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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 37 33
Rank change year-on-year +31 -4 +19
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 7,719 2,574 3,755
As % of all permanent jobs in England 12.98% 5.83% 5.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.33% 6.31% 6.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,255 1,332 2,918
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £30,987 £48,938 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,700
UK median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% -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 47,255 40,797 58,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.44% 92.45% 88.17%
Number of salaries quoted 28,933 20,006 46,428
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,504 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.10% +10.01% -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 17 February 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 17 February 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 +33 2,415 £35,000 -36.65% 271
North West +32 1,830 £40,000 -27.27% 147
Midlands +26 1,497 £42,500 -26.96% 192
London +20 1,425 £70,000 -6.67% 384
West Midlands +22 1,225 £45,000 -25.00% 108
South East +36 1,202 £48,500 -17.97% 353
East of England +57 651 £35,000 -41.67% 140
Yorkshire +29 496 £30,500 -48.74% 96
South West +48 469 £55,000 - 166
East Midlands +32 283 £37,500 -14.29% 84
North East +39 89 £30,500 -20.78% 30
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
1 124 (1.61%) SharePoint
2 65 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.14%) CMS
3 11 (0.14%) Confluence
3 11 (0.14%) WordPress
4 6 (0.078%) nginx
5 5 (0.065%) Drupal
6 4 (0.052%) Apache
6 4 (0.052%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.052%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.039%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.026%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.026%) SAS
9 1 (0.013%) FileNet
Applications
1 106 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 66 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 49 (0.63%) Maya
4 39 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 19 (0.25%) Simulink
7 10 (0.13%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.039%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.039%) CATIA
9 3 (0.039%) CINEMA 4D
9 3 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.026%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.026%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.013%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 31 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
4 11 (0.14%) SAP IBP
5 7 (0.091%) SAP FS
6 6 (0.078%) Exchequer
6 6 (0.078%) SAP CO
6 6 (0.078%) SAP FI
6 6 (0.078%) SAP FI/CO
6 6 (0.078%) SAP FSCM
6 6 (0.078%) SAP IS-U
6 6 (0.078%) Shopify
7 4 (0.052%) Endur
7 4 (0.052%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.052%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.052%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.052%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.039%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.039%) SAP CX
8 3 (0.039%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 4,062 (52.62%) Cloud Computing
2 1,467 (19.01%) Azure
3 546 (7.07%) AWS
4 410 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
5 263 (3.41%) Entra ID
6 220 (2.85%) GitHub
7 80 (1.04%) SaaS
8 79 (1.02%) Power Platform
9 75 (0.97%) GCP
10 50 (0.65%) PaaS
11 47 (0.61%) Azure Sentinel
11 47 (0.61%) Microsoft Purview
12 38 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
13 35 (0.45%) IaaS
14 33 (0.43%) Google Workspace
15 31 (0.40%) OneDrive
16 29 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
16 29 (0.38%) Nutanix
17 22 (0.29%) AWS CloudFormation
18 21 (0.27%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4,231 (54.81%) Internet
2 284 (3.68%) Firewall
3 125 (1.62%) Network Security
4 120 (1.55%) VPN
5 104 (1.35%) DNS
6 85 (1.10%) DHCP
7 81 (1.05%) TCP/IP
8 70 (0.91%) WAN
9 63 (0.82%) LAN
10 60 (0.78%) VLAN
11 57 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
12 46 (0.60%) VoIP
13 39 (0.51%) Broadband
14 33 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
15 26 (0.34%) Wireless
16 21 (0.27%) SD-WAN
17 18 (0.23%) CHAP
18 16 (0.21%) DMZ
19 13 (0.17%) Modbus
20 12 (0.16%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (0.65%) Power BI
