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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 35 32
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 +19
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,594 2,534 4,865
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.79% 6.44% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.30% 6.95% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,059 1,491 3,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £35,631
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -1.71% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -1.71% -10.00%

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 60,140 36,455 77,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.96% 92.71% 82.38%
Number of salaries quoted 42,197 19,854 56,054
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +15 1,336 £72,500 -0.90% 378
North of England +22 1,320 £55,000 +6.25% 351
South East +20 978 £50,000 -4.76% 343
Midlands +18 937 £55,000 +10.00% 153
North West +36 618 £55,000 - 185
South West +21 575 £60,000 +33.33% 152
Yorkshire +11 553 £47,500 +48.44% 121
West Midlands +9 506 £57,500 +3.60% 82
East Midlands +45 430 £55,000 +74.60% 71
East of England +64 415 £42,500 -10.53% 116
North East +32 149 £45,000 -30.77% 48
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
1 151 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 125 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.20%) Apache
3 11 (0.20%) CMS
4 4 (0.072%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.072%) IIS
4 4 (0.072%) SAS
4 4 (0.072%) WordPress
5 3 (0.054%) Confluence
6 2 (0.036%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.018%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 82 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.38%) Simulink
5 7 (0.13%) CATIA
5 7 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.054%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.036%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.018%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.018%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (0.43%) Cloudability
2 22 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
4 11 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.089%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.072%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.072%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.054%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.054%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.054%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.036%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.036%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.036%) Shopify
9 1 (0.018%) Maximo
9 1 (0.018%) Q-Pulse
9 1 (0.018%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.018%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,363 (42.24%) Azure
2 582 (10.40%) Microsoft 365
3 464 (8.29%) AWS
4 338 (6.04%) Entra ID
5 137 (2.45%) GCP
6 136 (2.43%) SaaS
7 76 (1.36%) GitHub
8 70 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
9 67 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
10 65 (1.16%) Power Platform
11 46 (0.82%) OneDrive
12 45 (0.80%) Serverless
13 44 (0.79%) Google Workspace
14 33 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
15 31 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
15 31 (0.55%) Mimecast
16 29 (0.52%) PaaS
17 28 (0.50%) Nutanix
18 27 (0.48%) AWS CloudFormation
18 27 (0.48%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 409 (7.31%) Firewall
2 179 (3.20%) Network Security
3 168 (3.00%) VPN
4 147 (2.63%) DNS
5 114 (2.04%) WAN
6 107 (1.91%) Internet
7 101 (1.81%) LAN
8 99 (1.77%) DHCP
9 97 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
10 79 (1.41%) VLAN
11 78 (1.39%) TCP/IP
12 48 (0.86%) VoIP
13 47 (0.84%) Broadband
14 35 (0.63%) Unified Communications
15 31 (0.55%) Wireless
16 29 (0.52%) HTTP
17 28 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
17 28 (0.50%) SSL
18 21 (0.38%) SD-WAN
19 19 (0.34%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (0.72%) Power BI
2 25 (0.45%) SQL Server
3 19 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (0.25%) Tableau
5 12 (0.21%) Neo4j
6 9 (0.16%) Big Data
7 8 (0.14%) MySQL
