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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 34 39
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 6,061 2,744 3,765
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.62% 6.30% 5.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.96% 7.03% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,498 1,680 2,616
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £36,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,262 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.95% -6.97%
75th Percentile £79,813 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% -9.65%

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 67,626 39,031 60,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.87% 89.63% 81.40%
Number of salaries quoted 47,761 22,628 41,205
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,478
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +14 1,428 £75,000 +3.45% 877
North of England +18 1,368 £50,000 +4.17% 437
South East +13 1,103 £55,000 +10.00% 437
Midlands +18 1,049 £55,000 +18.42% 216
North West +29 652 £55,000 - 244
South West +9 607 £55,000 +22.22% 266
Yorkshire +16 551 £42,500 +28.79% 154
West Midlands +10 534 £57,500 +9.52% 112
East Midlands +38 514 £55,000 +57.14% 104
East of England +65 482 £45,000 -5.26% 138
North East +22 165 £50,000 -26.95% 42
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
1 187 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 185 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 18 (0.30%) Apache
4 16 (0.26%) IIS
5 11 (0.18%) CMS
6 9 (0.15%) Confluence
6 9 (0.15%) SAS
7 5 (0.082%) WordPress
8 4 (0.066%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.033%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.033%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.016%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.016%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 81 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.20%) Simulink
5 6 (0.099%) CATIA
5 6 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.033%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.033%) SmartSuite
8 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.016%) Maya
8 1 (0.016%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 24 (0.40%) Cloudability
2 15 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.099%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.099%) Sage 200
6 5 (0.082%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 5 (0.082%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.066%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.049%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 3 (0.049%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.049%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.049%) Q-Pulse
9 2 (0.033%) Infor CloudSuite
9 2 (0.033%) Infor LN
9 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.033%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.033%) Shopify
9 2 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.033%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2,296 (37.88%) Azure
2 717 (11.83%) Microsoft 365
3 462 (7.62%) AWS
4 383 (6.32%) Entra ID
5 180 (2.97%) SaaS
6 153 (2.52%) GCP
7 83 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
8 69 (1.14%) Power Platform
9 63 (1.04%) OneDrive
10 61 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
11 47 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
12 45 (0.74%) Serverless
13 39 (0.64%) Microsoft Copilot
14 36 (0.59%) Mimecast
15 31 (0.51%) GitHub
16 28 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
16 28 (0.46%) Google Workspace
17 27 (0.45%) PaaS
18 24 (0.40%) IaaS
19 22 (0.36%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 474 (7.82%) Firewall
2 224 (3.70%) Network Security
3 196 (3.23%) VPN
4 190 (3.13%) DNS
5 146 (2.41%) WAN
6 144 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
7 129 (2.13%) LAN
8 126 (2.08%) DHCP
9 120 (1.98%) TCP/IP
10 106 (1.75%) VLAN
11 87 (1.44%) Internet
12 69 (1.14%) VoIP
13 58 (0.96%) Wireless
14 44 (0.73%) Unified Communications
15 40 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
16 39 (0.64%) HTTP
17 34 (0.56%) SSL
18 32 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
19 28 (0.46%) Broadband
20 27 (0.45%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (0.74%) Power BI
2 43 (0.71%) SQL Server
3 13 (0.21%) MongoDB
3 13 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (0.20%) MySQL
