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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 +2
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,673 2,726 3,285
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.48% 6.30% 5.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.44% 7.07% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,834 1,589 1,698
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,047 £35,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,308
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.55%

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 76,241 38,534 54,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.63% 89.00% 82.49%
Number of salaries quoted 53,599 21,786 29,155
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,900 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +6 1,535 £80,000 +14.29% 2,202
North of England +12 1,082 £50,000 +9.29% 767
South East +14 1,056 £55,000 +10.00% 890
Midlands +20 970 £55,000 +15.79% 476
North West +21 591 £60,000 +31.15% 411
South West +1 570 £55,000 +10.00% 383
West Midlands +8 501 £55,000 +6.80% 290
East Midlands +43 469 £55,000 +46.67% 185
East of England +35 431 £50,000 +11.11% 257
Yorkshire +5 363 £40,000 +6.67% 255
North East -2 128 £50,000 -25.93% 105
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
1 246 (4.34%) SharePoint
2 243 (4.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (0.49%) IIS
4 25 (0.44%) Apache
5 11 (0.19%) Confluence
6 9 (0.16%) SAS
7 7 (0.12%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.11%) CMS
9 4 (0.071%) WordPress
10 3 (0.053%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.018%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.018%) ArchestrA
11 1 (0.018%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 100 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
2 69 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (0.30%) Simulink
5 10 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.088%) CATIA
7 3 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.035%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.035%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.018%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.018%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 19 (0.33%) Cloudability
2 9 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.11%) Sage 200
5 5 (0.088%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 4 (0.071%) Infor CloudSuite
6 4 (0.071%) Infor M3
6 4 (0.071%) SystmOne
7 3 (0.053%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.053%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.053%) Infor LN
7 3 (0.053%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.053%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.053%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.035%) Eikon
8 2 (0.035%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.035%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.035%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,298 (22.88%) Azure
2 843 (14.86%) Microsoft 365
3 522 (9.20%) Entra ID
4 454 (8.00%) AWS
5 196 (3.45%) SaaS
6 160 (2.82%) GCP
7 105 (1.85%) Power Platform
8 98 (1.73%) OneDrive
9 90 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
10 85 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
11 64 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
12 62 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
13 53 (0.93%) Serverless
14 48 (0.85%) Mimecast
15 43 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
16 37 (0.65%) Power Automate
17 34 (0.60%) GitHub
17 34 (0.60%) Google Workspace
18 33 (0.58%) Azure Logic Apps
19 27 (0.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 517 (9.11%) Firewall
2 279 (4.92%) DNS
3 255 (4.49%) VPN
4 241 (4.25%) Network Security
5 205 (3.61%) DHCP
6 195 (3.44%) TCP/IP
7 187 (3.30%) WAN
8 166 (2.93%) Wi-Fi
9 165 (2.91%) LAN
10 127 (2.24%) VLAN
11 101 (1.78%) Internet
12 92 (1.62%) Wireless
13 82 (1.45%) VoIP
14 58 (1.02%) Cisco Nexus
15 51 (0.90%) SSL
16 48 (0.85%) HTTP
17 41 (0.72%) Unified Communications
18 37 (0.65%) Wireshark
19 33 (0.58%) Modbus
20 32 (0.56%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (1.06%) Power BI
2 56 (0.99%) SQL Server
3 23 (0.41%) Big Data
4 17 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (0.23%) GIS
5 13 (0.23%) Tableau
6 12 (0.21%) Metadata
6 12 (0.21%) MongoDB
