Information Security Job Trends in England

Information Security (InfoSec)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Information Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 145 110
Rank change year-on-year -1 -35 -20
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 1,136 940 2,187
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.37% 2.38% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 2.56% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 798 553 1,672
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £54,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £92,500 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Information Security 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 60,527 36,659 77,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.97% 92.71% 82.14%
Number of salaries quoted 42,554 19,995 56,288
10th Percentile £30,625 £29,000 £29,290
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 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Information Security relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Information Security job vacancy trend in England

Information Security
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Information Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Information Security

Information Security
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security in England over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Information Security in England

Information Security
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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 +22 568 £87,500 +16.67% 110
North of England -2 184 £70,000 +16.67% 65
South East -48 152 £70,000 +27.85% 67
North West +43 121 £75,000 +25.00% 34
Midlands -20 106 £52,500 -4.55% 41
West Midlands -22 74 £55,000 - 28
South West -38 64 £65,000 +12.71% 35
Yorkshire -23 58 £55,000 +7.32% 27
East of England -9 41 £47,500 +46.15% 18
East Midlands -12 32 £46,743 -6.51% 13
North East -59 5 £26,000 -62.86% 4
Information Security
UK

Information Security
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 26 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 26 (2.29%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.41%) SAS
3 8 (0.70%) Confluence
4 5 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.26%) IIS
6 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.088%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.088%) CMS
Applications
1 23 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 23 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.23%) SPSS
4 5 (0.44%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.26%) Relativity
2 1 (0.088%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.088%) Magento
2 1 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 206 (18.13%) Azure
2 151 (13.29%) Microsoft 365
3 136 (11.97%) AWS
4 69 (6.07%) SaaS
5 47 (4.14%) GCP
6 44 (3.87%) Entra ID
7 42 (3.70%) Power Platform
8 27 (2.38%) GitHub
9 22 (1.94%) IaaS
10 21 (1.85%) PaaS
11 20 (1.76%) Microsoft Purview
12 15 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (1.32%) Mimecast
13 14 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
14 13 (1.14%) Anthropic Claude
15 12 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (0.97%) Dropbox
17 9 (0.79%) Amazon S3
17 9 (0.79%) OpenShift
17 9 (0.79%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 83 (7.31%) Firewall
2 63 (5.55%) Network Security
3 25 (2.20%) DNS
4 22 (1.94%) CHAP
5 21 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
6 20 (1.76%) TCP/IP
7 17 (1.50%) VPN
8 11 (0.97%) VLAN
9 10 (0.88%) BGP
9 10 (0.88%) DHCP
9 10 (0.88%) WAN
10 9 (0.79%) OSPF
10 9 (0.79%) VXLAN
11 7 (0.62%) Broadband
11 7 (0.62%) SAN
11 7 (0.62%) Wireless
12 6 (0.53%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.53%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.53%) VSAN
13 5 (0.44%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (2.90%) Power BI
2 18 (1.58%) Big Data
3 14 (1.23%) EDRMS
4 9 (0.79%) Data Lake
4 9 (0.79%) Tableau
5 8 (0.70%) SQL Server
6 7 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.44%) MySQL
7 5 (0.44%) Power Query
8 4 (0.35%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.26%) Db2
9 3 (0.26%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.26%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.18%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.18%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.18%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.088%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.088%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (1.23%) JIRA
2 12 (1.06%) Git
3 7 (0.62%) Burp Suite
3 7 (0.62%) Metasploit
4 6 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (0.53%) Bitbucket
4 6 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (0.35%) fastlane
5 4 (0.35%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.18%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.18%) GitLab
6 2 (0.18%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.18%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.18%) Yeoman
7 1 (0.088%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.088%) Snyk
General
1 393 (34.60%) Social Skills
2 335 (29.49%) Finance
3 230 (20.25%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (12.24%) Legal
5 118 (10.39%) Banking
6 108 (9.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 107 (9.42%) Retail
8 90 (7.92%) Law
9 59 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
10 50 (4.40%) Financial Institution
11 33 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
12 32 (2.82%) Local Government
12 32 (2.82%) Marketing
13 29 (2.55%) Public Sector
14 23 (2.02%) Telecoms
15 22 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
16 19 (1.67%) Aviation
17 18 (1.58%) Legal Technology
18 14 (1.23%) Back Office
19 12 (1.06%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 204 (17.96%) Analyst
2 174 (15.32%) Security Manager
3 133 (11.71%) Information Manager
4 130 (11.44%) Information Security Manager
5 129 (11.36%) Security Analyst
6 128 (11.27%) Senior
7 122 (10.74%) Lead
