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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 36 29
Rank change year-on-year +29 -7 +22
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 9,451 2,388 4,734
As % of all permanent jobs in England 11.88% 6.31% 5.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.84% 6.79% 6.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,734 1,534 3,533
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,063 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.80% -8.42%

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 59,680 35,184 71,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.01% 93.01% 85.59%
Number of salaries quoted 37,727 20,624 53,592
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.93%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +31 2,950 £45,000 -13.88% 523
North West +32 2,045 £49,950 -9.18% 376
Midlands +27 1,900 £47,500 -12.24% 198
London +26 1,664 £71,000 -5.33% 559
South East +31 1,514 £49,536 -9.94% 356
West Midlands +25 1,387 £45,000 -25.62% 110
Yorkshire +34 755 £41,500 -7.78% 113
East of England +57 745 £40,000 -15.79% 108
South West +26 626 £57,500 +27.78% 120
East Midlands +30 524 £50,000 +36.98% 85
North East +30 150 £41,208 +8.63% 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
1 113 (1.20%) SharePoint
2 87 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (0.11%) CMS
4 9 (0.095%) WordPress
5 6 (0.063%) nginx
6 5 (0.053%) Apache
6 5 (0.053%) Drupal
7 4 (0.042%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.042%) Confluence
7 4 (0.042%) IIS
8 3 (0.032%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.021%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.021%) SAS
10 1 (0.011%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 84 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.26%) Simulink
5 14 (0.15%) Maya
6 12 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.085%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.053%) CATIA
9 4 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.042%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.021%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.021%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 27 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
3 14 (0.15%) Cloudability
4 7 (0.074%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.053%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.042%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.042%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.042%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.042%) Shopify
6 4 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.032%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.032%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.021%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.011%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.011%) Maximo
9 1 (0.011%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.011%) SAP CX
9 1 (0.011%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.011%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.011%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 4,045 (42.80%) Cloud Computing
2 2,609 (27.61%) Azure
3 533 (5.64%) AWS
4 486 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
5 285 (3.02%) Entra ID
6 161 (1.70%) GitHub
7 118 (1.25%) SaaS
8 107 (1.13%) GCP
9 70 (0.74%) Power Platform
10 66 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
11 62 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
12 38 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
13 37 (0.39%) Google Workspace
14 32 (0.34%) PaaS
15 30 (0.32%) Mimecast
15 30 (0.32%) Nutanix
16 29 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
17 28 (0.30%) Serverless
18 27 (0.29%) IaaS
18 27 (0.29%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4,175 (44.18%) Internet
2 341 (3.61%) Firewall
3 145 (1.53%) Network Security
4 134 (1.42%) VPN
5 113 (1.20%) DNS
6 81 (0.86%) DHCP
7 79 (0.84%) WAN
8 72 (0.76%) LAN
9 69 (0.73%) VLAN
10 66 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
11 57 (0.60%) TCP/IP
12 41 (0.43%) Broadband
13 34 (0.36%) VoIP
14 31 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
15 28 (0.30%) Wireless
16 26 (0.28%) CHAP
17 25 (0.26%) Unified Communications
18 20 (0.21%) SD-WAN
19 17 (0.18%) SSL
20 15 (0.16%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (0.43%) Power BI
2 25 (0.26%) Big Data
3 23 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
