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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 29 39
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 0
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,650 2,718 3,166
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.41% 6.34% 4.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.32% 7.13% 6.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,848 1,593 1,618
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,500 £47,250
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -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 77,161 38,103 52,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.86% 88.89% 82.65%
Number of salaries quoted 53,955 21,888 28,045
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,413 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,246 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 1,564 £80,000 +14.29% 1,894
North of England +7 1,055 £50,000 +11.11% 617
South East +13 1,053 £55,000 +10.00% 620
Midlands +18 941 £55,000 +15.79% 342
North West +16 592 £60,000 +31.15% 334
South West -1 565 £55,000 +10.00% 318
West Midlands +5 488 £55,000 +6.90% 215
East Midlands +42 453 £55,000 +46.67% 127
East of England +30 436 £50,000 +13.53% 192
Yorkshire +3 343 £40,000 +21.21% 212
North East -11 120 £50,000 -25.93% 75
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
1 249 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 245 (4.34%) SharePoint
3 28 (0.50%) IIS
4 25 (0.44%) Apache
5 11 (0.19%) Confluence
6 9 (0.16%) SAS
7 7 (0.12%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.11%) CMS
9 4 (0.071%) WordPress
10 3 (0.053%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.035%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.018%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.018%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.018%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 100 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 69 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (0.32%) Simulink
5 11 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.11%) CATIA
7 3 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.035%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.035%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.018%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.018%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.018%) Mathcad
Business Applications
1 15 (0.27%) Cloudability
2 9 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.12%) Sage 200
4 6 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.088%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 4 (0.071%) Infor CloudSuite
6 4 (0.071%) Infor M3
6 4 (0.071%) SystmOne
7 3 (0.053%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.053%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.053%) Infor LN
7 3 (0.053%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.053%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.035%) Eikon
8 2 (0.035%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.035%) Odoo
8 2 (0.035%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.035%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,235 (21.86%) Azure
2 851 (15.06%) Microsoft 365
3 540 (9.56%) Entra ID
4 463 (8.19%) AWS
5 205 (3.63%) SaaS
6 163 (2.88%) GCP
7 108 (1.91%) Power Platform
8 103 (1.82%) OneDrive
9 93 (1.65%) Azure Sentinel
10 86 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
11 66 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
12 62 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
13 49 (0.87%) Mimecast
14 48 (0.85%) Serverless
15 43 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
16 38 (0.67%) Power Automate
17 37 (0.65%) Google Workspace
18 34 (0.60%) Azure Logic Apps
18 34 (0.60%) GitHub
19 28 (0.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 536 (9.49%) Firewall
2 288 (5.10%) DNS
3 269 (4.76%) VPN
4 249 (4.41%) Network Security
5 216 (3.82%) DHCP
6 207 (3.66%) TCP/IP
7 196 (3.47%) WAN
8 175 (3.10%) LAN
9 173 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
10 139 (2.46%) VLAN
11 102 (1.81%) Internet
12 96 (1.70%) Wireless
13 80 (1.42%) VoIP
14 62 (1.10%) Cisco Nexus
15 52 (0.92%) SSL
16 47 (0.83%) HTTP
17 42 (0.74%) Unified Communications
18 37 (0.65%) Modbus
18 37 (0.65%) Wireshark
19 36 (0.64%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (1.10%) Power BI
2 57 (1.01%) SQL Server
3 24 (0.42%) Big Data
