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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 36 32
Rank change year-on-year +30 -4 +19
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 7,580 2,571 3,746
As % of all permanent jobs in England 13.01% 5.74% 5.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.30% 6.24% 6.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,219 1,335 2,893
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £50,000 £45,668
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 £95,000
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 46,489 41,225 58,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.81% 92.12% 88.13%
Number of salaries quoted 28,280 20,343 45,933
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,750
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 £82,100 £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 11 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 11 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 +32 2,364 £32,750 -41.52% 253
North West +30 1,816 £40,000 -27.27% 137
Midlands +24 1,479 £42,500 -29.17% 176
London +20 1,421 £70,000 -6.67% 358
West Midlands +22 1,217 £45,000 -25.00% 113
South East +38 1,173 £48,250 -18.39% 333
East of England +53 639 £35,000 -41.67% 137
Yorkshire +31 466 £30,500 -49.17% 89
South West +41 447 £55,000 -8.33% 171
East Midlands +32 272 £37,500 -19.08% 63
North East +37 82 £30,500 -20.78% 28
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 (1.64%) SharePoint
2 65 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (0.16%) Confluence
4 11 (0.15%) WordPress
5 10 (0.13%) CMS
6 6 (0.079%) nginx
7 5 (0.066%) Drupal
8 4 (0.053%) Apache
8 4 (0.053%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.040%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.026%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.026%) FactoryTalk
10 2 (0.026%) SAS
10 2 (0.026%) WinCC
11 1 (0.013%) FileNet
Applications
1 106 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
2 66 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (0.70%) Maya
4 38 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 17 (0.22%) Simulink
7 11 (0.15%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.053%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.040%) CATIA
9 3 (0.040%) CINEMA 4D
9 3 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.026%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.026%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.013%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 32 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.17%) SAP IBP
4 11 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
5 8 (0.11%) SAP FS
6 7 (0.092%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.092%) SAP FI
6 7 (0.092%) SAP FI/CO
6 7 (0.092%) SAP FSCM
6 7 (0.092%) SAP IS-U
6 7 (0.092%) Shopify
7 6 (0.079%) Exchequer
8 4 (0.053%) Endur
8 4 (0.053%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.053%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.053%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.053%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.040%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.040%) SAP CX
9 3 (0.040%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 4,064 (53.61%) Cloud Computing
2 1,372 (18.10%) Azure
3 545 (7.19%) AWS
4 409 (5.40%) Microsoft 365
5 259 (3.42%) Entra ID
6 219 (2.89%) GitHub
7 81 (1.07%) SaaS
8 80 (1.06%) Power Platform
9 75 (0.99%) GCP
10 52 (0.69%) PaaS
11 49 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
12 48 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
13 38 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (0.47%) IaaS
15 33 (0.44%) Google Workspace
16 32 (0.42%) OneDrive
17 27 (0.36%) Dynamics 365
17 27 (0.36%) Nutanix
18 21 (0.28%) AWS CloudFormation
19 20 (0.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4,231 (55.82%) Internet
2 283 (3.73%) Firewall
3 126 (1.66%) Network Security
4 120 (1.58%) VPN
5 107 (1.41%) DNS
6 89 (1.17%) TCP/IP
7 87 (1.15%) DHCP
8 72 (0.95%) WAN
9 65 (0.86%) LAN
10 57 (0.75%) VLAN
10 57 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
11 50 (0.66%) VoIP
12 39 (0.51%) Broadband
13 32 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
14 28 (0.37%) Wireless
15 23 (0.30%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.24%) CHAP
17 16 (0.21%) DMZ
17 16 (0.21%) Modbus