8 76 (6.69%) Information Analyst
9 75 (6.60%) Information Security Analyst
10 71 (6.25%) Security Engineer
11 62 (5.46%) Architect
12 51 (4.49%) Consultant
13 44 (3.87%) Security Specialist
14 39 (3.43%) Security Architect
15 37 (3.26%) Head of Security
16 36 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 35 (3.08%) Cloud Engineer
18 33 (2.90%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 33 (2.90%) Cybersecurity Engineer
19 31 (2.73%) Compliance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.79%) SAML
2 7 (0.62%) AngularJS
2 7 (0.62%) Node.js
2 7 (0.62%) OpenID
3 6 (0.53%) SailPoint
4 5 (0.44%) CSS
4 5 (0.44%) HTML
4 5 (0.44%) Middleware
5 4 (0.35%) JSON
5 4 (0.35%) Kafka
5 4 (0.35%) OAuth
6 3 (0.26%) .NET
6 3 (0.26%) RESTful
6 3 (0.26%) Spring
7 2 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.18%) REST
7 2 (0.18%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (0.18%) SOAP
7 2 (0.18%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 219 (19.28%) Management Information System
2 168 (14.79%) Security Posture
3 64 (5.63%) Cyber Threat
4 51 (4.49%) Onboarding
5 33 (2.90%) Cloud Native
6 32 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (1.76%) Operational Technology
8 19 (1.67%) Driving Licence
9 18 (1.58%) Data Centre
9 18 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.58%) Security Operations Centre
10 16 (1.41%) Cyber Security Posture
11 15 (1.32%) Cybercrime
11 15 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.23%) Public Cloud
13 13 (1.14%) Hedge funds
14 12 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (1.06%) Insider Threat
14 12 (1.06%) Product Ownership
15 11 (0.97%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 107 (9.42%) Windows
2 48 (4.23%) Windows Server
3 36 (3.17%) Linux
4 22 (1.94%) Android
5 20 (1.76%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.50%) Unix
7 10 (0.88%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.62%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.26%) AIX
10 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.18%) VMS
11 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (38.73%) Cybersecurity
2 306 (26.94%) Risk Management
3 215 (18.93%) Incident Response
4 208 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 172 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
6 132 (11.62%) Data Protection
7 131 (11.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 129 (11.36%) Roadmaps
9 128 (11.27%) Security Operations
10 124 (10.92%) Vulnerability Management
11 122 (10.74%) Cloud Security
12 120 (10.56%) SIEM
13 118 (10.39%) Project Management
14 115 (10.12%) Mentoring
15 102 (8.98%) AI
16 95 (8.36%) Agile
16 95 (8.36%) Computer Science
17 87 (7.66%) Decision-Making
18 86 (7.57%) Analytics
18 86 (7.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (6.95%) Python
2 65 (5.72%) PowerShell
3 40 (3.52%) SQL
4 28 (2.46%) Java
5 18 (1.58%) Bash
6 16 (1.41%) Go
7 9 (0.79%) C
7 9 (0.79%) C#
8 8 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (0.53%) Ruby
10 5 (0.44%) Bicep
10 5 (0.44%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.35%) C++
11 4 (0.35%) Swift
12 3 (0.26%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.26%) Perl
12 3 (0.26%) Rust
12 3 (0.26%) VBA
13 2 (0.18%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 290 (25.53%) CISSP
2 250 (22.01%) Degree
3 198 (17.43%) CISM
4 89 (7.83%) CISA
5 78 (6.87%) Security Cleared
6 72 (6.34%) CRISC
7 63 (5.55%) CompTIA Security+
8 59 (5.19%) SC Cleared
9 52 (4.58%) Cisco Certification
10 49 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 46 (4.05%) Master's Degree
12 41 (3.61%) SANS
13 40 (3.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 34 (2.99%) CCSP
14 34 (2.99%) CREST Certified
15 32 (2.82%) OSCP
16 31 (2.73%) CEH
17 29 (2.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 27 (2.38%) DV Cleared
19 25 (2.20%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 391 (34.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 270 (23.77%) NIST
3 184 (16.20%) GDPR
4 170 (14.96%) GRC
5 122 (10.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 87 (7.66%) PCI DSS
7 52 (4.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 52 (4.58%) QA
8 48 (4.23%) SOC 2
9 42 (3.70%) COBIT
9 42 (3.70%) NIST 800
10 29 (2.55%) NCSC
11 22 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
12 19 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 18 (1.58%) Accessibility
13 18 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 17 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 16 (1.41%) SLA
16 10 (0.88%) Data Quality
17 9 (0.79%) JSP 440
System Software
1 55 (4.84%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.62%) vSphere
4 6 (0.53%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.26%) Docker
5 3 (0.26%) Firmware
5 3 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.26%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.18%) IAG
6 2 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.088%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (3.43%) Kubernetes
2 38 (3.35%) Terraform
3 29 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (1.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 14 (1.23%) SCCM
6 13 (1.14%) RSA Archer
7 12 (1.06%) Autotask
8 11 (0.97%) Ansible
8 11 (0.97%) EnCase
8 11 (0.97%) FTK
9 8 (0.70%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.62%) CASB
10 7 (0.62%) Nmap
11 6 (0.53%) Packer
11 6 (0.53%) VxRail
12 4 (0.35%) Cilium
12 4 (0.35%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.26%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 3 (0.26%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 225 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 37 (3.26%) Cisco
3 32 (2.82%) Google
4 27 (2.38%) iManage
4 27 (2.38%) Palo Alto
5 26 (2.29%) VMware
6 15 (1.32%) OpenAI
6 15 (1.32%) Tenable
7 14 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
7 14 (1.23%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.14%) CyberArk
8 13 (1.14%) Rapid7
9 12 (1.06%) Qualys
10 11 (0.97%) Cellebrite
10 11 (0.97%) Fortinet
11 10 (0.88%) Zscaler
12 9 (0.79%) EMC
12 9 (0.79%) Splunk
12 9 (0.79%) Thales
13 8 (0.70%) Oracle