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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 34 33
Rank change year-on-year +16 -1 +16
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,846 2,631 4,751
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.81% 6.30% 5.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.23% 6.90% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,269 1,609 3,380
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,424 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -9.38%
75th Percentile £79,250 £75,874 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -10.08%

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 63,352 38,114 76,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.77% 91.23% 82.25%
Number of salaries quoted 44,748 21,402 54,898
10th Percentile £30,775 £28,898 £29,605
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,927 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,761
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +15 1,374 £75,000 +3.45% 717
North of England +21 1,365 £52,250 +0.94% 406
South East +15 1,063 £50,000 -3.85% 444
Midlands +22 974 £56,700 +13.97% 230
North West +30 643 £55,000 - 228
South West +19 586 £57,500 +27.78% 201
Yorkshire +12 561 £50,000 +33.33% 128
West Midlands +16 512 £60,000 +9.09% 130
East Midlands +43 461 £55,000 +74.60% 100
East of England +61 454 £43,500 -8.42% 167
North East +27 161 £49,250 -24.23% 53
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
1 177 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 159 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (0.24%) Apache
4 11 (0.19%) CMS
5 9 (0.15%) IIS
6 6 (0.10%) SAS
7 5 (0.086%) Confluence
7 5 (0.086%) WordPress
8 4 (0.068%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.017%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 72 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.36%) Simulink
5 7 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.068%) CATIA
7 4 (0.068%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.034%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.017%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (0.41%) Cloudability
2 18 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
4 9 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.086%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.068%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.068%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.068%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.051%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.051%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.051%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.051%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.034%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.034%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 2 (0.034%) Shopify
9 1 (0.017%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.017%) Maximo
9 1 (0.017%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.017%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,370 (40.54%) Azure
2 661 (11.31%) Microsoft 365
3 434 (7.42%) AWS
4 384 (6.57%) Entra ID
5 162 (2.77%) SaaS
6 147 (2.51%) GCP
7 74 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
8 73 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
9 70 (1.20%) Power Platform
10 57 (0.98%) OneDrive
11 47 (0.80%) Serverless
12 42 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
13 39 (0.67%) GitHub
14 36 (0.62%) Google Workspace
15 32 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
16 29 (0.50%) Microsoft Copilot
16 29 (0.50%) Mimecast
17 28 (0.48%) PaaS
18 24 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
18 24 (0.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 468 (8.01%) Firewall
2 211 (3.61%) Network Security
3 185 (3.16%) VPN
4 176 (3.01%) DNS
5 135 (2.31%) WAN
6 123 (2.10%) LAN
7 122 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
8 118 (2.02%) DHCP
9 107 (1.83%) VLAN
10 105 (1.80%) TCP/IP
11 85 (1.45%) Internet
12 61 (1.04%) VoIP
13 46 (0.79%) Broadband
14 44 (0.75%) Wireless
15 43 (0.74%) Unified Communications
16 34 (0.58%) HTTP
17 30 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
17 30 (0.51%) SSL
18 29 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
19 21 (0.36%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (0.72%) Power BI
