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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 40 36
Rank change year-on-year +23 -4 +20
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,428 951 1,235
As % of all permanent jobs in London 9.04% 6.43% 5.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.48% 6.72% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 640 524 1,046
10th Percentile £30,000 £50,000 £45,313
25th Percentile £48,438 £61,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +2.11%
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 13,624 14,147 19,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.21% 95.64% 91.87%
Number of salaries quoted 8,811 7,811 15,760
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 £100,000 £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 21 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 21 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 +12 196 £70,000 +7.69% 90
South London +46 179 £50,000 -23.08% 8
West London +27 168 £47,000 -18.50% 34
East London +26 102 £105,000 +84.21% 30
North London +18 34 £70,000 +7.69% 12
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 45 (3.15%) 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 11 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.63%) SAP IBP
4 6 (0.42%) Exchequer
4 6 (0.42%) SAP FS
5 5 (0.35%) SAP CO
5 5 (0.35%) SAP FI
5 5 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
5 5 (0.35%) SAP FSCM
5 5 (0.35%) SAP IS-U
6 4 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.28%) Endur
7 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.21%) SAP CX
7 3 (0.21%) Yoast SEO
8 2 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.070%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.070%) Pegasus Opera
9 1 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 412 (28.85%) Cloud Computing
2 316 (22.13%) Azure
3 203 (14.22%) AWS
4 95 (6.65%) Microsoft 365
5 73 (5.11%) Entra ID
6 55 (3.85%) GCP
7 33 (2.31%) GitHub
7 33 (2.31%) Power Platform
8 28 (1.96%) Nutanix
8 28 (1.96%) SaaS
9 22 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
9 22 (1.54%) Google Workspace
10 21 (1.47%) PaaS
11 19 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
13 15 (1.05%) IaaS
14 14 (0.98%) Serverless
15 13 (0.91%) OCI
16 11 (0.77%) OneDrive
16 11 (0.77%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 408 (28.57%) Internet
2 96 (6.72%) Firewall
3 49 (3.43%) Network Security
4 32 (2.24%) VPN
4 32 (2.24%) WAN
5 21 (1.47%) 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%) SAN
14 7 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (0.35%) Unified Communications
16 4 (0.28%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (2.24%) Power BI
2 31 (2.17%) Tableau
3 28 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.26%) Big Data
5 13 (0.91%) SQL Server
6 11 (0.77%) Data Lake
6 11 (0.77%) Metadata
6 11 (0.77%) SAP BW
7 9 (0.63%) Relational Database
8 8 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (0.56%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.35%) Neo4j
9 5 (0.35%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Hive
12 2 (0.14%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.14%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.14%) Impala
12 2 (0.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 33 (2.31%) Git
2 14 (0.98%) Jenkins
3 12 (0.84%) 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
1 714 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 509 (35.64%) Banking
3 455 (31.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 332 (23.25%) Finance
5 175 (12.25%) Analytical Skills
6 106 (7.42%) Law
7 99 (6.93%) Legal
8 77 (5.39%) Retail
9 65 (4.55%) Games
10 54 (3.78%) Public Sector
11 53 (3.71%) Marketing
12 51 (3.57%) Multimedia
13 44 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
15 32 (2.24%) Financial Institution
16 29 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
17 27 (1.89%) Local Government
18 23 (1.61%) Telecoms
19 20 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
20 19 (1.33%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 325 (22.76%) Lecturer
2 167 (11.69%) Senior
3 101 (7.07%) Architect
4 97 (6.79%) Consultant
5 91 (6.37%) Analyst
6 85 (5.95%) Lead
7 69 (4.83%) Security Analyst
8 63 (4.41%) Security Engineer
9 51 (3.57%) Trainee
10 47 (3.29%) Security Manager
11 46 (3.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 46 (3.22%) IT Manager
12 44 (3.08%) Security Architect
13 42 (2.94%) Developer
