Cybersecurity Jobs in England

Cybersecurity
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 37 40
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +36
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 3,167 4,571 4,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.04% 5.08% 6.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.68% 6.14% 6.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,890 3,356 2,669
10th Percentile £26,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,313 £44,938 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -8.73% -3.08%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £64,029
% change year-on-year -8.70% -10.20% +0.05%

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 47,411 74,454 72,431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 90.35% 82.68% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 25,113 52,266 47,291
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £81,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in England.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity in England

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in England over the 6 months to 12 July 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 12 July 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
London -3 805 £72,500 - 917
North of England -11 701 £47,683 -8.45% 545
South East +7 671 £47,683 -7.14% 577
Midlands +9 460 £47,683 -9.18% 356
North West -31 367 £52,500 -4.55% 296
Yorkshire +17 311 £47,683 -4.63% 195
West Midlands +4 283 £54,750 -3.76% 230
South West +3 274 £47,683 -20.53% 244
East Midlands +12 175 £41,645 -2.01% 124
East of England +1 170 £47,683 -4.63% 244
North East -13 23 £67,192 +49.32% 60
South Coast - 1 £59,000 -
Cybersecurity
UK

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 92 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 81 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 19 (0.60%) CMS
4 16 (0.51%) Confluence
4 16 (0.51%) IIS
5 10 (0.32%) Apache
6 9 (0.28%) Apache Solr
7 7 (0.22%) nginx
8 4 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.13%) Traefik
8 4 (0.13%) WordPress
9 3 (0.095%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.063%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.063%) TPMS
Applications
1 103 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (1.14%) Maya
3 28 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.44%) Trello
6 13 (0.41%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.41%) Simulink
7 4 (0.13%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.13%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.13%) Sketch
8 3 (0.095%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.032%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.032%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.032%) Revit
Business Applications
1 32 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.41%) SAP IBP
4 10 (0.32%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.22%) SAP CO
5 7 (0.22%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
5 7 (0.22%) SAP FSCM
6 6 (0.19%) Sage 200
7 5 (0.16%) Exchequer
7 5 (0.16%) SAP IS-U
8 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.13%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.13%) Magento
9 3 (0.095%) Sage 50
9 3 (0.095%) SAP CX
10 1 (0.032%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.032%) Lorenzo
10 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 480 (15.16%) Azure
2 411 (12.98%) Microsoft 365
3 353 (11.15%) AWS
4 121 (3.82%) Entra ID
5 110 (3.47%) Serverless
6 98 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
7 86 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
8 83 (2.62%) GCP
9 65 (2.05%) SaaS
10 59 (1.86%) PaaS
11 53 (1.67%) Power Platform
12 48 (1.52%) IaaS
13 45 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
14 36 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
15 26 (0.82%) GitHub
16 23 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (0.66%) OneDrive
18 20 (0.63%) Amazon S3
18 20 (0.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 381 (12.03%) Firewall
2 141 (4.45%) Network Security
3 125 (3.95%) DNS
4 115 (3.63%) VPN
5 107 (3.38%) TCP/IP
6 98 (3.09%) SSL
7 96 (3.03%) DHCP
8 85 (2.68%) Broadband
9 84 (2.65%) WAN
10 82 (2.59%) SSH
11 74 (2.34%) VoIP
12 69 (2.18%) VLAN
13 58 (1.83%) LAN
