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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 35 31
Rank change year-on-year +29 -4 +21
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 7,934 2,463 3,895
As % of all permanent jobs in England 12.82% 5.86% 5.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.29% 6.29% 6.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,280 1,349 3,028
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,210
UK median annual salary £50,000 £64,627 £60,000
% change year-on-year -22.63% +7.71% -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 48,700 39,131 60,827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.70% 93.13% 87.90%
Number of salaries quoted 29,868 20,064 47,917
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,200 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £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 1 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 1 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 +36 2,486 £35,000 -36.36% 355
North West +29 1,853 £42,500 -22.73% 175
Midlands +27 1,545 £42,500 -29.17% 254
London +23 1,427 £70,000 -6.67% 423
South East +33 1,260 £48,000 -18.38% 466
West Midlands +21 1,240 £45,000 -25.62% 123
East of England +49 661 £35,000 -30.98% 199
Yorkshire +38 535 £32,000 -45.37% 136
South West +46 491 £55,000 +4.76% 204
East Midlands +33 317 £37,500 -14.29% 127
North East +38 98 £30,500 -27.59% 46
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
1 119 (1.50%) SharePoint
2 71 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.16%) CMS
4 11 (0.14%) Confluence
5 9 (0.11%) WordPress
6 6 (0.076%) Apache
6 6 (0.076%) nginx
7 5 (0.063%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.063%) Drupal
8 3 (0.038%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.025%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.025%) SAS
10 1 (0.013%) FileNet
10 1 (0.013%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 104 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
2 66 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (0.50%) Maya
4 38 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (0.30%) Simulink
6 20 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.11%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.063%) CATIA
9 4 (0.050%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.038%) CINEMA 4D
10 3 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.025%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.025%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.013%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.013%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 30 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 12 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.088%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.076%) Exchequer
5 6 (0.076%) Shopify
6 5 (0.063%) SAP FS
7 4 (0.050%) Endur
7 4 (0.050%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.050%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.050%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.050%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.050%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.050%) SAP FSCM
7 4 (0.050%) SAP IS-U
7 4 (0.050%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.038%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.038%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.038%) SAP CX
8 3 (0.038%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4,059 (51.16%) Cloud Computing
2 1,649 (20.78%) Azure
3 537 (6.77%) AWS
4 416 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
5 265 (3.34%) Entra ID
6 203 (2.56%) GitHub
7 81 (1.02%) SaaS
8 79 (1.00%) GCP
9 74 (0.93%) Power Platform
10 49 (0.62%) Microsoft Purview
10 49 (0.62%) PaaS
11 47 (0.59%) Azure Sentinel
12 37 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
13 33 (0.42%) Google Workspace
14 32 (0.40%) IaaS
14 32 (0.40%) Nutanix
15 29 (0.37%) Dynamics 365
16 26 (0.33%) OneDrive
17 24 (0.30%) AWS CloudFormation
18 21 (0.26%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4,213 (53.10%) Internet
2 291 (3.67%) Firewall
3 124 (1.56%) Network Security
4 122 (1.54%) VPN
5 96 (1.21%) DNS
6 81 (1.02%) DHCP
7 72 (0.91%) WAN
8 70 (0.88%) TCP/IP
9 65 (0.82%) LAN
10 63 (0.79%) VLAN
11 56 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
12 40 (0.50%) VoIP
13 38 (0.48%) Broadband
