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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 31 34
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 +7
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,912 2,707 3,558
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.77% 6.26% 5.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.87% 7.06% 6.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,816 1,601 1,934
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,536 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -6.98%

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 75,166 38,365 56,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.42% 88.79% 81.71%
Number of salaries quoted 53,189 22,080 32,110
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,215 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +9 1,514 £80,000 +14.29% 2,107
North of England +14 1,207 £51,500 +10.46% 724
South East +11 1,078 £55,000 +10.00% 827
Midlands +17 1,037 £55,000 +21.69% 448
North West +26 612 £60,000 +26.32% 399
South West +5 594 £55,000 +10.00% 393
West Midlands +5 528 £55,000 +10.00% 280
East Midlands +36 509 £55,000 +51.72% 168
East of England +47 458 £45,000 - 256
Yorkshire +12 453 £44,500 +18.67% 238
North East +5 142 £50,000 -24.53% 94
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
1 241 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 227 (3.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (0.44%) IIS
4 21 (0.36%) Apache
5 11 (0.19%) Confluence
6 9 (0.15%) SAS
7 5 (0.085%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.085%) CMS
7 5 (0.085%) WordPress
8 3 (0.051%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.017%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 89 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.27%) Simulink
5 11 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.068%) CATIA
8 2 (0.034%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.017%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 24 (0.41%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.10%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.085%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.085%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.068%) SystmOne
8 3 (0.051%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.051%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.051%) Infor CloudSuite
8 3 (0.051%) Infor LN
8 3 (0.051%) Infor M3
8 3 (0.051%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.051%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.034%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
9 2 (0.034%) Eikon
9 2 (0.034%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.017%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 1,635 (27.66%) Azure
2 836 (14.14%) Microsoft 365
3 487 (8.24%) Entra ID
4 449 (7.59%) AWS
5 199 (3.37%) SaaS
6 150 (2.54%) GCP
7 93 (1.57%) Power Platform
8 87 (1.47%) OneDrive
9 86 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
10 82 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
11 59 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
12 57 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
13 53 (0.90%) Serverless
14 45 (0.76%) Mimecast
15 31 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
15 31 (0.52%) Power Automate
16 30 (0.51%) PaaS
17 28 (0.47%) Google Workspace
17 28 (0.47%) IaaS
18 27 (0.46%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 522 (8.83%) Firewall
2 265 (4.48%) DNS
3 242 (4.09%) Network Security
4 235 (3.97%) VPN
5 188 (3.18%) DHCP
6 181 (3.06%) TCP/IP
7 180 (3.04%) WAN
8 163 (2.76%) Wi-Fi
9 156 (2.64%) LAN
10 128 (2.17%) VLAN
11 97 (1.64%) Internet
12 87 (1.47%) VoIP
13 84 (1.42%) Wireless
14 57 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
15 46 (0.78%) HTTP
15 46 (0.78%) SSL
15 46 (0.78%) Unified Communications
16 35 (0.59%) Wireshark
17 33 (0.56%) SD-WAN
18 30 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (0.91%) Power BI
1 54 (0.91%) SQL Server
2 14 (0.24%) Big Data
2 14 (0.24%) GIS
2 14 (0.24%) MySQL
2 14 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (0.22%) MongoDB
4 10 (0.17%) Tableau
5 9 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (0.14%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (0.085%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.085%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.085%) Metadata
