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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 37 33
Rank change year-on-year +31 -4 +19
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 7,789 2,572 3,716
As % of all permanent jobs in England 12.93% 5.84% 5.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.30% 6.31% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,284 1,346 2,879
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £49,063 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,250 £96,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% -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 47,788 40,729 58,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.33% 92.55% 88.14%
Number of salaries quoted 29,331 20,236 46,053
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,984 £46,250 £40,058
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,875 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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
North of England +33 2,437 £34,000 -38.46% 270
North West +31 1,837 £40,000 -27.27% 148
Midlands +24 1,513 £40,500 -32.50% 192
London +19 1,425 £70,000 -6.67% 366
West Midlands +21 1,232 £45,000 -25.00% 104
South East +34 1,224 £48,000 -18.82% 339
East of England +52 654 £35,000 -41.67% 133
Yorkshire +34 508 £30,500 -48.31% 93
South West +42 477 £55,000 - 151
East Midlands +31 292 £35,000 -20.00% 88
North East +36 92 £30,500 -24.34% 30
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
1 124 (1.59%) SharePoint
2 68 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.14%) CMS
3 11 (0.14%) Confluence
3 11 (0.14%) WordPress
4 6 (0.077%) nginx
5 5 (0.064%) Drupal
6 4 (0.051%) Apache
6 4 (0.051%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.051%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.039%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.026%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.026%) SAS
9 1 (0.013%) FileNet
Applications
1 107 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 67 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (0.59%) Maya
4 39 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 19 (0.24%) Simulink
7 10 (0.13%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.051%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.039%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.039%) CATIA
9 3 (0.039%) CINEMA 4D
9 3 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.026%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.026%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.013%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 30 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
4 10 (0.13%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.077%) Exchequer
5 6 (0.077%) SAP CO
5 6 (0.077%) SAP FI
5 6 (0.077%) SAP FI/CO
5 6 (0.077%) SAP FS
5 6 (0.077%) SAP FSCM
5 6 (0.077%) SAP IS-U
5 6 (0.077%) Shopify
6 4 (0.051%) Endur
6 4 (0.051%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.051%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.051%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.051%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.039%) SAP CX
7 3 (0.039%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.039%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 4,061 (52.14%) Cloud Computing
2 1,519 (19.50%) Azure
3 549 (7.05%) AWS
4 418 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
5 267 (3.43%) Entra ID
6 220 (2.82%) GitHub
7 79 (1.01%) SaaS
8 78 (1.00%) Power Platform
9 77 (0.99%) GCP
10 49 (0.63%) PaaS
11 48 (0.62%) Microsoft Purview
12 47 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
13 38 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
14 34 (0.44%) IaaS
15 33 (0.42%) Google Workspace
16 31 (0.40%) OneDrive
17 30 (0.39%) Dynamics 365
18 29 (0.37%) Nutanix
19 22 (0.28%) AWS CloudFormation
20 21 (0.27%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4,231 (54.32%) Internet
2 289 (3.71%) Firewall
3 127 (1.63%) Network Security
4 125 (1.60%) VPN
5 103 (1.32%) DNS
6 84 (1.08%) DHCP
7 80 (1.03%) TCP/IP
8 73 (0.94%) WAN
9 66 (0.85%) LAN
10 60 (0.77%) VLAN
11 57 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
12 46 (0.59%) VoIP
13 39 (0.50%) Broadband
14 34 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
15 26 (0.33%) Wireless
16 21 (0.27%) SD-WAN
17 18 (0.23%) CHAP
18 16 (0.21%) DMZ
19 13 (0.17%) Modbus
