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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 36 34
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 +24
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,436 783 1,418
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.93% 6.38% 6.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.51% 6.64% 6.66%
Number of salaries quoted 850 486 1,051
10th Percentile £38,500 £46,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,313 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £106,375 £120,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,400 £59,500
% change year-on-year +1.01% -0.17% -8.46%

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 16,875 11,788 21,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.41% 96.06% 90.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11,349 7,191 15,883
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,411 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £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 21 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 21 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 +26 246 £70,000 +7.69% 99
West London +21 118 £38,000 -43.97% 32
South London +44 82 £50,000 -31.03% 10
East London +16 58 £87,500 - 16
North London +15 28 £60,000 - 11
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 (1.60%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.28%) CMS
4 3 (0.21%) Apache
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.14%) SAS
6 1 (0.070%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.070%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (0.97%) Maya
1 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.070%) AutoCAD
5 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
3 3 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
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
Cloud Services
1 315 (21.94%) Azure
2 180 (12.53%) AWS
3 138 (9.61%) Cloud Computing
4 109 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
5 94 (6.55%) Entra ID
6 64 (4.46%) SaaS
7 50 (3.48%) GCP
8 24 (1.67%) GitHub
8 24 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
8 24 (1.67%) Nutanix
9 23 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (1.46%) Azure Sentinel
10 21 (1.46%) Power Platform
11 19 (1.32%) Google Workspace
12 17 (1.18%) Mimecast
13 9 (0.63%) Serverless
14 7 (0.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 6 (0.42%) Datadog
15 6 (0.42%) OCI
16 5 (0.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 144 (10.03%) Internet
2 101 (7.03%) Firewall
3 76 (5.29%) Network Security
4 28 (1.95%) Broadband
5 27 (1.88%) VPN
6 22 (1.53%) WAN
7 20 (1.39%) CHAP
8 18 (1.25%) DNS
9 17 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
10 16 (1.11%) TCP/IP
11 14 (0.97%) Wireless
12 13 (0.91%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.84%) LAN
14 11 (0.77%) DHCP
14 11 (0.77%) Kerberos
15 10 (0.70%) VLAN
16 9 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
16 9 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (0.56%) Unified Communications
18 7 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (1.46%) Power BI
2 16 (1.11%) Tableau
3 15 (1.04%) Big Data
4 11 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.21%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.21%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.21%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.14%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.14%) ClickHouse
8 2 (0.14%) Impala
8 2 (0.14%) MySQL
8 2 (0.14%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.14%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.070%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.070%) Metadata
9 1 (0.070%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 23 (1.60%) GitLab
2 22 (1.53%) Git
3 8 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (0.28%) JIRA
4 4 (0.28%) MLflow
5 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.070%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.070%) JMeter
6 1 (0.070%) Locust
General
1 498 (34.68%) Social Skills
2 258 (17.97%) Finance
3 252 (17.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 220 (15.32%) Banking
5 183 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
6 92 (6.41%) Retail
7 74 (5.15%) Legal
8 66 (4.60%) Law
9 43 (2.99%) Public Sector
10 42 (2.92%) Local Government
10 42 (2.92%) Marketing
11 36 (2.51%) Aviation
12 33 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (2.30%) Multimedia
13 31 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
14 25 (1.74%) Financial Institution
15 24 (1.67%) Games
15 24 (1.67%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.77%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 165 (11.49%) Senior
2 124 (8.64%) Analyst
3 118 (8.22%) Architect
4 113 (7.87%) Consultant
5 107 (7.45%) Lecturer
6 102 (7.10%) Lead
7 100 (6.96%) Security Analyst
8 94 (6.55%) Security Engineer
9 83 (5.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 73 (5.08%) Security Manager
11 68 (4.74%) Security Architect
12 53 (3.69%) Account Manager
13 49 (3.41%) Developer
14 43 (2.99%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 43 (2.99%) IT Manager
14 43 (2.99%) Trainee
15 41 (2.86%) Security Consultant
16 38 (2.65%) Senior Consultant
