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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 32 36
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,903 2,743 3,630
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.10% 6.27% 4.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.31% 7.06% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,676 1,659 2,348
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.87%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -6.98%

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 71,000 38,870 59,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.37% 88.85% 80.99%
Number of salaries quoted 50,434 22,497 37,418
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,460
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.59% -8.94%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 +12 1,471 £75,000 +7.14% 1,664
North of England +20 1,266 £50,000 +5.26% 563
South East +13 1,051 £55,000 +10.00% 602
Midlands +19 1,030 £55,000 +22.22% 343
North West +23 631 £57,500 +11.08% 288
South West +6 599 £55,000 +10.00% 383
West Midlands +9 521 £56,250 +9.22% 191
East Midlands +34 508 £55,000 +57.14% 152
Yorkshire +11 487 £43,500 +31.82% 208
East of England +50 470 £45,000 -5.26% 216
North East +20 148 £50,000 -26.95% 77
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
1 208 (3.52%) SharePoint
2 201 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (0.36%) IIS
4 18 (0.30%) Apache
5 9 (0.15%) Confluence
5 9 (0.15%) SAS
6 7 (0.12%) CMS
7 5 (0.085%) WordPress
8 3 (0.051%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.051%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
Applications
1 82 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.15%) Simulink
5 8 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.068%) CATIA
8 2 (0.034%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.017%) Maya
9 1 (0.017%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (0.41%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.085%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.085%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.068%) SystmOne
8 3 (0.051%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 3 (0.051%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.051%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.051%) Infor CloudSuite
8 3 (0.051%) Infor LN
8 3 (0.051%) Infor M3
8 3 (0.051%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.051%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.034%) Eikon
9 2 (0.034%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.017%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,869 (31.66%) Azure
2 755 (12.79%) Microsoft 365
3 457 (7.74%) AWS
4 422 (7.15%) Entra ID
5 194 (3.29%) SaaS
6 143 (2.42%) GCP
7 85 (1.44%) Azure Sentinel
8 83 (1.41%) Power Platform
9 71 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
9 71 (1.20%) OneDrive
10 53 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
11 47 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
11 47 (0.80%) Serverless
12 43 (0.73%) Mimecast
13 34 (0.58%) GitHub
14 27 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (0.44%) PaaS
16 25 (0.42%) Google Workspace
17 24 (0.41%) IaaS
18 22 (0.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 504 (8.54%) Firewall
2 249 (4.22%) Network Security
3 223 (3.78%) DNS
4 208 (3.52%) VPN
5 172 (2.91%) WAN
6 151 (2.56%) LAN
7 150 (2.54%) DHCP
7 150 (2.54%) Wi-Fi
8 148 (2.51%) TCP/IP
9 120 (2.03%) VLAN
10 97 (1.64%) Internet
11 80 (1.36%) VoIP
12 76 (1.29%) Wireless
13 52 (0.88%) Cisco Nexus
14 47 (0.80%) Unified Communications
15 43 (0.73%) HTTP
16 40 (0.68%) SSL
17 31 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
18 30 (0.51%) SD-WAN
19 28 (0.47%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (0.88%) Power BI
2 47 (0.80%) SQL Server
3 13 (0.22%) Big Data
3 13 (0.22%) GIS
3 13 (0.22%) MongoDB
3 13 (0.22%) MySQL
4 12 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (0.15%) Tableau
6 6 (0.10%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.085%) Metadata
7 5 (0.085%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.068%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (0.068%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.068%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.068%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.051%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 47 (0.80%) Git
