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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 43 33
Rank change year-on-year +20 -10 +26
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,430 793 1,444
As % of all permanent jobs in London 7.07% 6.32% 6.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.65% 6.58% 6.77%
Number of salaries quoted 855 498 1,079
10th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £54,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £59,400 £59,526
% change year-on-year -3.20% -0.21% -8.42%

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 16,535 12,058 21,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.71% 96.07% 91.11%
Number of salaries quoted 11,114 7,346 16,001
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,357 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% -6.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +29 245 £70,000 +7.69% 101
West London +23 118 £38,000 -43.97% 29
South London +50 84 £50,000 -23.08% 11
East London +23 61 £87,500 - 24
North London +13 28 £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 22 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.28%) CMS
4 3 (0.21%) Apache
4 3 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.14%) SAS
6 1 (0.070%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.98%) Maya
3 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.070%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.21%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.14%) Shopify
5 1 (0.070%) Endur
5 1 (0.070%) Maximo
5 1 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.070%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.070%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.070%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.070%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 320 (22.38%) Azure
2 181 (12.66%) AWS
3 138 (9.65%) Cloud Computing
4 110 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 89 (6.22%) Entra ID
6 65 (4.55%) SaaS
7 49 (3.43%) GCP
8 25 (1.75%) GitHub
8 25 (1.75%) Nutanix
9 24 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
10 22 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
10 22 (1.54%) Power Platform
11 19 (1.33%) Google Workspace
12 16 (1.12%) Mimecast
13 9 (0.63%) Serverless
14 6 (0.42%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 6 (0.42%) OCI
15 5 (0.35%) Datadog
15 5 (0.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 147 (10.28%) Internet
2 105 (7.34%) Firewall
3 75 (5.24%) Network Security
4 28 (1.96%) Broadband
4 28 (1.96%) VPN
5 22 (1.54%) CHAP
5 22 (1.54%) WAN
6 17 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
7 16 (1.12%) DNS
8 15 (1.05%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.98%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.98%) Wireless
10 12 (0.84%) LAN
11 10 (0.70%) VLAN
12 9 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
12 9 (0.63%) DHCP
12 9 (0.63%) Kerberos
12 9 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.56%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (1.54%) Power BI
2 18 (1.26%) Tableau
3 14 (0.98%) Big Data
4 11 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.21%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.21%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.21%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.14%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.14%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.14%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.14%) Impala
9 2 (0.14%) Metadata
9 2 (0.14%) MySQL
9 2 (0.14%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.14%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.070%) MS Access
10 1 (0.070%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (1.68%) Git
2 22 (1.54%) GitLab
3 8 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (0.28%) MLflow
5 3 (0.21%) JIRA
6 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.070%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.070%) JMeter
7 1 (0.070%) Locust
General
1 497 (34.76%) Social Skills
2 269 (18.81%) Finance
3 245 (17.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 223 (15.59%) Banking
5 182 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
6 89 (6.22%) Retail
7 76 (5.31%) Legal
8 65 (4.55%) Law
9 41 (2.87%) Public Sector
10 40 (2.80%) Local Government
11 38 (2.66%) Marketing
11 38 (2.66%) Multimedia
12 36 (2.52%) Aviation
13 32 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
14 31 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
15 28 (1.96%) Financial Institution
16 25 (1.75%) Telecoms
17 24 (1.68%) Games
18 22 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
19 11 (0.77%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 161 (11.26%) Senior
2 126 (8.81%) Analyst
3 113 (7.90%) Architect
4 110 (7.69%) Consultant
5 107 (7.48%) Lecturer
6 103 (7.20%) Security Analyst
7 97 (6.78%) Security Engineer
8 93 (6.50%) Lead
9 83 (5.80%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 73 (5.10%) Security Manager
11 65 (4.55%) Security Architect
12 58 (4.06%) Account Manager
13 50 (3.50%) Developer
14 48 (3.36%) Trainee
15 45 (3.15%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 45 (3.15%) IT Manager
16 40 (2.80%) Security Consultant
17 37 (2.59%) Senior Consultant
