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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 32 37
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,929 2,714 3,517
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.04% 6.29% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.25% 7.10% 6.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,764 1,626 2,111
10th Percentile £30,346 £27,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,600 £35,532 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -7.08% -6.56%

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 71,905 38,217 56,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.27% 88.53% 80.99%
Number of salaries quoted 51,202 22,024 33,984
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,397 £41,750
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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
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 5 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 5 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 +10 1,499 £78,500 +12.14% 1,342
North of England +18 1,247 £51,500 +12.57% 501
South East +10 1,047 £55,000 +10.00% 521
Midlands +18 1,036 £55,000 +29.05% 314
North West +24 620 £57,500 +11.91% 249
South West +7 604 £55,000 +10.00% 321
West Midlands +6 528 £55,000 +10.00% 179
East Midlands +36 507 £55,000 +57.14% 135
Yorkshire +10 480 £45,000 +36.36% 187
East of England +52 474 £45,000 -5.26% 178
North East +12 147 £50,000 -24.53% 75
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
1 221 (3.73%) SharePoint
2 213 (3.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (0.39%) IIS
4 18 (0.30%) Apache
5 9 (0.15%) Confluence
5 9 (0.15%) SAS
6 6 (0.10%) CMS
7 5 (0.084%) WordPress
8 3 (0.051%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.051%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
Applications
1 82 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.20%) Simulink
5 8 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.067%) CATIA
8 2 (0.034%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 24 (0.40%) Cloudability
2 9 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.084%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.084%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.067%) SystmOne
8 3 (0.051%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
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%) Eikon
9 2 (0.034%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.017%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 1,803 (30.41%) Azure
2 778 (13.12%) Microsoft 365
3 467 (7.88%) AWS
4 451 (7.61%) Entra ID
5 196 (3.31%) SaaS
6 148 (2.50%) GCP
7 92 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
8 85 (1.43%) Power Platform
9 77 (1.30%) OneDrive
10 75 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
11 59 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
12 49 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
12 49 (0.83%) Serverless
13 43 (0.73%) Mimecast
14 35 (0.59%) GitHub
15 29 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
16 28 (0.47%) PaaS
17 26 (0.44%) Google Workspace
17 26 (0.44%) IaaS
18 24 (0.40%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 515 (8.69%) Firewall
2 251 (4.23%) Network Security
3 237 (4.00%) DNS
4 222 (3.74%) VPN
5 175 (2.95%) WAN
6 162 (2.73%) DHCP
7 156 (2.63%) TCP/IP
8 154 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
9 152 (2.56%) LAN
10 123 (2.07%) VLAN
11 106 (1.79%) Internet
12 84 (1.42%) VoIP
13 83 (1.40%) Wireless
14 54 (0.91%) Cisco Nexus
15 47 (0.79%) Unified Communications
16 44 (0.74%) HTTP
17 43 (0.73%) SSL
18 31 (0.52%) SD-WAN
18 31 (0.52%) Wireshark
19 29 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (0.88%) Power BI
2 50 (0.84%) SQL Server
3 13 (0.22%) Big Data
3 13 (0.22%) GIS
3 13 (0.22%) MongoDB
3 13 (0.22%) MySQL
4 12 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (0.15%) Tableau
6 6 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.084%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.084%) Metadata