3 23 (0.24%) SQL Server
4 21 (0.22%) Tableau
5 19 (0.20%) Neo4j
6 13 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.085%) MySQL
9 7 (0.074%) Metadata
10 6 (0.063%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.063%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.053%) MariaDB
11 5 (0.053%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.042%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.042%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.042%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.021%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.021%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.021%) Impala
Development Applications
1 159 (1.68%) Git
2 30 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
3 28 (0.30%) GitLab
4 20 (0.21%) JIRA
5 16 (0.17%) Snyk
6 12 (0.13%) Jenkins
7 8 (0.085%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.053%) Apache Continuum
8 5 (0.053%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.053%) Metasploit
8 5 (0.053%) VersionOne
9 4 (0.042%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.042%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.042%) JMeter
9 4 (0.042%) Locust
9 4 (0.042%) MLflow
10 2 (0.021%) Yeoman
11 1 (0.011%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.011%) GDB
11 1 (0.011%) WinDbg
General
1 6,564 (69.45%) Social Skills
2 4,276 (45.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,156 (43.97%) Banking
4 549 (5.81%) Finance
5 373 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
6 291 (3.08%) Multimedia
7 200 (2.12%) Public Sector
8 157 (1.66%) Retail
9 156 (1.65%) Marketing
10 148 (1.57%) Law
11 131 (1.39%) Telecoms
12 129 (1.36%) Legal
13 111 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
14 97 (1.03%) Manufacturing
15 67 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
16 60 (0.63%) Local Government
17 42 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
18 40 (0.42%) Aerospace
19 39 (0.41%) Aviation
19 39 (0.41%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3,141 (33.23%) Lecturer
2 1,354 (14.33%) Analyst
3 1,204 (12.74%) Security Analyst
4 1,130 (11.96%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1,021 (10.80%) Junior
6 990 (10.48%) Junior Analyst
7 989 (10.46%) Junior Security Analyst
8 705 (7.46%) Ethical Hacker
9 470 (4.97%) Senior
10 309 (3.27%) Trainee
11 282 (2.98%) Architect
12 276 (2.92%) Consultant
13 232 (2.45%) Lead
14 220 (2.33%) Security Manager
15 206 (2.18%) IT Support
16 191 (2.02%) Security Architect
17 188 (1.99%) Security Engineer
18 168 (1.78%) Security Consultant
19 154 (1.63%) IT Manager
20 151 (1.60%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (1.75%) CSS
1 165 (1.75%) HTML
2 50 (0.53%) REST
3 44 (0.47%) OAuth
3 44 (0.47%) SAML
4 42 (0.44%) OpenID
5 41 (0.43%) LDAP
6 38 (0.40%) React
7 31 (0.33%) SOAP
8 26 (0.28%) GraphQL
9 19 (0.20%) AngularJS
10 16 (0.17%) MERN Stack
11 15 (0.16%) RESTful
12 14 (0.15%) SailPoint
13 13 (0.14%) FastAPI
13 13 (0.14%) SAP CAF
14 12 (0.13%) Middleware
15 10 (0.11%) Kafka
15 10 (0.11%) Node.js
15 10 (0.11%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4,027 (42.61%) IoT
2 795 (8.41%) Cyberattack
3 242 (2.56%) Security Posture
4 194 (2.05%) Management Information System
5 145 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
6 144 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 102 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
8 101 (1.07%) Driving Licence
9 88 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
10 87 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
11 83 (0.88%) Data Centre
12 75 (0.79%) Operational Technology
13 64 (0.68%) Cloud Native
14 62 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
15 56 (0.59%) Blog
16 51 (0.54%) PKI
17 44 (0.47%) Cyber Security Posture
17 44 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
18 41 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
19 33 (0.35%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 382 (4.04%) Windows
2 176 (1.86%) Windows Server
3 144 (1.52%) Linux
4 64 (0.68%) Windows 10
5 43 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 29 (0.31%) Android
7 21 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.095%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.074%) Unix
12 6 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.053%) CentOS
14 4 (0.042%) VMS
15 1 (0.011%) Debian