20 12 (0.15%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (0.63%) Power BI
2 39 (0.50%) SQL Server
3 34 (0.44%) Tableau
4 30 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (0.30%) Big Data
6 21 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (0.22%) Neo4j
7 17 (0.22%) Relational Database
8 15 (0.19%) Metadata
9 13 (0.17%) Data Lake
10 12 (0.15%) SAP BW
11 11 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (0.14%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.077%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.064%) MariaDB
13 5 (0.064%) MS Access
14 4 (0.051%) BusinessObjects
14 4 (0.051%) PostgreSQL
14 4 (0.051%) SAP Data Services
15 3 (0.039%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 221 (2.84%) Git
2 27 (0.35%) JIRA
3 25 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
4 18 (0.23%) GitLab
5 15 (0.19%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.10%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.051%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.051%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.051%) JMeter
7 4 (0.051%) Locust
7 4 (0.051%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.051%) MLflow
7 4 (0.051%) Toad
8 3 (0.039%) Apache Continuum
9 2 (0.026%) Snyk
10 1 (0.013%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.013%) SonarQube
General
1 5,555 (71.32%) Social Skills
2 4,188 (53.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,167 (53.50%) Banking
4 543 (6.97%) Finance
5 379 (4.87%) Multimedia
6 365 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
7 197 (2.53%) Public Sector
8 178 (2.29%) Marketing
9 161 (2.07%) Law
10 149 (1.91%) Legal
11 132 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
12 126 (1.62%) Telecoms
13 108 (1.39%) Retail
14 104 (1.34%) Manufacturing
15 73 (0.94%) Games
16 64 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
17 60 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
18 53 (0.68%) Electronics
19 46 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
20 43 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3,137 (40.27%) Lecturer
2 722 (9.27%) Analyst
3 600 (7.70%) Security Analyst
4 556 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 491 (6.30%) Junior
6 472 (6.06%) Junior Analyst
7 471 (6.05%) Junior Security Analyst
8 383 (4.92%) Trainee
9 367 (4.71%) Senior
10 236 (3.03%) Consultant
11 223 (2.86%) Lead
12 215 (2.76%) Architect
13 209 (2.68%) IT Support
14 164 (2.11%) Developer
15 152 (1.95%) Security Manager
16 146 (1.87%) Support Engineer
17 141 (1.81%) Ethical Hacker
18 138 (1.77%) Security Engineer
19 137 (1.76%) Security Consultant
20 130 (1.67%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (3.02%) HTML
2 232 (2.98%) CSS
3 40 (0.51%) REST
4 37 (0.48%) OAuth
5 36 (0.46%) SAML
6 35 (0.45%) React
7 34 (0.44%) OpenID
8 29 (0.37%) LDAP
9 26 (0.33%) GraphQL
9 26 (0.33%) SAP CAF
10 25 (0.32%) SOAP
11 24 (0.31%) AngularJS
12 17 (0.22%) MERN Stack
13 14 (0.18%) Middleware
14 12 (0.15%) .NET
15 10 (0.13%) PyTorch
15 10 (0.13%) TensorFlow
15 10 (0.13%) YAML
16 9 (0.12%) Node.js
16 9 (0.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4,073 (52.29%) IoT
2 205 (2.63%) Cyberattack
3 179 (2.30%) Security Posture
4 170 (2.18%) Management Information System
5 131 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
6 126 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
7 112 (1.44%) Driving Licence
8 111 (1.43%) Onboarding
9 88 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
10 75 (0.96%) Cloud Native
11 73 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
12 69 (0.89%) Data Centre
13 55 (0.71%) Operational Technology
14 50 (0.64%) Cyber Defence
15 46 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
16 41 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
17 40 (0.51%) Blog
17 40 (0.51%) Public Cloud
18 36 (0.46%) Cyber Security Posture
19 34 (0.44%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 367 (4.71%) Windows
2 158 (2.03%) Windows Server
3 119 (1.53%) Linux
4 67 (0.86%) Windows 10
5 60 (0.77%) Mac OS
6 33 (0.42%) Android
7 24 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.23%) Unix
9 11 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.077%) VMS
10 6 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.039%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.026%) Debian
