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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 41 32
Rank change year-on-year +24 -9 +21
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,642 810 1,453
As % of all permanent jobs in London 8.42% 6.27% 6.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.11% 6.53% 6.87%
Number of salaries quoted 806 519 1,090
10th Percentile £35,119 £46,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £59,900 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,539 £73,379 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.87% +1.21% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £89,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 16,244 12,397 21,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 83.27% 96.02% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 10,655 7,565 15,977
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,475
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% -6.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 22 April 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 22 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
Central London +32 265 £70,000 +7.69% 129
West London +28 195 £38,000 -43.97% 35
South London +54 173 £50,000 -0.99% 14
East London +30 109 £87,500 +35.66% 33
North London +14 44 £60,000 -7.69% 9
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 23 (1.40%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.37%) CMS
4 3 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.18%) Confluence
5 2 (0.12%) Apache
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (0.12%) SAS
6 1 (0.061%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.85%) Maya
3 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.43%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.18%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.12%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.12%) Shopify
4 2 (0.12%) Yoast SEO
5 1 (0.061%) Endur
5 1 (0.061%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.061%) Maximo
5 1 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.061%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.061%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.061%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.061%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 395 (24.06%) Cloud Computing
2 347 (21.13%) Azure
3 204 (12.42%) AWS
4 110 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
5 88 (5.36%) Entra ID
6 65 (3.96%) SaaS
7 56 (3.41%) GCP
8 30 (1.83%) GitHub
9 28 (1.71%) Nutanix
10 24 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (1.40%) Azure Sentinel
12 22 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
13 21 (1.28%) Google Workspace
13 21 (1.28%) Power Platform
14 17 (1.04%) Mimecast
15 10 (0.61%) PaaS
16 8 (0.49%) Serverless
17 6 (0.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 6 (0.37%) OneDrive
17 6 (0.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 400 (24.36%) Internet
2 108 (6.58%) Firewall
3 71 (4.32%) Network Security
4 34 (2.07%) VPN
5 25 (1.52%) CHAP
6 23 (1.40%) Broadband
6 23 (1.40%) WAN
7 19 (1.16%) Intrusion Detection
8 18 (1.10%) DNS
9 15 (0.91%) Wireless
10 14 (0.85%) SD-WAN
11 13 (0.79%) LAN
11 13 (0.79%) TCP/IP
12 11 (0.67%) DHCP
12 11 (0.67%) VLAN
12 11 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
13 8 (0.49%) Kerberos
14 7 (0.43%) Unified Communications
15 6 (0.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (1.22%) Power BI
2 18 (1.10%) Big Data
2 18 (1.10%) Tableau
3 12 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (0.30%) Neo4j
5 4 (0.24%) Metadata
5 4 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.24%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.18%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.18%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Hive
7 2 (0.12%) ClickHouse
7 2 (0.12%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.12%) Impala
7 2 (0.12%) MySQL
7 2 (0.12%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (1.83%) Git
2 20 (1.22%) GitLab
3 8 (0.49%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.30%) JIRA
5 4 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (0.24%) MLflow
6 2 (0.12%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.12%) JMeter
6 2 (0.12%) Locust
General
1 754 (45.92%) Social Skills
2 503 (30.63%) Banking
3 492 (29.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 295 (17.97%) Finance
5 167 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
6 105 (6.39%) Legal
7 102 (6.21%) Retail
8 70 (4.26%) Law
9 47 (2.86%) Multimedia
10 45 (2.74%) Public Sector
11 42 (2.56%) Marketing
12 35 (2.13%) Local Government
13 34 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
14 33 (2.01%) Financial Institution
15 32 (1.95%) Aviation
16 29 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
17 25 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
18 24 (1.46%) Games
18 24 (1.46%) Telecoms
19 19 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 317 (19.31%) Lecturer
2 152 (9.26%) Senior
3 126 (7.67%) Analyst
4 112 (6.82%) Consultant
5 107 (6.52%) Architect
6 99 (6.03%) Security Analyst
7 98 (5.97%) Lead
8 95 (5.79%) Security Engineer
9 73 (4.45%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 64 (3.90%) Security Manager
11 57 (3.47%) Account Manager
11 57 (3.47%) Security Architect
12 56 (3.41%) Trainee
13 49 (2.98%) Developer
14 45 (2.74%) IT Manager
15 44 (2.68%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 40 (2.44%) Security Consultant
17 37 (2.25%) Senior Consultant
18 34 (2.07%) Security Specialist