8 5 (0.085%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.085%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.068%) Crystal Reports
9 4 (0.068%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.051%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 49 (0.83%) JIRA
2 41 (0.69%) Git
3 31 (0.52%) Burp Suite
4 29 (0.49%) Metasploit
5 27 (0.46%) Snyk
6 20 (0.34%) GitLab
7 19 (0.32%) Jenkins
8 10 (0.17%) Yeoman
9 8 (0.14%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.10%) LabVIEW
11 5 (0.085%) Rational DOORS
11 5 (0.085%) VersionOne
12 4 (0.068%) Apache Continuum
12 4 (0.068%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.068%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.068%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.051%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.051%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.034%) Team Foundation Server
14 2 (0.034%) Zephyr
General
1 1,955 (33.07%) Social Skills
2 595 (10.06%) Finance
3 455 (7.70%) Analytical Skills
4 376 (6.36%) Public Sector
5 338 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 198 (3.35%) Legal
7 192 (3.25%) Retail
8 188 (3.18%) Telecoms
9 187 (3.16%) Law
9 187 (3.16%) Marketing
10 175 (2.96%) Manufacturing
11 148 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
12 132 (2.23%) Banking
13 129 (2.18%) Aerospace
14 124 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
15 59 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
16 54 (0.91%) Advertising
17 53 (0.90%) Local Government
18 46 (0.78%) Aviation
19 32 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 893 (15.10%) Analyst
2 699 (11.82%) Senior
3 677 (11.45%) Security Analyst
4 585 (9.90%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 531 (8.98%) Consultant
6 419 (7.09%) Junior
7 391 (6.61%) Lead
8 380 (6.43%) Architect
9 345 (5.84%) Junior Analyst
10 335 (5.67%) Junior Security Analyst
11 329 (5.56%) Ethical Hacker
12 325 (5.50%) IT Support
13 323 (5.46%) Security Manager
14 320 (5.41%) Security Consultant
15 275 (4.65%) Security Engineer
16 267 (4.52%) Security Architect
17 255 (4.31%) IT Manager
18 241 (4.08%) IT Engineer
19 228 (3.86%) Cybersecurity Manager
20 206 (3.48%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (1.37%) Terraform
2 49 (0.83%) SAML
3 48 (0.81%) LDAP
4 45 (0.76%) OAuth
5 37 (0.63%) OpenID
5 37 (0.63%) REST
6 29 (0.49%) .NET
7 22 (0.37%) React
8 21 (0.36%) JSON
9 20 (0.34%) Node.js
10 19 (0.32%) HTML
11 18 (0.30%) Kafka
12 16 (0.27%) XML
13 15 (0.25%) RESTful
14 14 (0.24%) CSS
14 14 (0.24%) FastAPI
15 13 (0.22%) AngularJS
15 13 (0.22%) SailPoint
16 12 (0.20%) Middleware
17 10 (0.17%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 428 (7.24%) Cyberattack
2 356 (6.02%) Security Posture
3 306 (5.18%) Cyber Threat
4 268 (4.53%) Onboarding
5 236 (3.99%) Management Information System
6 187 (3.16%) Driving Licence
7 172 (2.91%) Operational Technology
8 158 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
9 139 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
10 107 (1.81%) Cyber Defence
11 105 (1.78%) Data Centre
12 98 (1.66%) Cloud Native
13 73 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
14 59 (1.00%) PKI
15 51 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
16 48 (0.81%) SCADA
17 44 (0.74%) Cyber Security Posture
18 41 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
19 37 (0.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
20 35 (0.59%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 628 (10.62%) Windows
2 303 (5.13%) Windows Server
3 233 (3.94%) Linux
4 77 (1.30%) Mac OS
5 38 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 37 (0.63%) Windows 10
7 28 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 28 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (0.41%) Apple iOS
9 19 (0.32%) Android
10 16 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.10%) Unix
11 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.085%) CentOS
13 4 (0.068%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.068%) VMS
14 2 (0.034%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.034%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.034%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.017%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 742 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
