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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 39 29
Rank change year-on-year +32 -10 +24
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 8,576 2,156 4,362
As % of all permanent jobs in England 12.48% 5.94% 5.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.15% 6.34% 6.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,439 1,484 3,394
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £43,750 £43,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +0.80% -8.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -12.50% +0.80% -8.42%

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 53,090 33,986 67,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.23% 93.60% 86.51%
Number of salaries quoted 33,080 20,170 51,900
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 +37 2,677 £40,000 -24.17% 296
North West +31 1,922 £42,500 -22.73% 147
Midlands +30 1,699 £45,000 -21.74% 166
London +22 1,505 £70,039 -3.39% 426
South East +40 1,376 £47,500 -13.64% 351
West Midlands +25 1,304 £43,500 -30.40% 83
East of England +44 715 £35,000 -26.32% 111
Yorkshire +39 629 £31,000 -38.00% 112
South West +35 549 £57,500 +27.78% 150
East Midlands +42 406 £45,000 +12.50% 82
North East +38 126 £30,500 -17.50% 40
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
1 119 (1.39%) SharePoint
2 74 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (0.14%) CMS
4 10 (0.12%) Confluence
5 6 (0.070%) nginx
5 6 (0.070%) WordPress
6 5 (0.058%) Apache
6 5 (0.058%) Drupal
7 3 (0.035%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.035%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.023%) SAS
9 1 (0.012%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.012%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 93 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (0.28%) Simulink
5 23 (0.27%) Maya
6 18 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.10%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.058%) CATIA
9 4 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.023%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.023%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 26 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.082%) Shopify
4 4 (0.047%) Dynamics GP
4 4 (0.047%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.047%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.047%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.035%) Endur
5 3 (0.035%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.035%) Yoast SEO
6 2 (0.023%) Carpe Diem
6 2 (0.023%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.023%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.023%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.023%) SAP FS
6 2 (0.023%) SAP FSCM
6 2 (0.023%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.023%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.023%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 4,053 (47.26%) Cloud Computing
2 2,136 (24.91%) Azure
3 550 (6.41%) AWS
4 433 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
5 283 (3.30%) Entra ID
6 196 (2.29%) GitHub
7 93 (1.08%) SaaS
8 87 (1.01%) GCP
9 66 (0.77%) Power Platform
10 54 (0.63%) Azure Sentinel
11 50 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
12 44 (0.51%) PaaS
13 37 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (0.42%) Nutanix
15 34 (0.40%) Google Workspace
16 29 (0.34%) IaaS
17 27 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
18 25 (0.29%) Mimecast
19 22 (0.26%) Dynamics 365
19 22 (0.26%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4,212 (49.11%) Internet
2 309 (3.60%) Firewall
3 143 (1.67%) Network Security
4 122 (1.42%) VPN
5 87 (1.01%) DNS
6 74 (0.86%) DHCP
7 67 (0.78%) VLAN
8 66 (0.77%) WAN
9 61 (0.71%) LAN
10 54 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
11 50 (0.58%) TCP/IP
12 37 (0.43%) Broadband
13 35 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
14 28 (0.33%) VoIP
15 25 (0.29%) Wireless
16 23 (0.27%) CHAP
17 18 (0.21%) SD-WAN
18 15 (0.17%) DMZ
19 13 (0.15%) Unified Communications
20 12 (0.14%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (0.41%) Power BI
2 24 (0.28%) Big Data
2 24 (0.28%) SQL Server
3 22 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (0.26%) Tableau
4 20 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (0.22%) Neo4j
6 11 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (0.10%) Metadata