13 42 (2.94%) Senior Consultant
14 40 (2.80%) Account Manager
15 34 (2.38%) Security Specialist
16 33 (2.31%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 33 (2.31%) Security Consultant
17 29 (2.03%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.94%) CSS
2 38 (2.66%) HTML
3 30 (2.10%) 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 (27.73%) IoT
2 94 (6.58%) Security Posture
3 88 (6.16%) Enterprise Software
4 74 (5.18%) Management Information System
5 62 (4.34%) Cyber Threat
6 47 (3.29%) Cloud Native
7 35 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 34 (2.38%) Cyberattack
8 34 (2.38%) Data Centre
9 33 (2.31%) Blockchain
10 29 (2.03%) Cyber Defence
11 27 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
12 21 (1.47%) Onboarding
13 19 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
13 19 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.05%) CCTV
16 14 (0.98%) Mobile App
16 14 (0.98%) Public Cloud
17 13 (0.91%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 96 (6.72%) Windows
2 60 (4.20%) Linux
3 35 (2.45%) 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
1 500 (35.01%) AI
2 416 (29.13%) Machine Learning
3 392 (27.45%) Web Development
4 389 (27.24%) User Experience
5 222 (15.55%) Risk Management
6 194 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
7 187 (13.10%) Incident Response
8 183 (12.82%) Information Security
9 179 (12.54%) Mentoring
10 133 (9.31%) Agile
11 128 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 126 (8.82%) Roadmaps
13 114 (7.98%) Analytics
14 113 (7.91%) Cloud Security
15 103 (7.21%) Project Management
16 91 (6.37%) Computer Science
16 91 (6.37%) SIEM
17 90 (6.30%) Vulnerability Management
18 84 (5.88%) Business Strategy
18 84 (5.88%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 136 (9.52%) Python
2 100 (7.00%) PowerShell
3 54 (3.78%) JavaScript
4 50 (3.50%) 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
1 584 (40.90%) Degree
2 411 (28.78%) Master's Degree
3 378 (26.47%) PhD
4 374 (26.19%) Postgraduate
5 205 (14.36%) CISSP
6 139 (9.73%) CISM
7 95 (6.65%) CISA
8 63 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 56 (3.92%) Azure Certification
10 48 (3.36%) CEH
11 45 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
11 45 (3.15%) CRISC
12 43 (3.01%) AWS Certification
13 42 (2.94%) Security Cleared
14 39 (2.73%) CompTIA Security+
15 33 (2.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 30 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
17 29 (2.03%) SANS
18 26 (1.82%) CompTIA CySA+
18 26 (1.82%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (15.06%) NIST
2 202 (14.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 121 (8.47%) GDPR
4 60 (4.20%) GRC
5 58 (4.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 42 (2.94%) QA
7 39 (2.73%) PCI DSS
8 37 (2.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 34 (2.38%) NCSC
10 33 (2.31%) COBIT
11 26 (1.82%) NIST 800
12 14 (0.98%) ISO 22301
13 13 (0.91%) Data Quality
14 11 (0.77%) Accessibility
14 11 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.70%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 19770
16 8 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.56%) SLA
17 6 (0.42%) IFRS
System Software
1 77 (5.39%) 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 5 (0.35%) 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 36 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (2.45%) Terraform
3 25 (1.75%) Kubernetes
4 21 (1.47%) Ansible
5 16 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (1.05%) SCCM
7 12 (0.84%) CASB
8 11 (0.77%) RSA Archer
9 9 (0.63%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 6 (0.42%) PaperCut
10 6 (0.42%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 5 (0.35%) VxRail
12 4 (0.28%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.28%) Nessus
13 3 (0.21%) Nagios
13 3 (0.21%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.14%) Computer Incident Response Team
14 2 (0.14%) Grafana
15 1 (0.070%) QRadar
Vendors
1 247 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 43 (3.01%) Oracle
2 43 (3.01%) VMware
3 33 (2.31%) SAP
4 31 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
5 28 (1.96%) Palo Alto
6 26 (1.82%) Fortinet
7 25 (1.75%) Dell
7 25 (1.75%) Salesforce
8 24 (1.68%) Google
9 18 (1.26%) ServiceNow
10 17 (1.19%) Cisco
10 17 (1.19%) Commvault
11 15 (1.05%) CyberArk
12 14 (0.98%) Adobe
12 14 (0.98%) ForeScout
12 14 (0.98%) MuleSoft
13 13 (0.91%) Splunk
14 10 (0.70%) Xero
15 9 (0.63%) YouTube