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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 38 31
Rank change year-on-year +32 -7 +21
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 8,210 2,291 4,114
As % of all permanent jobs in England 12.62% 5.84% 5.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.15% 6.23% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,368 1,427 3,220
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,375 £46,000 £44,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,200 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.68% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,313 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 50,827 36,748 64,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.13% 93.68% 87.29%
Number of salaries quoted 31,403 20,173 50,460
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%

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 March 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 March 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 +35 2,570 £35,000 -36.36% 275
North West +30 1,887 £40,000 -27.27% 140
Midlands +28 1,620 £42,500 -29.17% 164
London +23 1,448 £70,000 -6.67% 424
South East +38 1,309 £47,500 -17.63% 352
West Midlands +22 1,277 £43,750 -30.00% 78
East of England +48 686 £35,000 -26.32% 118
Yorkshire +37 572 £30,500 -41.90% 99
South West +42 520 £55,000 +15.79% 145
East Midlands +37 354 £37,500 -14.29% 86
North East +41 111 £30,500 -23.81% 39
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
1 121 (1.47%) SharePoint
2 73 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (0.17%) CMS
4 10 (0.12%) Confluence
5 6 (0.073%) Apache
5 6 (0.073%) nginx
5 6 (0.073%) WordPress
6 5 (0.061%) Drupal
7 4 (0.049%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.037%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.024%) SAS
10 1 (0.012%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.012%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 101 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (0.34%) Maya
5 24 (0.29%) Simulink
6 19 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.12%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.061%) CATIA
9 4 (0.049%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.024%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.024%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 28 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.097%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.085%) Shopify
5 4 (0.049%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.049%) Endur
5 4 (0.049%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.049%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.049%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.037%) Exchequer
6 3 (0.037%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.037%) SAP CX
6 3 (0.037%) SAP FS
6 3 (0.037%) Yoast SEO
7 2 (0.024%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.024%) SAP FSCM
7 2 (0.024%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.024%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.024%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.024%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 4,050 (49.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1,849 (22.52%) Azure
3 544 (6.63%) AWS
4 424 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
5 266 (3.24%) Entra ID
6 210 (2.56%) GitHub
7 83 (1.01%) SaaS
8 78 (0.95%) GCP
9 65 (0.79%) Power Platform
10 49 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
11 47 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
12 41 (0.50%) PaaS
13 37 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
14 35 (0.43%) Nutanix
15 33 (0.40%) Google Workspace
16 27 (0.33%) IaaS
17 26 (0.32%) AWS CloudFormation
18 25 (0.30%) Dynamics 365
19 23 (0.28%) Mimecast
20 22 (0.27%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4,225 (51.46%) Internet
2 298 (3.63%) Firewall
3 137 (1.67%) Network Security
4 123 (1.50%) VPN
5 87 (1.06%) DNS
6 76 (0.93%) DHCP
7 68 (0.83%) WAN
8 64 (0.78%) VLAN
9 62 (0.76%) LAN
10 61 (0.74%) TCP/IP
11 54 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
12 37 (0.45%) Broadband
13 34 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
13 34 (0.41%) VoIP
14 26 (0.32%) Wireless
15 22 (0.27%) CHAP
16 20 (0.24%) SD-WAN
17 15 (0.18%) DMZ
18 12 (0.15%) Unified Communications
