Information Security Jobs in England

Information Security (InfoSec)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Information Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Information Security over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 110 97
Rank change year-on-year -32 -13 +43
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 1,134 2,148 2,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.32% 2.40% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 2.86% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 582 1,687 1,885
10th Percentile £39,050 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £99,900
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +3.17%

All Process and 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 46,039 75,199 82,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.03% 84.05% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 22,875 54,702 49,146
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Information Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Information Security in England

Information Security
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Information Security in England.

Salary trend for Information Security in England

Information Security
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 2025. 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 -12 385 £75,000 - 336
Midlands +49 248 £54,500 -0.91% 553
South East +20 238 £57,670 -2.25% 852
West Midlands +40 172 £55,000 - 289
North of England -104 160 £60,000 +15.20% 688
North West -116 91 £55,771 +7.08% 337
East Midlands +39 76 £50,000 -4.76% 229
Yorkshire -16 53 £52,500 +5.00% 271
South West -4 52 £60,000 +20.00% 339
East of England -22 33 £32,500 -43.48% 434
North East +27 16 £70,000 +68.53% 82
Information Security
UK

Information Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 39 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (1.94%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.50%) IIS
4 7 (0.62%) Confluence
5 6 (0.53%) Apache
6 5 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.088%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.088%) Drupal
7 1 (0.088%) IBM Domino
7 1 (0.088%) nginx
Applications
1 35 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.62%) Acrobat
5 4 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (1.94%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
2 4 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.26%) Relativity
4 1 (0.088%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.088%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.088%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 184 (16.23%) Azure
2 122 (10.76%) AWS
3 97 (8.55%) Microsoft 365
4 59 (5.20%) SaaS
5 38 (3.35%) GCP
6 36 (3.17%) Entra ID
7 27 (2.38%) Power Platform
8 23 (2.03%) Azure Sentinel
8 23 (2.03%) Microsoft Purview
9 21 (1.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 18 (1.59%) GitHub
11 17 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.32%) IaaS
13 14 (1.23%) Salsify
14 12 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (1.06%) PaaS
15 11 (0.97%) Serverless
16 10 (0.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 9 (0.79%) Google Workspace
18 8 (0.71%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 157 (13.84%) Firewall
2 89 (7.85%) Network Security
3 47 (4.14%) Intrusion Detection
4 39 (3.44%) VPN
5 38 (3.35%) TCP/IP
6 35 (3.09%) DNS
7 22 (1.94%) HTTP
8 14 (1.23%) LAN
8 14 (1.23%) Wireshark
9 12 (1.06%) WAN
10 11 (0.97%) SMTP
10 11 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.71%) Intranet
11 8 (0.71%) Spanning Tree
11 8 (0.71%) VLAN
12 7 (0.62%) BGP
12 7 (0.62%) Internet
12 7 (0.62%) OSPF
12 7 (0.62%) SAN
12 7 (0.62%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (2.56%) SQL Server
2 23 (2.03%) Power BI
3 19 (1.68%) Metadata
4 13 (1.15%) Relational Database
5 10 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.53%) MongoDB
6 6 (0.53%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.44%) MySQL
8 4 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.26%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.26%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.26%) EDRMS
9 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.18%) Looker
11 1 (0.088%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.088%) GIS
11 1 (0.088%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.088%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.088%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (1.50%) JIRA
2 16 (1.41%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.06%) Git
4 10 (0.88%) Burp Suite
5 8 (0.71%) GitLab
6 4 (0.35%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.35%) Selenium
7 3 (0.26%) Metasploit
7 3 (0.26%) PowerBuilder
8 2 (0.18%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.18%) ERwin
8 2 (0.18%) webpack
General
1 379 (33.42%) Social Skills
2 285 (25.13%) Finance
3 163 (14.37%) Legal
4 148 (13.05%) Analytical Skills
5 116 (10.23%) Law
6 82 (7.23%) Retail
7 59 (5.20%) Marketing
8 53 (4.67%) Telecoms
9 50 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 50 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
10 41 (3.62%) Manufacturing
11 40 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (3.09%) Banking
13 29 (2.56%) Public Sector
14 27 (2.38%) Games
14 27 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
15 25 (2.20%) German Language
16 16 (1.41%) Local Government
17 13 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 249 (21.96%) Analyst
2 213 (18.78%) Security Engineer
3 196 (17.28%) Security Analyst
4 185 (16.31%) Senior
5 149 (13.14%) Principal Engineer
6 147 (12.96%) Principal Security Engineer
7 143 (12.61%) Architect
8 141 (12.43%) Security Manager
9 104 (9.17%) Lead
10 87 (7.67%) Principal Security Analyst
10 87 (7.67%) Product Analyst
11 85 (7.50%) Security Architect
