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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 37 36
Rank change year-on-year +20 -1 +19
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,423 968 1,219
As % of all permanent jobs in London 9.11% 6.48% 5.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.54% 6.79% 6.29%
Number of salaries quoted 642 531 1,034
10th Percentile £30,000 £50,000 £45,188
25th Percentile £47,000 £61,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £94,375 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% -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 13,498 14,261 19,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 86.39% 95.53% 91.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,715 7,775 15,646
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,236 £39,085
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £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 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +5 193 £70,000 +7.69% 87
South London +47 179 £50,000 -23.08% 8
West London +26 169 £47,000 -18.50% 33
East London +21 102 £105,000 +84.21% 27
North London +19 31 £70,000 +7.69% 12
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 25 (1.76%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.56%) CMS
4 3 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.14%) Confluence
5 2 (0.14%) SAS
6 1 (0.070%) Apache
6 1 (0.070%) nginx
Applications
1 46 (3.23%) Maya
2 25 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.49%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.21%) CINEMA 4D
7 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.070%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.070%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.70%) SAP IBP
4 6 (0.42%) Exchequer
4 6 (0.42%) SAP CO
4 6 (0.42%) SAP FI
4 6 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
4 6 (0.42%) SAP FS
4 6 (0.42%) SAP FSCM
4 6 (0.42%) SAP IS-U
5 4 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.28%) Endur
6 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.21%) SAP CX
6 3 (0.21%) Yoast SEO
7 2 (0.14%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.070%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.070%) Pegasus Opera
8 1 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 412 (28.95%) Cloud Computing
2 314 (22.07%) Azure
3 201 (14.13%) AWS
4 97 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
5 73 (5.13%) Entra ID
6 54 (3.79%) GCP
7 34 (2.39%) Power Platform
8 33 (2.32%) GitHub
9 28 (1.97%) SaaS
10 27 (1.90%) Nutanix
11 22 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
11 22 (1.55%) Google Workspace
12 21 (1.48%) PaaS
13 18 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
15 15 (1.05%) IaaS
16 14 (0.98%) Serverless
17 13 (0.91%) OCI
18 11 (0.77%) OneDrive
18 11 (0.77%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 408 (28.67%) Internet
2 94 (6.61%) Firewall
3 46 (3.23%) Network Security
4 32 (2.25%) VPN
4 32 (2.25%) WAN
5 22 (1.55%) Broadband
6 20 (1.41%) DNS
7 19 (1.34%) LAN
8 18 (1.26%) CHAP
8 18 (1.26%) Intrusion Detection
9 17 (1.19%) DHCP
10 16 (1.12%) TCP/IP
11 15 (1.05%) SD-WAN
12 14 (0.98%) Wireless
13 11 (0.77%) VLAN
13 11 (0.77%) VoIP
14 7 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (0.42%) SAN
16 5 (0.35%) Unified Communications
16 5 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (2.32%) Power BI
2 32 (2.25%) Tableau
3 28 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.26%) Big Data
5 15 (1.05%) SQL Server
6 12 (0.84%) Metadata
6 12 (0.84%) SAP BW
7 11 (0.77%) Data Lake
7 11 (0.77%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.63%) Oracle Database
9 8 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.35%) Neo4j
10 5 (0.35%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.14%) ClickHouse
13 2 (0.14%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.14%) Impala
13 2 (0.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 34 (2.39%) Git
2 14 (0.98%) Jenkins
3 12 (0.84%) GitLab
4 4 (0.28%) JIRA
4 4 (0.28%) MLflow
5 1 (0.070%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.070%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.070%) JMeter
5 1 (0.070%) Locust
General
1 714 (50.18%) Social Skills
2 508 (35.70%) Banking
3 453 (31.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 332 (23.33%) Finance
5 176 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
6 106 (7.45%) Law
7 98 (6.89%) Legal
8 74 (5.20%) Retail
9 65 (4.57%) Games
10 54 (3.79%) Public Sector
11 53 (3.72%) Marketing
12 50 (3.51%) Multimedia
13 43 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
14 38 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
15 33 (2.32%) Financial Institution
16 30 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
17 24 (1.69%) Local Government
18 21 (1.48%) Telecoms
19 20 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
20 19 (1.34%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 325 (22.84%) Lecturer
2 168 (11.81%) Senior
3 102 (7.17%) Architect
4 95 (6.68%) Analyst
5 94 (6.61%) Consultant
6 85 (5.97%) Lead
7 71 (4.99%) Security Analyst
8 62 (4.36%) Security Engineer
9 50 (3.51%) Trainee
10 47 (3.30%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 46 (3.23%) IT Manager
12 45 (3.16%) Security Architect
12 45 (3.16%) Security Manager
13 43 (3.02%) Developer
13 43 (3.02%) Senior Consultant
14 38 (2.67%) Account Manager
15 33 (2.32%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 33 (2.32%) Security Specialist
16 31 (2.18%) Security Consultant
