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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 38 29
Rank change year-on-year +32 -9 +23
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 9,100 2,188 4,570
As % of all permanent jobs in England 12.09% 5.94% 5.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.93% 6.38% 6.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,621 1,520 3,521
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,280 £44,054
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 57,108 34,279 69,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.86% 93.11% 85.95%
Number of salaries quoted 35,996 20,481 53,320
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 13 April 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 13 April 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 +42 2,851 £42,500 -19.05% 266
North West +38 1,994 £45,000 -18.18% 122
Midlands +32 1,832 £45,000 -18.18% 161
London +22 1,565 £70,079 -6.09% 460
South East +34 1,455 £49,536 -9.94% 360
West Midlands +25 1,363 £45,000 -28.00% 70
East of England +44 746 £37,500 -21.05% 111
Yorkshire +38 716 £41,500 -7.78% 111
South West +26 599 £57,500 +27.78% 155
East Midlands +39 480 £50,000 +33.33% 91
North East +37 141 £40,000 +5.44% 36
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
1 121 (1.33%) SharePoint
2 82 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (0.13%) CMS
4 8 (0.088%) Confluence
5 7 (0.077%) WordPress
6 6 (0.066%) Apache
6 6 (0.066%) nginx
7 5 (0.055%) Drupal
8 3 (0.033%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.033%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.033%) IIS
9 2 (0.022%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.022%) SAS
10 1 (0.011%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 87 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.27%) Simulink
5 18 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.15%) Maya
7 8 (0.088%) MS Visio
8 6 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.055%) CATIA
9 5 (0.055%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.022%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.022%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.011%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 28 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
3 9 (0.099%) Cloudability
4 5 (0.055%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.055%) Shopify
5 4 (0.044%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.044%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.044%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.033%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 3 (0.033%) SAP Business One
6 3 (0.033%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.033%) Yoast SEO
7 2 (0.022%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.022%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.022%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.011%) Endur
8 1 (0.011%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.011%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.011%) SAP CX
8 1 (0.011%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 4,048 (44.48%) Cloud Computing
2 2,428 (26.68%) Azure
3 548 (6.02%) AWS
4 477 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
5 295 (3.24%) Entra ID
6 178 (1.96%) GitHub
7 109 (1.20%) SaaS
8 97 (1.07%) GCP
9 69 (0.76%) Power Platform
10 59 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
11 58 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
12 40 (0.44%) Azure DevOps
12 40 (0.44%) PaaS
13 36 (0.40%) Google Workspace
14 34 (0.37%) Nutanix
15 30 (0.33%) Mimecast
16 28 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
16 28 (0.31%) IaaS
17 25 (0.27%) Serverless
18 23 (0.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4,190 (46.04%) Internet
2 324 (3.56%) Firewall
3 148 (1.63%) Network Security
4 119 (1.31%) VPN
5 96 (1.05%) DNS
6 77 (0.85%) DHCP
7 71 (0.78%) WAN
8 68 (0.75%) VLAN
9 65 (0.71%) LAN
10 61 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
11 49 (0.54%) TCP/IP
12 37 (0.41%) Broadband
13 35 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
14 31 (0.34%) VoIP
15 28 (0.31%) Wireless
16 24 (0.26%) CHAP
17 20 (0.22%) SD-WAN
18 16 (0.18%) Unified Communications
19 15 (0.16%) DMZ
20 12 (0.13%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (0.42%) Power BI
2 24 (0.26%) Big Data
2 24 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (0.24%) SQL Server
4 20 (0.22%) Neo4j
5 18 (0.20%) Tableau
