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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 33 38
Rank change year-on-year +13 +5 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,974 2,749 3,589
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.28% 6.29% 4.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.54% 7.05% 6.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,624 1,668 2,391
10th Percentile £31,000 £26,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,863 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,750
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 69,973 39,019 58,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.54% 89.23% 81.12%
Number of salaries quoted 49,427 22,481 38,080
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 £55,465
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -11.26%
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% - -8.71%

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 20 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 20 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 +13 1,472 £75,000 +5.63% 710
North of England +18 1,302 £50,000 +4.17% 410
South East +11 1,077 £55,000 +10.00% 467
Midlands +19 1,032 £55,000 +21.69% 268
North West +25 635 £57,500 +9.52% 199
South West +8 594 £55,000 +14.58% 249
West Midlands +10 518 £57,500 +11.23% 155
East Midlands +38 513 £55,000 +57.14% 112
Yorkshire +12 512 £43,500 +31.82% 161
East of England +48 478 £45,000 -5.26% 168
North East +18 155 £50,000 -26.95% 56
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
1 200 (3.35%) SharePoint
2 194 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (0.32%) IIS
4 18 (0.30%) Apache
5 9 (0.15%) CMS
5 9 (0.15%) Confluence
5 9 (0.15%) SAS
6 5 (0.084%) WordPress
7 3 (0.050%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.050%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.033%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
Applications
1 82 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.20%) Simulink
5 8 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.10%) CATIA
6 6 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.033%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.017%) Maya
9 1 (0.017%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (0.40%) Cloudability
2 12 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.084%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.084%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.067%) SystmOne
8 3 (0.050%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 3 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.050%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.050%) Infor CloudSuite
8 3 (0.050%) Infor LN
8 3 (0.050%) Infor M3
8 3 (0.050%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.050%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.033%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.033%) Eikon
9 2 (0.033%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,008 (33.61%) Azure
2 744 (12.45%) Microsoft 365
3 462 (7.73%) AWS
4 406 (6.80%) Entra ID
5 194 (3.25%) SaaS
6 148 (2.48%) GCP
7 83 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
8 79 (1.32%) Power Platform
9 68 (1.14%) OneDrive
10 67 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
11 54 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
12 45 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
12 45 (0.75%) Serverless
13 39 (0.65%) Mimecast
14 34 (0.57%) GitHub
15 27 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
16 26 (0.44%) PaaS
17 24 (0.40%) Google Workspace
18 23 (0.39%) IaaS
19 21 (0.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 490 (8.20%) Firewall
2 247 (4.13%) Network Security
3 209 (3.50%) DNS
4 198 (3.31%) VPN
5 167 (2.80%) WAN
6 146 (2.44%) LAN
7 145 (2.43%) Wi-Fi
8 138 (2.31%) DHCP
9 136 (2.28%) TCP/IP
10 111 (1.86%) VLAN
11 94 (1.57%) Internet
12 73 (1.22%) VoIP
13 67 (1.12%) Wireless
14 47 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
14 47 (0.79%) Unified Communications
15 43 (0.72%) HTTP
16 38 (0.64%) SSL
17 31 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
18 30 (0.50%) SD-WAN
19 28 (0.47%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (0.85%) Power BI
2 45 (0.75%) SQL Server
3 13 (0.22%) Big Data
3 13 (0.22%) MongoDB
4 12 (0.20%) GIS