4 19 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (0.28%) Tableau
6 14 (0.25%) MongoDB
7 13 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (0.23%) GIS
8 12 (0.21%) Metadata
8 12 (0.21%) MySQL
9 11 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.12%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.12%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.11%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.088%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.088%) Flink
14 4 (0.071%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 57 (1.01%) JIRA
2 45 (0.80%) Git
3 36 (0.64%) Burp Suite
4 32 (0.57%) Metasploit
5 22 (0.39%) GitLab
6 20 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 16 (0.28%) Snyk
8 12 (0.21%) Yeoman
9 10 (0.18%) LabVIEW
10 9 (0.16%) Eclipse
11 6 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.071%) Apache Continuum
12 4 (0.071%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.071%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.071%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.053%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.053%) Maven
13 3 (0.053%) Team Foundation Server
14 2 (0.035%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.035%) Xcode
General
1 1,571 (27.81%) Social Skills
2 622 (11.01%) Finance
3 456 (8.07%) Analytical Skills
4 394 (6.97%) Public Sector
5 325 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 221 (3.91%) Legal
7 202 (3.58%) Law
8 192 (3.40%) Manufacturing
8 192 (3.40%) Marketing
8 192 (3.40%) Telecoms
9 188 (3.33%) Retail
10 174 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
11 138 (2.44%) Aerospace
12 132 (2.34%) Banking
13 126 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
14 71 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
15 55 (0.97%) Advertising
16 50 (0.88%) Aviation
17 45 (0.80%) Electronics
18 44 (0.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 675 (11.95%) Senior
2 652 (11.54%) Analyst
3 552 (9.77%) Consultant
4 426 (7.54%) Lead
5 415 (7.35%) Security Analyst
6 409 (7.24%) Architect
7 342 (6.05%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 335 (5.93%) IT Support
9 321 (5.68%) Security Consultant
10 307 (5.43%) Security Manager
11 292 (5.17%) Security Engineer
12 258 (4.57%) Security Architect
13 255 (4.51%) IT Engineer
14 251 (4.44%) IT Manager
15 214 (3.79%) Support Engineer
16 209 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 207 (3.66%) Cybersecurity Manager
18 205 (3.63%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 194 (3.43%) Junior
20 184 (3.26%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (1.72%) Terraform
2 57 (1.01%) SAML
3 54 (0.96%) LDAP
4 52 (0.92%) OAuth
5 47 (0.83%) REST
6 44 (0.78%) OpenID
7 34 (0.60%) .NET
8 26 (0.46%) JSON
9 23 (0.41%) Node.js
9 23 (0.41%) React
10 21 (0.37%) HTML
11 20 (0.35%) RESTful
12 17 (0.30%) CSS
13 16 (0.28%) XML
14 15 (0.27%) Kafka
14 15 (0.27%) Middleware
14 15 (0.27%) SailPoint
15 13 (0.23%) FastAPI
16 12 (0.21%) AngularJS
16 12 (0.21%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 360 (6.37%) Security Posture
2 354 (6.27%) Cyber Threat
3 270 (4.78%) Onboarding
4 256 (4.53%) Management Information System
5 201 (3.56%) Driving Licence
6 196 (3.47%) Operational Technology
7 184 (3.26%) Cyberattack
8 165 (2.92%) Security Operations Centre
9 130 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
10 118 (2.09%) Cyber Defence
11 105 (1.86%) Cloud Native
12 104 (1.84%) Data Centre
13 93 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
14 73 (1.29%) SCADA
15 56 (0.99%) PKI
16 54 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
17 45 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
18 43 (0.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
19 39 (0.69%) Cyber Security Posture
20 38 (0.67%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 668 (11.82%) Windows
2 324 (5.73%) Windows Server
3 259 (4.58%) Linux
4 89 (1.58%) macOS
5 46 (0.81%) Windows 10
6 43 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 33 (0.58%) Apple iOS
7 33 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 28 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 27 (0.48%) Android
10 13 (0.23%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.11%) Kali Linux
12 6 (0.11%) Unix
13 4 (0.071%) VMS
14 3 (0.053%) Rocky
15 2 (0.035%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.035%) CentOS
15 2 (0.035%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.035%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 792 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
