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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 35 32
Rank change year-on-year +19 -3 +18
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 5,792 2,568 4,832
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.86% 6.40% 5.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.33% 6.93% 6.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,224 1,542 3,471
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,424 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -1.71% -8.59%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,563 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -10.42%

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 62,086 37,058 77,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.52% 92.29% 82.22%
Number of salaries quoted 43,761 20,420 55,963
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,822 £29,490
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 £78,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,250
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 25 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 25 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 +16 1,376 £74,600 +2.90% 377
North of England +20 1,354 £55,000 +6.25% 314
South East +17 1,038 £50,000 - 360
Midlands +21 974 £55,000 +10.55% 171
North West +33 635 £55,000 - 168
South West +19 576 £60,000 +33.33% 154
Yorkshire +13 560 £50,000 +51.52% 98
West Midlands +12 520 £60,000 +9.09% 82
East Midlands +39 453 £55,000 +61.76% 89
East of England +67 441 £45,000 -5.26% 142
North East +26 159 £47,500 -26.92% 53
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
1 169 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 145 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (0.21%) Apache
4 11 (0.19%) CMS
5 7 (0.12%) IIS
6 5 (0.086%) Confluence
6 5 (0.086%) SAS
6 5 (0.086%) WordPress
7 4 (0.069%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.035%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.017%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.017%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 71 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.35%) Simulink
5 7 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.10%) CATIA
7 5 (0.086%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.035%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.017%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.017%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (0.41%) Cloudability
2 21 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 10 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.086%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.069%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.069%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.052%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 3 (0.052%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.052%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.052%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.035%) Q-Pulse
8 2 (0.035%) Shopify
9 1 (0.017%) Carpe Diem
9 1 (0.017%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.017%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 1 (0.017%) Maximo
9 1 (0.017%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.017%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,382 (41.13%) Azure
2 632 (10.91%) Microsoft 365
3 445 (7.68%) AWS
4 369 (6.37%) Entra ID
5 154 (2.66%) SaaS
6 145 (2.50%) GCP
7 73 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 71 (1.23%) Power Platform
9 69 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
10 55 (0.95%) GitHub
11 54 (0.93%) OneDrive
12 46 (0.79%) Serverless
13 42 (0.73%) Google Workspace
14 37 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
15 33 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
16 30 (0.52%) Mimecast
17 28 (0.48%) Microsoft Copilot
18 27 (0.47%) PaaS
19 25 (0.43%) IaaS
19 25 (0.43%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 450 (7.77%) Firewall
2 203 (3.50%) Network Security
3 178 (3.07%) VPN
4 168 (2.90%) DNS
5 130 (2.24%) WAN
6 118 (2.04%) LAN
7 115 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
8 111 (1.92%) DHCP
9 98 (1.69%) Internet
9 98 (1.69%) VLAN
10 93 (1.61%) TCP/IP
11 58 (1.00%) VoIP
12 51 (0.88%) Broadband
13 41 (0.71%) Unified Communications
14 38 (0.66%) Wireless
15 33 (0.57%) HTTP
16 29 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
16 29 (0.50%) SSL
17 27 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