4 12 (0.20%) 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%) Metadata
6 6 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.084%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.084%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.067%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (0.067%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.067%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.050%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 47 (0.79%) JIRA
2 44 (0.74%) Git
3 27 (0.45%) Snyk
4 26 (0.44%) Burp Suite
4 26 (0.44%) GitLab
5 25 (0.42%) Metasploit
6 17 (0.28%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
8 10 (0.17%) Yeoman
9 6 (0.10%) Apache Continuum
10 5 (0.084%) JMeter
10 5 (0.084%) VersionOne
11 4 (0.067%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.067%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.067%) Locust
11 4 (0.067%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.067%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.050%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.050%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.033%) Zephyr
General
1 2,259 (37.81%) Social Skills
2 557 (9.32%) Finance
3 439 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
4 331 (5.54%) Public Sector
5 325 (5.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 181 (3.03%) Marketing
7 177 (2.96%) Law
8 171 (2.86%) Legal
9 169 (2.83%) Retail
10 162 (2.71%) Telecoms
11 143 (2.39%) Manufacturing
12 128 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
13 127 (2.13%) Banking
14 115 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
15 101 (1.69%) Aerospace
16 58 (0.97%) Local Government
17 54 (0.90%) Advertising
18 47 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
19 33 (0.55%) Aviation
19 33 (0.55%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,056 (17.68%) Analyst
2 864 (14.46%) Security Analyst
3 765 (12.81%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 645 (10.80%) Senior
5 601 (10.06%) Junior
6 564 (9.44%) Ethical Hacker
7 531 (8.89%) Junior Analyst
8 521 (8.72%) Junior Security Analyst
9 489 (8.19%) Consultant
10 373 (6.24%) Architect
11 362 (6.06%) Lead
12 310 (5.19%) Security Consultant
13 289 (4.84%) Security Manager
14 271 (4.54%) IT Support
15 263 (4.40%) IT Manager
16 257 (4.30%) Security Architect
17 240 (4.02%) Security Engineer
18 207 (3.47%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 201 (3.36%) IT Engineer
20 200 (3.35%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (1.34%) Terraform
2 48 (0.80%) SAML
3 45 (0.75%) LDAP
4 43 (0.72%) OAuth
5 37 (0.62%) OpenID
6 36 (0.60%) REST
7 30 (0.50%) HTML
8 23 (0.39%) CSS
8 23 (0.39%) React
9 22 (0.37%) .NET
10 19 (0.32%) JSON
10 19 (0.32%) Kafka
11 18 (0.30%) Node.js
12 16 (0.27%) SailPoint
13 15 (0.25%) FastAPI
13 15 (0.25%) RESTful
13 15 (0.25%) XML
14 12 (0.20%) AngularJS
14 12 (0.20%) XMPP
15 11 (0.18%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 661 (11.06%) Cyberattack
2 343 (5.74%) Security Posture
3 266 (4.45%) Cyber Threat
4 237 (3.97%) Onboarding
5 233 (3.90%) Management Information System
6 162 (2.71%) Driving Licence
7 161 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
8 139 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
9 128 (2.14%) Operational Technology
10 106 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
11 97 (1.62%) Data Centre
12 96 (1.61%) Cloud Native
13 63 (1.05%) PKI
14 60 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
15 49 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
16 46 (0.77%) Cyber Security Posture
17 39 (0.65%) CSOC
18 35 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
19 34 (0.57%) Blog
20 31 (0.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 574 (9.61%) Windows
2 278 (4.65%) Windows Server
3 212 (3.55%) Linux
4 71 (1.19%) Mac OS
5 34 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (0.42%) Windows 10
8 23 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 21 (0.35%) Android
10 15 (0.25%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.10%) CentOS
12 4 (0.067%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.050%) Unix
13 3 (0.050%) VMS
14 2 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.033%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.033%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.017%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 935 (15.65%) Mentoring