2 765 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 673 (11.91%) AI
4 582 (10.30%) Information Security
5 566 (10.02%) Security Operations
6 565 (10.00%) Incident Response
7 550 (9.73%) Risk Management
8 543 (9.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 496 (8.78%) Vulnerability Management
10 485 (8.58%) Mentoring
11 454 (8.04%) SIEM
12 444 (7.86%) Cloud Security
12 444 (7.86%) Decision-Making
13 404 (7.15%) Disaster Recovery
14 360 (6.37%) Roadmaps
15 328 (5.81%) ITIL
16 325 (5.75%) Data Protection
17 320 (5.66%) Software Engineering
18 315 (5.58%) Service Delivery
19 304 (5.38%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 365 (6.46%) Python
2 246 (4.35%) PowerShell
3 103 (1.82%) SQL
4 86 (1.52%) C++
5 67 (1.19%) Bash
6 64 (1.13%) JavaScript
7 57 (1.01%) Java
8 54 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
9 41 (0.73%) C#
10 40 (0.71%) Rust
11 33 (0.58%) C
12 30 (0.53%) Go
12 30 (0.53%) TypeScript
13 18 (0.32%) MATLAB
14 17 (0.30%) Embedded C
14 17 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
15 13 (0.23%) Perl
16 12 (0.21%) Bicep
17 8 (0.14%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.12%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 797 (14.11%) Security Cleared
2 601 (10.64%) Degree
3 541 (9.58%) SC Cleared
4 478 (8.46%) CISSP
5 319 (5.65%) CISM
6 284 (5.03%) Azure Certification
7 243 (4.30%) DV Cleared
8 217 (3.84%) CompTIA Security+
9 163 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
10 157 (2.78%) CEH
11 144 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 132 (2.34%) CompTIA CySA+
13 117 (2.07%) Master's Degree
14 107 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
15 100 (1.77%) CRISC
16 86 (1.52%) CISA
17 84 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 80 (1.42%) DBS Check
19 72 (1.27%) CREST Certified
20 70 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 703 (12.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 540 (9.56%) NIST
3 362 (6.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 313 (5.54%) GRC
5 312 (5.52%) GDPR
6 151 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 143 (2.53%) NCSC
8 126 (2.23%) PCI DSS
9 92 (1.63%) QA
10 57 (1.01%) SLA
11 50 (0.88%) Accessibility
11 50 (0.88%) ISO 22301
12 47 (0.83%) NIST 800
13 45 (0.80%) SOC 2
14 40 (0.71%) Data Quality
15 36 (0.64%) COBIT
16 32 (0.57%) JSP 440
17 27 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 24 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27005
19 21 (0.37%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 511 (9.04%) Active Directory
2 169 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 152 (2.69%) Hyper-V
4 62 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 59 (1.04%) Docker
6 45 (0.80%) Firmware
7 28 (0.50%) vSphere
8 20 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
9 15 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 10 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
12 6 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.088%) ClearTrust
13 5 (0.088%) IAG
14 3 (0.053%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.053%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.053%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.035%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.035%) NFS
Systems Management
1 316 (5.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 83 (1.47%) Kubernetes
2 83 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
3 53 (0.94%) Ansible
4 29 (0.51%) Nmap
5 27 (0.48%) CASB
5 27 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
6 25 (0.44%) FortiGate
6 25 (0.44%) Grafana
6 25 (0.44%) SCCM
7 24 (0.42%) Nessus
8 21 (0.37%) Functional Safety
8 21 (0.37%) QRadar
9 11 (0.19%) Prometheus
10 9 (0.16%) Kibana
11 8 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
11 8 (0.14%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.14%) WSUS
12 7 (0.12%) Autotask
12 7 (0.12%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,554 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 242 (4.28%) Cisco
3 223 (3.95%) VMware
4 188 (3.33%) ForeScout
5 164 (2.90%) Palo Alto
6 109 (1.93%) Splunk
7 105 (1.86%) Google
8 94 (1.66%) CrowdStrike
9 78 (1.38%) Qualys
10 77 (1.36%) Aruba
11 73 (1.29%) Salesforce
12 63 (1.12%) ServiceNow
13 58 (1.03%) Apple
14 56 (0.99%) Fortinet
15 52 (0.92%) Meraki
15 52 (0.92%) Tenable
16 50 (0.88%) Veeam
17 42 (0.74%) CyberArk
17 42 (0.74%) SonicWALL
18 41 (0.73%) SAP