17 29 (2.04%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (3.09%) CSS
2 40 (2.81%) HTML
3 30 (2.11%) REST
4 24 (1.69%) OAuth
5 23 (1.62%) SAML
6 22 (1.55%) OpenID
7 21 (1.48%) LDAP
8 18 (1.26%) GraphQL
8 18 (1.26%) React
8 18 (1.26%) SOAP
9 8 (0.56%) AngularJS
9 8 (0.56%) PyTorch
9 8 (0.56%) RESTful
9 8 (0.56%) SailPoint
9 8 (0.56%) TensorFlow
10 6 (0.42%) LangChain
10 6 (0.42%) Middleware
10 6 (0.42%) Pandas
10 6 (0.42%) PySpark
10 6 (0.42%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 397 (27.90%) IoT
2 89 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 89 (6.25%) Security Posture
3 73 (5.13%) Management Information System
4 66 (4.64%) Cyber Threat
5 46 (3.23%) Cloud Native
6 37 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 36 (2.53%) Cyberattack
8 34 (2.39%) Data Centre
9 33 (2.32%) Blockchain
10 29 (2.04%) Cyber Defence
11 26 (1.83%) Security Operations Centre
12 21 (1.48%) Onboarding
13 19 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
13 19 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.05%) CCTV
16 14 (0.98%) Mobile App
16 14 (0.98%) Public Cloud
17 13 (0.91%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 97 (6.82%) Windows
2 63 (4.43%) Linux
3 34 (2.39%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.83%) Mac OS
5 22 (1.55%) Android
6 14 (0.98%) Unix
7 11 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.42%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.14%) VMS
11 1 (0.070%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.070%) Solaris
11 1 (0.070%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (34.86%) AI
2 415 (29.16%) Machine Learning
3 392 (27.55%) Web Development
4 389 (27.34%) User Experience
5 219 (15.39%) Risk Management
6 197 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
7 190 (13.35%) Incident Response
8 181 (12.72%) Information Security
9 175 (12.30%) Mentoring
10 136 (9.56%) Agile
11 129 (9.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 125 (8.78%) Roadmaps
13 116 (8.15%) Analytics
14 111 (7.80%) Cloud Security
15 102 (7.17%) Project Management
16 93 (6.54%) SIEM
17 92 (6.47%) Vulnerability Management
18 91 (6.39%) Computer Science
19 86 (6.04%) Data Protection
20 84 (5.90%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 135 (9.49%) Python
2 98 (6.89%) PowerShell
3 56 (3.94%) JavaScript
4 51 (3.58%) SQL
5 26 (1.83%) Bash
6 25 (1.76%) R
7 22 (1.55%) C++
8 18 (1.26%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.05%) Java
10 11 (0.77%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.56%) Go
12 5 (0.35%) C
13 4 (0.28%) C#
13 4 (0.28%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.21%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.14%) Bicep
15 2 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.14%) Perl
16 1 (0.070%) Rust
16 1 (0.070%) Scala
Qualifications
1 586 (41.18%) Degree
2 408 (28.67%) Master's Degree
3 378 (26.56%) PhD
4 374 (26.28%) Postgraduate
5 206 (14.48%) CISSP
6 139 (9.77%) CISM
7 95 (6.68%) CISA
8 65 (4.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 57 (4.01%) Azure Certification
10 46 (3.23%) CEH
10 46 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 45 (3.16%) CRISC
12 44 (3.09%) AWS Certification
13 41 (2.88%) Security Cleared
14 39 (2.74%) CompTIA Security+
15 33 (2.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 29 (2.04%) SANS
17 26 (1.83%) CompTIA CySA+
17 26 (1.83%) SC Cleared
18 25 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (15.11%) NIST
2 202 (14.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 126 (8.85%) GDPR
4 61 (4.29%) GRC
5 58 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 42 (2.95%) PCI DSS
6 42 (2.95%) QA
7 36 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 36 (2.53%) NCSC
8 34 (2.39%) COBIT
9 27 (1.90%) NIST 800
10 14 (0.98%) Data Quality
10 14 (0.98%) ISO 22301
11 12 (0.84%) Accessibility
11 12 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
12 10 (0.70%) SOC 2
13 9 (0.63%) SLA
14 8 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 19770
14 8 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.42%) IFRS
System Software
1 76 (5.34%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.55%) Docker
4 12 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.28%) vSphere
8 3 (0.21%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.21%) Firmware
8 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.070%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 37 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (2.39%) Terraform
3 26 (1.83%) Kubernetes
4 21 (1.48%) Ansible
5 15 (1.05%) SCCM
5 15 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.84%) CASB
7 11 (0.77%) RSA Archer
8 9 (0.63%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 6 (0.42%) PaperCut
9 6 (0.42%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 4 (0.28%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.28%) Nessus
10 4 (0.28%) VxRail
11 3 (0.21%) Grafana
11 3 (0.21%) Nagios
11 3 (0.21%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.14%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 2 (0.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 246 (17.29%) Microsoft
2 45 (3.16%) Oracle
3 43 (3.02%) VMware
4 34 (2.39%) SAP
5 31 (2.18%) CrowdStrike
6 28 (1.97%) Palo Alto
7 25 (1.76%) Fortinet
7 25 (1.76%) Salesforce
8 24 (1.69%) Dell
9 23 (1.62%) Google
10 18 (1.26%) ServiceNow
11 17 (1.19%) Commvault
12 15 (1.05%) Cisco
12 15 (1.05%) CyberArk
13 14 (0.98%) Adobe
13 14 (0.98%) MuleSoft
14 13 (0.91%) ForeScout
14 13 (0.91%) Splunk
15 10 (0.70%) Xero
16 9 (0.63%) YouTube