12 2 (0.026%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.013%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.013%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.013%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.013%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.013%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,264 (54.74%) AI
2 4,066 (52.20%) Machine Learning
3 4,040 (51.87%) User Experience
4 4,033 (51.78%) Web Development
5 1,089 (13.98%) Mentoring
6 474 (6.09%) Problem-Solving
7 401 (5.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 386 (4.96%) Risk Management
9 349 (4.48%) Incident Response
10 343 (4.40%) Information Security
11 316 (4.06%) Ethical Hacking
12 253 (3.25%) Agile
13 211 (2.71%) SIEM
14 204 (2.62%) ITIL
15 200 (2.57%) Roadmaps
16 199 (2.55%) Line Management
16 199 (2.55%) Project Management
17 194 (2.49%) Data Protection
18 188 (2.41%) Decision-Making
19 186 (2.39%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 404 (5.19%) Python
2 276 (3.54%) JavaScript
3 177 (2.27%) PowerShell
4 116 (1.49%) SQL
5 111 (1.43%) R
6 57 (0.73%) Bash
7 38 (0.49%) Java
8 28 (0.36%) C++
8 28 (0.36%) TypeScript
9 26 (0.33%) C#
10 25 (0.32%) T-SQL
11 20 (0.26%) C
12 19 (0.24%) MATLAB
13 11 (0.14%) Go
14 9 (0.12%) Bicep
15 8 (0.10%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.090%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.077%) Rust
18 4 (0.051%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.051%) VB
Qualifications
1 4,475 (57.45%) Degree
2 4,070 (52.25%) Master's Degree
3 4,014 (51.53%) PhD
4 4,004 (51.41%) Postgraduate
5 862 (11.07%) Azure Certification
6 683 (8.77%) CompTIA Security+
7 506 (6.50%) CompTIA CySA+
8 352 (4.52%) CEH
9 348 (4.47%) CISSP
10 307 (3.94%) Security Cleared
11 285 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 263 (3.38%) AWS Certification
13 249 (3.20%) CISM
14 215 (2.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 208 (2.67%) SC Cleared
16 189 (2.43%) Network+ Certification
17 184 (2.36%) A+ Certification
18 111 (1.43%) CISA
19 103 (1.32%) DV Cleared
20 98 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 492 (6.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 442 (5.67%) NIST
3 268 (3.44%) GDPR
4 222 (2.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 189 (2.43%) GRC
6 106 (1.36%) NCSC
7 104 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 95 (1.22%) PCI DSS
9 62 (0.80%) QA
10 46 (0.59%) SLA
11 43 (0.55%) COBIT
12 39 (0.50%) NIST 800
12 39 (0.50%) SOC 2
13 29 (0.37%) Data Quality
14 22 (0.28%) Accessibility
15 21 (0.27%) JSP 440
16 19 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 18 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
18 17 (0.22%) SOC 3
19 16 (0.21%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 285 (3.66%) Active Directory
2 67 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 50 (0.64%) Docker
5 31 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.18%) vSphere
7 8 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.077%) Firmware
10 5 (0.064%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.039%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.026%) GPFS
13 2 (0.026%) Lustre
13 2 (0.026%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.013%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.013%) iptables
14 1 (0.013%) KVM
Systems Management
1 159 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 59 (0.76%) Terraform
3 49 (0.63%) Kubernetes
4 33 (0.42%) Ansible
5 26 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (0.21%) CASB
7 15 (0.19%) SCCM
8 12 (0.15%) CSIRT
8 12 (0.15%) Nessus
9 11 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
9 11 (0.14%) RSA Archer
10 10 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.13%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.13%) Grafana
11 9 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 8 (0.10%) Nagios
13 7 (0.090%) FTK
14 6 (0.077%) PaperCut
14 6 (0.077%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 5 (0.064%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 1,547 (19.86%) Microsoft
2 612 (7.86%) ForeScout
3 114 (1.46%) VMware
4 86 (1.10%) SAP
5 85 (1.09%) Cisco
6 71 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
7 68 (0.87%) Fortinet
7 68 (0.87%) Palo Alto
8 59 (0.76%) Oracle
9 49 (0.63%) Apple
10 47 (0.60%) Salesforce
11 41 (0.53%) Adobe
12 38 (0.49%) Google
13 32 (0.41%) Dell
14 31 (0.40%) Tenable
15 29 (0.37%) ServiceNow
16 28 (0.36%) Siemens
17 24 (0.31%) MuleSoft
17 24 (0.31%) Splunk
18 19 (0.24%) PayPal