Cybersecurity Jobs in England

Cybersecurity
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 31 47
Rank change year-on-year -6 +16 +33
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 3,081 4,884 5,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.37% 5.52% 5.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.77% 6.56% 6.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,794 3,624 2,749
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,920 £37,463
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% -11.54% -

All Process and 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 45,477 74,482 83,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.01% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 22,533 54,432 49,691
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,695 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in England.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 May 2025. 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 -6 785 £75,000 +3.45% 1,148
North of England -12 682 £47,683 -8.45% 437
South East -3 574 £47,683 -5.58% 598
Midlands +8 531 £47,683 -13.30% 257
North West -33 380 £54,793 +5.20% 256
West Midlands +5 338 £56,750 +3.18% 159
Yorkshire +24 285 £47,683 -4.63% 131
South West 0 242 £47,683 -20.53% 243
East Midlands +16 190 £47,683 +12.20% 87
East of England +4 173 £47,683 -8.30% 200
North East -15 17 £65,000 +52.94% 53
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 81 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 72 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 18 (0.58%) Confluence
4 17 (0.55%) IIS
5 8 (0.26%) Apache
6 6 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.16%) CMS
8 4 (0.13%) nginx
9 3 (0.097%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.097%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.097%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.097%) WordPress
10 2 (0.065%) TPMS
11 1 (0.032%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.032%) Traefik
Applications
1 71 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (1.14%) Maya
3 24 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 20 (0.65%) Simulink
5 17 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.49%) Chatbot
7 14 (0.45%) Trello
8 11 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 3 (0.097%) MS Visio
10 2 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.032%) OrCAD
11 1 (0.032%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 25 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 11 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.32%) SAP IBP
4 7 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.16%) Exchequer
6 4 (0.13%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.13%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.13%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (0.13%) SAP FSCM
7 3 (0.097%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.097%) Sage 50
7 3 (0.097%) SAP CX
7 3 (0.097%) SAP IS-U
7 3 (0.097%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.032%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.032%) Lorenzo
8 1 (0.032%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.032%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 443 (14.38%) Azure
2 353 (11.46%) Microsoft 365
3 316 (10.26%) AWS
4 95 (3.08%) Serverless
5 94 (3.05%) Entra ID
6 91 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
7 81 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
7 81 (2.63%) GCP
8 58 (1.88%) SaaS
9 48 (1.56%) PaaS
9 48 (1.56%) Power Platform
10 42 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
11 36 (1.17%) IaaS
12 32 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (1.04%) OneDrive
13 26 (0.84%) Power Automate
14 25 (0.81%) GitHub
15 18 (0.58%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 377 (12.24%) Firewall
2 134 (4.35%) Network Security
3 111 (3.60%) DNS
4 98 (3.18%) WAN
5 95 (3.08%) SSL
6 92 (2.99%) VoIP
7 88 (2.86%) TCP/IP
8 86 (2.79%) Broadband
8 86 (2.79%) VPN
9 82 (2.66%) SSH
10 77 (2.50%) DHCP
11 73 (2.37%) LAN
12 51 (1.66%) VLAN
13 44 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
14 30 (0.97%) SAN
15 29 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
