -23.08% 188
Yorkshire +20 270 £30,500 -46.11% 89
West Midlands +13 251 £52,193 -13.01% 171
East Midlands +29 169 £36,250 -23.68% 71
North East +36 55 £30,500 -36.00% 33
South Coast - 1 £59,000 -
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
1 122 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 77 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (0.46%) CMS
4 19 (0.43%) Confluence
5 16 (0.36%) IIS
6 12 (0.27%) WordPress
7 9 (0.20%) nginx
8 7 (0.16%) Apache
9 6 (0.14%) Apache Solr
9 6 (0.14%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.11%) Drupal
10 5 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.091%) FactoryTalk
11 4 (0.091%) WinCC
12 3 (0.068%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.068%) Oracle Coherence
12 3 (0.068%) Traefik
13 2 (0.046%) ArchestrA
14 1 (0.023%) FileNet
Applications
1 110 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (1.34%) Maya
3 39 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
4 29 (0.66%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.18%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.068%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.068%) CINEMA 4D
8 3 (0.068%) Sketch
8 3 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.046%) Simulink
10 1 (0.023%) Civil 3D
10 1 (0.023%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.023%) Revit
Business Applications
1 32 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.43%) SAP IBP
4 13 (0.30%) SAP CO
4 13 (0.30%) SAP FI
4 13 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
4 13 (0.30%) SAP FSCM
5 11 (0.25%) SAP IS-U
6 9 (0.20%) SAP FS
7 7 (0.16%) Shopify
8 6 (0.14%) Exchequer
8 6 (0.14%) Sage 200
9 5 (0.11%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.091%) Endur
10 4 (0.091%) Magento
10 4 (0.091%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.091%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.068%) SAP CX
11 3 (0.068%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 1,634 (37.20%) Cloud Computing
2 834 (18.98%) Azure
3 432 (9.83%) AWS
4 416 (9.47%) Microsoft 365
5 172 (3.92%) Entra ID
6 150 (3.41%) GitHub
7 95 (2.16%) SaaS
8 84 (1.91%) Power Platform
9 76 (1.73%) GCP
10 68 (1.55%) PaaS
11 52 (1.18%) IaaS
12 51 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
13 39 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
14 38 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
15 36 (0.82%) Serverless
16 27 (0.61%) OneDrive
17 21 (0.48%) Power Automate
18 19 (0.43%) Nutanix
19 17 (0.39%) OCI
20 16 (0.36%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1,723 (39.22%) Internet
2 257 (5.85%) Firewall
3 144 (3.28%) Network Security
4 138 (3.14%) VPN
5 125 (2.85%) TCP/IP
6 110 (2.50%) DNS
7 91 (2.07%) DHCP
8 83 (1.89%) WAN
9 78 (1.78%) LAN
10 76 (1.73%) VoIP
11 64 (1.46%) VLAN
12 62 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
13 45 (1.02%) Intrusion Detection
14 36 (0.82%) Modbus
15 34 (0.77%) Wireless
16 30 (0.68%) SD-WAN
17 28 (0.64%) SAN
18 16 (0.36%) NAS
19 14 (0.32%) Unified Communications
20 13 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (1.62%) SQL Server
2 57 (1.30%) Power BI
3 37 (0.84%) Tableau
4 32 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (0.61%) Relational Database
6 21 (0.48%) SAP BW
7 18 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (0.39%) Data Lake
9 14 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (0.32%) Metadata
10 11 (0.25%) Big Data
10 11 (0.25%) MySQL
10 11 (0.25%) Oracle Database
11 10 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (0.20%) Neo4j
13 8 (0.18%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.16%) MS Access
15 5 (0.11%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 155 (3.53%) Git
2 36 (0.82%) JIRA
3 17 (0.39%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.20%) GitLab
5 7 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
6 6 (0.14%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.091%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.091%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.091%) JMeter
