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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 40 42
Rank change year-on-year +29 +2 +12
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 4,427 3,014 2,597
As % of all permanent jobs in England 9.39% 5.26% 5.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.17% 6.11% 6.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,896 1,556 2,041
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £31,375 £47,500 £47,724
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -3.85%

All Process and 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 39,619 49,328 42,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.01% 86.14% 93.62%
Number of salaries quoted 24,754 25,663 32,651
10th Percentile £28,325 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 +37 1,158 £33,000 -40.00% 385
London +16 1,120 £68,500 -5.52% 457
South East +23 901 £49,000 -14.78% 500
North West +36 818 £42,500 -22.73% 239
Midlands +16 424 £49,000 -14.78% 259
East of England +44 419 £34,000 -35.24% 132
South West +30 371 £50,000 -23.08% 187
Yorkshire +19 282 £30,500 -46.11% 105
West Midlands +14 249 £51,693 -13.84% 185
East Midlands +30 172 £36,250 -23.68% 74
North East +31 58 £30,500 -39.37% 49
South Coast - 1 £59,000 -
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 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 75 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (0.47%) CMS
4 18 (0.41%) Confluence
5 16 (0.36%) IIS
6 12 (0.27%) WordPress
7 8 (0.18%) nginx
8 7 (0.16%) Apache
9 6 (0.14%) Apache Solr
9 6 (0.14%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.11%) Drupal
10 5 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.090%) FactoryTalk
11 4 (0.090%) WinCC
12 3 (0.068%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.068%) Oracle Coherence
13 2 (0.045%) ArchestrA
13 2 (0.045%) Traefik
14 1 (0.023%) FileNet
Applications
1 110 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (1.40%) Maya
3 40 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 29 (0.66%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.18%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.068%) CINEMA 4D
8 3 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.045%) Simulink
9 2 (0.045%) Sketch
10 1 (0.023%) Civil 3D
10 1 (0.023%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.023%) Revit
Business Applications
1 32 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.43%) SAP IBP
4 13 (0.29%) SAP CO
4 13 (0.29%) SAP FI
4 13 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
4 13 (0.29%) SAP FSCM
5 11 (0.25%) SAP IS-U
6 9 (0.20%) SAP FS
7 7 (0.16%) Shopify
8 6 (0.14%) Exchequer
8 6 (0.14%) Sage 200
9 5 (0.11%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.090%) Endur
10 4 (0.090%) Magento
10 4 (0.090%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.090%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.068%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.068%) SAP CX
11 3 (0.068%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 1,635 (36.93%) Cloud Computing
2 882 (19.92%) Azure
3 431 (9.74%) AWS
4 410 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
5 172 (3.89%) Entra ID
6 154 (3.48%) GitHub
7 96 (2.17%) SaaS
8 84 (1.90%) Power Platform
9 74 (1.67%) GCP
10 68 (1.54%) PaaS
11 52 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
11 52 (1.17%) IaaS
12 39 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
13 38 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
14 33 (0.75%) Serverless
15 27 (0.61%) OneDrive
16 21 (0.47%) Power Automate
17 19 (0.43%) Nutanix
17 19 (0.43%) OCI
18 16 (0.36%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1,728 (39.03%) Internet
2 253 (5.71%) Firewall
3 143 (3.23%) Network Security
4 137 (3.09%) VPN
5 122 (2.76%) TCP/IP
6 110 (2.48%) DNS
7 91 (2.06%) DHCP
8 81 (1.83%) WAN
9 76 (1.72%) LAN
10 75 (1.69%) VoIP
11 65 (1.47%) VLAN
12 62 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
13 41 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
14 34 (0.77%) Wireless
15 32 (0.72%) Modbus
16 30 (0.68%) SD-WAN
17 27 (0.61%) SAN
18 16 (0.36%) NAS
19 14 (0.32%) Unified Communications
20 13 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (1.56%) SQL Server
2 57 (1.29%) Power BI
3 37 (0.84%) Tableau
4 34 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (0.59%) Relational Database
6 21 (0.47%) SAP BW
