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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 34 38
Rank change year-on-year +14 +4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,976 2,721 4,030
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.71% 6.29% 5.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% 6.99% 6.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,398 1,661 2,855
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £35,850
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £43,893
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% -6.52%
75th Percentile £79,813 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% -9.30%

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 65,772 38,931 65,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.80% 89.97% 81.95%
Number of salaries quoted 46,496 22,437 45,318
10th Percentile £31,037 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +14 1,381 £75,000 +3.45% 711
North of England +19 1,362 £50,000 - 361
South East +16 1,099 £52,500 +5.00% 361
Midlands +20 1,030 £57,500 +21.05% 191
North West +27 644 £55,000 - 201
South West +11 604 £55,000 +23.35% 197
Yorkshire +12 551 £43,500 +31.82% 128
West Midlands +9 524 £60,000 +10.09% 95
East Midlands +36 505 £55,000 +57.14% 96
East of England +64 473 £42,500 -10.53% 137
North East +30 167 £50,000 -27.94% 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
1 178 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 176 (2.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (0.28%) Apache
4 15 (0.25%) IIS
5 11 (0.18%) CMS
6 9 (0.15%) SAS
7 7 (0.12%) Confluence
8 5 (0.084%) WordPress
9 4 (0.067%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.033%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.017%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.017%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 72 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.27%) Simulink
5 5 (0.084%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.067%) CATIA
6 4 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.033%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.033%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.017%) Maya
8 1 (0.017%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 24 (0.40%) Cloudability
2 15 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.10%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.084%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.084%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.067%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.050%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 3 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.050%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.050%) Q-Pulse
9 2 (0.033%) Shopify
9 2 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.017%) Carpe Diem
10 1 (0.017%) Eikon
10 1 (0.017%) Infor CloudSuite
10 1 (0.017%) Infor LN
10 1 (0.017%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 2,334 (39.06%) Azure
2 700 (11.71%) Microsoft 365
3 452 (7.56%) AWS
4 379 (6.34%) Entra ID
5 174 (2.91%) SaaS
6 150 (2.51%) GCP
7 79 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
8 68 (1.14%) Power Platform
9 64 (1.07%) Microsoft Purview
10 60 (1.00%) OneDrive
11 47 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
12 46 (0.77%) Serverless
13 35 (0.59%) Microsoft Copilot
13 35 (0.59%) Mimecast
14 31 (0.52%) Google Workspace
15 29 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
16 28 (0.47%) GitHub
17 27 (0.45%) PaaS
18 24 (0.40%) IaaS
19 21 (0.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 471 (7.88%) Firewall
2 212 (3.55%) Network Security
3 192 (3.21%) VPN
4 183 (3.06%) DNS
5 142 (2.38%) WAN
6 141 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
7 125 (2.09%) LAN
8 122 (2.04%) DHCP
9 116 (1.94%) TCP/IP
10 104 (1.74%) VLAN
11 84 (1.41%) Internet
12 66 (1.10%) VoIP
13 52 (0.87%) Wireless
14 43 (0.72%) Unified Communications
15 38 (0.64%) Broadband
15 38 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
16 35 (0.59%) HTTP
17 32 (0.54%) SSL
18 30 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
19 26 (0.44%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (0.72%) Power BI
2 36 (0.60%) SQL Server
3 12 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (0.20%) MySQL
3 12 (0.20%) Tableau
4 11 (0.18%) MongoDB