7 5 (0.084%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.067%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.067%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (0.067%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.067%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.067%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 48 (0.81%) Git
2 44 (0.74%) JIRA
3 30 (0.51%) Burp Suite
4 28 (0.47%) Metasploit
5 27 (0.46%) Snyk
6 23 (0.39%) GitLab
7 21 (0.35%) Jenkins
8 10 (0.17%) Yeoman
9 6 (0.10%) Eclipse
10 5 (0.084%) Rational DOORS
10 5 (0.084%) VersionOne
11 4 (0.067%) Apache Continuum
11 4 (0.067%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.067%) LabVIEW
11 4 (0.067%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.067%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.051%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.051%) JMeter
13 2 (0.034%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.034%) Zephyr
General
1 2,072 (34.95%) Social Skills
2 563 (9.50%) Finance
3 449 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
4 345 (5.82%) Public Sector
5 328 (5.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 181 (3.05%) Law
6 181 (3.05%) Marketing
7 177 (2.99%) Legal
8 173 (2.92%) Retail
9 167 (2.82%) Telecoms
10 159 (2.68%) Manufacturing
11 136 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
12 129 (2.18%) Banking
13 119 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
14 104 (1.75%) Aerospace
15 56 (0.94%) Local Government
16 54 (0.91%) Advertising
16 54 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
17 46 (0.78%) Aviation
18 32 (0.54%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 979 (16.51%) Analyst
2 775 (13.07%) Security Analyst
3 676 (11.40%) Senior
4 675 (11.38%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 520 (8.77%) Consultant
6 514 (8.67%) Junior
7 440 (7.42%) Junior Analyst
8 430 (7.25%) Junior Security Analyst
9 423 (7.13%) Ethical Hacker
10 375 (6.32%) Lead
11 368 (6.21%) Architect
12 322 (5.43%) Security Consultant
13 319 (5.38%) Security Manager
14 296 (4.99%) IT Support
15 265 (4.47%) IT Manager
16 264 (4.45%) Security Engineer
17 261 (4.40%) Security Architect
18 225 (3.79%) IT Engineer
19 224 (3.78%) Cybersecurity Manager
20 207 (3.49%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (1.28%) Terraform
2 48 (0.81%) SAML
3 45 (0.76%) LDAP
4 42 (0.71%) OAuth
5 36 (0.61%) OpenID
6 35 (0.59%) REST
7 27 (0.46%) HTML
8 25 (0.42%) .NET
9 24 (0.40%) React
10 22 (0.37%) CSS
11 20 (0.34%) JSON
12 19 (0.32%) Node.js
13 18 (0.30%) Kafka
14 15 (0.25%) RESTful
14 15 (0.25%) SailPoint
14 15 (0.25%) XML
15 13 (0.22%) FastAPI
16 12 (0.20%) AngularJS
17 11 (0.19%) Middleware
18 10 (0.17%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 519 (8.75%) Cyberattack
2 356 (6.00%) Security Posture
3 284 (4.79%) Cyber Threat
4 244 (4.12%) Onboarding
5 231 (3.90%) Management Information System
6 174 (2.93%) Driving Licence
7 159 (2.68%) Security Operations Centre
8 155 (2.61%) Operational Technology
9 137 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
10 104 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
11 103 (1.74%) Data Centre
12 98 (1.65%) Cloud Native
13 61 (1.03%) PKI
14 59 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
15 53 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
16 45 (0.76%) Cyber Security Posture
17 37 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
18 35 (0.59%) CSOC
19 34 (0.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
20 33 (0.56%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 599 (10.10%) Windows
2 293 (4.94%) Windows Server
3 225 (3.79%) Linux
4 75 (1.26%) Mac OS
5 38 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 30 (0.51%) Windows 10
7 28 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 26 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 21 (0.35%) Apple iOS
10 16 (0.27%) Android
10 16 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.10%) CentOS
11 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.084%) Unix
13 4 (0.067%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.067%) 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
1 841 (14.18%) Mentoring
2 708 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
3 667 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 550 (9.28%) Information Security
5 545 (9.19%) AI
