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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 37 30
Rank change year-on-year +30 -7 +23
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 8,481 2,247 4,308
As % of all permanent jobs in England 12.49% 5.91% 5.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.09% 6.32% 6.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,429 1,479 3,347
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £44,590 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £61,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -13.93% +2.48% -8.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,750 £59,526
% change year-on-year -13.58% +2.06% -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 52,713 35,574 66,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.63% 93.56% 86.75%
Number of salaries quoted 32,661 20,407 51,505
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 23 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 23 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 +35 2,641 £40,000 -23.81% 280
North West +30 1,914 £42,500 -22.73% 140
Midlands +26 1,675 £43,500 -27.50% 169
London +23 1,507 £70,000 -4.03% 418
South East +39 1,352 £47,500 -17.39% 331
West Midlands +24 1,296 £44,250 -29.20% 80
East of England +47 705 £35,000 -26.32% 111
Yorkshire +39 606 £31,500 -37.00% 105
South West +34 543 £55,000 +18.92% 145
East Midlands +42 390 £42,000 +1.20% 89
North East +38 121 £30,500 -23.81% 37
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 (1.43%) SharePoint
2 76 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.15%) CMS
4 9 (0.11%) Confluence
5 6 (0.071%) nginx
5 6 (0.071%) WordPress
6 5 (0.059%) Apache
6 5 (0.059%) Drupal
7 3 (0.035%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.035%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.024%) SAS
9 1 (0.012%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.012%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 94 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (0.33%) Maya
5 24 (0.28%) Simulink
6 19 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.11%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.059%) CATIA
9 4 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.024%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.024%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 27 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.094%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.083%) Shopify
5 4 (0.047%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.047%) Endur
5 4 (0.047%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.047%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.047%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.035%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.035%) SAP CX
6 3 (0.035%) SAP FS
6 3 (0.035%) Yoast SEO
7 2 (0.024%) Exchequer
7 2 (0.024%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.024%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.024%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.024%) SAP FSCM
7 2 (0.024%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.024%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 4,054 (47.80%) Cloud Computing
2 2,041 (24.07%) Azure
3 549 (6.47%) AWS
4 430 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
5 280 (3.30%) Entra ID
6 196 (2.31%) GitHub
7 91 (1.07%) SaaS
8 87 (1.03%) GCP
9 66 (0.78%) Power Platform
10 54 (0.64%) Azure Sentinel
11 50 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
12 44 (0.52%) PaaS
13 37 (0.44%) Azure DevOps
14 35 (0.41%) Nutanix
15 34 (0.40%) Google Workspace
16 30 (0.35%) IaaS
17 27 (0.32%) AWS CloudFormation
18 26 (0.31%) Mimecast
19 23 (0.27%) Dynamics 365
19 23 (0.27%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4,212 (49.66%) Internet
2 312 (3.68%) Firewall
3 144 (1.70%) Network Security
4 128 (1.51%) VPN
5 87 (1.03%) DNS
6 74 (0.87%) DHCP
7 68 (0.80%) WAN
8 65 (0.77%) VLAN
9 63 (0.74%) LAN
10 55 (0.65%) TCP/IP
10 55 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
11 37 (0.44%) Broadband
11 37 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
12 33 (0.39%) VoIP
13 27 (0.32%) Wireless
14 23 (0.27%) CHAP
15 18 (0.21%) SD-WAN
16 15 (0.18%) DMZ
17 13 (0.15%) Unified Communications
18 11 (0.13%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (0.41%) Power BI
