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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 31 34
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 +7
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,866 2,707 3,558
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.77% 6.26% 5.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.86% 7.06% 6.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,790 1,601 1,934
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,536 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -6.98%

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 74,604 38,365 56,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.40% 88.79% 81.71%
Number of salaries quoted 52,829 22,080 32,110
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,233 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +9 1,499 £80,000 +14.29% 2,011
North of England +14 1,200 £51,500 +10.46% 712
South East +11 1,063 £55,000 +10.00% 797
Midlands +17 1,034 £55,000 +21.69% 448
North West +27 606 £58,500 +23.16% 384
South West +4 591 £55,000 +10.00% 378
West Midlands +5 527 £55,000 +10.00% 279
East Midlands +36 507 £55,000 +51.72% 169
East of England +47 456 £45,000 - 252
Yorkshire +12 452 £45,000 +20.00% 240
North East +3 142 £50,000 -24.53% 95
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
1 239 (4.07%) SharePoint
2 224 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (0.43%) IIS
4 20 (0.34%) Apache
5 10 (0.17%) Confluence
6 9 (0.15%) SAS
7 5 (0.085%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.085%) CMS
7 5 (0.085%) WordPress
8 3 (0.051%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.017%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 89 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.27%) Simulink
5 9 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.068%) CATIA
8 2 (0.034%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.017%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 24 (0.41%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.085%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.085%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.068%) SystmOne
8 3 (0.051%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.051%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.051%) Infor CloudSuite
8 3 (0.051%) Infor LN
8 3 (0.051%) Infor M3
8 3 (0.051%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.051%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.034%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
9 2 (0.034%) Eikon
9 2 (0.034%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.017%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 1,618 (27.58%) Azure
2 828 (14.12%) Microsoft 365
3 480 (8.18%) Entra ID
4 449 (7.65%) AWS
5 199 (3.39%) SaaS
6 150 (2.56%) GCP
7 92 (1.57%) Power Platform
8 86 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
8 86 (1.47%) OneDrive
9 81 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
10 59 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
11 55 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
12 53 (0.90%) Serverless
13 43 (0.73%) Mimecast
14 31 (0.53%) Power Automate
15 29 (0.49%) PaaS
16 28 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
16 28 (0.48%) Google Workspace
16 28 (0.48%) IaaS
17 26 (0.44%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 517 (8.81%) Firewall
2 262 (4.47%) DNS
3 239 (4.07%) Network Security
4 232 (3.95%) VPN
5 185 (3.15%) DHCP
6 179 (3.05%) WAN
7 178 (3.03%) TCP/IP
8 161 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
9 155 (2.64%) LAN
10 128 (2.18%) VLAN
11 97 (1.65%) Internet
12 87 (1.48%) VoIP
13 84 (1.43%) Wireless
14 57 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
15 46 (0.78%) HTTP
15 46 (0.78%) SSL
15 46 (0.78%) Unified Communications
16 34 (0.58%) Wireshark
17 33 (0.56%) SD-WAN
18 30 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (0.92%) Power BI
1 54 (0.92%) SQL Server
2 14 (0.24%) Big Data
2 14 (0.24%) GIS
2 14 (0.24%) MySQL
2 14 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (0.22%) MongoDB
4 10 (0.17%) Tableau
5 9 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (0.14%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (0.085%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.085%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.085%) Metadata
