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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 40 43
Rank change year-on-year +29 +3 +13
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 4,362 3,126 2,636
As % of all permanent jobs in England 9.44% 5.08% 5.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.08% 6.03% 6.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,885 1,626 2,071
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £31,375 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £80,188
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -3.85%

All Process and 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 39,369 51,858 43,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.22% 84.32% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 24,574 27,331 33,414
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.93%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 +37 1,154 £37,000 -32.73% 260
London +16 1,101 £68,750 -5.17% 392
South East +22 900 £49,000 -14.78% 447
North West +32 802 £42,500 -22.58% 155
Midlands +15 418 £47,500 -17.39% 213
East of England +49 407 £38,750 -20.51% 110
South West +30 353 £50,000 -23.08% 172
Yorkshire +25 298 £30,500 -46.61% 75
West Midlands +13 253 £52,193 -13.01% 148
East Midlands +39 162 £37,500 -21.05% 65
North East +34 54 £30,500 -36.00% 32
South Coast - 1 £59,000 -
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
1 123 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 78 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (0.46%) CMS
3 20 (0.46%) Confluence
4 16 (0.37%) IIS
5 10 (0.23%) WordPress
6 9 (0.21%) Apache
7 7 (0.16%) nginx
8 6 (0.14%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.14%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.092%) FactoryTalk
10 4 (0.092%) WinCC
11 3 (0.069%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.069%) Drupal
11 3 (0.069%) Oracle Coherence
11 3 (0.069%) Traefik
12 2 (0.046%) ArchestrA
13 1 (0.023%) FileNet
Applications
1 115 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (1.15%) Maya
3 38 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 30 (0.69%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.23%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.069%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.069%) CINEMA 4D
9 3 (0.069%) Sketch
9 3 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.046%) Simulink
11 1 (0.023%) Civil 3D
11 1 (0.023%) GNU Octave
11 1 (0.023%) Revit
Business Applications
1 31 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.44%) SAP IBP
4 13 (0.30%) SAP CO
4 13 (0.30%) SAP FI
4 13 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
4 13 (0.30%) SAP FSCM
5 11 (0.25%) SAP IS-U
6 8 (0.18%) SAP FS
7 7 (0.16%) Shopify
8 6 (0.14%) Exchequer
8 6 (0.14%) Sage 200
9 5 (0.11%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.092%) Magento
10 4 (0.092%) NEC Housing
11 3 (0.069%) Endur
11 3 (0.069%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.069%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.069%) SAP GRC
11 3 (0.069%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 1,635 (37.48%) Cloud Computing
2 770 (17.65%) Azure
3 417 (9.56%) AWS
4 415 (9.51%) Microsoft 365
5 172 (3.94%) Entra ID
6 143 (3.28%) GitHub
7 95 (2.18%) SaaS
8 84 (1.93%) Power Platform
9 75 (1.72%) GCP
10 68 (1.56%) PaaS
11 52 (1.19%) IaaS
12 48 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
13 40 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
14 38 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
14 38 (0.87%) Serverless
15 27 (0.62%) OneDrive
16 21 (0.48%) Power Automate
17 17 (0.39%) Nutanix
18 16 (0.37%) Amazon S3
18 16 (0.37%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1,713 (39.27%) Internet
2 293 (6.72%) Firewall
3 146 (3.35%) Network Security
4 142 (3.26%) VPN
5 125 (2.87%) TCP/IP
6 110 (2.52%) DNS
7 90 (2.06%) DHCP
8 83 (1.90%) WAN
9 78 (1.79%) LAN
10 76 (1.74%) VoIP
11 62 (1.42%) VLAN
12 61 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
13 45 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
14 36 (0.83%) Modbus
15 30 (0.69%) Wireless
16 29 (0.66%) SD-WAN
17 27 (0.62%) SAN
18 14 (0.32%) NAS
19 13 (0.30%) Unified Communications
19 13 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (1.67%) SQL Server
2 56 (1.28%) Power BI
3 34 (0.78%) Tableau
4 30 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (0.62%) Relational Database