14 47 (1.48%) Intrusion Detection
15 38 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
16 31 (0.98%) SAN
17 27 (0.85%) SD-WAN
18 24 (0.76%) Wireless
19 21 (0.66%) Internet
20 20 (0.63%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (1.71%) SQL Server
2 39 (1.23%) Power BI
3 30 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (0.88%) MongoDB
5 27 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (0.76%) MySQL
7 22 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (0.51%) Relational Database
10 15 (0.47%) Data Lake
11 14 (0.44%) Tableau
12 13 (0.41%) SAP BW
13 12 (0.38%) NoSQL
14 9 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (0.28%) Big Data
15 8 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (0.25%) DynamoDB
16 6 (0.19%) Metadata
17 4 (0.13%) Apache Iceberg
17 4 (0.13%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 83 (2.62%) JIRA
2 37 (1.17%) Rational DOORS
3 32 (1.01%) Git
4 13 (0.41%) Selenium
5 10 (0.32%) Burp Suite
5 10 (0.32%) IntelliJ
6 9 (0.28%) GitLab
7 7 (0.22%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.19%) Metasploit
8 6 (0.19%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.16%) Babel
9 5 (0.16%) webpack
10 4 (0.13%) git-flow
10 4 (0.13%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.095%) gulp
11 3 (0.095%) Subversion
12 2 (0.063%) Mocha
12 2 (0.063%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.063%) rollup.js
General
1 1,041 (32.87%) Social Skills
2 531 (16.77%) Finance
3 442 (13.96%) Law
4 407 (12.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 389 (12.28%) Legal
6 356 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
7 344 (10.86%) Presentation Skills
8 165 (5.21%) Telecoms
9 155 (4.89%) Banking
10 148 (4.67%) Marketing
11 129 (4.07%) Public Sector
12 114 (3.60%) Manufacturing
13 67 (2.12%) Electronics
13 67 (2.12%) Retail
14 64 (2.02%) Games
14 64 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
15 46 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
16 45 (1.42%) Aerospace
17 34 (1.07%) Automotive
18 31 (0.98%) Military
Job Titles
1 340 (10.74%) Analyst
2 314 (9.91%) Systems Engineer
3 256 (8.08%) Security Engineer
4 225 (7.10%) IT Support
5 222 (7.01%) Senior
6 204 (6.44%) Lead
7 175 (5.53%) Security Analyst
8 147 (4.64%) Architect
9 122 (3.85%) IT Manager
10 113 (3.57%) Consultant
11 110 (3.47%) Principal Engineer
12 101 (3.19%) Principal Security Engineer
13 100 (3.16%) Cloud Engineer
14 96 (3.03%) IT Engineer
15 90 (2.84%) DevOps Engineer
16 89 (2.81%) Security Manager
17 80 (2.53%) IT Analyst
18 72 (2.27%) Support Engineer
19 69 (2.18%) Cybersecurity Engineer
20 68 (2.15%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (3.47%) Web Services
2 104 (3.28%) RESTful
3 53 (1.67%) React
4 48 (1.52%) Software Packaging
5 47 (1.48%) REST
6 40 (1.26%) Kafka
7 34 (1.07%) .NET
8 33 (1.04%) Node.js
9 26 (0.82%) YAML
10 23 (0.73%) Middleware
11 22 (0.69%) CSS
12 20 (0.63%) HTML
13 18 (0.57%) Vue
14 16 (0.51%) AngularJS
15 13 (0.41%) EDI
16 12 (0.38%) MERN Stack
17 10 (0.32%) GraphQL
18 9 (0.28%) 802.1X
19 7 (0.22%) RabbitMQ
19 7 (0.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 425 (13.42%) Cyberattack
2 305 (9.63%) Management Information System
3 202 (6.38%) Cyber Threat
4 182 (5.75%) Security Posture
5 155 (4.89%) Operational Technology
6 146 (4.61%) Onboarding
7 136 (4.29%) Data Centre
8 102 (3.22%) PKI
9 66 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
10 61 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
11 57 (1.80%) Renewable Energy
12 55 (1.74%) Driving Licence
13 53 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
14 52 (1.64%) Cloud Native
15 43 (1.36%) Social Media
16 40 (1.26%) SCADA
17 36 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
18 34 (1.07%) Cyber Defence
19 26 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
20 25 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 471 (14.87%) Windows
2 182 (5.75%) Windows Server
3 133 (4.20%) Linux
4 84 (2.65%) Windows 10
5 48 (1.52%) Mac OS
6 25 (0.79%) Android
7 24 (0.76%) Apple iOS
8 22 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 17 (0.54%) Unix
10 11 (0.35%) Windows 7
10 11 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.28%) Windows Vista
12 7 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.19%) VMS
14 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
