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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 36 31
Rank change year-on-year +29 -5 +22
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 7,968 2,462 4,799
As % of all permanent jobs in England 9.57% 6.34% 5.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.95% 6.80% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,955 1,468 3,508
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,824 £35,631
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £42,699
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,670 £59,400
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% -2.91% -8.62%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,085 £59,300
% change year-on-year +3.30% -2.05% -8.77%

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 61,529 36,213 74,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.94% 93.28% 83.22%
Number of salaries quoted 40,990 19,458 55,070
10th Percentile £30,250 £29,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £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 £102,500 £93,250
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 3 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 3 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
North of England +31 2,317 £53,750 +2.87% 495
Midlands +33 1,909 £55,000 +8.48% 218
North West +45 1,503 £55,000 - 278
London +17 1,432 £71,100 -4.24% 691
West Midlands +19 1,412 £55,000 -4.35% 116
South East +26 1,140 £50,000 -9.09% 463
Yorkshire +14 663 £47,500 +53.23% 156
South West +24 585 £60,000 +33.33% 239
East of England +70 537 £40,000 -15.79% 150
East Midlands +52 508 £55,000 +61.76% 102
North East +29 151 £45,000 -30.77% 63
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
1 145 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 119 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (0.13%) Apache
3 10 (0.13%) CMS
4 5 (0.063%) SAS
5 4 (0.050%) IIS
5 4 (0.050%) WordPress
6 3 (0.038%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.025%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.025%) Confluence
8 1 (0.013%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 82 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.29%) Simulink
5 7 (0.088%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.075%) CATIA
7 4 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.025%) Maya
9 2 (0.025%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.013%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 24 (0.30%) Cloudability
1 24 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
3 11 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.063%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.050%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.050%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.038%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 3 (0.038%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.038%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.025%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.025%) Shopify
8 1 (0.013%) Maximo
8 1 (0.013%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.013%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.013%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,456 (30.82%) Azure
2 2,443 (30.66%) Cloud Computing
3 564 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
4 476 (5.97%) AWS
5 327 (4.10%) Entra ID
6 135 (1.69%) GCP
7 129 (1.62%) SaaS
8 86 (1.08%) GitHub
9 71 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
10 70 (0.88%) Power Platform
11 65 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
12 44 (0.55%) Serverless
13 42 (0.53%) OneDrive
14 39 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
14 39 (0.49%) Google Workspace
15 30 (0.38%) Mimecast
16 29 (0.36%) PaaS
17 27 (0.34%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (0.34%) IaaS
17 27 (0.34%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2,515 (31.56%) Internet
2 381 (4.78%) Firewall
3 173 (2.17%) Network Security
4 159 (2.00%) VPN
5 133 (1.67%) DNS
6 99 (1.24%) WAN
7 92 (1.15%) DHCP
8 87 (1.09%) LAN
9 82 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
10 71 (0.89%) TCP/IP
10 71 (0.89%) VLAN
11 47 (0.59%) Broadband
11 47 (0.59%) VoIP
12 35 (0.44%) Unified Communications
13 28 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
14 25 (0.31%) HTTP
15 24 (0.30%) SSL
15 24 (0.30%) Wireless
16 20 (0.25%) CHAP
17 19 (0.24%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (0.49%) Power BI
