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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 43 39
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 +15
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,370 773 1,347
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.24% 6.27% 5.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.61% 6.58% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 902 475 951
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,670 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £90,000
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% -9.38%

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 18,001 11,748 21,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.05% 95.34% 89.28%
Number of salaries quoted 12,337 7,224 15,769
10th Percentile £40,700 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £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 2 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 2 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 +37 226 £70,000 -6.67% 163
West London +13 84 £40,000 -55.56% 54
South London +32 33 £50,000 -31.03% 15
East London +14 32 £87,500 - 25
North London +15 21 £60,000 - 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 33 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.29%) Apache
4 3 (0.22%) CMS
4 3 (0.22%) Confluence
5 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.15%) SAS
6 1 (0.073%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.073%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.073%) Maya
6 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.22%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 2 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.15%) Shopify
4 1 (0.073%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.073%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 305 (22.26%) Azure
2 157 (11.46%) AWS
3 125 (9.12%) Microsoft 365
4 112 (8.18%) Entra ID
5 83 (6.06%) SaaS
6 63 (4.60%) GCP
7 30 (2.19%) Azure Sentinel
8 25 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
9 20 (1.46%) Power Platform
10 19 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (1.31%) Google Workspace
12 17 (1.24%) Mimecast
13 13 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (0.95%) Nutanix
14 11 (0.80%) Serverless
15 10 (0.73%) GitHub
16 9 (0.66%) Azure Logic Apps
17 8 (0.58%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 6 (0.44%) AWS KMS
18 6 (0.44%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 116 (8.47%) Firewall
2 90 (6.57%) Network Security
3 33 (2.41%) VPN
4 27 (1.97%) Broadband
5 26 (1.90%) Internet
6 21 (1.53%) DNS
7 19 (1.39%) WAN
8 18 (1.31%) Intrusion Detection
8 18 (1.31%) TCP/IP
9 17 (1.24%) Kerberos
9 17 (1.24%) LAN
9 17 (1.24%) Wireless
10 14 (1.02%) CHAP
11 13 (0.95%) VLAN
12 12 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
12 12 (0.88%) DHCP
13 8 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (0.44%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.44%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.44%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.24%) Power BI
2 9 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (0.58%) Tableau
4 6 (0.44%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.36%) Big Data
5 5 (0.36%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.15%) ClickHouse
8 2 (0.15%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.15%) MySQL
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.073%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.073%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.073%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.073%) Flink
9 1 (0.073%) GIS
9 1 (0.073%) Metadata
9 1 (0.073%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 21 (1.53%) GitLab
2 10 (0.73%) Git
2 10 (0.73%) JIRA
3 7 (0.51%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.36%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.15%) JMeter
6 2 (0.15%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.073%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.073%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.073%) Locust
7 1 (0.073%) MLflow
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle APEX
General
1 399 (29.12%) Social Skills
2 255 (18.61%) Finance
3 167 (12.19%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (9.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 93 (6.79%) Banking
6 83 (6.06%) Retail
7 74 (5.40%) Legal
8 66 (4.82%) Law
9 45 (3.28%) Public Sector
10 42 (3.07%) Marketing
11 38 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (2.55%) Local Government
13 34 (2.48%) Aviation
14 24 (1.75%) Telecoms
15 23 (1.68%) Financial Institution
16 15 (1.09%) Advertising
17 13 (0.95%) Back Office
17 13 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
18 12 (0.88%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 160 (11.68%) Senior
2 143 (10.44%) Analyst
3 132 (9.64%) Consultant
4 122 (8.91%) Security Analyst
5 116 (8.47%) Lead
6 115 (8.39%) Architect
7 100 (7.30%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 96 (7.01%) Security Engineer
9 74 (5.40%) Security Manager
10 67 (4.89%) Security Architect
11 52 (3.80%) Security Consultant
12 46 (3.36%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 45 (3.28%) IT Manager
14 41 (2.99%) Developer
14 41 (2.99%) Security Specialist
15 39 (2.85%) Account Manager
16 34 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
17 32 (2.34%) Cybersecurity Manager
17 32 (2.34%) Sales Representative
18 31 (2.26%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.07%) OpenID
