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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 33 38
Rank change year-on-year +13 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,963 2,720 4,096
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.70% 6.29% 5.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.08% 6.98% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,396 1,660 2,919
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £44,206
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% -7.03%
75th Percentile £79,438 £75,000 £75,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% -9.65%

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 65,658 38,950 66,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.80% 90.00% 82.04%
Number of salaries quoted 46,449 22,420 46,231
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,669 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £74,280
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%

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 July 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 23 July 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
London +16 1,383 £75,000 +3.45% 705
North of England +20 1,361 £50,000 - 373
South East +14 1,094 £52,500 +5.00% 357
Midlands +20 1,024 £57,500 +21.05% 195
North West +27 644 £55,000 - 202
South West +11 601 £55,000 +23.35% 181
Yorkshire +13 551 £43,750 +32.58% 137
West Midlands +9 522 £60,000 +11.76% 99
East Midlands +38 501 £55,000 +57.14% 96
East of England +70 473 £42,500 -10.53% 133
North East +27 166 £50,000 -27.94% 37
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
1 177 (2.97%) SharePoint
2 173 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (0.29%) Apache
4 15 (0.25%) IIS
5 12 (0.20%) CMS
6 9 (0.15%) SAS
7 7 (0.12%) Confluence
8 5 (0.084%) WordPress
9 4 (0.067%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.017%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.017%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 73 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.27%) Simulink
5 5 (0.084%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.067%) CATIA
6 4 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.034%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.034%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.017%) Maya
8 1 (0.017%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 24 (0.40%) Cloudability
2 15 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.10%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.084%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.084%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.067%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.050%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 3 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.050%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.050%) Q-Pulse
9 2 (0.034%) Shopify
9 2 (0.034%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.017%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.017%) Eikon
10 1 (0.017%) Infor CloudSuite
10 1 (0.017%) Infor LN
10 1 (0.017%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 2,338 (39.21%) Azure
2 703 (11.79%) Microsoft 365
3 453 (7.60%) AWS
4 381 (6.39%) Entra ID
5 173 (2.90%) SaaS
6 150 (2.52%) GCP
7 82 (1.38%) Azure Sentinel
8 71 (1.19%) Power Platform
9 67 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
10 59 (0.99%) OneDrive
11 48 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
12 47 (0.79%) Serverless
13 35 (0.59%) Mimecast
14 34 (0.57%) Microsoft Copilot
15 31 (0.52%) Google Workspace
16 30 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
17 28 (0.47%) GitHub
18 27 (0.45%) PaaS
19 24 (0.40%) IaaS
20 21 (0.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 472 (7.92%) Firewall
2 211 (3.54%) Network Security
3 192 (3.22%) VPN
4 182 (3.05%) DNS
5 139 (2.33%) WAN
6 136 (2.28%) Wi-Fi
7 122 (2.05%) LAN
8 121 (2.03%) DHCP
9 116 (1.95%) TCP/IP
10 103 (1.73%) VLAN
11 83 (1.39%) Internet
12 65 (1.09%) VoIP
13 51 (0.86%) Wireless
14 43 (0.72%) Unified Communications
15 39 (0.65%) Broadband
16 36 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
17 35 (0.59%) HTTP
18 31 (0.52%) SSL
19 29 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
20 26 (0.44%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (0.75%) Power BI
2 35 (0.59%) SQL Server
3 12 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (0.20%) MySQL
