Cybersecurity Job Trends in London

Cybersecurity
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 39 36
Rank change year-on-year +22 -3 +20
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,425 952 1,226
As % of all permanent jobs in London 9.05% 6.40% 5.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.49% 6.70% 6.31%
Number of salaries quoted 637 524 1,039
10th Percentile £30,000 £50,000 £45,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £61,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,582 14,212 19,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.24% 95.58% 91.87%
Number of salaries quoted 8,791 7,815 15,651
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,227 £39,085
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £99,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cybersecurity relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend in London

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cybersecurity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity in London over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity in London

Cybersecurity
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the London region over the 6 months to 20 February 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
Central London +8 196 £70,000 +7.69% 106
South London +49 179 £50,000 -23.08% 8
West London +26 166 £47,000 -18.50% 35
East London +22 102 £105,000 +84.21% 30
North London +18 33 £70,000 +7.69% 11
Cybersecurity
England

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 25 (1.75%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.56%) CMS
4 3 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.14%) Confluence
5 2 (0.14%) SAS
6 1 (0.070%) Apache
6 1 (0.070%) nginx
Applications
1 46 (3.23%) Maya
2 25 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.49%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.21%) CINEMA 4D
7 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.070%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.070%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.70%) SAP IBP
4 6 (0.42%) Exchequer
4 6 (0.42%) SAP CO
4 6 (0.42%) SAP FI
4 6 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
4 6 (0.42%) SAP FS
4 6 (0.42%) SAP FSCM
4 6 (0.42%) SAP IS-U
5 4 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.28%) Endur
6 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.21%) SAP CX
6 3 (0.21%) Yoast SEO
7 2 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.070%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.070%) Pegasus Opera
8 1 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 412 (28.91%) Cloud Computing
2 313 (21.96%) Azure
3 201 (14.11%) AWS
4 96 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
5 73 (5.12%) Entra ID
6 54 (3.79%) GCP
7 33 (2.32%) GitHub
7 33 (2.32%) Power Platform
8 28 (1.96%) SaaS
9 27 (1.89%) Nutanix
10 22 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
10 22 (1.54%) Google Workspace
11 21 (1.47%) PaaS
12 18 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
14 15 (1.05%) IaaS
15 14 (0.98%) Serverless
16 13 (0.91%) OCI
17 11 (0.77%) Boomi
17 11 (0.77%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 408 (28.63%) Internet
2 96 (6.74%) Firewall
3 49 (3.44%) Network Security
4 32 (2.25%) VPN
4 32 (2.25%) WAN
5 22 (1.54%) Broadband
6 20 (1.40%) DNS
6 20 (1.40%) Intrusion Detection
7 19 (1.33%) LAN
8 18 (1.26%) CHAP
9 17 (1.19%) DHCP
10 16 (1.12%) TCP/IP
11 15 (1.05%) SD-WAN
12 14 (0.98%) Wireless
13 11 (0.77%) VLAN
13 11 (0.77%) VoIP
14 7 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (0.42%) SAN
16 5 (0.35%) Unified Communications
17 4 (0.28%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (2.25%) Power BI
2 31 (2.18%) Tableau
3 28 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.26%) Big Data
5 13 (0.91%) SQL Server
6 12 (0.84%) SAP BW
7 11 (0.77%) Data Lake
7 11 (0.77%) Metadata
8 9 (0.63%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.56%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.35%) Neo4j
10 5 (0.35%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.14%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.14%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.14%) Impala
13 2 (0.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 33 (2.32%) Git
2 14 (0.98%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.77%) GitLab
4 4 (0.28%) JIRA
4 4 (0.28%) MLflow
5 1 (0.070%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.070%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.070%) JMeter
5 1 (0.070%) Locust
General
1 713 (50.04%) Social Skills
2 508 (35.65%) Banking
3 455 (31.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 331 (23.23%) Finance
5 175 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
6 108 (7.58%) Law
7 99 (6.95%) Legal
8 76 (5.33%) Retail
9 66 (4.63%) Games
10 54 (3.79%) Public Sector
11 53 (3.72%) Marketing
12 51 (3.58%) Multimedia
13 44 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
15 32 (2.25%) Financial Institution
16 29 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
17 26 (1.82%) Local Government
18 22 (1.54%) Telecoms
19 20 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
20 19 (1.33%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 325 (22.81%) Lecturer
2 168 (11.79%) Senior
3 100 (7.02%) Architect
4 97 (6.81%) Consultant
5 92 (6.46%) Analyst
6 84 (5.89%) Lead
7 70 (4.91%) Security Analyst
8 62 (4.35%) Security Engineer
9 51 (3.58%) Trainee
10 47 (3.30%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 47 (3.30%) IT Manager
10 47 (3.30%) Security Manager
11 43 (3.02%) Security Architect
11 43 (3.02%) Senior Consultant
12 42 (2.95%) Developer
13 39 (2.74%) Account Manager
14 34 (2.39%) Security Specialist
