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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 37 37
Rank change year-on-year +31 0 +17
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 7,278 2,712 3,323
As % of all permanent jobs in England 13.23% 5.67% 5.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.44% 6.22% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,132 1,384 2,544
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,500 £35,920
25th Percentile £31,250 £50,000 £46,306
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 £77,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 44,281 43,623 51,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.50% 91.27% 88.89%
Number of salaries quoted 26,723 21,246 40,559
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £38,393 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £76,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 +40 2,282 £35,000 -36.94% 340
North West +35 1,793 £40,000 -27.27% 173
Midlands +25 1,437 £42,735 -25.68% 234
London +19 1,399 £69,750 -5.74% 430
West Midlands +22 1,192 £45,000 -25.00% 105
South East +34 1,100 £47,500 -17.39% 555
East of England +51 599 £35,000 -30.98% 248
Yorkshire +34 417 £30,500 -49.17% 122
South West +42 411 £55,000 -14.90% 240
East Midlands +31 254 £37,500 -21.36% 128
North East +41 72 £30,500 -20.78% 47
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
1 126 (1.73%) SharePoint
2 62 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (0.22%) Confluence
4 15 (0.21%) IIS
5 11 (0.15%) WordPress
6 9 (0.12%) CMS
7 6 (0.082%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.082%) nginx
8 5 (0.069%) Apache
8 5 (0.069%) Drupal
9 4 (0.055%) FactoryTalk
9 4 (0.055%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.055%) WinCC
10 3 (0.041%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.041%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.027%) ArchestrA
11 2 (0.027%) SAS
12 1 (0.014%) FileNet
Applications
1 101 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 59 (0.81%) Maya
4 34 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (0.34%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.16%) Simulink
7 5 (0.069%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.055%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.041%) CATIA
9 3 (0.041%) CINEMA 4D
9 3 (0.041%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.027%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.014%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 33 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.22%) SAP IBP
4 10 (0.14%) SAP CO
4 10 (0.14%) SAP FI
4 10 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
4 10 (0.14%) SAP FSCM
5 9 (0.12%) SAP FS
5 9 (0.12%) SAP IS-U
6 7 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
6 7 (0.096%) Shopify
7 6 (0.082%) Exchequer
8 5 (0.069%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.055%) Endur
9 4 (0.055%) NEC Housing
9 4 (0.055%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.041%) SAP CX
10 3 (0.041%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.041%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 4,063 (55.83%) Cloud Computing
2 1,148 (15.77%) Azure
3 538 (7.39%) AWS
4 395 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
5 225 (3.09%) Entra ID
6 220 (3.02%) GitHub
7 90 (1.24%) Power Platform
8 87 (1.20%) SaaS
9 68 (0.93%) GCP
10 55 (0.76%) PaaS
11 44 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
12 40 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
12 40 (0.55%) IaaS
13 39 (0.54%) Microsoft Purview
14 31 (0.43%) OneDrive
15 29 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
16 27 (0.37%) Nutanix
17 23 (0.32%) Google Workspace
18 21 (0.29%) Power Automate
19 20 (0.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4,229 (58.11%) Internet
2 267 (3.67%) Firewall
3 121 (1.66%) VPN
4 120 (1.65%) Network Security
5 103 (1.42%) DNS
6 98 (1.35%) TCP/IP
7 83 (1.14%) DHCP
8 75 (1.03%) WAN
9 68 (0.93%) LAN
10 58 (0.80%) VoIP
11 57 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
12 51 (0.70%) VLAN
13 32 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
14 27 (0.37%) SD-WAN
15 24 (0.33%) Wireless
16 21 (0.29%) Broadband
17 20 (0.27%) Modbus
18 18 (0.25%) DMZ
18 18 (0.25%) SAN
19 16 (0.22%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (0.80%) Power BI
