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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 35 32
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 +19
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,612 2,542 4,875
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.80% 6.45% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.32% 6.95% 6.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,079 1,503 3,512
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £35,631
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,900
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.38% -9.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,350 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -1.71% -10.00%

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 60,235 36,560 77,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.97% 92.70% 82.34%
Number of salaries quoted 42,304 19,913 56,146
10th Percentile £30,625 £29,000 £29,266
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £100,000 £92,500
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 13 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 13 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
London +15 1,341 £72,500 -0.90% 513
North of England +22 1,319 £55,000 +6.25% 393
South East +20 988 £50,625 -1.22% 369
Midlands +20 941 £55,000 +8.48% 174
North West +33 618 £55,000 - 212
South West +21 570 £60,000 +33.33% 172
Yorkshire +10 552 £47,500 +48.44% 131
West Midlands +7 506 £60,000 +6.19% 102
East Midlands +47 434 £55,000 +74.60% 72
East of England +67 420 £43,000 -9.47% 135
North East +34 149 £45,750 -29.62% 53
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
1 151 (2.69%) SharePoint
2 126 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.20%) Apache
3 11 (0.20%) CMS
4 5 (0.089%) IIS
4 5 (0.089%) WordPress
5 4 (0.071%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.071%) SAS
6 3 (0.053%) Confluence
7 2 (0.036%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.018%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 77 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.37%) Simulink
5 7 (0.12%) CATIA
5 7 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.071%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.036%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.018%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.018%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (0.43%) Cloudability
2 22 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
4 11 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.089%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.071%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.071%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.053%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.053%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.036%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.036%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.036%) Shopify
9 1 (0.018%) Maximo
9 1 (0.018%) Q-Pulse
9 1 (0.018%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.018%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,369 (42.21%) Azure
2 577 (10.28%) Microsoft 365
3 466 (8.30%) AWS
4 340 (6.06%) Entra ID
5 139 (2.48%) GCP
6 138 (2.46%) SaaS
7 72 (1.28%) GitHub
8 71 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
9 68 (1.21%) Azure Sentinel
10 65 (1.16%) Power Platform
11 46 (0.82%) OneDrive
12 45 (0.80%) Serverless
13 43 (0.77%) Google Workspace
14 33 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
15 31 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
15 31 (0.55%) Mimecast
16 30 (0.53%) PaaS
17 28 (0.50%) IaaS
17 28 (0.50%) Nutanix
18 27 (0.48%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 413 (7.36%) Firewall
2 183 (3.26%) Network Security
3 171 (3.05%) VPN
4 154 (2.74%) DNS
5 115 (2.05%) WAN
6 104 (1.85%) Internet
7 103 (1.84%) DHCP
8 101 (1.80%) LAN
9 98 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
10 82 (1.46%) VLAN
11 81 (1.44%) TCP/IP
12 48 (0.86%) VoIP
13 47 (0.84%) Broadband
14 35 (0.62%) Unified Communications
15 30 (0.53%) HTTP
15 30 (0.53%) Wireless
16 29 (0.52%) SSL
17 28 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
18 22 (0.39%) SD-WAN
19 19 (0.34%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (0.71%) Power BI
2 23 (0.41%) SQL Server