16 28 (0.91%) 5G
17 24 (0.78%) SD-WAN
18 23 (0.75%) Internet
19 22 (0.71%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (1.23%) Power BI
2 37 (1.20%) SQL Server
3 28 (0.91%) MongoDB
4 22 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
5 21 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (0.52%) Data Lake
8 14 (0.45%) MySQL
9 13 (0.42%) Tableau
10 12 (0.39%) Big Data
10 12 (0.39%) NoSQL
11 11 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (0.36%) Relational Database
12 10 (0.32%) SAP BW
13 6 (0.19%) Metadata
14 5 (0.16%) Hadoop
15 3 (0.097%) Apache Ignite
15 3 (0.097%) Data Mining
15 3 (0.097%) MS Access
16 2 (0.065%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 79 (2.56%) JIRA
2 32 (1.04%) Rational DOORS
3 19 (0.62%) Git
4 18 (0.58%) Selenium
5 14 (0.45%) Jenkins
6 11 (0.36%) Burp Suite
7 10 (0.32%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.23%) GitLab
9 6 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (0.19%) IntelliJ
10 5 (0.16%) Babel
10 5 (0.16%) webpack
11 4 (0.13%) AppScan
11 4 (0.13%) Metasploit
12 3 (0.097%) gulp
12 3 (0.097%) Subversion
13 2 (0.065%) Mocha
13 2 (0.065%) rollup.js
13 2 (0.065%) Visual Studio
General
1 878 (28.50%) Social Skills
2 443 (14.38%) Presentation Skills
3 441 (14.31%) Finance
4 404 (13.11%) Law
5 401 (13.02%) Legal
6 362 (11.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 308 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
8 143 (4.64%) Banking
9 115 (3.73%) Telecoms
10 103 (3.34%) Retail
11 92 (2.99%) Marketing
12 85 (2.76%) Public Sector
13 66 (2.14%) Manufacturing
14 64 (2.08%) Games
15 59 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
16 48 (1.56%) Electronics
17 36 (1.17%) Military
18 35 (1.14%) Aerospace
19 32 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
20 28 (0.91%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 417 (13.53%) Systems Engineer
2 371 (12.04%) Analyst
3 341 (11.07%) Security Engineer
4 246 (7.98%) Senior
5 241 (7.82%) Security Analyst
6 199 (6.46%) IT Support
7 179 (5.81%) Lead
8 156 (5.06%) Principal Engineer
9 147 (4.77%) Principal Security Engineer
10 138 (4.48%) Architect
11 106 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
12 100 (3.25%) Security Manager
13 94 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
14 92 (2.99%) Consultant
15 91 (2.95%) IT Manager
16 88 (2.86%) Product Analyst
17 87 (2.82%) Principal Security Analyst
18 77 (2.50%) IT Engineer
19 67 (2.17%) Senior Security Engineer
20 64 (2.08%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (3.51%) Web Services
2 94 (3.05%) RESTful
3 48 (1.56%) Software Packaging
4 45 (1.46%) React
5 40 (1.30%) REST
6 35 (1.14%) Kafka
6 35 (1.14%) Node.js
7 27 (0.88%) Middleware
8 22 (0.71%) YAML
9 18 (0.58%) .NET
10 17 (0.55%) AngularJS
11 15 (0.49%) MERN Stack
12 14 (0.45%) HTML
13 12 (0.39%) Vue
14 11 (0.36%) CSS
14 11 (0.36%) Leaflet
15 9 (0.29%) SOAP
16 8 (0.26%) ADO
16 8 (0.26%) SAML
16 8 (0.26%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 404 (13.11%) Cyberattack
2 335 (10.87%) Management Information System
3 189 (6.13%) Cyber Threat
4 171 (5.55%) Security Posture
5 136 (4.41%) Onboarding
6 118 (3.83%) Operational Technology
7 115 (3.73%) Data Centre
8 105 (3.41%) PKI
9 54 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
10 52 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
11 45 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
12 41 (1.33%) CCTV
13 37 (1.20%) Social Media
14 34 (1.10%) Driving Licence
15 33 (1.07%) Cloud Native
16 27 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
17 26 (0.84%) Product Ownership
18 25 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
18 25 (0.81%) Life Science
19 24 (0.78%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 427 (13.86%) Windows
2 131 (4.25%) Windows Server
3 119 (3.86%) Linux
4 87 (2.82%) Windows 10
5 34 (1.10%) Mac OS
6 22 (0.71%) Android
6 22 (0.71%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.49%) Unix
8 14 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.36%) Windows Vista
10 8 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.23%) Windows 7
11 7 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.065%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.065%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.032%) Debian