2 48 (0.66%) SQL Server
3 40 (0.55%) Tableau
4 36 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (0.32%) Big Data
6 20 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
7 19 (0.26%) Relational Database
8 18 (0.25%) SAP BW
9 17 (0.23%) Data Lake
9 17 (0.23%) Neo4j
10 15 (0.21%) Metadata
11 11 (0.15%) Oracle Database
12 10 (0.14%) NoSQL
13 9 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.082%) MS Access
14 6 (0.082%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.069%) MariaDB
16 4 (0.055%) BusinessObjects
16 4 (0.055%) SAP Data Services
17 3 (0.041%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 219 (3.01%) Git
2 31 (0.43%) JIRA
3 18 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (0.22%) Jenkins
5 13 (0.18%) GitLab
6 8 (0.11%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.055%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.055%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.055%) JMeter
7 4 (0.055%) Locust
7 4 (0.055%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.055%) MLflow
7 4 (0.055%) Toad
8 3 (0.041%) Apache Continuum
9 2 (0.027%) Snyk
10 1 (0.014%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.014%) Bitbucket
General
1 5,256 (72.22%) Social Skills
2 4,178 (57.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,170 (57.30%) Banking
4 561 (7.71%) Finance
5 381 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
6 346 (4.75%) Multimedia
7 180 (2.47%) Marketing
8 177 (2.43%) Law
9 173 (2.38%) Public Sector
10 150 (2.06%) Legal
11 144 (1.98%) Telecoms
12 127 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
13 108 (1.48%) Retail
14 104 (1.43%) Manufacturing
15 90 (1.24%) Games
16 67 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
17 61 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
18 54 (0.74%) Electronics
19 47 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
20 42 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3,136 (43.09%) Lecturer
2 521 (7.16%) Analyst
3 398 (5.47%) Security Analyst
4 369 (5.07%) Senior
5 354 (4.86%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 346 (4.75%) Trainee
7 302 (4.15%) Junior
8 283 (3.89%) Junior Analyst
9 282 (3.87%) Junior Security Analyst
10 228 (3.13%) Lead
11 221 (3.04%) Consultant
12 218 (3.00%) Architect
13 189 (2.60%) IT Support
14 155 (2.13%) Support Engineer
15 150 (2.06%) Developer
16 139 (1.91%) IT Manager
17 134 (1.84%) Security Consultant
18 131 (1.80%) Security Manager
19 128 (1.76%) Security Engineer
20 113 (1.55%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (3.24%) HTML
2 232 (3.19%) CSS
3 36 (0.49%) React
4 31 (0.43%) REST
5 28 (0.38%) AngularJS
6 26 (0.36%) SAP CAF
7 24 (0.33%) OAuth
8 23 (0.32%) SAML
9 21 (0.29%) OpenID
10 17 (0.23%) LDAP
10 17 (0.23%) MERN Stack
11 16 (0.22%) GraphQL
12 15 (0.21%) SOAP
12 15 (0.21%) YAML
13 14 (0.19%) Middleware
14 13 (0.18%) .NET
15 12 (0.16%) PyTorch
15 12 (0.16%) TensorFlow
16 11 (0.15%) Pandas
17 9 (0.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4,072 (55.95%) IoT
2 188 (2.58%) Management Information System
3 165 (2.27%) Security Posture
4 148 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
5 118 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
6 115 (1.58%) Onboarding
7 103 (1.42%) Driving Licence
8 91 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
9 75 (1.03%) Data Centre
10 74 (1.02%) Cloud Native
11 63 (0.87%) Operational Technology
12 58 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
13 48 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
14 43 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
15 42 (0.58%) Cyber Defence
16 40 (0.55%) Cyber Security Posture
16 40 (0.55%) Cyberattack
17 39 (0.54%) Public Cloud
18 35 (0.48%) Blockchain
19 33 (0.45%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 365 (5.02%) Windows
2 147 (2.02%) Windows Server
3 132 (1.81%) Linux
4 67 (0.92%) Mac OS
5 63 (0.87%) Windows 10
6 26 (0.36%) Android
7 24 (0.33%) Apple iOS
8 22 (0.30%) Unix
9 11 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.11%) VMS
11 7 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.069%) Debian
12 5 (0.069%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.041%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.027%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.027%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.014%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.014%) OpenWrt
