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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 39 29
Rank change year-on-year +32 -10 +22
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 8,726 2,148 4,437
As % of all permanent jobs in England 12.27% 5.88% 5.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.02% 6.31% 6.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,479 1,502 3,442
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £34,875 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.80% -8.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £53,292 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -11.18% +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 54,454 34,050 67,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 76.60% 93.17% 86.25%
Number of salaries quoted 34,258 20,315 52,343
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £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 £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 3 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 3 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 +37 2,721 £40,000 -23.81% 296
North West +31 1,940 £43,250 -21.36% 147
Midlands +30 1,735 £45,000 -19.64% 166
London +23 1,525 £71,000 -2.07% 426
South East +37 1,398 £47,500 -13.64% 351
West Midlands +26 1,317 £44,250 -29.20% 83
East of England +44 728 £35,000 -26.32% 111
Yorkshire +39 651 £33,000 -26.67% 112
South West +34 562 £57,500 +27.78% 150
East Midlands +42 429 £45,000 +20.00% 82
North East +41 130 £37,500 +1.44% 40
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
1 116 (1.33%) SharePoint
2 74 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (0.14%) CMS
4 8 (0.092%) Confluence
5 6 (0.069%) nginx
5 6 (0.069%) WordPress
6 5 (0.057%) Apache
6 5 (0.057%) Drupal
7 3 (0.034%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.034%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.023%) IIS
8 2 (0.023%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.023%) SAS
9 1 (0.011%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 90 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (0.28%) Simulink
5 18 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 16 (0.18%) Maya
7 8 (0.092%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.057%) CATIA
8 5 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.046%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.023%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.023%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 26 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (0.069%) Shopify
4 5 (0.057%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.046%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.046%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.046%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.046%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.034%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 3 (0.034%) Endur
6 3 (0.034%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.034%) Yoast SEO
7 2 (0.023%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.023%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.023%) SAP CX
7 2 (0.023%) SAP FS
7 2 (0.023%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.011%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.011%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.011%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 4,051 (46.42%) Cloud Computing
2 2,222 (25.46%) Azure
3 543 (6.22%) AWS
4 442 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
5 289 (3.31%) Entra ID
6 181 (2.07%) GitHub
7 97 (1.11%) SaaS
8 90 (1.03%) GCP
9 63 (0.72%) Power Platform
10 55 (0.63%) Azure Sentinel
11 52 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
12 40 (0.46%) PaaS
13 37 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (0.41%) Nutanix
15 34 (0.39%) Google Workspace
16 29 (0.33%) Mimecast
17 28 (0.32%) AWS CloudFormation
18 26 (0.30%) IaaS
19 22 (0.25%) Dynamics 365
20 21 (0.24%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4,198 (48.11%) Internet
2 317 (3.63%) Firewall
3 149 (1.71%) Network Security
4 120 (1.38%) VPN
5 88 (1.01%) DNS
6 73 (0.84%) DHCP
7 69 (0.79%) WAN
8 68 (0.78%) VLAN
9 64 (0.73%) LAN
10 55 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
11 49 (0.56%) TCP/IP
12 37 (0.42%) Broadband
13 35 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
14 28 (0.32%) VoIP
