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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 40 29
Rank change year-on-year +34 -11 +23
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 9,433 2,221 4,724
As % of all permanent jobs in England 12.06% 5.93% 5.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.01% 6.38% 6.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,727 1,548 3,540
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £35,237 £41,250 £43,750
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.80% -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 58,933 34,823 70,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.34% 92.97% 85.77%
Number of salaries quoted 37,117 20,713 53,660
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,591 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £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 23 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 23 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 +45 2,948 £43,500 -15.96% 541
North West +39 2,039 £45,000 -18.18% 377
Midlands +29 1,897 £45,000 -18.18% 186
London +28 1,645 £71,000 -4.86% 452
South East +36 1,511 £49,536 -9.94% 351
West Midlands +25 1,392 £45,000 -28.00% 84
Yorkshire +37 758 £40,000 -11.11% 122
East of England +50 755 £40,000 -15.79% 119
South West +25 626 £58,500 +30.00% 125
East Midlands +30 516 £50,000 +35.13% 101
North East +34 151 £40,000 +5.44% 45
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
1 117 (1.24%) SharePoint
2 85 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.12%) CMS
4 9 (0.095%) WordPress
5 6 (0.064%) nginx
6 5 (0.053%) Apache
6 5 (0.053%) Drupal
7 4 (0.042%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.042%) Confluence
7 4 (0.042%) IIS
8 3 (0.032%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.021%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.021%) SAS
10 1 (0.011%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 85 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.27%) Simulink
5 18 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.15%) Maya
7 8 (0.085%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.053%) CATIA
8 5 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.042%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.021%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.021%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 28 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
3 12 (0.13%) Cloudability
4 5 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.042%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.042%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.042%) SAP Business One
5 4 (0.042%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.042%) Shopify
5 4 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.032%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 3 (0.032%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.021%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.021%) Yoast SEO
8 1 (0.011%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.011%) Maximo
8 1 (0.011%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.011%) SAP CX
8 1 (0.011%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.011%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4,045 (42.88%) Cloud Computing
2 2,621 (27.79%) Azure
3 550 (5.83%) AWS
4 482 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
5 290 (3.07%) Entra ID
6 178 (1.89%) GitHub
7 117 (1.24%) SaaS
8 103 (1.09%) GCP
9 70 (0.74%) Power Platform
10 62 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
11 60 (0.64%) Azure Sentinel
12 39 (0.41%) Azure DevOps
13 37 (0.39%) Google Workspace
14 34 (0.36%) PaaS
15 31 (0.33%) Nutanix
16 30 (0.32%) Mimecast
17 29 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
18 28 (0.30%) IaaS
19 26 (0.28%) Serverless
20 23 (0.24%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4,190 (44.42%) Internet
2 333 (3.53%) Firewall
3 146 (1.55%) Network Security
4 126 (1.34%) VPN
5 106 (1.12%) DNS
6 80 (0.85%) DHCP
7 77 (0.82%) WAN
8 70 (0.74%) LAN
9 69 (0.73%) VLAN
10 65 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
11 53 (0.56%) TCP/IP
12 41 (0.43%) Broadband
13 31 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
13 31 (0.33%) VoIP
14 28 (0.30%) Wireless
15 25 (0.27%) CHAP
16 23 (0.24%) Unified Communications
17 20 (0.21%) SD-WAN
18 14 (0.15%) Cisco ASA
18 14 (0.15%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (0.43%) Power BI
