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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 33 36
Rank change year-on-year +11 +3 +3
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,779 2,680 3,423
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.57% 6.21% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.57% 6.97% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,860 1,560 1,763
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £46,813
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,075 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.80% -4.58% -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 76,388 38,475 54,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.58% 89.15% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 53,883 21,744 29,840
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,215 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £78,267
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%

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 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 1 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 1,543 £80,000 +14.29% 2,287
North of England +17 1,136 £51,500 +7.09% 800
South East +13 1,052 £55,000 +10.00% 889
Midlands +21 1,008 £55,000 +15.79% 455
North West +27 613 £60,000 +24.76% 450
South West 0 569 £55,000 +10.00% 441
West Midlands +8 522 £55,000 +10.00% 283
East Midlands +42 486 £55,000 +46.67% 172
East of England +44 442 £49,500 +10.00% 268
Yorkshire +9 392 £42,500 +8.28% 251
North East +5 131 £50,000 -26.95% 103
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
1 249 (4.31%) SharePoint
2 239 (4.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (0.48%) IIS
4 21 (0.36%) Apache
5 11 (0.19%) Confluence
6 9 (0.16%) SAS
7 6 (0.10%) CMS
8 5 (0.087%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.087%) WordPress
9 3 (0.052%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.035%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.017%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 95 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.31%) Simulink
5 15 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.087%) CATIA
8 4 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.035%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.035%) SmartSuite
10 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.017%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 24 (0.42%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.087%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.087%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.069%) Infor CloudSuite
7 4 (0.069%) Infor M3
7 4 (0.069%) SystmOne
8 3 (0.052%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.052%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.052%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.052%) Infor LN
8 3 (0.052%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.052%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.035%) Eikon
9 2 (0.035%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 2 (0.035%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.017%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 1,393 (24.10%) Azure
2 852 (14.74%) Microsoft 365
3 516 (8.93%) Entra ID
4 468 (8.10%) AWS
5 199 (3.44%) SaaS
6 164 (2.84%) GCP
7 103 (1.78%) Power Platform
8 95 (1.64%) OneDrive
9 89 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
10 88 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
11 60 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
12 59 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
13 57 (0.99%) Serverless
14 46 (0.80%) Mimecast
15 42 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
16 34 (0.59%) GitHub
16 34 (0.59%) Power Automate
17 33 (0.57%) Google Workspace
18 30 (0.52%) Azure Logic Apps
19 28 (0.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 520 (9.00%) Firewall
2 275 (4.76%) DNS
3 247 (4.27%) VPN
4 243 (4.20%) Network Security
5 201 (3.48%) DHCP
6 192 (3.32%) TCP/IP
7 188 (3.25%) WAN
8 167 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
9 166 (2.87%) LAN
10 128 (2.21%) VLAN
11 100 (1.73%) Internet
12 89 (1.54%) Wireless
13 86 (1.49%) VoIP
14 58 (1.00%) Cisco Nexus
15 49 (0.85%) HTTP
15 49 (0.85%) SSL
16 43 (0.74%) Unified Communications
17 38 (0.66%) Wireshark
18 32 (0.55%) SD-WAN
19 30 (0.52%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (1.06%) Power BI