3 19 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (0.23%) Tableau
6 12 (0.21%) Neo4j
7 9 (0.16%) Big Data
8 8 (0.14%) MySQL
9 7 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.11%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.089%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.071%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.053%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.053%) GIS
13 3 (0.053%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.036%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.036%) Flink
14 2 (0.036%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.036%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 75 (1.34%) Git
2 37 (0.66%) GitLab
3 27 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
4 26 (0.46%) JIRA
5 25 (0.45%) Snyk
6 12 (0.21%) Jenkins
7 8 (0.14%) Metasploit
8 7 (0.12%) Apache Continuum
8 7 (0.12%) Burp Suite
8 7 (0.12%) Yeoman
9 6 (0.11%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.089%) JMeter
10 5 (0.089%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.089%) VersionOne
11 4 (0.071%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.071%) Locust
12 3 (0.053%) MLflow
13 2 (0.036%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.036%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.036%) Visual Studio
General
1 2,371 (42.25%) Social Skills
2 512 (9.12%) Finance
3 401 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
4 281 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 242 (4.31%) Public Sector
6 175 (3.12%) Retail
7 156 (2.78%) Marketing
8 142 (2.53%) Law
9 133 (2.37%) Multimedia
10 132 (2.35%) Legal
11 131 (2.33%) Banking
12 125 (2.23%) Telecoms
13 116 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
14 99 (1.76%) Manufacturing
15 72 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
16 62 (1.10%) Local Government
17 53 (0.94%) Aerospace
18 42 (0.75%) Advertising
18 42 (0.75%) Aviation
19 32 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,222 (21.77%) Analyst
2 1,048 (18.67%) Security Analyst
3 965 (17.20%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 794 (14.15%) Junior
5 763 (13.60%) Junior Analyst
6 755 (13.45%) Junior Security Analyst
7 705 (12.56%) Ethical Hacker
8 542 (9.66%) Senior
9 337 (6.00%) Architect
10 329 (5.86%) Consultant
11 290 (5.17%) Lead
12 266 (4.74%) Security Manager
13 249 (4.44%) Security Architect
14 235 (4.19%) IT Support
15 208 (3.71%) Security Consultant
16 203 (3.62%) Security Engineer
17 197 (3.51%) IT Manager
18 186 (3.31%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 162 (2.89%) IT Engineer
20 161 (2.87%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (1.35%) HTML
2 71 (1.27%) CSS
3 58 (1.03%) SAML
4 56 (1.00%) REST
5 55 (0.98%) LDAP
6 54 (0.96%) OAuth
7 50 (0.89%) OpenID
8 32 (0.57%) SOAP
9 29 (0.52%) React
10 26 (0.46%) GraphQL
11 17 (0.30%) Kafka
12 15 (0.27%) SailPoint
13 14 (0.25%) .NET
13 14 (0.25%) AngularJS
13 14 (0.25%) Middleware
14 13 (0.23%) Node.js
15 12 (0.21%) FastAPI
15 12 (0.21%) JSON
15 12 (0.21%) RESTful
16 11 (0.20%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 808 (14.40%) Cyberattack
2 295 (5.26%) Security Posture
3 190 (3.39%) Management Information System
4 177 (3.15%) Cyber Threat
5 159 (2.83%) Onboarding
6 144 (2.57%) Security Operations Centre
7 115 (2.05%) Driving Licence
8 107 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
9 97 (1.73%) Cyber Defence
10 94 (1.67%) Operational Technology
11 81 (1.44%) Cloud Native
11 81 (1.44%) Data Centre
12 57 (1.02%) PKI
13 47 (0.84%) Cyber Security Posture
14 40 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
15 39 (0.69%) Blog
15 39 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
16 34 (0.61%) Cloud Security Posture
16 34 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
17 30 (0.53%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 463 (8.25%) Windows
2 229 (4.08%) Windows Server
3 164 (2.92%) Linux
4 47 (0.84%) Mac OS
5 43 (0.77%) Windows 10
6 27 (0.48%) Android
7 24 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 21 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (0.18%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.11%) CentOS
11 6 (0.11%) Unix
11 6 (0.11%) VMS
12 2 (0.036%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.036%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.018%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.018%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,221 (21.76%) Mentoring