19 31 (1.89%) Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.31%) REST
2 36 (2.19%) CSS
3 33 (2.01%) HTML
3 33 (2.01%) OAuth
4 32 (1.95%) SAML
5 31 (1.89%) OpenID
6 27 (1.64%) LDAP
7 24 (1.46%) SOAP
8 18 (1.10%) GraphQL
8 18 (1.10%) React
9 14 (0.85%) SailPoint
10 13 (0.79%) RESTful
11 12 (0.73%) FastAPI
12 6 (0.37%) LangChain
12 6 (0.37%) Node.js
12 6 (0.37%) PySpark
12 6 (0.37%) PyTorch
12 6 (0.37%) TensorFlow
12 6 (0.37%) Web Services
13 5 (0.30%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 388 (23.63%) IoT
2 135 (8.22%) Security Posture
3 85 (5.18%) Management Information System
4 59 (3.59%) Cyber Threat
5 51 (3.11%) Cyber Defence
6 44 (2.68%) Cloud Native
6 44 (2.68%) Cyberattack
7 38 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (2.25%) Security Operations Centre
9 31 (1.89%) Data Centre
10 29 (1.77%) Blockchain
11 27 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
12 20 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 20 (1.22%) Operational Technology
13 19 (1.16%) Onboarding
14 17 (1.04%) Cloud Security Posture
14 17 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
15 15 (0.91%) Blog
15 15 (0.91%) Mobile App
16 12 (0.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 105 (6.39%) Windows
2 69 (4.20%) Linux
3 44 (2.68%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.34%) Mac OS
5 15 (0.91%) Android
6 11 (0.67%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.49%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.43%) Unix
9 5 (0.30%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.24%) CentOS
11 1 (0.061%) Solaris
11 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (28.75%) AI
2 407 (24.79%) Machine Learning
3 392 (23.87%) User Experience
4 385 (23.45%) Web Development
5 233 (14.19%) Information Security
6 214 (13.03%) Incident Response
6 214 (13.03%) Mentoring
7 209 (12.73%) Risk Management
8 175 (10.66%) Problem-Solving
9 160 (9.74%) Cloud Security
10 152 (9.26%) Agile
11 143 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 119 (7.25%) Roadmaps
13 114 (6.94%) Vulnerability Management
14 102 (6.21%) SIEM
15 101 (6.15%) Project Management
16 98 (5.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 95 (5.79%) Security Operations
18 92 (5.60%) Data Protection
19 86 (5.24%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 162 (9.87%) Python
2 127 (7.73%) PowerShell
3 53 (3.23%) SQL
4 49 (2.98%) JavaScript
5 31 (1.89%) Bash
6 26 (1.58%) C++
7 21 (1.28%) Java
8 20 (1.22%) R
9 18 (1.10%) T-SQL
10 13 (0.79%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.55%) Go
12 5 (0.30%) C
13 4 (0.24%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.18%) C#
14 3 (0.18%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.12%) Bicep
15 2 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.12%) Perl
16 1 (0.061%) Rust
Qualifications
1 563 (34.29%) Degree
2 418 (25.46%) Master's Degree
3 370 (22.53%) PhD
3 370 (22.53%) Postgraduate
4 243 (14.80%) CISSP
5 150 (9.14%) CISM
6 87 (5.30%) CISA
7 75 (4.57%) Azure Certification
8 71 (4.32%) Security Cleared
9 68 (4.14%) CompTIA Security+
10 65 (3.96%) CEH
11 55 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 46 (2.80%) CRISC
12 46 (2.80%) SC Cleared
13 45 (2.74%) CompTIA CySA+
14 41 (2.50%) SANS
15 40 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
16 38 (2.31%) AWS Certification
17 37 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
17 37 (2.25%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (16.57%) NIST
2 221 (13.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 134 (8.16%) GDPR
4 73 (4.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 71 (4.32%) GRC
6 64 (3.90%) QA
7 60 (3.65%) PCI DSS
8 48 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 39 (2.38%) NCSC
10 37 (2.25%) COBIT
11 36 (2.19%) NIST 800
12 17 (1.04%) Accessibility
13 15 (0.91%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.85%) ISO 22301
14 14 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.49%) HIPAA
16 8 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 19770
17 7 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 7 (0.43%) JSP 440
System Software
1 89 (5.42%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.40%) Docker
4 12 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.61%) IAG
6 9 (0.55%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.37%) vSphere
8 5 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.18%) Firmware
10 2 (0.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.061%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 42 (2.56%) Terraform
2 34 (2.07%) Kubernetes
3 32 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (1.10%) Ansible
6 12 (0.73%) SCCM
7 9 (0.55%) CASB
8 8 (0.49%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 7 (0.43%) RSA Archer
9 7 (0.43%) VxRail
10 4 (0.24%) Argo
10 4 (0.24%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.18%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.18%) Grafana
12 2 (0.12%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.12%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.12%) QRadar
12 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 270 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 44 (2.68%) VMware
3 42 (2.56%) CrowdStrike
4 36 (2.19%) ForeScout
5 34 (2.07%) Palo Alto
6 28 (1.71%) Splunk
7 27 (1.64%) CyberArk
8 26 (1.58%) Google
9 25 (1.52%) Salesforce
10 23 (1.40%) Cisco
10 23 (1.40%) Dell
11 22 (1.34%) Fortinet
12 17 (1.04%) Oracle
13 16 (0.97%) Commvault
14 15 (0.91%) ServiceNow
15 10 (0.61%) Okta
15 10 (0.61%) SAP
16 9 (0.55%) Sophos
16 9 (0.55%) Zscaler
17 8 (0.49%) iManage