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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 39 41
Rank change year-on-year +12 +2 +13
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,469 805 1,069
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.11% 6.65% 5.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.48% 7.05% 6.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,004 478 650
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -3.42% +4.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £119,125 £112,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.25%

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 19,632 11,414 17,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.65% 94.28% 89.08%
Number of salaries quoted 13,266 7,225 11,476
10th Percentile £40,825 £39,572 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £121,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,762
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.37% -10.78%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 +32 184 £72,500 -3.33% 94
West London +1 84 £50,000 -44.44% 61
South London +11 33 £50,000 +8.70% 15
East London -3 25 £87,500 -2.78% 26
North London +6 11 £60,000 +9.09% 15
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 38 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 29 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.48%) Confluence
4 6 (0.41%) SAS
5 5 (0.34%) Apache
6 3 (0.20%) HCL Notes
6 3 (0.20%) IIS
7 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.14%) CMS
8 1 (0.068%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.14%) SmartSuite
4 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.068%) Maya
5 1 (0.068%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.20%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 3 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.14%) Eikon
2 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.14%) Shopify
3 1 (0.068%) Maximo
3 1 (0.068%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 291 (19.81%) Azure
2 189 (12.87%) AWS
3 143 (9.73%) Microsoft 365
4 120 (8.17%) Entra ID
5 97 (6.60%) SaaS
6 69 (4.70%) GCP
7 37 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (1.84%) Azure Sentinel
9 24 (1.63%) Mimecast
10 23 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
11 18 (1.23%) Power Platform
12 13 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (0.82%) GitHub
14 11 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (0.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 10 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (0.68%) Serverless
15 10 (0.68%) WeChat
16 9 (0.61%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 138 (9.39%) Firewall
2 93 (6.33%) Network Security
3 49 (3.34%) VPN
4 36 (2.45%) WAN
5 35 (2.38%) DNS
6 32 (2.18%) Internet
6 32 (2.18%) LAN
7 28 (1.91%) TCP/IP
8 21 (1.43%) VLAN
9 19 (1.29%) Kerberos
9 19 (1.29%) Wireless
10 18 (1.23%) DHCP
11 14 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
12 13 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
12 13 (0.88%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.82%) Broadband
14 9 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
14 9 (0.61%) OSPF
14 9 (0.61%) Wireshark
15 8 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (0.95%) SQL Server
2 13 (0.88%) Power BI
3 11 (0.75%) Big Data
4 8 (0.54%) MongoDB
5 6 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.41%) Tableau
6 5 (0.34%) Metadata
7 4 (0.27%) MySQL
8 3 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.20%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.14%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.14%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.14%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.068%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.068%) GIS
10 1 (0.068%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (1.16%) JIRA
2 16 (1.09%) Git
3 15 (1.02%) GitLab
4 13 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 12 (0.82%) Burp Suite
6 8 (0.54%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.14%) git-flow
8 2 (0.14%) JMeter
8 2 (0.14%) Snyk
8 2 (0.14%) Xcode
8 2 (0.14%) XCTest
8 2 (0.14%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.068%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.068%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.068%) Locust
9 1 (0.068%) Vite
9 1 (0.068%) webpack
9 1 (0.068%) Yeoman
General
1 459 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 261 (17.77%) Finance
3 181 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (10.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 94 (6.40%) Banking
6 82 (5.58%) Law
7 79 (5.38%) Legal
8 70 (4.77%) Retail
9 60 (4.08%) Public Sector
10 52 (3.54%) Marketing
11 51 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
12 39 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
12 39 (2.65%) Telecoms
13 29 (1.97%) Local Government
14 27 (1.84%) Aviation
15 26 (1.77%) Financial Institution
16 20 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.95%) Back Office
17 14 (0.95%) Mandarin Language
18 11 (0.75%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 155 (10.55%) Senior
2 153 (10.42%) Consultant
3 152 (10.35%) Lead
4 142 (9.67%) Analyst
5 134 (9.12%) Architect
6 116 (7.90%) Security Analyst
7 96 (6.54%) Security Engineer
8 87 (5.92%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 82 (5.58%) Security Manager
10 78 (5.31%) Security Architect
11 65 (4.42%) Security Consultant
12 46 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 45 (3.06%) IT Manager
14 43 (2.93%) Account Manager
14 43 (2.93%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 42 (2.86%) Security Specialist
16 38 (2.59%) Business Manager
17 35 (2.38%) Software Engineer
