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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 35 32
Rank change year-on-year +19 -3 +19
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,790 2,570 4,810
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.85% 6.39% 5.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.32% 6.92% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,225 1,545 3,447
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,424 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -1.71% -8.59%
75th Percentile £79,250 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -10.42%

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 62,143 37,121 76,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.57% 92.27% 82.24%
Number of salaries quoted 43,798 20,470 55,428
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,822 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 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 26 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 1,365 £74,600 +2.90% 472
North of England +22 1,359 £53,750 +3.84% 326
South East +16 1,039 £50,000 -1.48% 366
Midlands +23 976 £55,000 +10.55% 176
North West +33 639 £55,000 - 180
South West +19 578 £60,000 +33.33% 159
Yorkshire +14 561 £50,000 +51.52% 96
West Midlands +14 520 £60,000 +9.09% 88
East Midlands +42 455 £55,000 +61.76% 88
East of England +65 440 £44,250 -6.84% 142
North East +31 159 £47,500 -26.92% 54
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
1 170 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 147 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (0.21%) Apache
4 11 (0.19%) CMS
5 7 (0.12%) IIS
6 5 (0.086%) Confluence
6 5 (0.086%) SAS
6 5 (0.086%) WordPress
7 4 (0.069%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.035%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.017%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 71 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.36%) Simulink
5 7 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.10%) CATIA
7 5 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.035%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.017%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (0.41%) Cloudability
2 20 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 10 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.086%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.069%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.069%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.052%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.052%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.052%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.052%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.035%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.035%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 2 (0.035%) Q-Pulse
8 2 (0.035%) Shopify
9 1 (0.017%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.017%) Maximo
9 1 (0.017%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.017%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,377 (41.05%) Azure
2 637 (11.00%) Microsoft 365
3 443 (7.65%) AWS
4 367 (6.34%) Entra ID
5 156 (2.69%) SaaS
6 144 (2.49%) GCP
7 73 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 71 (1.23%) Power Platform
9 69 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
10 55 (0.95%) GitHub
10 55 (0.95%) OneDrive
11 46 (0.79%) Serverless
12 38 (0.66%) Google Workspace
13 37 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
14 33 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
15 30 (0.52%) Mimecast
16 28 (0.48%) Microsoft Copilot
17 27 (0.47%) PaaS
18 25 (0.43%) IaaS
18 25 (0.43%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 454 (7.84%) Firewall
2 204 (3.52%) Network Security
3 179 (3.09%) VPN
4 169 (2.92%) DNS
5 131 (2.26%) WAN
6 119 (2.06%) LAN
7 116 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
8 112 (1.93%) DHCP
9 99 (1.71%) VLAN
10 98 (1.69%) Internet
11 95 (1.64%) TCP/IP
12 57 (0.98%) VoIP
13 46 (0.79%) Broadband
14 41 (0.71%) Unified Communications
14 41 (0.71%) Wireless
15 33 (0.57%) HTTP
16 30 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
17 29 (0.50%) SSL
18 28 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
19 20 (0.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (0.74%) Power BI
2 30 (0.52%) SQL Server