8 7 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.11%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.072%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.072%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.054%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.054%) GIS
11 3 (0.054%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.036%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.036%) Flink
12 2 (0.036%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.036%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 78 (1.39%) Git
2 37 (0.66%) GitLab
3 27 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
4 26 (0.46%) JIRA
5 25 (0.45%) Snyk
6 12 (0.21%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.13%) Apache Continuum
7 7 (0.13%) Burp Suite
7 7 (0.13%) Metasploit
7 7 (0.13%) Yeoman
8 6 (0.11%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.089%) JMeter
9 5 (0.089%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.089%) VersionOne
10 4 (0.072%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.072%) Locust
11 3 (0.054%) MLflow
12 2 (0.036%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.036%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.036%) Visual Studio
General
1 2,368 (42.33%) Social Skills
2 506 (9.05%) Finance
3 399 (7.13%) Analytical Skills
4 280 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 239 (4.27%) Public Sector
6 173 (3.09%) Retail
7 154 (2.75%) Marketing
8 141 (2.52%) Law
9 138 (2.47%) Multimedia
10 132 (2.36%) Legal
11 130 (2.32%) Banking
12 125 (2.23%) Telecoms
13 116 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
14 99 (1.77%) Manufacturing
15 71 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
16 62 (1.11%) Local Government
17 53 (0.95%) Aerospace
18 42 (0.75%) Advertising
18 42 (0.75%) Aviation
19 33 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,215 (21.72%) Analyst
2 1,045 (18.68%) Security Analyst
3 962 (17.20%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 791 (14.14%) Junior
5 760 (13.59%) Junior Analyst
6 755 (13.50%) Junior Security Analyst
7 705 (12.60%) Ethical Hacker
8 537 (9.60%) Senior
9 335 (5.99%) Architect
10 324 (5.79%) Consultant
11 286 (5.11%) Lead
12 265 (4.74%) Security Manager
13 247 (4.42%) Security Architect
14 237 (4.24%) IT Support
15 204 (3.65%) Security Consultant
15 204 (3.65%) Security Engineer
16 194 (3.47%) IT Manager
17 186 (3.32%) Cybersecurity Manager
18 166 (2.97%) Trainee
19 164 (2.93%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (1.43%) HTML
2 75 (1.34%) CSS
3 56 (1.00%) SAML
4 55 (0.98%) REST
5 54 (0.97%) LDAP
6 53 (0.95%) OAuth
7 49 (0.88%) OpenID
8 32 (0.57%) SOAP
9 29 (0.52%) React
10 26 (0.46%) GraphQL
11 17 (0.30%) Kafka
12 16 (0.29%) SailPoint
13 14 (0.25%) .NET
13 14 (0.25%) AngularJS
13 14 (0.25%) Middleware
14 13 (0.23%) Node.js
14 13 (0.23%) RESTful
15 12 (0.21%) FastAPI
16 11 (0.20%) JSON
17 10 (0.18%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 807 (14.43%) Cyberattack
2 291 (5.20%) Security Posture
3 190 (3.40%) Management Information System
4 177 (3.16%) Cyber Threat
5 158 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 142 (2.54%) Security Operations Centre
7 114 (2.04%) Driving Licence
8 104 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
9 97 (1.73%) Cyber Defence
10 94 (1.68%) Operational Technology
11 81 (1.45%) Data Centre
12 79 (1.41%) Cloud Native
13 56 (1.00%) PKI
14 47 (0.84%) Cyber Security Posture
15 39 (0.70%) Blog
15 39 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
16 38 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
17 34 (0.61%) Cloud Security Posture
17 34 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
18 30 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 468 (8.37%) Windows
2 228 (4.08%) Windows Server
3 163 (2.91%) Linux
4 50 (0.89%) Windows 10
5 48 (0.86%) Mac OS
6 29 (0.52%) Android
7 24 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 23 (0.41%) Apple iOS
9 20 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.11%) CentOS
11 6 (0.11%) Unix
11 6 (0.11%) VMS
12 2 (0.036%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.036%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.018%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.018%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,223 (21.86%) Mentoring
