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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 38 31
Rank change year-on-year +31 -7 +22
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 8,474 2,230 4,274
As % of all permanent jobs in England 12.52% 5.88% 5.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.11% 6.28% 6.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,424 1,467 3,321
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,900 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.00% -8.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.63% +2.50% -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 52,598 35,514 66,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.69% 93.57% 86.78%
Number of salaries quoted 32,587 20,343 51,251
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £29,010
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 +35 2,637 £40,000 -24.71% 285
North West +29 1,912 £42,500 -22.73% 140
Midlands +25 1,674 £43,500 -27.50% 168
London +23 1,505 £70,000 -3.45% 427
South East +42 1,353 £47,500 -17.39% 339
West Midlands +24 1,296 £44,250 -29.20% 80
East of England +46 705 £35,000 -26.32% 115
Yorkshire +37 604 £30,750 -38.50% 111
South West +35 542 £55,000 +15.79% 151
East Midlands +43 389 £42,000 +1.20% 88
North East +39 121 £30,500 -23.81% 36
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
1 121 (1.43%) SharePoint
2 76 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.15%) CMS
4 9 (0.11%) Confluence
5 6 (0.071%) nginx
5 6 (0.071%) WordPress
6 5 (0.059%) Apache
6 5 (0.059%) Drupal
7 3 (0.035%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.035%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.024%) SAS
9 1 (0.012%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.012%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 94 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (0.33%) Maya
5 24 (0.28%) Simulink
6 19 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.11%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.059%) CATIA
9 4 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.024%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.024%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 27 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.094%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.083%) Shopify
5 4 (0.047%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.047%) Endur
5 4 (0.047%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.047%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.047%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.035%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.035%) SAP CX
6 3 (0.035%) SAP FS
6 3 (0.035%) Yoast SEO
7 2 (0.024%) Exchequer
7 2 (0.024%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.024%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.024%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.024%) SAP FSCM
7 2 (0.024%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.024%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 4,054 (47.84%) Cloud Computing
2 2,041 (24.09%) Azure
3 547 (6.46%) AWS
4 430 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
5 279 (3.29%) Entra ID
6 196 (2.31%) GitHub
7 89 (1.05%) SaaS
8 87 (1.03%) GCP
9 65 (0.77%) Power Platform
10 54 (0.64%) Azure Sentinel
11 50 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
12 43 (0.51%) PaaS
13 37 (0.44%) Azure DevOps
14 35 (0.41%) Nutanix
15 33 (0.39%) Google Workspace
16 29 (0.34%) IaaS
17 27 (0.32%) AWS CloudFormation
18 26 (0.31%) Mimecast
19 23 (0.27%) Dynamics 365
19 23 (0.27%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4,212 (49.70%) Internet
2 310 (3.66%) Firewall
3 143 (1.69%) Network Security
4 126 (1.49%) VPN
5 86 (1.01%) DNS
6 74 (0.87%) DHCP
7 67 (0.79%) WAN
8 65 (0.77%) VLAN
9 62 (0.73%) LAN
10 55 (0.65%) TCP/IP
10 55 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
11 37 (0.44%) Broadband
11 37 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
12 33 (0.39%) VoIP
13 27 (0.32%) Wireless
14 23 (0.27%) CHAP
15 18 (0.21%) SD-WAN
16 15 (0.18%) DMZ
17 13 (0.15%) Unified Communications
18 11 (0.13%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (0.41%) Power BI
2 24 (0.28%) Big Data
3 23 (0.27%) SQL Server
3 23 (0.27%) Tableau
4 22 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
5 21 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (0.21%) Neo4j