6 529 (8.92%) Incident Response
7 520 (8.77%) Risk Management
8 502 (8.47%) Security Operations
9 458 (7.72%) SIEM
10 445 (7.51%) Vulnerability Management
11 438 (7.39%) Ethical Hacking
12 421 (7.10%) Cloud Security
13 408 (6.88%) Stakeholder Management
14 394 (6.65%) Disaster Recovery
15 352 (5.94%) Decision-Making
16 319 (5.38%) Roadmaps
17 307 (5.18%) Service Delivery
18 293 (4.94%) Data Protection
19 282 (4.76%) Penetration Testing
20 281 (4.74%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 316 (5.33%) Python
2 236 (3.98%) PowerShell
3 94 (1.59%) SQL
4 72 (1.21%) C++
5 66 (1.11%) JavaScript
6 55 (0.93%) Bash
7 47 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
8 44 (0.74%) Java
9 34 (0.57%) C#
10 33 (0.56%) Rust
11 25 (0.42%) Go
12 23 (0.39%) C
13 21 (0.35%) TypeScript
14 16 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
15 15 (0.25%) MATLAB
16 12 (0.20%) Embedded C
16 12 (0.20%) Perl
17 5 (0.084%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.067%) Embedded C++
18 4 (0.067%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 936 (15.79%) Azure Certification
2 686 (11.57%) Security Cleared
3 573 (9.66%) CompTIA Security+
4 510 (8.60%) Degree
5 502 (8.47%) CEH
6 474 (7.99%) CISSP
7 471 (7.94%) SC Cleared
8 466 (7.86%) CompTIA CySA+
9 307 (5.18%) CISM
10 228 (3.85%) DV Cleared
11 165 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
12 127 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 102 (1.72%) CRISC
14 88 (1.48%) CISA
14 88 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
15 87 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 85 (1.43%) AWS Certification
17 83 (1.40%) Master's Degree
18 81 (1.37%) CREST Certified
19 65 (1.10%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 665 (11.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 524 (8.84%) NIST
3 338 (5.70%) GDPR
4 327 (5.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 318 (5.36%) GRC
6 146 (2.46%) PCI DSS
7 142 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 107 (1.80%) NCSC
9 105 (1.77%) QA
10 58 (0.98%) SOC 2
11 47 (0.79%) NIST 800
12 45 (0.76%) SLA
13 39 (0.66%) Accessibility
14 37 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 34 (0.57%) COBIT
16 33 (0.56%) JSP 440
17 30 (0.51%) Data Quality
18 24 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
19 23 (0.39%) ISO 22301
20 21 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 461 (7.78%) Active Directory
2 163 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 136 (2.29%) Hyper-V
4 62 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (0.86%) Docker
6 38 (0.64%) Firmware
7 25 (0.42%) vSphere
8 13 (0.22%) IAG
8 13 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
9 12 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 9 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
11 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.084%) ClearTrust
13 3 (0.051%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.051%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.051%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 260 (4.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 79 (1.33%) Kubernetes
3 62 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
4 44 (0.74%) Ansible
5 25 (0.42%) Nmap
6 24 (0.40%) QRadar
7 23 (0.39%) FortiGate
7 23 (0.39%) Nessus
8 22 (0.37%) Grafana
9 21 (0.35%) SCCM
10 20 (0.34%) CASB
11 16 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
12 13 (0.22%) Prometheus
13 9 (0.15%) Kibana
14 8 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
14 8 (0.13%) Functional Safety
15 7 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
15 7 (0.12%) Graylog
16 6 (0.10%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.084%) Argo
Vendors
1 2,100 (35.42%) Microsoft
2 846 (14.27%) ForeScout
3 216 (3.64%) Cisco
4 207 (3.49%) VMware
5 171 (2.88%) Palo Alto
6 115 (1.94%) Splunk
7 99 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
8 75 (1.26%) Google
8 75 (1.26%) Qualys
9 69 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 67 (1.13%) Aruba
11 65 (1.10%) Apple
12 59 (1.00%) Salesforce
12 59 (1.00%) Tenable
13 57 (0.96%) Fortinet
14 49 (0.83%) Veeam
15 41 (0.69%) Adobe
16 40 (0.67%) SAP
17 39 (0.66%) SonicWALL
18 37 (0.62%) CyberArk