2 24 (0.28%) Big Data
2 24 (0.28%) SQL Server
3 23 (0.27%) Tableau
4 22 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
5 21 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (0.22%) Neo4j
7 11 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.12%) Metadata
9 9 (0.11%) Data Lake
9 9 (0.11%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.071%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.059%) MariaDB
11 5 (0.059%) MySQL
11 5 (0.059%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.059%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.047%) SAP BW
13 3 (0.035%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.024%) Apache Hive
14 2 (0.024%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 200 (2.36%) Git
2 29 (0.34%) JIRA
2 29 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
3 23 (0.27%) GitLab
4 13 (0.15%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.13%) Cucumber
6 7 (0.083%) JMeter
6 7 (0.083%) Locust
7 5 (0.059%) Apache Continuum
7 5 (0.059%) Burp Suite
7 5 (0.059%) Metasploit
8 4 (0.047%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.047%) MLflow
9 2 (0.024%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.012%) GDB
10 1 (0.012%) Snyk
10 1 (0.012%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.012%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.012%) WinDbg
10 1 (0.012%) Yeoman
General
1 6,023 (71.02%) Social Skills
2 4,210 (49.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,165 (49.11%) Banking
4 537 (6.33%) Finance
5 358 (4.22%) Multimedia
6 335 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
7 197 (2.32%) Public Sector
8 167 (1.97%) Marketing
9 157 (1.85%) Law
10 156 (1.84%) Legal
11 126 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
12 123 (1.45%) Telecoms
13 122 (1.44%) Retail
14 90 (1.06%) Manufacturing
15 66 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
16 54 (0.64%) Games
17 53 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
18 47 (0.55%) Electronics
18 47 (0.55%) Local Government
19 46 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3,143 (37.06%) Lecturer
2 978 (11.53%) Analyst
3 854 (10.07%) Security Analyst
4 797 (9.40%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 729 (8.60%) Junior
6 708 (8.35%) Junior Analyst
7 707 (8.34%) Junior Security Analyst
8 423 (4.99%) Ethical Hacker
9 364 (4.29%) Senior
10 363 (4.28%) Trainee
11 252 (2.97%) Consultant
12 233 (2.75%) Architect
13 230 (2.71%) Lead
14 201 (2.37%) IT Support
15 158 (1.86%) Security Consultant
16 156 (1.84%) Developer
16 156 (1.84%) Security Manager
17 146 (1.72%) Security Engineer
18 143 (1.69%) IT Manager
19 131 (1.54%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (2.43%) CSS
1 206 (2.43%) HTML
2 42 (0.50%) REST
3 36 (0.42%) OAuth
4 35 (0.41%) React
4 35 (0.41%) SAML
5 33 (0.39%) OpenID
6 29 (0.34%) LDAP
7 27 (0.32%) SOAP
8 26 (0.31%) GraphQL
9 21 (0.25%) SAP CAF
10 20 (0.24%) AngularJS
11 17 (0.20%) MERN Stack
12 14 (0.17%) SailPoint
13 11 (0.13%) YAML
14 10 (0.12%) Tailwind CSS
15 9 (0.11%) Middleware
15 9 (0.11%) Node.js
16 8 (0.094%) PyTorch
16 8 (0.094%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4,073 (48.02%) IoT
2 485 (5.72%) Cyberattack
3 213 (2.51%) Security Posture
4 182 (2.15%) Management Information System
5 115 (1.36%) Driving Licence
6 109 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
7 98 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 93 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
9 84 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
10 80 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
11 65 (0.77%) Cloud Native
11 65 (0.77%) Data Centre
12 64 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
13 55 (0.65%) Operational Technology
14 51 (0.60%) Blog
15 47 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
16 38 (0.45%) PKI
17 37 (0.44%) Cyber Security Posture
18 34 (0.40%) Public Cloud
19 32 (0.38%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 379 (4.47%) Windows
2 170 (2.00%) Windows Server
3 138 (1.63%) Linux
4 69 (0.81%) Windows 10
5 48 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 31 (0.37%) Android
7 22 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.12%) Unix
10 6 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.059%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.047%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.047%) VMS