17 31 (2.16%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 31 (2.16%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.72%) REST
2 34 (2.37%) OAuth
2 34 (2.37%) OpenID
2 34 (2.37%) SAML
3 29 (2.02%) LDAP
4 26 (1.81%) CSS
5 23 (1.60%) HTML
5 23 (1.60%) SOAP
6 17 (1.18%) GraphQL
7 16 (1.11%) React
7 16 (1.11%) SailPoint
8 11 (0.77%) FastAPI
8 11 (0.77%) RESTful
9 8 (0.56%) Kafka
10 6 (0.42%) .NET
10 6 (0.42%) PySpark
10 6 (0.42%) Web Services
11 5 (0.35%) LangChain
11 5 (0.35%) Node.js
11 5 (0.35%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 134 (9.33%) IoT
1 134 (9.33%) Security Posture
2 85 (5.92%) Management Information System
3 77 (5.36%) Cyber Threat
4 60 (4.18%) Cyber Defence
5 51 (3.55%) Cloud Native
6 44 (3.06%) Cyberattack
7 38 (2.65%) Operational Technology
8 37 (2.58%) Security Operations Centre
9 36 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (2.02%) Data Centre
11 26 (1.81%) Onboarding
11 26 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (1.74%) Blockchain
13 19 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
14 17 (1.18%) Blog
14 17 (1.18%) Cloud Security Posture
15 16 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
16 14 (0.97%) Mobile App
17 12 (0.84%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 103 (7.17%) Windows
2 68 (4.74%) Linux
3 47 (3.27%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.39%) Mac OS
5 15 (1.04%) Android
6 13 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.84%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.56%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.42%) CentOS
9 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.35%) 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
1 235 (16.36%) Information Security
2 230 (16.02%) Incident Response
3 223 (15.53%) AI
4 211 (14.69%) Risk Management
5 210 (14.62%) Mentoring
6 168 (11.70%) Cloud Security
7 166 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
8 163 (11.35%) Machine Learning
9 151 (10.52%) Agile
10 137 (9.54%) User Experience
11 129 (8.98%) Vulnerability Management
11 129 (8.98%) Web Development
12 127 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 120 (8.36%) Roadmaps
14 112 (7.80%) Project Management
15 110 (7.66%) Security Operations
16 103 (7.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 101 (7.03%) SIEM
18 95 (6.62%) Threat Intelligence
19 91 (6.34%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 159 (11.07%) Python
2 125 (8.70%) PowerShell
3 48 (3.34%) SQL
4 40 (2.79%) JavaScript
5 29 (2.02%) Bash
6 26 (1.81%) C++
7 22 (1.53%) Java
8 17 (1.18%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.04%) R
10 11 (0.77%) Go
11 9 (0.63%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.28%) C#
12 4 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.21%) C
13 3 (0.21%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.14%) Bicep
14 2 (0.14%) Perl
14 2 (0.14%) Rust
14 2 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 319 (22.21%) Degree
2 231 (16.09%) CISSP
3 168 (11.70%) Master's Degree
4 145 (10.10%) CISM
5 121 (8.43%) PhD
5 121 (8.43%) Postgraduate
6 92 (6.41%) Security Cleared
7 80 (5.57%) CISA
8 65 (4.53%) Azure Certification
9 63 (4.39%) SC Cleared
10 61 (4.25%) CEH
11 60 (4.18%) CompTIA Security+
12 48 (3.34%) Cisco Certification
13 45 (3.13%) CRISC
14 44 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
15 42 (2.92%) CompTIA CySA+
15 42 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
16 41 (2.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 40 (2.79%) GIAC
18 37 (2.58%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (18.45%) NIST
2 225 (15.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 125 (8.70%) GDPR
4 74 (5.15%) GRC
5 71 (4.94%) QA
6 69 (4.81%) Cyber Essentials
7 59 (4.11%) PCI DSS
8 44 (3.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 38 (2.65%) NCSC
10 35 (2.44%) NIST 800
11 31 (2.16%) COBIT
12 17 (1.18%) Accessibility
13 16 (1.11%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 12 (0.84%) ISO 22301
16 9 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
17 8 (0.56%) HIPAA
17 8 (0.56%) SLA
18 7 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
18 7 (0.49%) JSP 440
System Software
1 94 (6.55%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.46%) Docker
4 16 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.77%) 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 42 (2.92%) Terraform
2 37 (2.58%) Kubernetes
3 30 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.53%) 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
10 4 (0.28%) Grafana
11 3 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.21%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.14%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.14%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.14%) QRadar
13 1 (0.070%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 265 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 45 (3.13%) VMware
3 40 (2.79%) CrowdStrike
4 35 (2.44%) ForeScout
5 34 (2.37%) Splunk
6 29 (2.02%) Palo Alto
6 29 (2.02%) Salesforce
7 26 (1.81%) CyberArk
8 24 (1.67%) Cisco
8 24 (1.67%) Google
9 23 (1.60%) Dell
10 21 (1.46%) Fortinet
11 14 (0.97%) Oracle
11 14 (0.97%) SAP
12 13 (0.91%) Commvault
13 11 (0.77%) Okta
14 10 (0.70%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.63%) Rapid7
15 9 (0.63%) Sophos
15 9 (0.63%) Zscaler