15 25 (0.29%) Wireless
16 23 (0.26%) CHAP
17 19 (0.22%) SD-WAN
18 15 (0.17%) DMZ
18 15 (0.17%) Unified Communications
19 12 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (0.39%) Power BI
2 24 (0.28%) Big Data
3 23 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
3 23 (0.26%) SQL Server
4 20 (0.23%) Neo4j
4 20 (0.23%) Tableau
5 17 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (0.092%) Metadata
7 8 (0.092%) MySQL
7 8 (0.092%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.057%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.057%) MariaDB
8 5 (0.057%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.057%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.046%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.046%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.023%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.023%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.023%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 184 (2.11%) Git
2 29 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
3 27 (0.31%) JIRA
4 25 (0.29%) GitLab
5 13 (0.15%) Jenkins
6 12 (0.14%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.092%) JMeter
7 8 (0.092%) Locust
8 5 (0.057%) Apache Continuum
8 5 (0.057%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.057%) Metasploit
9 4 (0.046%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.046%) MLflow
10 3 (0.034%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.023%) Snyk
12 1 (0.011%) GDB
12 1 (0.011%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.011%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.011%) WinDbg
12 1 (0.011%) Yeoman
General
1 6,204 (71.10%) Social Skills
2 4,218 (48.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4,169 (47.78%) Banking
4 519 (5.95%) Finance
5 333 (3.82%) Multimedia
6 324 (3.71%) Analytical Skills
7 200 (2.29%) Public Sector
8 157 (1.80%) Marketing
9 150 (1.72%) Legal
10 147 (1.68%) Law
11 128 (1.47%) Retail
12 124 (1.42%) Telecoms
13 118 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
14 89 (1.02%) Manufacturing
15 67 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
16 48 (0.55%) Local Government
16 48 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
17 47 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
18 44 (0.50%) Electronics
19 40 (0.46%) Games
Job Titles
1 3,145 (36.04%) Lecturer
2 1,081 (12.39%) Analyst
3 957 (10.97%) Security Analyst
4 896 (10.27%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 828 (9.49%) Junior
6 802 (9.19%) Junior Analyst
7 801 (9.18%) Junior Security Analyst
8 517 (5.92%) Ethical Hacker
9 377 (4.32%) Senior
10 338 (3.87%) Trainee
11 252 (2.89%) Consultant
12 240 (2.75%) Architect
13 233 (2.67%) Lead
14 208 (2.38%) IT Support
15 165 (1.89%) Security Manager
16 161 (1.85%) Security Engineer
17 159 (1.82%) Security Consultant
18 151 (1.73%) IT Manager
19 150 (1.72%) Developer
20 148 (1.70%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (2.19%) HTML
2 190 (2.18%) CSS
3 44 (0.50%) REST
4 38 (0.44%) OAuth
5 37 (0.42%) React
5 37 (0.42%) SAML
6 35 (0.40%) OpenID
7 34 (0.39%) LDAP
8 28 (0.32%) SOAP
9 26 (0.30%) GraphQL
10 20 (0.23%) AngularJS
11 18 (0.21%) SAP CAF
12 17 (0.19%) MERN Stack
13 14 (0.16%) SailPoint
14 11 (0.13%) Node.js
15 10 (0.11%) Tailwind CSS
15 10 (0.11%) YAML
16 9 (0.10%) Kafka
16 9 (0.10%) RESTful
17 8 (0.092%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4,070 (46.64%) IoT
2 588 (6.74%) Cyberattack
3 218 (2.50%) Security Posture
4 180 (2.06%) Management Information System
5 111 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
6 110 (1.26%) Driving Licence
7 108 (1.24%) Onboarding
8 83 (0.95%) Security Operations Centre
9 77 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
10 72 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
11 65 (0.74%) Cyber Defence
12 64 (0.73%) Cloud Native
13 62 (0.71%) Data Centre
14 61 (0.70%) Operational Technology
15 53 (0.61%) Blog
16 48 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
17 38 (0.44%) Cyber Security Posture
17 38 (0.44%) PKI
18 33 (0.38%) Public Cloud
19 29 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 379 (4.34%) Windows
2 174 (1.99%) Windows Server
3 141 (1.62%) Linux
4 67 (0.77%) Windows 10
5 43 (0.49%) Mac OS
6 26 (0.30%) Android
7 21 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.11%) Unix
10 7 (0.080%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.069%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.046%) VMS