7 18 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (0.38%) Data Lake
9 14 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (0.32%) Metadata
10 11 (0.25%) Big Data
10 11 (0.25%) Oracle Database
11 10 (0.23%) MySQL
12 9 (0.20%) Neo4j
12 9 (0.20%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.18%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.16%) MS Access
14 7 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
15 5 (0.11%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 159 (3.59%) Git
2 33 (0.75%) JIRA
3 16 (0.36%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.20%) GitLab
5 7 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
6 6 (0.14%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.090%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.090%) JMeter
7 4 (0.090%) Locust
7 4 (0.090%) Toad
8 3 (0.068%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.068%) Metasploit
8 3 (0.068%) Snyk
9 2 (0.045%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.045%) git-flow
9 2 (0.045%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.023%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.023%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.023%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.023%) SonarQube
General
1 2,732 (61.71%) Social Skills
2 1,723 (38.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,721 (38.88%) Banking
4 559 (12.63%) Finance
5 411 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
6 230 (5.20%) Multimedia
7 221 (4.99%) Marketing
8 209 (4.72%) Telecoms
9 201 (4.54%) Public Sector
10 194 (4.38%) Law
11 153 (3.46%) Legal
12 141 (3.19%) Manufacturing
13 106 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
14 94 (2.12%) Games
15 85 (1.92%) Electronics
16 83 (1.87%) Retail
17 72 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
18 49 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
18 49 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
19 30 (0.68%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 1,282 (28.96%) Lecturer
2 383 (8.65%) Analyst
3 311 (7.03%) Senior
4 246 (5.56%) Security Analyst
5 231 (5.22%) Trainee
6 227 (5.13%) Lead
7 205 (4.63%) Consultant
7 205 (4.63%) IT Support
8 194 (4.38%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 172 (3.89%) Architect
10 170 (3.84%) Junior
11 148 (3.34%) Support Engineer
12 145 (3.28%) Junior Analyst
13 142 (3.21%) Junior Security Analyst
14 133 (3.00%) IT Manager
15 129 (2.91%) Security Engineer
16 127 (2.87%) Security Consultant
17 106 (2.39%) Developer
18 90 (2.03%) Security Manager
19 81 (1.83%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (3.68%) HTML
2 158 (3.57%) CSS
3 35 (0.79%) React
4 26 (0.59%) .NET
5 24 (0.54%) SAP CAF
5 24 (0.54%) YAML
6 23 (0.52%) AngularJS
6 23 (0.52%) REST
7 15 (0.34%) RESTful
8 14 (0.32%) Web Services
9 12 (0.27%) Middleware
9 12 (0.27%) Vue
10 11 (0.25%) EDI
11 10 (0.23%) Pandas
12 9 (0.20%) MERN Stack
12 9 (0.20%) PyTorch
12 9 (0.20%) TensorFlow
12 9 (0.20%) XML
13 8 (0.18%) Kafka
13 8 (0.18%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1,639 (37.02%) IoT
2 187 (4.22%) Management Information System
3 161 (3.64%) Security Posture
4 150 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
5 115 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
6 109 (2.46%) Driving Licence
7 103 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 89 (2.01%) Data Centre
9 87 (1.97%) Onboarding
10 83 (1.87%) Operational Technology
11 68 (1.54%) Cloud Native
12 66 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
13 62 (1.40%) Security Operations Centre
14 47 (1.06%) Cyberattack
15 44 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
16 40 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
17 39 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
18 33 (0.75%) CCTV
19 32 (0.72%) SCADA
20 31 (0.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 408 (9.22%) Windows
2 172 (3.89%) Windows Server
3 143 (3.23%) Linux
4 74 (1.67%) Windows 10
5 73 (1.65%) Mac OS
6 23 (0.52%) Unix
7 22 (0.50%) Android
8 20 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 12 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (0.25%) VMS
11 10 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.16%) Debian
14 5 (0.11%) Mac OS X
14 5 (0.11%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.068%) Ubuntu
16 2 (0.045%) Check Point GAiA
