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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 37 31
Rank change year-on-year +31 -6 +21
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 8,058 2,375 4,084
As % of all permanent jobs in England 12.64% 5.83% 5.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.14% 6.22% 6.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,312 1,414 3,192
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,375 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,563 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +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 49,934 38,207 63,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.35% 93.75% 87.63%
Number of salaries quoted 30,759 20,355 50,144
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,040
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% -12.00%

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 8 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 8 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 +36 2,527 £35,000 -36.36% 274
North West +31 1,870 £42,500 -22.73% 137
Midlands +28 1,585 £42,500 -29.17% 163
London +24 1,432 £70,000 -6.67% 379
South East +38 1,282 £47,500 -19.23% 322
West Midlands +20 1,260 £45,000 -28.00% 78
East of England +49 670 £35,000 -26.32% 131
Yorkshire +36 552 £31,000 -41.78% 103
South West +45 502 £55,000 +15.35% 135
East Midlands +38 337 £37,500 -11.76% 84
North East +38 105 £30,500 -23.81% 35
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
1 120 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 73 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (0.17%) CMS
4 11 (0.14%) Confluence
5 8 (0.099%) WordPress
6 6 (0.074%) Apache
6 6 (0.074%) nginx
7 5 (0.062%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.062%) Drupal
8 3 (0.037%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.025%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.025%) SAS
10 1 (0.012%) FileNet
10 1 (0.012%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 105 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 66 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (0.35%) Maya
5 24 (0.30%) Simulink
6 19 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.12%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.062%) CATIA
9 4 (0.050%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.025%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.025%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.012%) CINEMA 4D
12 1 (0.012%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 28 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.099%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.074%) Shopify
5 4 (0.050%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.050%) Endur
5 4 (0.050%) Exchequer
5 4 (0.050%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.050%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.050%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.037%) NetSuite
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%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.025%) SAP FSCM
7 2 (0.025%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.025%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.025%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 4,051 (50.27%) Cloud Computing
2 1,739 (21.58%) Azure
3 530 (6.58%) AWS
4 422 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
5 266 (3.30%) Entra ID
6 200 (2.48%) GitHub
7 82 (1.02%) SaaS
8 78 (0.97%) GCP
9 67 (0.83%) Power Platform
10 51 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
11 47 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
12 46 (0.57%) PaaS
13 36 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
14 33 (0.41%) Google Workspace
14 33 (0.41%) Nutanix
15 29 (0.36%) IaaS
16 28 (0.35%) Dynamics 365
17 25 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
18 24 (0.30%) OneDrive
19 23 (0.29%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4,212 (52.27%) Internet
2 296 (3.67%) Firewall
3 128 (1.59%) Network Security
4 122 (1.51%) VPN
5 90 (1.12%) DNS
6 77 (0.96%) DHCP
7 69 (0.86%) WAN
8 64 (0.79%) LAN
8 64 (0.79%) TCP/IP
8 64 (0.79%) VLAN
9 54 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
10 37 (0.46%) Broadband
11 36 (0.45%) VoIP
