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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 38 34
Rank change year-on-year +15 -4 +24
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,445 765 1,409
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.91% 6.37% 6.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.48% 6.63% 6.61%
Number of salaries quoted 855 465 1,042
10th Percentile £38,700 £46,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £59,750 £54,225
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 £107,500 £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 17,032 11,535 21,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.47% 96.04% 90.75%
Number of salaries quoted 11,479 6,893 15,873
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.63% -5.33%
75th Percentile £99,636 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £125,000 £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 24 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 24 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 +30 244 £70,000 -1.75% 118
West London +22 117 £38,000 -43.97% 30
South London +48 82 £50,000 -31.03% 11
East London +16 58 £87,500 - 16
North London +17 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 24 (1.66%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.45%) 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 (0.069%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.069%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (0.97%) Maya
1 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.069%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.069%) 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 (0.069%) Endur
5 1 (0.069%) Maximo
5 1 (0.069%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.069%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.069%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.069%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 313 (21.66%) Azure
2 180 (12.46%) AWS
3 138 (9.55%) Cloud Computing
4 109 (7.54%) Microsoft 365
5 95 (6.57%) Entra ID
6 65 (4.50%) SaaS
7 51 (3.53%) GCP
8 24 (1.66%) Microsoft Purview
9 23 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (1.59%) GitHub
9 23 (1.59%) Nutanix
10 22 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
11 21 (1.45%) Power Platform
12 19 (1.31%) Google Workspace
13 17 (1.18%) Mimecast
14 9 (0.62%) Serverless
15 7 (0.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 6 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (0.42%) Datadog
16 6 (0.42%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 145 (10.03%) Internet
2 101 (6.99%) Firewall
3 78 (5.40%) Network Security
4 28 (1.94%) Broadband
5 27 (1.87%) VPN
6 21 (1.45%) WAN
7 20 (1.38%) CHAP
8 19 (1.31%) DNS
9 17 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
10 16 (1.11%) TCP/IP
11 14 (0.97%) Wireless
12 12 (0.83%) DHCP
12 12 (0.83%) LAN
12 12 (0.83%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.76%) Kerberos
14 10 (0.69%) VLAN
15 9 (0.62%) Cisco ISE
15 9 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.55%) Unified Communications
17 7 (0.48%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (1.45%) Power BI
2 16 (1.11%) Tableau
3 15 (1.04%) Big Data
4 11 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.62%) 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 (0.069%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.069%) Metadata
9 1 (0.069%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.069%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 23 (1.59%) GitLab
2 22 (1.52%) Git
3 9 (0.62%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (0.28%) JIRA
4 4 (0.28%) MLflow
5 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.069%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.069%) JMeter
6 1 (0.069%) Locust
General
1 502 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 259 (17.92%) Finance
3 255 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 220 (15.22%) Banking
5 185 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
6 92 (6.37%) Retail
7 73 (5.05%) Legal
8 67 (4.64%) Law
9 44 (3.04%) Public Sector
10 43 (2.98%) Marketing
11 42 (2.91%) Local Government
12 36 (2.49%) Aviation
13 32 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (2.21%) Multimedia
13 32 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
14 24 (1.66%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.66%) Telecoms
15 23 (1.59%) Games
16 21 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.76%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 167 (11.56%) Senior
2 123 (8.51%) Analyst
3 119 (8.24%) Architect
4 116 (8.03%) Consultant
5 107 (7.40%) Lecturer
6 102 (7.06%) Lead
7 99 (6.85%) Security Analyst
8 95 (6.57%) Security Engineer
9 82 (5.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 74 (5.12%) Security Manager
11 69 (4.78%) Security Architect
12 53 (3.67%) Account Manager
13 48 (3.32%) Developer
14 44 (3.04%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 44 (3.04%) IT Manager
15 43 (2.98%) Security Consultant
16 42 (2.91%) Trainee
17 39 (2.70%) Senior Consultant
18 31 (2.15%) Cybersecurity Manager