3 12 (0.20%) Tableau
4 11 (0.18%) MongoDB
5 10 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (0.15%) Big Data
7 6 (0.10%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.084%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.067%) GIS
9 4 (0.067%) Metadata
9 4 (0.067%) Neo4j
9 4 (0.067%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.050%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.034%) ClickHouse
11 2 (0.034%) Flink
11 2 (0.034%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 36 (0.60%) Git
2 34 (0.57%) JIRA
3 32 (0.54%) GitLab
4 26 (0.44%) Snyk
5 17 (0.29%) Burp Suite
5 17 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
6 16 (0.27%) Metasploit
7 12 (0.20%) Jenkins
8 9 (0.15%) Yeoman
9 5 (0.084%) JMeter
9 5 (0.084%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.084%) VersionOne
10 4 (0.067%) Apache Continuum
10 4 (0.067%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.067%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.067%) Locust
10 4 (0.067%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.034%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.034%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.017%) GDB
General
1 2,439 (40.90%) Social Skills
2 509 (8.54%) Finance
3 409 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
4 294 (4.93%) Public Sector
5 282 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 170 (2.85%) Marketing
7 167 (2.80%) Retail
8 163 (2.73%) Law
9 155 (2.60%) Telecoms
10 152 (2.55%) Legal
11 132 (2.21%) Manufacturing
12 122 (2.05%) Banking
13 102 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
14 83 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
15 70 (1.17%) Aerospace
16 62 (1.04%) Multimedia
17 55 (0.92%) Advertising
18 53 (0.89%) Local Government
19 34 (0.57%) Games
20 33 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,217 (20.41%) Analyst
2 1,047 (17.56%) Security Analyst
3 950 (15.93%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 777 (13.03%) Junior
5 719 (12.06%) Junior Analyst
6 709 (11.89%) Junior Security Analyst
7 705 (11.82%) Ethical Hacker
8 597 (10.01%) Senior
9 433 (7.26%) Consultant
10 346 (5.80%) Architect
11 309 (5.18%) Lead
12 278 (4.66%) Security Consultant
13 269 (4.51%) IT Support
13 269 (4.51%) Security Manager
14 233 (3.91%) Security Architect
15 230 (3.86%) IT Manager
16 223 (3.74%) Security Engineer
17 188 (3.15%) IT Engineer
18 186 (3.12%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 179 (3.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (0.94%) SAML
2 50 (0.84%) OAuth
3 49 (0.82%) LDAP
4 44 (0.74%) OpenID
5 43 (0.72%) REST
6 30 (0.50%) HTML
7 22 (0.37%) CSS
8 21 (0.35%) Kafka
9 20 (0.34%) React
10 19 (0.32%) SOAP
11 18 (0.30%) SailPoint
12 17 (0.29%) .NET
13 15 (0.25%) JSON
14 14 (0.23%) FastAPI
14 14 (0.23%) Middleware
15 13 (0.22%) Node.js
15 13 (0.22%) RESTful
15 13 (0.22%) XML
16 12 (0.20%) GraphQL
16 12 (0.20%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 816 (13.68%) Cyberattack
2 323 (5.42%) Security Posture
3 228 (3.82%) Cyber Threat
4 201 (3.37%) Management Information System
5 200 (3.35%) Onboarding
6 161 (2.70%) Driving Licence
6 161 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
7 130 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
8 106 (1.78%) Operational Technology
9 96 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
10 85 (1.43%) Cloud Native
11 73 (1.22%) Data Centre
12 57 (0.96%) PKI
13 51 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
14 40 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
15 37 (0.62%) Blog
15 37 (0.62%) CSOC
16 36 (0.60%) Cyber Security Posture
17 29 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
18 28 (0.47%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 537 (9.01%) Windows
2 263 (4.41%) Windows Server
3 191 (3.20%) Linux
4 60 (1.01%) Mac OS
5 34 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 29 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 27 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (0.40%) Android
8 24 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 13 (0.22%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.10%) CentOS
12 4 (0.067%) Unix
12 4 (0.067%) VMS
12 4 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.034%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.034%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.034%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.017%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.017%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,143 (19.17%) Mentoring