7 4 (0.091%) Locust
7 4 (0.091%) Toad
8 3 (0.068%) git-flow
8 3 (0.068%) Metasploit
8 3 (0.068%) Snyk
8 3 (0.068%) Spinnaker
9 2 (0.046%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.023%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.023%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.023%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.023%) SonarQube
General
1 2,696 (61.37%) Social Skills
2 1,730 (39.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,723 (39.22%) Banking
4 563 (12.82%) Finance
5 408 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
6 227 (5.17%) Marketing
7 222 (5.05%) Multimedia
8 217 (4.94%) Telecoms
9 201 (4.58%) Public Sector
10 200 (4.55%) Law
11 155 (3.53%) Legal
12 148 (3.37%) Manufacturing
13 105 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
14 91 (2.07%) Games
15 86 (1.96%) Electronics
16 84 (1.91%) Retail
17 73 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
18 49 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
19 48 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
20 30 (0.68%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 1,282 (29.18%) Lecturer
2 344 (7.83%) Analyst
3 311 (7.08%) Senior
4 232 (5.28%) Lead
5 223 (5.08%) Trainee
6 206 (4.69%) IT Support
7 204 (4.64%) Consultant
8 202 (4.60%) Security Analyst
9 171 (3.89%) Architect
10 150 (3.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 148 (3.37%) Support Engineer
12 132 (3.00%) IT Manager
13 129 (2.94%) Security Engineer
14 127 (2.89%) Security Consultant
15 122 (2.78%) Junior
16 104 (2.37%) Developer
17 98 (2.23%) Junior Analyst
18 95 (2.16%) Junior Security Analyst
19 87 (1.98%) Security Manager
20 81 (1.84%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (3.62%) HTML
2 156 (3.55%) CSS
3 36 (0.82%) React
4 28 (0.64%) .NET
5 24 (0.55%) REST
5 24 (0.55%) SAP CAF
5 24 (0.55%) YAML
6 23 (0.52%) AngularJS
7 16 (0.36%) RESTful
8 14 (0.32%) Web Services
9 13 (0.30%) Vue
10 12 (0.27%) Middleware
11 11 (0.25%) EDI
11 11 (0.25%) Kafka
12 10 (0.23%) Pandas
13 9 (0.20%) MERN Stack
13 9 (0.20%) PyTorch
13 9 (0.20%) TensorFlow
13 9 (0.20%) XML
14 7 (0.16%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1,643 (37.40%) IoT
2 190 (4.33%) Management Information System
3 163 (3.71%) Security Posture
4 147 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
5 115 (2.62%) Cyber Threat
6 107 (2.44%) Driving Licence
7 105 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
8 93 (2.12%) Data Centre
9 89 (2.03%) Onboarding
10 88 (2.00%) Operational Technology
11 71 (1.62%) Cloud Native
12 65 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
13 64 (1.46%) Security Operations Centre
14 49 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
15 47 (1.07%) Cyberattack
16 40 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
17 38 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
18 37 (0.84%) SCADA
19 33 (0.75%) CCTV
20 32 (0.73%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 415 (9.45%) Windows
2 173 (3.94%) Windows Server
3 148 (3.37%) Linux
4 75 (1.71%) Windows 10
5 74 (1.68%) Mac OS
6 23 (0.52%) Unix
7 21 (0.48%) Android
8 20 (0.46%) Apple iOS
9 13 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (0.25%) VMS
11 9 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.16%) Debian
12 7 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.11%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.068%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.046%) Check Point GAiA
15 2 (0.046%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.046%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.023%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,821 (41.45%) AI
2 1,649 (37.54%) Machine Learning
3 1,616 (36.79%) User Experience
4 1,594 (36.28%) Web Development
5 569 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
6 567 (12.91%) Mentoring