18 33 (2.25%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 32 (2.18%) IAM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.31%) Terraform
2 32 (2.18%) OpenID
2 32 (2.18%) SAML
3 28 (1.91%) OAuth
4 26 (1.77%) REST
5 23 (1.57%) LDAP
6 16 (1.09%) SailPoint
7 13 (0.88%) FastAPI
7 13 (0.88%) RESTful
8 12 (0.82%) .NET
9 11 (0.75%) Kafka
10 8 (0.54%) React
10 8 (0.54%) SOAP
10 8 (0.54%) Web Services
11 7 (0.48%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (0.41%) Apache NiFi
12 6 (0.41%) HTML
13 5 (0.34%) CSS
13 5 (0.34%) Node.js
14 4 (0.27%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 138 (9.39%) Security Posture
2 113 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 78 (5.31%) Cyber Threat
4 66 (4.49%) Onboarding
5 55 (3.74%) Cloud Native
6 54 (3.68%) Operational Technology
7 48 (3.27%) Cyber Defence
8 38 (2.59%) Data Centre
8 38 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
9 29 (1.97%) Security Operations Centre
10 25 (1.70%) Cyberattack
11 19 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (1.23%) AI Agents
13 17 (1.16%) Product Ownership
13 17 (1.16%) Virtual Team
14 15 (1.02%) Blog
15 13 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
15 13 (0.88%) Driving Licence
15 13 (0.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 108 (7.35%) Windows
2 70 (4.77%) Linux
3 52 (3.54%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.29%) Mac OS
5 18 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.68%) Android
6 10 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 9 (0.61%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.48%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.41%) CentOS
10 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.20%) Unix
12 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (19.13%) Information Security
2 247 (16.81%) Incident Response
3 241 (16.41%) Risk Management
4 203 (13.82%) Cloud Security
5 197 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 194 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
7 171 (11.64%) Vulnerability Management
8 169 (11.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 166 (11.30%) Mentoring
9 166 (11.30%) Security Operations
10 159 (10.82%) SIEM
11 155 (10.55%) AI
12 144 (9.80%) Agile
13 143 (9.73%) Roadmaps
14 128 (8.71%) Decision-Making
15 122 (8.30%) Identity Access Management
16 116 (7.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 113 (7.69%) Data Protection
18 112 (7.62%) Penetration Testing
19 107 (7.28%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 140 (9.53%) Python
2 98 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 28 (1.91%) SQL
4 26 (1.77%) Java
5 22 (1.50%) Kusto Query Language
6 21 (1.43%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.09%) Bash
8 13 (0.88%) Go
9 9 (0.61%) C#
10 7 (0.48%) C++
11 4 (0.27%) Rust
11 4 (0.27%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.20%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.14%) R
13 2 (0.14%) Scala
13 2 (0.14%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.14%) Swift
13 2 (0.14%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.14%) VBA
13 2 (0.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 259 (17.63%) CISSP
2 213 (14.50%) Degree
3 157 (10.69%) CISM
4 155 (10.55%) Security Cleared
5 94 (6.40%) SC Cleared
6 66 (4.49%) Cisco Certification
7 63 (4.29%) CompTIA Security+
8 62 (4.22%) CISA
9 60 (4.08%) Master's Degree
10 54 (3.68%) CRISC
11 52 (3.54%) Azure Certification
11 52 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
12 44 (3.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 44 (3.00%) CEH
13 41 (2.79%) GIAC
14 39 (2.65%) CCSP
15 33 (2.25%) DV Cleared
16 31 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
17 26 (1.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 26 (1.77%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (18.38%) NIST
2 257 (17.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 165 (11.23%) GDPR
4 95 (6.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 93 (6.33%) GRC
6 69 (4.70%) PCI DSS
7 51 (3.47%) QA
8 44 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 37 (2.52%) SOC 2
10 31 (2.11%) NCSC
11 29 (1.97%) NIST 800
12 27 (1.84%) COBIT
13 21 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 20 (1.36%) Accessibility
15 14 (0.95%) SLA
16 13 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 11 (0.75%) PMO
18 10 (0.68%) ISO 22301
19 9 (0.61%) HIPAA
20 8 (0.54%) SOC 1
System Software
1 107 (7.28%) Active Directory
2 39 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.23%) Docker
4 16 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.95%) IAG
6 8 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.41%) vSphere
8 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.14%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (2.38%) Kubernetes
3 32 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (1.16%) Ansible
5 13 (0.88%) Nessus
6 8 (0.54%) Nmap
7 5 (0.34%) CASB
7 5 (0.34%) Grafana
7 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (0.34%) SCCM
8 4 (0.27%) Argo
8 4 (0.27%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 4 (0.27%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.27%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.27%) VxRail
9 3 (0.20%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 3 (0.20%) CSIRT
9 3 (0.20%) QRadar
9 3 (0.20%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 310 (21.10%) Microsoft
2 55 (3.74%) Cisco
3 52 (3.54%) VMware
4 51 (3.47%) Palo Alto
5 47 (3.20%) Splunk
6 45 (3.06%) CrowdStrike
7 36 (2.45%) Salesforce
8 34 (2.31%) CyberArk
8 34 (2.31%) Google
9 26 (1.77%) Rapid7
9 26 (1.77%) Tenable
10 24 (1.63%) Fortinet
11 22 (1.50%) ForeScout
11 22 (1.50%) ServiceNow
12 18 (1.23%) Qualys
13 17 (1.16%) Meraki
14 16 (1.09%) Okta
15 15 (1.02%) SAP
15 15 (1.02%) Zscaler
16 12 (0.82%) Oracle