2 32 (0.55%) SQL Server
3 15 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (0.19%) MySQL
4 11 (0.19%) Tableau
5 9 (0.15%) Big Data
5 9 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (0.14%) Neo4j
7 7 (0.12%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.086%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.068%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.051%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.051%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.051%) GIS
10 3 (0.051%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.034%) ClickHouse
11 2 (0.034%) Flink
11 2 (0.034%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 44 (0.75%) Git
2 34 (0.58%) GitLab
3 30 (0.51%) JIRA
4 25 (0.43%) Snyk
5 22 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
6 13 (0.22%) Burp Suite
6 13 (0.22%) Metasploit
7 11 (0.19%) Jenkins
8 8 (0.14%) Yeoman
9 5 (0.086%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.086%) JMeter
9 5 (0.086%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.086%) VersionOne
10 4 (0.068%) Apache Continuum
10 4 (0.068%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.068%) Locust
11 3 (0.051%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.034%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.034%) Claude Code
13 1 (0.017%) MLflow
General
1 2,449 (41.89%) Social Skills
2 519 (8.88%) Finance
3 413 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
4 272 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 266 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 178 (3.04%) Retail
7 171 (2.93%) Marketing
8 152 (2.60%) Law
9 138 (2.36%) Telecoms
10 137 (2.34%) Legal
11 129 (2.21%) Banking
12 124 (2.12%) Manufacturing
13 116 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
14 85 (1.45%) Multimedia
15 76 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
16 61 (1.04%) Aerospace
17 60 (1.03%) Local Government
18 48 (0.82%) Advertising
19 39 (0.67%) Aviation
20 37 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,247 (21.33%) Analyst
2 1,078 (18.44%) Security Analyst
3 988 (16.90%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 802 (13.72%) Junior
5 765 (13.09%) Junior Analyst
6 755 (12.91%) Junior Security Analyst
7 705 (12.06%) Ethical Hacker
8 571 (9.77%) Senior
9 383 (6.55%) Consultant
10 345 (5.90%) Architect
11 305 (5.22%) Lead
12 273 (4.67%) Security Manager
13 266 (4.55%) IT Support
14 245 (4.19%) Security Architect
14 245 (4.19%) Security Consultant
15 214 (3.66%) Security Engineer
16 210 (3.59%) IT Manager
17 185 (3.16%) IT Engineer
18 182 (3.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 166 (2.84%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (1.04%) SAML
2 56 (0.96%) OAuth
3 55 (0.94%) LDAP
4 54 (0.92%) REST
5 51 (0.87%) OpenID
6 42 (0.72%) HTML
7 35 (0.60%) CSS
8 27 (0.46%) SOAP
9 24 (0.41%) React
10 20 (0.34%) GraphQL
11 19 (0.33%) Kafka
12 17 (0.29%) .NET
13 16 (0.27%) SailPoint
14 15 (0.26%) Middleware
15 14 (0.24%) FastAPI
15 14 (0.24%) Node.js
15 14 (0.24%) RESTful
16 13 (0.22%) JSON
17 11 (0.19%) XML
17 11 (0.19%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 814 (13.92%) Cyberattack
2 332 (5.68%) Security Posture
3 192 (3.28%) Cyber Threat
4 188 (3.22%) Management Information System
5 175 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 152 (2.60%) Security Operations Centre
7 135 (2.31%) Driving Licence
8 124 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
9 102 (1.74%) Operational Technology
10 97 (1.66%) Cyber Defence
11 83 (1.42%) Cloud Native
12 76 (1.30%) Data Centre
13 57 (0.98%) PKI
14 50 (0.86%) Cyber Security Posture
15 44 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
16 42 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
17 40 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
18 39 (0.67%) Blog
19 30 (0.51%) CSOC
20 29 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 524 (8.96%) Windows
2 266 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 180 (3.08%) Linux
4 49 (0.84%) Mac OS
5 39 (0.67%) Windows 10
6 30 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
7 29 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 25 (0.43%) Android
9 22 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 20 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.21%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.10%) CentOS
12 6 (0.10%) VMS
13 5 (0.086%) Unix