3 15 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (0.21%) Tableau
5 10 (0.17%) MySQL
5 10 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (0.14%) Big Data
7 8 (0.14%) Neo4j
8 7 (0.12%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.086%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.086%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.052%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.052%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.052%) GIS
10 3 (0.052%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.035%) Flink
11 2 (0.035%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.035%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 60 (1.04%) Git
2 35 (0.60%) GitLab
3 29 (0.50%) JIRA
4 25 (0.43%) Snyk
5 24 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
6 12 (0.21%) Burp Suite
6 12 (0.21%) Jenkins
6 12 (0.21%) Metasploit
7 8 (0.14%) Yeoman
8 6 (0.10%) Apache Continuum
9 5 (0.086%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.086%) JMeter
9 5 (0.086%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.086%) VersionOne
10 4 (0.069%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.069%) Locust
11 2 (0.035%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.035%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.035%) MLflow
11 2 (0.035%) Visual Studio
General
1 2,420 (41.80%) Social Skills
2 516 (8.91%) Finance
3 412 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
4 273 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 256 (4.42%) Public Sector
6 173 (2.99%) Retail
7 166 (2.87%) Marketing
8 147 (2.54%) Law
9 140 (2.42%) Legal
10 133 (2.30%) Telecoms
11 132 (2.28%) Banking
12 119 (2.06%) Manufacturing
13 113 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
14 106 (1.83%) Multimedia
15 75 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
16 60 (1.04%) Local Government
17 59 (1.02%) Aerospace
18 46 (0.79%) Advertising
19 40 (0.69%) Aviation
20 33 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,245 (21.50%) Analyst
2 1,072 (18.51%) Security Analyst
3 984 (16.99%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 798 (13.78%) Junior
5 765 (13.21%) Junior Analyst
6 755 (13.04%) Junior Security Analyst
7 705 (12.18%) Ethical Hacker
8 563 (9.72%) Senior
9 364 (6.29%) Consultant
10 347 (5.99%) Architect
11 303 (5.23%) Lead
12 271 (4.68%) Security Manager
13 260 (4.49%) IT Support
14 251 (4.34%) Security Architect
15 234 (4.04%) Security Consultant
16 213 (3.68%) Security Engineer
17 206 (3.56%) IT Manager
18 186 (3.21%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 177 (3.06%) IT Engineer
20 157 (2.71%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (1.00%) HTML
2 56 (0.97%) SAML
3 55 (0.95%) LDAP
3 55 (0.95%) REST
4 52 (0.90%) CSS
4 52 (0.90%) OAuth
5 47 (0.81%) OpenID
6 28 (0.48%) SOAP
7 25 (0.43%) React
8 21 (0.36%) GraphQL
9 17 (0.29%) Kafka
10 16 (0.28%) .NET
10 16 (0.28%) Middleware
11 14 (0.24%) FastAPI
11 14 (0.24%) SailPoint
12 13 (0.22%) JSON
12 13 (0.22%) Node.js
13 12 (0.21%) RESTful
14 11 (0.19%) XML
14 11 (0.19%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 811 (14.01%) Cyberattack
2 319 (5.51%) Security Posture
3 189 (3.26%) Management Information System
4 188 (3.25%) Cyber Threat
5 166 (2.87%) Onboarding
6 151 (2.61%) Security Operations Centre
7 129 (2.23%) Driving Licence
8 121 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
9 101 (1.74%) Operational Technology
10 96 (1.66%) Cyber Defence
11 83 (1.43%) Cloud Native
12 77 (1.33%) Data Centre
13 59 (1.02%) PKI
14 48 (0.83%) Cyber Security Posture
15 43 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
16 41 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
17 38 (0.66%) Blog
17 38 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
18 30 (0.52%) Cloud Security Posture
18 30 (0.52%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 505 (8.72%) Windows
2 258 (4.46%) Windows Server
3 176 (3.04%) Linux
4 48 (0.83%) Mac OS
5 38 (0.66%) Windows 10
6 28 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 28 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 25 (0.43%) Android
8 22 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 19 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 11 (0.19%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.10%) CentOS
11 6 (0.10%) Unix
11 6 (0.10%) VMS