15 1 (0.011%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.011%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.011%) OpenWrt
15 1 (0.011%) Solaris
15 1 (0.011%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,280 (45.29%) AI
2 4,051 (42.86%) Machine Learning
3 4,041 (42.76%) User Experience
4 4,025 (42.59%) Web Development
5 1,581 (16.73%) Mentoring
6 851 (9.00%) Ethical Hacking
7 458 (4.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 435 (4.60%) Problem-Solving
9 422 (4.47%) Information Security
10 408 (4.32%) Incident Response
11 390 (4.13%) Risk Management
12 276 (2.92%) SIEM
13 263 (2.78%) Cloud Security
14 255 (2.70%) Agile
15 250 (2.65%) Security Operations
16 217 (2.30%) Data Protection
17 213 (2.25%) Roadmaps
18 207 (2.19%) Disaster Recovery
19 203 (2.15%) Vulnerability Management
20 202 (2.14%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 412 (4.36%) Python
2 221 (2.34%) PowerShell
3 217 (2.30%) JavaScript
4 111 (1.17%) SQL
5 76 (0.80%) Bash
5 76 (0.80%) R
6 41 (0.43%) Java
7 38 (0.40%) C++
8 32 (0.34%) TypeScript
9 29 (0.31%) MATLAB
10 27 (0.29%) C#
11 25 (0.26%) T-SQL
12 23 (0.24%) C
13 16 (0.17%) Go
14 12 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
15 10 (0.11%) Rust
16 6 (0.063%) PHP
17 4 (0.042%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.042%) Perl
17 4 (0.042%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4,436 (46.94%) Degree
2 4,074 (43.11%) Master's Degree
3 4,001 (42.33%) PhD
4 3,998 (42.30%) Postgraduate
5 1,878 (19.87%) Azure Certification
6 1,206 (12.76%) CompTIA Security+
7 1,036 (10.96%) CompTIA CySA+
8 902 (9.54%) CEH
9 402 (4.25%) CISSP
10 399 (4.22%) Security Cleared
11 275 (2.91%) SC Cleared
12 259 (2.74%) CISM
13 221 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
14 211 (2.23%) AWS Certification
15 163 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
16 157 (1.66%) A+ Certification
17 154 (1.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 119 (1.26%) DV Cleared
19 109 (1.15%) CISA
19 109 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 520 (5.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 494 (5.23%) NIST
3 293 (3.10%) GDPR
4 232 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 224 (2.37%) GRC
6 124 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 121 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 104 (1.10%) NCSC
9 91 (0.96%) QA
10 55 (0.58%) SOC 2
11 45 (0.48%) NIST 800
12 44 (0.47%) COBIT
12 44 (0.47%) SLA
13 34 (0.36%) Accessibility
14 25 (0.26%) Data Quality
15 22 (0.23%) JSP 440
15 22 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 21 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
17 19 (0.20%) ISO 22301
18 18 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 312 (3.30%) Active Directory
2 76 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (0.60%) Docker
4 53 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 38 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.24%) vSphere
7 10 (0.11%) Firmware
7 10 (0.11%) IAG
7 10 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.063%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.021%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.021%) GPFS
11 2 (0.021%) Lustre
12 1 (0.011%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.011%) iptables
12 1 (0.011%) KVM
Systems Management
1 137 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 73 (0.77%) Terraform
3 67 (0.71%) Kubernetes
4 38 (0.40%) Ansible
5 35 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (0.22%) Grafana
7 13 (0.14%) CASB
7 13 (0.14%) CSIRT
8 12 (0.13%) SCCM
9 11 (0.12%) QRadar
10 10 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.11%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (0.095%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.085%) Cisco CUCM
12 8 (0.085%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 7 (0.074%) Nessus
13 7 (0.074%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.074%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.074%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,642 (27.95%) Microsoft
2 1,693 (17.91%) ForeScout
3 119 (1.26%) VMware
4 107 (1.13%) Cisco
5 100 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
6 84 (0.89%) Palo Alto
7 68 (0.72%) Apple
8 63 (0.67%) Fortinet
9 53 (0.56%) Splunk
10 52 (0.55%) Google
11 47 (0.50%) Adobe
11 47 (0.50%) SAP
12 46 (0.49%) Tenable
13 43 (0.45%) Salesforce
14 39 (0.41%) ServiceNow
15 32 (0.34%) Dell
16 28 (0.30%) CyberArk
16 28 (0.30%) Siemens
17 22 (0.23%) Oracle
18 19 (0.20%) Veeam