8 5 (0.085%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.085%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.068%) Crystal Reports
9 4 (0.068%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.051%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 45 (0.77%) JIRA
2 41 (0.70%) Git
3 31 (0.53%) Burp Suite
4 29 (0.49%) Metasploit
5 27 (0.46%) Snyk
6 20 (0.34%) GitLab
7 19 (0.32%) Jenkins
8 10 (0.17%) Yeoman
9 8 (0.14%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.10%) LabVIEW
11 5 (0.085%) Rational DOORS
11 5 (0.085%) VersionOne
12 4 (0.068%) Apache Continuum
12 4 (0.068%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.068%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (0.051%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.051%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.051%) Visual Studio
14 2 (0.034%) git-flow
14 2 (0.034%) Zephyr
General
1 1,947 (33.19%) Social Skills
2 583 (9.94%) Finance
3 453 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
4 373 (6.36%) Public Sector
5 337 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 196 (3.34%) Legal
7 190 (3.24%) Retail
8 187 (3.19%) Marketing
9 185 (3.15%) Law
10 183 (3.12%) Telecoms
11 172 (2.93%) Manufacturing
12 148 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
13 132 (2.25%) Banking
14 126 (2.15%) Aerospace
15 124 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
16 59 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
17 54 (0.92%) Advertising
18 53 (0.90%) Local Government
19 45 (0.77%) Aviation
20 32 (0.55%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 891 (15.19%) Analyst
2 695 (11.85%) Senior
3 676 (11.52%) Security Analyst
4 584 (9.96%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 528 (9.00%) Consultant
6 418 (7.13%) Junior
7 386 (6.58%) Lead
8 373 (6.36%) Architect
9 345 (5.88%) Junior Analyst
10 335 (5.71%) Junior Security Analyst
11 329 (5.61%) Ethical Hacker
12 322 (5.49%) IT Support
13 320 (5.46%) Security Consultant
13 320 (5.46%) Security Manager
14 272 (4.64%) Security Engineer
15 264 (4.50%) Security Architect
16 255 (4.35%) IT Manager
17 240 (4.09%) IT Engineer
18 228 (3.89%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 206 (3.51%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (1.38%) Terraform
2 49 (0.84%) SAML
3 46 (0.78%) LDAP
4 44 (0.75%) OAuth
5 37 (0.63%) OpenID
5 37 (0.63%) REST
6 28 (0.48%) .NET
7 21 (0.36%) React
8 20 (0.34%) JSON
9 19 (0.32%) Node.js
10 18 (0.31%) Kafka
11 17 (0.29%) HTML
12 15 (0.26%) RESTful
12 15 (0.26%) XML
13 14 (0.24%) FastAPI
14 13 (0.22%) SailPoint
15 12 (0.20%) AngularJS
15 12 (0.20%) CSS
15 12 (0.20%) Middleware
16 10 (0.17%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 427 (7.28%) Cyberattack
2 354 (6.03%) Security Posture
3 306 (5.22%) Cyber Threat
4 265 (4.52%) Onboarding
5 235 (4.01%) Management Information System
6 186 (3.17%) Driving Licence
7 170 (2.90%) Operational Technology
8 158 (2.69%) Security Operations Centre
9 139 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
10 105 (1.79%) Data Centre
11 104 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
12 97 (1.65%) Cloud Native
13 71 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
14 57 (0.97%) PKI
15 51 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
16 48 (0.82%) SCADA
17 44 (0.75%) Cyber Security Posture
18 41 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
19 37 (0.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
20 35 (0.60%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 619 (10.55%) Windows
2 300 (5.11%) Windows Server
3 231 (3.94%) Linux
4 77 (1.31%) Mac OS
5 38 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 36 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 28 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 28 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (0.41%) Apple iOS
9 19 (0.32%) Android
10 16 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.10%) Unix
11 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.085%) CentOS
13 4 (0.068%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.068%) VMS
14 2 (0.034%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.034%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.034%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.017%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 736 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