2 56 (0.97%) SQL Server
3 18 (0.31%) Big Data
4 17 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (0.24%) GIS
6 13 (0.22%) MySQL
6 13 (0.22%) Tableau
7 12 (0.21%) MongoDB
8 10 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.16%) Metadata
10 7 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.12%) Data Lake
10 7 (0.12%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.10%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.087%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.069%) Crystal Reports
13 4 (0.069%) Oracle Reports
14 3 (0.052%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (0.88%) JIRA
2 42 (0.73%) Git
3 32 (0.55%) Burp Suite
4 30 (0.52%) Metasploit
5 27 (0.47%) Snyk
6 21 (0.36%) Jenkins
7 20 (0.35%) GitLab
8 10 (0.17%) Yeoman
9 9 (0.16%) Eclipse
10 8 (0.14%) LabVIEW
11 6 (0.10%) Rational DOORS
12 5 (0.087%) VersionOne
13 4 (0.069%) Apache Continuum
13 4 (0.069%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.069%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.069%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.052%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.052%) Maven
14 3 (0.052%) Team Foundation Server
15 2 (0.035%) Zephyr
General
1 1,732 (29.97%) Social Skills
2 618 (10.69%) Finance
3 460 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
4 392 (6.78%) Public Sector
5 343 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 207 (3.58%) Legal
7 198 (3.43%) Marketing
8 196 (3.39%) Retail
9 195 (3.37%) Law
10 187 (3.24%) Telecoms
11 183 (3.17%) Manufacturing
12 166 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
13 139 (2.41%) Aerospace
14 135 (2.34%) Banking
15 130 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
16 64 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
17 52 (0.90%) Advertising
18 48 (0.83%) Aviation
18 48 (0.83%) Local Government
19 38 (0.66%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 770 (13.32%) Analyst
2 712 (12.32%) Senior
3 542 (9.38%) Security Analyst
4 534 (9.24%) Consultant
5 453 (7.84%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 402 (6.96%) Lead
7 399 (6.90%) Architect
8 335 (5.80%) Security Manager
9 327 (5.66%) IT Support
10 316 (5.47%) Security Consultant
11 285 (4.93%) Security Engineer
12 281 (4.86%) Junior
13 268 (4.64%) Security Architect
14 247 (4.27%) IT Engineer
15 245 (4.24%) IT Manager
16 234 (4.05%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 208 (3.60%) Support Engineer
18 204 (3.53%) Junior Analyst
19 202 (3.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
20 196 (3.39%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (1.54%) Terraform
2 53 (0.92%) LDAP
2 53 (0.92%) SAML
3 52 (0.90%) OAuth
4 45 (0.78%) REST
5 44 (0.76%) OpenID
6 32 (0.55%) .NET
7 24 (0.42%) JSON
8 22 (0.38%) React
9 21 (0.36%) Node.js
10 19 (0.33%) HTML
11 18 (0.31%) Kafka
12 17 (0.29%) RESTful
12 17 (0.29%) XML
13 16 (0.28%) Middleware
13 16 (0.28%) SailPoint
14 15 (0.26%) CSS
14 15 (0.26%) FastAPI
15 12 (0.21%) AngularJS
16 11 (0.19%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 365 (6.32%) Security Posture
2 329 (5.69%) Cyber Threat
3 287 (4.97%) Cyberattack
4 275 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 247 (4.27%) Management Information System
6 193 (3.34%) Driving Licence
7 179 (3.10%) Operational Technology
8 163 (2.82%) Security Operations Centre
9 140 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
10 109 (1.89%) Cyber Defence
11 108 (1.87%) Data Centre
12 103 (1.78%) Cloud Native
13 82 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
14 59 (1.02%) PKI
15 57 (0.99%) SCADA
16 51 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
17 46 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
18 41 (0.71%) Cyber Security Posture
19 38 (0.66%) CSOC
19 38 (0.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 654 (11.32%) Windows
2 313 (5.42%) Windows Server
3 243 (4.20%) Linux
4 84 (1.45%) Mac OS
5 43 (0.74%) Windows 10
6 39 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 30 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 29 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 28 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 24 (0.42%) Android
11 13 (0.22%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (0.10%) Kali Linux
13 6 (0.10%) Unix
14 4 (0.069%) VMS
15 3 (0.052%) CentOS
15 3 (0.052%) Rocky
16 2 (0.035%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.035%) Embedded Linux