2 24 (0.25%) Big Data
2 24 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (0.23%) SQL Server
4 20 (0.21%) Neo4j
4 20 (0.21%) Tableau
5 13 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (0.085%) MySQL
8 7 (0.074%) Metadata
9 6 (0.064%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.064%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.053%) MariaDB
10 5 (0.053%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.042%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.042%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.042%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.021%) Apache Hive
12 2 (0.021%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.021%) Impala
Development Applications
1 177 (1.88%) Git
2 30 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
3 27 (0.29%) GitLab
4 22 (0.23%) JIRA
5 13 (0.14%) Snyk
6 12 (0.13%) Jenkins
7 8 (0.085%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.053%) Apache Continuum
8 5 (0.053%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.053%) Metasploit
9 4 (0.042%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.042%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.042%) JMeter
9 4 (0.042%) Locust
9 4 (0.042%) MLflow
9 4 (0.042%) VersionOne
10 1 (0.011%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.011%) GDB
10 1 (0.011%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.011%) WinDbg
General
1 6,578 (69.73%) Social Skills
2 4,266 (45.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,168 (44.19%) Banking
4 556 (5.89%) Finance
5 365 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
6 318 (3.37%) Multimedia
7 198 (2.10%) Public Sector
8 162 (1.72%) Retail
9 156 (1.65%) Marketing
10 152 (1.61%) Law
11 151 (1.60%) Legal
12 127 (1.35%) Telecoms
13 113 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
14 93 (0.99%) Manufacturing
15 70 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
16 58 (0.61%) Local Government
17 48 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
18 38 (0.40%) Aerospace
18 38 (0.40%) Electronics
18 38 (0.40%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3,141 (33.30%) Lecturer
2 1,342 (14.23%) Analyst
3 1,197 (12.69%) Security Analyst
4 1,120 (11.87%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1,021 (10.82%) Junior
6 990 (10.50%) Junior Analyst
7 989 (10.48%) Junior Security Analyst
8 705 (7.47%) Ethical Hacker
9 458 (4.86%) Senior
10 334 (3.54%) Trainee
11 278 (2.95%) Consultant
12 269 (2.85%) Architect
13 238 (2.52%) Lead
14 214 (2.27%) Security Manager
15 211 (2.24%) IT Support
16 184 (1.95%) Security Engineer
17 179 (1.90%) Security Architect
18 168 (1.78%) Security Consultant
19 156 (1.65%) Developer
20 148 (1.57%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (1.94%) HTML
2 182 (1.93%) CSS
3 49 (0.52%) REST
4 43 (0.46%) OAuth
4 43 (0.46%) SAML
5 41 (0.43%) OpenID
6 39 (0.41%) LDAP
7 38 (0.40%) React
8 31 (0.33%) SOAP
9 26 (0.28%) GraphQL
10 19 (0.20%) AngularJS
11 17 (0.18%) MERN Stack
12 15 (0.16%) RESTful
13 14 (0.15%) SailPoint
14 13 (0.14%) FastAPI
14 13 (0.14%) SAP CAF
15 12 (0.13%) Middleware
16 10 (0.11%) Kafka
16 10 (0.11%) Node.js
16 10 (0.11%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4,036 (42.79%) IoT
2 791 (8.39%) Cyberattack
3 244 (2.59%) Security Posture
4 189 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 139 (1.47%) Onboarding
6 134 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
7 102 (1.08%) Driving Licence
8 95 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
9 87 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
10 80 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
11 76 (0.81%) Data Centre
12 73 (0.77%) Operational Technology
13 64 (0.68%) Cloud Native
14 62 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
15 57 (0.60%) Blog
16 48 (0.51%) PKI
17 43 (0.46%) Cyber Security Posture
17 43 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
18 35 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
19 33 (0.35%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 381 (4.04%) Windows
2 174 (1.84%) Windows Server
3 141 (1.49%) Linux
4 65 (0.69%) Windows 10
5 44 (0.47%) Mac OS
6 29 (0.31%) Android
7 21 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.095%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.074%) Unix
12 6 (0.064%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.053%) CentOS
14 4 (0.042%) VMS
15 1 (0.011%) Debian
15 1 (0.011%) FreeBSD
15 1 (0.011%) OpenBSD
