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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 42 37
Rank change year-on-year +25 -5 +16
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,474 840 1,267
As % of all permanent jobs in London 8.63% 6.29% 5.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.12% 6.54% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 670 510 1,071
10th Percentile £30,750 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £118,875 £105,000
England median annual salary £51,625 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -17.40% +4.17% -7.69%

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 14,563 12,852 20,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 85.29% 96.19% 91.66%
Number of salaries quoted 9,463 7,581 15,888
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £54,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 17 March 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 17 March 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 +17 218 £70,000 +7.69% 103
West London +27 179 £47,000 -25.09% 28
South London +48 176 £50,000 -23.08% 7
East London +23 106 £87,500 +44.03% 31
North London +19 41 £60,000 -7.69% 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 20 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
1 20 (1.36%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.54%) CMS
3 3 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
4 2 (0.14%) Confluence
4 2 (0.14%) SAS
5 1 (0.068%) Apache
5 1 (0.068%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.068%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.068%) nginx
Applications
1 28 (1.90%) Maya
2 20 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.47%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.068%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.27%) Endur
2 4 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.20%) SAP CX
3 3 (0.20%) SAP FS
3 3 (0.20%) Yoast SEO
4 2 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.14%) Exchequer
4 2 (0.14%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.14%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.14%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (0.14%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.14%) SAP IS-U
4 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.14%) Shopify
5 1 (0.068%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.068%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 407 (27.61%) Cloud Computing
2 332 (22.52%) Azure
3 212 (14.38%) AWS
4 90 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
5 69 (4.68%) Entra ID
6 59 (4.00%) GCP
7 38 (2.58%) SaaS
8 32 (2.17%) GitHub
8 32 (2.17%) Nutanix
9 24 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
10 22 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (1.49%) Google Workspace
10 22 (1.49%) Power Platform
11 17 (1.15%) PaaS
12 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
13 14 (0.95%) Mimecast
14 11 (0.75%) IaaS
15 10 (0.68%) OCI
15 10 (0.68%) Serverless
16 8 (0.54%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 408 (27.68%) Internet
2 100 (6.78%) Firewall
3 61 (4.14%) Network Security
4 33 (2.24%) VPN
5 27 (1.83%) WAN
6 22 (1.49%) CHAP
6 22 (1.49%) Intrusion Detection
7 21 (1.42%) Broadband
8 16 (1.09%) SD-WAN
9 15 (1.02%) DNS
9 15 (1.02%) Wireless
10 14 (0.95%) LAN
11 12 (0.81%) TCP/IP
12 11 (0.75%) DHCP
13 9 (0.61%) VLAN
14 6 (0.41%) SAN
14 6 (0.41%) VoIP
14 6 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
15 5 (0.34%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (1.42%) Power BI
1 21 (1.42%) Tableau
2 20 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (1.22%) Big Data
4 9 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (0.54%) Data Lake
5 8 (0.54%) Metadata
6 6 (0.41%) Oracle Database
6 6 (0.41%) SQL Server
7 5 (0.34%) Neo4j
7 5 (0.34%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.27%) SAP BW
9 3 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.20%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.14%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.14%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.14%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.14%) Impala
10 2 (0.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (2.17%) Git
2 16 (1.09%) GitLab
3 12 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.34%) JIRA
5 4 (0.27%) MLflow
6 2 (0.14%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.14%) JMeter
6 2 (0.14%) Locust
7 1 (0.068%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 711 (48.24%) Social Skills
2 501 (33.99%) Banking
3 466 (31.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 306 (20.76%) Finance
5 152 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
6 108 (7.33%) Legal
7 87 (5.90%) Law
8 78 (5.29%) Retail
9 55 (3.73%) Public Sector
10 50 (3.39%) Multimedia
11 48 (3.26%) Marketing
12 43 (2.92%) Games
13 37 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (2.31%) Financial Institution
14 34 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
15 31 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
16 28 (1.90%) Local Government
17 20 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
18 19 (1.29%) Telecoms
19 18 (1.22%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 325 (22.05%) Lecturer
2 151 (10.24%) Senior
3 105 (7.12%) Architect
4 100 (6.78%) Analyst
5 93 (6.31%) Consultant
6 90 (6.11%) Lead
7 75 (5.09%) Security Analyst
8 67 (4.55%) Security Engineer
9 52 (3.53%) Security Manager
10 51 (3.46%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 50 (3.39%) Trainee
12 49 (3.32%) Account Manager