7 11 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.12%) Metadata
9 9 (0.11%) Data Lake
9 9 (0.11%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.071%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.059%) MariaDB
11 5 (0.059%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.059%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.047%) MySQL
12 4 (0.047%) SAP BW
13 3 (0.035%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.024%) Apache Hive
14 2 (0.024%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 200 (2.36%) Git
2 29 (0.34%) JIRA
2 29 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
3 23 (0.27%) GitLab
4 13 (0.15%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.13%) Cucumber
6 7 (0.083%) JMeter
6 7 (0.083%) Locust
7 5 (0.059%) Apache Continuum
7 5 (0.059%) Burp Suite
7 5 (0.059%) Metasploit
8 4 (0.047%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.047%) MLflow
9 2 (0.024%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.012%) GDB
10 1 (0.012%) Snyk
10 1 (0.012%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.012%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.012%) WinDbg
10 1 (0.012%) Yeoman
General
1 6,021 (71.05%) Social Skills
2 4,211 (49.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,165 (49.15%) Banking
4 536 (6.33%) Finance
5 358 (4.22%) Multimedia
6 335 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
7 195 (2.30%) Public Sector
8 167 (1.97%) Marketing
9 156 (1.84%) Law
9 156 (1.84%) Legal
10 126 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
11 122 (1.44%) Retail
12 121 (1.43%) Telecoms
13 89 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 67 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
15 54 (0.64%) Games
16 53 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
17 47 (0.55%) Electronics
17 47 (0.55%) Local Government
18 46 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3,143 (37.09%) Lecturer
2 977 (11.53%) Analyst
3 853 (10.07%) Security Analyst
4 797 (9.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 730 (8.61%) Junior
6 708 (8.35%) Junior Analyst
7 707 (8.34%) Junior Security Analyst
8 423 (4.99%) Ethical Hacker
9 363 (4.28%) Senior
9 363 (4.28%) Trainee
10 251 (2.96%) Consultant
11 232 (2.74%) Architect
12 230 (2.71%) Lead
13 202 (2.38%) IT Support
14 158 (1.86%) Security Consultant
15 156 (1.84%) Developer
15 156 (1.84%) Security Manager
16 145 (1.71%) Security Engineer
17 144 (1.70%) IT Manager
18 131 (1.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (2.43%) CSS
1 206 (2.43%) HTML
2 42 (0.50%) REST
3 36 (0.42%) OAuth
4 35 (0.41%) React
4 35 (0.41%) SAML
5 33 (0.39%) OpenID
6 29 (0.34%) LDAP
7 27 (0.32%) SOAP
8 26 (0.31%) GraphQL
9 21 (0.25%) SAP CAF
10 20 (0.24%) AngularJS
11 17 (0.20%) MERN Stack
12 14 (0.17%) SailPoint
13 11 (0.13%) YAML
14 10 (0.12%) Tailwind CSS
15 9 (0.11%) Middleware
15 9 (0.11%) Node.js
16 8 (0.094%) PyTorch
16 8 (0.094%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4,072 (48.05%) IoT
2 485 (5.72%) Cyberattack
3 212 (2.50%) Security Posture
4 182 (2.15%) Management Information System
5 114 (1.35%) Driving Licence
6 109 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
7 97 (1.14%) Onboarding
8 92 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
9 84 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
10 80 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
11 65 (0.77%) Cloud Native
11 65 (0.77%) Data Centre
12 64 (0.76%) Cyber Defence
13 55 (0.65%) Operational Technology
14 51 (0.60%) Blog
15 46 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
16 38 (0.45%) PKI
17 36 (0.42%) Cyber Security Posture
18 34 (0.40%) Public Cloud
19 32 (0.38%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 380 (4.48%) Windows
2 171 (2.02%) Windows Server
3 137 (1.62%) Linux
4 69 (0.81%) Windows 10
5 48 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 32 (0.38%) Android
7 23 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.12%) Unix
10 6 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.047%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.047%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.047%) VMS
12 3 (0.035%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.024%) CentOS
14 1 (0.012%) Debian
14 1 (0.012%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.012%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.012%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.012%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,257 (50.24%) AI