2 681 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
3 650 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 581 (9.73%) Ethical Hacking
5 545 (9.12%) Information Security
6 515 (8.62%) Incident Response
7 503 (8.42%) Risk Management
8 501 (8.39%) AI
9 474 (7.93%) Security Operations
10 450 (7.53%) SIEM
11 423 (7.08%) Vulnerability Management
12 412 (6.90%) Cloud Security
13 373 (6.24%) Disaster Recovery
14 370 (6.19%) Stakeholder Management
15 349 (5.84%) Decision-Making
16 302 (5.06%) Roadmaps
17 294 (4.92%) Service Delivery
18 280 (4.69%) Agile
19 279 (4.67%) Data Protection
20 269 (4.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 316 (5.29%) Python
2 234 (3.92%) PowerShell
3 95 (1.59%) SQL
4 72 (1.21%) C++
5 67 (1.12%) JavaScript
6 58 (0.97%) Bash
7 45 (0.75%) Java
8 43 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
9 31 (0.52%) C#
9 31 (0.52%) Rust
10 23 (0.39%) Go
11 21 (0.35%) TypeScript
12 20 (0.33%) C
13 16 (0.27%) MATLAB
13 16 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
14 12 (0.20%) Perl
15 8 (0.13%) Embedded C
16 5 (0.084%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.067%) Ada
17 4 (0.067%) R
Qualifications
1 1,163 (19.47%) Azure Certification
2 666 (11.15%) CompTIA Security+
3 665 (11.13%) Security Cleared
4 641 (10.73%) CEH
5 558 (9.34%) CompTIA CySA+
6 497 (8.32%) Degree
7 456 (7.63%) CISSP
8 455 (7.62%) SC Cleared
9 290 (4.85%) CISM
10 220 (3.68%) DV Cleared
11 159 (2.66%) Cisco Certification
12 109 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
13 100 (1.67%) CRISC
14 88 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 86 (1.44%) CISA
16 82 (1.37%) AWS Certification
16 82 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
17 76 (1.27%) CREST Certified
18 72 (1.21%) Master's Degree
19 66 (1.10%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 631 (10.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 514 (8.60%) NIST
3 328 (5.49%) GDPR
4 305 (5.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 296 (4.95%) GRC
6 139 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 139 (2.33%) PCI DSS
7 105 (1.76%) QA
8 94 (1.57%) NCSC
9 61 (1.02%) SOC 2
10 44 (0.74%) SLA
11 43 (0.72%) Accessibility
12 42 (0.70%) NIST 800
13 37 (0.62%) COBIT
14 36 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 32 (0.54%) JSP 440
16 31 (0.52%) Data Quality
17 22 (0.37%) ISO 22301
17 22 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 21 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 443 (7.42%) Active Directory
2 152 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 117 (1.96%) Hyper-V
4 54 (0.90%) Docker
4 54 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
5 34 (0.57%) Firmware
6 27 (0.45%) vSphere
7 15 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
8 14 (0.23%) IAG
8 14 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.084%) ClearTrust
12 3 (0.050%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.050%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.050%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.033%) ProxySG
14 1 (0.017%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 234 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 81 (1.36%) Kubernetes
3 50 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
4 44 (0.74%) Ansible
5 27 (0.45%) Grafana
6 22 (0.37%) FortiGate
6 22 (0.37%) Nmap
6 22 (0.37%) QRadar
7 21 (0.35%) Nessus
8 18 (0.30%) SCCM
9 17 (0.28%) CASB
10 15 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
11 14 (0.23%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.15%) Kibana
13 8 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
14 7 (0.12%) Functional Safety
14 7 (0.12%) Graylog
15 6 (0.10%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.084%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 2,284 (38.23%) Microsoft
2 1,081 (18.10%) ForeScout
3 208 (3.48%) Cisco
4 193 (3.23%) VMware
5 166 (2.78%) Palo Alto
6 117 (1.96%) Splunk
7 102 (1.71%) CrowdStrike
8 73 (1.22%) Qualys
9 70 (1.17%) Google
10 66 (1.10%) ServiceNow
11 65 (1.09%) Apple
11 65 (1.09%) Fortinet
12 62 (1.04%) Aruba
13 60 (1.00%) Tenable
14 58 (0.97%) Salesforce
15 42 (0.70%) SAP
16 41 (0.69%) Veeam
17 39 (0.65%) Adobe
18 37 (0.62%) CyberArk
19 33 (0.55%) SonicWALL