12 35 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
13 25 (0.31%) Wireless
14 20 (0.25%) CHAP
15 19 (0.24%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.20%) DMZ
17 12 (0.15%) Cisco ASA
17 12 (0.15%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (0.46%) Power BI
2 26 (0.32%) SQL Server
3 25 (0.31%) Tableau
4 24 (0.30%) Big Data
5 22 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (0.21%) Neo4j
8 14 (0.17%) Relational Database
9 13 (0.16%) Metadata
10 11 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (0.12%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.11%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.062%) MariaDB
13 5 (0.062%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.062%) PostgreSQL
14 4 (0.050%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.050%) SAP BW
15 3 (0.037%) MySQL
16 2 (0.025%) Apache Hive
16 2 (0.025%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 203 (2.52%) Git
2 31 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
3 29 (0.36%) JIRA
4 20 (0.25%) GitLab
5 13 (0.16%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.12%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.074%) JMeter
7 6 (0.074%) Locust
8 5 (0.062%) Apache Continuum
9 4 (0.050%) Burp Suite
9 4 (0.050%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.050%) Metasploit
9 4 (0.050%) MLflow
10 1 (0.012%) Snyk
10 1 (0.012%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.012%) Yeoman
General
1 5,738 (71.21%) Social Skills
2 4,202 (52.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,163 (51.66%) Banking
4 520 (6.45%) Finance
5 359 (4.46%) Multimedia
6 340 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
7 192 (2.38%) Public Sector
8 167 (2.07%) Marketing
9 157 (1.95%) Legal
10 147 (1.82%) Law
11 127 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
12 120 (1.49%) Telecoms
13 111 (1.38%) Retail
14 92 (1.14%) Manufacturing
15 66 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
16 54 (0.67%) Games
17 52 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
18 50 (0.62%) Electronics
19 44 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
20 40 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3,139 (38.96%) Lecturer
2 826 (10.25%) Analyst
3 696 (8.64%) Security Analyst
4 653 (8.10%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 587 (7.28%) Junior
6 566 (7.02%) Junior Analyst
7 565 (7.01%) Junior Security Analyst
8 364 (4.52%) Trainee
9 357 (4.43%) Senior
10 282 (3.50%) Ethical Hacker
11 238 (2.95%) Consultant
12 223 (2.77%) Lead
13 211 (2.62%) Architect
14 208 (2.58%) IT Support
15 154 (1.91%) Developer
16 150 (1.86%) Security Manager
17 148 (1.84%) Security Consultant
18 141 (1.75%) Security Engineer
19 130 (1.61%) Support Engineer
20 126 (1.56%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (2.62%) HTML
2 209 (2.59%) CSS
3 42 (0.52%) REST
4 37 (0.46%) OAuth
5 36 (0.45%) SAML
6 34 (0.42%) OpenID
7 32 (0.40%) React
8 29 (0.36%) LDAP
9 27 (0.34%) SOAP
10 26 (0.32%) GraphQL
11 25 (0.31%) SAP CAF
12 21 (0.26%) AngularJS
13 17 (0.21%) MERN Stack
14 10 (0.12%) Middleware
14 10 (0.12%) Node.js
14 10 (0.12%) PyTorch
14 10 (0.12%) SailPoint
14 10 (0.12%) TensorFlow
15 9 (0.11%) RESTful
15 9 (0.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4,073 (50.55%) IoT
2 344 (4.27%) Cyberattack
3 192 (2.38%) Security Posture
4 174 (2.16%) Management Information System
5 118 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
6 116 (1.44%) Driving Licence
7 100 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
8 97 (1.20%) Onboarding
9 89 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
10 76 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
11 68 (0.84%) Cloud Native
12 67 (0.83%) Data Centre
13 57 (0.71%) Cyber Defence
14 54 (0.67%) Operational Technology
15 46 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
16 42 (0.52%) Blog
17 36 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
17 36 (0.45%) Public Cloud
18 35 (0.43%) PKI
19 34 (0.42%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 367 (4.55%) Windows
2 165 (2.05%) Windows Server
3 115 (1.43%) Linux
4 67 (0.83%) Windows 10
5 53 (0.66%) Mac OS
6 34 (0.42%) Android
7 24 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.14%) Unix