5 11 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (0.18%) Tableau
6 10 (0.16%) Big Data
6 10 (0.16%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.099%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.099%) GIS
8 6 (0.099%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.082%) Metadata
9 5 (0.082%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.066%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.049%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.049%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.033%) Flink
12 2 (0.033%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 42 (0.69%) JIRA
2 39 (0.64%) Git
3 32 (0.53%) GitLab
4 27 (0.45%) Snyk
5 19 (0.31%) Burp Suite
6 18 (0.30%) Metasploit
7 15 (0.25%) Jenkins
7 15 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
8 9 (0.15%) Yeoman
9 6 (0.099%) Apache Continuum
10 5 (0.082%) JMeter
10 5 (0.082%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.082%) VersionOne
11 4 (0.066%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.066%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.066%) Locust
11 4 (0.066%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.049%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.033%) Claude Code
14 1 (0.016%) webpack
General
1 2,430 (40.09%) Social Skills
2 533 (8.79%) Finance
3 420 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
4 313 (5.16%) Public Sector
5 295 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 171 (2.82%) Law
7 170 (2.80%) Marketing
8 168 (2.77%) Retail
9 162 (2.67%) Telecoms
10 158 (2.61%) Legal
11 135 (2.23%) Manufacturing
12 123 (2.03%) Banking
13 113 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
14 96 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
15 83 (1.37%) Aerospace
16 58 (0.96%) Local Government
17 57 (0.94%) Advertising
18 54 (0.89%) Multimedia
19 36 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
20 34 (0.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,191 (19.65%) Analyst
2 1,010 (16.66%) Security Analyst
3 911 (15.03%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 735 (12.13%) Junior
5 705 (11.63%) Ethical Hacker
6 673 (11.10%) Junior Analyst
7 663 (10.94%) Junior Security Analyst
8 617 (10.18%) Senior
9 456 (7.52%) Consultant
10 357 (5.89%) Architect
11 316 (5.21%) Lead
12 292 (4.82%) Security Consultant
13 280 (4.62%) Security Manager
14 271 (4.47%) IT Support
15 242 (3.99%) Security Architect
16 241 (3.98%) IT Manager
17 229 (3.78%) Security Engineer
18 200 (3.30%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 189 (3.12%) IT Engineer
20 188 (3.10%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (0.91%) SAML
2 49 (0.81%) LDAP
2 49 (0.81%) OAuth
3 43 (0.71%) OpenID
4 42 (0.69%) REST
5 30 (0.49%) HTML
6 23 (0.38%) CSS
7 22 (0.36%) React
8 20 (0.33%) Kafka
9 18 (0.30%) .NET
9 18 (0.30%) JSON
9 18 (0.30%) SailPoint
10 16 (0.26%) Node.js
11 15 (0.25%) SOAP
11 15 (0.25%) XML
12 14 (0.23%) RESTful
13 13 (0.21%) FastAPI
13 13 (0.21%) Middleware
13 13 (0.21%) XMPP
14 12 (0.20%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 809 (13.35%) Cyberattack
2 334 (5.51%) Security Posture
3 238 (3.93%) Cyber Threat
4 219 (3.61%) Onboarding
5 217 (3.58%) Management Information System
6 168 (2.77%) Driving Licence
7 165 (2.72%) Security Operations Centre
8 138 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
9 112 (1.85%) Operational Technology
10 100 (1.65%) Cyber Defence
11 90 (1.48%) Cloud Native
12 77 (1.27%) Data Centre
13 59 (0.97%) PKI
14 56 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
15 41 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
16 40 (0.66%) Cyber Security Posture
17 38 (0.63%) CSOC
18 36 (0.59%) Blog
19 29 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
20 28 (0.46%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 548 (9.04%) Windows
2 265 (4.37%) Windows Server
3 201 (3.32%) Linux
4 65 (1.07%) Mac OS
5 30 (0.49%) Windows 10
6 29 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 26 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 25 (0.41%) Android
8 25 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 23 (0.38%) Apple iOS
10 15 (0.25%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.099%) CentOS
12 4 (0.066%) VMS
12 4 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.049%) Unix
14 2 (0.033%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.033%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.033%) FreeRTOS
