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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 34 38
Rank change year-on-year +14 +4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 6,009 2,737 3,930
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.70% 6.30% 5.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.07% 7.01% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,420 1,673 2,768
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £35,925
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.95% -6.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% -9.30%

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 66,240 39,044 63,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.89% 89.88% 81.85%
Number of salaries quoted 46,785 22,556 43,778
10th Percentile £31,175 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 26 July 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 26 July 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 1,392 £75,000 +3.45% 675
North of England +18 1,369 £50,000 - 341
South East +14 1,103 £53,000 +6.00% 361
Midlands +19 1,036 £57,500 +21.05% 185
North West +27 647 £55,000 - 180
South West +11 607 £55,000 +22.78% 184
Yorkshire +12 555 £43,000 +30.30% 128
West Midlands +11 526 £60,000 +10.92% 94
East Midlands +39 509 £55,000 +57.14% 91
East of England +63 475 £43,500 -8.42% 136
North East +28 167 £50,000 -27.94% 36
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
1 179 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
1 179 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 17 (0.28%) Apache
3 16 (0.27%) IIS
4 11 (0.18%) CMS
5 9 (0.15%) SAS
6 7 (0.12%) Confluence
7 5 (0.083%) WordPress
8 4 (0.067%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.033%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.017%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.017%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 72 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.27%) Simulink
5 5 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.067%) CATIA
6 4 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.033%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.033%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.017%) Maya
8 1 (0.017%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 24 (0.40%) Cloudability
2 15 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.100%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.100%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.083%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.083%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.067%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.050%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 3 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.050%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.050%) Q-Pulse
9 2 (0.033%) Shopify
9 2 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.017%) Infor M3
10 1 (0.017%) Maximo
10 1 (0.017%) RMDS
10 1 (0.017%) SAP EHS
10 1 (0.017%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 2,344 (39.01%) Azure
2 708 (11.78%) Microsoft 365
3 460 (7.66%) AWS
4 378 (6.29%) Entra ID
5 178 (2.96%) SaaS
6 155 (2.58%) GCP
7 79 (1.31%) Azure Sentinel
8 68 (1.13%) Power Platform
9 61 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
10 60 (1.00%) OneDrive
11 48 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
12 46 (0.77%) Serverless
13 36 (0.60%) Microsoft Copilot
14 35 (0.58%) Mimecast
15 30 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
16 29 (0.48%) GitHub
17 28 (0.47%) Google Workspace
18 27 (0.45%) PaaS
19 24 (0.40%) IaaS
20 21 (0.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 475 (7.90%) Firewall
2 218 (3.63%) Network Security
3 196 (3.26%) VPN
4 187 (3.11%) DNS
5 144 (2.40%) WAN
6 141 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
7 128 (2.13%) LAN
8 126 (2.10%) DHCP
9 118 (1.96%) TCP/IP
10 106 (1.76%) VLAN
11 85 (1.41%) Internet
12 67 (1.11%) VoIP
13 55 (0.92%) Wireless
14 43 (0.72%) Unified Communications
15 38 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
16 36 (0.60%) HTTP
17 35 (0.58%) Broadband
18 33 (0.55%) SSL
19 31 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
20 27 (0.45%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (0.72%) Power BI
2 39 (0.65%) SQL Server
3 13 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (0.20%) MongoDB
4 12 (0.20%) MySQL
4 12 (0.20%) Tableau
5 10 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (0.15%) Big Data