13 3 (0.035%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.024%) 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 4,257 (50.19%) AI
2 4,065 (47.93%) Machine Learning
3 4,046 (47.71%) User Experience
4 4,038 (47.61%) Web Development
5 1,319 (15.55%) Mentoring
6 598 (7.05%) Ethical Hacking
7 434 (5.12%) Problem-Solving
8 430 (5.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 382 (4.50%) Risk Management
10 365 (4.30%) Information Security
11 360 (4.24%) Incident Response
12 273 (3.22%) Agile
13 234 (2.76%) SIEM
14 221 (2.61%) Cloud Security
15 201 (2.37%) Line Management
16 200 (2.36%) ITIL
17 197 (2.32%) Roadmaps
18 189 (2.23%) Disaster Recovery
18 189 (2.23%) Project Management
19 186 (2.19%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 400 (4.72%) Python
2 251 (2.96%) JavaScript
3 192 (2.26%) PowerShell
4 107 (1.26%) SQL
5 99 (1.17%) R
6 62 (0.73%) Bash
7 40 (0.47%) Java
8 32 (0.38%) C++
9 30 (0.35%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.31%) 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 (0.11%) Go
15 7 (0.083%) Rust
16 6 (0.071%) PHP
17 4 (0.047%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.035%) Bicep
18 3 (0.035%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 4,439 (52.34%) Degree
2 4,070 (47.99%) Master's Degree
3 4,013 (47.32%) PhD
4 4,006 (47.23%) Postgraduate
5 1,357 (16.00%) Azure Certification
6 930 (10.97%) CompTIA Security+
7 747 (8.81%) CompTIA CySA+
8 643 (7.58%) CEH
9 358 (4.22%) CISSP
10 311 (3.67%) Security Cleared
11 258 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 244 (2.88%) CISM
13 238 (2.81%) AWS Certification
14 204 (2.41%) SC Cleared
15 194 (2.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 188 (2.22%) Network+ Certification
17 177 (2.09%) A+ Certification
18 111 (1.31%) CISA
19 110 (1.30%) DV Cleared
20 105 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 510 (6.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 472 (5.57%) NIST
3 270 (3.18%) GDPR
4 223 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 186 (2.19%) GRC
6 117 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 109 (1.29%) PCI DSS
8 104 (1.23%) NCSC
9 73 (0.86%) QA
10 47 (0.55%) SOC 2
11 44 (0.52%) COBIT
12 40 (0.47%) SLA
13 37 (0.44%) NIST 800
14 32 (0.38%) Accessibility
15 26 (0.31%) Data Quality
16 25 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 22 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
18 20 (0.24%) JSP 440
19 19 (0.22%) ISO 22301
20 18 (0.21%) SOC 3
System Software
1 304 (3.58%) Active Directory
2 71 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (0.72%) Hyper-V
4 54 (0.64%) Docker
5 26 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.25%) vSphere
7 9 (0.11%) Firmware
7 9 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.094%) IAG
9 7 (0.083%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.071%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.035%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.024%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.024%) GPFS
14 2 (0.024%) Lustre
15 1 (0.012%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.012%) iptables
15 1 (0.012%) KVM
Systems Management
1 156 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 67 (0.79%) Terraform
3 59 (0.70%) Kubernetes
4 36 (0.42%) Ansible
5 27 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.20%) Grafana
7 16 (0.19%) CASB
8 14 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (0.17%) SCCM
9 11 (0.13%) CSIRT
10 10 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.12%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.094%) Nessus
11 8 (0.094%) RSA Archer
12 7 (0.083%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 7 (0.083%) FTK
12 7 (0.083%) VxRail
13 6 (0.071%) vCenter Server
14 5 (0.059%) Prometheus
14 5 (0.059%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2,050 (24.17%) Microsoft
2 1,129 (13.31%) ForeScout
3 121 (1.43%) VMware
4 95 (1.12%) Cisco
5 77 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
6 66 (0.78%) Fortinet
7 63 (0.74%) Palo Alto
8 61 (0.72%) Apple
9 58 (0.68%) SAP
10 45 (0.53%) Google
11 40 (0.47%) Splunk
12 39 (0.46%) Salesforce
13 37 (0.44%) Dell
14 36 (0.42%) Oracle
15 32 (0.38%) Adobe
16 31 (0.37%) Tenable
17 30 (0.35%) Siemens
18 28 (0.33%) ServiceNow
19 25 (0.29%) CyberArk
20 20 (0.24%) Commvault