6 20 (0.46%) SAP BW
7 19 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (0.34%) Data Lake
9 14 (0.32%) Metadata
10 12 (0.28%) Big Data
11 11 (0.25%) MySQL
11 11 (0.25%) Oracle Database
12 10 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (0.21%) Neo4j
14 8 (0.18%) NoSQL
14 8 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.16%) MS Access
16 6 (0.14%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 148 (3.39%) Git
2 38 (0.87%) JIRA
3 16 (0.37%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.23%) GitLab
5 8 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
6 6 (0.14%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.092%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.092%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.092%) JMeter
7 4 (0.092%) Locust
7 4 (0.092%) Toad
8 3 (0.069%) git-flow
8 3 (0.069%) Metasploit
8 3 (0.069%) Snyk
8 3 (0.069%) Spinnaker
9 2 (0.046%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.046%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.023%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.023%) JUnit
10 1 (0.023%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2,664 (61.07%) Social Skills
2 1,729 (39.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,721 (39.45%) Banking
4 557 (12.77%) Finance
5 417 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
6 228 (5.23%) Marketing
7 223 (5.11%) Telecoms
8 211 (4.84%) Multimedia
9 197 (4.52%) Public Sector
10 192 (4.40%) Law
11 155 (3.55%) Legal
12 147 (3.37%) Manufacturing
13 102 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
14 85 (1.95%) Electronics
15 83 (1.90%) Retail
16 80 (1.83%) Games
17 71 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
18 48 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
19 46 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
20 29 (0.66%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,282 (29.39%) Lecturer
2 310 (7.11%) Analyst
3 300 (6.88%) Senior
4 226 (5.18%) Lead
5 214 (4.91%) IT Support
6 213 (4.88%) Trainee
7 196 (4.49%) Consultant
8 165 (3.78%) Architect
8 165 (3.78%) Security Analyst
9 149 (3.42%) Support Engineer
10 132 (3.03%) IT Manager
11 129 (2.96%) Security Engineer
12 121 (2.77%) Security Consultant
13 107 (2.45%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 103 (2.36%) IT Engineer
15 98 (2.25%) Developer
16 84 (1.93%) Security Manager
17 75 (1.72%) Cybersecurity Consultant
18 73 (1.67%) Junior
19 71 (1.63%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (3.44%) HTML
2 147 (3.37%) CSS
3 36 (0.83%) React
4 28 (0.64%) .NET
5 25 (0.57%) REST
5 25 (0.57%) YAML
6 24 (0.55%) AngularJS
7 22 (0.50%) SAP CAF
8 15 (0.34%) RESTful
9 14 (0.32%) Vue
9 14 (0.32%) Web Services
10 12 (0.28%) Kafka
11 11 (0.25%) EDI
11 11 (0.25%) Middleware
12 10 (0.23%) Pandas
13 9 (0.21%) MERN Stack
13 9 (0.21%) PyTorch
13 9 (0.21%) TensorFlow
13 9 (0.21%) XML
14 8 (0.18%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1,643 (37.67%) IoT
2 201 (4.61%) Management Information System
3 165 (3.78%) Security Posture
4 134 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
5 119 (2.73%) Operational Technology
6 114 (2.61%) Cyber Threat
7 110 (2.52%) Driving Licence
8 104 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
9 92 (2.11%) Onboarding
10 90 (2.06%) Data Centre
11 70 (1.60%) Cloud Native
12 69 (1.58%) Security Operations Centre
13 64 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
14 61 (1.40%) Cyberattack
15 60 (1.38%) Renewable Energy
16 39 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
17 38 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
18 37 (0.85%) SCADA
19 33 (0.76%) Product Ownership
20 32 (0.73%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 443 (10.16%) Windows
2 171 (3.92%) Windows Server
3 149 (3.42%) Linux
4 76 (1.74%) Windows 10
5 74 (1.70%) Mac OS
6 24 (0.55%) Unix
7 21 (0.48%) Apple iOS
8 20 (0.46%) Android
9 14 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (0.25%) VMS
11 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.16%) Debian
12 7 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.11%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.069%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.046%) Check Point GAiA
15 2 (0.046%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.046%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.023%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,812 (41.54%) AI
