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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 38 31
Rank change year-on-year +32 -7 +21
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 9,220 2,291 4,615
As % of all permanent jobs in England 12.11% 6.18% 5.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.01% 6.64% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,641 1,516 3,528
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £76,438
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,125 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.80% -8.42%

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 57,594 34,512 70,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.67% 93.12% 85.97%
Number of salaries quoted 36,194 20,484 53,623
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,867
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,450 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 2,893 £42,500 -19.05% 475
North West +41 2,009 £45,000 -18.18% 303
Midlands +29 1,859 £45,000 -18.18% 185
London +23 1,584 £71,000 -4.38% 728
South East +34 1,474 £50,000 -9.09% 505
West Midlands +26 1,373 £45,000 -25.62% 75
East of England +45 748 £38,250 -19.47% 214
Yorkshire +39 738 £41,500 -7.78% 135
South West +24 613 £59,250 +31.67% 160
East Midlands +36 497 £47,500 +26.67% 109
North East +39 146 £40,000 +8.20% 39
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 (1.31%) SharePoint
2 83 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.12%) CMS
4 8 (0.087%) Confluence
4 8 (0.087%) WordPress
5 6 (0.065%) Apache
5 6 (0.065%) nginx
6 5 (0.054%) Drupal
7 4 (0.043%) IIS
8 3 (0.033%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.033%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.022%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.022%) SAS
10 1 (0.011%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 85 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.27%) Simulink
5 18 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.15%) Maya
7 8 (0.087%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.054%) CATIA
8 5 (0.054%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.054%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.022%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.022%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.022%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 28 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
3 9 (0.098%) Cloudability
4 5 (0.054%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.054%) Shopify
5 4 (0.043%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.043%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.043%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.043%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.033%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 3 (0.033%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.033%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.022%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.022%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.022%) Yoast SEO
8 1 (0.011%) Endur
8 1 (0.011%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.011%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.011%) SAP CX
8 1 (0.011%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 4,044 (43.86%) Cloud Computing
2 2,518 (27.31%) Azure
3 548 (5.94%) AWS
4 475 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
5 293 (3.18%) Entra ID
6 177 (1.92%) GitHub
7 112 (1.21%) SaaS
8 98 (1.06%) GCP
9 67 (0.73%) Power Platform
10 58 (0.63%) Azure Sentinel
10 58 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
11 40 (0.43%) PaaS
12 39 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
13 36 (0.39%) Google Workspace
14 33 (0.36%) Nutanix
15 30 (0.33%) Mimecast
16 29 (0.31%) IaaS
17 28 (0.30%) AWS CloudFormation
18 25 (0.27%) Serverless
19 23 (0.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4,187 (45.41%) Internet
2 332 (3.60%) Firewall
3 148 (1.61%) Network Security
4 121 (1.31%) VPN
5 99 (1.07%) DNS
6 77 (0.84%) DHCP
7 75 (0.81%) WAN
8 69 (0.75%) VLAN
9 68 (0.74%) LAN
10 63 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (0.56%) TCP/IP
12 37 (0.40%) Broadband
13 34 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
14 32 (0.35%) VoIP
15 28 (0.30%) Wireless
16 24 (0.26%) CHAP
17 20 (0.22%) SD-WAN
18 17 (0.18%) Unified Communications
19 14 (0.15%) DMZ
20 13 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (0.40%) Power BI
2 24 (0.26%) Big Data