7 11 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (0.19%) MySQL
8 8 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (0.12%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.12%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.088%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.088%) Flink
11 5 (0.088%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.071%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 53 (0.93%) JIRA
2 42 (0.74%) Git
3 34 (0.60%) Burp Suite
4 31 (0.55%) Metasploit
5 20 (0.35%) Snyk
6 19 (0.33%) GitLab
6 19 (0.33%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.19%) Yeoman
8 9 (0.16%) Eclipse
8 9 (0.16%) LabVIEW
9 5 (0.088%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.071%) Apache Continuum
10 4 (0.071%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.071%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.071%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.053%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.053%) Maven
11 3 (0.053%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.053%) VersionOne
12 2 (0.035%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,631 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 624 (11.00%) Finance
3 453 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
4 389 (6.86%) Public Sector
5 333 (5.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 214 (3.77%) Legal
7 193 (3.40%) Law
8 190 (3.35%) Marketing
9 187 (3.30%) Retail
10 186 (3.28%) Manufacturing
11 183 (3.23%) Telecoms
12 168 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
13 139 (2.45%) Aerospace
14 132 (2.33%) Banking
15 127 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
16 66 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
17 52 (0.92%) Advertising
18 48 (0.85%) Aviation
19 47 (0.83%) Local Government
20 41 (0.72%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 713 (12.57%) Analyst
2 683 (12.04%) Senior
3 543 (9.57%) Consultant
4 479 (8.44%) Security Analyst
5 404 (7.12%) Lead
6 400 (7.05%) Architect
7 399 (7.03%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 333 (5.87%) IT Support
9 318 (5.61%) Security Consultant
10 314 (5.53%) Security Manager
11 287 (5.06%) Security Engineer
12 255 (4.49%) Security Architect
13 248 (4.37%) IT Engineer
14 245 (4.32%) IT Manager
15 239 (4.21%) Junior
16 212 (3.74%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 210 (3.70%) Support Engineer
18 203 (3.58%) Cybersecurity Engineer
19 202 (3.56%) Cybersecurity Consultant
20 180 (3.17%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (1.55%) Terraform
2 55 (0.97%) SAML
3 52 (0.92%) LDAP
3 52 (0.92%) OAuth
4 44 (0.78%) OpenID
5 42 (0.74%) REST
6 33 (0.58%) .NET
7 25 (0.44%) JSON
8 20 (0.35%) React
9 19 (0.33%) HTML
9 19 (0.33%) Node.js
10 16 (0.28%) Kafka
10 16 (0.28%) Middleware
10 16 (0.28%) RESTful
10 16 (0.28%) XML
11 15 (0.26%) CSS
11 15 (0.26%) SailPoint
12 13 (0.23%) FastAPI
13 12 (0.21%) AngularJS
13 12 (0.21%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 363 (6.40%) Security Posture
2 340 (5.99%) Cyber Threat
3 271 (4.78%) Onboarding
4 244 (4.30%) Management Information System
5 235 (4.14%) Cyberattack
6 195 (3.44%) Driving Licence
7 183 (3.23%) Operational Technology
8 164 (2.89%) Security Operations Centre
9 132 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
10 113 (1.99%) Cyber Defence
11 104 (1.83%) Cloud Native
12 103 (1.82%) Data Centre
13 84 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
14 63 (1.11%) SCADA
15 58 (1.02%) PKI
16 50 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
17 42 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
18 39 (0.69%) Cyber Security Posture
19 38 (0.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
20 36 (0.63%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 650 (11.46%) Windows
2 311 (5.48%) Windows Server
3 245 (4.32%) Linux
4 86 (1.52%) Mac OS
5 43 (0.76%) Windows 10
6 42 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
7 32 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 30 (0.53%) Apple iOS
9 27 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 24 (0.42%) Android
11 12 (0.21%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (0.11%) Kali Linux
13 6 (0.11%) Unix
14 4 (0.071%) VMS
15 3 (0.053%) Rocky
16 2 (0.035%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.035%) CentOS
16 2 (0.035%) Embedded Linux