12 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.035%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.017%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.017%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.017%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.017%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,220 (21.07%) Mentoring
2 784 (13.54%) Ethical Hacking
3 564 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
4 555 (9.59%) Problem-Solving
5 509 (8.79%) Incident Response
6 457 (7.89%) Information Security
7 443 (7.65%) Risk Management
8 398 (6.87%) Security Operations
8 398 (6.87%) SIEM
9 360 (6.22%) Cloud Security
10 346 (5.98%) AI
11 336 (5.80%) Vulnerability Management
12 299 (5.16%) Disaster Recovery
13 291 (5.03%) Decision-Making
14 259 (4.47%) Roadmaps
15 242 (4.18%) Agile
16 238 (4.11%) Stakeholder Management
17 233 (4.02%) Data Protection
18 232 (4.01%) Security Architecture
19 228 (3.94%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 315 (5.44%) Python
2 259 (4.47%) PowerShell
3 110 (1.90%) SQL
4 103 (1.78%) JavaScript
5 77 (1.33%) Bash
6 56 (0.97%) C++
7 40 (0.69%) Java
8 31 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
9 27 (0.47%) C#
10 25 (0.43%) MATLAB
11 21 (0.36%) T-SQL
12 19 (0.33%) Rust
12 19 (0.33%) TypeScript
13 18 (0.31%) R
14 16 (0.28%) Go
15 13 (0.22%) C
15 13 (0.22%) Search Processing Language
16 9 (0.16%) Perl
17 7 (0.12%) PHP
18 5 (0.086%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,544 (26.67%) Azure Certification
2 926 (15.99%) CompTIA Security+
3 834 (14.40%) CEH
4 802 (13.85%) CompTIA CySA+
5 518 (8.95%) Security Cleared
6 435 (7.51%) Degree
7 429 (7.41%) CISSP
8 366 (6.32%) SC Cleared
9 274 (4.73%) CISM
10 174 (3.01%) DV Cleared
11 152 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
12 121 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 100 (1.73%) CISA
14 96 (1.66%) Network+ Certification
15 89 (1.54%) A+ Certification
16 88 (1.52%) CREST Certified
17 85 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 85 (1.47%) AWS Certification
18 83 (1.43%) CRISC
19 67 (1.16%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 604 (10.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 531 (9.17%) NIST
3 334 (5.77%) GDPR
4 279 (4.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 257 (4.44%) GRC
6 149 (2.57%) PCI DSS
7 133 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 111 (1.92%) QA
9 109 (1.88%) NCSC
10 56 (0.97%) SOC 2
11 45 (0.78%) NIST 800
12 38 (0.66%) COBIT
13 36 (0.62%) Accessibility
14 35 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 35 (0.60%) SLA
15 34 (0.59%) JSP 440
16 31 (0.54%) Data Quality
17 29 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
18 19 (0.33%) HIPAA
19 15 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 403 (6.96%) Active Directory
2 118 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 98 (1.69%) Hyper-V
4 52 (0.90%) Docker
5 49 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (0.48%) vSphere
7 14 (0.24%) IAG
8 11 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 8 (0.14%) Firmware
11 5 (0.086%) ClearTrust
11 5 (0.086%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.069%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 4 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.035%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.017%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.017%) Embedded Firmware
14 1 (0.017%) KVM
Systems Management
1 205 (3.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 89 (1.54%) Terraform
3 70 (1.21%) Kubernetes
4 40 (0.69%) Ansible
5 37 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.54%) Grafana
7 20 (0.35%) SCCM
8 19 (0.33%) QRadar
9 18 (0.31%) Prometheus
10 15 (0.26%) CASB
10 15 (0.26%) FortiGate
11 10 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 10 (0.17%) Nmap
12 9 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.16%) CSIRT
12 9 (0.16%) Kibana
12 9 (0.16%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,539 (43.85%) Microsoft
2 1,458 (25.18%) ForeScout
3 166 (2.87%) VMware
4 146 (2.52%) Cisco
5 125 (2.16%) Palo Alto
6 108 (1.87%) CrowdStrike
7 91 (1.57%) Splunk
8 64 (1.11%) Fortinet
9 61 (1.05%) Tenable
10 60 (1.04%) Google
11 55 (0.95%) ServiceNow
12 53 (0.92%) Qualys
13 51 (0.88%) Apple
14 49 (0.85%) Aruba
14 49 (0.85%) Salesforce
15 35 (0.60%) SAP
16 34 (0.59%) Veeam
17 33 (0.57%) Adobe
18 30 (0.52%) Dell
19 25 (0.43%) CyberArk