2 24 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
3 21 (0.23%) SQL Server
4 20 (0.22%) Neo4j
5 17 (0.18%) Tableau
6 14 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.087%) MySQL
9 7 (0.076%) Metadata
9 7 (0.076%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.054%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.054%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.054%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.043%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.043%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.043%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.022%) Apache Hive
12 2 (0.022%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.022%) Impala
Development Applications
1 178 (1.93%) Git
2 30 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
3 26 (0.28%) GitLab
3 26 (0.28%) JIRA
4 13 (0.14%) Jenkins
5 12 (0.13%) Cucumber
6 11 (0.12%) Snyk
7 8 (0.087%) JMeter
7 8 (0.087%) Locust
8 5 (0.054%) Apache Continuum
8 5 (0.054%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.054%) Metasploit
9 4 (0.043%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.043%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.043%) MLflow
9 4 (0.043%) VersionOne
10 1 (0.011%) GDB
10 1 (0.011%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.011%) WinDbg
10 1 (0.011%) Yeoman
General
1 6,483 (70.31%) Social Skills
2 4,251 (46.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,168 (45.21%) Banking
4 540 (5.86%) Finance
5 350 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
6 318 (3.45%) Multimedia
7 200 (2.17%) Public Sector
8 151 (1.64%) Legal
9 150 (1.63%) Marketing
10 148 (1.61%) Law
11 143 (1.55%) Retail
12 124 (1.34%) Telecoms
13 115 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
14 96 (1.04%) Manufacturing
15 72 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
16 55 (0.60%) Local Government
17 49 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
18 40 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
19 39 (0.42%) Electronics
20 37 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 3,138 (34.03%) Lecturer
2 1,270 (13.77%) Analyst
3 1,132 (12.28%) Security Analyst
4 1,057 (11.46%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 973 (10.55%) Junior
6 943 (10.23%) Junior Analyst
7 942 (10.22%) Junior Security Analyst
8 658 (7.14%) Ethical Hacker
9 439 (4.76%) Senior
10 331 (3.59%) Trainee
11 271 (2.94%) Consultant
12 265 (2.87%) Architect
13 235 (2.55%) Lead
14 212 (2.30%) IT Support
15 200 (2.17%) Security Manager
16 173 (1.88%) Security Architect
17 172 (1.87%) Security Engineer
18 164 (1.78%) Security Consultant
19 152 (1.65%) IT Manager
20 148 (1.61%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (2.00%) HTML
2 183 (1.98%) CSS
3 48 (0.52%) REST
4 43 (0.47%) OAuth
5 42 (0.46%) SAML
6 40 (0.43%) OpenID
7 38 (0.41%) LDAP
7 38 (0.41%) React
8 30 (0.33%) SOAP
9 26 (0.28%) GraphQL
10 20 (0.22%) AngularJS
11 17 (0.18%) MERN Stack
12 14 (0.15%) SailPoint
12 14 (0.15%) SAP CAF
13 11 (0.12%) Node.js
14 10 (0.11%) Kafka
14 10 (0.11%) Middleware
14 10 (0.11%) RESTful
14 10 (0.11%) Tailwind CSS
15 9 (0.098%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 4,046 (43.88%) IoT
2 740 (8.03%) Cyberattack
3 231 (2.51%) Security Posture
4 180 (1.95%) Management Information System
5 129 (1.40%) Onboarding
6 119 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
7 105 (1.14%) Driving Licence
8 92 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
9 82 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
10 70 (0.76%) Data Centre
11 67 (0.73%) Cyber Defence
11 67 (0.73%) Operational Technology
12 64 (0.69%) Cloud Native
13 63 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
14 56 (0.61%) Blog
15 43 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
16 42 (0.46%) PKI
17 40 (0.43%) Cyber Security Posture
18 33 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
19 31 (0.34%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 381 (4.13%) Windows
2 174 (1.89%) Windows Server
3 136 (1.48%) Linux
4 66 (0.72%) Windows 10
5 43 (0.47%) Mac OS
6 28 (0.30%) Android
7 21 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (0.087%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.087%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.076%) Unix
11 6 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.043%) CentOS
12 4 (0.043%) VMS
13 2 (0.022%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.011%) Debian