4 11 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (0.15%) Big Data
6 9 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.10%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.10%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.067%) GIS
8 4 (0.067%) Metadata
8 4 (0.067%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.067%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.050%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.033%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.033%) Flink
10 2 (0.033%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (0.62%) Git
2 35 (0.59%) JIRA
3 32 (0.54%) GitLab
4 26 (0.44%) Snyk
5 17 (0.28%) Burp Suite
5 17 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
6 16 (0.27%) Metasploit
7 12 (0.20%) Jenkins
8 9 (0.15%) Yeoman
9 5 (0.084%) JMeter
9 5 (0.084%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.084%) VersionOne
10 4 (0.067%) Apache Continuum
10 4 (0.067%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.067%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.067%) Locust
10 4 (0.067%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.033%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.033%) Claude Code
12 1 (0.017%) GDB
General
1 2,441 (40.85%) Social Skills
2 514 (8.60%) Finance
3 407 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
4 295 (4.94%) Public Sector
5 282 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 170 (2.84%) Marketing
7 166 (2.78%) Retail
8 165 (2.76%) Law
9 157 (2.63%) Telecoms
10 153 (2.56%) Legal
11 132 (2.21%) Manufacturing
12 122 (2.04%) Banking
13 105 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
14 83 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
15 71 (1.19%) Aerospace
16 62 (1.04%) Multimedia
17 55 (0.92%) Advertising
18 53 (0.89%) Local Government
19 34 (0.57%) Games
19 34 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,220 (20.41%) Analyst
2 1,047 (17.52%) Security Analyst
3 950 (15.90%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 776 (12.99%) Junior
5 719 (12.03%) Junior Analyst
6 709 (11.86%) Junior Security Analyst
7 705 (11.80%) Ethical Hacker
8 600 (10.04%) Senior
9 441 (7.38%) Consultant
10 346 (5.79%) Architect
11 308 (5.15%) Lead
12 283 (4.74%) Security Consultant
13 270 (4.52%) IT Support
14 267 (4.47%) Security Manager
15 234 (3.92%) Security Architect
16 229 (3.83%) IT Manager
17 222 (3.71%) Security Engineer
18 192 (3.21%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 187 (3.13%) IT Engineer
20 178 (2.98%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (0.94%) SAML
2 50 (0.84%) OAuth
3 49 (0.82%) LDAP
4 44 (0.74%) OpenID
5 43 (0.72%) REST
6 29 (0.49%) HTML
7 22 (0.37%) Kafka
8 21 (0.35%) CSS
9 20 (0.33%) React
10 19 (0.32%) SOAP
11 18 (0.30%) SailPoint
12 16 (0.27%) .NET
12 16 (0.27%) JSON
13 14 (0.23%) FastAPI
13 14 (0.23%) Middleware
13 14 (0.23%) RESTful
14 13 (0.22%) Node.js
14 13 (0.22%) XML
15 12 (0.20%) GraphQL
15 12 (0.20%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 817 (13.67%) Cyberattack
2 325 (5.44%) Security Posture
3 229 (3.83%) Cyber Threat
4 204 (3.41%) Onboarding
5 203 (3.40%) Management Information System
6 163 (2.73%) Driving Licence
7 161 (2.69%) Security Operations Centre
8 131 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
9 107 (1.79%) Operational Technology
10 96 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
11 85 (1.42%) Cloud Native
12 71 (1.19%) Data Centre
13 58 (0.97%) PKI
14 51 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
15 40 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
16 37 (0.62%) Blog
16 37 (0.62%) CSOC
17 36 (0.60%) Cyber Security Posture
18 29 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
19 28 (0.47%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 536 (8.97%) Windows
2 261 (4.37%) Windows Server
3 191 (3.20%) Linux
4 60 (1.00%) Mac OS
5 33 (0.55%) Windows 10
6 29 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 27 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (0.37%) Android
10 20 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 13 (0.22%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.10%) CentOS
13 4 (0.067%) VMS
13 4 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.050%) Unix
15 2 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.033%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.033%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.017%) Kali Linux