15 1 (0.014%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,267 (58.63%) AI
2 4,067 (55.88%) Machine Learning
3 4,038 (55.48%) User Experience
4 4,033 (55.41%) Web Development
5 850 (11.68%) Mentoring
6 494 (6.79%) Problem-Solving
7 398 (5.47%) Risk Management
8 350 (4.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 345 (4.74%) Information Security
10 338 (4.64%) Incident Response
11 273 (3.75%) Agile
12 220 (3.02%) ITIL
13 212 (2.91%) Project Management
14 206 (2.83%) Analytics
15 202 (2.78%) Roadmaps
16 201 (2.76%) SIEM
17 196 (2.69%) Data Protection
18 191 (2.62%) Decision-Making
18 191 (2.62%) Line Management
19 181 (2.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 382 (5.25%) Python
2 273 (3.75%) JavaScript
3 158 (2.17%) PowerShell
4 118 (1.62%) SQL
5 113 (1.55%) R
6 45 (0.62%) Bash
7 32 (0.44%) Java
8 25 (0.34%) TypeScript
9 24 (0.33%) C#
10 23 (0.32%) C++
11 18 (0.25%) C
12 16 (0.22%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.19%) Bicep
14 12 (0.16%) MATLAB
15 11 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.11%) Go
17 6 (0.082%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.055%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.055%) VB
19 3 (0.041%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4,501 (61.84%) Degree
2 4,076 (56.00%) Master's Degree
3 4,012 (55.13%) PhD
4 4,004 (55.02%) Postgraduate
5 538 (7.39%) Azure Certification
6 461 (6.33%) CompTIA Security+
7 362 (4.97%) CISSP
8 311 (4.27%) CompTIA CySA+
9 290 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 285 (3.92%) Security Cleared
11 268 (3.68%) AWS Certification
12 261 (3.59%) CISM
13 216 (2.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 195 (2.68%) SC Cleared
15 180 (2.47%) CEH
16 150 (2.06%) Network+ Certification
17 149 (2.05%) A+ Certification
18 112 (1.54%) CISA
19 95 (1.31%) DV Cleared
20 88 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 481 (6.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 436 (5.99%) NIST
3 261 (3.59%) GDPR
4 232 (3.19%) Cyber Essentials
5 185 (2.54%) GRC
6 109 (1.50%) NCSC
7 100 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 90 (1.24%) PCI DSS
9 66 (0.91%) QA
10 54 (0.74%) SLA
11 51 (0.70%) NIST 800
12 46 (0.63%) COBIT
13 35 (0.48%) SOC 2
14 33 (0.45%) JSP 440
15 28 (0.38%) Data Quality
16 20 (0.27%) Accessibility
16 20 (0.27%) RMADS
17 19 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 17 (0.23%) PMO
19 16 (0.22%) SOC 3
System Software
1 259 (3.56%) Active Directory
2 77 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 49 (0.67%) Docker
5 35 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.23%) vSphere
7 7 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.082%) Firmware
8 6 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.069%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.055%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.041%) Kamailio
11 3 (0.041%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.027%) GPFS
12 2 (0.027%) Lustre
13 1 (0.014%) iptables
13 1 (0.014%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 157 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (0.71%) Terraform
3 44 (0.60%) Kubernetes
4 29 (0.40%) Ansible
5 21 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (0.27%) SCCM
7 15 (0.21%) CASB
8 14 (0.19%) CSIRT
8 14 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (0.19%) Nessus
9 13 (0.18%) RSA Archer
10 10 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 9 (0.12%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.12%) Nagios
11 9 (0.12%) QRadar
12 7 (0.096%) PaperCut
13 6 (0.082%) Grafana
13 6 (0.082%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 5 (0.069%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1,198 (16.46%) Microsoft
2 282 (3.87%) ForeScout
3 117 (1.61%) VMware
4 101 (1.39%) SAP
5 85 (1.17%) Cisco
6 71 (0.98%) Palo Alto
7 68 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
8 66 (0.91%) Oracle
9 64 (0.88%) Fortinet
10 57 (0.78%) Apple
11 51 (0.70%) Adobe
12 50 (0.69%) Salesforce
13 36 (0.49%) ServiceNow
14 32 (0.44%) Google
15 28 (0.38%) Dell
16 26 (0.36%) Tenable
17 24 (0.33%) Splunk
18 23 (0.32%) MuleSoft
18 23 (0.32%) Siemens
19 19 (0.26%) PayPal