2 792 (14.11%) Ethical Hacking
3 522 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 489 (8.71%) Problem-Solving
5 482 (8.59%) Incident Response
6 439 (7.82%) Information Security
7 420 (7.48%) Risk Management
8 369 (6.58%) Security Operations
9 351 (6.25%) SIEM
10 337 (6.00%) Cloud Security
11 324 (5.77%) AI
12 298 (5.31%) Vulnerability Management
13 267 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
14 266 (4.74%) Decision-Making
15 241 (4.29%) Roadmaps
16 234 (4.17%) Agile
17 231 (4.12%) Security Architecture
18 222 (3.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 220 (3.92%) Stakeholder Management
20 217 (3.87%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 326 (5.81%) Python
2 256 (4.56%) PowerShell
3 122 (2.17%) JavaScript
4 108 (1.92%) SQL
5 83 (1.48%) Bash
6 48 (0.86%) C++
7 42 (0.75%) Java
8 29 (0.52%) R
9 27 (0.48%) C#
10 26 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
10 26 (0.46%) T-SQL
11 25 (0.45%) MATLAB
12 22 (0.39%) TypeScript
13 18 (0.32%) Go
14 17 (0.30%) Rust
15 14 (0.25%) C
16 11 (0.20%) Search Processing Language
17 10 (0.18%) Perl
18 7 (0.12%) PHP
19 5 (0.089%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,561 (27.82%) Azure Certification
2 930 (16.57%) CompTIA Security+
3 843 (15.02%) CEH
4 801 (14.27%) CompTIA CySA+
5 502 (8.95%) Security Cleared
6 415 (7.39%) Degree
7 409 (7.29%) CISSP
8 354 (6.31%) SC Cleared
9 264 (4.70%) CISM
10 170 (3.03%) DV Cleared
11 145 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
12 133 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 111 (1.98%) AWS Certification
14 107 (1.91%) Network+ Certification
15 101 (1.80%) CISA
16 99 (1.76%) A+ Certification
17 90 (1.60%) CREST Certified
18 81 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 78 (1.39%) CRISC
20 69 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 575 (10.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 518 (9.23%) NIST
3 317 (5.65%) GDPR
4 262 (4.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 260 (4.63%) GRC
6 145 (2.58%) PCI DSS
7 129 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 114 (2.03%) NCSC
9 106 (1.89%) QA
10 51 (0.91%) SOC 2
11 43 (0.77%) NIST 800
12 41 (0.73%) SLA
13 37 (0.66%) Accessibility
14 36 (0.64%) COBIT
15 34 (0.61%) JSP 440
16 29 (0.52%) Data Quality
17 28 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
18 27 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 17 (0.30%) HIPAA
20 15 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 378 (6.74%) Active Directory
2 104 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 84 (1.50%) Hyper-V
4 57 (1.02%) Docker
5 45 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (0.50%) vSphere
7 12 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
8 11 (0.20%) IAG
9 10 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 7 (0.12%) Firmware
11 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.071%) ClearTrust
13 3 (0.053%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 3 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.018%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.018%) KVM
14 1 (0.018%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 183 (3.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 88 (1.57%) Terraform
3 76 (1.35%) Kubernetes
4 38 (0.68%) Ansible
4 38 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 30 (0.53%) Grafana
6 19 (0.34%) SCCM
7 18 (0.32%) CASB
7 18 (0.32%) QRadar
8 17 (0.30%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.25%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 10 (0.18%) CSIRT
11 9 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
11 9 (0.16%) Kibana
12 8 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (0.14%) vCenter Server
12 8 (0.14%) VxRail
13 7 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 2,480 (44.19%) Microsoft
2 1,458 (25.98%) ForeScout
3 149 (2.66%) VMware
4 138 (2.46%) Cisco
5 111 (1.98%) CrowdStrike
6 109 (1.94%) Palo Alto
7 81 (1.44%) Splunk
8 65 (1.16%) Apple
9 62 (1.10%) Fortinet
9 62 (1.10%) Google
10 57 (1.02%) Tenable
11 49 (0.87%) ServiceNow
12 48 (0.86%) Salesforce
13 45 (0.80%) Adobe
14 36 (0.64%) Aruba
15 35 (0.62%) SAP
16 34 (0.61%) Qualys
17 31 (0.55%) Dell
18 28 (0.50%) Veeam
19 25 (0.45%) CyberArk