2 764 (12.81%) Ethical Hacking
3 603 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 595 (9.98%) Problem-Solving
5 512 (8.59%) Incident Response
6 488 (8.18%) Information Security
7 465 (7.80%) Risk Management
8 437 (7.33%) Security Operations
9 431 (7.23%) SIEM
10 393 (6.59%) AI
11 388 (6.51%) Cloud Security
12 377 (6.32%) Vulnerability Management
13 324 (5.43%) Disaster Recovery
14 314 (5.27%) Decision-Making
15 278 (4.66%) Roadmaps
16 275 (4.61%) Stakeholder Management
17 250 (4.19%) Agile
18 243 (4.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 242 (4.06%) Data Protection
20 241 (4.04%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 296 (4.96%) Python
2 245 (4.11%) PowerShell
3 96 (1.61%) SQL
4 68 (1.14%) Bash
5 63 (1.06%) C++
6 62 (1.04%) JavaScript
7 39 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
8 37 (0.62%) Java
9 31 (0.52%) Rust
10 25 (0.42%) C#
11 21 (0.35%) Go
12 20 (0.34%) MATLAB
13 17 (0.29%) TypeScript
14 14 (0.23%) C
14 14 (0.23%) Search Processing Language
15 12 (0.20%) T-SQL
16 9 (0.15%) Perl
17 7 (0.12%) PHP
18 5 (0.084%) Shell Script
19 4 (0.067%) R
Qualifications
1 1,475 (24.74%) Azure Certification
2 877 (14.71%) CompTIA Security+
3 820 (13.75%) CEH
4 752 (12.61%) CompTIA CySA+
5 570 (9.56%) Security Cleared
6 459 (7.70%) Degree
7 434 (7.28%) CISSP
8 402 (6.74%) SC Cleared
9 279 (4.68%) CISM
10 183 (3.07%) DV Cleared
11 154 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
12 99 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
13 92 (1.54%) CISA
14 87 (1.46%) CRISC
15 85 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 79 (1.32%) CREST Certified
17 78 (1.31%) Network+ Certification
18 71 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
19 70 (1.17%) A+ Certification
19 70 (1.17%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 610 (10.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 519 (8.70%) NIST
3 322 (5.40%) GDPR
4 280 (4.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 267 (4.48%) GRC
6 145 (2.43%) PCI DSS
7 131 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 105 (1.76%) QA
9 97 (1.63%) NCSC
10 60 (1.01%) SOC 2
11 40 (0.67%) NIST 800
12 36 (0.60%) Accessibility
12 36 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 33 (0.55%) COBIT
13 33 (0.55%) JSP 440
13 33 (0.55%) SLA
14 26 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
14 26 (0.44%) Data Quality
15 21 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 19 (0.32%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 421 (7.06%) Active Directory
2 127 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 106 (1.78%) Hyper-V
4 51 (0.86%) Docker
5 50 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.39%) vSphere
7 14 (0.23%) Firmware
7 14 (0.23%) IAG
8 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.084%) ClearTrust
10 5 (0.084%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.067%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 4 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.050%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.017%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.017%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.017%) KVM
Systems Management
1 217 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 85 (1.43%) Terraform
3 75 (1.26%) Kubernetes
4 43 (0.72%) Ansible
4 43 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 31 (0.52%) Grafana
6 19 (0.32%) QRadar
7 18 (0.30%) Prometheus
8 17 (0.29%) CASB
8 17 (0.29%) FortiGate
9 16 (0.27%) SCCM
10 13 (0.22%) Nmap
11 12 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.18%) Nessus
13 9 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
13 9 (0.15%) Kibana
14 7 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
14 7 (0.12%) vCenter Server
15 6 (0.10%) CSIRT
15 6 (0.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,548 (42.73%) Microsoft
2 1,411 (23.66%) ForeScout
3 176 (2.95%) VMware
4 167 (2.80%) Cisco
5 147 (2.47%) Palo Alto
6 105 (1.76%) Splunk
7 104 (1.74%) CrowdStrike
8 65 (1.09%) Qualys
9 63 (1.06%) Google
10 60 (1.01%) Aruba
10 60 (1.01%) Fortinet
11 59 (0.99%) Tenable
12 57 (0.96%) ServiceNow
13 52 (0.87%) Apple
14 50 (0.84%) Salesforce
15 38 (0.64%) SAP
16 35 (0.59%) Veeam
17 34 (0.57%) CyberArk
18 33 (0.55%) Adobe
19 28 (0.47%) Dell