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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 32 35
Rank change year-on-year +11 +3 +3
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,883 2,723 3,546
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.88% 6.28% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.03% 7.08% 6.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,765 1,613 2,028
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,500
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 73,230 38,473 56,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.20% 88.68% 81.32%
Number of salaries quoted 52,112 22,159 32,915
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,229 £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 £95,000
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 12 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 12 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 +7 1,495 £78,500 +12.14% 1,446
North of England +18 1,220 £52,500 +10.53% 494
South East +12 1,054 £55,000 +10.00% 619
Midlands +15 1,028 £55,000 +23.48% 322
North West +26 611 £60,000 +15.91% 262
South West +7 600 £55,000 +10.00% 287
West Midlands +5 518 £55,000 +10.00% 177
East Midlands +38 510 £55,000 +57.14% 145
Yorkshire +11 464 £45,000 +36.36% 174
East of England +48 461 £45,000 -5.26% 191
North East +14 145 £50,000 -25.93% 66
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
1 235 (3.99%) SharePoint
2 223 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (0.41%) IIS
4 19 (0.32%) Apache
5 9 (0.15%) Confluence
5 9 (0.15%) SAS
6 5 (0.085%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.085%) CMS
6 5 (0.085%) WordPress
7 3 (0.051%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
Applications
1 86 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.24%) Simulink
5 8 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.068%) CATIA
8 2 (0.034%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 24 (0.41%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.14%) 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%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
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%) Eikon
9 2 (0.034%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.017%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 1,702 (28.93%) Azure
2 807 (13.72%) Microsoft 365
3 469 (7.97%) Entra ID
4 453 (7.70%) AWS
5 192 (3.26%) SaaS
6 150 (2.55%) GCP
7 91 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
8 87 (1.48%) Power Platform
9 83 (1.41%) OneDrive
10 79 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
11 59 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
12 55 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
13 53 (0.90%) Serverless
14 45 (0.76%) Mimecast
15 28 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
15 28 (0.48%) IaaS
15 28 (0.48%) PaaS
16 27 (0.46%) GitHub
16 27 (0.46%) Power Automate
17 26 (0.44%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 527 (8.96%) Firewall
2 253 (4.30%) DNS
3 243 (4.13%) Network Security
4 229 (3.89%) VPN
5 178 (3.03%) DHCP
6 177 (3.01%) WAN
7 170 (2.89%) TCP/IP
8 158 (2.69%) Wi-Fi
9 153 (2.60%) LAN
10 129 (2.19%) VLAN
11 94 (1.60%) Internet
12 89 (1.51%) VoIP
13 84 (1.43%) Wireless
14 57 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
15 47 (0.80%) Unified Communications
16 44 (0.75%) HTTP
17 43 (0.73%) SSL
18 34 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
19 33 (0.56%) Wireshark
20 32 (0.54%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (0.90%) SQL Server
2 51 (0.87%) Power BI
3 14 (0.24%) Big Data
3 14 (0.24%) GIS
3 14 (0.24%) MySQL
4 13 (0.22%) MongoDB
4 13 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (0.15%) Tableau
6 6 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.085%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.085%) Metadata
7 5 (0.085%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.068%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.068%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (0.068%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.068%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.068%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 43 (0.73%) JIRA
2 40 (0.68%) Git
3 30 (0.51%) Burp Suite
4 28 (0.48%) Metasploit
5 27 (0.46%) Snyk
6 21 (0.36%) GitLab
7 20 (0.34%) Jenkins
8 10 (0.17%) Yeoman
9 7 (0.12%) Eclipse
10 5 (0.085%) LabVIEW
10 5 (0.085%) Rational DOORS
10 5 (0.085%) VersionOne
11 4 (0.068%) Apache Continuum
11 4 (0.068%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.068%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.068%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.068%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.051%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.034%) MLflow
13 2 (0.034%) XCUITest
General
1 2,013 (34.22%) Social Skills
2 568 (9.65%) Finance
3 449 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
4 357 (6.07%) Public Sector
5 336 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 188 (3.20%) Legal
6 188 (3.20%) Retail
7 184 (3.13%) Law
8 182 (3.09%) Marketing
9 179 (3.04%) Telecoms
10 165 (2.80%) Manufacturing
11 140 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
12 132 (2.24%) Banking
13 121 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
14 119 (2.02%) Aerospace
15 58 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
16 54 (0.92%) Local Government
17 53 (0.90%) Advertising
18 49 (0.83%) Aviation
19 30 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 928 (15.77%) Analyst
2 720 (12.24%) Security Analyst
3 681 (11.58%) Senior
4 626 (10.64%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 524 (8.91%) Consultant
6 469 (7.97%) Junior
7 393 (6.68%) Junior Analyst
8 383 (6.51%) Junior Security Analyst
8 383 (6.51%) Lead
9 376 (6.39%) Ethical Hacker
10 368 (6.26%) Architect
11 322 (5.47%) Security Consultant
12 321 (5.46%) Security Manager
13 310 (5.27%) IT Support
14 271 (4.61%) Security Engineer
15 262 (4.45%) Security Architect
16 257 (4.37%) IT Manager
17 237 (4.03%) IT Engineer