6 9 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.100%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.100%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.067%) GIS
8 4 (0.067%) Metadata
8 4 (0.067%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.067%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.050%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.033%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.033%) Flink
10 2 (0.033%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 38 (0.63%) Git
2 36 (0.60%) JIRA
3 33 (0.55%) GitLab
4 26 (0.43%) Snyk
5 18 (0.30%) Burp Suite
6 17 (0.28%) Metasploit
6 17 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
7 13 (0.22%) Jenkins
8 9 (0.15%) Yeoman
9 5 (0.083%) JMeter
9 5 (0.083%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.083%) VersionOne
10 4 (0.067%) Apache Continuum
10 4 (0.067%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.067%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.067%) Locust
10 4 (0.067%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.033%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.033%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.017%) GDB
General
1 2,450 (40.77%) Social Skills
2 518 (8.62%) Finance
3 408 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
4 301 (5.01%) Public Sector
5 285 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 171 (2.85%) Marketing
7 166 (2.76%) Retail
8 165 (2.75%) Law
9 159 (2.65%) Telecoms
10 156 (2.60%) Legal
11 133 (2.21%) Manufacturing
12 124 (2.06%) Banking
13 101 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
14 88 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
15 76 (1.26%) Aerospace
16 61 (1.02%) Multimedia
17 56 (0.93%) Advertising
18 54 (0.90%) Local Government
19 35 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
20 34 (0.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,223 (20.35%) Analyst
2 1,049 (17.46%) Security Analyst
3 951 (15.83%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 777 (12.93%) Junior
5 719 (11.97%) Junior Analyst
6 709 (11.80%) Junior Security Analyst
7 705 (11.73%) Ethical Hacker
8 603 (10.03%) Senior
9 450 (7.49%) Consultant
10 348 (5.79%) Architect
11 309 (5.14%) Lead
12 287 (4.78%) Security Consultant
13 269 (4.48%) IT Support
13 269 (4.48%) Security Manager
14 235 (3.91%) Security Architect
15 233 (3.88%) IT Manager
16 227 (3.78%) Security Engineer
17 194 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Consultant
18 188 (3.13%) IT Engineer
19 180 (3.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (0.92%) SAML
2 49 (0.82%) OAuth
3 47 (0.78%) LDAP
4 43 (0.72%) OpenID
5 42 (0.70%) REST
6 29 (0.48%) HTML
7 22 (0.37%) Kafka
8 21 (0.35%) CSS
8 21 (0.35%) React
9 18 (0.30%) SailPoint
10 17 (0.28%) .NET
11 16 (0.27%) JSON
11 16 (0.27%) SOAP
12 14 (0.23%) FastAPI
12 14 (0.23%) Middleware
12 14 (0.23%) RESTful
12 14 (0.23%) XML
13 13 (0.22%) Node.js
14 12 (0.20%) XMPP
15 10 (0.17%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 814 (13.55%) Cyberattack
2 330 (5.49%) Security Posture
3 230 (3.83%) Cyber Threat
4 208 (3.46%) Onboarding
5 207 (3.44%) Management Information System
6 165 (2.75%) Driving Licence
7 163 (2.71%) Security Operations Centre
8 132 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
9 109 (1.81%) Operational Technology
10 97 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
11 89 (1.48%) Cloud Native
12 71 (1.18%) Data Centre
13 58 (0.97%) PKI
14 52 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
15 41 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
16 38 (0.63%) CSOC
16 38 (0.63%) Cyber Security Posture
17 37 (0.62%) Blog
18 29 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
19 28 (0.47%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 539 (8.97%) Windows
2 264 (4.39%) Windows Server
3 193 (3.21%) Linux
4 61 (1.02%) Mac OS
5 33 (0.55%) Windows 10
6 29 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 28 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (0.40%) Android
8 24 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 23 (0.38%) Apple iOS
10 14 (0.23%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.100%) CentOS
12 5 (0.083%) VMS
13 4 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.050%) Unix
15 2 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.033%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.033%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.017%) FreeBSD