18 32 (2.24%) Security Specialist
19 31 (2.17%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.59%) REST
2 31 (2.17%) OAuth
2 31 (2.17%) OpenID
2 31 (2.17%) SAML
3 30 (2.10%) CSS
4 27 (1.89%) HTML
4 27 (1.89%) LDAP
5 23 (1.61%) SOAP
6 18 (1.26%) React
7 17 (1.19%) GraphQL
8 15 (1.05%) SailPoint
9 13 (0.91%) FastAPI
10 12 (0.84%) RESTful
11 7 (0.49%) Kafka
12 6 (0.42%) LangChain
12 6 (0.42%) Node.js
12 6 (0.42%) PySpark
12 6 (0.42%) Web Services
13 5 (0.35%) PyTorch
13 5 (0.35%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 136 (9.51%) Security Posture
2 132 (9.23%) IoT
3 84 (5.87%) Management Information System
4 78 (5.45%) Cyber Threat
5 60 (4.20%) Cyber Defence
6 44 (3.08%) Cloud Native
6 44 (3.08%) Cyberattack
7 40 (2.80%) Security Operations Centre
8 36 (2.52%) Operational Technology
9 35 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (2.17%) Data Centre
11 26 (1.82%) Blockchain
12 25 (1.75%) Onboarding
13 22 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
13 22 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (1.19%) Blog
15 17 (1.19%) Cloud Security Posture
16 14 (0.98%) Mobile App
17 12 (0.84%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 103 (7.20%) Windows
2 69 (4.83%) Linux
3 45 (3.15%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.40%) Mac OS
5 14 (0.98%) Android
6 13 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.63%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.42%) CentOS
9 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.28%) Unix
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (16.99%) Information Security
2 229 (16.01%) Incident Response
3 220 (15.38%) AI
4 211 (14.76%) Mentoring
4 211 (14.76%) Risk Management
5 165 (11.54%) Cloud Security
6 164 (11.47%) Problem-Solving
7 158 (11.05%) Machine Learning
8 143 (10.00%) Agile
9 135 (9.44%) User Experience
10 130 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
10 130 (9.09%) Web Development
11 126 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 120 (8.39%) Roadmaps
13 111 (7.76%) Project Management
14 108 (7.55%) Security Operations
15 104 (7.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 103 (7.20%) SIEM
17 94 (6.57%) Threat Intelligence
18 89 (6.22%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 165 (11.54%) Python
2 125 (8.74%) PowerShell
3 52 (3.64%) SQL
4 43 (3.01%) JavaScript
5 33 (2.31%) Bash
6 26 (1.82%) C++
7 20 (1.40%) Java
8 17 (1.19%) R
8 17 (1.19%) T-SQL
9 11 (0.77%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.70%) Go
11 5 (0.35%) C#
12 4 (0.28%) C
13 3 (0.21%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.14%) Bicep
14 2 (0.14%) Perl
14 2 (0.14%) Rust
14 2 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 318 (22.24%) Degree
2 234 (16.36%) CISSP
3 168 (11.75%) Master's Degree
4 147 (10.28%) CISM
5 121 (8.46%) PhD
5 121 (8.46%) Postgraduate
6 84 (5.87%) Security Cleared
7 83 (5.80%) CISA
8 69 (4.83%) Azure Certification
9 64 (4.48%) CEH
9 64 (4.48%) CompTIA Security+
10 58 (4.06%) SC Cleared
11 46 (3.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 45 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
12 45 (3.15%) CRISC
13 44 (3.08%) CompTIA CySA+
14 39 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
14 39 (2.73%) GIAC
14 39 (2.73%) SANS
15 38 (2.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (18.67%) NIST
2 225 (15.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 126 (8.81%) GDPR
4 72 (5.03%) GRC
5 68 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 68 (4.76%) QA
6 58 (4.06%) PCI DSS
7 45 (3.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 37 (2.59%) NCSC
9 35 (2.45%) NIST 800
10 34 (2.38%) COBIT
11 17 (1.19%) Accessibility
12 14 (0.98%) SOC 2
13 13 (0.91%) ISO 22301
13 13 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.56%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 7 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 88 (6.15%) Active Directory
2 31 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.40%) Docker
4 14 (0.98%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.70%) IAG
6 6 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.35%) vSphere
8 3 (0.21%) Firmware
8 3 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.070%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 41 (2.87%) Terraform
2 33 (2.31%) Kubernetes
3 30 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (0.91%) Ansible
6 11 (0.77%) SCCM
7 9 (0.63%) CASB
7 9 (0.63%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 7 (0.49%) RSA Archer
8 7 (0.49%) VxRail
9 5 (0.35%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.28%) Argo
10 4 (0.28%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.14%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.14%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.14%) Grafana
12 2 (0.14%) QRadar
12 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.070%) DatAdvantage
Vendors
1 262 (18.32%) Microsoft
2 46 (3.22%) VMware
3 40 (2.80%) CrowdStrike
4 36 (2.52%) ForeScout
5 32 (2.24%) Palo Alto
6 30 (2.10%) Splunk
7 27 (1.89%) CyberArk
7 27 (1.89%) Salesforce
8 24 (1.68%) Cisco
8 24 (1.68%) Google
9 23 (1.61%) Dell
10 21 (1.47%) Fortinet
11 14 (0.98%) Commvault
12 12 (0.84%) Oracle
13 11 (0.77%) Okta
13 11 (0.77%) SAP
14 9 (0.63%) Rapid7
14 9 (0.63%) Sophos
14 9 (0.63%) Zscaler
15 8 (0.56%) Computacenter