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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 44 41
Rank change year-on-year +17 -3 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,386 785 1,292
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.22% 6.25% 5.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.56% 6.59% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 911 477 889
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,325
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - +3.57%
75th Percentile £94,763 £95,000 £91,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £118,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% -6.40%

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 18,338 11,915 20,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.31% 94.81% 89.49%
Number of salaries quoted 12,530 7,431 14,970
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £122,500 £117,850
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 13 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 13 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 +37 212 £70,000 -6.67% 125
West London +12 84 £69,119 -23.20% 48
South London +29 35 £50,000 -31.03% 16
East London +10 32 £87,500 -2.78% 32
North London +17 20 £60,000 +9.09% 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 35 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.43%) SAS
4 5 (0.36%) Apache
5 3 (0.22%) CMS
5 3 (0.22%) Confluence
6 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.072%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.072%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.072%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.072%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (0.22%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 3 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.14%) Shopify
3 1 (0.072%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (0.072%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.072%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 299 (21.57%) Azure
2 166 (11.98%) AWS
3 126 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 113 (8.15%) Entra ID
5 83 (5.99%) SaaS
6 63 (4.55%) GCP
7 30 (2.16%) Azure Sentinel
8 28 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
9 20 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (1.44%) Power Platform
10 18 (1.30%) Mimecast
11 17 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (1.15%) Google Workspace
13 12 (0.87%) Serverless
14 11 (0.79%) Nutanix
15 10 (0.72%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 9 (0.65%) Azure Logic Apps
17 8 (0.58%) GitHub
18 7 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
18 7 (0.51%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 124 (8.95%) Firewall
2 91 (6.57%) Network Security
3 40 (2.89%) VPN
4 28 (2.02%) Internet
5 24 (1.73%) Broadband
5 24 (1.73%) WAN
6 21 (1.52%) DNS
7 20 (1.44%) LAN
8 19 (1.37%) TCP/IP
9 18 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
10 17 (1.23%) Kerberos
11 16 (1.15%) Wireless
12 15 (1.08%) VLAN
13 13 (0.94%) DHCP
14 12 (0.87%) CHAP
14 12 (0.87%) Cisco ISE
15 9 (0.65%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
16 7 (0.51%) BGP
16 7 (0.51%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.23%) Power BI
2 9 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (0.58%) Tableau
4 6 (0.43%) Big Data
4 6 (0.43%) SQL Server
5 5 (0.36%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.14%) ClickHouse
7 2 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.14%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.14%) MySQL
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.072%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.072%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.072%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.072%) Flink
8 1 (0.072%) Metadata
8 1 (0.072%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.072%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (1.44%) GitLab
2 12 (0.87%) JIRA
3 8 (0.58%) Git
4 7 (0.51%) Burp Suite
4 7 (0.51%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.22%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.14%) JMeter
8 1 (0.072%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.072%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.072%) Locust
8 1 (0.072%) Oracle APEX
General
1 410 (29.58%) Social Skills
2 257 (18.54%) Finance
3 167 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (9.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 96 (6.93%) Banking
6 83 (5.99%) Retail
7 76 (5.48%) Legal
8 69 (4.98%) Law
9 48 (3.46%) Public Sector
10 43 (3.10%) Marketing
11 35 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
11 35 (2.53%) Local Government
11 35 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
12 32 (2.31%) Aviation
12 32 (2.31%) Telecoms
13 22 (1.59%) Financial Institution
14 15 (1.08%) Advertising
15 14 (1.01%) Back Office
15 14 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (0.87%) Games
Job Titles
1 162 (11.69%) Senior
2 143 (10.32%) Analyst
3 137 (9.88%) Consultant
4 123 (8.87%) Security Analyst
5 119 (8.59%) Architect
6 117 (8.44%) Lead
7 97 (7.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 94 (6.78%) Security Engineer
9 71 (5.12%) Security Manager
10 65 (4.69%) Security Architect
11 58 (4.18%) Security Consultant
12 45 (3.25%) Security Specialist
13 44 (3.17%) IT Manager
14 43 (3.10%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 42 (3.03%) Account Manager
16 37 (2.67%) Developer
17 35 (2.53%) Senior Consultant
18 32 (2.31%) Cybersecurity Manager
18 32 (2.31%) Sales Representative
