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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 35 45
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 +6
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,535 839 1,034
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.94% 7.11% 5.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.38% 7.57% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,064 486 547
10th Percentile £43,000 £32,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £60,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -5.41% +2.07%
75th Percentile £99,000 £95,000 £93,125
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £115,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.98%

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 20,808 11,078 16,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.45% 93.94% 89.70%
Number of salaries quoted 13,742 6,957 9,894
10th Percentile £40,846 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 October 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 October 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 +15 144 £72,500 -3.33% 218
West London -1 72 £72,500 -3.33% 56
South London +4 32 £50,000 +8.70% 18
East London -10 18 £80,000 -23.81% 25
North London -4 2 £58,875 +42.73% 5
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 45 (2.93%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.39%) Confluence
3 6 (0.39%) SAS
4 5 (0.33%) Apache
5 4 (0.26%) IIS
6 3 (0.20%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.065%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.13%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 3 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
1 3 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.13%) Eikon
3 1 (0.065%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.065%) Magento
3 1 (0.065%) RMDS
3 1 (0.065%) SAP CAR
3 1 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 309 (20.13%) Azure
2 183 (11.92%) AWS
3 176 (11.47%) Entra ID
4 167 (10.88%) Microsoft 365
5 92 (5.99%) SaaS
6 77 (5.02%) GCP
7 49 (3.19%) Microsoft Purview
8 33 (2.15%) Power Platform
9 32 (2.08%) Mimecast
10 30 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
11 28 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
12 25 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
13 24 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
14 22 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (1.43%) GitHub
15 19 (1.24%) PaaS
16 18 (1.17%) Serverless
17 14 (0.91%) Azure API Management
17 14 (0.91%) OneDrive
18 12 (0.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 147 (9.58%) Firewall
2 94 (6.12%) Network Security
3 69 (4.50%) VPN
4 50 (3.26%) DNS
5 39 (2.54%) Internet
6 37 (2.41%) WAN
7 36 (2.35%) TCP/IP
8 34 (2.21%) LAN
9 33 (2.15%) DHCP
10 25 (1.63%) Wireless
11 19 (1.24%) Cisco ISE
11 19 (1.24%) Kerberos
12 17 (1.11%) VLAN
13 14 (0.91%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.78%) Broadband
14 12 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
14 12 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (0.78%) Wireshark
15 11 (0.72%) OSPF
15 11 (0.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (1.56%) Power BI
2 17 (1.11%) SQL Server
3 15 (0.98%) Big Data
4 10 (0.65%) Tableau
5 9 (0.59%) Metadata
6 7 (0.46%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.13%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.13%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.13%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.13%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.13%) MySQL
9 2 (0.13%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.13%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.065%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 19 (1.24%) Burp Suite
2 16 (1.04%) Git
2 16 (1.04%) JIRA
3 13 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 13 (0.85%) Metasploit
4 10 (0.65%) GitLab
5 3 (0.20%) Yeoman
6 2 (0.13%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.13%) git-flow
6 2 (0.13%) Snyk
6 2 (0.13%) Xcode
6 2 (0.13%) XCTest
6 2 (0.13%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.065%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.065%) JMeter
7 1 (0.065%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.065%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.065%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.065%) Vite
7 1 (0.065%) webpack
General
1 468 (30.49%) Social Skills
2 284 (18.50%) Finance
3 168 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (9.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 108 (7.04%) Law
6 100 (6.51%) Banking
7 92 (5.99%) Legal
8 89 (5.80%) Public Sector
9 76 (4.95%) Retail
10 58 (3.78%) Marketing
11 50 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
12 43 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
13 40 (2.61%) Telecoms
14 25 (1.63%) Local Government
15 22 (1.43%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.11%) Aviation
16 17 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.85%) Back Office
18 10 (0.65%) Manufacturing
18 10 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 182 (11.86%) Consultant
1 182 (11.86%) Senior
2 149 (9.71%) Architect
3 145 (9.45%) Lead
4 128 (8.34%) Analyst
5 112 (7.30%) Security Engineer
6 100 (6.51%) Security Analyst
7 95 (6.19%) Security Architect
7 95 (6.19%) Security Manager
8 77 (5.02%) Security Consultant
9 73 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 62 (4.04%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 61 (3.97%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 50 (3.26%) Security Specialist
13 43 (2.80%) Software Engineer
14 39 (2.54%) IT Manager
15 38 (2.48%) Business Manager
