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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 35 32
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 +19
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,645 2,540 4,862
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.80% 6.42% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.31% 6.93% 6.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,114 1,513 3,493
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £35,631
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -1.71% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,350 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -1.71% -10.00%

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 60,608 36,668 77,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.00% 92.69% 82.00%
Number of salaries quoted 42,635 20,028 56,336
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £29,266
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +15 1,349 £72,500 -0.90% 645
North of England +23 1,322 £55,000 +6.25% 431
South East +18 1,001 £50,625 -3.57% 423
Midlands +21 955 £55,000 +10.00% 195
North West +33 618 £55,000 - 237
South West +21 564 £60,000 +33.33% 225
Yorkshire +12 553 £47,500 +43.94% 130
West Midlands +11 513 £57,500 +4.55% 111
East Midlands +47 441 £55,000 +74.60% 84
East of England +69 421 £42,500 -10.53% 158
North East +31 151 £45,000 -30.77% 67
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
1 155 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 131 (2.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.19%) Apache
3 11 (0.19%) CMS
4 5 (0.089%) IIS
4 5 (0.089%) WordPress
5 4 (0.071%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.071%) SAS
6 3 (0.053%) Confluence
7 2 (0.035%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.018%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 68 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (0.39%) Simulink
5 7 (0.12%) CATIA
5 7 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.071%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.035%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.018%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.018%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (0.43%) Cloudability
2 22 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 11 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.089%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.071%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.071%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.053%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.053%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.035%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.035%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.035%) Shopify
9 1 (0.018%) Maximo
9 1 (0.018%) Q-Pulse
9 1 (0.018%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.018%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,373 (42.04%) Azure
2 587 (10.40%) Microsoft 365
3 456 (8.08%) AWS
4 351 (6.22%) Entra ID
5 141 (2.50%) SaaS
6 138 (2.44%) GCP
7 72 (1.28%) GitHub
8 70 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
9 69 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
10 64 (1.13%) Power Platform
11 48 (0.85%) OneDrive
12 45 (0.80%) Serverless
13 43 (0.76%) Google Workspace
14 32 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
15 31 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
15 31 (0.55%) Mimecast
16 30 (0.53%) PaaS
17 28 (0.50%) IaaS
17 28 (0.50%) Nutanix
18 26 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 424 (7.51%) Firewall
2 189 (3.35%) Network Security
3 173 (3.06%) VPN
4 157 (2.78%) DNS
5 119 (2.11%) WAN
6 106 (1.88%) Internet
7 105 (1.86%) DHCP
7 105 (1.86%) LAN
8 100 (1.77%) Wi-Fi
9 85 (1.51%) TCP/IP
10 83 (1.47%) VLAN
11 51 (0.90%) VoIP
12 49 (0.87%) Broadband
13 36 (0.64%) Unified Communications
14 30 (0.53%) HTTP
14 30 (0.53%) Wireless
15 29 (0.51%) SSL
16 28 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
17 22 (0.39%) SD-WAN
18 21 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (0.71%) Power BI
2 23 (0.41%) SQL Server
3 15 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (0.23%) Tableau
6 9 (0.16%) Big Data