13 3 (0.034%) CentOS
13 3 (0.034%) 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 4,249 (48.69%) AI
2 4,057 (46.49%) Machine Learning
3 4,052 (46.44%) User Experience
4 4,037 (46.26%) Web Development
5 1,391 (15.94%) Mentoring
6 684 (7.84%) Ethical Hacking
7 435 (4.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 418 (4.79%) Problem-Solving
9 365 (4.18%) Risk Management
10 362 (4.15%) Information Security
11 355 (4.07%) Incident Response
12 273 (3.13%) Agile
13 234 (2.68%) SIEM
14 228 (2.61%) Cloud Security
15 199 (2.28%) ITIL
16 195 (2.23%) Roadmaps
17 190 (2.18%) Data Protection
17 190 (2.18%) Security Operations
18 188 (2.15%) Line Management
19 187 (2.14%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 397 (4.55%) Python
2 236 (2.70%) JavaScript
3 201 (2.30%) PowerShell
4 106 (1.21%) SQL
5 91 (1.04%) R
6 65 (0.74%) Bash
7 43 (0.49%) Java
8 34 (0.39%) C++
9 33 (0.38%) TypeScript
10 26 (0.30%) MATLAB
11 25 (0.29%) T-SQL
12 23 (0.26%) C
13 22 (0.25%) C#
14 9 (0.10%) Go
14 9 (0.10%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.092%) Rust
16 6 (0.069%) PHP
17 4 (0.046%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.034%) Bicep
18 3 (0.034%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 4,428 (50.74%) Degree
2 4,068 (46.62%) Master's Degree
3 4,008 (45.93%) PhD
4 4,007 (45.92%) Postgraduate
5 1,525 (17.48%) Azure Certification
6 1,018 (11.67%) CompTIA Security+
7 843 (9.66%) CompTIA CySA+
8 730 (8.37%) CEH
9 365 (4.18%) CISSP
10 329 (3.77%) Security Cleared
11 243 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 241 (2.76%) CISM
13 222 (2.54%) AWS Certification
14 219 (2.51%) SC Cleared
15 182 (2.09%) Network+ Certification
16 178 (2.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 170 (1.95%) A+ Certification
18 109 (1.25%) DV Cleared
19 105 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
20 104 (1.19%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 509 (5.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 473 (5.42%) NIST
3 283 (3.24%) GDPR
4 231 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 190 (2.18%) GRC
6 122 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 117 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 104 (1.19%) NCSC
9 79 (0.91%) QA
10 49 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 43 (0.49%) COBIT
12 38 (0.44%) NIST 800
12 38 (0.44%) SLA
13 34 (0.39%) Accessibility
14 26 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 23 (0.26%) Data Quality
16 22 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
17 21 (0.24%) JSP 440
18 19 (0.22%) ISO 22301
19 18 (0.21%) SOC 3
System Software
1 310 (3.55%) Active Directory
2 71 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 57 (0.65%) Docker
5 29 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.26%) vSphere
7 10 (0.11%) Firmware
7 10 (0.11%) IAG
8 8 (0.092%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.069%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.023%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.023%) GPFS
11 2 (0.023%) Lustre
12 1 (0.011%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.011%) iptables
12 1 (0.011%) KVM
Systems Management
1 158 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 73 (0.84%) Terraform
3 64 (0.73%) Kubernetes
4 38 (0.44%) Ansible
5 27 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (0.24%) Grafana
7 16 (0.18%) CASB
8 14 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (0.16%) SCCM
9 10 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 10 (0.11%) CSIRT
9 10 (0.11%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.080%) FTK
10 7 (0.080%) Nessus
10 7 (0.080%) RSA Archer
10 7 (0.080%) vCenter Server
10 7 (0.080%) VxRail
11 6 (0.069%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (0.069%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.069%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2,232 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 1,317 (15.09%) ForeScout
3 121 (1.39%) VMware
4 96 (1.10%) Cisco
5 78 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
6 68 (0.78%) Fortinet
7 67 (0.77%) Palo Alto
8 62 (0.71%) Apple
9 48 (0.55%) SAP
10 45 (0.52%) Google
11 43 (0.49%) Splunk
12 36 (0.41%) Salesforce
13 34 (0.39%) Tenable
14 33 (0.38%) Dell
15 32 (0.37%) Adobe
15 32 (0.37%) ServiceNow
16 30 (0.34%) Siemens
17 29 (0.33%) Oracle
18 27 (0.31%) CyberArk
19 20 (0.23%) Commvault