14 1 (0.011%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.011%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.011%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.011%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,263 (46.24%) AI
2 4,047 (43.89%) User Experience
3 4,043 (43.85%) Machine Learning
4 4,026 (43.67%) Web Development
5 1,548 (16.79%) Mentoring
6 816 (8.85%) Ethical Hacking
7 455 (4.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 431 (4.67%) Problem-Solving
9 397 (4.31%) Information Security
10 378 (4.10%) Risk Management
11 374 (4.06%) Incident Response
12 268 (2.91%) Agile
13 260 (2.82%) SIEM
14 251 (2.72%) Cloud Security
15 219 (2.38%) Security Operations
16 207 (2.25%) Data Protection
16 207 (2.25%) Roadmaps
17 205 (2.22%) ITIL
18 199 (2.16%) Disaster Recovery
19 192 (2.08%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 405 (4.39%) Python
2 232 (2.52%) JavaScript
3 218 (2.36%) PowerShell
4 104 (1.13%) SQL
5 86 (0.93%) R
6 70 (0.76%) Bash
7 45 (0.49%) Java
8 38 (0.41%) C++
9 33 (0.36%) TypeScript
10 29 (0.31%) MATLAB
11 25 (0.27%) T-SQL
12 23 (0.25%) C
12 23 (0.25%) C#
13 13 (0.14%) Go
14 12 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
15 10 (0.11%) Rust
16 6 (0.065%) PHP
17 4 (0.043%) Bicep
17 4 (0.043%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.043%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4,430 (48.05%) Degree
2 4,060 (44.03%) Master's Degree
3 3,998 (43.36%) PhD
3 3,998 (43.36%) Postgraduate
4 1,802 (19.54%) Azure Certification
5 1,162 (12.60%) CompTIA Security+
6 989 (10.73%) CompTIA CySA+
7 864 (9.37%) CEH
8 379 (4.11%) CISSP
9 370 (4.01%) Security Cleared
10 251 (2.72%) SC Cleared
11 249 (2.70%) CISM
12 239 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
13 222 (2.41%) AWS Certification
14 175 (1.90%) Network+ Certification
15 171 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 165 (1.79%) A+ Certification
17 118 (1.28%) DV Cleared
18 108 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
19 101 (1.10%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 502 (5.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 472 (5.12%) NIST
3 294 (3.19%) GDPR
4 233 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 207 (2.25%) GRC
6 127 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 125 (1.36%) PCI DSS
8 103 (1.12%) NCSC
9 93 (1.01%) QA
10 54 (0.59%) SOC 2
11 42 (0.46%) COBIT
11 42 (0.46%) NIST 800
12 38 (0.41%) SLA
13 35 (0.38%) Accessibility
14 22 (0.24%) Data Quality
14 22 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 21 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
15 21 (0.23%) JSP 440
16 18 (0.20%) SOC 3
17 17 (0.18%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 313 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 75 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (0.67%) Docker
4 55 (0.60%) Hyper-V
5 39 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.25%) vSphere
7 10 (0.11%) Firmware
7 10 (0.11%) IAG
8 9 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.087%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (0.065%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.022%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.022%) GPFS
12 2 (0.022%) Lustre
13 1 (0.011%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.011%) iptables
13 1 (0.011%) KVM
Systems Management
1 155 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 74 (0.80%) Terraform
3 70 (0.76%) Kubernetes
4 38 (0.41%) Ansible
5 28 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (0.27%) Grafana
7 15 (0.16%) CASB
8 14 (0.15%) SCCM
9 11 (0.12%) CSIRT
9 11 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
9 11 (0.12%) QRadar
10 10 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.11%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.098%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.087%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 7 (0.076%) Cisco CUCM
13 7 (0.076%) FTK
13 7 (0.076%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.076%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.076%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,544 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 1,599 (17.34%) ForeScout
3 121 (1.31%) VMware
4 101 (1.10%) Cisco
5 90 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
6 76 (0.82%) Palo Alto
7 66 (0.72%) Fortinet
8 65 (0.70%) Apple
9 51 (0.55%) Splunk
10 49 (0.53%) Google
11 47 (0.51%) SAP
12 43 (0.47%) ServiceNow
12 43 (0.47%) Tenable
13 41 (0.44%) Adobe
14 39 (0.42%) Salesforce
15 32 (0.35%) Dell
16 30 (0.33%) Siemens
17 28 (0.30%) CyberArk
18 24 (0.26%) Oracle
19 20 (0.22%) Veeam