2 25 (0.31%) SQL Server
3 22 (0.28%) Big Data
4 18 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (0.19%) Tableau
6 14 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (0.15%) Neo4j
8 8 (0.10%) MySQL
9 7 (0.088%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.075%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.050%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.050%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.050%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.038%) GIS
12 3 (0.038%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.038%) Metadata
13 2 (0.025%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.025%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.025%) Impala
13 2 (0.025%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 87 (1.09%) Git
2 37 (0.46%) GitLab
3 29 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
4 25 (0.31%) Snyk
5 23 (0.29%) JIRA
6 13 (0.16%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.088%) Burp Suite
7 7 (0.088%) Metasploit
7 7 (0.088%) Yeoman
8 6 (0.075%) Apache Continuum
8 6 (0.075%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.063%) JMeter
9 5 (0.063%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.063%) VersionOne
10 4 (0.050%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.050%) Locust
10 4 (0.050%) MLflow
11 2 (0.025%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.025%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.025%) Visual Studio
General
1 4,855 (60.93%) Social Skills
2 2,703 (33.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,542 (31.90%) Banking
4 507 (6.36%) Finance
5 396 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
6 229 (2.87%) Public Sector
7 168 (2.11%) Retail
8 160 (2.01%) Multimedia
9 158 (1.98%) Marketing
10 132 (1.66%) Law
11 129 (1.62%) Legal
12 123 (1.54%) Telecoms
13 110 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
14 94 (1.18%) Manufacturing
15 73 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
16 63 (0.79%) Local Government
17 52 (0.65%) Aerospace
18 42 (0.53%) Aviation
19 39 (0.49%) Advertising
20 33 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,871 (23.48%) Lecturer
2 1,266 (15.89%) Analyst
3 1,102 (13.83%) Security Analyst
4 1,027 (12.89%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 881 (11.06%) Junior
6 850 (10.67%) Junior Analyst
7 849 (10.66%) Junior Security Analyst
8 705 (8.85%) Ethical Hacker
9 512 (6.43%) Senior
10 334 (4.19%) Architect
11 304 (3.82%) Consultant
12 272 (3.41%) Lead
13 261 (3.28%) Security Manager
14 244 (3.06%) Security Architect
15 227 (2.85%) IT Support
16 196 (2.46%) Security Engineer
17 189 (2.37%) Security Consultant
18 188 (2.36%) IT Manager
19 186 (2.33%) Trainee
20 182 (2.28%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (1.17%) HTML
2 89 (1.12%) CSS
3 53 (0.67%) REST
4 50 (0.63%) SAML
5 49 (0.61%) LDAP
5 49 (0.61%) OAuth
6 45 (0.56%) OpenID
7 32 (0.40%) React
8 30 (0.38%) SOAP
9 24 (0.30%) GraphQL
10 17 (0.21%) SailPoint
11 16 (0.20%) Kafka
12 14 (0.18%) AngularJS
13 13 (0.16%) .NET
13 13 (0.16%) Node.js
14 12 (0.15%) FastAPI
14 12 (0.15%) Middleware
15 11 (0.14%) RESTful
16 9 (0.11%) JSON
16 9 (0.11%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 2,435 (30.56%) IoT
2 807 (10.13%) Cyberattack
3 267 (3.35%) Security Posture
4 192 (2.41%) Management Information System
5 172 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
6 169 (2.12%) Onboarding
7 129 (1.62%) Security Operations Centre
8 106 (1.33%) Driving Licence
9 99 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
10 96 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
11 93 (1.17%) Operational Technology
12 82 (1.03%) Data Centre
13 75 (0.94%) Cloud Native
14 53 (0.67%) PKI
15 46 (0.58%) Cyber Security Posture
16 42 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
17 41 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
18 40 (0.50%) Blog
19 34 (0.43%) Cloud Security Posture
20 33 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 444 (5.57%) Windows
2 215 (2.70%) Windows Server
3 156 (1.96%) Linux
4 52 (0.65%) Windows 10
5 46 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 29 (0.36%) Android
7 23 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 22 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 20 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (0.13%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.075%) CentOS
12 6 (0.075%) VMS
13 5 (0.063%) Unix