2 1,650 (37.83%) Machine Learning
3 1,614 (37.00%) User Experience
4 1,592 (36.50%) Web Development
5 576 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
6 509 (11.67%) Mentoring
7 362 (8.30%) Risk Management
8 337 (7.73%) Information Security
9 307 (7.04%) Incident Response
10 292 (6.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 266 (6.10%) Agile
12 240 (5.50%) ITIL
13 228 (5.23%) Project Management
14 205 (4.70%) Computer Science
15 201 (4.61%) Analytics
16 196 (4.49%) Vulnerability Management
17 191 (4.38%) SIEM
18 185 (4.24%) Decision-Making
19 183 (4.20%) Project Delivery
20 182 (4.17%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 286 (6.56%) Python
2 170 (3.90%) JavaScript
3 136 (3.12%) PowerShell
4 117 (2.68%) SQL
5 67 (1.54%) R
6 41 (0.94%) Java
7 40 (0.92%) Bash
8 32 (0.73%) C#
9 20 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
10 16 (0.37%) Bicep
11 14 (0.32%) TypeScript
12 10 (0.23%) C
12 10 (0.23%) Go
13 9 (0.21%) C++
14 8 (0.18%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.16%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.16%) Scala
16 6 (0.14%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.092%) Perl
17 4 (0.092%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 2,125 (48.72%) Degree
2 1,648 (37.78%) Master's Degree
3 1,583 (36.29%) PhD
4 1,576 (36.13%) Postgraduate
5 361 (8.28%) CISSP
6 277 (6.35%) Security Cleared
7 236 (5.41%) CISM
8 217 (4.97%) Azure Certification
8 217 (4.97%) CompTIA Security+
9 203 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 183 (4.20%) SC Cleared
11 164 (3.76%) CEH
12 162 (3.71%) AWS Certification
13 128 (2.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 100 (2.29%) Network+ Certification
15 99 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
16 96 (2.20%) CISA
17 95 (2.18%) A+ Certification
18 86 (1.97%) DV Cleared
19 82 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 445 (10.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 395 (9.06%) NIST
3 244 (5.59%) GDPR
4 197 (4.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 141 (3.23%) GRC
6 89 (2.04%) NCSC
7 86 (1.97%) PCI DSS
8 80 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 72 (1.65%) QA
10 47 (1.08%) NIST 800
11 45 (1.03%) SLA
12 40 (0.92%) SOC 2
13 39 (0.89%) COBIT
14 34 (0.78%) JSP 440
15 25 (0.57%) PMO
16 22 (0.50%) Data Quality
16 22 (0.50%) RMADS
17 21 (0.48%) ISO 9001
18 18 (0.41%) Accessibility
18 18 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 300 (6.88%) Active Directory
2 104 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (1.56%) Hyper-V
4 47 (1.08%) Docker
5 38 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 38 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
6 19 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (0.39%) vSphere
8 6 (0.14%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.11%) Kamailio
10 4 (0.092%) Firmware
11 3 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.069%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.069%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.046%) GPFS
12 2 (0.046%) Lustre
13 1 (0.023%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.023%) iptables
13 1 (0.023%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.023%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 163 (3.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 54 (1.24%) Terraform
3 46 (1.05%) Kubernetes
4 30 (0.69%) Ansible
5 25 (0.57%) SCCM
6 17 (0.39%) RSA Archer
6 17 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.34%) Functional Safety
7 15 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (0.32%) Nessus
8 14 (0.32%) QRadar
9 11 (0.25%) CSIRT
9 11 (0.25%) PaperCut
10 10 (0.23%) CASB
11 9 (0.21%) Grafana
12 7 (0.16%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.16%) Nagios
13 6 (0.14%) Autotask
13 6 (0.14%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 6 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 916 (21.00%) Microsoft
2 146 (3.35%) VMware
3 137 (3.14%) SAP
4 94 (2.15%) Cisco
5 85 (1.95%) Palo Alto
6 69 (1.58%) Oracle
7 55 (1.26%) CrowdStrike
8 53 (1.22%) Apple
8 53 (1.22%) Fortinet
9 51 (1.17%) Salesforce
10 48 (1.10%) Adobe
11 47 (1.08%) ForeScout
12 43 (0.99%) Splunk
13 40 (0.92%) ServiceNow
14 30 (0.69%) Sophos
15 28 (0.64%) Siemens
16 25 (0.57%) Qualys
17 24 (0.55%) Dell
18 22 (0.50%) Progress
19 20 (0.46%) Rockwell