14 33 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
15 25 (0.32%) Wireless
16 20 (0.25%) CHAP
17 19 (0.24%) SD-WAN
18 16 (0.20%) DMZ
19 12 (0.15%) SAN
19 12 (0.15%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (0.55%) Power BI
2 30 (0.38%) Tableau
3 29 (0.37%) SQL Server
4 28 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (0.30%) Big Data
6 21 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (0.21%) Neo4j
8 15 (0.19%) Relational Database
9 14 (0.18%) Metadata
10 12 (0.15%) Data Lake
11 11 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (0.13%) Oracle Database
13 9 (0.11%) SAP BW
14 6 (0.076%) NoSQL
15 5 (0.063%) MariaDB
15 5 (0.063%) PostgreSQL
16 4 (0.050%) MongoDB
17 3 (0.038%) MySQL
18 2 (0.025%) Amazon Redshift
18 2 (0.025%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 205 (2.58%) Git
2 32 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
3 29 (0.37%) JIRA
4 20 (0.25%) GitLab
5 14 (0.18%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.13%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.076%) JMeter
7 6 (0.076%) Locust
8 5 (0.063%) 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 (0.013%) Snyk
10 1 (0.013%) SonarQube
General
1 5,665 (71.40%) Social Skills
2 4,197 (52.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,166 (52.51%) Banking
4 532 (6.71%) Finance
5 361 (4.55%) Multimedia
6 355 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
7 196 (2.47%) Public Sector
8 170 (2.14%) Marketing
9 159 (2.00%) Law
10 154 (1.94%) Legal
11 130 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
12 123 (1.55%) Telecoms
13 112 (1.41%) Retail
14 99 (1.25%) Manufacturing
15 67 (0.84%) Games
16 66 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 57 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
18 53 (0.67%) Electronics
19 45 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
20 42 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3,137 (39.54%) Lecturer
2 764 (9.63%) Analyst
3 644 (8.12%) Security Analyst
4 604 (7.61%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 539 (6.79%) Junior
6 519 (6.54%) Junior Analyst
7 518 (6.53%) Junior Security Analyst
8 365 (4.60%) Trainee
9 362 (4.56%) Senior
10 243 (3.06%) Consultant
11 235 (2.96%) Ethical Hacker
12 222 (2.80%) Lead
13 212 (2.67%) Architect
14 207 (2.61%) IT Support
15 154 (1.94%) Developer
16 152 (1.92%) Security Manager
17 145 (1.83%) Security Consultant
18 142 (1.79%) Security Engineer
19 134 (1.69%) Support Engineer
20 126 (1.59%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (2.68%) HTML
2 212 (2.67%) CSS
3 41 (0.52%) REST
4 37 (0.47%) OAuth
5 36 (0.45%) SAML
6 34 (0.43%) OpenID
6 34 (0.43%) React
7 28 (0.35%) LDAP
8 26 (0.33%) GraphQL
8 26 (0.33%) SAP CAF
8 26 (0.33%) SOAP
9 23 (0.29%) AngularJS
10 17 (0.21%) MERN Stack
11 13 (0.16%) Middleware
12 10 (0.13%) .NET
12 10 (0.13%) Node.js
12 10 (0.13%) PyTorch
12 10 (0.13%) TensorFlow
13 9 (0.11%) RESTful
13 9 (0.11%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4,073 (51.34%) IoT
2 298 (3.76%) Cyberattack
3 186 (2.34%) Security Posture
4 175 (2.21%) Management Information System
5 119 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
6 117 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
7 116 (1.46%) Driving Licence
8 101 (1.27%) Onboarding
9 90 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
10 77 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
11 71 (0.89%) Cloud Native
12 67 (0.84%) Data Centre
13 56 (0.71%) Operational Technology
14 48 (0.60%) Cyber Defence
15 45 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
16 41 (0.52%) Blog
17 40 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
18 38 (0.48%) Public Cloud
19 34 (0.43%) Blockchain
19 34 (0.43%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 364 (4.59%) Windows
2 158 (1.99%) Windows Server
3 115 (1.45%) Linux
4 67 (0.84%) Windows 10
5 58 (0.73%) Mac OS
6 36 (0.45%) Android
7 25 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.14%) Unix
8 11 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.076%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.050%) VMS
11 3 (0.038%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.025%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.013%) Debian
13 1 (0.013%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.013%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.013%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.013%) Solaris