2 39 (0.51%) SQL Server
3 35 (0.45%) Tableau
4 31 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (0.30%) Big Data
6 21 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (0.22%) Neo4j
7 17 (0.22%) Relational Database
8 15 (0.19%) Metadata
9 14 (0.18%) Data Lake
10 13 (0.17%) SAP BW
11 11 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (0.14%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.091%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.065%) MariaDB
13 5 (0.065%) MS Access
14 4 (0.052%) BusinessObjects
14 4 (0.052%) PostgreSQL
14 4 (0.052%) SAP Data Services
15 3 (0.039%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 222 (2.88%) Git
2 27 (0.35%) JIRA
3 25 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
4 18 (0.23%) GitLab
5 15 (0.19%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.10%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.052%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.052%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.052%) JMeter
7 4 (0.052%) Locust
7 4 (0.052%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.052%) MLflow
7 4 (0.052%) Toad
8 3 (0.039%) Apache Continuum
9 2 (0.026%) Snyk
10 1 (0.013%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.013%) SonarQube
General
1 5,505 (71.32%) Social Skills
2 4,185 (54.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,168 (54.00%) Banking
4 544 (7.05%) Finance
5 371 (4.81%) Multimedia
6 365 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
7 197 (2.55%) Public Sector
8 179 (2.32%) Marketing
9 166 (2.15%) Law
10 149 (1.93%) Legal
11 132 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
12 126 (1.63%) Telecoms
13 108 (1.40%) Retail
14 105 (1.36%) Manufacturing
15 78 (1.01%) Games
16 64 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 62 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
18 53 (0.69%) Electronics
19 46 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
20 44 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3,135 (40.61%) Lecturer
2 671 (8.69%) Analyst
3 549 (7.11%) Security Analyst
4 505 (6.54%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 444 (5.75%) Junior
6 425 (5.51%) Junior Analyst
7 424 (5.49%) Junior Security Analyst
8 374 (4.85%) Trainee
9 368 (4.77%) Senior
10 234 (3.03%) Consultant
11 226 (2.93%) Lead
12 220 (2.85%) Architect
13 204 (2.64%) IT Support
14 164 (2.12%) Developer
15 150 (1.94%) Security Manager
16 142 (1.84%) Support Engineer
17 141 (1.83%) Ethical Hacker
18 136 (1.76%) Security Consultant
19 135 (1.75%) Security Engineer
20 130 (1.68%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (3.04%) HTML
2 232 (3.01%) CSS
3 41 (0.53%) REST
4 36 (0.47%) OAuth
4 36 (0.47%) React
5 35 (0.45%) SAML
6 33 (0.43%) OpenID
7 29 (0.38%) LDAP
8 26 (0.34%) GraphQL
8 26 (0.34%) SAP CAF
9 25 (0.32%) AngularJS
9 25 (0.32%) SOAP
10 17 (0.22%) MERN Stack
11 14 (0.18%) Middleware
12 12 (0.16%) .NET
13 11 (0.14%) YAML
14 10 (0.13%) PyTorch
14 10 (0.13%) TensorFlow
15 9 (0.12%) Node.js
15 9 (0.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4,075 (52.79%) IoT
2 204 (2.64%) Cyberattack
3 178 (2.31%) Security Posture
4 168 (2.18%) Management Information System
5 132 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
6 131 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
7 112 (1.45%) Driving Licence
8 110 (1.43%) Onboarding
9 89 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
10 76 (0.98%) Cloud Native
11 69 (0.89%) Data Centre
12 68 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
13 55 (0.71%) Operational Technology
14 49 (0.63%) Cyber Defence
15 46 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
16 42 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
17 40 (0.52%) Public Cloud
18 39 (0.51%) Blog
19 36 (0.47%) Cyber Security Posture
20 35 (0.45%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 362 (4.69%) Windows
2 156 (2.02%) Windows Server
3 120 (1.55%) Linux
4 65 (0.84%) Windows 10
5 61 (0.79%) Mac OS
6 33 (0.43%) Android
7 24 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.23%) Unix
9 11 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.078%) VMS
10 6 (0.078%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.039%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.026%) Debian
12 2 (0.026%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.013%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.013%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.013%) OpenBSD
