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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 44 41
Rank change year-on-year +15 -3 +11
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,381 786 1,313
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.26% 6.31% 5.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.61% 6.63% 6.20%
Number of salaries quoted 913 481 914
10th Percentile £40,000 £44,590 £41,325
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - +3.57%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -8.88%

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 18,150 11,855 21,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.26% 95.14% 89.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12,433 7,351 15,427
10th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,073
Median % change year-on-year - +7.03% -6.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £117,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +38 217 £70,000 -6.67% 92
West London +13 85 £54,559 -39.38% 60
South London +30 34 £50,000 -31.03% 17
East London +13 34 £87,500 -2.78% 31
North London +17 21 £60,000 +9.09% 10
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 35 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.36%) Apache
4 4 (0.29%) SAS
5 3 (0.22%) CMS
5 3 (0.22%) Confluence
6 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.072%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.072%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.072%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.072%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (0.22%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 3 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
1 3 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.14%) Shopify
3 1 (0.072%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (0.072%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.072%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 305 (22.09%) Azure
2 159 (11.51%) AWS
3 127 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
4 115 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 83 (6.01%) SaaS
6 63 (4.56%) GCP
7 30 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
8 27 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
9 20 (1.45%) Power Platform
10 19 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (1.30%) Google Workspace
11 18 (1.30%) Mimecast
12 15 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (0.87%) Nutanix
13 12 (0.87%) Serverless
14 9 (0.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 9 (0.65%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (0.65%) GitHub
15 7 (0.51%) WeChat
16 6 (0.43%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 124 (8.98%) Firewall
2 90 (6.52%) Network Security
3 37 (2.68%) VPN
4 27 (1.96%) Broadband
5 26 (1.88%) Internet
6 24 (1.74%) WAN
7 22 (1.59%) DNS
8 19 (1.38%) Intrusion Detection
8 19 (1.38%) LAN
8 19 (1.38%) TCP/IP
9 18 (1.30%) Wireless
10 17 (1.23%) Kerberos
11 15 (1.09%) VLAN
12 14 (1.01%) CHAP
13 13 (0.94%) DHCP
14 12 (0.87%) Cisco ISE
15 9 (0.65%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
16 7 (0.51%) Wireshark
17 6 (0.43%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.23%) Power BI
2 9 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (0.58%) Tableau
4 6 (0.43%) Big Data
4 6 (0.43%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.36%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.14%) ClickHouse
7 2 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.14%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.14%) MySQL
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.072%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.072%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.072%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.072%) Flink
8 1 (0.072%) GIS
8 1 (0.072%) Metadata
8 1 (0.072%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 21 (1.52%) GitLab
2 12 (0.87%) JIRA
3 9 (0.65%) Git
4 7 (0.51%) Burp Suite
4 7 (0.51%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.22%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.14%) JMeter
8 1 (0.072%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.072%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.072%) Locust
8 1 (0.072%) Oracle APEX
General
1 406 (29.40%) Social Skills
2 259 (18.75%) Finance
3 169 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (9.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 96 (6.95%) Banking
6 84 (6.08%) Retail
7 75 (5.43%) Legal
8 67 (4.85%) Law
9 47 (3.40%) Public Sector
10 43 (3.11%) Marketing
11 39 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (2.53%) Local Government
13 34 (2.46%) Aviation
14 26 (1.88%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.74%) Financial Institution
16 15 (1.09%) Advertising
17 14 (1.01%) Back Office
18 13 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
19 11 (0.80%) Games
Job Titles
1 159 (11.51%) Senior
2 143 (10.35%) Analyst
3 133 (9.63%) Consultant
4 123 (8.91%) Security Analyst
5 116 (8.40%) Lead
6 114 (8.25%) Architect
7 99 (7.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 96 (6.95%) Security Engineer
9 74 (5.36%) Security Manager
10 64 (4.63%) Security Architect
11 55 (3.98%) Security Consultant
12 46 (3.33%) IT Manager
13 45 (3.26%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 43 (3.11%) Security Specialist
15 41 (2.97%) Account Manager
16 40 (2.90%) Developer
17 33 (2.39%) Sales Representative
18 32 (2.32%) Cybersecurity Manager
18 32 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
18 32 (2.32%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.11%) OpenID