14 2 (0.033%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.016%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,099 (18.13%) Mentoring
2 756 (12.47%) Ethical Hacking
3 631 (10.41%) Problem-Solving
4 625 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 512 (8.45%) Information Security
6 510 (8.41%) Incident Response
7 481 (7.94%) Risk Management
8 454 (7.49%) Security Operations
9 433 (7.14%) SIEM
10 423 (6.98%) AI
11 403 (6.65%) Cloud Security
12 393 (6.48%) Vulnerability Management
13 331 (5.46%) Disaster Recovery
14 329 (5.43%) Decision-Making
15 306 (5.05%) Stakeholder Management
16 286 (4.72%) Roadmaps
17 269 (4.44%) Agile
18 254 (4.19%) Service Delivery
18 254 (4.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 249 (4.11%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 306 (5.05%) Python
2 242 (3.99%) PowerShell
3 93 (1.53%) SQL
4 68 (1.12%) C++
5 67 (1.11%) JavaScript
6 64 (1.06%) Bash
7 39 (0.64%) Java
8 38 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
9 32 (0.53%) Rust
10 29 (0.48%) C#
11 21 (0.35%) Go
12 17 (0.28%) TypeScript
13 16 (0.26%) MATLAB
14 14 (0.23%) C
14 14 (0.23%) Search Processing Language
15 11 (0.18%) Perl
16 8 (0.13%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.099%) PHP
18 5 (0.082%) Shell Script
19 4 (0.066%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1,433 (23.64%) Azure Certification
2 830 (13.69%) CompTIA Security+
3 810 (13.36%) CEH
4 701 (11.57%) CompTIA CySA+
5 610 (10.06%) Security Cleared
6 475 (7.84%) Degree
7 451 (7.44%) CISSP
8 424 (7.00%) SC Cleared
9 292 (4.82%) CISM
10 199 (3.28%) DV Cleared
11 163 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
12 104 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
13 94 (1.55%) CRISC
14 93 (1.53%) CISA
15 92 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 76 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
16 76 (1.25%) CREST Certified
17 73 (1.20%) AWS Certification
18 70 (1.15%) Master's Degree
19 69 (1.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 623 (10.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 521 (8.60%) NIST
3 318 (5.25%) GDPR
4 280 (4.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 276 (4.55%) GRC
6 146 (2.41%) PCI DSS
7 135 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 105 (1.73%) QA
9 95 (1.57%) NCSC
10 62 (1.02%) SOC 2
11 42 (0.69%) NIST 800
12 39 (0.64%) Accessibility
13 36 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 36 (0.59%) SLA
14 35 (0.58%) COBIT
15 33 (0.54%) JSP 440
16 27 (0.45%) Data Quality
17 23 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
18 22 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
19 21 (0.35%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 428 (7.06%) Active Directory
2 135 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 110 (1.81%) Hyper-V
4 55 (0.91%) Docker
5 50 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.41%) vSphere
7 22 (0.36%) Firmware
8 14 (0.23%) IAG
9 13 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 12 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 9 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
12 6 (0.099%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.082%) ClearTrust
14 4 (0.066%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.049%) VMware Server
16 1 (0.016%) BitLocker
16 1 (0.016%) Embedded Firmware
16 1 (0.016%) KVM
16 1 (0.016%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 221 (3.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 88 (1.45%) Terraform
3 74 (1.22%) Kubernetes
4 45 (0.74%) Ansible
5 44 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.51%) Grafana
7 20 (0.33%) QRadar
8 17 (0.28%) FortiGate
8 17 (0.28%) Prometheus
9 16 (0.26%) CASB
10 15 (0.25%) Nmap
10 15 (0.25%) SCCM
11 14 (0.23%) Nessus
12 13 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
13 10 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
14 9 (0.15%) Kibana
15 8 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
16 6 (0.099%) CSIRT
16 6 (0.099%) Graylog
16 6 (0.099%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2,532 (41.78%) Microsoft
2 1,364 (22.50%) ForeScout
3 186 (3.07%) Cisco
4 181 (2.99%) VMware
5 158 (2.61%) Palo Alto
6 109 (1.80%) Splunk
7 102 (1.68%) CrowdStrike
8 69 (1.14%) Google
9 68 (1.12%) Qualys
10 66 (1.09%) Fortinet
11 64 (1.06%) ServiceNow
12 61 (1.01%) Aruba
13 59 (0.97%) Apple
14 58 (0.96%) Tenable
15 52 (0.86%) Salesforce
16 40 (0.66%) SAP
17 37 (0.61%) Veeam
18 35 (0.58%) Adobe
18 35 (0.58%) CyberArk
19 28 (0.46%) Dell