18 20 (0.35%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (0.74%) Power BI
2 29 (0.50%) SQL Server
3 15 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (0.21%) Tableau
5 10 (0.17%) MySQL
5 10 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (0.14%) Big Data
6 8 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (0.14%) Neo4j
7 7 (0.12%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.086%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.086%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.052%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.052%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.052%) GIS
9 3 (0.052%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.035%) Flink
10 2 (0.035%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.035%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 60 (1.04%) Git
2 35 (0.60%) GitLab
3 29 (0.50%) JIRA
4 25 (0.43%) Snyk
5 24 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
6 12 (0.21%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.19%) Metasploit
8 10 (0.17%) Burp Suite
9 8 (0.14%) Yeoman
10 6 (0.10%) Apache Continuum
11 5 (0.086%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.086%) JMeter
11 5 (0.086%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.086%) VersionOne
12 4 (0.069%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.069%) Locust
13 2 (0.035%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.035%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.035%) MLflow
13 2 (0.035%) Visual Studio
General
1 2,414 (41.68%) Social Skills
2 516 (8.91%) Finance
3 412 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
4 273 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 256 (4.42%) Public Sector
6 174 (3.00%) Retail
7 165 (2.85%) Marketing
8 147 (2.54%) Law
9 140 (2.42%) Legal
10 132 (2.28%) Telecoms
11 129 (2.23%) Banking
12 118 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
13 117 (2.02%) Manufacturing
14 107 (1.85%) Multimedia
15 74 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
16 61 (1.05%) Local Government
17 59 (1.02%) Aerospace
18 46 (0.79%) Advertising
19 42 (0.73%) Aviation
20 33 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,243 (21.46%) Analyst
2 1,072 (18.51%) Security Analyst
3 984 (16.99%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 798 (13.78%) Junior
5 765 (13.21%) Junior Analyst
6 755 (13.04%) Junior Security Analyst
7 705 (12.17%) Ethical Hacker
8 564 (9.74%) Senior
9 364 (6.28%) Consultant
10 347 (5.99%) Architect
11 302 (5.21%) Lead
12 274 (4.73%) Security Manager
13 257 (4.44%) IT Support
14 252 (4.35%) Security Architect
15 234 (4.04%) Security Consultant
16 213 (3.68%) Security Engineer
17 209 (3.61%) IT Manager
18 189 (3.26%) Cybersecurity Manager
19 177 (3.06%) IT Engineer
20 157 (2.71%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (1.04%) SAML
2 59 (1.02%) LDAP
2 59 (1.02%) REST
3 58 (1.00%) HTML
4 56 (0.97%) OAuth
5 52 (0.90%) CSS
6 51 (0.88%) OpenID
7 33 (0.57%) SOAP
8 26 (0.45%) GraphQL
9 25 (0.43%) React
10 17 (0.29%) Kafka
11 16 (0.28%) .NET
11 16 (0.28%) Middleware
12 14 (0.24%) FastAPI
12 14 (0.24%) SailPoint
13 13 (0.22%) JSON
13 13 (0.22%) Node.js
14 12 (0.21%) RESTful
15 11 (0.19%) AngularJS
15 11 (0.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 815 (14.07%) Cyberattack
2 318 (5.49%) Security Posture
3 192 (3.31%) Cyber Threat
4 189 (3.26%) Management Information System
5 165 (2.85%) Onboarding
6 151 (2.61%) Security Operations Centre
7 127 (2.19%) Driving Licence
8 120 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
9 100 (1.73%) Operational Technology
10 98 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
11 83 (1.43%) Cloud Native
12 77 (1.33%) Data Centre
13 59 (1.02%) PKI
14 49 (0.85%) Cyber Security Posture
15 41 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
15 41 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
16 38 (0.66%) Blog
16 38 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
17 30 (0.52%) Cloud Security Posture
17 30 (0.52%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 502 (8.67%) Windows
2 258 (4.45%) Windows Server
3 173 (2.99%) Linux
4 47 (0.81%) Mac OS
5 37 (0.64%) Windows 10
6 27 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 27 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 25 (0.43%) Android
8 22 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 19 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 11 (0.19%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.10%) CentOS