18 15 (0.20%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (0.69%) Power BI
2 39 (0.51%) SQL Server
3 37 (0.49%) Tableau
4 32 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (0.30%) Big Data
6 21 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (0.22%) Neo4j
7 17 (0.22%) Relational Database
8 15 (0.20%) Data Lake
8 15 (0.20%) Metadata
8 15 (0.20%) SAP BW
9 11 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (0.15%) Oracle Database
10 8 (0.11%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.079%) MS Access
12 5 (0.066%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.053%) BusinessObjects
13 4 (0.053%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.053%) SAP Data Services
14 3 (0.040%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 221 (2.92%) Git
2 27 (0.36%) JIRA
3 23 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
4 17 (0.22%) GitLab
5 16 (0.21%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.11%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.053%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.053%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.053%) JMeter
7 4 (0.053%) Locust
7 4 (0.053%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.053%) MLflow
7 4 (0.053%) Toad
8 3 (0.040%) Apache Continuum
9 2 (0.026%) Snyk
10 1 (0.013%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.013%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.013%) SonarQube
General
1 5,423 (71.54%) Social Skills
2 4,184 (55.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,168 (54.99%) Banking
4 545 (7.19%) Finance
5 370 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 362 (4.78%) Multimedia
7 181 (2.39%) Marketing
8 175 (2.31%) Public Sector
9 167 (2.20%) Law
10 147 (1.94%) Legal
11 135 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
12 125 (1.65%) Telecoms
13 107 (1.41%) Retail
14 104 (1.37%) Manufacturing
15 83 (1.09%) Games
16 65 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
16 65 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
17 53 (0.70%) Electronics
18 46 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
19 44 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3,136 (41.37%) Lecturer
2 629 (8.30%) Analyst
3 505 (6.66%) Security Analyst
4 458 (6.04%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 397 (5.24%) Junior
6 378 (4.99%) Junior Analyst
7 377 (4.97%) Junior Security Analyst
8 365 (4.82%) Trainee
9 363 (4.79%) Senior
10 233 (3.07%) Lead
11 231 (3.05%) Consultant
12 221 (2.92%) Architect
13 198 (2.61%) IT Support
14 161 (2.12%) Developer
15 145 (1.91%) Support Engineer
16 141 (1.86%) Security Manager
17 136 (1.79%) Security Engineer
18 133 (1.75%) Security Consultant
19 129 (1.70%) IT Manager
20 113 (1.49%) Trainee Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (3.10%) HTML
2 232 (3.06%) CSS
3 41 (0.54%) REST
4 36 (0.47%) React
5 34 (0.45%) OAuth
6 33 (0.44%) SAML
7 31 (0.41%) OpenID
8 27 (0.36%) LDAP
9 26 (0.34%) AngularJS
9 26 (0.34%) GraphQL
9 26 (0.34%) SAP CAF
10 25 (0.33%) SOAP
11 17 (0.22%) MERN Stack
12 15 (0.20%) Middleware
13 14 (0.18%) .NET
14 13 (0.17%) YAML
15 10 (0.13%) PyTorch
15 10 (0.13%) TensorFlow
16 9 (0.12%) Node.js
16 9 (0.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4,075 (53.76%) IoT
2 175 (2.31%) Security Posture
3 169 (2.23%) Management Information System
4 154 (2.03%) Cyberattack
5 136 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
5 136 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 110 (1.45%) Driving Licence
7 109 (1.44%) Onboarding
8 89 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
9 77 (1.02%) Cloud Native
10 70 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
11 69 (0.91%) Data Centre
12 60 (0.79%) Operational Technology
13 49 (0.65%) Cyber Defence
14 45 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
15 43 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
16 39 (0.51%) Public Cloud
17 38 (0.50%) Blog
17 38 (0.50%) Cyber Security Posture
18 35 (0.46%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 366 (4.83%) Windows
2 155 (2.04%) Windows Server
3 124 (1.64%) Linux
4 64 (0.84%) Windows 10
5 62 (0.82%) Mac OS
6 28 (0.37%) Android
7 21 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 20 (0.26%) Unix
9 13 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.092%) VMS
11 6 (0.079%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.040%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.026%) Debian
