Information Security Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Information Security (InfoSec)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Information Security skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 76 31
Rank change year-on-year +6 -45 +49
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 19 23 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 1.13% 1.92% 5.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 2.10% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 9 9 30
10th Percentile - £42,150 £47,500
25th Percentile £46,160 £46,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £66,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% -7.87% -11.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £64,250 £73,750
90th Percentile - £76,250 £75,000
East of England median annual salary £59,500 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.77% +6.15% +13.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,152 1,095 703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 68.33% 91.56% 86.47%
Number of salaries quoted 651 440 542
10th Percentile £28,500 £34,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% +2.73%
75th Percentile £66,125 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,825 £77,500
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Information Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Information Security job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Information Security
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Information Security.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Information Security

Information Security
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Information Security in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Information Security in Hertfordshire

Information Security
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Security within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Hatfield +4 8 £55,000 +107.55%
Hemel Hempstead - 4 - - 6
Stevenage -5 3 - - 2
Information Security
East of England

Information Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (5.26%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) Internet
2 1 (5.26%) LAN
2 1 (5.26%) Network Security
2 1 (5.26%) VLAN
2 1 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) GIS
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Analyst
2 5 (26.32%) Information Analyst
2 5 (26.32%) Information Security Analyst
2 5 (26.32%) Security Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) Consultant
3 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow Consultant
3 4 (21.05%) Technical Consultant
4 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Support Consultant
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Support
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Support Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Operational Security Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Security Operations Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Server Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) CSS
1 4 (21.05%) HTML
1 4 (21.05%) JSON
1 4 (21.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
1 3 (15.79%) Life Science
2 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (10.53%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
1 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (21.05%) ITSM
2 4 (21.05%) Service Management
3 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (15.79%) ISMS
3 3 (15.79%) IT Strategy
3 3 (15.79%) Proactive Monitoring
3 3 (15.79%) Problem Management
3 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.79%) Security Operations
3 3 (15.79%) SIEM
3 3 (15.79%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (10.53%) AI
4 2 (10.53%) Virtual Environments
5 1 (5.26%) ITIL
5 1 (5.26%) Roadmaps
5 1 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) GDPR
1 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (15.79%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (10.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Cisco
2 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
3 2 (10.53%) NVIDIA
3 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
3 2 (10.53%) VMware
4 1 (5.26%) Computacenter