15 1 (0.032%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 631 (20.48%) Agile
2 539 (17.49%) Information Security
3 524 (17.01%) Risk Management
4 488 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
5 459 (14.90%) Systems Engineering
6 406 (13.18%) SysML
7 392 (12.72%) MODAF
8 390 (12.66%) UML
9 367 (11.91%) Line Management
10 359 (11.65%) Project Management
11 321 (10.42%) Incident Response
12 317 (10.29%) Creative Thinking
13 254 (8.24%) Computer Science
14 243 (7.89%) SIEM
15 234 (7.59%) Roadmaps
16 220 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
17 216 (7.01%) Continuous Improvement
18 211 (6.85%) Mentoring
19 205 (6.65%) DevOps
20 203 (6.59%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 410 (13.31%) MATLAB
2 252 (8.18%) Python
3 169 (5.49%) PowerShell
4 90 (2.92%) SQL
5 51 (1.66%) TypeScript
6 42 (1.36%) JavaScript
7 39 (1.27%) Java
8 33 (1.07%) Bash
9 29 (0.94%) C#
10 21 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
11 18 (0.58%) Perl
12 17 (0.55%) C++
13 13 (0.42%) PHP
14 11 (0.36%) C
15 8 (0.26%) R
16 6 (0.19%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.19%) Ruby
17 5 (0.16%) Go
18 3 (0.097%) Rust
18 3 (0.097%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,150 (37.33%) Degree
2 632 (20.51%) BPSS Clearance
3 472 (15.32%) CISSP
4 356 (11.55%) CISM
5 216 (7.01%) Security Cleared
6 158 (5.13%) CESG Certified Professional
7 119 (3.86%) SC Cleared
8 109 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 77 (2.50%) CEH
10 71 (2.30%) Master's Degree
11 69 (2.24%) CompTIA Security+
12 68 (2.21%) PMI Certification
13 58 (1.88%) CRISC
13 58 (1.88%) PMP
14 57 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
14 57 (1.85%) DV Cleared
15 54 (1.75%) GCIH
16 52 (1.69%) CISA
17 45 (1.46%) OSCP
18 42 (1.36%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 571 (18.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 526 (17.07%) NIST
3 382 (12.40%) NCSC
4 173 (5.62%) GDPR
5 160 (5.19%) JSP 440
6 148 (4.80%) RMADS
7 145 (4.71%) Cyber Essentials
8 71 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 66 (2.14%) PCI DSS
10 63 (2.04%) GRC
11 51 (1.66%) QA
12 38 (1.23%) SLA
13 26 (0.84%) NIST 800
14 25 (0.81%) HIPAA
15 24 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 23 (0.75%) Accessibility
16 23 (0.75%) GxP
17 17 (0.55%) COBIT
17 17 (0.55%) SOC 2
18 15 (0.49%) Def Stans
System Software
1 357 (11.59%) Active Directory
2 68 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (1.88%) Virtual Servers
4 47 (1.53%) Hyper-V
5 45 (1.46%) Docker
6 42 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.23%) Firmware
7 7 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.19%) vSphere
9 5 (0.16%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.065%) Postfix
12 1 (0.032%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.032%) HDFS
12 1 (0.032%) pfSense
12 1 (0.032%) Snort
12 1 (0.032%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.032%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.032%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 109 (3.54%) Terraform
2 94 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 54 (1.75%) Kubernetes
4 36 (1.17%) Ansible
5 30 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (0.81%) QRadar
7 24 (0.78%) SCCM
8 15 (0.49%) Nessus
9 14 (0.45%) FortiGate
10 11 (0.36%) CSIRT
11 10 (0.32%) CASB
11 10 (0.32%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.32%) Puppet
12 9 (0.29%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.23%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.19%) ArcSight ESM
14 6 (0.19%) SCOM
15 5 (0.16%) Functional Safety
15 5 (0.16%) PaperCut
15 5 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 617 (20.03%) Microsoft
2 115 (3.73%) VMware
3 99 (3.21%) Cisco
4 84 (2.73%) Thales
5 50 (1.62%) Google
6 48 (1.56%) Splunk
7 44 (1.43%) SAP
7 44 (1.43%) Tenable
8 38 (1.23%) Fortinet
9 27 (0.88%) CrowdStrike
9 27 (0.88%) Salesforce
10 26 (0.84%) Qualys
11 24 (0.78%) Oracle
11 24 (0.78%) Siemens
12 22 (0.71%) IBM
13 21 (0.68%) Adobe
14 20 (0.65%) Sophos
15 19 (0.62%) Palo Alto
15 19 (0.62%) ServiceNow
16 18 (0.58%) Ping Identity