8 8 (0.093%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.082%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.058%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.058%) MySQL
10 5 (0.058%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.058%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.047%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.047%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.035%) SAP BW
13 2 (0.023%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.023%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 200 (2.33%) Git
2 30 (0.35%) JIRA
3 29 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
4 23 (0.27%) GitLab
5 13 (0.15%) Jenkins
6 12 (0.14%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.093%) JMeter
7 8 (0.093%) Locust
8 5 (0.058%) Apache Continuum
8 5 (0.058%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.058%) Metasploit
9 4 (0.047%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.047%) MLflow
10 2 (0.023%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.012%) GDB
11 1 (0.012%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.012%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.012%) WinDbg
11 1 (0.012%) Yeoman
General
1 6,100 (71.13%) Social Skills
2 4,212 (49.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,166 (48.58%) Banking
4 524 (6.11%) Finance
5 358 (4.17%) Multimedia
6 326 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
7 197 (2.30%) Public Sector
8 161 (1.88%) Marketing
9 155 (1.81%) Legal
10 148 (1.73%) Law
11 123 (1.43%) Retail
12 121 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
12 121 (1.41%) Telecoms
13 89 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 66 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
15 48 (0.56%) Local Government
15 48 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
16 46 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
16 46 (0.54%) Electronics
16 46 (0.54%) Games
Job Titles
1 3,143 (36.65%) Lecturer
2 1,026 (11.96%) Analyst
3 903 (10.53%) Security Analyst
4 846 (9.86%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 777 (9.06%) Junior
6 755 (8.80%) Junior Analyst
7 754 (8.79%) Junior Security Analyst
8 470 (5.48%) Ethical Hacker
9 363 (4.23%) Senior
9 363 (4.23%) Trainee
10 253 (2.95%) Consultant
11 230 (2.68%) Architect
12 228 (2.66%) Lead
13 205 (2.39%) IT Support
14 158 (1.84%) Security Consultant
15 157 (1.83%) Developer
15 157 (1.83%) Security Manager
16 149 (1.74%) Security Engineer
17 146 (1.70%) IT Manager
18 134 (1.56%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (2.40%) CSS
1 206 (2.40%) HTML
2 41 (0.48%) REST
3 36 (0.42%) OAuth
4 35 (0.41%) SAML
5 34 (0.40%) React
6 33 (0.38%) OpenID
7 30 (0.35%) LDAP
8 27 (0.31%) SOAP
9 26 (0.30%) GraphQL
10 20 (0.23%) SAP CAF
11 19 (0.22%) AngularJS
12 17 (0.20%) MERN Stack
13 14 (0.16%) SailPoint
14 11 (0.13%) YAML
15 10 (0.12%) Tailwind CSS
16 9 (0.10%) Node.js
17 8 (0.093%) Gherkin
17 8 (0.093%) RESTful
17 8 (0.093%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4,070 (47.46%) IoT
2 533 (6.22%) Cyberattack
3 216 (2.52%) Security Posture
4 176 (2.05%) Management Information System
5 110 (1.28%) Driving Licence
6 108 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
7 100 (1.17%) Onboarding
8 85 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
9 80 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
10 76 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
11 64 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
12 62 (0.72%) Cloud Native
13 61 (0.71%) Data Centre
14 59 (0.69%) Operational Technology
15 52 (0.61%) Blog
16 47 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
17 38 (0.44%) Cyber Security Posture
18 37 (0.43%) PKI
19 34 (0.40%) Public Cloud
20 30 (0.35%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 374 (4.36%) Windows
2 172 (2.01%) Windows Server
3 138 (1.61%) Linux
4 68 (0.79%) Windows 10
5 45 (0.52%) Mac OS
6 28 (0.33%) Android
7 21 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.12%) Unix
10 6 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.058%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.058%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.047%) VMS
13 3 (0.035%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.023%) CentOS
15 1 (0.012%) Debian
15 1 (0.012%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.012%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.012%) OpenWrt