1 42 (3.07%) SAML
2 39 (2.85%) OAuth
2 39 (2.85%) REST
3 33 (2.41%) LDAP
4 21 (1.53%) SOAP
5 16 (1.17%) SailPoint
6 15 (1.09%) GraphQL
7 14 (1.02%) FastAPI
8 12 (0.88%) RESTful
9 9 (0.66%) Kafka
9 9 (0.66%) React
10 7 (0.51%) .NET
10 7 (0.51%) CSS
10 7 (0.51%) HTML
11 6 (0.44%) Web Services
12 5 (0.36%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (0.36%) LangChain
12 5 (0.36%) PyTorch
12 5 (0.36%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 144 (10.51%) Security Posture
2 90 (6.57%) Management Information System
3 76 (5.55%) Cyber Threat
4 58 (4.23%) Cyber Defence
5 55 (4.01%) Cloud Native
6 45 (3.28%) Cyberattack
7 43 (3.14%) Operational Technology
8 40 (2.92%) Security Operations Centre
9 38 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
10 36 (2.63%) Onboarding
11 21 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.46%) Data Centre
13 17 (1.24%) Cloud Security Posture
13 17 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
14 16 (1.17%) Blog
15 15 (1.09%) AI Agents
16 13 (0.95%) Blockchain
16 13 (0.95%) Product Ownership
16 13 (0.95%) Virtual Team
17 12 (0.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 109 (7.96%) Windows
2 70 (5.11%) Linux
3 51 (3.72%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.46%) Mac OS
5 16 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.73%) Android
7 9 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.51%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.44%) CentOS
9 6 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.36%) Unix
11 2 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.073%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (19.05%) Information Security
2 249 (18.18%) Incident Response
3 217 (15.84%) Risk Management
4 188 (13.72%) Cloud Security
5 178 (12.99%) Mentoring
6 173 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
7 170 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 155 (11.31%) Vulnerability Management
9 146 (10.66%) Security Operations
10 143 (10.44%) Agile
11 136 (9.93%) SIEM
12 121 (8.83%) Roadmaps
13 113 (8.25%) AI
13 113 (8.25%) Identity Access Management
14 110 (8.03%) Decision-Making
15 106 (7.74%) Stakeholder Management
16 99 (7.23%) Project Management
17 98 (7.15%) Threat Intelligence
18 97 (7.08%) Computer Science
18 97 (7.08%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 146 (10.66%) Python
2 122 (8.91%) PowerShell
3 42 (3.07%) SQL
4 28 (2.04%) Bash
5 25 (1.82%) JavaScript
6 21 (1.53%) Java
7 20 (1.46%) C++
8 15 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
8 15 (1.09%) T-SQL
9 9 (0.66%) Go
10 7 (0.51%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.29%) C#
11 4 (0.29%) R
12 2 (0.15%) Bicep
12 2 (0.15%) C
12 2 (0.15%) Rust
12 2 (0.15%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.15%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.073%) Scala
13 1 (0.073%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 244 (17.81%) CISSP
2 191 (13.94%) Degree
3 150 (10.95%) CISM
4 114 (8.32%) Security Cleared
5 75 (5.47%) SC Cleared
6 73 (5.33%) CISA
7 63 (4.60%) CompTIA Security+
8 55 (4.01%) CRISC
9 54 (3.94%) CEH
10 53 (3.87%) Cisco Certification
11 52 (3.80%) Azure Certification
12 50 (3.65%) GIAC
13 44 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
13 44 (3.21%) Master's Degree
14 42 (3.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 38 (2.77%) CompTIA CySA+
16 35 (2.55%) CCSP
16 35 (2.55%) DV Cleared
16 35 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
17 34 (2.48%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 282 (20.58%) NIST
2 247 (18.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 150 (10.95%) GDPR
4 81 (5.91%) Cyber Essentials
5 77 (5.62%) GRC
6 71 (5.18%) QA
7 64 (4.67%) PCI DSS
8 45 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 36 (2.63%) NIST 800
10 31 (2.26%) COBIT
11 29 (2.12%) SOC 2
12 28 (2.04%) NCSC
13 19 (1.39%) Accessibility
14 18 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 13 (0.95%) SLA
16 12 (0.88%) ISO 22301
17 9 (0.66%) HIPAA
18 8 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 8 (0.58%) SOC 1
19 7 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 110 (8.03%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.24%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.17%) Docker
5 14 (1.02%) IAG
6 5 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 4 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.22%) vSphere
9 2 (0.15%) Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (3.14%) Terraform
2 37 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 32 (2.34%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (0.95%) Ansible
6 10 (0.73%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 9 (0.66%) SCCM
8 7 (0.51%) RSA Archer
8 7 (0.51%) VxRail
9 5 (0.36%) Grafana
10 4 (0.29%) Argo
10 4 (0.29%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.22%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.22%) Nessus
11 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.15%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.15%) Nmap
Vendors
1 283 (20.66%) Microsoft
2 48 (3.50%) VMware
3 44 (3.21%) Splunk
4 40 (2.92%) CrowdStrike
5 36 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 34 (2.48%) Palo Alto
7 31 (2.26%) ForeScout
8 29 (2.12%) Cisco
9 28 (2.04%) Google
10 25 (1.82%) CyberArk
11 19 (1.39%) Fortinet
12 18 (1.31%) Dell
13 17 (1.24%) Tenable
14 16 (1.17%) Qualys
15 15 (1.09%) ServiceNow
16 13 (0.95%) Okta
17 12 (0.88%) CheckPoint
17 12 (0.88%) iManage
17 12 (0.88%) Rapid7
17 12 (0.88%) Zscaler