16 2 (0.035%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 770 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
2 750 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 642 (11.32%) AI
4 584 (10.29%) Information Security
5 561 (9.89%) Security Operations
6 558 (9.84%) Incident Response
7 546 (9.62%) Risk Management
8 539 (9.50%) Mentoring
9 510 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
10 487 (8.58%) Vulnerability Management
11 457 (8.06%) SIEM
12 432 (7.62%) Cloud Security
13 421 (7.42%) Decision-Making
14 397 (7.00%) Disaster Recovery
15 344 (6.06%) Roadmaps
16 324 (5.71%) Data Protection
17 316 (5.57%) ITIL
18 311 (5.48%) Service Delivery
19 295 (5.20%) Software Engineering
20 294 (5.18%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 345 (6.08%) Python
2 240 (4.23%) PowerShell
3 99 (1.75%) SQL
4 83 (1.46%) C++
5 63 (1.11%) Bash
6 58 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 55 (0.97%) Java
8 54 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
9 41 (0.72%) C#
10 38 (0.67%) Rust
11 32 (0.56%) Go
12 31 (0.55%) C
13 25 (0.44%) TypeScript
14 19 (0.33%) MATLAB
15 17 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
16 16 (0.28%) Embedded C
17 12 (0.21%) Perl
18 11 (0.19%) Bicep
19 8 (0.14%) Shell Script
20 6 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 777 (13.70%) Security Cleared
2 583 (10.28%) Degree
3 532 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 472 (8.32%) CISSP
5 377 (6.65%) Azure Certification
6 315 (5.55%) CISM
7 270 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
8 241 (4.25%) DV Cleared
9 205 (3.61%) CEH
10 182 (3.21%) CompTIA CySA+
11 158 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
12 139 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
13 109 (1.92%) Master's Degree
14 108 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
15 101 (1.78%) CRISC
16 85 (1.50%) CISA
17 84 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 75 (1.32%) DBS Check
19 71 (1.25%) CREST Certified
20 69 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 690 (12.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 522 (9.20%) NIST
3 359 (6.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 314 (5.53%) GRC
5 313 (5.52%) GDPR
6 151 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 133 (2.34%) NCSC
8 130 (2.29%) PCI DSS
9 97 (1.71%) QA
10 56 (0.99%) SLA
11 49 (0.86%) SOC 2
12 46 (0.81%) Accessibility
12 46 (0.81%) NIST 800
13 42 (0.74%) ISO 22301
14 38 (0.67%) Data Quality
15 34 (0.60%) COBIT
16 30 (0.53%) JSP 440
17 27 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 23 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
19 21 (0.37%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 495 (8.73%) Active Directory
2 164 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 145 (2.56%) Hyper-V
4 65 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 55 (0.97%) Docker
6 43 (0.76%) Firmware
7 27 (0.48%) vSphere
8 20 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 11 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 9 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
13 6 (0.11%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.088%) ClearTrust
14 5 (0.088%) IAG
15 3 (0.053%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.035%) DFS Replication
16 2 (0.035%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.035%) NFS
16 2 (0.035%) Snort
Systems Management
1 301 (5.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 81 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
3 79 (1.39%) Kubernetes
4 49 (0.86%) Ansible
5 28 (0.49%) Nmap
6 26 (0.46%) Grafana
7 25 (0.44%) CASB
8 24 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
8 24 (0.42%) Nessus
9 23 (0.41%) FortiGate
10 22 (0.39%) QRadar
10 22 (0.39%) SCCM
11 20 (0.35%) Functional Safety
12 13 (0.23%) Prometheus
13 9 (0.16%) Kibana
14 8 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
14 8 (0.14%) Progress Chef
15 7 (0.12%) Graylog
15 7 (0.12%) WSUS
16 6 (0.11%) Autotask
Vendors
1 1,631 (28.75%) Microsoft
2 282 (4.97%) ForeScout
3 235 (4.14%) Cisco
4 219 (3.86%) VMware
5 164 (2.89%) Palo Alto
6 107 (1.89%) Splunk
7 96 (1.69%) Google
8 94 (1.66%) CrowdStrike
9 78 (1.37%) Qualys
10 73 (1.29%) Salesforce
11 71 (1.25%) Aruba
12 68 (1.20%) ServiceNow
13 59 (1.04%) Apple
14 55 (0.97%) Tenable
15 51 (0.90%) Fortinet
16 50 (0.88%) Meraki
16 50 (0.88%) Veeam
17 41 (0.72%) CyberArk
17 41 (0.72%) SonicWALL
18 40 (0.71%) SAP