12 81 (7.14%) Senior Manager
13 60 (5.29%) Product Engineer
14 52 (4.59%) Information Manager
15 51 (4.50%) Senior Architect
16 48 (4.23%) Information Analyst
16 48 (4.23%) Information Security Analyst
17 47 (4.14%) Engineering Manager
17 47 (4.14%) Information Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (3.17%) REST
1 36 (3.17%) SailPoint
2 32 (2.82%) SOAP
3 30 (2.65%) Middleware
4 21 (1.85%) Lightning Web Components
5 19 (1.68%) .NET
6 12 (1.06%) CSS
7 11 (0.97%) Leaflet
7 11 (0.97%) React
8 9 (0.79%) ADO
8 9 (0.79%) HTML
9 8 (0.71%) MERN Stack
9 8 (0.71%) Spring
9 8 (0.71%) WebSockets
10 7 (0.62%) Node.js
10 7 (0.62%) RESTful
10 7 (0.62%) Spring Boot
11 6 (0.53%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.53%) Kafka
11 6 (0.53%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 374 (32.98%) Management Information System
2 133 (11.73%) Security Posture
3 41 (3.62%) Data Protection Act
4 37 (3.26%) Cyber Threat
5 30 (2.65%) Virtual Team
6 29 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (2.47%) Robotics
8 24 (2.12%) Security Operations Centre
9 22 (1.94%) Blockchain
10 21 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.76%) Taxonomies
12 19 (1.68%) Cloud Native
12 19 (1.68%) Data Centre
12 19 (1.68%) Private Cloud
13 18 (1.59%) Operational Technology
14 17 (1.50%) Cyber Defence
15 15 (1.32%) Freedom of Information
15 15 (1.32%) PKI
16 14 (1.23%) Client/Server
17 13 (1.15%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 100 (8.82%) Windows
2 36 (3.17%) Linux
3 21 (1.85%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.23%) Android
4 14 (1.23%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.71%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.62%) Windows Vista
7 6 (0.53%) CentOS
7 6 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.35%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.18%) Unix
10 1 (0.088%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.088%) Debian
10 1 (0.088%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (47.62%) Cybersecurity
2 434 (38.27%) Risk Management
3 263 (23.19%) Project Management
4 213 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
5 204 (17.99%) Mentoring
6 189 (16.67%) Agile
7 186 (16.40%) Incident Response
8 185 (16.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 167 (14.73%) Security Testing
10 158 (13.93%) Cyber Resilience
11 148 (13.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 141 (12.43%) SIEM
13 136 (11.99%) Data Protection
14 129 (11.38%) Security Operations
15 121 (10.67%) Vulnerability Management
16 116 (10.23%) Computer Science
17 111 (9.79%) Coaching
18 101 (8.91%) Risk Assessment
19 100 (8.82%) CI/CD
20 99 (8.73%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (6.79%) PowerShell
2 63 (5.56%) Python
3 29 (2.56%) SQL
4 22 (1.94%) C#
5 21 (1.85%) Apex Code
6 19 (1.68%) Bash
7 16 (1.41%) JavaScript
8 15 (1.32%) Java
9 11 (0.97%) TypeScript
10 9 (0.79%) C++
11 7 (0.62%) R
12 5 (0.44%) C
13 4 (0.35%) Bicep
13 4 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.26%) PHP
15 2 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.18%) Perl
15 2 (0.18%) Ruby
15 2 (0.18%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 458 (40.39%) Degree
2 426 (37.57%) CISSP
3 319 (28.13%) CISM
4 197 (17.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 162 (14.29%) CESG Certified Professional
6 89 (7.85%) CRISC
7 79 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 77 (6.79%) CISA
9 75 (6.61%) Security Cleared
10 68 (6.00%) Master's Degree
11 52 (4.59%) Cisco Certification
12 48 (4.23%) SC Cleared
13 41 (3.62%) CompTIA Security+
14 32 (2.82%) CEH
15 30 (2.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 28 (2.47%) ISACA
17 22 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
18 21 (1.85%) GCIH
19 20 (1.76%) DV Cleared
20 19 (1.68%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 482 (42.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 362 (31.92%) NIST
3 147 (12.96%) JSP 440
3 147 (12.96%) RMADS
4 137 (12.08%) GDPR
5 115 (10.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 73 (6.44%) PCI DSS
7 66 (5.82%) GRC
8 57 (5.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 50 (4.41%) Data Quality
10 38 (3.35%) SOC 2
11 36 (3.17%) COBIT
12 35 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 29 (2.56%) NCSC
14 26 (2.29%) ITGC
15 23 (2.03%) SLA
16 19 (1.68%) NIST 800
16 19 (1.68%) QA
17 16 (1.41%) HIPAA
17 16 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 66 (5.82%) Active Directory
2 27 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.23%) Docker
4 9 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.088%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.088%) Firmware
5 1 (0.088%) NFS
5 1 (0.088%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (3.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (1.94%) Terraform
3 19 (1.68%) Kubernetes
4 16 (1.41%) Ansible
5 13 (1.15%) SCCM
6 11 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.71%) CSIRT
7 8 (0.71%) QRadar
8 7 (0.62%) CASB
8 7 (0.62%) RSA Archer
9 6 (0.53%) ArcSight ESM
10 5 (0.44%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.26%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.26%) Puppet
12 2 (0.18%) EnCase
12 2 (0.18%) FTK
12 2 (0.18%) Grafana
12 2 (0.18%) Nessus
12 2 (0.18%) RSA Security Analytics
Vendors
1 202 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 48 (4.23%) Salesforce
3 45 (3.97%) VMware
4 36 (3.17%) Oracle
5 34 (3.00%) Cisco
6 30 (2.65%) SAP
7 29 (2.56%) Google
8 27 (2.38%) Okta
9 21 (1.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 16 (1.41%) Splunk
11 15 (1.32%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.32%) Tenable
12 11 (0.97%) Adobe
12 11 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
12 11 (0.97%) OneTrust
13 10 (0.88%) Databricks
13 10 (0.88%) Palo Alto
14 9 (0.79%) Juniper
15 7 (0.62%) Citrix
15 7 (0.62%) Red Hat