15 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.063%) Debian
16 2 (0.063%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.063%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 593 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
2 553 (17.46%) Agile
3 471 (14.87%) Information Security
4 442 (13.96%) Risk Management
5 371 (11.71%) Line Management
6 362 (11.43%) Systems Engineering
7 343 (10.83%) Project Management
8 325 (10.26%) Creative Thinking
9 322 (10.17%) Incident Response
10 293 (9.25%) SysML
11 286 (9.03%) MODAF
12 285 (9.00%) UML
13 266 (8.40%) Mentoring
14 248 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
15 244 (7.70%) Roadmaps
16 238 (7.51%) Computer Science
17 232 (7.33%) Artificial Intelligence
18 224 (7.07%) SIEM
19 223 (7.04%) Customer Service
20 219 (6.92%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 297 (9.38%) MATLAB
2 263 (8.30%) Python
3 173 (5.46%) PowerShell
4 104 (3.28%) SQL
5 54 (1.71%) Java
6 52 (1.64%) JavaScript
7 48 (1.52%) TypeScript
8 46 (1.45%) C#
9 44 (1.39%) Bash
10 27 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
11 20 (0.63%) Perl
12 15 (0.47%) C++
13 13 (0.41%) PHP
14 11 (0.35%) C
14 11 (0.35%) Go
15 9 (0.28%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.28%) R
16 8 (0.25%) Scala
17 6 (0.19%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 991 (31.29%) Degree
2 433 (13.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 432 (13.64%) CISSP
4 311 (9.82%) CISM
5 260 (8.21%) Security Cleared
6 141 (4.45%) SC Cleared
7 115 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 111 (3.50%) CESG Certified Professional
9 87 (2.75%) Master's Degree
10 85 (2.68%) PMI Certification
11 80 (2.53%) CEH
12 76 (2.40%) CompTIA Security+
13 73 (2.31%) PMP
14 71 (2.24%) DV Cleared
15 64 (2.02%) HND
16 63 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
16 63 (1.99%) CRISC
17 55 (1.74%) CISA
18 52 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
19 41 (1.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 569 (17.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 506 (15.98%) NIST
3 368 (11.62%) NCSC
4 207 (6.54%) GDPR
5 174 (5.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 111 (3.50%) JSP 440
7 103 (3.25%) RMADS
8 82 (2.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 77 (2.43%) PCI DSS
10 74 (2.34%) GRC
11 66 (2.08%) QA
12 47 (1.48%) SLA
13 32 (1.01%) NIST 800
14 30 (0.95%) SOC 2
15 28 (0.88%) GxP
16 26 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 21 (0.66%) Accessibility
18 20 (0.63%) COBIT
19 19 (0.60%) HIPAA
20 15 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 398 (12.57%) Active Directory
2 102 (3.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (2.08%) Hyper-V
4 63 (1.99%) Virtual Servers
5 56 (1.77%) Docker
6 39 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.35%) vSphere
9 8 (0.25%) Firmware
10 5 (0.16%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.063%) Postfix
11 2 (0.063%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.032%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.032%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.032%) HDFS
12 1 (0.032%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.032%) pfSense
12 1 (0.032%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.032%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 124 (3.92%) Terraform
2 110 (3.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 67 (2.12%) Kubernetes
4 33 (1.04%) Ansible
5 26 (0.82%) QRadar
6 24 (0.76%) SCCM
7 21 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.63%) Functional Safety
9 17 (0.54%) RSA Archer
10 14 (0.44%) FortiGate
10 14 (0.44%) Nessus
11 10 (0.32%) CASB
12 8 (0.25%) CSIRT
13 7 (0.22%) PaperCut
13 7 (0.22%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.19%) ArcSight ESM
14 6 (0.19%) Grafana
14 6 (0.19%) Prometheus
14 6 (0.19%) SCOM
14 6 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 708 (22.36%) Microsoft
2 152 (4.80%) VMware
3 133 (4.20%) Cisco
4 89 (2.81%) Thales
5 75 (2.37%) SAP
6 63 (1.99%) Splunk
7 50 (1.58%) Google
8 41 (1.29%) Salesforce
9 39 (1.23%) Tenable
10 35 (1.11%) Fortinet
10 35 (1.11%) Qualys
10 35 (1.11%) Sophos
11 33 (1.04%) Siemens
12 32 (1.01%) IBM
13 31 (0.98%) Oracle
14 30 (0.95%) Adobe
15 29 (0.92%) Palo Alto
16 26 (0.82%) Apple
17 25 (0.79%) ServiceNow
18 24 (0.76%) CrowdStrike