1 43 (3.11%) SAML
2 39 (2.82%) OAuth
2 39 (2.82%) REST
3 33 (2.39%) LDAP
4 21 (1.52%) SOAP
5 16 (1.16%) SailPoint
6 15 (1.09%) GraphQL
7 14 (1.01%) FastAPI
8 12 (0.87%) RESTful
9 10 (0.72%) Kafka
10 9 (0.65%) React
11 8 (0.58%) .NET
12 6 (0.43%) Apache NiFi
12 6 (0.43%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (0.43%) HTML
12 6 (0.43%) Web Services
13 5 (0.36%) CSS
13 5 (0.36%) web3js
14 4 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 149 (10.79%) Security Posture
2 94 (6.81%) Management Information System
3 76 (5.50%) Cyber Threat
4 57 (4.13%) Cloud Native
4 57 (4.13%) Cyber Defence
5 45 (3.26%) Cyberattack
5 45 (3.26%) Operational Technology
6 40 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 40 (2.90%) Security Operations Centre
7 38 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.59%) Data Centre
9 21 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.23%) Cloud Security Posture
10 17 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (1.16%) Blog
12 15 (1.09%) AI Agents
13 14 (1.01%) Blockchain
13 14 (1.01%) Virtual Team
14 13 (0.94%) Product Ownership
15 11 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 111 (8.04%) Windows
2 70 (5.07%) Linux
3 51 (3.69%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.45%) Mac OS
5 16 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.72%) Android
7 9 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.58%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.43%) CentOS
9 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.36%) Unix
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.072%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (19.26%) Information Security
2 250 (18.10%) Incident Response
3 224 (16.22%) Risk Management
4 193 (13.98%) Cloud Security
5 185 (13.40%) Mentoring
6 174 (12.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 173 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
8 157 (11.37%) Vulnerability Management
9 148 (10.72%) Agile
9 148 (10.72%) Security Operations
10 143 (10.35%) SIEM
11 128 (9.27%) Roadmaps
12 117 (8.47%) Identity Access Management
13 115 (8.33%) AI
14 113 (8.18%) Decision-Making
15 111 (8.04%) Stakeholder Management
16 101 (7.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 100 (7.24%) Project Management
18 98 (7.10%) Computer Science
18 98 (7.10%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 145 (10.50%) Python
2 120 (8.69%) PowerShell
3 41 (2.97%) SQL
4 28 (2.03%) Bash
5 24 (1.74%) JavaScript
6 22 (1.59%) Java
7 20 (1.45%) C++
8 17 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
9 15 (1.09%) T-SQL
10 10 (0.72%) Go
11 7 (0.51%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.36%) C#
13 3 (0.22%) Rust
14 2 (0.14%) Bicep
14 2 (0.14%) C
14 2 (0.14%) R
14 2 (0.14%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.14%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.072%) PHP
15 1 (0.072%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 249 (18.03%) CISSP
2 192 (13.90%) Degree
3 155 (11.22%) CISM
4 121 (8.76%) Security Cleared
5 76 (5.50%) SC Cleared
6 75 (5.43%) CISA
7 63 (4.56%) CompTIA Security+
8 55 (3.98%) Cisco Certification
8 55 (3.98%) CRISC
9 54 (3.91%) CEH
10 52 (3.77%) Azure Certification
11 49 (3.55%) GIAC
12 47 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
12 47 (3.40%) Master's Degree
13 42 (3.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 38 (2.75%) CompTIA CySA+
15 37 (2.68%) DV Cleared
16 35 (2.53%) CCSP
17 34 (2.46%) SANS
18 33 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (20.71%) NIST
2 252 (18.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 153 (11.08%) GDPR
4 82 (5.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 79 (5.72%) GRC
6 70 (5.07%) QA
7 65 (4.71%) PCI DSS
8 45 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 38 (2.75%) NIST 800
10 30 (2.17%) COBIT
10 30 (2.17%) SOC 2
11 28 (2.03%) NCSC
12 19 (1.38%) Accessibility
13 18 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.94%) SLA
15 12 (0.87%) ISO 22301
16 9 (0.65%) HIPAA
17 8 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 8 (0.58%) SOC 1
18 7 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 111 (8.04%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.30%) Hyper-V
4 15 (1.09%) Docker
5 14 (1.01%) IAG
6 5 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 4 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.22%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.14%) Firmware
9 2 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (3.11%) Terraform
2 38 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (2.24%) Kubernetes
4 28 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (1.01%) Ansible
6 10 (0.72%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 9 (0.65%) SCCM
8 7 (0.51%) RSA Archer
9 6 (0.43%) VxRail
10 5 (0.36%) Grafana
11 4 (0.29%) Argo
11 4 (0.29%) Nessus
11 4 (0.29%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.22%) CASB
12 3 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (0.22%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.22%) Nmap
12 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.14%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 286 (20.71%) Microsoft
2 50 (3.62%) VMware
3 44 (3.19%) Splunk
4 40 (2.90%) CrowdStrike
5 36 (2.61%) Salesforce
6 35 (2.53%) Palo Alto
7 31 (2.24%) ForeScout
8 30 (2.17%) Cisco
9 28 (2.03%) Google
10 27 (1.96%) CyberArk
11 20 (1.45%) Fortinet
12 17 (1.23%) Dell
12 17 (1.23%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.23%) Tenable
13 16 (1.16%) Qualys
14 14 (1.01%) Rapid7
15 13 (0.94%) CheckPoint
15 13 (0.94%) Okta
15 13 (0.94%) Zscaler
16 12 (0.87%) Sophos