7 371 (8.45%) Risk Management
8 331 (7.53%) Information Security
9 298 (6.78%) Incident Response
10 290 (6.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 268 (6.10%) Agile
12 240 (5.46%) ITIL
13 228 (5.19%) Project Management
14 208 (4.73%) Analytics
15 201 (4.58%) Computer Science
16 192 (4.37%) Vulnerability Management
17 191 (4.35%) Decision-Making
18 187 (4.26%) SIEM
19 185 (4.21%) Roadmaps
20 178 (4.05%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 298 (6.78%) Python
2 178 (4.05%) JavaScript
3 136 (3.10%) PowerShell
4 114 (2.60%) SQL
5 69 (1.57%) R
6 40 (0.91%) Bash
7 39 (0.89%) Java
8 31 (0.71%) C#
9 20 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
10 16 (0.36%) Bicep
11 13 (0.30%) TypeScript
12 11 (0.25%) C++
13 10 (0.23%) C
14 9 (0.20%) Go
15 8 (0.18%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.18%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.16%) Scala
17 6 (0.14%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.091%) Perl
18 4 (0.091%) VB
Qualifications
1 2,130 (48.49%) Degree
2 1,648 (37.51%) Master's Degree
3 1,583 (36.03%) PhD
4 1,576 (35.88%) Postgraduate
5 360 (8.19%) CISSP
6 279 (6.35%) Security Cleared
7 273 (6.21%) Azure Certification
8 263 (5.99%) CompTIA Security+
9 240 (5.46%) CISM
10 214 (4.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 185 (4.21%) SC Cleared
12 173 (3.94%) AWS Certification
13 164 (3.73%) CEH
14 138 (3.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 110 (2.50%) CompTIA CySA+
16 100 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
16 100 (2.28%) Network+ Certification
17 97 (2.21%) A+ Certification
18 95 (2.16%) CISA
19 83 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 451 (10.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 402 (9.15%) NIST
3 242 (5.51%) GDPR
4 203 (4.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 147 (3.35%) GRC
6 88 (2.00%) NCSC
6 88 (2.00%) PCI DSS
7 83 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 70 (1.59%) QA
9 50 (1.14%) NIST 800
10 45 (1.02%) SLA
11 40 (0.91%) SOC 2
12 39 (0.89%) COBIT
13 34 (0.77%) JSP 440
14 24 (0.55%) PMO
15 23 (0.52%) ISO 9001
16 22 (0.50%) Data Quality
16 22 (0.50%) RMADS
17 18 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 17 (0.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 271 (6.17%) Active Directory
2 104 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (1.57%) Hyper-V
4 49 (1.12%) Docker
5 39 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (0.39%) vSphere
8 8 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.14%) BitLocker
10 5 (0.11%) Kamailio
11 4 (0.091%) Firmware
12 3 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.046%) GPFS
13 2 (0.046%) Lustre
14 1 (0.023%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.023%) iptables
14 1 (0.023%) Terminal Server
14 1 (0.023%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 163 (3.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (1.18%) Terraform
3 45 (1.02%) Kubernetes
4 31 (0.71%) Ansible
5 24 (0.55%) SCCM
6 17 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
6 17 (0.39%) RSA Archer
7 16 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.34%) Functional Safety
8 15 (0.34%) Nessus
9 14 (0.32%) QRadar
10 11 (0.25%) CASB
10 11 (0.25%) CSIRT
10 11 (0.25%) PaperCut
11 9 (0.20%) Grafana
12 7 (0.16%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 7 (0.16%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.16%) Nagios
13 6 (0.14%) Autotask
13 6 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 966 (21.99%) Microsoft
2 146 (3.32%) VMware
3 144 (3.28%) SAP
4 94 (2.14%) Cisco
4 94 (2.14%) ForeScout
5 88 (2.00%) Palo Alto
6 73 (1.66%) Oracle
7 58 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
8 55 (1.25%) Fortinet
8 55 (1.25%) Salesforce
9 53 (1.21%) Apple
10 48 (1.09%) Adobe
11 41 (0.93%) ServiceNow
12 40 (0.91%) Splunk
13 29 (0.66%) Sophos
14 28 (0.64%) Siemens
15 25 (0.57%) Dell
15 25 (0.57%) Qualys
16 21 (0.48%) Progress
17 20 (0.46%) Rockwell