2 729 (12.43%) Mentoring
3 699 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 585 (9.97%) AI
5 558 (9.51%) Information Security
6 530 (9.04%) Incident Response
7 529 (9.02%) Risk Management
8 512 (8.73%) Security Operations
9 459 (7.82%) Vulnerability Management
10 455 (7.76%) SIEM
10 455 (7.76%) Stakeholder Management
11 415 (7.07%) Cloud Security
12 385 (6.56%) Disaster Recovery
13 384 (6.55%) Decision-Making
14 335 (5.71%) Ethical Hacking
15 318 (5.42%) Data Protection
15 318 (5.42%) Roadmaps
16 311 (5.30%) Service Delivery
17 298 (5.08%) ITIL
18 279 (4.76%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 321 (5.47%) Python
2 241 (4.11%) PowerShell
3 95 (1.62%) SQL
4 75 (1.28%) C++
5 60 (1.02%) Bash
6 57 (0.97%) JavaScript
7 53 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
8 52 (0.89%) Java
9 37 (0.63%) C#
9 37 (0.63%) Rust
10 28 (0.48%) Go
11 26 (0.44%) C
12 22 (0.38%) TypeScript
13 18 (0.31%) MATLAB
14 17 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
15 15 (0.26%) Embedded C
16 12 (0.20%) Perl
17 6 (0.10%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.068%) Ada
18 4 (0.068%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 737 (12.56%) Security Cleared
2 736 (12.55%) Azure Certification
3 545 (9.29%) Degree
4 505 (8.61%) SC Cleared
5 480 (8.18%) CISSP
6 462 (7.88%) CompTIA Security+
7 395 (6.73%) CEH
8 372 (6.34%) CompTIA CySA+
9 312 (5.32%) CISM
10 232 (3.95%) DV Cleared
11 158 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
12 123 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 104 (1.77%) CRISC
14 100 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
15 91 (1.55%) Master's Degree
16 86 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 85 (1.45%) CISA
18 81 (1.38%) CREST Certified
19 73 (1.24%) AWS Certification
20 69 (1.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 673 (11.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 519 (8.85%) NIST
3 344 (5.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 335 (5.71%) GDPR
5 315 (5.37%) GRC
6 144 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 142 (2.42%) PCI DSS
8 119 (2.03%) NCSC
9 99 (1.69%) QA
10 56 (0.95%) SOC 2
11 49 (0.84%) Accessibility
11 49 (0.84%) SLA
12 46 (0.78%) NIST 800
13 34 (0.58%) COBIT
13 34 (0.58%) Data Quality
14 33 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 31 (0.53%) JSP 440
16 27 (0.46%) ISO 22301
17 23 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 19 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 472 (8.05%) Active Directory
2 165 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 140 (2.39%) Hyper-V
4 64 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (0.92%) Docker
6 39 (0.66%) Firmware
7 24 (0.41%) vSphere
8 16 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 11 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 11 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.17%) IAG
12 8 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
13 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.085%) ClearTrust
15 3 (0.051%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.034%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.034%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 276 (4.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 76 (1.30%) Kubernetes
3 65 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
4 49 (0.84%) Ansible
5 26 (0.44%) Nmap
6 24 (0.41%) Nessus
7 23 (0.39%) QRadar
8 21 (0.36%) CASB
8 21 (0.36%) FortiGate
9 20 (0.34%) Grafana
9 20 (0.34%) SCCM
10 15 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
11 13 (0.22%) Prometheus
12 10 (0.17%) Functional Safety
13 9 (0.15%) Kibana
14 8 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
15 7 (0.12%) Graylog
16 6 (0.10%) Cisco CUCM
16 6 (0.10%) Progress Chef
16 6 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,954 (33.31%) Microsoft
2 658 (11.22%) ForeScout
3 219 (3.73%) Cisco
4 213 (3.63%) VMware
5 172 (2.93%) Palo Alto
6 110 (1.88%) Splunk
7 94 (1.60%) CrowdStrike
8 78 (1.33%) Google
8 78 (1.33%) Qualys
9 72 (1.23%) ServiceNow
10 69 (1.18%) Aruba
11 63 (1.07%) Salesforce
12 61 (1.04%) Apple
13 60 (1.02%) Tenable
14 57 (0.97%) Fortinet
15 52 (0.89%) Veeam
16 42 (0.72%) Adobe
17 41 (0.70%) SAP
18 40 (0.68%) SonicWALL
19 38 (0.65%) Meraki