2 44 (0.75%) JIRA
3 28 (0.47%) Burp Suite
4 27 (0.46%) Metasploit
4 27 (0.46%) Snyk
5 23 (0.39%) GitLab
6 20 (0.34%) Jenkins
7 10 (0.17%) Yeoman
8 5 (0.085%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (0.085%) VersionOne
9 4 (0.068%) Apache Continuum
9 4 (0.068%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.068%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.068%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.068%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.051%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.051%) JMeter
10 3 (0.051%) LabVIEW
11 2 (0.034%) Maven
11 2 (0.034%) Xcode
General
1 2,134 (36.15%) Social Skills
2 559 (9.47%) Finance
3 444 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
4 333 (5.64%) Public Sector
5 322 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 182 (3.08%) Marketing
7 178 (3.02%) Law
8 173 (2.93%) Legal
9 170 (2.88%) Retail
10 164 (2.78%) Telecoms
11 152 (2.57%) Manufacturing
12 132 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
13 126 (2.13%) Banking
14 115 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
15 103 (1.74%) Aerospace
16 56 (0.95%) Local Government
17 54 (0.91%) Advertising
18 50 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
19 40 (0.68%) Aviation
20 31 (0.53%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,015 (17.19%) Analyst
2 817 (13.84%) Security Analyst
3 717 (12.15%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 654 (11.08%) Senior
5 558 (9.45%) Junior
6 504 (8.54%) Consultant
7 484 (8.20%) Junior Analyst
8 474 (8.03%) Junior Security Analyst
9 470 (7.96%) Ethical Hacker
10 374 (6.34%) Architect
11 367 (6.22%) Lead
12 314 (5.32%) Security Consultant
13 304 (5.15%) Security Manager
14 281 (4.76%) IT Support
15 267 (4.52%) IT Manager
16 262 (4.44%) Security Architect
17 252 (4.27%) Security Engineer
18 216 (3.66%) IT Engineer
19 210 (3.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
20 207 (3.51%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (1.29%) Terraform
2 48 (0.81%) SAML
3 46 (0.78%) LDAP
4 43 (0.73%) OAuth
5 37 (0.63%) OpenID
6 36 (0.61%) REST
7 29 (0.49%) HTML
8 24 (0.41%) React
9 23 (0.39%) .NET
10 22 (0.37%) CSS
11 19 (0.32%) JSON
12 18 (0.30%) Kafka
12 18 (0.30%) Node.js
13 15 (0.25%) RESTful
13 15 (0.25%) SailPoint
13 15 (0.25%) XML
14 14 (0.24%) FastAPI
15 12 (0.20%) AngularJS
16 11 (0.19%) Middleware
16 11 (0.19%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 564 (9.55%) Cyberattack
2 346 (5.86%) Security Posture
3 271 (4.59%) Cyber Threat
4 241 (4.08%) Onboarding
5 226 (3.83%) Management Information System
6 165 (2.80%) Driving Licence
7 159 (2.69%) Security Operations Centre
8 146 (2.47%) Operational Technology
9 136 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
10 107 (1.81%) Cyber Defence
11 100 (1.69%) Data Centre
12 96 (1.63%) Cloud Native
13 63 (1.07%) PKI
14 59 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
15 50 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
16 45 (0.76%) Cyber Security Posture
17 36 (0.61%) CSOC
18 35 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
19 33 (0.56%) Blog
19 33 (0.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 579 (9.81%) Windows
2 285 (4.83%) Windows Server
3 214 (3.63%) Linux
4 73 (1.24%) Mac OS
5 35 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (0.46%) Windows 10
6 27 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
7 26 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (0.37%) Apple iOS
9 18 (0.30%) Android
10 16 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.10%) CentOS
12 5 (0.085%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.068%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.068%) Unix
14 3 (0.051%) VMS
15 2 (0.034%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.034%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.034%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.017%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 885 (14.99%) Mentoring
2 692 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