6 14 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.088%) MySQL
9 7 (0.077%) Metadata
9 7 (0.077%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.055%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.055%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.055%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.044%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.044%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.044%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.022%) Apache Hive
12 2 (0.022%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.022%) Impala
Development Applications
1 178 (1.96%) Git
2 30 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
3 26 (0.29%) JIRA
4 25 (0.27%) GitLab
5 14 (0.15%) Jenkins
6 12 (0.13%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.12%) Snyk
8 8 (0.088%) JMeter
8 8 (0.088%) Locust
9 5 (0.055%) Apache Continuum
9 5 (0.055%) Burp Suite
9 5 (0.055%) Metasploit
10 4 (0.044%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.044%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.044%) MLflow
11 3 (0.033%) VersionOne
12 1 (0.011%) GDB
12 1 (0.011%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.011%) WinDbg
12 1 (0.011%) Yeoman
General
1 6,391 (70.23%) Social Skills
2 4,245 (46.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,168 (45.80%) Banking
4 533 (5.86%) Finance
5 344 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
6 321 (3.53%) Multimedia
7 204 (2.24%) Public Sector
8 151 (1.66%) Legal
8 151 (1.66%) Marketing
9 147 (1.62%) Law
10 138 (1.52%) Retail
11 124 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 117 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
13 94 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 70 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
15 53 (0.58%) Local Government
16 48 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
17 42 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
18 41 (0.45%) Electronics
19 37 (0.41%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3,142 (34.53%) Lecturer
2 1,217 (13.37%) Analyst
3 1,081 (11.88%) Security Analyst
4 1,005 (11.04%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 924 (10.15%) Junior
6 896 (9.85%) Junior Analyst
7 895 (9.84%) Junior Security Analyst
8 611 (6.71%) Ethical Hacker
9 434 (4.77%) Senior
10 333 (3.66%) Trainee
11 268 (2.95%) Consultant
12 261 (2.87%) Architect
13 235 (2.58%) Lead
14 213 (2.34%) IT Support
15 200 (2.20%) Security Manager
16 171 (1.88%) Security Architect
17 166 (1.82%) Security Engineer
18 164 (1.80%) Security Consultant
19 156 (1.71%) IT Manager
20 148 (1.63%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (2.03%) HTML
2 184 (2.02%) CSS
3 45 (0.49%) REST
4 40 (0.44%) OAuth
5 39 (0.43%) SAML
6 38 (0.42%) React
7 37 (0.41%) OpenID
8 34 (0.37%) LDAP
9 29 (0.32%) SOAP
10 26 (0.29%) GraphQL
11 20 (0.22%) AngularJS
12 17 (0.19%) MERN Stack
13 16 (0.18%) SAP CAF
14 15 (0.16%) SailPoint
15 11 (0.12%) Node.js
16 10 (0.11%) Kafka
16 10 (0.11%) Middleware
16 10 (0.11%) Tailwind CSS
17 9 (0.099%) FastAPI
17 9 (0.099%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4,054 (44.55%) IoT
2 691 (7.59%) Cyberattack
3 228 (2.51%) Security Posture
4 184 (2.02%) Management Information System
5 120 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 115 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
7 106 (1.16%) Driving Licence
8 89 (0.98%) Security Operations Centre
9 82 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
10 70 (0.77%) Data Centre
11 66 (0.73%) Cyber Defence
12 65 (0.71%) Operational Technology
13 64 (0.70%) Cloud Native
14 61 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
15 55 (0.60%) Blog
16 45 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
17 41 (0.45%) PKI
18 40 (0.44%) Cyber Security Posture
19 31 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
19 31 (0.34%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 383 (4.21%) Windows
2 175 (1.92%) Windows Server
3 138 (1.52%) Linux
4 65 (0.71%) Windows 10
5 43 (0.47%) Mac OS
6 27 (0.30%) Android
7 20 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (0.088%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.088%) Unix
10 7 (0.077%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.066%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.044%) CentOS
12 4 (0.044%) VMS
13 2 (0.022%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.011%) Debian