14 4 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.034%) Amazon Linux
16 1 (0.017%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.017%) FreeBSD
16 1 (0.017%) Kali Linux
16 1 (0.017%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,207 (20.65%) Mentoring
2 777 (13.29%) Ethical Hacking
3 581 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 572 (9.78%) Problem-Solving
5 512 (8.76%) Incident Response
6 464 (7.94%) Information Security
7 453 (7.75%) Risk Management
8 409 (7.00%) SIEM
9 407 (6.96%) Security Operations
10 371 (6.35%) Cloud Security
11 352 (6.02%) Vulnerability Management
12 349 (5.97%) AI
13 307 (5.25%) Disaster Recovery
14 300 (5.13%) Decision-Making
15 263 (4.50%) Roadmaps
16 248 (4.24%) Stakeholder Management
17 240 (4.11%) Agile
18 235 (4.02%) Data Protection
19 233 (3.99%) Security Architecture
20 232 (3.97%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 300 (5.13%) Python
2 257 (4.40%) PowerShell
3 103 (1.76%) SQL
4 87 (1.49%) JavaScript
5 75 (1.28%) Bash
6 60 (1.03%) C++
7 40 (0.68%) Java
8 33 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
9 27 (0.46%) C#
10 25 (0.43%) MATLAB
11 22 (0.38%) Rust
12 20 (0.34%) T-SQL
12 20 (0.34%) TypeScript
13 17 (0.29%) Go
14 14 (0.24%) C
14 14 (0.24%) Search Processing Language
15 10 (0.17%) R
16 8 (0.14%) Perl
17 7 (0.12%) PHP
18 5 (0.086%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,531 (26.19%) Azure Certification
2 918 (15.70%) CompTIA Security+
3 828 (14.16%) CEH
4 802 (13.72%) CompTIA CySA+
5 525 (8.98%) Security Cleared
6 437 (7.48%) Degree
7 435 (7.44%) CISSP
8 366 (6.26%) SC Cleared
9 277 (4.74%) CISM
10 180 (3.08%) DV Cleared
11 155 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
12 110 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
13 97 (1.66%) CISA
14 92 (1.57%) CRISC
15 87 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 87 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
16 85 (1.45%) CREST Certified
17 82 (1.40%) A+ Certification
18 73 (1.25%) AWS Certification
19 68 (1.16%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 624 (10.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 534 (9.13%) NIST
3 342 (5.85%) GDPR
4 286 (4.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 258 (4.41%) GRC
6 149 (2.55%) PCI DSS
7 135 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 113 (1.93%) QA
9 104 (1.78%) NCSC
10 56 (0.96%) SOC 2
11 47 (0.80%) NIST 800
12 36 (0.62%) Accessibility
12 36 (0.62%) COBIT
13 34 (0.58%) JSP 440
13 34 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 33 (0.56%) SLA
15 31 (0.53%) Data Quality
16 28 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
17 19 (0.33%) HIPAA
18 18 (0.31%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 420 (7.18%) Active Directory
2 125 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 102 (1.74%) Hyper-V
4 51 (0.87%) Docker
5 48 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (0.46%) vSphere
7 14 (0.24%) IAG
8 11 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.15%) Firmware
10 9 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.086%) ClearTrust
12 5 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.068%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.051%) VMware Server
15 1 (0.017%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.017%) Embedded Firmware
15 1 (0.017%) KVM
Systems Management
1 209 (3.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 90 (1.54%) Terraform
3 71 (1.21%) Kubernetes
4 42 (0.72%) Ansible
5 39 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.53%) Grafana
7 19 (0.33%) QRadar
7 19 (0.33%) SCCM
8 18 (0.31%) Prometheus
9 16 (0.27%) FortiGate
10 14 (0.24%) CASB
11 10 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 10 (0.17%) Nmap
12 9 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
12 9 (0.15%) Kibana
12 9 (0.15%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.14%) CSIRT
14 7 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 2,553 (43.67%) Microsoft
2 1,458 (24.94%) ForeScout
3 174 (2.98%) VMware
4 150 (2.57%) Cisco
5 132 (2.26%) Palo Alto
6 107 (1.83%) CrowdStrike
7 96 (1.64%) Splunk
8 63 (1.08%) Fortinet
9 62 (1.06%) Tenable
10 60 (1.03%) Google
11 57 (0.98%) ServiceNow
12 56 (0.96%) Qualys
13 54 (0.92%) Aruba
14 52 (0.89%) Apple
15 50 (0.86%) Salesforce
16 37 (0.63%) Veeam
17 34 (0.58%) SAP
18 33 (0.56%) Adobe
19 30 (0.51%) Dell
20 26 (0.44%) CyberArk