16 2 (0.035%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 772 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
2 739 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 632 (10.94%) AI
4 598 (10.35%) Mentoring
5 587 (10.16%) Information Security
6 559 (9.67%) Incident Response
7 551 (9.53%) Security Operations
8 540 (9.34%) Risk Management
9 500 (8.65%) Stakeholder Management
10 488 (8.44%) Vulnerability Management
11 464 (8.03%) SIEM
12 431 (7.46%) Cloud Security
13 410 (7.09%) Decision-Making
14 396 (6.85%) Disaster Recovery
15 337 (5.83%) Roadmaps
16 327 (5.66%) Data Protection
17 313 (5.42%) ITIL
18 311 (5.38%) Service Delivery
19 291 (5.04%) Business Continuity
20 283 (4.90%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 346 (5.99%) Python
2 247 (4.27%) PowerShell
3 102 (1.77%) SQL
4 81 (1.40%) C++
5 64 (1.11%) Bash
6 60 (1.04%) JavaScript
7 56 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
8 55 (0.95%) Java
9 40 (0.69%) C#
10 38 (0.66%) Rust
11 32 (0.55%) Go
12 30 (0.52%) C
13 26 (0.45%) TypeScript
14 20 (0.35%) MATLAB
15 17 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
16 16 (0.28%) Embedded C
17 12 (0.21%) Perl
18 9 (0.16%) Bicep
19 8 (0.14%) Shell Script
20 4 (0.069%) Swift
Qualifications
1 778 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 581 (10.05%) Degree
3 534 (9.24%) SC Cleared
4 481 (8.32%) CISSP
5 463 (8.01%) Azure Certification
6 320 (5.54%) CompTIA Security+
7 317 (5.49%) CISM
8 254 (4.40%) CEH
9 240 (4.15%) DV Cleared
10 231 (4.00%) CompTIA CySA+
11 158 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
12 134 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 110 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
14 103 (1.78%) CRISC
15 102 (1.77%) Master's Degree
16 88 (1.52%) CISA
17 84 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 77 (1.33%) CREST Certified
19 76 (1.32%) AWS Certification
20 74 (1.28%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 690 (11.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 525 (9.08%) NIST
3 362 (6.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 327 (5.66%) GDPR
5 324 (5.61%) GRC
6 150 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 137 (2.37%) PCI DSS
8 130 (2.25%) NCSC
9 97 (1.68%) QA
10 55 (0.95%) SLA
11 52 (0.90%) SOC 2
12 47 (0.81%) Accessibility
13 45 (0.78%) NIST 800
14 37 (0.64%) Data Quality
14 37 (0.64%) ISO 22301
15 35 (0.61%) COBIT
16 31 (0.54%) JSP 440
17 28 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 23 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
19 20 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 494 (8.55%) Active Directory
2 163 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 143 (2.47%) Hyper-V
4 70 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 56 (0.97%) Docker
6 42 (0.73%) Firmware
7 28 (0.48%) vSphere
8 20 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
9 13 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 9 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
12 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.087%) ClearTrust
13 5 (0.087%) IAG
14 3 (0.052%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.035%) BitLocker
15 2 (0.035%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.035%) ProxySG
15 2 (0.035%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 294 (5.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 81 (1.40%) Kubernetes
3 74 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
4 50 (0.87%) Ansible
5 27 (0.47%) Grafana
5 27 (0.47%) Nmap
6 24 (0.42%) Nessus
6 24 (0.42%) QRadar
7 23 (0.40%) CASB
7 23 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
8 21 (0.36%) FortiGate
9 20 (0.35%) SCCM
10 17 (0.29%) Functional Safety
11 15 (0.26%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.16%) Kibana
13 8 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
13 8 (0.14%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.12%) Graylog
15 6 (0.10%) Podman
15 6 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,725 (29.85%) Microsoft
2 376 (6.51%) ForeScout
3 236 (4.08%) Cisco
4 218 (3.77%) VMware
5 171 (2.96%) Palo Alto
6 112 (1.94%) Splunk
7 101 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
8 91 (1.57%) Google
9 79 (1.37%) Qualys
10 74 (1.28%) ServiceNow
11 70 (1.21%) Salesforce
12 69 (1.19%) Aruba
13 62 (1.07%) Apple
14 60 (1.04%) Tenable
15 54 (0.93%) Fortinet
16 51 (0.88%) Meraki
16 51 (0.88%) Veeam
17 43 (0.74%) SAP
18 42 (0.73%) Adobe
19 41 (0.71%) CyberArk