15 38 (2.48%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 37 (2.41%) IAM Consultant
17 35 (2.28%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.54%) Terraform
2 38 (2.48%) OpenID
3 35 (2.28%) OAuth
4 34 (2.21%) SAML
5 30 (1.95%) REST
6 25 (1.63%) LDAP
7 15 (0.98%) SailPoint
8 14 (0.91%) RESTful
9 13 (0.85%) .NET
10 9 (0.59%) FastAPI
10 9 (0.59%) Kafka
10 9 (0.59%) Middleware
10 9 (0.59%) OAuth2
11 7 (0.46%) JWT
11 7 (0.46%) React
12 6 (0.39%) Apache NiFi
12 6 (0.39%) FIX Protocol
13 5 (0.33%) .NET Core
13 5 (0.33%) SOAP
14 4 (0.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 142 (9.25%) Security Posture
2 113 (7.36%) Management Information System
3 103 (6.71%) Cyber Threat
4 77 (5.02%) Onboarding
5 66 (4.30%) Operational Technology
6 52 (3.39%) Cloud Native
7 47 (3.06%) Cyber Defence
8 46 (3.00%) Data Centre
9 36 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
10 26 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
11 21 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
12 20 (1.30%) AI Agents
13 19 (1.24%) Blog
14 17 (1.11%) Driving Licence
15 16 (1.04%) PKI
16 15 (0.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 15 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
16 15 (0.98%) IoT
16 15 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 121 (7.88%) Windows
2 74 (4.82%) Linux
3 54 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.50%) Mac OS
5 14 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (0.91%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.65%) Android
8 6 (0.39%) Unix
9 4 (0.26%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.13%) CentOS
12 1 (0.065%) Rocky
12 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (19.15%) Information Security
2 254 (16.55%) Incident Response
3 237 (15.44%) Risk Management
4 224 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 219 (14.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 211 (13.75%) AI
7 210 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
8 205 (13.36%) Cloud Security
9 197 (12.83%) Security Operations
10 187 (12.18%) Vulnerability Management
11 163 (10.62%) Roadmaps
12 157 (10.23%) SIEM
13 143 (9.32%) Mentoring
14 142 (9.25%) Decision-Making
15 131 (8.53%) Agile
16 130 (8.47%) Identity Access Management
17 126 (8.21%) Security Architecture
18 120 (7.82%) Data Protection
19 115 (7.49%) Penetration Testing
20 107 (6.97%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 139 (9.06%) Python
2 91 (5.93%) PowerShell
3 28 (1.82%) Java
4 26 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
4 26 (1.69%) SQL
5 18 (1.17%) JavaScript
6 17 (1.11%) Bash
6 17 (1.11%) Go
7 12 (0.78%) C#
8 11 (0.72%) C++
9 10 (0.65%) Bicep
10 6 (0.39%) Rust
11 4 (0.26%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.20%) Swift
12 3 (0.20%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.20%) VBA
12 3 (0.20%) VBScript
13 2 (0.13%) C
13 2 (0.13%) Scala
13 2 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 259 (16.87%) CISSP
2 223 (14.53%) Security Cleared
3 220 (14.33%) Degree
4 168 (10.94%) CISM
5 150 (9.77%) SC Cleared
6 71 (4.63%) Cisco Certification
6 71 (4.63%) Master's Degree
7 56 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 49 (3.19%) CISA
9 47 (3.06%) CompTIA Security+
9 47 (3.06%) CRISC
10 46 (3.00%) Azure Certification
11 43 (2.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 43 (2.80%) DV Cleared
12 38 (2.48%) CCSP
13 34 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
14 32 (2.08%) OSCP
15 29 (1.89%) CEH
15 29 (1.89%) GIAC
16 28 (1.82%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (19.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 246 (16.03%) NIST
3 156 (10.16%) GDPR
4 114 (7.43%) GRC
5 95 (6.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 66 (4.30%) PCI DSS
7 49 (3.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 47 (3.06%) NCSC
9 36 (2.35%) QA
10 34 (2.21%) SOC 2
11 21 (1.37%) NIST 800
12 20 (1.30%) COBIT
13 18 (1.17%) Accessibility
14 15 (0.98%) SLA
15 14 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 13 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.78%) PMO
18 10 (0.65%) ISO 22301
19 8 (0.52%) SOC 1
20 5 (0.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 122 (7.95%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.11%) Docker
3 17 (1.11%) Hyper-V
3 17 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.39%) vSphere
5 5 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.26%) IAG
7 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.13%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 63 (4.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 46 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
3 37 (2.41%) Kubernetes
4 17 (1.11%) Ansible
5 16 (1.04%) Nessus
6 15 (0.98%) Grafana
7 13 (0.85%) Nmap
8 12 (0.78%) CASB
9 7 (0.46%) SCCM
10 6 (0.39%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.33%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.33%) QRadar
12 4 (0.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 4 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.20%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 3 (0.20%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.20%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.20%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
13 3 (0.20%) VxRail
14 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 347 (22.61%) Microsoft
2 62 (4.04%) Cisco
3 53 (3.45%) Palo Alto
4 49 (3.19%) VMware
5 46 (3.00%) CrowdStrike
6 42 (2.74%) Google
7 39 (2.54%) Splunk
8 34 (2.21%) CyberArk
9 29 (1.89%) Salesforce
10 28 (1.82%) Rapid7
11 26 (1.69%) Tenable
12 24 (1.56%) ServiceNow
13 21 (1.37%) Meraki
14 20 (1.30%) Zscaler
15 19 (1.24%) Fortinet
15 19 (1.24%) Qualys
16 17 (1.11%) SAP
17 16 (1.04%) Okta
18 15 (0.98%) Netskope
19 13 (0.85%) Dynatrace