18 227 (3.86%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 207 (3.52%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (1.34%) Terraform
2 48 (0.82%) SAML
3 45 (0.76%) LDAP
4 42 (0.71%) OAuth
5 36 (0.61%) OpenID
6 35 (0.59%) REST
7 26 (0.44%) .NET
8 21 (0.36%) React
9 20 (0.34%) JSON
10 19 (0.32%) Node.js
11 18 (0.31%) Kafka
12 15 (0.25%) HTML
12 15 (0.25%) RESTful
12 15 (0.25%) SailPoint
12 15 (0.25%) XML
13 14 (0.24%) FastAPI
14 12 (0.20%) AngularJS
15 11 (0.19%) Middleware
16 10 (0.17%) CSS
16 10 (0.17%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 473 (8.04%) Cyberattack
2 358 (6.09%) Security Posture
3 295 (5.01%) Cyber Threat
4 255 (4.33%) Onboarding
5 234 (3.98%) Management Information System
6 183 (3.11%) Driving Licence
7 164 (2.79%) Operational Technology
8 160 (2.72%) Security Operations Centre
9 138 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
10 104 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
10 104 (1.77%) Data Centre
11 99 (1.68%) Cloud Native
12 64 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
13 58 (0.99%) PKI
14 52 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
15 45 (0.76%) Cyber Security Posture
16 40 (0.68%) SCADA
17 39 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
18 35 (0.59%) CSOC
19 34 (0.58%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 612 (10.40%) Windows
2 301 (5.12%) Windows Server
3 230 (3.91%) Linux
4 77 (1.31%) Mac OS
5 38 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 37 (0.63%) Windows 10
7 28 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 28 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (0.41%) Apple iOS
9 19 (0.32%) Android
10 17 (0.29%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.10%) CentOS
11 6 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.085%) Unix
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
1 771 (13.11%) Mentoring
2 719 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
3 681 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 568 (9.65%) AI
5 552 (9.38%) Information Security
6 535 (9.09%) Incident Response
7 522 (8.87%) Risk Management
8 514 (8.74%) Security Operations
9 462 (7.85%) SIEM
10 455 (7.73%) Vulnerability Management
11 432 (7.34%) Stakeholder Management
12 423 (7.19%) Cloud Security
13 387 (6.58%) Disaster Recovery
14 383 (6.51%) Ethical Hacking
15 373 (6.34%) Decision-Making
16 321 (5.46%) Roadmaps
17 312 (5.30%) Service Delivery
18 307 (5.22%) Data Protection
19 290 (4.93%) ITIL
20 282 (4.79%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 311 (5.29%) Python
2 235 (3.99%) PowerShell
3 95 (1.61%) SQL
4 72 (1.22%) C++
5 58 (0.99%) Bash
6 53 (0.90%) JavaScript
7 49 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
8 48 (0.82%) Java
9 36 (0.61%) C#
10 33 (0.56%) Rust
11 28 (0.48%) Go
12 24 (0.41%) C
13 21 (0.36%) TypeScript
14 17 (0.29%) MATLAB
15 16 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
16 13 (0.22%) Embedded C
17 12 (0.20%) Perl
18 6 (0.10%) Shell Script
19 4 (0.068%) Ada
19 4 (0.068%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 829 (14.09%) Azure Certification
2 714 (12.14%) Security Cleared
3 526 (8.94%) Degree
4 517 (8.79%) CompTIA Security+
5 490 (8.33%) SC Cleared
6 479 (8.14%) CISSP
7 449 (7.63%) CEH
8 421 (7.16%) CompTIA CySA+
9 313 (5.32%) CISM
10 231 (3.93%) DV Cleared
11 163 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
12 120 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
13 103 (1.75%) CRISC
14 96 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
15 87 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 87 (1.48%) Master's Degree
16 86 (1.46%) CISA
17 81 (1.38%) CREST Certified
18 73 (1.24%) AWS Certification
19 65 (1.10%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 670 (11.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 522 (8.87%) NIST
3 339 (5.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 338 (5.75%) GDPR
5 314 (5.34%) GRC
6 144 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 143 (2.43%) PCI DSS
8 114 (1.94%) NCSC
9 96 (1.63%) QA
10 58 (0.99%) SOC 2
11 48 (0.82%) Accessibility
11 48 (0.82%) NIST 800
12 47 (0.80%) SLA
13 35 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 33 (0.56%) COBIT
14 33 (0.56%) Data Quality
14 33 (0.56%) JSP 440
15 27 (0.46%) ISO 22301
16 23 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 20 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 467 (7.94%) Active Directory
2 165 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 141 (2.40%) Hyper-V
4 63 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (0.88%) Docker
6 39 (0.66%) Firmware
7 26 (0.44%) vSphere
8 15 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 12 (0.20%) IAG
10 12 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 10 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
13 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.085%) ClearTrust
15 3 (0.051%) BitLocker
15 3 (0.051%) VMware Server
16 2 (0.034%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.034%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 274 (4.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 78 (1.33%) Kubernetes
3 63 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
4 48 (0.82%) Ansible
5 25 (0.42%) Nmap
6 24 (0.41%) Nessus
6 24 (0.41%) QRadar
7 22 (0.37%) FortiGate
8 21 (0.36%) Grafana
8 21 (0.36%) SCCM
9 20 (0.34%) CASB
10 15 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
11 13 (0.22%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.15%) Kibana
13 8 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
13 8 (0.14%) Functional Safety
14 7 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
14 7 (0.12%) Graylog
15 6 (0.10%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.085%) Argo
Vendors
1 2,028 (34.47%) Microsoft
2 752 (12.78%) ForeScout
3 222 (3.77%) Cisco
4 213 (3.62%) VMware
5 172 (2.92%) Palo Alto
6 116 (1.97%) Splunk
7 102 (1.73%) CrowdStrike
8 77 (1.31%) Qualys
9 76 (1.29%) Google
10 68 (1.16%) Aruba
10 68 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 63 (1.07%) Apple
12 62 (1.05%) Salesforce
13 60 (1.02%) Tenable
14 59 (1.00%) Fortinet
15 51 (0.87%) Veeam
16 41 (0.70%) Adobe
17 40 (0.68%) SAP
17 40 (0.68%) SonicWALL
18 39 (0.66%) Meraki