2 731 (12.36%) Mentoring
3 707 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 589 (9.96%) AI
5 562 (9.51%) Information Security
6 537 (9.08%) Incident Response
7 533 (9.02%) Risk Management
8 516 (8.73%) Security Operations
9 466 (7.88%) Stakeholder Management
9 466 (7.88%) Vulnerability Management
10 459 (7.76%) SIEM
11 418 (7.07%) Cloud Security
12 389 (6.58%) Decision-Making
13 388 (6.56%) Disaster Recovery
14 336 (5.68%) Ethical Hacking
15 323 (5.46%) Roadmaps
16 320 (5.41%) Data Protection
17 312 (5.28%) Service Delivery
18 301 (5.09%) ITIL
19 281 (4.75%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 323 (5.46%) Python
2 244 (4.13%) PowerShell
3 97 (1.64%) SQL
4 76 (1.29%) C++
5 60 (1.01%) Bash
6 58 (0.98%) JavaScript
7 54 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
8 53 (0.90%) Java
9 37 (0.63%) C#
9 37 (0.63%) Rust
10 28 (0.47%) Go
11 26 (0.44%) C
12 22 (0.37%) TypeScript
13 18 (0.30%) MATLAB
14 17 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
15 15 (0.25%) Embedded C
16 12 (0.20%) Perl
17 6 (0.10%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.068%) Ada
18 4 (0.068%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 744 (12.58%) Security Cleared
2 736 (12.45%) Azure Certification
3 551 (9.32%) Degree
4 510 (8.63%) SC Cleared
5 485 (8.20%) CISSP
6 463 (7.83%) CompTIA Security+
7 398 (6.73%) CEH
8 373 (6.31%) CompTIA CySA+
9 315 (5.33%) CISM
10 232 (3.92%) DV Cleared
11 160 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
12 125 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
13 104 (1.76%) CRISC
14 101 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
15 91 (1.54%) Master's Degree
16 86 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 85 (1.44%) CISA
18 81 (1.37%) CREST Certified
19 73 (1.23%) AWS Certification
20 70 (1.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 680 (11.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 524 (8.86%) NIST
3 349 (5.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 337 (5.70%) GDPR
5 317 (5.36%) GRC
6 147 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 142 (2.40%) PCI DSS
8 122 (2.06%) NCSC
9 100 (1.69%) QA
10 56 (0.95%) SOC 2
11 50 (0.85%) Accessibility
11 50 (0.85%) SLA
12 47 (0.79%) NIST 800
13 35 (0.59%) Data Quality
14 34 (0.58%) COBIT
15 33 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 31 (0.52%) JSP 440
17 27 (0.46%) ISO 22301
18 23 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
19 19 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 480 (8.12%) Active Directory
2 165 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 140 (2.37%) Hyper-V
4 64 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 55 (0.93%) Docker
6 39 (0.66%) Firmware
7 25 (0.42%) vSphere
8 16 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 11 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 11 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.17%) IAG
12 8 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
13 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.085%) ClearTrust
15 3 (0.051%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.034%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.034%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 278 (4.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 76 (1.29%) Kubernetes
3 68 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
4 49 (0.83%) Ansible
5 26 (0.44%) Nmap
6 24 (0.41%) Nessus
7 23 (0.39%) QRadar
8 22 (0.37%) CASB
9 21 (0.36%) FortiGate
9 21 (0.36%) SCCM
10 20 (0.34%) Grafana
11 15 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
12 13 (0.22%) Prometheus
13 10 (0.17%) Functional Safety
14 9 (0.15%) Kibana
15 8 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
16 7 (0.12%) Graylog
17 6 (0.10%) Cisco CUCM
17 6 (0.10%) Progress Chef
17 6 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,964 (33.22%) Microsoft
2 658 (11.13%) ForeScout
3 221 (3.74%) Cisco
4 214 (3.62%) VMware
5 173 (2.93%) Palo Alto
6 110 (1.86%) Splunk
7 95 (1.61%) CrowdStrike
8 79 (1.34%) Qualys
9 78 (1.32%) Google
10 72 (1.22%) ServiceNow
11 69 (1.17%) Aruba
12 63 (1.07%) Salesforce
13 61 (1.03%) Apple
13 61 (1.03%) Tenable
14 57 (0.96%) Fortinet
15 52 (0.88%) Veeam
16 42 (0.71%) Adobe
16 42 (0.71%) SAP
17 40 (0.68%) CyberArk
17 40 (0.68%) SonicWALL