15 1 (0.012%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,250 (49.56%) AI
2 4,059 (47.33%) Machine Learning
3 4,050 (47.22%) User Experience
4 4,038 (47.08%) Web Development
5 1,364 (15.90%) Mentoring
6 645 (7.52%) Ethical Hacking
7 430 (5.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 425 (4.96%) Problem-Solving
9 374 (4.36%) Risk Management
10 358 (4.17%) Information Security
11 357 (4.16%) Incident Response
12 272 (3.17%) Agile
13 231 (2.69%) SIEM
14 221 (2.58%) Cloud Security
15 200 (2.33%) Line Management
16 199 (2.32%) ITIL
17 195 (2.27%) Roadmaps
18 188 (2.19%) Project Management
19 186 (2.17%) Security Operations
20 185 (2.16%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 403 (4.70%) Python
2 250 (2.92%) JavaScript
3 192 (2.24%) PowerShell
4 105 (1.22%) SQL
5 99 (1.15%) R
6 62 (0.72%) Bash
7 42 (0.49%) Java
8 32 (0.37%) C++
9 30 (0.35%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.30%) MATLAB
11 25 (0.29%) T-SQL
12 22 (0.26%) C
12 22 (0.26%) C#
13 10 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.10%) Go
15 7 (0.082%) Rust
16 6 (0.070%) PHP
17 4 (0.047%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.035%) Shell Script
18 3 (0.035%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 4,428 (51.63%) Degree
2 4,070 (47.46%) Master's Degree
3 4,010 (46.76%) PhD
4 4,006 (46.71%) Postgraduate
5 1,449 (16.90%) Azure Certification
6 977 (11.39%) CompTIA Security+
7 794 (9.26%) CompTIA CySA+
8 690 (8.05%) CEH
9 355 (4.14%) CISSP
10 310 (3.61%) Security Cleared
11 257 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 240 (2.80%) CISM
13 237 (2.76%) AWS Certification
14 204 (2.38%) SC Cleared
15 194 (2.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 190 (2.22%) Network+ Certification
17 178 (2.08%) A+ Certification
18 109 (1.27%) DV Cleared
19 105 (1.22%) CISA
20 104 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 507 (5.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 472 (5.50%) NIST
3 273 (3.18%) GDPR
4 223 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 187 (2.18%) GRC
6 119 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 111 (1.29%) PCI DSS
8 102 (1.19%) NCSC
9 76 (0.89%) QA
10 46 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 43 (0.50%) COBIT
12 38 (0.44%) NIST 800
12 38 (0.44%) SLA
13 33 (0.38%) Accessibility
14 26 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 24 (0.28%) Data Quality
16 21 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
17 20 (0.23%) JSP 440
18 19 (0.22%) ISO 22301
19 18 (0.21%) SOC 3
System Software
1 307 (3.58%) Active Directory
2 71 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 55 (0.64%) Docker
5 27 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.26%) vSphere
7 10 (0.12%) Firmware
8 9 (0.10%) IAG
8 9 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (0.070%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.035%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.023%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.023%) GPFS
13 2 (0.023%) Lustre
14 1 (0.012%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.012%) iptables
14 1 (0.012%) KVM
Systems Management
1 157 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 69 (0.80%) Terraform
3 60 (0.70%) Kubernetes
4 37 (0.43%) Ansible
5 26 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.22%) Grafana
7 16 (0.19%) CASB
8 14 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (0.16%) SCCM
9 11 (0.13%) CSIRT
10 10 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.10%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.093%) Nessus
12 8 (0.093%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.082%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 7 (0.082%) FTK
13 7 (0.082%) VxRail
14 6 (0.070%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.058%) Prometheus
15 5 (0.058%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2,146 (25.02%) Microsoft
2 1,223 (14.26%) ForeScout
3 121 (1.41%) VMware
4 93 (1.08%) Cisco
5 74 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
6 65 (0.76%) Fortinet
7 62 (0.72%) Palo Alto
8 60 (0.70%) Apple
9 53 (0.62%) SAP
10 45 (0.52%) Google
11 42 (0.49%) Splunk
12 38 (0.44%) Salesforce
13 35 (0.41%) Dell
14 33 (0.38%) Oracle
15 31 (0.36%) Adobe
15 31 (0.36%) Tenable
16 30 (0.35%) Siemens
17 29 (0.34%) ServiceNow
18 26 (0.30%) CyberArk
19 20 (0.23%) Commvault