3 654 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 547 (9.27%) Information Security
5 514 (8.71%) Incident Response
6 513 (8.69%) AI
7 507 (8.59%) Risk Management
8 486 (8.23%) Ethical Hacking
9 483 (8.18%) Security Operations
10 447 (7.57%) SIEM
11 428 (7.25%) Vulnerability Management
12 409 (6.93%) Cloud Security
13 385 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
14 383 (6.49%) Disaster Recovery
15 343 (5.81%) Decision-Making
16 308 (5.22%) Roadmaps
17 297 (5.03%) Service Delivery
18 282 (4.78%) Data Protection
19 273 (4.62%) Penetration Testing
20 271 (4.59%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 311 (5.27%) Python
2 234 (3.96%) PowerShell
3 95 (1.61%) SQL
4 72 (1.22%) C++
5 67 (1.14%) JavaScript
6 55 (0.93%) Bash
7 44 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
8 43 (0.73%) Java
9 32 (0.54%) C#
10 30 (0.51%) Rust
11 24 (0.41%) Go
12 22 (0.37%) C
12 22 (0.37%) TypeScript
13 16 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
14 12 (0.20%) MATLAB
14 12 (0.20%) Perl
15 10 (0.17%) Embedded C
16 5 (0.085%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.068%) Ada
17 4 (0.068%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 1,026 (17.38%) Azure Certification
2 669 (11.33%) Security Cleared
3 618 (10.47%) CompTIA Security+
4 545 (9.23%) CEH
5 513 (8.69%) CompTIA CySA+
6 498 (8.44%) Degree
7 463 (7.84%) CISSP
8 459 (7.78%) SC Cleared
9 296 (5.01%) CISM
10 223 (3.78%) DV Cleared
11 159 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
12 118 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 101 (1.71%) CRISC
14 88 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 87 (1.47%) CISA
16 85 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
17 84 (1.42%) AWS Certification
18 78 (1.32%) CREST Certified
19 74 (1.25%) Master's Degree
20 65 (1.10%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 650 (11.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 519 (8.79%) NIST
3 330 (5.59%) GDPR
4 314 (5.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 306 (5.18%) GRC
6 140 (2.37%) PCI DSS
7 138 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 102 (1.73%) QA
9 101 (1.71%) NCSC
10 60 (1.02%) SOC 2
11 44 (0.75%) NIST 800
11 44 (0.75%) SLA
12 39 (0.66%) Accessibility
13 37 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 35 (0.59%) COBIT
15 33 (0.56%) JSP 440
16 29 (0.49%) Data Quality
17 23 (0.39%) ISO 22301
18 22 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
18 22 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 448 (7.59%) Active Directory
2 156 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 125 (2.12%) Hyper-V
4 57 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (0.86%) Docker
6 36 (0.61%) Firmware
7 25 (0.42%) vSphere
8 14 (0.24%) IAG
8 14 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
9 13 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 11 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.085%) ClearTrust
14 4 (0.068%) Embedded Firmware
15 3 (0.051%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.051%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.034%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 242 (4.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 78 (1.32%) Kubernetes
3 55 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
4 44 (0.75%) Ansible
5 24 (0.41%) Nmap
6 23 (0.39%) FortiGate
6 23 (0.39%) Grafana
7 22 (0.37%) Nessus
7 22 (0.37%) QRadar
8 19 (0.32%) CASB
8 19 (0.32%) SCCM
9 16 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
10 13 (0.22%) Prometheus
11 9 (0.15%) Kibana
12 8 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
12 8 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
12 8 (0.14%) Functional Safety
13 7 (0.12%) Graylog
14 6 (0.10%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.085%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 2,157 (36.54%) Microsoft
2 940 (15.92%) ForeScout
3 211 (3.57%) Cisco
4 196 (3.32%) VMware
5 170 (2.88%) Palo Alto
6 115 (1.95%) Splunk
7 99 (1.68%) CrowdStrike
8 74 (1.25%) Qualys
9 69 (1.17%) Google
10 67 (1.14%) ServiceNow
11 66 (1.12%) Apple
12 65 (1.10%) Aruba
13 62 (1.05%) Fortinet
14 60 (1.02%) Tenable
15 58 (0.98%) Salesforce
16 46 (0.78%) Veeam
17 41 (0.69%) Adobe
17 41 (0.69%) SAP
18 37 (0.63%) CyberArk
18 37 (0.63%) SonicWALL