18 31 (2.15%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.70%) REST
2 35 (2.42%) OAuth
2 35 (2.42%) OpenID
2 35 (2.42%) SAML
3 29 (2.01%) LDAP
4 25 (1.73%) CSS
5 23 (1.59%) SOAP
6 22 (1.52%) HTML
7 17 (1.18%) GraphQL
7 17 (1.18%) SailPoint
8 16 (1.11%) React
9 11 (0.76%) FastAPI
9 11 (0.76%) RESTful
10 8 (0.55%) Kafka
11 6 (0.42%) .NET
11 6 (0.42%) PySpark
11 6 (0.42%) Web Services
12 5 (0.35%) LangChain
12 5 (0.35%) Node.js
12 5 (0.35%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 135 (9.34%) IoT
1 135 (9.34%) Security Posture
2 87 (6.02%) Management Information System
3 79 (5.47%) Cyber Threat
4 61 (4.22%) Cyber Defence
5 52 (3.60%) Cloud Native
6 46 (3.18%) Cyberattack
7 39 (2.70%) Operational Technology
8 37 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
9 36 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (2.01%) Data Centre
11 28 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
12 27 (1.87%) Onboarding
13 25 (1.73%) Blockchain
14 19 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
15 18 (1.25%) Cloud Security Posture
16 17 (1.18%) Blog
17 15 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
18 14 (0.97%) Mobile App
19 12 (0.83%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 103 (7.13%) Windows
2 69 (4.78%) Linux
3 47 (3.25%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.38%) Mac OS
5 15 (1.04%) Android
6 13 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.83%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.55%) 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 (0.069%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (16.33%) Information Security
2 233 (16.12%) Incident Response
3 224 (15.50%) AI
4 212 (14.67%) Risk Management
5 209 (14.46%) Mentoring
6 172 (11.90%) Cloud Security
7 170 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 163 (11.28%) Machine Learning
9 152 (10.52%) Agile
10 138 (9.55%) User Experience
11 131 (9.07%) Vulnerability Management
12 129 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 129 (8.93%) Web Development
13 121 (8.37%) Roadmaps
14 113 (7.82%) Project Management
15 111 (7.68%) Security Operations
16 102 (7.06%) SIEM
17 101 (6.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 95 (6.57%) Threat Intelligence
19 94 (6.51%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 159 (11.00%) Python
2 125 (8.65%) PowerShell
3 48 (3.32%) SQL
4 39 (2.70%) JavaScript
5 29 (2.01%) Bash
6 26 (1.80%) C++
7 22 (1.52%) Java
8 17 (1.18%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.04%) R
10 11 (0.76%) Go
11 9 (0.62%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.28%) C#
14 3 (0.21%) C
14 3 (0.21%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.14%) Bicep
15 2 (0.14%) Perl
15 2 (0.14%) Rust
15 2 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 321 (22.21%) Degree
2 234 (16.19%) CISSP
3 169 (11.70%) Master's Degree
4 144 (9.97%) CISM
5 121 (8.37%) PhD
5 121 (8.37%) Postgraduate
6 94 (6.51%) Security Cleared
7 79 (5.47%) CISA
8 64 (4.43%) SC Cleared
9 63 (4.36%) Azure Certification
10 62 (4.29%) CEH
11 59 (4.08%) CompTIA Security+
12 48 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
13 45 (3.11%) CRISC
14 42 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
14 42 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
15 41 (2.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 41 (2.84%) CompTIA CySA+
16 40 (2.77%) GIAC
17 37 (2.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (18.48%) NIST
2 226 (15.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 127 (8.79%) GDPR
4 73 (5.05%) GRC
5 72 (4.98%) QA
6 70 (4.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 60 (4.15%) PCI DSS
8 44 (3.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 38 (2.63%) NCSC
10 35 (2.42%) NIST 800
11 31 (2.15%) COBIT
12 17 (1.18%) Accessibility
13 16 (1.11%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 12 (0.83%) ISO 22301
16 9 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
17 8 (0.55%) HIPAA
17 8 (0.55%) SLA
18 7 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
18 7 (0.48%) JSP 440
System Software
1 95 (6.57%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.52%) Docker
4 16 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.76%) 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 (0.069%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (2.98%) Terraform
2 38 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 29 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (0.97%) Ansible
6 10 (0.69%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 10 (0.69%) SCCM
7 8 (0.55%) CASB
8 7 (0.48%) RSA Archer
8 7 (0.48%) 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 (0.069%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 264 (18.27%) Microsoft
2 45 (3.11%) VMware
3 41 (2.84%) CrowdStrike
4 34 (2.35%) ForeScout
4 34 (2.35%) Splunk
5 32 (2.21%) Salesforce
6 29 (2.01%) Palo Alto
7 26 (1.80%) CyberArk
8 25 (1.73%) Google
9 24 (1.66%) Cisco
10 23 (1.59%) Dell
11 21 (1.45%) Fortinet
12 15 (1.04%) SAP
13 14 (0.97%) Oracle
14 13 (0.90%) Commvault
15 11 (0.76%) Okta
16 10 (0.69%) ServiceNow
17 9 (0.62%) Rapid7
17 9 (0.62%) Sophos
17 9 (0.62%) Zscaler