14 1 (0.011%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.011%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.011%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.011%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,263 (46.85%) AI
2 4,048 (44.48%) User Experience
3 4,044 (44.44%) Machine Learning
4 4,030 (44.29%) Web Development
5 1,497 (16.45%) Mentoring
6 771 (8.47%) Ethical Hacking
7 455 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 431 (4.74%) Problem-Solving
9 390 (4.29%) Information Security
10 373 (4.10%) Risk Management
11 370 (4.07%) Incident Response
12 271 (2.98%) Agile
13 251 (2.76%) Cloud Security
13 251 (2.76%) SIEM
14 210 (2.31%) Security Operations
15 208 (2.29%) Data Protection
16 207 (2.27%) ITIL
17 204 (2.24%) Roadmaps
18 198 (2.18%) Disaster Recovery
19 193 (2.12%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 399 (4.38%) Python
2 232 (2.55%) JavaScript
3 210 (2.31%) PowerShell
4 106 (1.16%) SQL
5 87 (0.96%) R
6 67 (0.74%) Bash
7 45 (0.49%) Java
8 37 (0.41%) C++
9 33 (0.36%) TypeScript
10 29 (0.32%) MATLAB
11 25 (0.27%) T-SQL
12 23 (0.25%) C
12 23 (0.25%) C#
13 13 (0.14%) Go
14 10 (0.11%) Rust
15 9 (0.099%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.066%) PHP
17 4 (0.044%) Bicep
17 4 (0.044%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.033%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 4,427 (48.65%) Degree
2 4,063 (44.65%) Master's Degree
3 4,002 (43.98%) Postgraduate
4 4,001 (43.97%) PhD
5 1,710 (18.79%) Azure Certification
6 1,112 (12.22%) CompTIA Security+
7 941 (10.34%) CompTIA CySA+
8 819 (9.00%) CEH
9 377 (4.14%) CISSP
10 356 (3.91%) Security Cleared
11 251 (2.76%) CISM
12 243 (2.67%) SC Cleared
13 238 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
14 223 (2.45%) AWS Certification
15 176 (1.93%) Network+ Certification
16 172 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 166 (1.82%) A+ Certification
18 114 (1.25%) DV Cleared
19 108 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
20 101 (1.11%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 512 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 479 (5.26%) NIST
3 299 (3.29%) GDPR
4 238 (2.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 208 (2.29%) GRC
6 127 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 126 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 104 (1.14%) NCSC
9 88 (0.97%) QA
10 54 (0.59%) SOC 2
11 44 (0.48%) COBIT
12 40 (0.44%) NIST 800
13 38 (0.42%) SLA
14 35 (0.38%) Accessibility
15 23 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 22 (0.24%) Data Quality
17 21 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
17 21 (0.23%) JSP 440
18 18 (0.20%) ISO 22301
18 18 (0.20%) SOC 3
System Software
1 314 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 75 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (0.67%) Docker
4 56 (0.62%) Hyper-V
5 38 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.25%) vSphere
7 10 (0.11%) Firmware
7 10 (0.11%) IAG
8 8 (0.088%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.088%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.066%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.022%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.022%) GPFS
11 2 (0.022%) Lustre
12 1 (0.011%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.011%) iptables
12 1 (0.011%) KVM
Systems Management
1 158 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 73 (0.80%) Terraform
3 68 (0.75%) Kubernetes
4 38 (0.42%) Ansible
5 28 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (0.26%) Grafana
7 15 (0.16%) CASB
8 14 (0.15%) SCCM
9 12 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
10 10 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.11%) CSIRT
10 10 (0.11%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.099%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.088%) QRadar
13 7 (0.077%) FTK
13 7 (0.077%) Nessus
13 7 (0.077%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.077%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.077%) VxRail
14 6 (0.066%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 2,446 (26.88%) Microsoft
2 1,505 (16.54%) ForeScout
3 123 (1.35%) VMware
4 99 (1.09%) Cisco
5 89 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
6 74 (0.81%) Palo Alto
7 65 (0.71%) Apple
7 65 (0.71%) Fortinet
8 48 (0.53%) Google
9 47 (0.52%) SAP
9 47 (0.52%) Splunk
10 43 (0.47%) Tenable
11 42 (0.46%) ServiceNow
12 40 (0.44%) Adobe
13 39 (0.43%) Salesforce
14 32 (0.35%) Dell
15 30 (0.33%) Siemens
16 28 (0.31%) CyberArk
17 25 (0.27%) Oracle
18 21 (0.23%) Veeam