7 8 (0.14%) MySQL
7 8 (0.14%) Neo4j
8 7 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.11%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.089%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.071%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.053%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.053%) GIS
12 3 (0.053%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.035%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.035%) Flink
13 2 (0.035%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.035%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 75 (1.33%) Git
2 36 (0.64%) GitLab
3 27 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
4 26 (0.46%) JIRA
5 25 (0.44%) Snyk
6 12 (0.21%) Jenkins
7 8 (0.14%) Metasploit
8 7 (0.12%) Apache Continuum
8 7 (0.12%) Burp Suite
8 7 (0.12%) Yeoman
9 5 (0.089%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.089%) JMeter
9 5 (0.089%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.089%) VersionOne
10 4 (0.071%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.071%) Locust
11 3 (0.053%) MLflow
12 2 (0.035%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.035%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.018%) LoadRunner
General
1 2,369 (41.97%) Social Skills
2 509 (9.02%) Finance
3 402 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
4 274 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 245 (4.34%) Public Sector
6 173 (3.06%) Retail
7 159 (2.82%) Marketing
8 141 (2.50%) Law
9 133 (2.36%) Multimedia
10 132 (2.34%) Legal
11 130 (2.30%) Banking
12 128 (2.27%) Telecoms
13 116 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
14 103 (1.82%) Manufacturing
15 73 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
16 62 (1.10%) Local Government
17 56 (0.99%) Aerospace
18 44 (0.78%) Advertising
19 42 (0.74%) Aviation
20 32 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,224 (21.68%) Analyst
2 1,053 (18.65%) Security Analyst
3 970 (17.18%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 795 (14.08%) Junior
5 764 (13.53%) Junior Analyst
6 755 (13.37%) Junior Security Analyst
7 705 (12.49%) Ethical Hacker
8 549 (9.73%) Senior
9 338 (5.99%) Architect
10 332 (5.88%) Consultant
11 290 (5.14%) Lead
12 271 (4.80%) Security Manager
13 248 (4.39%) Security Architect
14 245 (4.34%) IT Support
15 209 (3.70%) Security Consultant
16 206 (3.65%) Security Engineer
17 199 (3.53%) IT Manager
18 188 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 170 (3.01%) IT Engineer
20 162 (2.87%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (1.35%) HTML
2 71 (1.26%) CSS
3 58 (1.03%) SAML
4 56 (0.99%) LDAP
4 56 (0.99%) REST
5 54 (0.96%) OAuth
6 50 (0.89%) OpenID
7 32 (0.57%) SOAP
8 26 (0.46%) GraphQL
9 25 (0.44%) React
10 17 (0.30%) Kafka
11 15 (0.27%) Middleware
11 15 (0.27%) SailPoint
12 14 (0.25%) .NET
13 13 (0.23%) Node.js
14 12 (0.21%) FastAPI
14 12 (0.21%) JSON
14 12 (0.21%) RESTful
15 11 (0.19%) XMPP
16 10 (0.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 810 (14.35%) Cyberattack
2 297 (5.26%) Security Posture
3 191 (3.38%) Management Information System
4 177 (3.14%) Cyber Threat
5 156 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 145 (2.57%) Security Operations Centre
7 116 (2.05%) Driving Licence
8 108 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
9 97 (1.72%) Cyber Defence
10 94 (1.67%) Operational Technology
11 82 (1.45%) Cloud Native
12 80 (1.42%) Data Centre
13 59 (1.05%) PKI
14 48 (0.85%) Cyber Security Posture
15 40 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
15 40 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
16 39 (0.69%) Blog
17 34 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
18 33 (0.58%) Cloud Security Posture
19 30 (0.53%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 467 (8.27%) Windows
2 233 (4.13%) Windows Server
3 165 (2.92%) Linux
4 48 (0.85%) Mac OS
5 36 (0.64%) Windows 10
6 26 (0.46%) Android
7 24 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 21 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.11%) CentOS
10 6 (0.11%) Unix
10 6 (0.11%) VMS
11 2 (0.035%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.035%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.018%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.018%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,227 (21.74%) Mentoring