16 1 (0.017%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,146 (19.18%) Mentoring
2 764 (12.78%) Ethical Hacking
3 600 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 598 (10.01%) Problem-Solving
5 506 (8.47%) Incident Response
6 486 (8.13%) Information Security
7 466 (7.80%) Risk Management
8 437 (7.31%) Security Operations
9 430 (7.20%) SIEM
10 397 (6.64%) AI
11 387 (6.48%) Cloud Security
12 378 (6.33%) Vulnerability Management
13 325 (5.44%) Disaster Recovery
14 316 (5.29%) Decision-Making
15 279 (4.67%) Roadmaps
16 274 (4.59%) Stakeholder Management
17 250 (4.18%) Agile
18 243 (4.07%) Penetration Testing
19 242 (4.05%) Service Delivery
20 241 (4.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 295 (4.94%) Python
2 243 (4.07%) PowerShell
3 95 (1.59%) SQL
4 68 (1.14%) Bash
5 65 (1.09%) C++
6 62 (1.04%) JavaScript
7 38 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
8 36 (0.60%) Java
9 32 (0.54%) Rust
10 25 (0.42%) C#
11 20 (0.33%) Go
11 20 (0.33%) MATLAB
12 18 (0.30%) TypeScript
13 14 (0.23%) C
13 14 (0.23%) Search Processing Language
14 12 (0.20%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.15%) Perl
16 7 (0.12%) PHP
17 5 (0.084%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.067%) R
Qualifications
1 1,475 (24.68%) Azure Certification
2 878 (14.69%) CompTIA Security+
3 819 (13.70%) CEH
4 749 (12.53%) CompTIA CySA+
5 577 (9.66%) Security Cleared
6 459 (7.68%) Degree
7 435 (7.28%) CISSP
8 405 (6.78%) SC Cleared
9 280 (4.69%) CISM
10 186 (3.11%) DV Cleared
11 155 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
12 100 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 93 (1.56%) CISA
14 88 (1.47%) CRISC
15 85 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 78 (1.31%) CREST Certified
16 78 (1.31%) Network+ Certification
17 70 (1.17%) A+ Certification
17 70 (1.17%) AWS Certification
17 70 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 607 (10.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 516 (8.63%) NIST
3 316 (5.29%) GDPR
4 278 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 268 (4.48%) GRC
6 143 (2.39%) PCI DSS
7 132 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 105 (1.76%) QA
9 98 (1.64%) NCSC
10 59 (0.99%) SOC 2
11 40 (0.67%) NIST 800
12 36 (0.60%) Accessibility
12 36 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 33 (0.55%) JSP 440
13 33 (0.55%) SLA
14 32 (0.54%) COBIT
15 26 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
16 25 (0.42%) Data Quality
17 21 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 19 (0.32%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 421 (7.04%) Active Directory
2 128 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 107 (1.79%) Hyper-V
4 51 (0.85%) Docker
5 50 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.38%) vSphere
7 16 (0.27%) Firmware
8 14 (0.23%) IAG
9 11 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 10 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.084%) ClearTrust
13 4 (0.067%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.050%) VMware Server
15 1 (0.017%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.017%) Embedded Firmware
15 1 (0.017%) KVM
Systems Management
1 217 (3.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 85 (1.42%) Terraform
3 74 (1.24%) Kubernetes
4 43 (0.72%) Ansible
4 43 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 31 (0.52%) Grafana
6 19 (0.32%) QRadar
7 18 (0.30%) FortiGate
7 18 (0.30%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.27%) CASB
8 16 (0.27%) SCCM
9 13 (0.22%) Nmap
10 12 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (0.18%) Nessus
12 9 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.15%) Kibana
13 7 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
13 7 (0.12%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.10%) CSIRT
14 6 (0.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,543 (42.55%) Microsoft
2 1,411 (23.61%) ForeScout
3 176 (2.95%) VMware
4 172 (2.88%) Cisco
5 149 (2.49%) Palo Alto
6 104 (1.74%) CrowdStrike
6 104 (1.74%) Splunk
7 67 (1.12%) Qualys
8 63 (1.05%) Google
9 62 (1.04%) Aruba
10 60 (1.00%) Fortinet
11 58 (0.97%) ServiceNow
12 57 (0.95%) Tenable
13 53 (0.89%) Apple
14 50 (0.84%) Salesforce
15 38 (0.64%) SAP
16 34 (0.57%) CyberArk
16 34 (0.57%) Veeam
17 33 (0.55%) Adobe
18 29 (0.49%) Dell