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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 38 30
Rank change year-on-year +31 -8 +24
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 8,040 2,419 4,779
As % of all permanent jobs in England 9.99% 6.17% 5.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.49% 6.60% 6.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,791 1,560 3,553
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,000 £35,631
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,400 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% -0.21% -8.42%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,875 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -4.17% +0.80% -8.42%

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 59,619 36,635 71,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.07% 93.38% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 39,039 20,695 53,834
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +41 2,358 £46,500 -11.43% 283
Midlands +30 1,892 £50,000 -6.87% 172
North West +42 1,499 £55,000 - 162
London +16 1,447 £70,000 -6.67% 459
West Midlands +22 1,403 £47,500 -20.83% 89
South East +30 1,162 £50,000 -9.09% 339
Yorkshire +38 710 £43,500 -3.33% 89
South West +19 591 £60,000 +33.33% 132
East of England +63 537 £40,000 -15.79% 107
East Midlands +47 500 £55,000 +53.84% 82
North East +34 149 £45,000 -15.98% 33
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
1 117 (1.46%) SharePoint
2 97 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.11%) CMS
4 7 (0.087%) WordPress
5 6 (0.075%) Apache
6 4 (0.050%) IIS
7 3 (0.037%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.037%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.037%) Drupal
7 3 (0.037%) nginx
8 2 (0.025%) Confluence
8 2 (0.025%) SAS
9 1 (0.012%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 79 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.31%) Simulink
5 14 (0.17%) Maya
6 8 (0.100%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.062%) CATIA
8 4 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.025%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.025%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.012%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 26 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.30%) Cloudability
3 16 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 9 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.062%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.050%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.050%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.050%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.037%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.037%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.037%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.025%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.025%) Shopify
9 1 (0.012%) Maximo
9 1 (0.012%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.012%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.012%) SAP CX
9 1 (0.012%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.012%) SAP FS
9 1 (0.012%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 2,583 (32.13%) Azure
2 2,555 (31.78%) Cloud Computing
3 504 (6.27%) AWS
4 500 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
5 294 (3.66%) Entra ID
6 128 (1.59%) GitHub
7 117 (1.46%) GCP
7 117 (1.46%) SaaS
8 70 (0.87%) Power Platform
9 66 (0.82%) Microsoft Purview
10 65 (0.81%) Azure Sentinel
11 38 (0.47%) Serverless
12 36 (0.45%) Google Workspace
13 34 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
14 30 (0.37%) Nutanix
15 29 (0.36%) Mimecast
15 29 (0.36%) OneDrive
15 29 (0.36%) PaaS
16 28 (0.35%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (0.34%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2,661 (33.10%) Internet
2 347 (4.32%) Firewall
3 156 (1.94%) Network Security
4 137 (1.70%) VPN
5 109 (1.36%) DNS
6 82 (1.02%) WAN
7 76 (0.95%) DHCP
8 72 (0.90%) LAN
9 65 (0.81%) VLAN
10 64 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
11 60 (0.75%) TCP/IP
12 45 (0.56%) Broadband
13 35 (0.44%) VoIP
14 29 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
15 28 (0.35%) Unified Communications
15 28 (0.35%) Wireless
16 26 (0.32%) CHAP
17 19 (0.24%) SD-WAN
18 16 (0.20%) HTTP
18 16 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (0.51%) Power BI
2 23 (0.29%) SQL Server