14 2 (0.025%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.013%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.013%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.013%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,722 (34.16%) AI
2 2,465 (30.94%) Machine Learning
3 2,458 (30.85%) User Experience
4 2,421 (30.38%) Web Development
5 1,345 (16.88%) Mentoring
6 801 (10.05%) Ethical Hacking
7 500 (6.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 458 (5.75%) Incident Response
9 457 (5.74%) Problem-Solving
10 416 (5.22%) Information Security
11 397 (4.98%) Risk Management
12 331 (4.15%) Security Operations
13 322 (4.04%) Cloud Security
14 316 (3.97%) SIEM
15 266 (3.34%) Vulnerability Management
16 244 (3.06%) Disaster Recovery
17 235 (2.95%) Decision-Making
18 234 (2.94%) Agile
19 229 (2.87%) Security Architecture
20 228 (2.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 343 (4.30%) Python
2 251 (3.15%) PowerShell
3 142 (1.78%) JavaScript
4 111 (1.39%) SQL
5 80 (1.00%) Bash
6 47 (0.59%) C++
7 41 (0.51%) R
8 39 (0.49%) Java
9 32 (0.40%) C#
10 27 (0.34%) MATLAB
11 24 (0.30%) T-SQL
12 21 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
12 21 (0.26%) TypeScript
13 18 (0.23%) Go
14 17 (0.21%) Rust
15 13 (0.16%) C
16 10 (0.13%) Perl
17 7 (0.088%) PHP
17 7 (0.088%) Search Processing Language
18 3 (0.038%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,828 (35.49%) Degree
2 2,474 (31.05%) Master's Degree
3 2,409 (30.23%) PhD
3 2,409 (30.23%) Postgraduate
4 1,670 (20.96%) Azure Certification
5 1,023 (12.84%) CompTIA Security+
6 893 (11.21%) CompTIA CySA+
7 854 (10.72%) CEH
8 470 (5.90%) Security Cleared
9 398 (4.99%) CISSP
10 331 (4.15%) SC Cleared
11 254 (3.19%) CISM
12 153 (1.92%) DV Cleared
13 150 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 137 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
15 136 (1.71%) AWS Certification
16 118 (1.48%) Network+ Certification
17 111 (1.39%) A+ Certification
18 100 (1.26%) CISA
19 94 (1.18%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 552 (6.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 504 (6.33%) NIST
3 295 (3.70%) GDPR
4 259 (3.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 256 (3.21%) GRC
6 138 (1.73%) PCI DSS
7 123 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 109 (1.37%) NCSC
9 107 (1.34%) QA
10 50 (0.63%) SOC 2
11 47 (0.59%) SLA
12 43 (0.54%) NIST 800
13 37 (0.46%) Accessibility
14 34 (0.43%) COBIT
15 32 (0.40%) JSP 440
16 29 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
17 26 (0.33%) Data Quality
18 20 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 17 (0.21%) HIPAA
20 15 (0.19%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 362 (4.54%) Active Directory
2 91 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (0.94%) Hyper-V
4 57 (0.72%) Docker
5 43 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.31%) vSphere
7 12 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 11 (0.14%) IAG
9 9 (0.11%) Firmware
9 9 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (0.075%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.038%) ClearTrust
11 3 (0.038%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.013%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.013%) KVM
Systems Management
1 178 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 87 (1.09%) Terraform
3 75 (0.94%) Kubernetes
4 37 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
5 36 (0.45%) Ansible
6 28 (0.35%) Grafana
7 18 (0.23%) SCCM
8 17 (0.21%) QRadar
9 15 (0.19%) CASB
9 15 (0.19%) Prometheus
10 13 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 10 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (0.13%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 10 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 9 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
13 8 (0.10%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.10%) VxRail
14 7 (0.088%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.088%) Kibana
14 7 (0.088%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 2,548 (31.98%) Microsoft
2 1,552 (19.48%) ForeScout
3 132 (1.66%) VMware
4 125 (1.57%) Cisco
5 110 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
6 92 (1.15%) Palo Alto
7 76 (0.95%) Apple
8 73 (0.92%) Splunk
9 62 (0.78%) Fortinet
10 60 (0.75%) Google
11 57 (0.72%) Adobe
12 56 (0.70%) Tenable
13 47 (0.59%) ServiceNow
14 44 (0.55%) Salesforce
15 37 (0.46%) SAP
16 31 (0.39%) Dell
17 28 (0.35%) Veeam
18 26 (0.33%) CyberArk
18 26 (0.33%) Siemens
19 23 (0.29%) Aruba