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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 38 31
Rank change year-on-year +32 -7 +20
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 8,160 2,295 4,110
As % of all permanent jobs in England 12.65% 5.83% 5.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.20% 6.22% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,327 1,426 3,216
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,375 £46,000 £44,831
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £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 50,376 36,888 64,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.07% 93.67% 87.35%
Number of salaries quoted 31,062 20,202 50,479
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,068
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 11 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 11 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 2,564 £35,000 -36.36% 274
North West +28 1,883 £42,500 -22.73% 139
Midlands +30 1,612 £42,500 -29.17% 169
London +23 1,433 £70,000 -6.67% 421
South East +40 1,301 £47,500 -18.80% 352
West Midlands +21 1,271 £45,000 -28.00% 80
East of England +46 679 £35,000 -26.46% 128
Yorkshire +37 571 £30,500 -41.90% 98
South West +42 513 £56,250 +18.42% 138
East Midlands +43 352 £37,500 -14.29% 89
North East +42 110 £30,500 -23.81% 40
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
1 119 (1.46%) SharePoint
2 73 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.16%) CMS
4 11 (0.13%) Confluence
5 6 (0.074%) Apache
5 6 (0.074%) nginx
5 6 (0.074%) WordPress
6 5 (0.061%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.061%) Drupal
7 3 (0.037%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.025%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.025%) SAS
9 1 (0.012%) FileNet
9 1 (0.012%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 101 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (0.48%) 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 (0.025%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.025%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.012%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 28 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.098%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.074%) 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 (0.025%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.025%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.025%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.025%) SAP FSCM
7 2 (0.025%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.025%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 4,049 (49.62%) Cloud Computing
2 1,837 (22.51%) Azure
3 535 (6.56%) AWS
4 417 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
5 264 (3.24%) Entra ID
6 204 (2.50%) GitHub
7 79 (0.97%) GCP
8 78 (0.96%) SaaS
9 64 (0.78%) Power Platform
10 49 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
11 47 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
12 42 (0.51%) PaaS
13 36 (0.44%) Azure DevOps
14 33 (0.40%) Google Workspace
14 33 (0.40%) Nutanix
15 28 (0.34%) IaaS
16 26 (0.32%) AWS CloudFormation
17 25 (0.31%) Dynamics 365
18 23 (0.28%) Mimecast
19 22 (0.27%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4,217 (51.68%) Internet
2 294 (3.60%) Firewall
3 131 (1.61%) Network Security
4 122 (1.50%) VPN
5 88 (1.08%) DNS
6 76 (0.93%) DHCP
7 68 (0.83%) WAN
8 65 (0.80%) VLAN
9 63 (0.77%) LAN
10 62 (0.76%) TCP/IP
11 51 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
12 37 (0.45%) Broadband
13 34 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
13 34 (0.42%) VoIP
14 25 (0.31%) Wireless
15 22 (0.27%) CHAP
16 19 (0.23%) SD-WAN
17 15 (0.18%) DMZ
18 12 (0.15%) Cisco ASA
18 12 (0.15%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (0.43%) Power BI
2 24 (0.29%) Big Data
2 24 (0.29%) SQL Server
2 24 (0.29%) Tableau
3 22 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
5 17 (0.21%) Neo4j
6 12 (0.15%) Metadata
6 12 (0.15%) Relational Database
7 11 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.12%) Data Lake
9 8 (0.098%) 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 (0.025%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.025%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 207 (2.54%) Git
2 30 (0.37%) JIRA
2 30 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
3 21 (0.26%) GitLab
4 12 (0.15%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.13%) Cucumber
6 7 (0.086%) JMeter
6 7 (0.086%) Locust
7 5 (0.061%) Apache Continuum
7 5 (0.061%) Burp Suite
7 5 (0.061%) Metasploit
8 4 (0.049%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.049%) MLflow
9 1 (0.012%) Snyk
9 1 (0.012%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.012%) Yeoman
General
1 5,814 (71.25%) Social Skills
2 4,200 (51.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,165 (51.04%) Banking
4 521 (6.38%) Finance
5 367 (4.50%) Multimedia
6 335 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
7 191 (2.34%) Public Sector
8 163 (2.00%) Marketing
9 155 (1.90%) Legal
10 147 (1.80%) Law
11 125 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 118 (1.45%) Telecoms
13 112 (1.37%) Retail
14 89 (1.09%) Manufacturing
15 66 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
16 54 (0.66%) Games
17 51 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
18 50 (0.61%) Electronics
19 45 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
20 44 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3,140 (38.48%) Lecturer
2 875 (10.72%) Analyst
3 746 (9.14%) Security Analyst
4 699 (8.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 633 (7.76%) Junior
6 613 (7.51%) Junior Analyst
7 612 (7.50%) Junior Security Analyst
8 372 (4.56%) Trainee
9 355 (4.35%) Senior
10 329 (4.03%) Ethical Hacker
11 235 (2.88%) Consultant
12 217 (2.66%) Lead
13 215 (2.63%) Architect
14 203 (2.49%) IT Support