2 792 (14.03%) Ethical Hacking
3 524 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
4 500 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
5 487 (8.63%) Incident Response
6 440 (7.79%) Information Security
7 425 (7.53%) Risk Management
8 377 (6.68%) Security Operations
9 358 (6.34%) SIEM
10 340 (6.02%) Cloud Security
11 322 (5.70%) AI
12 307 (5.44%) Vulnerability Management
13 269 (4.77%) Decision-Making
13 269 (4.77%) Disaster Recovery
14 245 (4.34%) Roadmaps
15 237 (4.20%) Agile
16 229 (4.06%) Security Architecture
17 224 (3.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 223 (3.95%) Stakeholder Management
19 219 (3.88%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 320 (5.67%) Python
2 259 (4.59%) PowerShell
3 119 (2.11%) JavaScript
4 109 (1.93%) SQL
5 83 (1.47%) Bash
6 49 (0.87%) C++
7 37 (0.66%) Java
8 29 (0.51%) R
9 27 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
10 26 (0.46%) C#
10 26 (0.46%) MATLAB
10 26 (0.46%) T-SQL
11 18 (0.32%) TypeScript
12 17 (0.30%) Go
12 17 (0.30%) Rust
13 11 (0.19%) C
13 11 (0.19%) Search Processing Language
14 10 (0.18%) Perl
15 7 (0.12%) PHP
16 5 (0.089%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,562 (27.67%) Azure Certification
2 929 (16.46%) CompTIA Security+
3 842 (14.92%) CEH
4 802 (14.21%) CompTIA CySA+
5 495 (8.77%) Security Cleared
6 412 (7.30%) CISSP
7 408 (7.23%) Degree
8 351 (6.22%) SC Cleared
9 266 (4.71%) CISM
10 167 (2.96%) DV Cleared
11 145 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
12 133 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
13 108 (1.91%) AWS Certification
14 106 (1.88%) Network+ Certification
15 101 (1.79%) CISA
16 99 (1.75%) A+ Certification
17 89 (1.58%) CREST Certified
18 81 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 76 (1.35%) CRISC
20 70 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 580 (10.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 516 (9.14%) NIST
3 319 (5.65%) GDPR
4 267 (4.73%) Cyber Essentials
5 261 (4.62%) GRC
6 146 (2.59%) PCI DSS
7 132 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 114 (2.02%) NCSC
9 106 (1.88%) QA
10 53 (0.94%) SOC 2
11 43 (0.76%) NIST 800
12 37 (0.66%) Accessibility
13 36 (0.64%) COBIT
14 34 (0.60%) JSP 440
14 34 (0.60%) SLA
15 29 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
15 29 (0.51%) Data Quality
16 28 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 17 (0.30%) HIPAA
18 15 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 385 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 107 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 86 (1.52%) Hyper-V
4 53 (0.94%) Docker
5 47 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (0.50%) vSphere
7 12 (0.21%) IAG
7 12 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
8 11 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 7 (0.12%) Firmware
10 7 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.089%) ClearTrust
12 3 (0.053%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.018%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.018%) KVM
13 1 (0.018%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 193 (3.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 87 (1.54%) Terraform
3 71 (1.26%) Kubernetes
4 39 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
5 38 (0.67%) Ansible
6 30 (0.53%) Grafana
7 20 (0.35%) SCCM
8 18 (0.32%) CASB
8 18 (0.32%) QRadar
9 17 (0.30%) Prometheus
10 14 (0.25%) FortiGate
11 10 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 10 (0.18%) CSIRT
12 9 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.16%) Kibana
12 9 (0.16%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.14%) VxRail
14 7 (0.12%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2,496 (44.22%) Microsoft
2 1,458 (25.83%) ForeScout
3 152 (2.69%) VMware
4 134 (2.37%) Cisco
5 113 (2.00%) Palo Alto
6 109 (1.93%) CrowdStrike
7 82 (1.45%) Splunk
8 63 (1.12%) Fortinet
9 62 (1.10%) Google
10 59 (1.05%) Apple
10 59 (1.05%) Tenable
11 51 (0.90%) ServiceNow
12 47 (0.83%) Salesforce
13 39 (0.69%) Adobe
13 39 (0.69%) Qualys
14 38 (0.67%) Aruba
15 35 (0.62%) SAP
16 31 (0.55%) Dell
17 30 (0.53%) Veeam
18 25 (0.44%) CyberArk