16 2 (0.045%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.045%) Windows Server 2012
17 1 (0.023%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,820 (41.11%) AI
2 1,646 (37.18%) Machine Learning
3 1,616 (36.50%) User Experience
4 1,592 (35.96%) Web Development
5 616 (13.91%) Mentoring
6 568 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
7 371 (8.38%) Risk Management
8 331 (7.48%) Information Security
9 299 (6.75%) Incident Response
10 292 (6.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 263 (5.94%) Agile
12 237 (5.35%) ITIL
13 224 (5.06%) Project Management
14 206 (4.65%) Analytics
15 196 (4.43%) Computer Science
16 191 (4.31%) Vulnerability Management
17 188 (4.25%) Roadmaps
18 186 (4.20%) Decision-Making
19 185 (4.18%) SIEM
20 175 (3.95%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 295 (6.66%) Python
2 180 (4.07%) JavaScript
3 136 (3.07%) PowerShell
4 110 (2.48%) SQL
5 71 (1.60%) R
6 37 (0.84%) Bash
7 33 (0.75%) Java
8 29 (0.66%) C#
9 20 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
10 16 (0.36%) Bicep
11 14 (0.32%) TypeScript
12 11 (0.25%) C++
13 10 (0.23%) C
14 8 (0.18%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.16%) Go
15 7 (0.16%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.14%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.11%) Scala
18 4 (0.090%) Perl
18 4 (0.090%) VB
Qualifications
1 2,124 (47.98%) Degree
2 1,651 (37.29%) Master's Degree
3 1,583 (35.76%) PhD
4 1,576 (35.60%) Postgraduate
5 355 (8.02%) CISSP
6 325 (7.34%) Azure Certification
7 313 (7.07%) CompTIA Security+
8 275 (6.21%) Security Cleared
9 237 (5.35%) CISM
10 219 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 182 (4.11%) SC Cleared
12 178 (4.02%) AWS Certification
13 168 (3.79%) CEH
14 156 (3.52%) CompTIA CySA+
15 143 (3.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 103 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
17 100 (2.26%) A+ Certification
18 97 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
19 94 (2.12%) CISA
20 82 (1.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 449 (10.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 400 (9.04%) NIST
3 239 (5.40%) GDPR
4 204 (4.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 146 (3.30%) GRC
6 89 (2.01%) PCI DSS
7 88 (1.99%) NCSC
8 84 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 67 (1.51%) QA
10 50 (1.13%) NIST 800
11 45 (1.02%) SLA
12 41 (0.93%) SOC 2
13 38 (0.86%) COBIT
14 34 (0.77%) JSP 440
15 23 (0.52%) PMO
16 22 (0.50%) Data Quality
16 22 (0.50%) ISO 9001
16 22 (0.50%) RMADS
17 18 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 17 (0.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 270 (6.10%) Active Directory
2 101 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (1.54%) Hyper-V
4 45 (1.02%) Docker
5 39 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (0.36%) vSphere
7 8 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.14%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.11%) Kamailio
10 4 (0.090%) Firmware
11 3 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.045%) GPFS
12 2 (0.045%) Lustre
13 1 (0.023%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.023%) iptables
13 1 (0.023%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.023%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 162 (3.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 50 (1.13%) Terraform
3 41 (0.93%) Kubernetes
4 30 (0.68%) Ansible
5 24 (0.54%) SCCM
6 17 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
6 17 (0.38%) RSA Archer
6 17 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.34%) Nessus
8 14 (0.32%) QRadar
9 12 (0.27%) CASB
10 11 (0.25%) CSIRT
10 11 (0.25%) PaperCut
11 10 (0.23%) Functional Safety
12 8 (0.18%) Grafana
13 7 (0.16%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 7 (0.16%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.16%) Nagios
14 6 (0.14%) Autotask
14 6 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1,009 (22.79%) Microsoft
2 143 (3.23%) SAP
3 142 (3.21%) VMware
4 141 (3.19%) ForeScout
5 91 (2.06%) Cisco
6 87 (1.97%) Palo Alto
7 74 (1.67%) Oracle
8 58 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
9 55 (1.24%) Salesforce
10 54 (1.22%) Fortinet
11 52 (1.17%) Apple
12 46 (1.04%) Adobe
13 41 (0.93%) ServiceNow
14 38 (0.86%) Splunk
15 26 (0.59%) Sophos
16 25 (0.56%) Qualys
17 24 (0.54%) Dell
17 24 (0.54%) Siemens
18 21 (0.47%) Progress
19 19 (0.43%) PayPal