19 11 (0.13%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (0.43%) Power BI
2 24 (0.29%) Big Data
2 24 (0.29%) Tableau
3 23 (0.28%) SQL Server
4 22 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
6 17 (0.21%) Neo4j
7 11 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (0.13%) Metadata
7 11 (0.13%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.12%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.085%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.061%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.061%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.061%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.049%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.049%) SAP BW
12 3 (0.037%) MySQL
13 2 (0.024%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.024%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 213 (2.59%) Git
2 30 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
3 29 (0.35%) JIRA
4 22 (0.27%) GitLab
5 13 (0.16%) Jenkins
6 11 (0.13%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.085%) JMeter
7 7 (0.085%) Locust
8 5 (0.061%) Apache Continuum
8 5 (0.061%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.061%) Metasploit
9 4 (0.049%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.049%) MLflow
10 1 (0.012%) Snyk
10 1 (0.012%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.012%) Yeoman
General
1 5,824 (70.94%) Social Skills
2 4,202 (51.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,165 (50.73%) Banking
4 528 (6.43%) Finance
5 380 (4.63%) Multimedia
6 334 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
7 195 (2.38%) Public Sector
8 170 (2.07%) Marketing
9 156 (1.90%) Legal
10 152 (1.85%) Law
11 127 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
12 119 (1.45%) Telecoms
13 114 (1.39%) Retail
14 89 (1.08%) Manufacturing
15 67 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
16 55 (0.67%) Games
17 54 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
18 50 (0.61%) Electronics
19 47 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
20 45 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3,142 (38.27%) Lecturer
2 878 (10.69%) Analyst
3 750 (9.14%) Security Analyst
4 701 (8.54%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 634 (7.72%) Junior
6 613 (7.47%) Junior Analyst
7 612 (7.45%) Junior Security Analyst
8 385 (4.69%) Trainee
9 357 (4.35%) Senior
10 329 (4.01%) Ethical Hacker
11 237 (2.89%) Consultant
12 218 (2.66%) Lead
13 216 (2.63%) Architect
14 203 (2.47%) IT Support
15 163 (1.99%) Developer
16 151 (1.84%) Security Manager
17 148 (1.80%) Security Consultant
18 141 (1.72%) Security Engineer
19 133 (1.62%) IT Manager
20 130 (1.58%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (2.69%) CSS
1 221 (2.69%) HTML
2 42 (0.51%) REST
3 36 (0.44%) OAuth
4 35 (0.43%) React
4 35 (0.43%) SAML
5 33 (0.40%) OpenID
6 29 (0.35%) LDAP
7 27 (0.33%) SOAP
8 26 (0.32%) GraphQL
9 24 (0.29%) SAP CAF
10 21 (0.26%) AngularJS
11 17 (0.21%) MERN Stack
12 11 (0.13%) SailPoint
13 10 (0.12%) Node.js
13 10 (0.12%) Tailwind CSS
14 9 (0.11%) Middleware
14 9 (0.11%) YAML
15 8 (0.097%) .NET
15 8 (0.097%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4,073 (49.61%) IoT
2 391 (4.76%) Cyberattack
3 197 (2.40%) Security Posture
4 180 (2.19%) Management Information System
5 116 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
6 115 (1.40%) Driving Licence
7 95 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
7 95 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 86 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
9 78 (0.95%) Security Operations Centre
10 66 (0.80%) Data Centre
11 62 (0.76%) Cloud Native
12 57 (0.69%) Cyber Defence
13 52 (0.63%) Operational Technology
14 46 (0.56%) Blog
15 45 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
16 36 (0.44%) PKI
17 35 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
18 34 (0.41%) Public Cloud
19 32 (0.39%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 369 (4.49%) Windows
2 166 (2.02%) Windows Server
3 119 (1.45%) Linux
4 67 (0.82%) Windows 10
5 50 (0.61%) Mac OS
6 33 (0.40%) Android
7 23 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.12%) Unix
10 6 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.049%) VMS
12 3 (0.037%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.024%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.012%) Debian