15 1 (0.011%) OpenWrt
15 1 (0.011%) Solaris
15 1 (0.011%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,273 (45.30%) AI
2 4,047 (42.90%) Machine Learning
3 4,046 (42.89%) User Experience
4 4,025 (42.67%) Web Development
5 1,606 (17.03%) Mentoring
6 863 (9.15%) Ethical Hacking
7 459 (4.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 438 (4.64%) Problem-Solving
9 417 (4.42%) Information Security
10 399 (4.23%) Incident Response
11 383 (4.06%) Risk Management
12 271 (2.87%) SIEM
13 261 (2.77%) Agile
14 258 (2.74%) Cloud Security
15 237 (2.51%) Security Operations
16 217 (2.30%) Data Protection
17 210 (2.23%) Roadmaps
18 209 (2.22%) ITIL
19 203 (2.15%) Disaster Recovery
20 201 (2.13%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 422 (4.47%) Python
2 235 (2.49%) JavaScript
3 221 (2.34%) PowerShell
4 112 (1.19%) SQL
5 86 (0.91%) R
6 75 (0.80%) Bash
7 41 (0.43%) Java
8 38 (0.40%) C++
9 33 (0.35%) TypeScript
10 29 (0.31%) MATLAB
11 25 (0.27%) C#
11 25 (0.27%) T-SQL
12 23 (0.24%) C
13 14 (0.15%) Go
14 12 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
15 10 (0.11%) Rust
16 6 (0.064%) PHP
17 4 (0.042%) Bicep
17 4 (0.042%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.042%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4,438 (47.05%) Degree
2 4,070 (43.15%) Master's Degree
3 4,000 (42.40%) PhD
4 3,998 (42.38%) Postgraduate
5 1,895 (20.09%) Azure Certification
6 1,212 (12.85%) CompTIA Security+
7 1,037 (10.99%) CompTIA CySA+
8 911 (9.66%) CEH
9 398 (4.22%) CISSP
10 375 (3.98%) Security Cleared
11 260 (2.76%) CISM
12 252 (2.67%) SC Cleared
13 239 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 226 (2.40%) AWS Certification
15 173 (1.83%) Network+ Certification
16 171 (1.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 167 (1.77%) A+ Certification
18 120 (1.27%) DV Cleared
19 108 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
20 107 (1.13%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 512 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 484 (5.13%) NIST
3 294 (3.12%) GDPR
4 232 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 218 (2.31%) GRC
6 127 (1.35%) PCI DSS
7 123 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 105 (1.11%) NCSC
9 91 (0.96%) QA
10 58 (0.61%) SOC 2
11 44 (0.47%) NIST 800
12 43 (0.46%) COBIT
12 43 (0.46%) SLA
13 33 (0.35%) Accessibility
14 23 (0.24%) Data Quality
15 22 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 21 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
16 21 (0.22%) JSP 440
17 18 (0.19%) HIPAA
18 17 (0.18%) SOC 3
System Software
1 312 (3.31%) Active Directory
2 76 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (0.63%) Docker
4 54 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 40 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.24%) vSphere
7 10 (0.11%) Firmware
7 10 (0.11%) IAG
8 9 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.064%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.064%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.032%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.021%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.021%) GPFS
11 2 (0.021%) Lustre
12 1 (0.011%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.011%) iptables
12 1 (0.011%) KVM
Systems Management
1 147 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 73 (0.77%) Terraform
3 68 (0.72%) Kubernetes
4 38 (0.40%) Ansible
5 31 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (0.22%) Grafana
7 14 (0.15%) CASB
8 13 (0.14%) CSIRT
8 13 (0.14%) SCCM
9 12 (0.13%) QRadar
10 10 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.11%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (0.095%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.085%) Cisco CUCM
12 8 (0.085%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 7 (0.074%) Nessus
13 7 (0.074%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.074%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.074%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2,645 (28.04%) Microsoft
2 1,693 (17.95%) ForeScout
3 120 (1.27%) VMware
4 105 (1.11%) Cisco
5 97 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
6 81 (0.86%) Palo Alto
7 66 (0.70%) Apple
8 64 (0.68%) Fortinet
9 52 (0.55%) Google
9 52 (0.55%) Splunk
10 45 (0.48%) Adobe
10 45 (0.48%) SAP
11 43 (0.46%) Tenable
12 42 (0.45%) ServiceNow
13 41 (0.43%) Salesforce
14 32 (0.34%) Dell
15 29 (0.31%) CyberArk
16 28 (0.30%) Siemens
17 22 (0.23%) Oracle
18 20 (0.21%) Veeam