16 1 (0.017%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,146 (19.07%) Mentoring
2 764 (12.71%) Ethical Hacking
3 605 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
4 601 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 513 (8.54%) Incident Response
6 498 (8.29%) Information Security
7 471 (7.84%) Risk Management
8 445 (7.41%) Security Operations
9 430 (7.16%) SIEM
10 407 (6.77%) AI
11 395 (6.57%) Cloud Security
12 387 (6.44%) Vulnerability Management
13 326 (5.43%) Disaster Recovery
14 317 (5.28%) Decision-Making
15 281 (4.68%) Stakeholder Management
16 278 (4.63%) Roadmaps
17 259 (4.31%) Agile
18 247 (4.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 246 (4.09%) Penetration Testing
20 245 (4.08%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 298 (4.96%) Python
2 241 (4.01%) PowerShell
3 92 (1.53%) SQL
4 65 (1.08%) Bash
4 65 (1.08%) C++
5 64 (1.07%) JavaScript
6 38 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
7 37 (0.62%) Java
8 33 (0.55%) Rust
9 27 (0.45%) C#
10 21 (0.35%) Go
11 20 (0.33%) MATLAB
12 18 (0.30%) TypeScript
13 15 (0.25%) C
14 14 (0.23%) Search Processing Language
15 9 (0.15%) Perl
15 9 (0.15%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.12%) PHP
17 5 (0.083%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.067%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1,477 (24.58%) Azure Certification
2 879 (14.63%) CompTIA Security+
3 818 (13.61%) CEH
4 748 (12.45%) CompTIA CySA+
5 590 (9.82%) Security Cleared
6 460 (7.66%) Degree
7 443 (7.37%) CISSP
8 413 (6.87%) SC Cleared
9 286 (4.76%) CISM
10 190 (3.16%) DV Cleared
11 158 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
12 100 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
13 96 (1.60%) CISA
14 92 (1.53%) CRISC
15 87 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 78 (1.30%) CREST Certified
17 76 (1.26%) Network+ Certification
18 72 (1.20%) AWS Certification
18 72 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
19 69 (1.15%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 616 (10.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 519 (8.64%) NIST
3 314 (5.23%) GDPR
4 280 (4.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 273 (4.54%) GRC
6 145 (2.41%) PCI DSS
7 135 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 106 (1.76%) QA
9 97 (1.61%) NCSC
10 61 (1.02%) SOC 2
11 41 (0.68%) NIST 800
12 37 (0.62%) Accessibility
13 36 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 35 (0.58%) COBIT
14 35 (0.58%) SLA
15 33 (0.55%) JSP 440
16 26 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
17 25 (0.42%) Data Quality
18 22 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
19 20 (0.33%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 426 (7.09%) Active Directory
2 130 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 108 (1.80%) Hyper-V
4 53 (0.88%) Docker
5 50 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.40%) vSphere
7 17 (0.28%) Firmware
8 14 (0.23%) IAG
9 11 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 10 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.100%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.083%) ClearTrust
13 4 (0.067%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.050%) VMware Server
15 1 (0.017%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.017%) Embedded Firmware
15 1 (0.017%) KVM
15 1 (0.017%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 220 (3.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 86 (1.43%) Terraform
3 75 (1.25%) Kubernetes
4 44 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
5 43 (0.72%) Ansible
6 31 (0.52%) Grafana
7 19 (0.32%) QRadar
8 18 (0.30%) FortiGate
8 18 (0.30%) Prometheus
9 16 (0.27%) CASB
9 16 (0.27%) SCCM
10 14 (0.23%) Nmap
11 12 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.18%) Nessus
13 9 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
13 9 (0.15%) Kibana
14 7 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
14 7 (0.12%) vCenter Server
15 6 (0.100%) Functional Safety
15 6 (0.100%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,552 (42.47%) Microsoft
2 1,411 (23.48%) ForeScout
3 179 (2.98%) VMware
4 175 (2.91%) Cisco
5 151 (2.51%) Palo Alto
6 105 (1.75%) Splunk
7 104 (1.73%) CrowdStrike
8 67 (1.11%) Qualys
9 66 (1.10%) Google
10 62 (1.03%) Aruba
11 61 (1.02%) Fortinet
12 59 (0.98%) ServiceNow
13 57 (0.95%) Tenable
14 53 (0.88%) Apple
15 51 (0.85%) Salesforce
16 38 (0.63%) SAP
17 35 (0.58%) Veeam
18 34 (0.57%) CyberArk
19 33 (0.55%) Adobe
20 29 (0.48%) Dell