15 33 (2.32%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 32 (2.25%) Security Consultant
17 29 (2.04%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.95%) CSS
2 38 (2.67%) HTML
3 30 (2.11%) REST
4 24 (1.68%) OAuth
5 23 (1.61%) SAML
6 22 (1.54%) OpenID
7 21 (1.47%) LDAP
8 18 (1.26%) GraphQL
8 18 (1.26%) React
8 18 (1.26%) SOAP
9 8 (0.56%) AngularJS
9 8 (0.56%) PyTorch
9 8 (0.56%) RESTful
9 8 (0.56%) SailPoint
9 8 (0.56%) TensorFlow
10 6 (0.42%) LangChain
10 6 (0.42%) Middleware
10 6 (0.42%) Pandas
10 6 (0.42%) PySpark
10 6 (0.42%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 396 (27.79%) IoT
2 91 (6.39%) Security Posture
3 89 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 75 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 64 (4.49%) Cyber Threat
6 46 (3.23%) Cloud Native
7 36 (2.53%) Cyberattack
8 35 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 34 (2.39%) Data Centre
10 33 (2.32%) Blockchain
11 31 (2.18%) Cyber Defence
12 27 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
13 21 (1.47%) Onboarding
14 19 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
14 19 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (1.05%) CCTV
17 14 (0.98%) Mobile App
17 14 (0.98%) Public Cloud
18 13 (0.91%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 94 (6.60%) Windows
2 59 (4.14%) Linux
3 34 (2.39%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.82%) Mac OS
5 22 (1.54%) Android
6 12 (0.84%) Unix
7 11 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.42%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.14%) VMS
10 1 (0.070%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.070%) Solaris
10 1 (0.070%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (35.02%) AI
2 416 (29.19%) Machine Learning
3 392 (27.51%) Web Development
4 389 (27.30%) User Experience
5 220 (15.44%) Risk Management
6 195 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
7 188 (13.19%) Incident Response
8 182 (12.77%) Information Security
9 178 (12.49%) Mentoring
10 134 (9.40%) Agile
11 129 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 126 (8.84%) Roadmaps
13 114 (8.00%) Analytics
14 111 (7.79%) Cloud Security
15 103 (7.23%) Project Management
16 91 (6.39%) Computer Science
16 91 (6.39%) SIEM
16 91 (6.39%) Vulnerability Management
17 85 (5.96%) Business Strategy
17 85 (5.96%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 135 (9.47%) Python
2 99 (6.95%) PowerShell
3 54 (3.79%) JavaScript
4 50 (3.51%) SQL
5 26 (1.82%) Bash
6 25 (1.75%) R
7 23 (1.61%) C++
8 18 (1.26%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.05%) Java
10 11 (0.77%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.56%) Go
12 5 (0.35%) C
13 4 (0.28%) C#
13 4 (0.28%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.21%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.14%) Perl
16 1 (0.070%) Bicep
16 1 (0.070%) Rust
16 1 (0.070%) Scala
Qualifications
1 583 (40.91%) Degree
2 410 (28.77%) Master's Degree
3 378 (26.53%) PhD
4 374 (26.25%) Postgraduate
5 205 (14.39%) CISSP
6 139 (9.75%) CISM
7 94 (6.60%) CISA
8 63 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 55 (3.86%) Azure Certification
10 47 (3.30%) CEH
11 45 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
11 45 (3.16%) CRISC
12 43 (3.02%) AWS Certification
13 40 (2.81%) CompTIA Security+
13 40 (2.81%) Security Cleared
14 33 (2.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 29 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
15 29 (2.04%) SANS
16 26 (1.82%) CompTIA CySA+
17 25 (1.75%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (15.02%) NIST
2 203 (14.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 122 (8.56%) GDPR
4 60 (4.21%) GRC
5 59 (4.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 42 (2.95%) QA
7 40 (2.81%) PCI DSS
8 37 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 34 (2.39%) NCSC
10 33 (2.32%) COBIT
11 27 (1.89%) NIST 800
12 14 (0.98%) ISO 22301
13 13 (0.91%) Data Quality
14 12 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.77%) Accessibility
16 10 (0.70%) SOC 2
17 9 (0.63%) SLA
18 8 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 19770
18 8 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 6 (0.42%) Solvency II
System Software
1 76 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 26 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.47%) Docker
4 12 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.28%) vSphere
8 3 (0.21%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.21%) Firmware
8 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.070%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 37 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (2.39%) Terraform
3 25 (1.75%) Kubernetes
4 21 (1.47%) Ansible
5 15 (1.05%) SCCM
5 15 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.84%) CASB
7 11 (0.77%) RSA Archer
8 9 (0.63%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 6 (0.42%) PaperCut
9 6 (0.42%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 4 (0.28%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.28%) Nessus
10 4 (0.28%) VxRail
11 3 (0.21%) Nagios
11 3 (0.21%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.14%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 2 (0.14%) Grafana
13 1 (0.070%) Autotask
Vendors
1 245 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 43 (3.02%) Oracle
3 42 (2.95%) VMware
4 34 (2.39%) SAP
5 31 (2.18%) CrowdStrike
6 28 (1.96%) Palo Alto
7 26 (1.82%) Fortinet
8 25 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.68%) Dell
9 24 (1.68%) Google
10 18 (1.26%) ServiceNow
11 17 (1.19%) Commvault
12 16 (1.12%) Cisco
13 15 (1.05%) CyberArk
14 14 (0.98%) Adobe
14 14 (0.98%) MuleSoft
15 13 (0.91%) ForeScout
15 13 (0.91%) Splunk
16 10 (0.70%) Xero
17 9 (0.63%) YouTube