3 20 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (0.25%) Tableau
4 19 (0.24%) Big Data
5 15 (0.19%) Neo4j
6 12 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.100%) MySQL
9 6 (0.075%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.075%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.050%) Metadata
10 4 (0.050%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.037%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.037%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.037%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.025%) Apache Hive
12 2 (0.025%) GIS
12 2 (0.025%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.025%) Impala
Development Applications
1 129 (1.60%) Git
2 34 (0.42%) GitLab
3 30 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
4 23 (0.29%) Snyk
5 15 (0.19%) JIRA
6 12 (0.15%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.087%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.062%) Apache Continuum
8 5 (0.062%) VersionOne
9 4 (0.050%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.050%) Burp Suite
9 4 (0.050%) JMeter
9 4 (0.050%) Locust
9 4 (0.050%) Metasploit
9 4 (0.050%) MLflow
9 4 (0.050%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.050%) Yeoman
10 3 (0.037%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.025%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.012%) GDB
General
1 5,063 (62.97%) Social Skills
2 2,804 (34.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,659 (33.07%) Banking
4 531 (6.60%) Finance
5 384 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
6 235 (2.92%) Multimedia
7 207 (2.57%) Public Sector
8 157 (1.95%) Retail
9 149 (1.85%) Marketing
10 142 (1.77%) Law
11 124 (1.54%) Telecoms
12 112 (1.39%) Legal
13 106 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
14 97 (1.21%) Manufacturing
15 70 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
16 65 (0.81%) Local Government
17 48 (0.60%) Aerospace
18 40 (0.50%) Aviation
19 38 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
20 37 (0.46%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,871 (23.27%) Lecturer
2 1,374 (17.09%) Analyst
3 1,219 (15.16%) Security Analyst
4 1,145 (14.24%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1,019 (12.67%) Junior
6 990 (12.31%) Junior Analyst
7 989 (12.30%) Junior Security Analyst
8 705 (8.77%) Ethical Hacker
9 498 (6.19%) Senior
10 303 (3.77%) Architect
11 283 (3.52%) Consultant
12 256 (3.18%) Trainee
13 246 (3.06%) Security Manager
14 235 (2.92%) Lead
15 211 (2.62%) Security Architect
16 197 (2.45%) IT Support
17 195 (2.43%) Security Engineer
18 169 (2.10%) IT Manager
19 168 (2.09%) Security Consultant
20 167 (2.08%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (1.68%) HTML
2 134 (1.67%) CSS
3 50 (0.62%) REST
4 43 (0.53%) LDAP
4 43 (0.53%) SAML
5 42 (0.52%) OAuth
5 42 (0.52%) OpenID
6 37 (0.46%) React
7 30 (0.37%) SOAP
8 25 (0.31%) GraphQL
9 15 (0.19%) AngularJS
9 15 (0.19%) SailPoint
10 14 (0.17%) Kafka
10 14 (0.17%) RESTful
11 13 (0.16%) FastAPI
11 13 (0.16%) Middleware
12 12 (0.15%) MERN Stack
13 11 (0.14%) Node.js
14 10 (0.12%) SAP CAF
14 10 (0.12%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2,538 (31.57%) IoT
2 799 (9.94%) Cyberattack
3 250 (3.11%) Security Posture
4 192 (2.39%) Management Information System
5 160 (1.99%) Cyber Threat
6 152 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 111 (1.38%) Security Operations Centre
8 95 (1.18%) Driving Licence
9 91 (1.13%) Cyber Defence
10 88 (1.09%) Operational Technology
11 87 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
12 86 (1.07%) Data Centre
13 68 (0.85%) Cloud Native
14 59 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
15 50 (0.62%) PKI
16 48 (0.60%) Blog
17 46 (0.57%) Cyber Security Posture
18 43 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
19 36 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
20 33 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 386 (4.80%) Windows
2 180 (2.24%) Windows Server
3 151 (1.88%) Linux
4 54 (0.67%) Windows 10
5 40 (0.50%) Mac OS
6 28 (0.35%) Android
7 20 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 19 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.075%) CentOS
12 6 (0.075%) VMS
13 4 (0.050%) Unix
14 2 (0.025%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.012%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.012%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.012%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,812 (34.98%) AI