2 4,065 (47.97%) Machine Learning
3 4,046 (47.75%) User Experience
4 4,038 (47.65%) Web Development
5 1,319 (15.57%) Mentoring
6 598 (7.06%) Ethical Hacking
7 434 (5.12%) Problem-Solving
8 429 (5.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 381 (4.50%) Risk Management
10 364 (4.30%) Information Security
11 359 (4.24%) Incident Response
12 272 (3.21%) Agile
13 233 (2.75%) SIEM
14 221 (2.61%) Cloud Security
15 201 (2.37%) ITIL
15 201 (2.37%) Line Management
16 196 (2.31%) Roadmaps
17 188 (2.22%) Project Management
18 187 (2.21%) Disaster Recovery
19 186 (2.19%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 400 (4.72%) Python
2 251 (2.96%) JavaScript
3 192 (2.27%) PowerShell
4 107 (1.26%) SQL
5 99 (1.17%) R
6 62 (0.73%) Bash
7 40 (0.47%) Java
8 32 (0.38%) C++
9 30 (0.35%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.31%) MATLAB
11 25 (0.30%) T-SQL
12 22 (0.26%) C
12 22 (0.26%) C#
13 10 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.11%) Go
15 7 (0.083%) Rust
16 6 (0.071%) PHP
17 4 (0.047%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.035%) Bicep
18 3 (0.035%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4,437 (52.36%) Degree
2 4,070 (48.03%) Master's Degree
3 4,013 (47.36%) PhD
4 4,006 (47.27%) Postgraduate
5 1,357 (16.01%) Azure Certification
6 930 (10.97%) CompTIA Security+
7 747 (8.82%) CompTIA CySA+
8 642 (7.58%) CEH
9 357 (4.21%) CISSP
10 309 (3.65%) Security Cleared
11 258 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 243 (2.87%) CISM
13 238 (2.81%) AWS Certification
14 202 (2.38%) SC Cleared
15 194 (2.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 188 (2.22%) Network+ Certification
17 177 (2.09%) A+ Certification
18 111 (1.31%) CISA
18 111 (1.31%) DV Cleared
19 104 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 507 (5.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 471 (5.56%) NIST
3 268 (3.16%) GDPR
4 222 (2.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 186 (2.19%) GRC
6 116 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 109 (1.29%) PCI DSS
8 104 (1.23%) NCSC
9 73 (0.86%) QA
10 46 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 44 (0.52%) COBIT
12 40 (0.47%) SLA
13 37 (0.44%) NIST 800
14 32 (0.38%) Accessibility
15 26 (0.31%) Data Quality
16 24 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 21 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
18 20 (0.24%) JSP 440
19 19 (0.22%) ISO 22301
20 18 (0.21%) SOC 3
System Software
1 305 (3.60%) Active Directory
2 69 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (0.72%) Hyper-V
4 54 (0.64%) Docker
5 26 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.24%) vSphere
7 9 (0.11%) Firmware
7 9 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.094%) IAG
9 7 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.071%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.035%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.024%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.024%) GPFS
14 2 (0.024%) Lustre
15 1 (0.012%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.012%) iptables
15 1 (0.012%) KVM
Systems Management
1 157 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 67 (0.79%) Terraform
3 59 (0.70%) Kubernetes
4 36 (0.42%) Ansible
5 27 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.20%) Grafana
7 16 (0.19%) CASB
8 14 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (0.17%) SCCM
9 11 (0.13%) CSIRT
10 10 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.12%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.094%) Nessus
11 8 (0.094%) RSA Archer
12 7 (0.083%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 7 (0.083%) FTK
12 7 (0.083%) VxRail
13 5 (0.059%) Prometheus
13 5 (0.059%) QRadar
13 5 (0.059%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,050 (24.19%) Microsoft
2 1,129 (13.32%) ForeScout
3 120 (1.42%) VMware
4 95 (1.12%) Cisco
5 77 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
6 66 (0.78%) Fortinet
7 63 (0.74%) Palo Alto
8 61 (0.72%) Apple
9 58 (0.68%) SAP
10 44 (0.52%) Google
11 40 (0.47%) Splunk
12 39 (0.46%) Salesforce
13 37 (0.44%) Dell
14 36 (0.42%) Oracle
15 32 (0.38%) Adobe
16 31 (0.37%) Tenable
17 30 (0.35%) Siemens
18 28 (0.33%) ServiceNow
19 25 (0.30%) CyberArk
20 20 (0.24%) Commvault