13 2 (0.026%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.013%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.013%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.013%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,268 (56.31%) AI
2 4,066 (53.64%) Machine Learning
3 4,038 (53.27%) User Experience
4 4,033 (53.21%) Web Development
5 970 (12.80%) Mentoring
6 476 (6.28%) Problem-Solving
7 385 (5.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 385 (5.08%) Risk Management
8 346 (4.56%) Incident Response
9 336 (4.43%) Information Security
10 263 (3.47%) Agile
11 252 (3.32%) Ethical Hacking
12 211 (2.78%) SIEM
13 205 (2.70%) Roadmaps
14 204 (2.69%) ITIL
15 199 (2.63%) Project Management
16 198 (2.61%) Analytics
17 196 (2.59%) Data Protection
18 184 (2.43%) Decision-Making
18 184 (2.43%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 395 (5.21%) Python
2 275 (3.63%) JavaScript
3 173 (2.28%) PowerShell
4 119 (1.57%) SQL
5 111 (1.46%) R
6 57 (0.75%) Bash
7 35 (0.46%) Java
8 28 (0.37%) TypeScript
9 27 (0.36%) C#
9 27 (0.36%) C++
10 25 (0.33%) T-SQL
11 20 (0.26%) C
12 17 (0.22%) MATLAB
13 11 (0.15%) Bicep
14 10 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.12%) Go
16 7 (0.092%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.066%) Rust
18 4 (0.053%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.053%) VB
Qualifications
1 4,488 (59.21%) Degree
2 4,073 (53.73%) Master's Degree
3 4,014 (52.96%) PhD
4 4,004 (52.82%) Postgraduate
5 726 (9.58%) Azure Certification
6 571 (7.53%) CompTIA Security+
7 413 (5.45%) CompTIA CySA+
8 339 (4.47%) CISSP
9 303 (4.00%) Security Cleared
10 287 (3.79%) CEH
10 287 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 265 (3.50%) AWS Certification
12 245 (3.23%) CISM
13 215 (2.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 207 (2.73%) SC Cleared
15 172 (2.27%) Network+ Certification
16 167 (2.20%) A+ Certification
17 117 (1.54%) CISA
18 100 (1.32%) DV Cleared
19 95 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 487 (6.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 443 (5.84%) NIST
3 262 (3.46%) GDPR
4 222 (2.93%) Cyber Essentials
5 189 (2.49%) GRC
6 109 (1.44%) NCSC
7 100 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 88 (1.16%) PCI DSS
9 62 (0.82%) QA
10 48 (0.63%) SLA
11 45 (0.59%) COBIT
12 39 (0.51%) NIST 800
13 37 (0.49%) SOC 2
14 28 (0.37%) Data Quality
15 21 (0.28%) Accessibility
16 18 (0.24%) JSP 440
16 18 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 17 (0.22%) SOC 3
18 16 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
19 14 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 279 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 69 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 51 (0.67%) Docker
5 34 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.21%) vSphere
7 8 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.079%) Firmware
10 4 (0.053%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.053%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.040%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.040%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.026%) GPFS
12 2 (0.026%) Lustre
13 1 (0.013%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.013%) iptables
13 1 (0.013%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 158 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 56 (0.74%) Terraform
3 49 (0.65%) Kubernetes
4 31 (0.41%) Ansible
5 24 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (0.21%) SCCM
7 15 (0.20%) CASB
8 12 (0.16%) CSIRT
8 12 (0.16%) Nessus
8 12 (0.16%) RSA Archer
9 11 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 11 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
10 10 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 9 (0.12%) Grafana
11 9 (0.12%) Nagios
12 6 (0.079%) FTK
12 6 (0.079%) PaperCut
12 6 (0.079%) QRadar
12 6 (0.079%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1,398 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 471 (6.21%) ForeScout
3 114 (1.50%) VMware
4 92 (1.21%) SAP
5 87 (1.15%) Cisco
6 72 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
7 69 (0.91%) Palo Alto
8 68 (0.90%) Fortinet
9 62 (0.82%) Oracle
10 50 (0.66%) Salesforce
11 48 (0.63%) Apple
12 44 (0.58%) Adobe
13 32 (0.42%) Google
13 32 (0.42%) ServiceNow
14 31 (0.41%) Tenable
15 28 (0.37%) Siemens
16 25 (0.33%) MuleSoft
17 24 (0.32%) Splunk
18 23 (0.30%) Dell
19 19 (0.25%) PayPal