14 1 (0.012%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.012%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.012%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.012%) Solaris
14 1 (0.012%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,257 (51.85%) AI
2 4,062 (49.48%) Machine Learning
3 4,043 (49.24%) User Experience
4 4,038 (49.18%) Web Development
5 1,237 (15.07%) Mentoring
6 513 (6.25%) Ethical Hacking
7 434 (5.29%) Problem-Solving
8 413 (5.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 375 (4.57%) Risk Management
10 357 (4.35%) Information Security
11 348 (4.24%) Incident Response
12 258 (3.14%) Agile
13 218 (2.66%) SIEM
14 206 (2.51%) Line Management
15 198 (2.41%) ITIL
16 195 (2.38%) Cloud Security
17 187 (2.28%) Roadmaps
18 184 (2.24%) Decision-Making
19 182 (2.22%) Project Management
20 181 (2.20%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 412 (5.02%) Python
2 265 (3.23%) JavaScript
3 185 (2.25%) PowerShell
4 109 (1.33%) SQL
5 105 (1.28%) R
6 58 (0.71%) Bash
7 42 (0.51%) Java
8 31 (0.38%) C++
9 30 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 25 (0.30%) MATLAB
10 25 (0.30%) T-SQL
11 23 (0.28%) C#
12 22 (0.27%) C
13 10 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.11%) Go
15 7 (0.085%) Rust
16 6 (0.073%) PHP
17 4 (0.049%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.037%) Bicep
18 3 (0.037%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 4,439 (54.07%) Degree
2 4,073 (49.61%) Master's Degree
3 4,014 (48.89%) PhD
4 4,004 (48.77%) Postgraduate
5 1,182 (14.40%) Azure Certification
6 837 (10.19%) CompTIA Security+
7 649 (7.90%) CompTIA CySA+
8 551 (6.71%) CEH
9 343 (4.18%) CISSP
10 304 (3.70%) Security Cleared
11 272 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 256 (3.12%) AWS Certification
13 238 (2.90%) CISM
14 208 (2.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 200 (2.44%) SC Cleared
16 196 (2.39%) Network+ Certification
17 186 (2.27%) A+ Certification
18 110 (1.34%) CISA
19 104 (1.27%) DV Cleared
20 100 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 490 (5.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 455 (5.54%) NIST
3 255 (3.11%) GDPR
4 223 (2.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 182 (2.22%) GRC
6 112 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 105 (1.28%) NCSC
8 99 (1.21%) PCI DSS
9 67 (0.82%) QA
10 44 (0.54%) COBIT
11 40 (0.49%) SOC 2
12 39 (0.48%) SLA
13 35 (0.43%) NIST 800
14 29 (0.35%) Data Quality
15 28 (0.34%) Accessibility
16 21 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 20 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
18 19 (0.23%) ISO 22301
19 18 (0.22%) JSP 440
19 18 (0.22%) SOC 3
System Software
1 299 (3.64%) Active Directory
2 69 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 52 (0.63%) Docker
5 26 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.22%) vSphere
7 9 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.097%) Firmware
9 6 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.073%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.049%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.037%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.024%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.024%) GPFS
12 2 (0.024%) IAG
12 2 (0.024%) Lustre
13 1 (0.012%) iptables
13 1 (0.012%) KVM
Systems Management
1 152 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 63 (0.77%) Terraform
3 53 (0.65%) Kubernetes
4 33 (0.40%) Ansible
5 27 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (0.19%) CASB
6 16 (0.19%) Grafana
7 13 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
8 12 (0.15%) Nessus
8 12 (0.15%) SCCM
9 11 (0.13%) CSIRT
10 10 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.12%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.11%) RSA Archer
12 8 (0.097%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 7 (0.085%) FTK
13 7 (0.085%) VxRail
14 5 (0.061%) Backup Exec
14 5 (0.061%) Nmap
14 5 (0.061%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1,863 (22.69%) Microsoft
2 941 (11.46%) ForeScout
3 120 (1.46%) VMware
4 89 (1.08%) Cisco
5 71 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
6 65 (0.79%) Fortinet
7 64 (0.78%) Palo Alto
8 61 (0.74%) SAP
9 57 (0.69%) Apple
10 41 (0.50%) Google
11 37 (0.45%) Dell
11 37 (0.45%) Salesforce
12 36 (0.44%) Oracle
13 33 (0.40%) Tenable
14 32 (0.39%) Adobe
15 30 (0.37%) Siemens
16 29 (0.35%) Splunk
17 28 (0.34%) ServiceNow
18 21 (0.26%) CyberArk
19 20 (0.24%) MuleSoft