13 48 (3.26%) Security Architect
14 44 (2.99%) IT Manager
15 41 (2.78%) Developer
16 39 (2.65%) Security Specialist
17 37 (2.51%) Security Consultant
18 35 (2.37%) Senior Consultant
19 33 (2.24%) Cybersecurity Engineer
20 30 (2.04%) Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.58%) CSS
2 35 (2.37%) HTML
3 31 (2.10%) REST
4 25 (1.70%) OAuth
5 24 (1.63%) SAML
6 23 (1.56%) OpenID
7 22 (1.49%) LDAP
8 20 (1.36%) SOAP
9 18 (1.22%) GraphQL
10 16 (1.09%) React
11 12 (0.81%) SailPoint
12 8 (0.54%) RESTful
13 7 (0.47%) FastAPI
14 6 (0.41%) AngularJS
14 6 (0.41%) LangChain
14 6 (0.41%) PySpark
14 6 (0.41%) PyTorch
14 6 (0.41%) TensorFlow
15 5 (0.34%) Pandas
15 5 (0.34%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 396 (26.87%) IoT
2 112 (7.60%) Security Posture
3 80 (5.43%) Management Information System
4 65 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
5 52 (3.53%) Cyber Threat
6 46 (3.12%) Cloud Native
7 35 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 34 (2.31%) Cyberattack
9 33 (2.24%) Cyber Defence
9 33 (2.24%) Data Centre
9 33 (2.24%) Security Operations Centre
10 30 (2.04%) Blockchain
11 19 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (1.09%) Cloud Security Posture
13 15 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
14 14 (0.95%) Mobile App
15 13 (0.88%) Onboarding
16 12 (0.81%) Cyber Security Posture
16 12 (0.81%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 99 (6.72%) Windows
2 65 (4.41%) Linux
3 42 (2.85%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.63%) Mac OS
5 16 (1.09%) Android
6 10 (0.68%) Unix
7 8 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.41%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.068%) CentOS
11 1 (0.068%) Solaris
11 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (33.11%) AI
2 416 (28.22%) Machine Learning
3 393 (26.66%) Web Development
4 392 (26.59%) User Experience
5 207 (14.04%) Risk Management
6 194 (13.16%) Information Security
7 193 (13.09%) Incident Response
8 182 (12.35%) Mentoring
9 170 (11.53%) Problem-Solving
10 138 (9.36%) Agile
11 137 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 136 (9.23%) Cloud Security
13 118 (8.01%) Roadmaps
14 98 (6.65%) Vulnerability Management
15 96 (6.51%) SIEM
16 90 (6.11%) Analytics
16 90 (6.11%) Project Management
17 85 (5.77%) Data Protection
18 82 (5.56%) Computer Science
19 81 (5.50%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 141 (9.57%) Python
2 108 (7.33%) PowerShell
3 51 (3.46%) SQL
4 47 (3.19%) JavaScript
5 27 (1.83%) Bash
6 24 (1.63%) C++
6 24 (1.63%) R
7 18 (1.22%) Java
7 18 (1.22%) T-SQL
8 11 (0.75%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.47%) Go
10 5 (0.34%) C
11 4 (0.27%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.20%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.14%) C#
13 2 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.14%) Perl
14 1 (0.068%) Bicep
14 1 (0.068%) Scala
Qualifications
1 558 (37.86%) Degree
2 415 (28.15%) Master's Degree
3 378 (25.64%) PhD
4 375 (25.44%) Postgraduate
5 211 (14.31%) CISSP
6 137 (9.29%) CISM
7 90 (6.11%) CISA
8 65 (4.41%) Azure Certification
9 59 (4.00%) CEH
10 56 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 51 (3.46%) CompTIA Security+
12 47 (3.19%) Security Cleared
13 43 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
13 43 (2.92%) CRISC
14 42 (2.85%) AWS Certification
15 35 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
16 33 (2.24%) CompTIA CySA+
17 32 (2.17%) SANS
18 31 (2.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 30 (2.04%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (16.01%) NIST
2 208 (14.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 119 (8.07%) GDPR
4 64 (4.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 54 (3.66%) GRC
6 43 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 43 (2.92%) PCI DSS
6 43 (2.92%) QA
7 34 (2.31%) NCSC
8 33 (2.24%) COBIT
9 28 (1.90%) NIST 800
10 17 (1.15%) ISO 22301
11 12 (0.81%) Accessibility
12 11 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.68%) Data Quality
14 8 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 19770
14 8 (0.54%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.47%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.41%) JSP 440
System Software
1 80 (5.43%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.49%) Docker
4 11 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.41%) vSphere
7 4 (0.27%) IAG
8 3 (0.20%) Firmware
9 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.068%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (2.71%) Terraform
2 29 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (1.83%) Kubernetes
4 19 (1.29%) Ansible
5 17 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.81%) CASB
6 12 (0.81%) SCCM
7 8 (0.54%) RSA Archer
8 7 (0.47%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 7 (0.47%) VxRail
9 4 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.20%) Grafana
10 3 (0.20%) Nessus
11 2 (0.14%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.14%) CSIRT
11 2 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.14%) PaperCut
11 2 (0.14%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 246 (16.69%) Microsoft
2 47 (3.19%) VMware
3 42 (2.85%) CrowdStrike
4 32 (2.17%) Palo Alto
5 31 (2.10%) Oracle
6 28 (1.90%) Dell
7 27 (1.83%) Fortinet
8 25 (1.70%) Google
9 22 (1.49%) ForeScout
9 22 (1.49%) Salesforce
10 21 (1.42%) Splunk
11 20 (1.36%) Commvault
11 20 (1.36%) CyberArk
11 20 (1.36%) SAP
12 18 (1.22%) Cisco
13 15 (1.02%) ServiceNow
14 10 (0.68%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.54%) CheckPoint
15 8 (0.54%) Sophos
15 8 (0.54%) Xero