11 6 (0.10%) Unix
11 6 (0.10%) VMS
12 3 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.035%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.017%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.017%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.017%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,223 (21.12%) Mentoring
2 785 (13.55%) Ethical Hacking
3 562 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 553 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
5 509 (8.79%) Incident Response
6 456 (7.87%) Information Security
7 442 (7.63%) Risk Management
8 397 (6.85%) Security Operations
9 393 (6.79%) SIEM
10 359 (6.20%) Cloud Security
11 345 (5.96%) AI
12 331 (5.71%) Vulnerability Management
13 298 (5.15%) Disaster Recovery
14 289 (4.99%) Decision-Making
15 262 (4.52%) Roadmaps
16 241 (4.16%) Agile
17 240 (4.14%) Stakeholder Management
18 233 (4.02%) Data Protection
18 233 (4.02%) Security Architecture
19 225 (3.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 313 (5.40%) Python
2 264 (4.56%) PowerShell
3 114 (1.97%) SQL
4 103 (1.78%) JavaScript
5 82 (1.42%) Bash
6 54 (0.93%) C++
7 38 (0.66%) Java
8 30 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 27 (0.47%) C#
10 26 (0.45%) T-SQL
11 24 (0.41%) MATLAB
12 19 (0.33%) Rust
12 19 (0.33%) TypeScript
13 18 (0.31%) R
14 16 (0.28%) Go
15 13 (0.22%) Search Processing Language
16 11 (0.19%) C
17 9 (0.16%) Perl
18 7 (0.12%) PHP
19 5 (0.086%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,544 (26.66%) Azure Certification
2 927 (16.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 835 (14.42%) CEH
4 802 (13.85%) CompTIA CySA+
5 517 (8.93%) Security Cleared
6 433 (7.48%) Degree
7 429 (7.41%) CISSP
8 367 (6.34%) SC Cleared
9 274 (4.73%) CISM
10 173 (2.99%) DV Cleared
11 151 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
12 121 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 101 (1.74%) CISA
14 97 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
15 90 (1.55%) A+ Certification
16 88 (1.52%) CREST Certified
17 84 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 84 (1.45%) AWS Certification
17 84 (1.45%) CRISC
18 67 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 609 (10.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 538 (9.29%) NIST
3 337 (5.82%) GDPR
4 279 (4.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 259 (4.47%) GRC
6 149 (2.57%) PCI DSS
7 134 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 115 (1.99%) NCSC
9 112 (1.93%) QA
10 56 (0.97%) SOC 2
11 45 (0.78%) NIST 800
12 39 (0.67%) COBIT
13 36 (0.62%) Accessibility
13 36 (0.62%) SLA
14 35 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 34 (0.59%) JSP 440
16 32 (0.55%) Data Quality
17 29 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
18 19 (0.33%) HIPAA
19 15 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 405 (6.99%) Active Directory
2 119 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 97 (1.67%) Hyper-V
4 53 (0.92%) Docker
5 48 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (0.48%) vSphere
7 14 (0.24%) IAG
8 11 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 7 (0.12%) Firmware
11 5 (0.086%) ClearTrust
11 5 (0.086%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.069%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 4 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.035%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.017%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.017%) KVM
Systems Management
1 203 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 90 (1.55%) Terraform
3 71 (1.23%) Kubernetes
4 41 (0.71%) Ansible
5 37 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 31 (0.54%) Grafana
7 21 (0.36%) SCCM
8 19 (0.33%) QRadar
9 18 (0.31%) Prometheus
10 15 (0.26%) CASB
10 15 (0.26%) FortiGate
11 10 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 9 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
12 9 (0.16%) CSIRT
12 9 (0.16%) Kibana
12 9 (0.16%) Nmap
12 9 (0.16%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,534 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 1,458 (25.17%) ForeScout
3 166 (2.87%) VMware
4 144 (2.49%) Cisco
5 124 (2.14%) Palo Alto
6 108 (1.86%) CrowdStrike
7 91 (1.57%) Splunk
8 64 (1.10%) Fortinet
9 60 (1.04%) Google
9 60 (1.04%) Tenable
10 55 (0.95%) ServiceNow
11 51 (0.88%) Apple
11 51 (0.88%) Qualys
12 50 (0.86%) Salesforce
13 48 (0.83%) Aruba
14 35 (0.60%) SAP
15 34 (0.59%) Veeam
16 33 (0.57%) Adobe
17 30 (0.52%) Dell
18 25 (0.43%) CyberArk