2 792 (14.16%) Ethical Hacking
3 525 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 483 (8.63%) Problem-Solving
5 477 (8.53%) Incident Response
6 436 (7.79%) Information Security
7 411 (7.35%) Risk Management
8 364 (6.51%) Security Operations
9 347 (6.20%) SIEM
10 331 (5.92%) Cloud Security
11 320 (5.72%) AI
12 294 (5.26%) Vulnerability Management
13 266 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
14 259 (4.63%) Decision-Making
15 240 (4.29%) Roadmaps
16 231 (4.13%) Agile
16 231 (4.13%) Security Architecture
17 221 (3.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 214 (3.83%) Stakeholder Management
19 213 (3.81%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 329 (5.88%) Python
2 255 (4.56%) PowerShell
3 125 (2.23%) JavaScript
4 110 (1.97%) SQL
5 82 (1.47%) Bash
6 49 (0.88%) C++
7 42 (0.75%) Java
8 33 (0.59%) R
9 27 (0.48%) C#
10 26 (0.46%) T-SQL
11 25 (0.45%) MATLAB
12 24 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
13 21 (0.38%) TypeScript
14 18 (0.32%) Go
15 17 (0.30%) Rust
16 14 (0.25%) C
17 11 (0.20%) Search Processing Language
18 10 (0.18%) Perl
19 7 (0.13%) PHP
20 4 (0.072%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,565 (27.98%) Azure Certification
2 932 (16.66%) CompTIA Security+
3 843 (15.07%) CEH
4 800 (14.30%) CompTIA CySA+
5 500 (8.94%) Security Cleared
6 421 (7.53%) Degree
7 406 (7.26%) CISSP
8 354 (6.33%) SC Cleared
9 262 (4.68%) CISM
10 168 (3.00%) DV Cleared
11 142 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
12 137 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
13 115 (2.06%) AWS Certification
14 108 (1.93%) Network+ Certification
15 102 (1.82%) CISA
16 100 (1.79%) A+ Certification
17 92 (1.64%) CREST Certified
18 79 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 76 (1.36%) CRISC
20 70 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 570 (10.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 516 (9.22%) NIST
3 312 (5.58%) GDPR
4 261 (4.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 259 (4.63%) GRC
6 143 (2.56%) PCI DSS
7 128 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 112 (2.00%) NCSC
9 106 (1.89%) QA
10 51 (0.91%) SOC 2
11 48 (0.86%) SLA
12 43 (0.77%) NIST 800
13 37 (0.66%) Accessibility
14 36 (0.64%) COBIT
15 34 (0.61%) JSP 440
16 29 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
16 29 (0.52%) Data Quality
17 27 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 17 (0.30%) HIPAA
19 14 (0.25%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 377 (6.74%) Active Directory
2 102 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 81 (1.45%) Hyper-V
4 56 (1.00%) Docker
5 43 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (0.48%) vSphere
7 12 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
8 11 (0.20%) IAG
9 9 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 9 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.13%) Firmware
10 7 (0.13%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.072%) ClearTrust
12 3 (0.054%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.054%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.018%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.018%) KVM
13 1 (0.018%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 183 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 88 (1.57%) Terraform
3 75 (1.34%) Kubernetes
4 38 (0.68%) Ansible
4 38 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 30 (0.54%) Grafana
6 19 (0.34%) SCCM
7 18 (0.32%) QRadar
8 17 (0.30%) CASB
8 17 (0.30%) Prometheus
9 13 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 10 (0.18%) CSIRT
11 9 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
11 9 (0.16%) Kibana
12 8 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (0.14%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.14%) VxRail
13 7 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 2,474 (44.23%) Microsoft
2 1,458 (26.06%) ForeScout
3 145 (2.59%) VMware
4 144 (2.57%) Cisco
5 110 (1.97%) CrowdStrike
6 107 (1.91%) Palo Alto
7 81 (1.45%) Splunk
8 65 (1.16%) Apple
9 63 (1.13%) Google
10 60 (1.07%) Fortinet
11 57 (1.02%) Tenable
12 49 (0.88%) ServiceNow
13 47 (0.84%) Salesforce
14 45 (0.80%) Adobe
15 35 (0.63%) Aruba
15 35 (0.63%) Qualys
15 35 (0.63%) SAP
16 31 (0.55%) Dell
17 28 (0.50%) Veeam
18 26 (0.46%) CyberArk