15 158 (1.94%) Developer
16 149 (1.83%) Security Manager
17 147 (1.80%) Security Consultant
18 141 (1.73%) Security Engineer
19 129 (1.58%) Support Engineer
20 126 (1.54%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (2.61%) CSS
1 213 (2.61%) HTML
2 42 (0.51%) REST
3 37 (0.45%) OAuth
4 36 (0.44%) SAML
5 34 (0.42%) OpenID
6 33 (0.40%) React
7 29 (0.36%) LDAP
8 27 (0.33%) SOAP
9 26 (0.32%) GraphQL
10 24 (0.29%) SAP CAF
11 21 (0.26%) AngularJS
12 17 (0.21%) MERN Stack
13 11 (0.13%) SailPoint
14 10 (0.12%) Node.js
15 9 (0.11%) .NET
15 9 (0.11%) Middleware
15 9 (0.11%) PyTorch
15 9 (0.11%) TensorFlow
15 9 (0.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4,072 (49.90%) IoT
2 390 (4.78%) Cyberattack
3 195 (2.39%) Security Posture
4 177 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 116 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
6 113 (1.38%) Driving Licence
7 97 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
8 91 (1.12%) Onboarding
9 84 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
10 77 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
11 66 (0.81%) Data Centre
12 61 (0.75%) Cloud Native
13 56 (0.69%) Cyber Defence
14 53 (0.65%) Operational Technology
15 44 (0.54%) Blog
15 44 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
16 35 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
16 35 (0.43%) PKI
17 34 (0.42%) Public Cloud
18 32 (0.39%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 365 (4.47%) Windows
2 166 (2.03%) Windows Server
3 116 (1.42%) Linux
4 67 (0.82%) Windows 10
5 50 (0.61%) Mac OS
6 33 (0.40%) Android
7 24 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.12%) Unix
10 6 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.049%) VMS
12 3 (0.037%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.025%) 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 4,256 (52.16%) AI
2 4,064 (49.80%) Machine Learning
3 4,040 (49.51%) User Experience
4 4,036 (49.46%) Web Development
5 1,222 (14.98%) Mentoring
6 508 (6.23%) Ethical Hacking
7 433 (5.31%) Problem-Solving
8 405 (4.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 368 (4.51%) Risk Management
10 353 (4.33%) Information Security
11 344 (4.22%) Incident Response
12 258 (3.16%) Agile
13 216 (2.65%) SIEM
14 199 (2.44%) Line Management
15 194 (2.38%) ITIL
16 192 (2.35%) Cloud Security
17 185 (2.27%) Roadmaps
18 182 (2.23%) Project Management
19 180 (2.21%) Data Protection
19 180 (2.21%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 404 (4.95%) Python
2 257 (3.15%) JavaScript
3 182 (2.23%) PowerShell
4 110 (1.35%) SQL
5 102 (1.25%) R
6 58 (0.71%) Bash
7 42 (0.51%) Java
8 31 (0.38%) C++
9 30 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 25 (0.31%) MATLAB
10 25 (0.31%) T-SQL
11 24 (0.29%) C#
12 22 (0.27%) C
13 10 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.11%) Go
15 7 (0.086%) Rust
16 6 (0.074%) PHP
17 4 (0.049%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.037%) Bicep
18 3 (0.037%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 4,437 (54.38%) Degree
2 4,073 (49.91%) Master's Degree
3 4,014 (49.19%) PhD
4 4,004 (49.07%) Postgraduate
5 1,173 (14.38%) Azure Certification
6 832 (10.20%) CompTIA Security+
7 649 (7.95%) CompTIA CySA+
8 546 (6.69%) CEH
9 343 (4.20%) CISSP
10 303 (3.71%) Security Cleared
11 264 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 248 (3.04%) AWS Certification
13 238 (2.92%) CISM
14 200 (2.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 200 (2.45%) SC Cleared
15 192 (2.35%) Network+ Certification
16 182 (2.23%) A+ Certification
17 109 (1.34%) CISA
18 102 (1.25%) DV Cleared
19 100 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 484 (5.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 450 (5.51%) NIST
3 252 (3.09%) GDPR
4 217 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 177 (2.17%) GRC
6 109 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 105 (1.29%) NCSC
8 96 (1.18%) PCI DSS
9 65 (0.80%) QA
10 43 (0.53%) COBIT
11 40 (0.49%) SLA
12 39 (0.48%) SOC 2
13 35 (0.43%) NIST 800
14 29 (0.36%) Data Quality
15 28 (0.34%) Accessibility
16 20 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 19 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
18 18 (0.22%) ISO 22301
18 18 (0.22%) SOC 3
19 17 (0.21%) JSP 440
System Software
1 294 (3.60%) Active Directory
2 69 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (0.74%) Hyper-V
4 53 (0.65%) Docker
5 26 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.21%) vSphere
7 9 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.098%) Firmware
9 6 (0.074%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.074%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.049%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.037%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.025%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.025%) GPFS
12 2 (0.025%) IAG
12 2 (0.025%) Lustre
13 1 (0.012%) iptables
13 1 (0.012%) KVM
Systems Management
1 151 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 63 (0.77%) Terraform
3 52 (0.64%) Kubernetes
4 32 (0.39%) Ansible
5 27 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (0.20%) CASB
6 16 (0.20%) 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 (0.098%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 7 (0.086%) FTK
14 6 (0.074%) VxRail
15 5 (0.061%) Backup Exec
15 5 (0.061%) Nmap
15 5 (0.061%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1,846 (22.62%) Microsoft
2 941 (11.53%) ForeScout
3 118 (1.45%) VMware
4 89 (1.09%) Cisco
5 73 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
6 66 (0.81%) Fortinet
6 66 (0.81%) Palo Alto
7 60 (0.74%) SAP
8 55 (0.67%) Apple
9 40 (0.49%) Google
10 37 (0.45%) Oracle
11 36 (0.44%) Dell
11 36 (0.44%) Salesforce
12 33 (0.40%) Adobe
12 33 (0.40%) Tenable
13 30 (0.37%) Siemens
14 28 (0.34%) Splunk
15 27 (0.33%) ServiceNow
16 21 (0.26%) CyberArk
17 20 (0.25%) MuleSoft