13 1 (0.013%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.013%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,265 (55.25%) AI
2 4,067 (52.69%) Machine Learning
3 4,040 (52.34%) User Experience
4 4,033 (52.25%) Web Development
5 1,032 (13.37%) Mentoring
6 474 (6.14%) Problem-Solving
7 398 (5.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 386 (5.00%) Risk Management
9 341 (4.42%) Incident Response
10 338 (4.38%) Information Security
11 308 (3.99%) Ethical Hacking
12 257 (3.33%) Agile
13 206 (2.67%) SIEM
14 205 (2.66%) ITIL
15 204 (2.64%) Project Management
16 201 (2.60%) Roadmaps
17 195 (2.53%) Data Protection
18 191 (2.47%) Decision-Making
18 191 (2.47%) Line Management
19 188 (2.44%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 401 (5.19%) Python
2 277 (3.59%) JavaScript
3 174 (2.25%) PowerShell
4 115 (1.49%) SQL
5 111 (1.44%) R
6 55 (0.71%) Bash
7 38 (0.49%) Java
8 28 (0.36%) C++
8 28 (0.36%) TypeScript
9 26 (0.34%) C#
10 25 (0.32%) T-SQL
11 20 (0.26%) C
12 19 (0.25%) MATLAB
13 11 (0.14%) Go
14 10 (0.13%) Bicep
15 8 (0.10%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.091%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.078%) Rust
18 4 (0.052%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.052%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4,479 (58.03%) Degree
2 4,070 (52.73%) Master's Degree
3 4,014 (52.00%) PhD
4 4,004 (51.87%) Postgraduate
5 817 (10.58%) Azure Certification
6 625 (8.10%) CompTIA Security+
7 459 (5.95%) CompTIA CySA+
8 346 (4.48%) CISSP
9 344 (4.46%) CEH
10 306 (3.96%) Security Cleared
11 285 (3.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 264 (3.42%) AWS Certification
13 248 (3.21%) CISM
14 215 (2.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 208 (2.69%) SC Cleared
16 181 (2.34%) Network+ Certification
17 176 (2.28%) A+ Certification
18 111 (1.44%) CISA
19 102 (1.32%) DV Cleared
20 94 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 492 (6.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 439 (5.69%) NIST
3 266 (3.45%) GDPR
4 222 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 189 (2.45%) GRC
6 107 (1.39%) NCSC
7 103 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 95 (1.23%) PCI DSS
9 61 (0.79%) QA
10 47 (0.61%) SLA
11 42 (0.54%) COBIT
12 39 (0.51%) NIST 800
13 38 (0.49%) SOC 2
14 29 (0.38%) Data Quality
15 22 (0.29%) Accessibility
16 20 (0.26%) JSP 440
17 18 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
17 18 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 17 (0.22%) SOC 3
19 16 (0.21%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 279 (3.61%) Active Directory
2 64 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 51 (0.66%) Docker
5 31 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.18%) vSphere
7 8 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.078%) Firmware
10 5 (0.065%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.052%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.039%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.026%) GPFS
13 2 (0.026%) Lustre
13 2 (0.026%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.013%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.013%) iptables
14 1 (0.013%) KVM
Systems Management
1 156 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 58 (0.75%) Terraform
3 50 (0.65%) Kubernetes
4 33 (0.43%) Ansible
5 25 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.19%) CASB
6 15 (0.19%) SCCM
7 12 (0.16%) CSIRT
7 12 (0.16%) Nessus
8 11 (0.14%) Grafana
8 11 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
8 11 (0.14%) RSA Archer
9 10 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 10 (0.13%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 8 (0.10%) Nagios
12 7 (0.091%) FTK
13 6 (0.078%) PaperCut
13 6 (0.078%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 5 (0.065%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1,492 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 565 (7.32%) ForeScout
3 109 (1.41%) VMware
4 89 (1.15%) SAP
5 85 (1.10%) Cisco
6 71 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
7 68 (0.88%) Fortinet
7 68 (0.88%) Palo Alto
8 60 (0.78%) Oracle
9 49 (0.63%) Apple
10 48 (0.62%) Salesforce
11 42 (0.54%) Adobe
12 34 (0.44%) Google
13 33 (0.43%) Dell
14 31 (0.40%) Tenable
15 30 (0.39%) ServiceNow
16 28 (0.36%) Siemens
17 24 (0.31%) MuleSoft
17 24 (0.31%) Splunk
18 19 (0.25%) PayPal