18 32 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (2.96%) OpenID
1 41 (2.96%) SAML
2 37 (2.67%) OAuth
3 36 (2.60%) REST
4 30 (2.16%) LDAP
5 18 (1.30%) SailPoint
5 18 (1.30%) SOAP
6 14 (1.01%) FastAPI
7 12 (0.87%) GraphQL
7 12 (0.87%) RESTful
8 10 (0.72%) Kafka
9 9 (0.65%) React
10 8 (0.58%) .NET
11 6 (0.43%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (0.43%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (0.43%) Web Services
12 5 (0.36%) HTML
12 5 (0.36%) web3js
13 4 (0.29%) CSS
13 4 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 150 (10.82%) Security Posture
2 96 (6.93%) Management Information System
3 75 (5.41%) Cyber Threat
4 56 (4.04%) Cloud Native
5 55 (3.97%) Cyber Defence
6 47 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 47 (3.39%) Operational Technology
7 42 (3.03%) Cyberattack
8 39 (2.81%) Security Operations Centre
9 37 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (1.66%) Data Centre
10 23 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.15%) Blog
12 16 (1.15%) Cloud Security Posture
13 15 (1.08%) AI Agents
14 14 (1.01%) Product Ownership
14 14 (1.01%) Virtual Team
15 13 (0.94%) Blockchain
16 11 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 107 (7.72%) Windows
2 69 (4.98%) Linux
3 47 (3.39%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.37%) Mac OS
5 16 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.72%) Android
7 9 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.58%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.43%) CentOS
9 6 (0.43%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.36%) Unix
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.072%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (19.62%) Information Security
2 246 (17.75%) Incident Response
3 230 (16.59%) Risk Management
4 194 (14.00%) Cloud Security
5 184 (13.28%) Mentoring
6 176 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 168 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
8 156 (11.26%) Vulnerability Management
9 148 (10.68%) Security Operations
10 147 (10.61%) Agile
10 147 (10.61%) SIEM
11 132 (9.52%) Roadmaps
12 121 (8.73%) AI
13 116 (8.37%) Identity Access Management
14 115 (8.30%) Stakeholder Management
15 114 (8.23%) Decision-Making
16 102 (7.36%) Computer Science
16 102 (7.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 98 (7.07%) Disaster Recovery
18 97 (7.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 146 (10.53%) Python
2 116 (8.37%) PowerShell
3 38 (2.74%) SQL
4 25 (1.80%) Bash
5 23 (1.66%) Java
5 23 (1.66%) JavaScript
6 18 (1.30%) C++
6 18 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
7 12 (0.87%) T-SQL
8 11 (0.79%) Go
9 7 (0.51%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.36%) C#
11 4 (0.29%) Rust
12 2 (0.14%) Bicep
12 2 (0.14%) C
12 2 (0.14%) R
12 2 (0.14%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.14%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.072%) PHP
13 1 (0.072%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 252 (18.18%) CISSP
2 194 (14.00%) Degree
3 157 (11.33%) CISM
4 126 (9.09%) Security Cleared
5 78 (5.63%) SC Cleared
6 75 (5.41%) CISA
7 65 (4.69%) CompTIA Security+
8 56 (4.04%) CRISC
9 55 (3.97%) Cisco Certification
10 54 (3.90%) CEH
11 51 (3.68%) Azure Certification
11 51 (3.68%) GIAC
12 50 (3.61%) Master's Degree
13 49 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
14 41 (2.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 39 (2.81%) DV Cleared
16 38 (2.74%) CompTIA CySA+
17 35 (2.53%) CCSP
18 32 (2.31%) SANS
19 31 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 286 (20.63%) NIST
2 251 (18.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 152 (10.97%) GDPR
4 86 (6.20%) GRC
5 80 (5.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 70 (5.05%) QA
7 62 (4.47%) PCI DSS
8 42 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 42 (3.03%) NIST 800
9 31 (2.24%) SOC 2
10 28 (2.02%) COBIT
11 25 (1.80%) NCSC
12 19 (1.37%) Accessibility
12 19 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.94%) ISO 22301
13 13 (0.94%) SLA
14 9 (0.65%) HIPAA
14 9 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 8 (0.58%) SOC 1
16 7 (0.51%) JSP 440
System Software
1 106 (7.65%) Active Directory
2 31 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.15%) Hyper-V
4 15 (1.08%) Docker
5 14 (1.01%) IAG
6 6 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 4 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.14%) vSphere
9 1 (0.072%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (2.96%) Terraform
2 37 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (2.24%) Kubernetes
4 30 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (1.01%) Ansible
6 10 (0.72%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 8 (0.58%) SCCM
8 7 (0.51%) RSA Archer
9 6 (0.43%) VxRail
10 5 (0.36%) Grafana
11 4 (0.29%) Argo
11 4 (0.29%) Nessus
11 4 (0.29%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.22%) CASB
12 3 (0.22%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (0.22%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.22%) Nmap
12 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.14%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 286 (20.63%) Microsoft
2 47 (3.39%) VMware
3 44 (3.17%) Splunk
4 41 (2.96%) CrowdStrike
5 38 (2.74%) Palo Alto
6 35 (2.53%) Salesforce
7 31 (2.24%) Cisco
7 31 (2.24%) ForeScout
8 29 (2.09%) CyberArk
9 28 (2.02%) Google
10 20 (1.44%) Fortinet
11 17 (1.23%) Dell
11 17 (1.23%) ServiceNow
11 17 (1.23%) Tenable
12 16 (1.15%) Qualys
13 15 (1.08%) Okta
14 14 (1.01%) CheckPoint
14 14 (1.01%) Rapid7
15 13 (0.94%) Zscaler
16 12 (0.87%) iManage