2 2,566 (31.92%) Machine Learning
3 2,556 (31.79%) User Experience
4 2,533 (31.50%) Web Development
5 1,545 (19.22%) Mentoring
6 826 (10.27%) Ethical Hacking
7 447 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 426 (5.30%) Information Security
9 425 (5.29%) Incident Response
10 423 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
11 398 (4.95%) Risk Management
12 288 (3.58%) SIEM
13 282 (3.51%) Cloud Security
14 281 (3.50%) Security Operations
15 246 (3.06%) Agile
16 231 (2.87%) Vulnerability Management
17 229 (2.85%) Roadmaps
18 221 (2.75%) Disaster Recovery
19 215 (2.67%) Data Protection
20 211 (2.62%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 383 (4.76%) Python
2 233 (2.90%) PowerShell
3 185 (2.30%) JavaScript
4 104 (1.29%) SQL
5 83 (1.03%) Bash
6 62 (0.77%) R
7 45 (0.56%) C++
8 39 (0.49%) Java
9 29 (0.36%) C#
9 29 (0.36%) MATLAB
10 27 (0.34%) TypeScript
11 24 (0.30%) T-SQL
12 19 (0.24%) C
12 19 (0.24%) Go
13 16 (0.20%) Rust
14 12 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (0.087%) Perl
16 6 (0.075%) PHP
17 3 (0.037%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.037%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 2,932 (36.47%) Degree
2 2,585 (32.15%) Master's Degree
3 2,518 (31.32%) PhD
4 2,516 (31.29%) Postgraduate
5 1,848 (22.99%) Azure Certification
6 1,180 (14.68%) CompTIA Security+
7 1,032 (12.84%) CompTIA CySA+
8 879 (10.93%) CEH
9 415 (5.16%) Security Cleared
10 390 (4.85%) CISSP
11 289 (3.59%) SC Cleared
12 264 (3.28%) CISM
13 188 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
14 185 (2.30%) AWS Certification
15 139 (1.73%) Network+ Certification
16 133 (1.65%) A+ Certification
17 124 (1.54%) DV Cleared
18 122 (1.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 119 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
20 108 (1.34%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 528 (6.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 498 (6.19%) NIST
3 290 (3.61%) GDPR
4 249 (3.10%) GRC
5 239 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials
6 130 (1.62%) PCI DSS
7 123 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 98 (1.22%) NCSC
8 98 (1.22%) QA
9 52 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 46 (0.57%) NIST 800
11 42 (0.52%) COBIT
12 38 (0.47%) SLA
13 36 (0.45%) Accessibility
14 26 (0.32%) JSP 440
15 25 (0.31%) Data Quality
16 23 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
17 19 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 18 (0.22%) ISO 22301
19 17 (0.21%) HIPAA
System Software
1 319 (3.97%) Active Directory
2 81 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 55 (0.68%) Docker
5 39 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.30%) vSphere
7 12 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.14%) Firmware
9 10 (0.12%) IAG
10 9 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.075%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 6 (0.075%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.025%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.025%) GPFS
13 2 (0.025%) Lustre
13 2 (0.025%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.012%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.012%) KVM
Systems Management
1 144 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 78 (0.97%) Terraform
3 69 (0.86%) Kubernetes
4 36 (0.45%) Ansible
5 33 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (0.31%) Grafana
7 17 (0.21%) SCCM
8 14 (0.17%) CASB
8 14 (0.17%) QRadar
9 12 (0.15%) Prometheus
10 11 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 11 (0.14%) CSIRT
11 10 (0.12%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.11%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 7 (0.087%) Nessus
13 7 (0.087%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.087%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.087%) VxRail
14 6 (0.075%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 2,643 (32.87%) Microsoft
2 1,693 (21.06%) ForeScout
3 123 (1.53%) VMware
4 109 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
5 104 (1.29%) Cisco
6 89 (1.11%) Palo Alto
7 73 (0.91%) Apple
8 65 (0.81%) Fortinet
9 59 (0.73%) Splunk
10 57 (0.71%) Adobe
10 57 (0.71%) Tenable
11 52 (0.65%) Google
12 47 (0.58%) SAP
13 44 (0.55%) ServiceNow
14 42 (0.52%) Salesforce
15 34 (0.42%) Dell
16 28 (0.35%) Siemens
17 27 (0.34%) CyberArk
18 19 (0.24%) Veeam
19 18 (0.22%) Sophos