13 1 (0.013%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,263 (53.73%) AI
2 4,066 (51.25%) Machine Learning
3 4,040 (50.92%) User Experience
4 4,034 (50.84%) Web Development
5 1,116 (14.07%) Mentoring
6 457 (5.76%) Problem-Solving
7 410 (5.17%) Ethical Hacking
8 405 (5.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 383 (4.83%) Risk Management
10 347 (4.37%) Information Security
11 344 (4.34%) Incident Response
12 255 (3.21%) Agile
13 211 (2.66%) SIEM
14 198 (2.50%) ITIL
15 197 (2.48%) Line Management
16 196 (2.47%) Decision-Making
16 196 (2.47%) Project Management
16 196 (2.47%) Roadmaps
17 188 (2.37%) Cloud Security
18 184 (2.32%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 397 (5.00%) Python
2 256 (3.23%) JavaScript
3 178 (2.24%) PowerShell
4 113 (1.42%) SQL
5 103 (1.30%) R
6 58 (0.73%) Bash
7 41 (0.52%) Java
8 30 (0.38%) C++
9 29 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 25 (0.32%) C#
10 25 (0.32%) MATLAB
10 25 (0.32%) T-SQL
11 20 (0.25%) C
12 11 (0.14%) Go
13 9 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (0.088%) Rust
15 6 (0.076%) Bicep
16 5 (0.063%) PHP
17 4 (0.050%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.038%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4,458 (56.19%) Degree
2 4,071 (51.31%) Master's Degree
3 4,014 (50.59%) PhD
4 4,004 (50.47%) Postgraduate
5 984 (12.40%) Azure Certification
6 730 (9.20%) CompTIA Security+
7 554 (6.98%) CompTIA CySA+
8 448 (5.65%) CEH
9 344 (4.34%) CISSP
10 313 (3.95%) Security Cleared
11 261 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 245 (3.09%) AWS Certification
12 245 (3.09%) CISM
13 210 (2.65%) SC Cleared
14 197 (2.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 188 (2.37%) Network+ Certification
16 181 (2.28%) A+ Certification
17 109 (1.37%) CISA
18 104 (1.31%) DV Cleared
19 101 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 489 (6.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 443 (5.58%) NIST
3 260 (3.28%) GDPR
4 218 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 182 (2.29%) GRC
6 107 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 107 (1.35%) NCSC
7 96 (1.21%) PCI DSS
8 63 (0.79%) QA
9 44 (0.55%) SLA
10 42 (0.53%) COBIT
11 40 (0.50%) SOC 2
12 38 (0.48%) NIST 800
13 30 (0.38%) Data Quality
14 26 (0.33%) Accessibility
15 22 (0.28%) JSP 440
16 19 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 18 (0.23%) SOC 3
18 17 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
18 17 (0.21%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 289 (3.64%) Active Directory
2 66 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (0.74%) Hyper-V
4 53 (0.67%) Docker
5 29 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.20%) vSphere
7 9 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.088%) Firmware
9 6 (0.076%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.063%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.038%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.025%) GPFS
12 2 (0.025%) Lustre
13 1 (0.013%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.013%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.013%) iptables
13 1 (0.013%) KVM
Systems Management
1 155 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 62 (0.78%) Terraform
3 52 (0.66%) Kubernetes
4 33 (0.42%) Ansible
5 26 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (0.20%) CASB
7 14 (0.18%) Grafana
8 13 (0.16%) SCCM
9 12 (0.15%) CSIRT
9 12 (0.15%) Nessus
10 11 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
11 10 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 10 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 9 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.10%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 7 (0.088%) FTK
15 6 (0.076%) Nagios
15 6 (0.076%) PaperCut
15 6 (0.076%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
16 5 (0.063%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 1,668 (21.02%) Microsoft
2 753 (9.49%) ForeScout
3 116 (1.46%) VMware
4 86 (1.08%) Cisco
5 75 (0.95%) SAP
6 71 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
7 67 (0.84%) Fortinet
8 66 (0.83%) Palo Alto
9 51 (0.64%) Apple
10 50 (0.63%) Oracle
11 44 (0.55%) Salesforce
12 39 (0.49%) Dell
12 39 (0.49%) Google
13 38 (0.48%) Adobe
14 33 (0.42%) Siemens
15 31 (0.39%) Tenable
16 29 (0.37%) ServiceNow
17 24 (0.30%) Splunk
18 23 (0.29%) MuleSoft
19 19 (0.24%) PayPal