10 6 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.050%) 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 4,259 (52.85%) AI
2 4,065 (50.45%) Machine Learning
3 4,040 (50.14%) User Experience
4 4,035 (50.07%) Web Development
5 1,165 (14.46%) Mentoring
6 458 (5.68%) Ethical Hacking
7 445 (5.52%) Problem-Solving
8 406 (5.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 368 (4.57%) Risk Management
10 349 (4.33%) Information Security
11 344 (4.27%) Incident Response
12 257 (3.19%) Agile
13 212 (2.63%) SIEM
14 198 (2.46%) ITIL
15 196 (2.43%) Line Management
16 190 (2.36%) Cloud Security
16 190 (2.36%) Decision-Making
16 190 (2.36%) Roadmaps
17 181 (2.25%) Data Protection
18 180 (2.23%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 397 (4.93%) Python
2 253 (3.14%) JavaScript
3 182 (2.26%) PowerShell
4 113 (1.40%) SQL
5 102 (1.27%) R
6 57 (0.71%) Bash
7 42 (0.52%) Java
8 31 (0.38%) C++
9 30 (0.37%) TypeScript
10 25 (0.31%) MATLAB
10 25 (0.31%) T-SQL
11 24 (0.30%) C#
12 21 (0.26%) C
13 10 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.11%) Go
15 7 (0.087%) Rust
16 6 (0.074%) PHP
17 4 (0.050%) Bicep
17 4 (0.050%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.037%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 4,443 (55.14%) Degree
2 4,071 (50.52%) Master's Degree
3 4,014 (49.81%) PhD
4 4,004 (49.69%) Postgraduate
5 1,075 (13.34%) Azure Certification
6 781 (9.69%) CompTIA Security+
7 602 (7.47%) CompTIA CySA+
8 496 (6.16%) CEH
9 341 (4.23%) CISSP
10 308 (3.82%) Security Cleared
11 260 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 243 (3.02%) AWS Certification
13 237 (2.94%) CISM
14 205 (2.54%) SC Cleared
15 195 (2.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 189 (2.35%) Network+ Certification
17 181 (2.25%) A+ Certification
18 109 (1.35%) CISA
19 103 (1.28%) DV Cleared
20 98 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 487 (6.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 449 (5.57%) NIST
3 259 (3.21%) GDPR
4 220 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
5 177 (2.20%) GRC
6 111 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 107 (1.33%) NCSC
8 97 (1.20%) PCI DSS
9 62 (0.77%) QA
10 42 (0.52%) SLA
11 41 (0.51%) COBIT
11 41 (0.51%) SOC 2
12 36 (0.45%) NIST 800
13 29 (0.36%) Data Quality
14 26 (0.32%) Accessibility
15 20 (0.25%) JSP 440
16 19 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
16 19 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 18 (0.22%) ISO 22301
17 18 (0.22%) SOC 3
System Software
1 293 (3.64%) Active Directory
2 69 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (0.76%) Hyper-V
4 52 (0.65%) Docker
5 27 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.21%) vSphere
7 9 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.087%) Firmware
9 6 (0.074%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.074%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.037%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.025%) GPFS
12 2 (0.025%) Lustre
13 1 (0.012%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.012%) IAG
13 1 (0.012%) iptables
13 1 (0.012%) KVM
Systems Management
1 154 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 62 (0.77%) Terraform
3 51 (0.63%) Kubernetes
4 33 (0.41%) Ansible
5 27 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (0.20%) CASB
7 15 (0.19%) Grafana
8 12 (0.15%) CSIRT
8 12 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
8 12 (0.15%) Nessus
8 12 (0.15%) SCCM
9 10 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 10 (0.12%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.11%) RSA Archer
11 8 (0.099%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 7 (0.087%) FTK
13 6 (0.074%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 5 (0.062%) Backup Exec
14 5 (0.062%) Nagios
14 5 (0.062%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1,761 (21.85%) Microsoft
2 847 (10.51%) ForeScout
3 119 (1.48%) VMware
4 88 (1.09%) Cisco
5 73 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
6 69 (0.86%) Fortinet
7 67 (0.83%) Palo Alto
8 62 (0.77%) SAP
9 53 (0.66%) Apple
10 42 (0.52%) Oracle
11 40 (0.50%) Google
12 38 (0.47%) Salesforce
13 36 (0.45%) Dell
14 33 (0.41%) Adobe
14 33 (0.41%) Tenable
15 32 (0.40%) Siemens
16 28 (0.35%) ServiceNow
17 27 (0.34%) Splunk
18 21 (0.26%) CyberArk
19 20 (0.25%) MuleSoft